Extended Display (dual monitor)

I just hooked up a second monitor to my macbook using the apple cables. I got everything to work to properly run an extended display, and it looks great.
However, my second screen (the new external monitor) doesn't do a couple of things I'm hoping it can. This new monitor doesn't have a menu bar, a dock, it doesn't display by desktop drives, and it does not display any growl notifications.
Is there anyway to make this happen?

You can only have the menu bar and dock on one of your displays, you change it using the display panel in system preferences.
on the arrangement tab drag the white bar to move the menu and dock to the display you want it on.
you can also rearrange the displays to match your physical arrangement using this tab.
hope that helps
Gary Herbert

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Hello,
I checked the forums but couldn't find a similar topic.
I have a T60 coming up on it's 8th birthday. About a year and a half ago I installed windows 8. Just recently I tried to extend my work space to a second VGA monitor, in addition to the T60's LCD, in a dual-monitor configuration. I've seen this done before on T60 loaded with XP or Vista.
If I connect a VGA monitor, it will mirror my LCD screen fine on the monitor. But when I try Ctrl-F7 to toggle display options, a message comes up from the right saying, "Second Screen: Your PC can't project to another screen. Try reinstalling the driver or using a different video card."
Not my first time to the rodeo. I went to Device Manager and learned that my ATI display driver had been replaced with "Microsoft Basic Display Adapter." I assume this is some kind of generic driver microsoft pushed out to make older components compatible with Windows 8. So I figured I'd download the driver from AMD.
I actually don't remember the graphic card I have, but searching for my T60 model number (2623D7U) shows it as ATI Mobility Radeon X1400. Unfortunately, AMD never updated the X1000 series of drivers for Windows 8. In fact, I can't seem to find any drivers on their website lower than 2000.
There are some links on various forums suggesting to download the Windows 7 version of the X1400 driver, but apparently AMD changed their website around in February and the links are all broken, and as I said, I can't seem to find any of those drivers on the AMD website.
Just to be clear, everything is working fine as it is, and I don't want to risk screwing it up. But if someone knows how to solve this issue and enable me to gain the ability to add dual monitor mode please let me know. Short of that, if there's a cheap graphic card you can recommend for my PCMCIA slot which could do the trick, I would appreciate it.
Thank you!
Solved!
Go to Solution.

Get the Vista driver for your machine here: Ati X1400 driver Vista (32bit/64bit)
Run the setup file to extract the drivers, but cancel the installation, as Windows 8 does not like
the Catalyst Control Center. Then you just manually install the drivers through Device Manager
by pointing it to C:\DRIVERS\WIN\VIDEO
I've done this on quite a few T60's and this always fixes the dual display issue, which Windows
does a great job managing.
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Using my Macbook Pro as an 'extended display' (2ndary monitor) to my G5

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Correct. I'm not aware of any laptop that has been designed with a DVI or VGA input to allow use of the laptop's display as a monitor for another computer.
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I cannot seem to find this information anywhere.
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Hello...
I have a T400 I bought in August 2009 running Windows XP. When I am home, I use my T400 in conjunction with a second dual display that acts as an extended desktop. I also like to take the laptop with me. The problem is that every time I return home to connect my external screen, I have to go through this whole process in Catalyst Control Center to configure the extended display, along with its respective resolution, which monitor is primary and secondary, etc. On another laptop, this process happens automatically, detecting the monitor correctly. If this can't be done automatically, could someone please walk me through how to set this up so it can be seamless? It seems like this should be very easy but I can't figure it out for the life of me!
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I do not want to use the Quadro 4000 for both, that would not optimize both monitors, one DP and 1 DVI. Using just the 5770 would work but I do not think the 4000 would be doing anything, and the 5770 has been replaced by the 5870.more bandwidth.
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The Hatter,
I am a novice at Mac so I read all I can. From what I understand the NEC monitors I bought require Display Port for their maximum performance. The GTX 680 only has DVI outputs. Difference from what I understand is larger bandwidth with the DP.
You said I have the 4000 for CUDA. I am not all that familiar with CUDA and when I do read about it I do not understand it.
A concern I have is, that if I connect the 2 high end NEC monitors via the 5770, using it's 2 Display Ports I would have nothing connected to the 4000. Is the 4000 doing anything with nothing connected? I read where in a PC system the 2 cards would interact but in a Mac system they do not.
Bottom line, as I see it, the 4000 will not be useful at all to me, since I want a dual monitor set-up.
So far the 5870 seems the best choice, higher band width than the 5770, and it has 2 Display Ports to optimize the NEC monitors.
I'm not sure how fine I am splitting hairs, nor do I know how important those hairs are. I am just trying to set up a really fast reliable system that will mainly be used for CS6 and LR4. Those NEC monitors are supposed to be top notch.

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