Multi-monitor issue with CS4?

Hi; I'm running a Mac with the following specs:
3 x 30" ACD
MacPro 2,8 Ghz Quad
2x ATI Radon 2600 XT graphics cards (2 screens attached to 1 card; 1 screen to the other card)
I've encountered after the switch from CS3 to CS4 the following issue:
Whenever I try to use the new Bridge Review function using one of the the screens sharing one graphics card I just get a grey screen.
If I move the bridge window to the solely attached screen it works.
Is that an issue of CS4 or is just the throughput of the second graCard providing 2 monitors not sufficient.
Thanks t.

T,
There are known issues with using more than one graphics card which Apple has not truly resolved. You may want to browse some of the threads in the Adobe Photoshop Macintosh forum.
In addition, you should know that Photoshop and Bridge cannot really take advantage of more than one graphic card.
http://forums.adobe.com/message/1540485#1540485
This bit of information in relation to GPU and OpenGL features and
limitations in Photoshop CS4 had totally escaped me until now. Though
it doesn't affect my setup, it might be of interest to others who may
have missed it too.
Excerpt from
http://www.adobe.com/go/kb404898
Q. Does Photoshop take advantage of dual-GPU display cards?
A. Not at this time.
Q. Why can't Photoshop take advantage of more than one display card?
A. When you move an image window between two monitors that are
each on a separate display card, the GPU attached to the second monitor
does not have access to the data necessary to accelerate drawing. The
SLI and Crossfire technologies that use more than one GPU to speed up
full-screen games will not work with Photoshop, because their use is
limited by design to accelerate only full-screen games.

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> > Table <td background> background input is
gone from the proprieties
> > palette.
>
> No it's not gone, it's under the CSS 'tab' (look on the
left side) as a Bg
> color well and input field.
>
> Nope, it's not there. BG color is in the middle on my
CSS tab under
> properties
> palette. There is no bg inpit filed when clicking inside
a table cell.
>
>
quote:
> > Table height does not display when selecting a
table, only width. So you
> > have
> > to go into the code and manually change or delete
the table height.
>
> As already stated, table height is invalid HTML - always
has been.
>
>
> Apologies, I learned from Dreamweaver. And since
Dreamweaver 8 (my current
> program) does have it, I'm conditioned. I will now
understand Dreamweaver
> taught me incorrectly and learn better coding.
>
>
quote:
> > Selecting an image and linking it, automatically
populates without a
> > border="0" resulting in an unwanted border color.
It should be "0" by
> > default
> > like version 8.
>
> No, it shouldn't. The border attribute is deprecated in
HTML 4.0 (see the
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>
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>
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>
>
>
> Yes, it should. Like alt tags are defaulted to 'empty'
borders should be
> given
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> anymore. It
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properties
> palette. If
> I wanted to hand code everything, I wouldn't be using
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>
quote:
> > I can't drag a file to the tab bar and be allowed
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> > why
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>
> It's just not. Never has been.
>
>
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>
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> > Viewing in Safari, when clicking back onto
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> > interact with Safari's tool bar. I have to click on
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> > Dreamweaver
> > to draw on top of Safari. When this happens, there
are also white
> > flashes
> > where
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> > second
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>
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>
>
>
> As stated, it doesn't happen all the times and a
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