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One of my Clamshell iBooks has a malfunctioning screen. It has several bad areas in it but is mostly still useable. I do not know what crashed in to it to damage the screen. I want to replace it, but am unable to. It is alarming there are no replacement screens.

It is a M6411 366. Also, I opened it to look inside and the both screen and the cables are made by Samsung.
 
Hi, if your screen is a Samsung, you'll better have to get a Samsung, because the screen brand goes with the display cable. If find say a LG replacement screen, You'll have to find a LG replacement cable (rare) and change the cable too, which is a massive PITA. Changing just the screen if you have the correct same brand cable already, is super easy.

I think you listed all the known screen brand used, but you can also check the post of user Franklinstein on this 68kmla thread :
He said to have found another brand of non-Samsung screens that would fit with the Samsung display cable, made by Torisan. Only the mounting points changes.
 
One of my Clamshell iBooks has a malfunctioning screen. It has several bad areas in it but is mostly still useable. I do not know what crashed in to it to damage the screen. I want to replace it, but am unable to. It is alarming there are no replacement screens.

It is a M6411 366. Also, I opened it to look inside and the both screen and the cables are made by Samsung.

For the clamshells, the most common, especially by the time of Rev C (the indigo and key limes), were Samsung displays with matched cables. The less common were the IBM displays, followed by the LG displays. And, not shockingly, you can’t really verify the maker easily unless you disassemble the display assembly and look at the manufacturing details on the backside of the panel.

I have pulled out a couple of Samsungs and at least one IBM display from donor clamshells and they all work and basically sit in my donor parts box. I know I will never be needing them again.
 
With an M6411 you at least have the option of bumping up the resolution to XGA, for which any 12" iBook G3/4 or 12" PowerBook G4 display panel will do. The sticking point, as ever, is the cable connector.
 
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With an M6411 you at least have the option of bumping up the resolution to XGA, for which any 12" iBook G3/4 or 12" PowerBook G4 display panel will do. The sticking point, as ever, is the cable connector.

Correct, though with the supply of XGA LCDs out there dominantly coming from old iBook 12" and PowerBook G4 12" donors, those are all manufactured by LG and, consequently, the LG-specific clamshell LVDS cable is needed. That cable is a hen’s tooth in 2021.
 
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Correct, though with the supply of XGA LCDs out there dominantly coming from old iBook 12" and PowerBook G4 12" donors, those are all manufactured by LG and, consequently, the LG-specific clamshell LVDS cable is needed. That cable is a hen’s tooth in 2021.
Yup. Had that problem when I did the mod on my 6411 which had a dead pixel (any excuse to tinker). Most Clamshells had Samsung panels so I needed to find an adapter which I managed to get hold of pretty easily then. It was just a straight pin to pin adapter, so I suppose if you really want to roll your own you could remove the LCD cable from the Clamshell's Samsung display and graft it onto the donor LG panel. It won't be easy but I'm sure it could be done.


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Yup. Had that problem when I did the mod on my 6411 which had a dead pixel (any excuse to tinker). Most Clamshells had Samsung panels so I needed to find an adapter which I managed to get hold of pretty easily then. It was just a straight pin to pin adapter, so I suppose if you really want to roll your own you could remove the LCD cable from the Clamshell's Samsung display and graft it onto the donor LG panel. It won't be easy but I'm sure it could be done.


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Yah I managed to get one of those, too. It was apparently their last one. Unfortunately, it was faulty. I still have it. It’s still faulty.

What I ended up doing instead was finding another, I guess, “adapter”, except it was little more than the plug insert into the LG display on one end and just twenty individual wires (all pale pink) going to nowhere. I ended up having to pore through wiring diagrams for both the LG and the Samsung panels, making certain that these pink wires were routed to the right pins on the board connection end (using a donor Samsung cable I cut) and then soldering those two halves together. I think that was my first truly successful soldering project. I remember flinging my arms straight up when the screen lit up and the grey  appeared and screaming, “IT WORKS! IT WORKS!”
 
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