Glad you got it to work... FWIW, I have a MBP hooked up to a Dell U3011, and my in-house tech support (and long-suffering hubs) had similar issues getting the pair to play nice. A mini display port to display port adapter did the trick. We also did some fiddling with the default setting for the video card... I don't recall exactly what the issue was, but I think there are two video cards in the MBP, and we had to select the more vigorous one to use with the Dell monitor...?
On the other hand, we never tried a musical/rhythmic intervention on it, so maybe that would have worked, too. :) -c On Sun, Apr 24, 2011 at 4:02 PM, Rick Womer <rwomer1...@yahoo.com> wrote: > Success came with a combination of Stan's and Steve's suggestions. It =is= a > DVI adapter, and the monitor thinks it's a DVD player it is hooking up to (so > why can't it detect it??? Thanks, Dell. Sheesh.). The specific startup > sequence is also key; but my monitor prefers the rhythm of the Lone Ranger > theme/William Tell Overture. > > Thanks, guys! > > Rick > > http://photo.net/photos/RickW > > > --- On Sun, 4/24/11, steve harley <p...@paper-ape.com> wrote: > >> From: steve harley <p...@paper-ape.com> >> Subject: Re: AARGH! MBP v Dell 2410 >> To: "Pentax-Discuss Mail List" <pdml@pdml.net> >> Date: Sunday, April 24, 2011, 3:09 PM >> On 2011-04-24 12:17 , Rick Womer >> wrote: >> > A few months later... the power strip feeding the >> monitor got turned off, and when I connect the MBP... >> nothing. The computer knows the monitor is there, but >> the monitor won't recognize the computer. When I ask >> the monitor to "scan sources" it doesn't find >> anything. When I choose VGA, it says "no VGA cable", >> which is complete bullshit because there it is, plugged in >> (and re-plugged-in, via an adapter to the Mac's mini display >> port). >> >> if i'm reading this right, i'd suggest a Mini DisplayPort >> to DVI adapter instead of the VGA adapter -- all-digital >> signal path will be cleaner; i got one from monoprice.com >> that is not quite as pretty but much less expensive than the >> Apple adapter >> >> could also be a cable problem -- sometimes wiggling the >> cable at each end will make this clear; i've had a >> surprising number of display cables flake out after months >> of working fine (DVI and HDMI especially) >> >> -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >> PDML@pdml.net >> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link >> directly above and follow the directions. >> > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
