im using an ibook g4 and wanted to hook it up with my dell 2005fpw, so i go into displays in system preferences and have it detect displays. so now, i have two windows for my lcd and the 2005fpw, but the highest resolution its showing for the 2005fpw is 1024x768, not the 1600x1050 im looking for.
so uh, do i need to disable the ibooks lcd in order to get the 2005 working at its native res? if so, how do i do that?

thanks

the ibook can't go above 1024x768. and without a hack you can only do mirroring on an ibook.

well that kind of sucks
is the hack relatively easy/legal/etc to apply?

Yep, very easy. Its just a matter of running an apple script of typing some commands in openfirmware.

This site has both methods of doing it:

http://www.broadbandreports.com/faq/5779

I did the openfirmware patch two years ago and its been working great ever since.

oops

sorry about that earlier post, cant edit it now apparently
but this made the whole process a lot easier

http://www.rutemoeller.com/mp/ibook/ibook_e.html

I use a small app called Screen Spanning Doctor which allows you to run dual screen, and various resolutions from the iBook's VGA port.

Get it here: http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/15401

Dougal.