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Date:         Thu, 21 Jul 2005 15:18:57 -0700
Reply-To:     honemastert <honemastert@GMAIL.COM>
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From:         honemastert <honemastert@GMAIL.COM>
Subject:      Re: ETKA on a Mac (NVC)
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Jim,

>> The resolutions of the ibook is one of the >> reasons I will probably put out >> the extra bucks for a powerbook next time.

If you have one of the relatively 'newer' ibooks there is a hack that will let it run a higher resoultion.

http://macintouch.com http://xlr8yourmac.com

Hack described here... http://www.macparts.de/ibook/

Sadly, it does not work for my 600Mhz G3 iBook.

cheers,

-tim

Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 12:03:28 -0400 From: Wil Macaulay Subject: Using an extended desktop with an iBook in OSX

Haven't seen anybody report this yet - This site has an Open Firmware hack that can enable multiple resolutions and monitor scanning for certain iBooks - not the original 500 Mhz ones, apparently.

WARNING!!! if your machine does not match the following specifications, wait and check out reader reports on sites like this and AccelerateYourMac before trying this yourself.

Mine is a 700 Mhz G3 iBook running OSX 10.2.1 and has the following video characteristics according to the Apple System Profiler:

Card Type ATY,DDParent Card Name ATY,FallParent Model ATY, RageM6 VendorID 1002 DevID 4259 ROM# 113-XXXXX-125 Rev 0 Mem 16MB

After applying the hack, I can run an external Sun GDM-5410 as my main screen at any of the following resolutions at Millions of colours:

640x480 800x600 832x624 1024x768 1152x870 1280x960 1600x1200 and also 1792x1344 at Thousands.

The machine behaves politely when I plug/unplug the external monitor, moving the menubar back to the LCD or external as hoped for. I can switch back to mirrored.

The only fly in the ointment is that rebooting into 9.2.2 doesn't allow me to change resolutions on the external monitor, but leaves it at 640x480. I haven't tried any of the resolution-setting utilities for this, since I never use 9.2.2. any more anyway.

That hack makes the iBook a pretty-near perfect little developer machine.


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