secondary screen / dual screen riderunner question

**l1nk** · 05-25-2010, 04:24 PM

Hello all! I'm not sure about the forum I choose for this post.
It's a lcd/graphic card question but related to a specific frontend (riderunner) so... admins please move this thread if necessary

The question is about my new in-car gadget, this one:

It's a 3,5 inches lcd monitor self contained in a ceiling light. I really like it

The lcd monitor have a composite only input and my mobo is a d945gclf2 with integrated graphics and 1 VGA output and 1 S-Video output.

At the moment I have the roof monitor totally disconnected and powered off but I'd like to connect to carputer and display something on it, but not the same image I have on the main lcd monitor!
I think it will be cool to show the winamp visualizer or the video or the gps map (or something else) on the roof lcd, while showing normal screens on main lcd. I'd like to be able to choose from the main interface what to send to the roof lcd

I'm a little confused on this basically because I don't know how to connect this second little lcd monitor to my motherboard!! So some question, just to break the ice:

It is possible to connect it to the s-video directly and have both vga (for the main 8" lcd) and s-video (for the roof 3,5" lcd) outputs active from my mobo? Do I need some kind of adapter?

Is roadrunner able to do something similar to what I have in my fancies i.e. choose from the interface what to send to the secondary little display?

Please be kind, don't destroy my dreams!

**l1nk** · 05-27-2010, 08:35 AM

A lot of readings but no response. Maybe it's not an interesting subject

Anyway, in the meantime I've made some headway that I like to share

I've built a simple adapter from s-video to composite as described HERE, then connected my 3,5" lcd monitor and started to deal with intel gma 950 software.

My first impression is that this software is not so good and stable! After a lot of tries I was able to see an image in both monitors at the same time.

Its not exactly what I needed because I have exactly the same image on both monitors so... it's better than nothing but I'm not fully satisfied!

As already said, I'd like to have different images in lcd's but I'm not sure it's possible using this setup with one monitor connected to vga and the other monitor connected to s-video.
Any experience on this?

Any advice on how configure RR to send different screens on different lcd's?