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From: jg2f+@andrew.cmu.edu (Jude Anand George)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: Two monitors, one picture?
Message-ID: <kZT5ATC00Xo=E3WYwe@andrew.cmu.edu>
Date: 5 Dec 89 23:45:35 GMT
References: <5243@bgsuvax.UUCP>
Organization: Computing Systems, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
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instone@bgsuvax.UUCP (Keith Instone) writes:
> I want to have two monitors (and 2 video cards) hooked up to a Mac II, 
> both displaying the SAME SCREEN.  The monitors control panel
> device lets you position the screens any way you want next to each
> other, but not "on top" of each other. I need to use 2 separate
> video cards because one is spitting out NTSC, the other RGB.
> 
> Any suggestions? I am already using the "video hack", so another
> hack would be OK.

Fire up ResEdit, go into your System file and set the values in the
'scrn' ID=0 resource so that both monitors map onto the same global
screen area.  Caveat: I believe the mouse cursor will only appear on
one of the screens.

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