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- From: dan@ennex1.eng.utsa.edu (Dan Shelton)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
- Subject: Re: Configurating NeXT for 2 monitors
- Message-ID: <1992Sep3.183215.4868@ringer.cs.utsa.edu>
- Date: 3 Sep 92 18:32:15 GMT
- References: <1992Sep3.142743.7535@raven.uucp>
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- Reply-To: dan@ennex1.eng.utsa.edu (Dan Shelton)
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- In article <1992Sep3.142743.7535@raven.uucp>
- brad%raven@kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca (Brad Nelson) writes:
- > In article <1840t9INNep8@agate.berkeley.edu> sim@soda.berkeley.edu
- > (Peng-Toh Sim) writes:
- > >Hi. Does anyone know how to configure a NeXT cube with a
- > >dimension board to recognize the 2 monitors ie. the
- > >monochrome and the color megapixel. What changes must I do
- > >using the NetInfo Manager?
- >
- > This is definitely an RTFM.
- >
- > As root, run the Preferences App, find the item with two monitors
- > and click it. The rest is pretty obvious, except that on dimension
- > systems, the color monitor REALLY likes to be the primary one.
- >
- > Read the manual that came with the dimension board.
- >
- > -Brad brad%raven@kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca
-
- If you don't make the color monitor the primary one, any color application
- that you drag over to the color screen to run will run EXTREMELY SLOW. So
- take Brad's advice and make the color monitor your login screen.
-
- Dan
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