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iBook Mirroring

Submitted by PandabeaR on January 27, 2006 - 12:14am. Hardware Hacks

Hi. I was wondering if anyone here knows if there is any hack to allow the ibook display to shut off while leaving the ibook running. The reason I need to do this is because I know that it will mirror its display to an external one connected via vga. I also know that when I am playing games I get a craptacular framerate, most likely because its doing twice the work. I get a good framerate when its just my iBook display though. So basically I need to disable the built in display like the PowerBook does when u connect an external display. Is there any possible way to do this?! I dont care if the ibook is open or closed, so long as the image is only put on my external display and not the iBook one.

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http://www.rutemoeller.com/mp

Submitted by Whosawhatsis on January 27, 2006 - 12:31am.

http://www.rutemoeller.com/mp/ibook/ibook_e.html

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Thank you very much! It works

Submitted by PandabeaR on January 27, 2006 - 1:56am.

Thank you very much! It works great. Until that is, I try to play Raven Shield(what I needed this hack for). Heh, just my luck. It keeps crashing when i have the 1st display turned off. Any tips?

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Sorry, no. In my experience,

Submitted by Whosawhatsis on January 27, 2006 - 2:00am.

Sorry, no. In my experience, playing games this way doesn't work well.

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Ok. So you reccomend just goi

Submitted by PandabeaR on January 27, 2006 - 3:43am.

Ok. So you reccomend just going with the origonal mirrored settings if I need to use the external display?

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For games, yes (well, I reall

Submitted by Whosawhatsis on January 27, 2006 - 3:49am.

For games, yes (well, I really recommend just using the built-in display). For most other purposes, you can do more with the extended desktop that the above provides.

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