I wondered:
>How does my GigE TiBook know to sleep? I've perused all Apple's tech docs
>and haven't yet discovered the mechanism that induces sleep when the lid
>is closed.
Lewin Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> opined:
>Reed switch in most PB's. Power it up, wait for the desktop, and run a
>powerfu
On Saturday, September 20, 2003, at 10:40 PM, Dan K wrote:
In the meantime, by a stroke of great luck I managed to open and find
the
help viewer, where on the page about mirroring displays I found a link
to
open the Displays Pref pane. A scant few minutes (though many curses)
later I managed to
Whew. But I'd still like to know about the lid-shut-sleep thingy, if
anyone knows, do please tell. :-)
Dan K
A weak magnet over the right edge of the PowerBook? Judging by
everything from the Wallstreet to the Pismo, the sleep actuator is
activated by a magnet in that general vicinity. You clos
How does my GigE TiBook know to sleep? I've perused all Apple's tech
docs
Reed switch in most PB's. Power it up, wait for the desktop, and run a
powerful magnet around the edge of the top of the bottom half of the
clamshell until the beast snoozes.
-- Lewin A.R.W. Edwards http://www.zws.com/
Le
I whined:
>> I've had no luck so far trying to grab any open windows so I can dig
>> down to the monitors pane to set the d%*n thing to mirrored displays.
Steve Moody <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> kindly replied:>
>Try to get it to run with the lid closed.
That's a terrific suggestion! Gulp, b-b-b-but
On Saturday, September 20, 2003, at 03:10 PM, Dan K wrote:
The 'Book boots into some flavor of X, but with a monitor attached to
the
external video port I see only the second screen of an extended
desktop.
I managed to find and drag over the HD icon, but for the life of me
I've
had no luck so
I just picked up a headless 550 TiBook (GigE) and I've got some Qs. It
came with an separate intact LCD, but stripped of hinges, cables etc. and
the remaining bezel bits are pretty bent up. Otherwise the bottom half is
in pretty decent shape, battery seems solid, no dents and the paint isn't
ba
