Connecting to separate monitor

I bought a monitor, which I connected to the Powerbook. It seems to work in that I gett the desktop pattern on the big monitor, but no icons nor windows show up on it, though I see them on my Powerbook screen. The technician from Viewsonic, told me the problem is with the computer, and that I need a "view card"? or something like that. I couldn't understand him very well.
The specs:
computer: Powerbook G4, OS 10.3.9, 1 GHz 768 MB DDR SDRAM
The monitor: ViewSonic VA 912b 19" digital multimedia LCD display
Thank you

You have to go into the Displays System Prefs and arrange your monitors.
Search your Mac Help files for "arrange display" for a few how-to articles.

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