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qnc · Sep 16, 2004, 12:24 PM

With all these lovely new G5 imacs about there may be a few flatscreen doom ones needing a new home.

Was wondering was it possible to have two domed ones dual screened so two hard drives on the faster and the mouse crosses betwwen screen.

Anyone know if this is possible I know that sharing etc... but actual use of two screens is what I am asking about.

Grrr · Sep 16, 2004, 01:35 PM

Im a bit confused.. You want to run dual screens on a G4 iMac right? Well, yes this is possible on most of them. But not officially. It needs a software hack. The hack was initially produced for iBooks, but was later found to work on many eMacs and iMacs too.
Take a look here.. http://www.rutemoeller.com/mp/ibook/ibook_e.html
I did this on my eMac. Works a treat

toti · Sep 16, 2004, 01:45 PM

If you are thinking of using two domes ( iLamps ) as one, you can't.

You can however use them side by side, as two seperate computers with seperate screens, but one keyboard/mouse to control the both of them.

If you search macupdate.com, there is a freeware utility to allow for that ( and it works too. I just can't remember the name of it.. )

As for screen spanning, there have been many questions about it, but not much of answers ( I guess those who could answer where too busy bitching about the GFX card in the new iMac

)

The old iMacs ( G4 domes ) CAN use screen-spanning ( see http://www.rutemoeller.com/mp/ibook/ibook_e.html )

The NEW iMac ( unless confirmed otherwise ) cannot use this screen-spanning trick.

This is due to the older macs using ATI cards where spanning was available, but the new macs are using nVidia cards, where supposedly it is not. ( I'd love to be proven wrong tho

)

toti · Sep 16, 2004, 01:56 PM

This:

http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/14042

is what you most probably are looking for

Lancer409 · Sep 17, 2004, 01:48 AM

Originally posted by Grrr:
Im a bit confused.. You want to run dual screens on a G4 iMac right? Well, yes this is possible on most of them. But not officially. It needs a software hack. The hack was initially produced for iBooks, but was later found to work on many eMacs and iMacs too.
Take a look here.. http://www.rutemoeller.com/mp/ibook/ibook_e.html
I did this on my eMac. Works a treat

... interesting signature Grrr

qnc · Sep 17, 2004, 05:43 AM

Tried to install teleport on to ox10.2.8 when trying to drag the folder to the system libary prepanes folder but it says it can't be modifed????

So how do i get it to install??

it installed fine on 10.3.5

Can you help

toti · Sep 17, 2004, 06:10 AM

Putting it in your own prefpane directory should be enough.

But if you NEED to put it in the system prefpane directory, you must be an administrator to do so.. ( you can also "neuter" the permissions for that directory be going into the shell, and typing: sudo chmod 1777 /System/Library/PreferecePanes - those permissions WILL however be reset the next time you run "fix permissions". )

qnc · Sep 17, 2004, 06:21 AM

Tried the chmod line

sudo chmod 1777 /System/Library/PreferecePanes

and got

We trust you have received the usual lecture from the local System
Administrator. It usually boils down to these two things:

#1) Respect the privacy of others.
#2) Think before you type.

cool message but when I tried to drage and drop still got folder PreferencePanes can't be modified.

Do I have to reset something or should it be straight forward?

toti · Sep 17, 2004, 06:25 AM

It should be straight forward.

You did type your password at the Password: promt ?

And got no error message ?

Once a directories mode bits have been set to 1777, everybody and their grandma should have access to write into it...

qnc · Sep 17, 2004, 06:51 AM

ahh didn't see the password but when I did it goes no such file or directory exisist

Shall I cd to that directory and then change it there. It seems like I am in the user folder when i type ls I get Desktop Document library movies etc...

Sorry not a unix expert

toti · Sep 17, 2004, 07:14 AM

Sorry, it's been a while since I sat down with a OS X 10.2

Where exactly are you trying to put the preference pane ? ( you should see the real path by selecting column view in Finder.. )

qnc · Sep 17, 2004, 08:18 AM

Me too..

when I opened the teleport pr2.1 folder under 10.2 there was a folder under 10.3 there was an icon in the folders place and all i had to do was click on it and the installation was done.

under 10.2 however there was a folder as per maunfactures read me doc...

1. On Panther, just double-click on it to install the preference pane. On Jaguar, put teleport.prefpane in ~/Library/PreferencePanes.

assuming that 10.2.8 is Jaguar I tried to move the folder into macintosh HD/System/Library/preferecePanes.

This is where I got the cant modify and tried your unix line.

so would the absoulte path be Macintosh HD/System/Library/PreferencePanes

tried putting that with sudo chmod 1777 infront but still no such pathway

what is the unix command that tells you the full path?

qnc · Sep 17, 2004, 08:30 AM

even tried cd ing to the folder and copy and paste the pathway given mol86:/System....

That didn't work

enabled root user that still didn't work

qnc · Sep 17, 2004, 08:43 AM

have found this on the web and made some adjustments

God bless the web

I had install problems too - the following worked for me:

1. Install the prefPane on ALL Macs you plan on using Teleport with. Seems obvious, but I learned the hard way...

2. If OS X doesn't automatically install the prefPane when you double click it, manually install it in /System/Library/PreferancePanes/
enable root, restart/logon as root THEN move the folder
then RESTART THE COMPUTER!

3. Once you get the prefPane to come up in System Preferances, you MUST drag and drop the availbale screen(s) next to each other. For example, if you have three networked Macs (call them A, B, and C), and want A on the left, B on the right, and C to not use Teleport, you drag A and B next to each other then leave C alone.

4. Even though you'll need only one mouse and one keyboard AFTER TELEPORT IS ACTIVATED, you still need a keyboard/mouse physicaly attached to each Mac IN ORDER TO ACTIVATE TELEPORT. Allowing remote control requires authorization, which can't be given remotely. Once again, seems obvious, but...

5. Keyboard shortcuts for the Finder may not work on the controlled computer. Hey, it's prerelease software, can't really complain. (8/26/2004, Version: pre2.1)

qnc · Sep 17, 2004, 09:13 AM

Got it working with the instructions above.

Would say it is quite cool.

But can't pull documents across or have open windows across the two computers however have got more space as once opened can hide the keyboard and the swivel screen makes it so much easier to postion them.

However the panel seems to stay open (you can dock it) note sure about how practical that is though pressing cancel seems to stop the feature and it is better with the alt key to move the mouse to the slave machine.

Other than that great little program.

More than one mac get teleporter pre2.1 version though

qnc · Sep 17, 2004, 09:33 AM

network events also seem to disrupt the link so you have to keep on mouse close by to restablish connections.