Dual display configuration

what is needed from a hardware stand point to configure a2 headed system, not a mirrored externl display?

Hi,
From a hardware point of view, an exernal monitor and possibly an adapter to plug it in are the only thing required (apart from the computer!)
The trick to getting a double moniter system, rather than a mirrored one it to download a firmware updater. Below is a link to a webpage that will help you do this (you'll need to scroll down to the bit that's called 'Dual Screen' or similar).
There are also some other articles there that may be of interest to you.
Best of luck
Chris
http://www.lbodnar.dsl.pipex.com/eMac/eMac-upgrade.html

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Need help with dual display configuration

I have just connected a HD, widescreen monitor to my Mac tower and am having trouble getting video from FCP to show up on it. It's connected to the mini port and is displaying the same desktop image as my primary monitor but I can't seem to get it to display the video when editing. What am I missing?

The "mirror" box was already unchecked. The best I could get after trying every conceivable combination was just one frame at a time whenever I stopped playing the timeline. The screen then refreshes to show whatever that last frame is, but it will not play the video, it just displays the very last frame.

External dual display configuration questions

Hello,
I have a T500 224235U with Mobile Intel 4 Series Express Chipset Family (v. 7.15.10.1556)/Vista Business 32. In order to buy decent and correct monitors (to work as close to native resolution as possible), I need to know the following:
- How do I know which of PM45, GM45,GS45, GL40 or GS40 I actually have in my computer;
- What is the max resolution from the VGA port (and DP if different);
- What happens to max resolution if I use a DP to DVI converter
- Will these numbers stay the same when docked (mini or advanced dock)
- I intend to buy a Matrox Dual head 2Go. Anyone tested this ?
Thanks a lot to anyone who could help me.
Jhfelectric

Bookmark this page, it's the entry point to the Lenovo support pages for your 2242-35U Vista T500.
You see there you have the Intel X4500HD Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA). That comes with the Intel G45 chip, see here.
For more details on your hardware, see the hardware maintencance manual in the user guide section link.
For latest drivers see the link to the downloads and drivers section (in chronological order) or the Drivers and software document in the results field (in functional order.)
I am no expert in external monitors but in general I see that people are successfully using higher resolutions than Lenovo are willing to commit to. So you might be better off asking a specific question in the forum, is somebody successfully using resolution xxxx by yyyy on VGA/DVI/DP on their Intel integrated graphics only T500.
You can expect the limiting factor to be your T500, not the dock. The advanced minidock will for instance support whatever DVI resolution the T500 can handle. (I have no experience with separate graphics cards in the advanced dock.)
Message Edited by zilla on 2009-06-04 11:00 AM
T500: Vista 32, 2.8GHz, 4GB RAM, 15.4" 1680x1050, 500GB 7200rpm, ATI Radeon HD3650 + Intel 4500MHD. T42: XP, 1.7GHz, 2GB RAM, 14.1" 1024x768, 250GB PATA, ATI Radeon 7500.

Colour management warning for dual display users

For those of you who require a colour managed workflow and have more than one display, be very careful in Mountain Lion. It appears to have a bizarre bug where images loaded and shown on the primary display (e.g. in Preview) are initially rendered with the colour profile from the secondary display, or something along those lines. Dragging the display window to the secondary display and back again sorts things out. I've filed a bug report.
If your two (or more) monitors have the same colour profile, you won't have a problem. The only workaround I can see is to set your least important display(s) to all have the same profile as your (probably calibrated, if these things matter to you) primary display, at least until (if?) the bug gets fixed.
If you want to see it for yourself, set your two displays to differing profiles - e.g. NTSC (1953) on the primary and Wide Gamut RGB on the secondary. Then load an image into Preview - something with lots of shades of red "works" well for the colour profiles mentioned. Take a screenshot of the Preview window as a reference. Move the window to the secondary display; note the colour shift as it gets re-rendered. Now drag it back to the primary display. It'll look quite different compared to the screenshot you took earlier, despite the fact it's the same image being shown by the same application on the same display in the same window... All you did was drag the window between two monitors and back again.
It doesn't seem to matter if the image in question has a colour profile embedded in it or not. When comparing with your screenshot, feel free to drag the screenshot between the monitors too - after all, it'll be suffering the same rendering bug! You'll still see a different result; in fact it may even be magnified by the accumulated rendering errors.
Preview isn't the only application affected; I've seen identical issues under harder to replicate circumstances in Safari, for example.
Given this fault and others I've seen with colour rendering in Lion, plus several new bugs found in Mountain Lion, I'm afraid that if a colour managed workflow is important to you - well - Snow Leopard or Windows...?! Ugh, what a mess

I've encountered many of the same woes with color management being a graphic designer, but here's my issue:
Have a 15" (Early 2011) Macbook Pro. It is turned on with me hooked up to my Dell U2410 and display open for a dual display configuration. The Dell is my primary monitor.
I then unplug my MBP to use it around the house. I go to plug it back into the Dell for my dual monitor. I notice that the color on the Dell looks good, but now the MBP has a very blue color temperature. Like moving from the preconfigured 'Color LCD' profile to 'sRGB' which definitely shifts to a blue color on the MBP.
I check the color profiles in System Settings and the Color profiles are correct. 'Dell U2410' for my Dell and 'Color LCD' for my MBP. But as I said, it's much bluer than standard. I try to change the color profiles around on the MBP and no matter which I select it's always the same color with no shifts I would expect to see.
Only solution I have found is to restart my computer. Upon restarting all is well again in the world.
It's pretty annoying having to restart my computer everytime I plug it back into my workstation with Dell and keyboard.
Related note: USB does not work when I plug things back and again have to restart to fix this.

How to Dual Display with Dell U2711

Hi,
I am looking to connect my iMac (late 2013) to a Dell U2711 in a dual display configuration. I'd like to be able to use all 2560x1440 pixels of the Dell.
the Dell has DVI-D (dual channel), Displayport (not mini displayport), HDMI and VGA.
which port will give me the cleanest picture and best performance and what cable do I need to buy ? (obviously thunderbolt to something...)
thanks !

stqn wrote:
Expi1 wrote:Thanks, I'm mostly struggling with how to partition for Arch and then how to do the bootloader. I'm using Win8 64-bit and from what I understand a Legacy BIOS bootloader. I'm not entirely sure what I should be partitioning the C: into, I've done partitions before, just not for Arch and then I'm not sure whether to use GRUB or syslinux, or if I even need those. Or if I need to use GPT or MBR?
Your disk is already partitionned so you don’t have to choose between GPT or MBR, the choice is already made.
You don’t partition “C:”, that is the name of a Windows partition. You partition a drive.
Grub or syslinux, use whatever the beginners guide tells you to. Personally I think syslinux is simpler which is why I’m using it (but I’m not dual-booting, if that matters).
You’re not saying what your problem is with partitionning, so it’s hard to help.
Thanks for getting back to me, I'm not sure if I just create one large partition for Archlinux or if I have to create multiple? Where I'm also confused is with the Creating Filesystems part of the guide. I don't understand how I'd do this in Windows, or what /dev/sda1 is referring to.
As for the bootloader part, the Beginner's Guide gives you a choice between syslinux and grub, what I'm not sure about is which to use considering I'm dualbooting. How it will affect my windows bootloader, do I disregard that and use GRUB now? I'm unclear on how that works.
I'm also aware I need to disable Secure Boot, I just searched my BIOS options and couldn't find anything remotely relating to that, so I'm assuming it's not an issue since this computer was originally on Windows 7 anyway?
Thanks again, Expi.
Last edited by Expi1 (2014-03-06 19:54:30)

Wacom tablet on dual display dual card setup...

...and the cards are as follows, one Geforce GTX 460 (nvidia driver), one Radeon x1650 (radeon driver) As such, I have to use Xinerama and not RandR for my dual display setup. I have configured the driver to use my main display (Dell CRT on GTX 460) and the cursor shows up where it's supposed to, but when I draw, the cursor "splits" into two, the actual cursor, and the drawing cursor. The regular cursor moves as if it's on my main display, but the drawing cursor spans both desktops.
I've tried all kinds of things to make it work, no luck though.
xsetwacom set "Wacom Graphire4 6x8 stylus" Area 0 0 30408 12064
xsetwacom get "Wacom Graphire4 6x8 stylus" MapToOutput HEAD-0
Both of those commands produce the same result, which is shown in the video below.
xorg.conf
http://pastebin.com/d0TSwNrR
And a lovely video showing what I mean.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YMGGehD81jM
Any help would be lovely.

MisterAnderson wrote:Honestly no clue how to help you, but I am interested in your setup. Are you using the proprietary drivers for your nvidia card and the opensource radeon for your ati? How did you get this setup working? I've been trying for ages!
If I remember correctly, I just used --nodeps and maybe --force when installing the nvidia driver, that way it didn't force me to uninstall the radeon driver when I install the nvidia driver. Then, look at my xorg.conf. there's no acceleration of any sort on the ati card, but I can use it for terminals and browser windows, text editors and the like. Can't watch flash videos on it though, and I don't think mplayer works on it either, I'm not at my arch box atm, so I can't verify that.
Also, as mentioned in my opening post, no composting either. The same setup works pretty good in Ubuntu with a similar config, but no compositing there either, Unity clones 1680x1050 of my main 2048x1536 display, can't split the desktops, and I just end up using Xfce4 because it handles Xinerma pretty well.. I have to turn off the compositing extension in the config on arch to get X to even start up.
:edit:
back in arch, should note that whenever I install a new package, I receive this warning. Everything still works tghough as I describes. And back on topic, anyone have any clue as to why my tablet behaves this way?
missing dependency for ati-dri : libgl=8.0.4
Last edited by RexMcLess (2012-10-02 19:58:03)

Dual-Display Tools for Mac OS X ???

I think this question is more appropriate in some software section of the discussions but I couldn't find an appropriate place to put it.
Anyway, the questions is, in Windows XP and Windows Vista there are some tools, (either provided within the software in the graphics drivers, or available through external 3rd party software such as UltraMon) that facilitate working in a dual display environment.
I have Mac OS X now running on 2 x 20" displays and I am looking for some tool that offers similar quick tools and options like "Jump window to next screen" or "Maximize on second monitor", and a tool which might extend the dock to the second monitor. So that whatever is minimized in one monitor appears in the dock of that monitor rather than appearing in one dock.
Also something that remembers which monitor the application was running on when it was opened before, so that the next time it opens up, it opens in that one rather than opening up in the primary monitor.
This was all offered by a software called UltraMon in Windows XP, and I found it extremely handy when working on a dual display set up. Especially since I could assign keyboard shortcuts to all the tools and just by pressing some keys on the desktop I could jump windows to the next screen, or maximize, minimize on each screen.
Does anyone know of an equivalent in Mac OS X?

Unfortunately, there does not seem to be any Mac equivalent for UltraMon.
Fortunately, MacOS has always been much better at managing multiple display setups than windoze ever was. You might take a look at "Desktop Manager"
http://desktopmanager.berlios.de/
which provides a lot of the virtual desktop features UltraMon offers.
The biggest drawback in using multi display configurations in OSX has to do with the way applications are displayed. In windoze, every open app has its own "menu bar" that is part of the application window and, therefore, can "travel" with the window. On the Mac, the menu bar is always at the top of one display or the other and changes for the active application. Not nearly as convenient and one of the very few ways that windoze (IMMHO) is "better".
There is a good utility that will aid greatly in overcoming this limitation. It's called DejaMenu
http://homepage.mac.com/khsu/DejaMenu/DejaMenu.html
and it will give you a popup contextual menu for the active application by "right clicking" anywhere in any of the app's windows.

Dual screen configuration makes keyboard stop working on X

Hi. My computer is working just fine. And my video card has two outputs (Nvidia[GeForce 9600 GT] (rev a1)). I got a second monitor, and I was trying to configure Xorg to use the two of them in a dual screen configuration.
I tried creating the 10-monitors.conf file like described in https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/NV … e_monitors, and here is what happens. X does use the two monitors, and I can even see my mouse pointer moving from one to the other. But then my keyboard stops working, and so do the mouse keys, only moving the mouse around works.
I have the impression this is related to the missing InputDevices in the ServerLayout. Something in my configuration probably needs that still, if the ServerLayout gets explicitly configured. What should I do? Could this be related to HAL somehow? How do I turn off HAL without it trying to kill me?
Thanks.

I have been using nvidia's TwinView for a long time, currently with two different monitor sizes. There is no need to do anything with udev if you have your xorg.conf set up properly. Here's what mine looks like, though you will have to adapt it according to your hardware.
Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "Dual Layout"
Screen "Screen0"
EndSection
Section "ServerFlags"
Option "AutoAddDevices" "on"
Option "AutoEnableDevices" "on"
Option "AllowEmptyInput" "on"
EndSection
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Acer"
HorizSync 30-81
VertRefresh 56-76
EndSection
Section "Device"
Identifier "GeForce 210"
Driver "nvidia"
Option "NvAGP" "3"
Option "NoLogo" "1"
Option "RenderAccel" "true"
Option "AddARGBGLXVisuals" "true"
Option "TwinView" "true"
Option "SecondMonitorHorizSync" "24-70"
Option "SecondMonitorVertRefresh" "56-75"
Option "MetaModes" "1680x1050, 1600x900 @1600x900"
Option "TwinViewOrientation" "RightOf"
Option "WrappedFB" "true"
EndSection
Section "Extensions"
Option "Composite" "true"
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "GeForce 210"
Monitor "Acer"
DefaultDepth 24
Subsection "Display"
Depth 24
Modes "1680x1050" "1600x900"
ViewPort 0 0
EndSubsection
EndSection
It is best to let as much as possible be handled automatically, but getting two screens working properly requires a bit of tweaking.

Dual displays, one to sleep?

I have a dual monitor configuration with my new Mac Pro cylinder. One display is Thunderbolt, the other a Cinema Display (mini connector).
I don't always use the second display, and I have it set to it's own space. But I'm wondering if there is some clever way I can put that space/display to sleep, independently. If I switch to it, via mouse or via spaces, then it would come back to life.
I'm guessing this is not possible, as I've tried looking around.
Thanks.

SwitchResX
<http://www.madrau.com/srx_howtouseit/srx_howtouseit/srx_switchresx_menus.html>
can disable and enable displays.

Xrandr not enabling external / dual display on boot [SOLVED]

I'm using an HP ProBook 4535s and I want to get a dual display setup working. I've done it before on Ubuntu with this machine and my ASUS external monitor, so I know the hardware supports it.
After I've booted without the external monitor plugged in, if I plug in my VGA-0 and then enter
xrandr --output LVDS --mode 1366x768 --pos 1920x0 --output VGA-0 --mode 1920x1080 --pos 0x0
Then I get perfect resolution on my external monitor, but nothing shows up on my laptop's display. Using arandr also does the job perfectly, but again, it shows nothing on my laptop's display. Additionally, if I try to put a truncated version of the command in xorg.conf, like so,
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "LVDS"
Option "Primary" "true"
Option "PreferredMode" "1366x768"
EndSection
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "VGA-0"
Option "LeftOf" "VGA1"
Option "PreferredMode" "1920x1080"
EndSection
then it starts up the same way (perfect res on external, nothing but backlight on laptop), but it starts in low-graphics mode / seems not to go through any of the commands in .xinitrc. If I try to place the code in .xinitrc, like so,
#!/bin/sh
# ~/.xinitrc
# Executed by startx (run your window manager from here)
if [ -d /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc.d ]; then
for f in /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc.d/*; do
[ -x "$f" ] && . "$f"
done
unset f
fi
# Set up dual display (make sure xorg.conf doesn't run before this...)
#xrandr --output LVDS --mode 1366x768 --pos 1920x0 --output VGA-0 --mode 1920x1080 --pos 0x0
# Start xfce4 Desktop Environment
exec startxfce4
# Placed either above or below startxfce4, I get the error described.
#xrandr --output LVDS --mode 1366x768 --pos 1920x0 --output VGA-0 --mode 1920x1080 --pos 0x0
# Bind keys at startup
exec xbindkeys
# Get rid of the annoying warning bell
exec xset -b
# Below is from ~/.bashrc
Then when I boot with the VGA-0 cable in, *nothing* shows up at all. With any of the above configurations aside from the xorg.conf one, I *must* keep the VGA-0 unplugged during boot to get anything to show. I would like to configure my setup so I can always keep the cable in, even during boot. A dynamic setup would be nice, too, so I don't have to fuss with this when I get new monitors, etc.
Also, if it would help, here's the output of lspci | grep VGA:
00:01.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Sumo [Radeon HD 6480G]
Thanks,
sirciny
Last edited by sirciny (2013-06-19 14:31:11)

Here's an update: I now have the display spanning both monitors. It shows the right res (1366x768) on the LVDS and the wrong res on the external, and it starts up in low graphics mode. What I did was the following:
1) Install the AMD Radeon HD 6xxxG driver from AMD's website (even though the fglrx is no longer supported in Arch)
2) Copy my Ubuntu partition's xorg.conf to Arch, because Ubuntu's external setup works flawlessly
Of course, the Arch AMD driver is outdated, so I didn't really expect this to work as elegantly as I would like (it still doesn't). Changing it to "intel" in xorg.conf just makes Arch stuck in the TTY when I try to restart X. Here's xorg.conf as it is:
Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "aticonfig Layout"
Screen 0 "aticonfig-Screen[0]-0" 0 0
EndSection
Section "Module"
EndSection
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "aticonfig-Monitor[0]-0"
Option "VendorName" "ATI Proprietary Driver"
Option "ModelName" "Generic Autodetecting Monitor"
Option "DPMS" "true"
EndSection
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "LVDS"
Option "VendorName" "ATI Proprietary Driver"
Option "ModelName" "Generic Autodetecting Monitor"
Option "DPMS" "true"
Option "PreferredMode" "1366x768"
Option "TargetRefresh" "60"
Option "Position" "0 0"
Option "Rotate" "normal"
Option "Disable" "false"
EndSection
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "CRT1"
Option "VendorName" "ATI Proprietary Driver"
Option "ModelName" "Generic Autodetecting Monitor"
Option "DPMS" "true"
Option "PreferredMode" "1920x1080"
Option "TargetRefresh" "60"
Option "Position" "1280 0"
Option "Rotate" "normal"
Option "Disable" "false"
EndSection
Section "Device"
Identifier "aticonfig-Device[0]-0"
Driver "fglrx"
Option "Monitor-LVDS" "LVDS"
Option "Monitor-CRT1" "CRT1"
BusID "PCI:0:1:0"
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Identifier "aticonfig-Screen[0]-0"
Device "aticonfig-Device[0]-0"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Virtual 3286 1080
Depth 24
EndSubSection
EndSection
Last edited by sirciny (2013-06-18 14:40:52)

Where does OS X store previous display configuration data?

Dear forum,
Where does OS X store the configuration data regarding external displays? My settings are screwed up and I think that if I remove my configuration and let it discover my display as though it was the first time, it may work. Right now when I plug in my dongle, OS X sees it and goes into dual-display mode, but my big monitor (the primary one) never wakes up.
I have tested my PowerBook with other displays using the same cables and DVI/VGA dongle, and it all works swimmingly. My display works with my other laptop (which is a Windows box, so perhaps my mac smells another computer and is throwing a jealous fit).
Thanks for the help.
Gabe
PowerBook g4 Mac OS X (10.4.8)

Hello Gabe:
Welcome to Apple discussions.
Preferences are stored in "plist" files. Do a "find" on 'plist.' All of the preference files will be displayed (typically several hundred). You can hunt through those to see if you see the one you reference. You can safely trash a preference file. OS X rebuilds them as needed (you do have to reenter your personal preferences).
Barry

Cisco sx80 Layouts and Displays configuration

Hello everyone
I am installing a sx80 cisco telepresence, it has 3 dispays, two connected to HDMi ports and one conneceted to DVI port. I have a question in order to know if we have some way for modify a layout, there are 5 or 6 layouts by default, but Can we modify these ones? Other question is if there is some way for configuring a display for receiving content just when remote site send content and the others two shows selfview, when remote site is not sending, I want that 1 display shows remote site and other two displays continue shows swlfview.
Thanks

You can modify the layout with the use of the TC Console software available here.
We don't actually have an SX80s but I know that the C series with dual display unit out of the box, 1 display is used for Presentation, and the other is used for Remote with Local as a PiP. We dislike this setup however, and have Local on one screen and Remote on the other, then when a Presentation is shown, this appears on the Local display, and the the Local selfview appears as a PiP on the Remote screen. I'm sure something similar could be achieved on the SX80

Can Mini Mac drive Dual Displays?

Intel web states "Two Serial Digital Video Out (SDVO) ports for flat-panel monitors and/or TV-out support via Advanced Digital Display 2 (ADD2) cards or Media Expansion Cards" for the GMA950 chipset. Does mini mac support this ADD2 card or any Media Expansion Cards?

As far as I know they had supported both Windows and Mac systems at the outset, though as the FAQ says, the unit is 'seen' by the host system as a single widescreen display, which does rather limit the sort of flexibility those of us that habitually use dual displays on systems that directly support them have been able to take advantage of.
One would also have to say that if the unit requires additional drivers to give it functionality, it is a rather more risky proposition than if it gives the necessary functions without needing any additional software, simply because if MacOS 'understands' it natively, it is highly probable it always will, while if it required drivers, MacOS will more than likely break some functionality over time as it updates.
Additionally, if one were to want mirrored displays, there are cheaper 'splitters' that would provide that functionality specifically, but where spanning is needed from a single VGA port, this appears to be the only viable solution for Macs (PC users have the additional option of USB video adapters). It clearly works as shown in the link I gave previously, but a prospective user would of course be wise to ensure that the Matrox device is capable of delivering the specific display configuration they have need of before purchasing.
Personally, if I were in need of dual head functionality before purchasing a system, I'd not generally look at a Mac mini as the system of choice to achieve it. However, if I already had a mini and a need to drive dual displays, this appears to be a reasonable way to achieve it, both technically and cost wise.

Dual Displays on the stock card...

I'm going to be using my Mac Pro for pro audio, and maybe some light picture editing. I'm looking to buy 2 20 inch LCDs that will run at a native resolution of 1600x1050. Will the stock Mac Pro card handle that or do I need to upgrade? I don't care about speedy Picture editing, I just think it will just be nicer then using my Macbook... Anyone know for sure if that will be OK for that card?
Thanks in Advance.
Topslakr

Graphics and Displays
Double-wide 16-lane PCI Express graphics slot with one of the following graphics cards installed:
NVIDIA GeForce 7300 GT with 256MB of GDDR2 SDRAM, one single-link DVI port, and one dual-link DVI port
ATI Radeon X1900 XT with 512MB of GDDR3 SDRAM and two dual-link DVI ports
NVIDIA Quadro FX 4500 with 512MB of GDDR3 SDRAM, two dual-link DVI ports, and one stereo 3D port
Multiple graphics card configurations including two, three, or four NVIDIA GeForce 7300 GT cards
300W for up to four PCI Express graphics cards
Support for up to eight displays1
Support for digital resolutions up to 1920 by 1200 pixels; dual-link DVI ports support up to 2560 by 1600 pixels
Support for analog resultions up to 2048 by 1536 pixels
DVI to VGA Adapter included
Dual-display support for extended desktop and video mirroring modes
Michael

Highest dual display resolution for mac mini mid 2011

I am currently running a mac mini mid 2011. As I've understood (according to the below statement). Am I only able to use 2 secreen with 1920x1200 or could I use one screen with 2560x1600 and one with 1920x1200. I do NOT want mirroring, only dual displays.
I am going to connect the screens in the following way:
1x mini-dvi - HDMI to one screen.
1x HDMI - HDMI to the other screen.
Display Support:
Dual Displays
Resolution Support:
1920x1200*
Details:
*This model simultaneously supports 1920x1200 on an HDMI display or a DVI display using the included HDMI-to-DVI adapterand 2560x1600 on a Thunderbolt or Mini DisplayPort display or even a VGA display (with an optional Mini DisplayPort-to-VGA adapter, which is compatible with the Thunderbolt port).
2nd Display Support:
Dual/Mirroring*
2nd Max. Resolution:
2560x1600*
Details:
*This model simultaneously supports 1920x1200 on an HDMI or a DVI display (using the included HDMI-to-DVI adapter) and2560x1600 on a Thunderbolt or Mini DisplayPort display or even a VGA display (with an optional Mini DisplayPort-to-VGA adapter, which is compatible with the Thunderbolt port).
Thanks in advance
Rich

According to the copy&paste from wikipedia, HDMI should support higher resolution than 1920x1200. So the question is, does it aupport that on the mid 2011 mac mini. It says in the specifications
"Mac mini is designed to work with HDMI devices that comply with versions 1.0, 1.1, 1.2, 1.2a, 1.3, 1.3a, and 1.4 of the HDMI specification."
That should mean it should be able to support it, but I don't know : <
HDMI version
1.0
1.1
1.2
1.3
1.4
2.0
Date initially released
December 9, 2002
May 20, 2004
August 8, 2005
June 22, 2006
May 28, 2009
September 12, 2013
Maximum clock rate (MHz)
165
165
165
340
340[109]
600
Maximum TMDS throughput per channel (Gbit/s) including 8b/10b overhead
1.65
1.65
1.65
3.40
3.40
6
Maximum total TMDS throughput (Gbit/s) including 8b/10b overhead
4.95
4.95
4.95
10.2
10.2
18
Maximum throughput (Gbit/s) with 8b/10b overhead removed
3.96
3.96
3.96
8.16
8.16
14.4
Maximum audio throughput (Mbit/s)
36.86
36.86
36.86
36.86
36.86
Maximum color depth (bit/px)
24
24
24
48[a]
48
Maximum resolution over single link at 24-bit/px[b]
1920×1200p60
1920×1200p60
1920×1200p60
2560×1600p75
4096×2160p24
4096×2160p60
Maximum resolution over single link at 30-bit/px[c]
N/A
N/A
N/A
2560×1600p60
4096×2160p24
Maximum resolution over single link at 36-bit/px[d]
N/A
N/A
N/A
1920×1200p75
4096×2160p24
Maximum resolution over single link at 48-bit/px[e]
N/A
N/A
N/A
1920×1200p60
1920×1200p60
Maximum 3D resolution (using a full resolution 3D format) over single link at 24-bit/px
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
1920×1200p60

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