I've got a Sawtooth G4 [AGP], it has VGA and DVI outputs, could I do monitor spanning with those two ports? [i.e both connected to monitors, and entending the desktop on to the second one]

which graphics card does it have? the lowest card that supported monitor spanning was the GeForce 2MX 64mb twin view.

darn it's the 16meg card

thx for your help

If it's the stock 16MB ATI Rage 128, you're limited to a single display off either the VGA or DVI port, I'm afraid.

The simplest way to get dual displays would be to pickup up a PCI ATI Rage 128 as found in many B&W G3s. Of course performance won't be stellar here.

Your best bet would be to get a $20 - 30 Geforce 2 MX and flash it over to Mac. This will give your Sawtooth a nice performance boost and allow you to run Quartz Extreme acceleration on your Mac.

A large listing of compatible cards can be found here, along with the flashing procedure:

http://www.cybercoment.com/macgeforce.htm

JB

Or Spend some money and get an ATI Radeon 9200 or 9600 128mb Card i think the PCI version is $249 BTW the B&W stock 16mb card will not work in your computer becuase you have agp while B&W's only have pci.

Hi,

I brought a Radeon 7000 AGP for my sawtooth when i had it... made it much faster in expose and graphics intensive bits... You can pick them up on ebay very cheap these days

neil

AGP macs have AGP and PCI slots - so you would use the stock AGP card + PCI Card to have 2x Monitors

I have a rage128 PCI running my 3rd display on my G4 Dual and its very decent for what it is

(2x displays off my AGP Radeon 9700Pro + 1x off PCI Rage128

Can you have 2 video cards? I thought that this was only possible with the introduction SLI...

SLI enables you to use the power of 2x graphics cards combined for more power - you have always been able to run 2x graphics cards side by side to power separate monitors

back in the days of DOS you could run two monitors. One was the main display and the other was limited to b/w text only. Mostly it was used to display debug info for whatever program was running on the main display. Proper dual screen (kinda) came in win Win98.

Anyway...off topic.

Spend $30-$50 to get a pretty good card for your sawtooth and you will have dual display plus a graphics performance boost to boot. Anything more than that and your card will probably have more performance than your mac can use.

I flashed a geForce FX 5200 and it runs really good (core image and everything)...was dirt cheap.

I'm thinking of a dual monitor setup to put the eyeTV onto one while I work on the other!

Here's my specs

NVIDIA GeForce2 MX:

Chipset Model: GeForce2 MX
Type: Display
Bus: AGP
Slot: SLOT-1
VRAM (Total): 32 MB
Vendor: nVIDIA (0x10de)
Device ID: 0x0110
Revision ID: 0x00a1
ROM Revision: 1045F

Displays:
electr22b2:
Resolution: 1280 x 1024 @ 85 Hz
Depth: 32-bit Color
Core Image: Not Supported
Main Display: Yes
Mirror: Off
Online: Yes
Quartz Extreme: Supported

looking at cien's LaCie he has for sale (same as what I have now)

can I do it with what I have?
cheers

Hey cactus is that the stock Apple GF2 or a PC flashed one? The Apple GF2 can be patched with updated ROM that allows it to run dual displays. For PC cards it should work but is more problematic.

ROM download link:

http://strangedogs.wikispaces.com/wikidownloads2

Link to process:

http://www.cubeowner.com/forums/inde...l=twinview+rom

Keep in mind by running two displays you'll dedicate 16MB to each, this might be too low a requirement for EyeTV.

JB

I have a mac 9200 pci edition if you would like to purchase it? I got it about 2 months ago, for about 250 i think. PM me anyway.

is the stock one that came with puta when I bought it new.

mmm didn't think about that! no good if I'm doing Illust & PShop at the same time hey!

cheers for the quick reply.

just got a price for delivery of Cien's LaCie...don't think it'll happen!