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Is Monitor Spanning Possible on an iBook?

Posted by Cliff on from the two-heads-are-better-than-a-clone-of-one dept.

bcassell asks: "I just recently (a few days ago) purchased an iBook. It's the base model (600mhz, 12" screen). After playing with it for a while I decided to plug it into my nice 21" Dell CRT, only to find that the iBook ONLY supports display mirroring (so I'm stuck at 1024x768). Well, knowing that the video card in my iBook is an ATI Radeon mobility which, by ATI's specs, supports monitor spanning, I decided to do some research. I found several discussions about the subject, and one person who even claimed to have monitor spanning working on his iBook in Mac OS 9. So does anyone know of a way to get monitor spanning to work on an iBook in Mac OS X? Or, if not, where would a very proficient coder/hacker like myself, who has very little Mac OS X experience, find information to attempt a hack like this?"

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  1. Hardware? by suss · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Why is this under hardware and not "ask slashdot?"

    Also, i blocked everything apple and i still get these topics where they don't belong, like here...

    Please put the stories where they belong.

    1. Re:Hardware? by WildTaco · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      It may have been because of my confusion when submitting it, but I don't think so. There were two drop down boxes, and both of them had an "apple" selection. One of them, though, had an "ask slashdot" selection. So I submitted this under "apple" and "ask slashdot". All in all the topic selection on the submit page is very non-intuitive...