Hooking up an external monitor or projector

[iGirl]

I tried a straight up VGA out of the OSX/S10 to a monitor and clicked "Mirror" and the screen went all tweaked beyond control on me - mirrored on the larger monitor. the only way to get out of it was to unplug the cable - *and* I also had no control over removing the setup - so every subsequent time I plugged a VGA into the S10, it went bad again.

If I knew exactly what preferences to trash, I would have done that - but since I didn't and the S10 is brand new I just reformatted the drive and reinstalled by the same method as before - Patchstick/SL Enabler.

So the question is simple - is hooking up an external or projector even possible? If anyone has done it - how?

Since no one can answer my other recent question - Will Migration Assistant work? - I guess I'm going to be the guinea pig on that one soon enough as well. LOL

[SilverZero]

A lot of people have warned of the dangers of using the "Mirror" setting. Search around here and you'll see there are some alternatives - display switching scripts and such. The key is to use the VGA-out only, not both at once.

[Schroiner]

I had the same problem with the "colorfull" displays
There is a solution (worked for me). Just use this App http://www.fabiancanas.com/Projects/MirrorDisplays if you want to use an external Monitor. Copy the App in the dock and remember where the Icon is, then plug your external Monitor or beamer in and run the app. If the Screen is "too colorfull" just start the App again and now you should have your Screen back and also on your external Monitor.

[iGirl]

Thank you - I tried "Mirror Displays" but is still didn't work for me - it was close - I got *some* desktop and mouse movement - but also a lot of noise/banding on the side and no view of my dock or HD. I tried several times too, but no joy.

[humph]

A while back, there were a couple of other solutions on the forums (I guess "search is your friend" and not me as I don't have links!!):

- "OldGMA" frambuffer kext; think it worked for mirroring, but at the expense of use of 2nd display as an "extension"

- At least one .pkg, possibly called 'GMA950Mirror" that purported to fix things up to enable mirroring.

Have to say, i didn't try either of these, but others seemed to think they had good results.

[klaus rudi]

In order to toggle between Mirroring and Screen Extension, I used the program "global hotkey". it's donationware. you can configure it easy: just copy a folder "global hotkey" (where you put everything that's in the dmg file!) to utilities. afterwards you copy the MirrorDisplay application (also donationware, i think) to utilities. Now you create an alias out of the MirrorDisplay application. rename that alisa to "F3" (for example), then move it to "Applications" folder INSIDE the Global hotkey folder. Delete other shortcuts in the different subfolders, if you don't need them (optional).
drag the global hotkey application into startup items of your user accounts (you can find it in user prefpane).
NOW YOU CAN TOGGLE BETWEEN MIRRORING AND SCREEN EXTENSION BY PRESSING F3 (or another F key you chose...)


edit: global hotkey link:
http://www.monkeybreadsoftware.de/Softw ... tkey.shtml

[lemovo]

Klaus, thank you for the great work. I can now hook up my S-10 on an external without those crazy multi-colored lines. It's working great!