iBook Monitor Spanning

[Tom Burke]

On Monday, January 5, 2004, at 08:00  am, iBook List wrote:

> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> From: "Chris Weiss" <cweiss at stickyc.com>
> Subject: Re: [P1] Can dual USB 500 mhz iBook be connected to 2nd screen
>  ?
> Date: Sun, 4 Jan 2004 22:50:14 -0800
> Message-ID: <NBBBJMOLOPDOPLCDGHJDOELMJBAA.cweiss at stickyc.com>
>
> The hack is here: http://www.rutemoeller.com/mp/ibook/ibook_e.html
>
> Note that I've not actually tried this myself and wash my hands of any
> responsibilities should anyone reading this fry their system following 
> those
> instructions.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: iBook List [mailto:ibook at lists.themacintoshguy.com]On Behalf Of
> Peter Nacken
> Sent: Sunday, January 04, 2004 4:22 PM
> To: iBook List
> Subject: [P1] Can dual USB 500 mhz iBook be connected to 2nd screen ?
>
>
> Just wondering .. I keep  remembering that I read something about a 
> hack ...
> Or something ... I'd love to have the same dual monitor possibility I 
> have
> with my TiBook on my iBook ..   Is there a way ?
>
> Thanks
>
> P
>
> (and no .. I do not mean hooking it up to the TV)
>

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.

Tom Burke