MAC pro monitor

Can someone guide me: I cnnot align the mac pro screen to the large external screen that sits behind the laptop so that both images appear in sme location.
One set of images is off screen on one monitor and on screen in the other and vice versa.

More to the point do the graphics cards automatically recognise the LCD and set for that resolution or do you need to set up a custom resoultion.

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Hi. It's me again.
OK. So I can't use the old video card. I just plugged a Samsung monitor into the DVI port on the Mac Pro and my Apple monitor into the miniDV port and I'm not see the mini DV monitor. I'm afraid to restart the machine.
Any ideas?
Thanks.
Martoons

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Sorry.
M

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