Re: Trying to use laptop as a monitor too
- From: "BillW50" <BillW50@xxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 4 Apr 2008 06:22:49 -0500
In news:9roav31g5nsd150bkh6up519qt6hfl3vm8@xxxxxxx,
me/2 typed on Thu, 03 Apr 2008 23:45:02 GMT:
On Thu, 3 Apr 2008 15:46:10 -0500, "BillW50" <BillW50@xxxxxxx> wrote:
In news:Bones6.37b2rl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx,
Bones6 typed on Thu, 3 Apr 2008 19:15:24 +0000:
I have a Dell monitor hooked up to my desktop, and I connected my
laptop to my desktop in the hopes of trying to get the desktop
display on both my monitor and my laptop.
I'm using a DVI cable to go from the desktop to the monitor and a
VGA cable to go from the laptop to the desktop.
For some reason, when I do the extend desktop, it won't extend to
the laptop, only create a screen I can't get too.
Is there anyway to use my laptop as an extended screen for my
desktop, or am I just a fool lol...
Well when I use my Gateway MX6124 with my Proview 19 inch LCD
monitor, only one works as extended. I think the external monitor
has to be the extended one here.
If I read the OP correctly he is saying that he hooked the desktop
computer VGA port to the laptop VGA port trying to get the desktop
computer to display on the laptop screen as an extended desktop. About
the only way that could work without additional hardware is if the
laptop supports video IN. I know there are some laptops that support
video input from an external device but not through the VGA OUTPUT
port which is what it sounds like the OP is trying to do. My Toshiba
5205 has a module for the Select Bay that has a TV tuner and also
accepts a composite video input for display and capture purposes. I
could probably make that work as a very poor looking extended desktop
display as long as I could convince my desktop computer that it was
hooked up to a tv set on the secondary port. But why?? :-)
me/2
OHHHH! Thanks me/2 and M.I.5¾! I didn't notice the OP (Bones6) wanted to do it that way. I too have an FM/TV tuner with a video in. And one use that I haven't used it for yet, was to record flight simulators in action.
As for Bones6... if you want to display another desktop from another computer, you should checkout something like Remote Desktop Control. That is one of the easiest ones I've used. This is built into Windows XP Pro too. Plus there are others. The screen won't update real fast, but good enough for most tasks.
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Bill
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