Matrox® Mura MPX™ Series How to use a Matrox GXM™ product as an output device 20170-101-0100 2012.04.
Overview Matrox Mura MPX-4/4, MPX-4/2, and MPX-4/0 products now support GXM (Graphics Expansion Module) products. Adding a Matrox DualHead2Go Digital Edition or TripleHead2Go Digital Edition product to your Mura MPX Series setup increases the number of available outputs on your Mura MPX Series card.
DVI to HD-15 adapter USB hub To purchase any Matrox cables or adapters not included with your Matrox product, see the Matrox online store (shopmatrox.com). Software supplied Matrox PowerDesk – to use your Matrox product. Matrox PowerDesk software supports Windows® 7 64-bit and Windows® Server® 2008 R2. Matrox makes new software available on the Matrox Technical Support Web site (www.matrox.com/graphics/en/support/drivers).
Connecting your GXM This section explains how to connect your GXM product to your Mura MPX Series card. Before you begin Make sure your Matrox Mura MPX Series cards are already installed in your system and your KX20 to quad-DVI or KX20 to dual-DVI cable (included with your Mura card) is already connected to your Mura MPX card. For more information on how to install your Mura product, see your Matrox Mura MPX Series user guide.
3 Attach the Matrox input cable DualHead2Go – Using a DVI to HD-15 adapter (sold separately), attach one end of the Matrox input cable (HD-15 to HD-15) provided with your GXM product to the KX20 to quad-DVI or KX20 to dual-DVI cable connected to your Mura card. Attach the other end of the cable to the input connector ( ) on your GXM product.
The order in which you connect your monitors depends on your layout. Since GXM units use a 2×1 (DualHead2Go) or 3×1 layout, the resulting display wall must be a multiple of this. For example, you can connect 4 TripleHead2Go units to 2 Mura MPX-4/4 cards, so that your 2×4 display wall layout (outputs A1 to D2) can use 24 monitors in a 6×4 layout (monitors 1 to 24).
Setting up your software Installing the driver 1 From the setup program, click Install Drivers. Follow the on-screen instructions. When prompted to restart your system, click Yes. 2 After your system restarts, PowerDesk continues configuring your system. When prompted to restart your system a second time, click Yes. Verifying your GXM products From the PowerDesk main interface, click About. Under External graphics hardware, make sure all the GXM products connected to your Mura cards are listed.
Creating your multi-display layout 1 From the PowerDesk main interface, click Multi-Display Setup. 2 Create your multi-display layout. PowerDesk uses dotted lines to indicate the outputs of each GXM product and solid lines for the outputs of your Mura card. In this case, the multi-display layout of your display wall is a 2×4 layout which becomes a 6×4 layout with the addition of multiple TripleHead2Go units (8). 3 Select a resolution for your 24 GXM outputs (for example, 1400×1050).
Display modes Supported display resolutions1 Dual-monitor resolutions Triple-monitor resolutions DualHead2Go Digital Edition TripleHead2Go Digital Edition 3840×1200 (2× 1920×1200) 3840×1080 (2× 1920×1080) 3360×1050 (2× 1680×1050) 3200×1200 (2× 1600×1200) 3200×900 (2× 1600×900) 2880×900 (2× 1440×900) 2800×1050 (2× 1400×1050) 2720×768 (2× 1360×768) 2560×1024 (2× 1280×1024) 2560×960 (2× 1280×960) 2560×800 (2× 1280×800) 2560×768 (2× 1280×768) 2560×720 (2× 1280×720) 2048×768 (2× 1024×768) 1600×600 (2× 800×6
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