I just picked up a new macbook and samsung 23" lcd. I'm using the mini displayport -to- DVI adaptor from apple to connect it. The second display shows up fine in the System Preferences, but for some reason, only works when I set the resolution to 800x600. Anything higer or lower, there's either a blank screen or it flashes on/off. It appears the response that people have is use SwitchResX. Well, I tried that and the closest I got to it working at it's native resolution was a somewhat distorted screen. After about an hour, I remembered that I bought the macbook instead of a pc exactly because I didn't want to deal with this. I have a support call into apple and I have a direct line to a support person to call back it cannot get it resolve. (Nice response from appe, but no resolution).
Can anyone suggest the best course of action.
1.) I bought the MacBook and LCD at MicroCenter. I'm thinking about taking it back and saying, "make it work, or give me another LCD that works with the Macbook, or just give me my money back. I was sold the two together with the idea that it was going to work together.
2.) Get back on the phone with apple... They seemed like they were going to send me to a certified support specialist. There's no way I'm paying anyone to hack modelines in com.apple.windowserver.plist.
3.) Something else?
This is my 3rd mac in the last 6 years, and I have to say, the only one that I'm not very happy with. I was able to do this exact same thing with my old g4 ibook 5 years ago without any issue. Of course it was VGA and not DVI.
Can anyone suggest the best course of action.
1.) I bought the MacBook and LCD at MicroCenter. I'm thinking about taking it back and saying, "make it work, or give me another LCD that works with the Macbook, or just give me my money back. I was sold the two together with the idea that it was going to work together.
2.) Get back on the phone with apple... They seemed like they were going to send me to a certified support specialist. There's no way I'm paying anyone to hack modelines in com.apple.windowserver.plist.
3.) Something else?
This is my 3rd mac in the last 6 years, and I have to say, the only one that I'm not very happy with. I was able to do this exact same thing with my old g4 ibook 5 years ago without any issue. Of course it was VGA and not DVI.