Yesterday i tried to connect my 24" TFT to my 1000H. But both internal and external displays switched to some strange mode and show nothing but garbage. Did anyone manage to use an external display? (Clone or other mode) Im using iDeneb 1.3 and the driver package suggested on maceee.com.
Do you have another monitor to test it on?
Did you try mirror mode? If you did I found that it garbled my screen with washed out lines. My mouse was still perfectly visible though.
To turn off mirror mode without hunting for the preferences setting
Step 1. Add the displays icon on the menubar.
Step 2. Placed my mouse over it and left the mouse in that position
Step 3. Plugged in my monitor. It then detected the other monitor and garbled the screens.
Step 4. Click Left mouse button.
Step 5. Press down arrow key twice
Step 6. Press Enter key
This should turn off mirror mode.
I tried to use the OSX with a Regza Full HD ( windows works fine ). But I too got the weird lines and garbage. Whenever I try to plug in the vga cable the second time and detach it. It does not even come back (1st time does) Just a while ago I attached the VGA cable and the whole system froze. I can not use the display menu method as the screen ratio changes and so do the places of the menu items. Next thing I'll try to get a plist from my macbook.
UPDATE > The cause of the freeze I believe was that the refresh rate was set to 65 instead of 60. Now I get the garbage again.
Didn't anyone else encounter the problem with the freezing system when attaching the VGA cable of an external display? It's happening to me, unfortunately setting the refresh rate to 60Hz doesn't solve the problem. Has anyone an idea what the cause of the problem might be? This problem starts to show as soon as the first batch of kext's from the installation how-to is installed.
Update: I was using a bad VGA-cable - it was as simple as that. If anyone encounters the same problem: Use a VGA-cable that has all pins! The ones using only 12 or 14 of the 15 pins will most probably cause a system freeze during the automatic display detection. Oh well, at least I learned a lot about the GMA950-/Integratedframebuffer- and the natit.kext, which I was suspecting causing my problem for about two days of investigations. But sometimes the problem is much more simple than you think… Now if I only got the #ç%§-Ralink-WiFi card working…
Sometimes I've had some problems in turning mirroring off. Slithers trick works but sometimes, often w/ a new projector in a new environment, I've had some fuss getting it working (clicking, counting and clicking on the right spot with a striped screen…)
I had an idea of constructing a script, but the wheel was already invented at the neighbouring site for MSI Wind. You can find it here. In the same thread you can also find this app Mirror Display by Fabián Cañas which works and makes it very, very easy to turn mirroring off. Put the mouse over the app, connect your monitor/projector, wait for the stripes and then click. Voila!
I've had variable luck with external displays: it works on various LCD panels (19 to 24), and very well; but it's never worked on projectors (or only once, I can't remember for sure), HD TVs or CRT displays. It sucks because I'm a teacher and would love to hook my Eee to classroom projectors using OS X and not Windows, but all I've learned is that using my own trusted cable instead of the one available with the projector means I get to see garbage instead of just crashing and having to reboot.
Has anyone got complete success with our GMA950 on various external displays? If yes, HOW??
thanks
"MacBook Mini" Eee PC 1000HA * Intel Atom N270 * 2 GB DDR2-5400 * Seagate 7200.3 250GB * BIOS 1902_patched * Chameleon 2.0 RC2 * Mac OS X 10.5.6 retail install & Windows XP (bootloader down ATM, but who cares) * Used daily for Uni :)
Hi Simon,
I've only been using projectors (BenQ) and LCDs (no CRT or HD) with Slithers trick and now also with Mirror Display app as mentioned above. For me works that app great. I know it can be frustrating (also teaching) when you only get garbage and a striped screen w/ your eee and the class waits, waits, waits… Some use Mirror Display in combination QuickSilver, QS to set up a handy shortcut to run the app when the screen is striped. Give it a try…
Next time I have time to play around with a projector I'll try the slither trick. I have the most recent hotkey enabler and I can see the shortcuts are recognized when I press them (it alters the color of the garbage) but it doesn't solve the problem. I have to check whether it actually turns mirroring on an off on a properly working screen
Well I just garbaged my fully working 24" monitor by switching it to mirroring mode; I didn't know I could do that! The Fn+F8 hotkey doesn't work at all to reverse it…. Well then there might be hope with projectors and HD TVs!
"MacBook Mini" Eee PC 1000HA * Intel Atom N270 * 2 GB DDR2-5400 * Seagate 7200.3 250GB * BIOS 1902_patched * Chameleon 2.0 RC2 * Mac OS X 10.5.6 retail install & Windows XP (bootloader down ATM, but who cares) * Used daily for Uni :)
You could also use my Hotkey Enabler. Whenever you have garbage on the screen, you only have to press fn+F9 and everything is back to normal. That way I never had issues with any sort of beamer…
does your hot key enabler work for a 901?
Can anyone post pictures or videos so I can see the display quality?
Because I'm planning to buy a 22'' Monitor but I'm not sure about the perfs…
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I use my Eee with a 24" 1920x1200 display and lately also with a 19" 1680x1050 one. Display quality is just what you would get from a powerful computer running it; now that you're questioning it, I realize full HD res is beyond what VGA is supposed to handle flawlessly, but I'd have to look very closely at small characters to maybe see a difference with the DVI output from an ATI desktop card on Leopard.
Performance-wise, the dock is slightly choppier than usual and the fan is running more often, but the difference really is not night and day. I can run the same videos I usually watch on my small screen and blow them up on the big screen without a performance hit, but the H264s and MP4s are still similarly choppy.
In fact, if I did not have a quad-core tower already set up, the performance would be enough to make me look at a very simple nettop… or now at an Ion nettop :)
"MacBook Mini" Eee PC 1000HA * Intel Atom N270 * 2 GB DDR2-5400 * Seagate 7200.3 250GB * BIOS 1902_patched * Chameleon 2.0 RC2 * Mac OS X 10.5.6 retail install & Windows XP (bootloader down ATM, but who cares) * Used daily for Uni :)