[naish1]

Hey,

after having installed SL on my 10v I tried to use an external Monitor (1920x1080). In general it worked but unfortunately I activated the option "sync displays". As soon as this option was activated both displays only showed stripes in various colours. By detaching the vga cable I can use the display of the 10v again, but I don´t find any way to use the external display again.

Do you have an idea what I can try to undo the option "sync displays"???

Thanks for your help!!!

[wheaty73]

I had the same problem. After a bit of searching on this site, it seems there was a command line app to turn mirroring off in DellEFI which is no longer present in NBI.

How I fixed things:
1. Found a copy of DellEFI (I had one downloaded anyway, but there is one in this forum article: DellEFI 1.1 Final )
2. Navigate to where you saved it, and CTRL-Click and select "Show Package Contents"
3. Navigate to Contents/Resources/Extra/bin/ and copy the file "mirroring" to your home directory.
4. Open terminal, and type "./mirroring" without the quotes. You should get the response
Usage: ./mirroring <on|off>
5. Keep the focus on the terminal window, and plug in your external monitor, wait for it to settle down into the pattern of colours and lines.
6. Type this carefully, which assumes the terminal window still has the focus!
./mirroring off <enter>
- that should switch off mirroring for you!

HTH

Wheaty

[Akki]

Another way, in theory if you reran NBI and selected the "old mirror friendly GMA support" you should be able to then deselect "sync displays" and then run NBI again and deselect the "old mirror friendly GMA support".

[IoXXoI]

If you connect your monitor and stuff up your window server plist... you can tell this because when ever you connect your monitor both screens mess up leaving you with no viewable screen do the following

-s on boot up
/sbin/fsck -fy
/sbin/mount -uw /

and then

rm /Library/Preferences/com.apple.windowserver.plist
rm /Users/(your-user-name)/Library/Preferences/ByHost/com.apple.windowserver.(bunch-of-characters).plist

Tab to auto get the bunch of characters, when done type exit to reboot.

[naish1]

thanks for your great support!!! I just tried the method suggested by wheaty73 and now everything is fine again!!! Thanks!!!