ELSA GLoria-L, User Manual

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Setting Up Your Graphics System
ELSA GLoria-L, -L/MX, -XL, -XXL
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differing sizes or level of performance, the system will orientate itself according to the
"weaker" unit.
Application
If you have the ELSA driver for Windows NT installed already, then you have all the soft-
ware required for multi-screen operation. When you start the computer, the ELSA driver
recognizes the graphics boards. The ’Display’ dialog in Control Panel contains entries for
the additional resolutions used in multi-screen operation. To use one of these resolu-
tions, you can select it from the list, or you can move the slider in the ’Display’ dialog.
How do you know if it is a single-screen or multi-screen resolution you are considering?
To answer this question, just follow this formula: the horizontal resolution in multi-screen
operation results from the horizontal resolution of the graphics board multiplied by the
number of boards.
If, for example, the graphics board supports a resolution of 1600 x 1200 in TrueColor
mode, then the resulting resolution for dual-screen operation would be 3200 x 1200.
Further information about setting up multi-screen operation with your operating system
can be taken form the section see “ELSA DESKman” on page 22.
Using two monitors makes a
significant increase in the
size of your desktop
On each screen you can operate
an application in full-screen
mode.
Of course, you can also let one
application take up the full width of both screens.
e.g. 1600 x 1200
results in a resolution of
3200 pixels x 1200 lines