[ShaneHale7]

From my knowledge the Firewire iBooks had a combo Video & Audio out port. I purchase the special Apple AV adapter, which ends in RCA. The mini board the AV jack is on indicateds AV. But nothing but Audio is coming out. Does the AV only come on once the system is fully up and opeational? or should I be able to see this earlier? ie Start Up. Think the messed up display has anything to do with it?

Thanks Again....

Shane Hale

[bluedog]

Shane,

I have one of those adapters and have used the VGA adapter to hook to a monitor and the AV adapter you mention to connect to an LCD projector via the S-Video plug. I've never used the RCA connector, according to Apple's website you should be getting composite video from the RCA jack.

The S-Video works when you plug and unplug the adapter: the screen flashes on the LCD and refreshes then with the external screen available.

Note: the external screen resolution is dependent on your current display settings. There is an external hack that will allow 'screen spanning' for iBooks. This allows the external display to be an 'additional desktop space' rather then simply mirroring the current LCD screen.

Perhaps you have a bugged out video port!?! Try disconnecting the adapter from the side of the iBook and connecting the RCA cable to your composite video display (TV, VCR, whatever) and THEN connecting the adapter back into the iBook. Do this when the ibook is already booted and ready on the desktop, then try it from a cold startup with everything connected.

It *should* work without a restart though.

[BobVB]

Originally posted by ShaneHale7:
From my knowledge the Firewire iBooks had a combo Video & Audio out port. I purchase the special Apple AV adapter, which ends in RCA. The mini board the AV jack is on indicateds AV. But nothing but Audio is coming out. Does the AV only come on once the system is fully up and opeational? or should I be able to see this earlier? ie Start Up. Think the messed up display has anything to do with it?

All I can say is I had an original dual USB ice iBook that had the same composite video coming out of the earphone jack. All I had to do was plug the rca plugs into my TV and I could watch DVD's played by my iBook without a problem.

Try connecting to a TV to see if you are getting all the signals or not.

[ccsccs7]

ShaneHale7, what is the problem with the display? If you're not getting video out, maybe the graphics chip(s) could be the problem.

Or, maybe the plug isn't making good contact with the jack. Maybe a little wiggling or pushing/pulling in/out a little (at your discretion, we don't want anything to break) might do something. *shrug* (Apple got rid of this feature for a reason…)

[d4nth3m4n]

i think after teh 600mhz icebooks, apple gave up on the composite headphone cable.

i bought one for my 700mhz, but it didnt work so i had to give it to my sister and her 500mhz.

what kinda ibook you gots?

[ccsccs7]

Based on the "description" this should be a clamshell/colored iBook. (Unless this "description" isn't a standard model description name.)

[ShaneHale7]

Sorry let me be a little more descriptive.

1) I have the composite video out going directly to a VCR and into a TV. No other accessories are hooked up to this. The Composite Audio flows through perfectly. Weird hearing the start up chime through a tv.

2) The screen was cracked and the backlight is out. When I boot the system and back like the screen I can spot the pointer in the top left corner. I can even move it to an extent, but that Vertical 1/4 of the screen is the only good part. The rest looks like a busted calculator.

3) This is a Clamshell Firewire iBook. It is the 366mhz version, not the Special Edition 466mhz. Just after these version they developed the Dual USB iBook, in the current design. I have a 600mhz version of this, but it has a bad powersupply. Another problem another time.

I have tried reconnecting the jack, wiggling it, and restarting the system with no luck. I even went as far as installing the modem if some circuit happend to run through there... but still nothing.

Thanks
Shane Hale

[ccsccs7]

Do you see anything on the TV screen (blue-no-signal screen, black screen, static, noise)?

Can you tell if the screen adjust resolution or just "blinks" when the cable is plugged in or taken out (might be Mac OS X only, I don't know).

Can you get the Control strip into the upper 1/4 of the screen to check out the resolution choices? (Looking for TV type stuff (refresh rates (Hz) or signal type (NTSC, PAL).)

Maybe you should try the VGA video port to see if it works (if it's within your means or circumstances). It could either help you figure out what's going on with the video out, or prove that it's a video circutry problem.

[ShaneHale7]

Nothing, but a black sceen. I don't believe the system is completing the start up, and loading the control strip to check the resolution. I may do a new install of OSX.

Shane

[rytc]

Originally posted by ccsccs7:

Maybe you should try the VGA video port to see if it works (if it's within your means or circumstances). It could either help you figure out what's going on with the video out, or prove that it's a video circutry problem.

The Clamshell iBooks didn't have VGA just composite and even then only the later models had it, earlier ones only had audio out. I note you say you have the Firewire iBook, I don't mean to be insulting but are you absolutely positive it has firewire?
If the top half of the screen is still visible then you should be able to see the menu bar appear? If it's not appearing then it'd suggest the system is stuffed which would explain why no video is coming through. As people have noted, trying to display PAL on an NTSC TV or vice versa, unless the TV can handle both will result in no video as well.

[ccsccs7]

Originally posted by rytc:
The Clamshell iBooks didn't have VGA…

Oops. Ha ha. I didn't check on that.

[Big Mac]

Have you tried switching resolutions? Connect the cable, go to Displays (if you can), switch to one of the TV resolutions and restart if you still don't see any video on the TV.