[P1] Screen Spanning with iBook!

[J.C. Webber III]

Bill Sheehan wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I've had my little 12" G4 iBook for only a short time, and already it 
> seems like home.  The only thing I miss from my Linux box is the big 
> 17" LCD.  Sometime you just want to read from one window and type in 
> another, and it's difficult to do on a small iBook.
> 
> Well, thanks to a very bright Mac hacker, my MacOS X desktop now spans 
> my 12" iBook and my 17" screen.  The iBook resolution is 1024 x 768, 
> the 17" resolution is 1280 x 1024.  Room to stretch out and enjoy!
> 
> The hack is free and can be found here:
> http://www.rutemoeller.com/mp/ibook/ibook_e.html
> 
> Have fun!
> 
> -- Bill

Yea, that's a great little hack, isn't it.  I love being able to
hook up a larger monitor in spanning mode.

Interestingly, some time after applying that patch my logic board
went out (again).  After the repair I found the spanning feature
was still enabled.  That suprised me because I thought this hack/patch
modified PRAM, and I was under the impression that the PRAM is on the
logic board.  I thought for sure I'd have to reapply that patch when
I got the iBook back from repair, but no.

That left me head scratching a bit...
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