HP OmniBook xt6050 - Notebook PC Manual page 88

Add-On Devices
Connecting External Devices
Using dual display mode (Windows 98 or XP)
You can extend your desktop by connecting an external monitor to your computer.
1. Click Start, Settings, Control Panel, then double-click Display (Windows 98), or click
Start, Control Panel, Appearance and Themes, Display (Windows XP).
2. Click the Settings tab.
3. Windows 98: right-click display 2, and select Enabled.
Windows XP: click the second display, then select the option to extend the desktop.
You can set different resolutions and numbers of colors for each display. However, using
the Extended Desktop requires video memory for each display. For this reason, higher
resolutions and higher numbers of colors may cause unexpected behavior on the displays.
Try starting with 1024 × 768 resolution on the external display and 64 K colors (16-bit)
on both displays. You can then try higher settings to see whether they work for your
applications. In addition, certain operations such as playing DVDs and running 3D
graphics require extra video memory, so you may have to adjust display settings.
If you're playing a DVD movie, the movie will show only on the primary display. To
change the primary display, go to the Settings tab of Display Properties (see the steps
above), right-click the display you want, and select Primary.
Changing display actions
With a display attached, you can use the BIOS Setup utility to change certain display
behaviors, such as stretching the image to fill the screen at lower resolutions. See "To run
the BIOS Setup utility" on page 149.
For a display connected to a video adapter in a docking system, the docking display is
automatically selected when it is detected. To change this behavior, change the Primary
Video Adapter setting in BIOS Setup.
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