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Carburngood
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Hi there,
I have a monitor (Viewsonic VX922) and projector (Panasonic AX-200) connected to my PC. The Viewsonic is connected via a DVI cable and the projector via an HDMI cable (with a DVI convertor on the end) to my Palit 9800GTX.
My problem is this: as I don't have my projector on all the time (most often not, especially when my PC boots) when I get into windows it has only detected the monitor (naturally.)
So when I go to the nVidia multi display manager I am either able to clone (not ideal as the projector is 720p and the monitor is 1280 x1024) or to output to a single display (either the monitor or the projector.) The Windows display manager only recognises the monitor even when the projector is on.
Now ideally I'd like the projector to be an extension of my desktop not become either a cut off cloned screen or the only display. At present I have to reboot with the projector on to be able to enable this. Now when I first got the projector I only had an old analogue cable to connect it to the video card (using an analogue to DVI adaptor) and both Windows and the nvidia display driver would keep the projector as a greyed out option that I could enable anytime. I realise that this has more to with the fact that the driver couldn't detect that the projector was on or off over the analogue cable, but I would like some suggestions as to how I can get the functionality of the old technology on the digital cable.
Thanks for any help in advance.
I have a monitor (Viewsonic VX922) and projector (Panasonic AX-200) connected to my PC. The Viewsonic is connected via a DVI cable and the projector via an HDMI cable (with a DVI convertor on the end) to my Palit 9800GTX.
My problem is this: as I don't have my projector on all the time (most often not, especially when my PC boots) when I get into windows it has only detected the monitor (naturally.)
So when I go to the nVidia multi display manager I am either able to clone (not ideal as the projector is 720p and the monitor is 1280 x1024) or to output to a single display (either the monitor or the projector.) The Windows display manager only recognises the monitor even when the projector is on.
Now ideally I'd like the projector to be an extension of my desktop not become either a cut off cloned screen or the only display. At present I have to reboot with the projector on to be able to enable this. Now when I first got the projector I only had an old analogue cable to connect it to the video card (using an analogue to DVI adaptor) and both Windows and the nvidia display driver would keep the projector as a greyed out option that I could enable anytime. I realise that this has more to with the fact that the driver couldn't detect that the projector was on or off over the analogue cable, but I would like some suggestions as to how I can get the functionality of the old technology on the digital cable.
Thanks for any help in advance.