iBook Monitor Spanning

[Tom Burke]

Not according to MacTracker. It carefully says that (of the IceBooks) 
what it calls the 'dual-USB iBook' (500 Mhz), the 'iBpk (Late 2001)' 
(500Mhz or 600Mhz) and the 'iBook 14" (son of Pismo)' (600 Mhz) all 
have ATI Rage Mobility video chips, with 8Mb of video RAM. The next 
generation - 700 Mhz and upwards - had ATI Radeon Mobility chips, with 
16Mb VRam. And it's the 500 & 600Mhz machines about which the issues 
have arisen as reported on XLR8Yourmac.com.

I was wrong earlier about the 700 Mhz machines - it looks as if they 
should all be OK.

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> Message-Id: <C9582DA0-3F60-11D8-BE4D-00039314681A at earthlink.net>
> From: Brandon M. Bost <bbost at earthlink.net>
> Subject: Re: [P1] iBook Monitor Spanning
> Date: Mon, 5 Jan 2004 03:23:13 -0600
>
> 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.