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John 2007-01-31 07:03
I'm having the strangest problems. I have a laptop (Dell D820) that has both a VGA and DVI output. I'm using the VGA to drive an external display on the left side and the DVI to drive a display on the right side. The VGA output is normally the primary display output, mirroring the LCD screen on the laptop.
I've setup an UltraMon profile to make the DVI output the primary monitor and extend the desktop to the left onto the VGA-driven monitor. Everything works fine.
However, if I lock my computer, then unlock it, initially eveything is fine. But after a few seconds, it makes the VGA monitor the primary monitor. At this point I have both the Vista task bar and the UltraMon task bar stacked on the VGA monitor, with no taskbar on the DVI monitor.
Any suggestions?
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Christian Studer 2007-01-31 09:42
Can you set the DVI as primary again when this happens?
Christian Studer - www.realtimesoft.com
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John 2007-01-31 10:22
Yes. After this happens each time, I run the UltraMon profile that puts everything back where it should be. However at this point, some of the windows appear on the wrong taskbar. If I tell UltraMon to show, then not show, the windows from the other window, all the windows appear on the correct taskbar.
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Barry Lawrensen 2007-01-31 12:05
Hi, Christian,
I am having a similar issue (perhaps it is similar). I just installed Vista Business, and have a nice wallpaper picture (2560x1024) that I display across both monitors (ATI FireMV220). I like my Start Button in the virtual center, which is lower left of the right monitor. So, I move the primary monitor to the right, and secondary to the left. This worked correctly in XP. But now in Vista, the wallpaper gets split with the right hand half of the picture on the left, and the left hand half of the wallpaper picture on the right.
I might just re-construct the picture in Photoshop as a work-around.
Thanks,
Barry Lawrensen
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Corey 2007-01-31 15:29
Ditto...similar issue. Dual monitor setup under Vista Business with the primary on the right and the secondary on the left. Ultramon spans the wallpaper from the right monitor, off the edge of the right to the left, rather than spanning across where it should be...
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Christian Studer 2007-02-01 10:40
Barry, Corey, the wallpaper issue is due to something else, will be fixed in the first 3.0 beta. See Windows Vista compatibility for more on this.
John, I'm not sure what would cause this, looks like an issue with the display driver or Vista.
Christian Studer - www.realtimesoft.com
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Matthew Sawyer 2007-02-04 23:24
I think video drivers often have a lot to do with (anomalous) behavior.
I have been running Vista RTM since December, since I am an MSDN subscriber. Just last week, Microsoft released a myriad of WDDM video drivers for both NVIDIA and ATI chipsets, and mine happened to be one of them. Windows Update installed the update here at the office, sans reboot, and everything was fine. I use a dual display of my laptop (Dell Latitude D820) and an external 17" flat-panel connected to the DVI.
After the driver update, everything still seemed fine. But when I wanted to work from home the next day, I found the most unusual scenario when I hooked up an external CRT monitor (that I've used for months) connected to the VGA. Both the laptop's built-in display and the CRT were displaying in appropriate resolution, but they were sideways! So instead of 1920x1200 and 1280x1024, I was getting 1200x1920 and 1024x1280.
While I could turn my head sideways, that would lead to a very stiff neck, which is unacceptable. Disconnecting the external monitor brought things to normalcy again, but reconnecting tilted things sideways yet again.
The fix? Go to Dell's website and download their Vista video driver for the video card. It happens to be the same driver version as the Microsoft NVIDIA one, but Microsoft's version is just the driver. Dell's gives you the NVIDIA Control Panel too, which allows you to readily remedy rotated displays.
The long and short of it is that it is not always UltraMon that causes the issue, but instead the driver itself.
Best regards,
Matt
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John 2007-02-05 05:10
I did some more testing and discovered that my problem goes away when I have the VGA display on the left and the DVI display on the right, AND make the primary display the left display. As Matt pointed out, I suspect this isn't a problem with UltraMon, but rather with the display drivers. I also downloaded and installed the Vista drivers from Dell's web site.
All this being said, I would absolutely love to have UltraMon fix this problem for me, even though it's probably not the source.
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Mikey 2007-02-20 12:45
I am having the same problem.
Ultramon: 2.7.1
OS: Vista RTM
Graphics card: ATI Radeon X1300
Since I remote-desktopped into my Vista home computer from work, my "monitor 1" and "monitor 2" switched. I am now using "monitor 2" on the as my main monitor. However, because of this, the smart-taskbar will only stack on top of the main one on the primary display.
I tried every setting I could think of both in Ultramon and in ATI Catalyst (including making sure my drivers are updated and re-installing Ultramon.) ...it seems that I cannot make my left monitor to be the first one, thus UltraMon does not seem to be able to put the smart taskbar on the correct monitor.
Unfortunately my video card has one VGA and one DVI output...the DVI output is the one that is being registered as monitor 2. However, I want to use the DVI output as my primary display, so switching cables is not really an option.
Is there anything I can do, or are there any possible fixes in the near future? (I realize it is most likely a driver/Vista issue outside of Ultramon; I just miss my smart-taskbar :)
MikeY
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Christian Studer 2007-02-21 11:43
Resetting the Smart Taskbar configuration should fix the problem, see Smart Taskbar: missing taskbar or taskbar shows tasks from wrong monitor for more on this.
Christian Studer - www.realtimesoft.com
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Mikey 2007-02-22 15:42
Thanks so much Christian! That worked like a charm! I feel like a fool for missing that help file.
I should also note that I always knew how much I love this application, but I didn't know *just* how much I missed it until it was gone. In fact, not having the smarttaskbar just for a week became my biggest annoyance with Vista in general.
Thanks again!
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