ATI & Dual Monitors

I have an ATI 9800 Pro 128mb video card and run a dual monitor setup with 'extended desktop'. It has always worked fine except I recently changed wallpapers and noticed it to be a little dark. So I created a new 'profile' for the 2nd Monitor and save it with a higher gamma settings. No problems.. however, whenever I restart my machine, the monitor seems to load the setting, and then reverts back to being dark. If I go into the settings, and select the color tab for the 2nd monitor.. it reloads the profile with the gamma setting and works fine until I shut the machine down.

Anyone have any idea how I can make the system boot that profile for the 2nd monitor and keep it?

While we're on a duel monitors topic, when I had a Nvidia card running duels they had a spiffy part in their control panel to control how your wallpapers looked (streched individually, or across both monitors, for example). When I got my 9800 I'm missing that ability, especially for wallpapers designed to run across two monitors (enterprise-c firing on one screen with a klink cruiser getting torn up on the second monitor..)

Anyone know where I can find something like this, or am I just missing it somewhere?

That is easy to accomplish. Just go into settings, and select the 2nd monitor. Then go into desktop and set it for whatever you wish. You can pretty much set any settings you want on each monitor, just select it under settings (for example, select monitor 2) and then go to the desktop tab and select the image you want. Then apply, etc.

Mmm, but I'm trying to stretch it across both monitors, so that a wallpaper that's made to be 2560 x 1024, has one half of that 2560 on each screen, rather then scrunching it down to the same (now kinda crappy) image on each one. Especially when I'm using a wallpaper manager to cycle through my wallpaper collections..

Sorry, I misunderstood... I thought you wanted two separate wallpapers instead of the same one on each monitor.

I'm not sure how that could be done, but couldn't you just break the image in 2 with a graphics program and use each half as the desktop on each monitor?

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Originally Posted by [AK]Hylander

I'm not sure how that could be done, but couldn't you just break the image in 2 with a graphics program and use each half as the desktop on each monitor?

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Yeah, that was one of the alternatives. Only problem with that would be I'd have to manually set each wallpaper every time I wanted to change it. Laziness? Sure, to a certain extent, but I know Nvidia had their control panel do it, and I like having my wallpapers randomly cycled, otherwise why have hundreds and hundreds of 'em? Most of which aren't duel monitor sized, but still...

Was just hoping someone knew of something already that can do this. If not I'll go back and start scowering the search engines some more.

Hi KB,

Ask in the forums at:

http://www.driverheaven.net/forum.php

The ATI folks there can probably help you.