[geeks] Good online Apple dealers?

Joost van de Griek jvdg at sparcpark.net
Mon Aug 9 14:56:36 CDT 2004


On 2004-08-09 21:32, Mike Hebel wrote:

>> On Mon, Aug 09, 2004 at 02:26:06PM -0500, Jonathan C. Patschke wrote:
>>
>>> A PowerBook can use the VGA or DVI output as either a mirror of what's on
>>> the LCD or as an extension of the desktop.  The iBook does not have this
>>> option; it's always a mirror of the LCD.  So, on my PowerBook, I can have
>>> three displays (built-in, VGA, S-Video) all without adding any hardware
>>> other than the output devices themselves.
>> 
>> I think you can do this on the iBook with an OBP settings tweak.
> 
> _Some_ iBooks.  It depends on how much video memory is available and what
> version OBP and several other things.  The hack however is available on
> www.xlr8yourmac.com

It depends solely on the GPU. The Radeon iBooks can be OF-hacked, the
Rage128 iBooks can't, simply because the Rage128 doesn't support display
spanning.

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