Multiple Flatpanel Displays

[rhawtin]

Has anyone had any luck running more than one flatpanel on a newer G4? I'm running an SGI 1600 Flatpanel along with an Apple Cinema display using one AGP card and a promac card for the SGI on the PCI bus.. of course, this is giving me PCI bursts and errors... Does anyone know of a video card for the Mac that can run two seperate spanning flat panels?

Thanks.

[InSights7]

I am using the Appian Jeronimo J2000 AGP Dual Card and tow 18.1" NEC multisync LCD monitors.

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Dan Matthews
InSight Sound Recording

[dave-G]

I, too am running the Appian Jeronimo AGP with 2 IBM 18" TFT's... Pretty swanky.

-dg

[rhawtin]

I guess my problem is that the SGI and the Apple Cinema displays both have some type of DVI or digital connector, while I would imagine the ones that you guys are using have regular analog connectors?

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The connection between the video card (most likely the Formac card) and the SGI monitor is a proprietary interface. I believe this interface is only used on the SGI monitor, hence the limited number of cards that directly support the SGI display...

I believe the Apple Cinema display uses the DVI standard...

I don't think the PCI bus cares much as to the interface between the video card and the monitor, but the errors are more likely I/O errors on how two video cards are accessing the PCI bus, or maybe EMI interference between the cards.... I ran a Twin Turbo and Rage card PCI cards at the same time on 9600, and didn't have any errors with 2 cards running..

Now, I would like to reduce to one PCI card for dual monitors. I don't think anyone makes a PCI video card with dual monitor support (for Mac 9600's)... If anyone knows of one, please send me mail... thanks.....

[ripple FX]

I am running a 9600/G3-400 with two SGI 1600sw panels on two ProFormance 3 cards. Also a DC-30 capture card, a 3940U2W scsi card, and a 13 slot expansion chassis with Mix core, 3 Mix farms and 3 Merle farms. It's truly a rockin' big setup. I LOVE IT!!