Hi James, I didn’t realise your G4 was a PowerBook … yes, the same key F7 toggles between mirrored & extended mode on laptops. I just was not sure about desktops.
Cheers, Ronni On 07/02/2011, at 11:16 AM, [email protected] wrote: > a big thank you to Ronni > the hint with the mbp f7 key works on the old powerbook g4 as well, just > don't hold the fn key down, just the f7 & wait a few seconds to allow reload > of the screens > thanks i'm in businness again foor the time being > James > > > > On Mon Feb 7 10:57 , Ronda Brown sent: > > > Hi James, > > On a MBP, hitting the F7 key toggles between mirrored and extended mode. But > I don’t think this would work on a desktop machine. > > Cheers, > Ronni > > 17" MacBook Pro Intel Core i7 > 2.66GHz / 8GB / 1067 MHz DDR3 / 500GB Serial ATA Drive @ 7200rpm > > OS X 10.6.6 Snow Leopard > Windows 7 Ultimate (under sufferance) > On 07/02/2011, at 10:15 AM, [email protected] wrote: > > > > > hello mac users > > my g4 shows signs of ageing, the screen went blank during copy for backup, > > the backlight still works but no desktop & icons, which points to a > > hardware failure > > i connected an external display, which show the desktop pic & some icons i > > was able to shift to the "expanded" screen, i assume the display pref are > > set to 'expand to the right' > > is there a key sequence that forces the display preferences into mirror > > mode, in that way i would be able to use the g4 untill repair/repacement > > > > James > > email send from an eeepc w/liinux & firefox > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> Unsubscribe - <mailto:[email protected]>
