Hey all, dual monitors on OSX anyone?

**BriMister** · July 2nd, 2001, 05:54 AM

I've got a G4 400 with 608MB of RAM, lotsa hard drive space, and a Radeon card. I stole an old PCI Radius 8MB video card from one of my older macs and stuck it into my G4. Plugged in two monitors, and OSX only recognizes the Radeon. I know it sees the card because Apple system profiler recognizes that it's there, and OS 9.1 uses it just fine. Is this card doomed to live in the past, or is there a way to make it work with my system? Is there something special I have to do with OSX to make it see the card?

Any wise words would be helpful.

Thanks!

-Bri

**kilowatt** · July 2nd, 2001, 12:41 PM

The on-board ati graphics in my beige g3 and the pci rage orion (also ati chipset) work great in os X and OS9.

Have you tried removing the Radon card and just using the Radius with os X?

If it doesn't, don't even bother trying both. However, and I'm no expert on this, but with both cards in, you might try installing XF86 and configuring it for your Radius.

With my duel configuration, I can have XF86 on one monitor and aqua on the other (which is pretty darn nice).

I hope you figure this one out, please post anything you find.

**peppermg** · July 2nd, 2001, 04:05 PM

"------->old<------ PCI Radius 8MB video card "
OS X doesn't support that video card... i would think

**Fahrvergnuugen** · July 5th, 2001, 02:51 PM

There is probably 0% chance that you would ever find drivers that would make that card work with OSX. You need a newer ATI or nvidia card, I would recommend a GeForce 2 [not enough support for the GeForce 3 to warrant the price yet] as your primary display [if you have an AGP port that is, I think the G4 "Yikes!" didn't have AGP...] and an ATI Rage Pro for your secondary monitor. The rage pro is relatively cheap and games [the real video hogs] will only use your primary display, so it doesn't need to be a super card.

**Matrix Agent** · July 5th, 2001, 10:22 PM

anyone out there wanna take a pic of a dual monitor system? i'd love see see what it looks like...

**Fahrvergnuugen** · July 5th, 2001, 11:27 PM

I had to compress the hell out of it. Quality is terrible, but you get the idea. PNG would have been nice, but you would be downloading a 1mb file instead of a 300k one

http://www.sickdimension.com/apple/dual_screen.jpg

**Matrix Agent** · July 6th, 2001, 09:04 AM

Wow, what a great setup, where did you get those album covers in your dock?

**Fahrvergnuugen** · July 6th, 2001, 05:27 PM

Well, in OS9, you could right click on an image and paste in as the icon for a folder [anyone know how to do this with OSX?]. On monitor #2 you can see part of my full albumns folder. They all have the albumn cover as the folder icon. The new finder doesn't like them very much though....performance really suffers when you've got a folder full of these