wide screen external display with iBook G4

[seneca2008]

Hi

I have an iBook G4 which I want to use with a widescreen external display. I am not interested in gaming or doing anything fancy just surfing the web and working on documents and maybe looking at movies. I already have a hack that enables me to use a regular display which doesn't mirror the iBook screen. I just wondered whether I would encounter problems using a wide screen display and what the maximum resolution I should look for.

many thanks

 

[OrangeSVTguy]

So I guess that you are using Screen Spanning Doctor? If you are, I think you can use a resolution up to 1680x1050 or what ever the native resolution is of your widescreen monitor. I used that on my 19" external at 1280x1204 resolution without any problems but is not a widescreen.

 

[seneca2008]

Thanks for your post.

I am using span doctor. I should have made it clear that what I was concerned with was whether if I used a wide screen the graphics card would just stretch the display to fit the widescreen rather than display it correctly.

 

[OrangeSVTguy]

It will display a widescreen resolution so it won't distort the image.