[G4] Dual monitor support, Sawtooth 450 AGP

[Daniel Brieck Jr.]

I have a ATI Radeon 8500 Mac edition in my computer and it supports  
dual monitors and a TV out display as well.  Out put it is VGA , DVI  
and S-video. You can also get a DVI to VGA adapter if you have two  
VGA displays.



Also By a Quick glance the Radeon 7000 might support dual displays.  
Also look at the ATI Radeon Mac Edition . Their website is not really  
clear , so if you are uncertain contact them to be sure before  
buying. Or find a review of the selected card buy another source.

Check out the ATI website. http://www.ati.com/products/mac.html

Daniel J. Brieck Jr.



On Oct 2, 2005, at 11:49 AM, Dennis Moser wrote:

> Gahhhh.
>
> Just acquired a Sawtooth 450 (SP 450, 256 Mb RAM, DVD-ROM, 27 Gb, AGP
> 2X), and trying to modernize it. I've upgraded it to 10.3.9 (Tiger
> will have to wait until next week)
>
> I would like to be able to run dual monitors (I do a lot of Photoshop
> and audio) and it woulod appear that the stock ATI card that it came
> with SHOULD support that...but it isn't. For now, I'm trying to run a
> Sony Trinitron (20") and an Apple 17" Multi-Sync, both CRTs (I'll
> eventually upgrade both if those) and at present, I can only run one
> or the other out of the VGA port on the card. It is the ATI card with
> VGA and DVI out. I'm not concerned about frame rates and polygons as
> this is strictly a budegt workstation (eventually will have
> dual-processor upgrade and max out the RAM).
>
> First question: will this card actually support dual monitors? (My gut
> says no...)
>
> Second question: Will this card, ATI R8500LE-B3 RADEON 8500 64MB DDR
> AGP 2X/4X , work in the Mac and support dual monitors? I've looked all
> over and can't find a definitive answer for this...it's clearly a PC
> version (will I need to flash it?) and nothing indicates that it will
> run on OS X or any flavor of a Mac OS.
>
> Third question(a): If not the above card, any suggestions for an
> inexpensive AGP card that will work, or do I need to look at a PCI
> version? And if so, WHICH PCI cards would be a "best buy?"
>
> Sorry for the length and desparation of the post; I just got the
> machine Friday evening and am spending my precious weekend trying to
> get it up to speed to start doing some work...
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