From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 7148 invoked by uid 1002); 21 Nov 2003 06:05:15 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gentoo-ppc-dev-help@gentoo.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-ppc-dev@gentoo.org Received: (qmail 26380 invoked from network); 21 Nov 2003 06:05:14 -0000 From: Kevyn Shortell To: bennyc@gentoo.org Cc: gentoo-ppc-dev@gentoo.org In-Reply-To: <1069392283.767.7.camel@vaio> References: <1069392283.767.7.camel@vaio> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-u4As0Dhxh7S/A9XDem0N" Organization: Message-Id: <1069394709.3649.3.camel@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.2.4- Date: 20 Nov 2003 22:05:09 -0800 Subject: Re: [gentoo-ppc-dev] iBook -- External Monitor X-Archives-Salt: 25b0aba2-29ff-4fb3-bb87-ca0c1b17395e X-Archives-Hash: 0b22c3cd93215503f69a7e0f7ab9a1fc --=-u4As0Dhxh7S/A9XDem0N Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, 2003-11-20 at 21:24, Benny Chuang (BennyC) wrote: > Hi guys, > I'm editing the gentoo-ppc-faq guide, we(gentoo doc team) has received > a mail a howto about connecting an iBook to the external monitor. The > howto's URL is > http://www.mockies.de/main.php?seite=3Dlinuxdocs&tab=3D5&lang=3Den > please have a look and tell me if its valid to be put in. >=20 > Regards > --=20 > Benny Chuang > Gentoo Developer > PGP Key: http://dev.gentoo.org/~bennyc/bennyc_at_gentoo_org.asc > FP: B635 00E4 723A A22B CCD3 00C4 53CD 3411 DB8F F979 Hi Benny, The stock answer is no, as external monitor support is not supported across the entire ibook line due to video card differances between the various models. that webpage while it worked for the owner, it's not a catch all answer. In fact that guide won't work for my ibook. External monitor support is still in its infancy and as such there isn't a guide that will handle all of them. Some of the models require additional software to do it, some the software doesn't exist for it yet. Kevyn --=-u4As0Dhxh7S/A9XDem0N Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQA/vasUEv5Qt5rjz1YRAg8dAKCs2d6VFv/Ri9nwCmEMzHQMmFUo3wCgkX3T ud/pn5+/2pPG67U9tY0fFfc= =OpWM -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-u4As0Dhxh7S/A9XDem0N--