The solution I used was suggested by Eli Shamszadeh: You have to tell windows2000 to use the external monitor as the primary monitor in the display settings... a detailed version of the procedure is in the SunPCI users guide. I had looked through the Users Guide but missed the procedure. The process is described in the chapter corresponding to the operating system you are running (eg. in may case it was Chapter 6 - Using Windows 2000 Professional and Windows 2000 Server) under the heading of How to Configure External Video for Windows insert_version_here. If you've misplaced your Users Guide it can be viewed online at: http://docs.sun.com/source/806-4787-14/index.html Basically you update the driver for SiS adapter and then you have a double headed system. The users guide suggests you don't try to use both at once since SunPCi 2.3 does not support this. The guide also recommended using another mouse plugegd into the SunPCi card and probably another keyboard too. When the video did display on the external monitor I had to mouse or keyboard control. That sounds like a lot of clutter on my desk so I think I will keep the SunPCi display in its window. I was just curious to see how it was done. --------------- Original Post: --------------- > Background: > > Sun Blade 100 > Solaris 9 > SunPCI II card > SunPCi software 2.3 > Windows 2000 Pro > I am trying to get my SunPCi card to display on an external monitor. I have > plugged the second monitor into the video port on the card and lauched the > software with -vga switch as described in the man page. I get a regular SunPCI > window on my Solaris desktop with the video routed to external monitor > message. After a few seconds the external monitor displays the BIOS boot > sequence. It then displays the black Windows 2000 startup screen with the > progress bar at the bottom and then it displays the graphical startup screen > with the Windows logo and the blue progress bar at the bottom. > > This is where it gets weird. When that progess bar finishes, the graphcial > splash screen on the external monitor goes distorted and the actual Windows > interface appears in the SunPCi window just the same as if I hadn't specified > an external monitor. -- -------------------------------------------------------------------- Jeff D. Allen, BCSc --------------------------------------------- Systems Administrator Faculty of Computer Science Dalhousie University 6050 University Ave. Halifax NS Email: allen_at_cs.dal.ca Web: http://www.cs.dal.ca/ ------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ sunmanagers mailing list sunmanagers@sunmanagers.org http://www.sunmanagers.org/mailman/listinfo/sunmanagersReceived on Wed Aug 21 09:59:48 2002
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