[Cialug] Monitors

James Shoemaker james at dhlake.com
Tue Feb 7 12:00:22 CST 2006


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Dave J. Hala Jr. wrote:
> Here's what I don't understand about the device: If what's coming out of
> my vga port is 1024x768, and what is being displayed is twice that,
> where are the extra pixels coming from, and how "lossy" is the image
> that is being displayed?
> 
> Or if you can't output a certain really high resolution are you hosed?
> It really doesn't say on the sales pitch for the device.
> 
> Does it have some kind of device driver that tricks windows into
> displaying a higher resolution and then grabs that from the OS and
> throws it out the vga port? If so, is it slow since the vid card is not
> doing the processing?

	Basically it looks like you set your video card to display double wide
and it splits the image between 2 monitors.

James

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