Re: Turn off built-in screen?

2003-02-13 Thread Eric D.
on 12/2/03 23:39, Mark Kippert at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It doesn't happen to my BW G3 tower or to a Lombard/333. I was surprised by this behaviour when it happened on my Pismo/400. Must be a new Mac thing (i.e. post Lombard/BW era). Perhaps it is on newer machines. I know it works on

Re: Turn off built-in screen?

2003-02-13 Thread Mark Kippert
Eric D. on 2/13/03 10:53 AM wrote: Perhaps it is on newer machines. I know it works on my iBook, G4 tower and Indigo iMac. I wonder if it's because you also have ADB ports on yours. Though, the Lombard doesn't have ADB ports ;)... Oops, that's right. For some reason I had it in my head

Re: Turn off built-in screen?

2003-02-13 Thread Mark Kippert
Eric D. on 2/13/03 11:25 AM wrote: Although, in your defence, I *think* that the keyboard + trackpad on the Lombard are actually running off a very limited ADB bus (of course, this is speculation on my part). HA! I KNEW IT! Well...not really. BUT I THOUGHT maybe I KNEW IT! -Mark --

Re: Turn off built-in screen?

2003-02-13 Thread Rick Banuelos
On Thursday, February 13, 2003, at 08:25 AM, Eric D. wrote: Although, in your defence, I *think* that the keyboard + trackpad on the Lombard are actually running off a very limited ADB bus (of course, this is speculation on my part). ADB Lives on in every Apple portable. It controls the

Re: Turn off built-in screen?

2003-02-12 Thread Mark Kippert
Christopher D Helmkamp on 2/11/03 11:08 PM wrote: I find the easiest way to do this is to dim the ibook screen all the way down. Just hit the F1 key until the iBook screen goes black. There are other hacks out there for certain models to do certain things, including (on the 700Mhz model)

Re: Turn off built-in screen?

2003-02-12 Thread Roger Shufflebottom
At 11:23 -0500 12/2/03, Mark Kippert wrote: It seemed obvious to me that this behavior was intentional since it would only run with the lid closed when the iBook detected a monitor connected to it. I naturally assumed Apple had programmed in this functionality. That's how the TiBooks work BTW.

Re: Turn off built-in screen?

2003-02-12 Thread Mark Kippert
Roger Shufflebottom on 2/12/03 11:36 AM wrote: At 11:23 -0500 12/2/03, Mark Kippert wrote: It seemed obvious to me that this behavior was intentional since it would only run with the lid closed when the iBook detected a monitor connected to it. I naturally assumed Apple had programmed in this

Re: Turn off built-in screen?

2003-02-12 Thread Jeremy Derr
On Wednesday, February 12, 2003, at 10:57 AM, Mark Kippert wrote: I do recall mine working with or without the AC connected. hmmm, freaky. it's not supposed to work that way. I've even just now checked a half dozen of our in-house iBooks (which run the entire line of white iBooks), and none

Re: Turn off built-in screen?

2003-02-12 Thread Hal
I concur. I tried to get my 600mHz iBook to run this way and it wouldn't. I'd been running my Pismo closed for over a year without problems, but the iBooks use the keyboard as a primary heat vent. Running them closed is bad news. Apple designed them to not work that way, but apparently some of

Re: Turn off built-in screen?

2003-02-12 Thread Jeremy Derr
On Wednesday, February 12, 2003, at 12:03 PM, Hal wrote: I concur. I tried to get my 600mHz iBook to run this way and it wouldn't. I'd been running my Pismo closed for over a year without problems, but the iBooks use the keyboard as a primary heat vent. Running them closed is bad news. Apple

Re: Turn off built-in screen?

2003-02-12 Thread dograt
On Wednesday, February 12, 2003, at 12:36 PM, Mark Kippert wrote: Dave, You didn't happen to install the firmware hack that allows monitor spanning on the iBook? It's discussed here: http://www.xlr8yourmac.com/systems/ibook_dual_display_mods.html Yes I did, Mark. And I read those reports,

Re: Turn off built-in screen?

2003-02-12 Thread Mark Kippert
Eric D. on 2/12/03 6:05 PM wrote: Well, one day I started connecting things while it was asleep with the lid was closed. I plugged in the monitor as usual. Then I plugged in my Apple Pro keyboard. Of course plugging in a USB device always wakes a sleeping Mac (PowerBook, iBook, iMac,