glob » macbook pro http://www.jessereynolds.com/glob jesse's blog Sat, 15 Oct 2011 23:47:02 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8 en hourly 1 Sad MacBook Pro http://www.jessereynolds.com/glob/2006/11/15/sad-macbook-pro/ http://www.jessereynolds.com/glob/2006/11/15/sad-macbook-pro/#comments Tue, 14 Nov 2006 20:48:12 +0000 jesse http://www.jessereynolds.com/glob/?p=4 My new MacBook Pro doesn’t handle being unplugged from a DVI monitor at all well. My old G4 PowerBook did this beautifully. :-(

video artifacts when waking from sleep after unplugging a DVI monitor

More pictures and description of the problem is to be found over here.

Update 16 Nov 2006:
I’ve now tried installing a fresh OS on a firewire drive and successfully replicated the problem. Today’s video error picture is pretty special:

more video nonsense

The root cause appears to be that sometimes the MacBook Pro thinks there is a generic “VGA Display” attached, when there isn’t. If you have it set to use the external display as the main screen, you then are forced to turn on mirroring so that you can log in after waking up from sleep, etc.

Update Dec 2006:

The main logic board was replaced and now it’s much better!

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