RE: dual-monitor displays on the ref desks

[Alan Gray <akgray@xxxxxxxxxx>]

The Matrox Millennium G550 card will do what you want -- so far as
displaying two different programs on separate monitors. And I presume the
staff member can control whether the second monitor shows a display image or
not.

A google search will call up this card, or you can cut and paste this:

http://www.matrox.com/mga/archive_story/jul2001/g550_2dworkstation.cfm

Cheers.

Alan Kirk Gray

-----Original Message-----
From: Walters, Martha [mailto:Martha.Walters@xxxxxxxxxx] 
Sent: Thursday, December 04, 2003 1:19 PM
To: innopac@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: dual-monitor displays on the ref desks

This is a little off-topic, but if anyone has any experience setting up
dual-monitor displays on the reference desk, could you contact me off list?

We are trying to get our IT folks to enable this on some new machines we
purchased to do just that, but they insist that only one (and the same)
program can be displayed at a time on each monitor, and we need for multiple
programs to display.  We bought dual video-cards for the pcs but I.T. says
they can only "clone" the machines to display the same program viewed by the
librarian to the patron.

In addition, they want us to direct the patrons to just push the "ON" switch
on the monitor to enable viewing, and we told them we want to control that
from our keyboard and mouse.  They are having a hard time grasping the
necessity of such.  

Any ideas or help would be very much appreciated!!

Martha Walters
Systems Administrator
Palo Alto City Library
Palo Alto, CA  94303
650-329-2694
http://webcat.cityofpaloalto.org