[P1] iBook Monitor Spanning

[Brandon M. Bost]

I thought that all iBooks that have the Radeon listed them as Rage 
chips?  And if my memory serves me correctly, all of the Dual USB and 
up iBooks came with a Radeon?  I might be wrong, but I just thought I'd 
throw in my input.

On Jan 5, 2004, at 2:17 AM, Tom Burke wrote:

> Be very careful!
>
> Your 500Mhz iBook ought to be able to do video mirroring; there is a 
> mini-VGA port, and you can hook this up to a VGA monitor via a 
> miniVGA-to-VGA adapter (which again should have been with the iBook) 
> and get video mirroring.
>
> But the OF hack does *not* work, it seems, on any ATI Rage-equipped 
> iBook; that includes all 500Mhz, all 600Mhz and even some 700Mhz ones 
> (based on the data in MacTracker). You need an ATI Radeon-equipped 
> iBook for the hack to work.
>
> In fact, there are accounts on XLR8Yourmac.com of people who tried to 
> implement the hack on Rage-equipped machines ending up with a totally 
> non-responding iBook. There are some instructions regarding fixing 
> this problem, but you'd probably rather not have to do it.
>
> So for an ATI-Rage equipped iBook, the answer is that external video 
> mirroring is all that's possible.