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Join Date: Apr 2003
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I heard there was a way to use dual displays on an ibook. Spanning (one large desktop) as opposed to just mirroring. Does anyone know how this is done?
INcase it is important: I have the ibook g3 800
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Join Date: Apr 2003
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Thanks.. it worked great.
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Join Date: Apr 2003
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Has anyone had any problems spanning with this hack? Last night my lcd started flickering and it froze. I restarted it and just got the startup chime followed by a black screen. I noticed that my a/c adapter was not powering the ibook. I fixed that and started it up and things seemed fine. However this morning the screen flickered and went all crazy again, I restarted a few times and it is working now. I am not running the extra monitor incase that was the issue. Any information would be very helpful. I just sold my desktop and I am a design student so having a working mac is vital.
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Join Date: May 2001
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Originally posted by horrorbiz:
Has anyone had any problems spanning with this hack? Last night my lcd started flickering and it froze. I restarted it and just got the startup chime followed by a black screen. I noticed that my a/c adapter was not powering the ibook. I fixed that and started it up and things seemed fine. However this morning the screen flickered and went all crazy again, I restarted a few times and it is working now. I am not running the extra monitor incase that was the issue. Any information would be very helpful. I just sold my desktop and I am a design student so having a working mac is vital.
Once, my iBook thought, it had only 8 Megs of Video RAM installed instead of its 32 when connected to the beamer. A restart solved the problem. This occurred just once, other than that, no problems at all. Works beautifully.
Be careful, this works just on newer models (32 MB Video RAM, I think), it could seriously damage older machines!
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Join Date: Jun 2003
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I'm sorry to say that sounds like the infamous ibook logic board problem. My screen flickered like that before it eventually died with logic board failure.
I dont think applying the hack would cause the logic board to fail (I also applied the hack), but I did read one theory that although the ibooks graphics card can handle dual screens the logic board cannot and eventually fries under the pressure .. ??
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Originally posted by horrorbiz:
Has anyone had any problems spanning with this hack? Last night my lcd started flickering and it froze. I restarted it and just got the startup chime followed by a black screen. I noticed that my a/c adapter was not powering the ibook. I fixed that and started it up and things seemed fine. However this morning the screen flickered and went all crazy again, I restarted a few times and it is working now. I am not running the extra monitor incase that was the issue. Any information would be very helpful. I just sold my desktop and I am a design student so having a working mac is vital.
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Join Date: Feb 2003
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I have the hack without any problems.
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