Problem with Samsung Syncmaster display
Hi there,
I recently purchased a Samsung SyncMaster 206 20 inch display for my MacBook Pro- seemed to share most features with the apple display for half the price 🙂 It works fine- sort of. Having not used an external display before, I carefully read the user guide for my computer, which said I had to make sure to 'mirror displays.' When I did this though, I could not get the Samsung to display it's native resolution- just that of the Mac LCD, which didn't look fantastic. Finally worked out I had to turn mirroring off and then it works fine. However I am having a problem getting the computer to recognise the monitor at start-up:
I turn the screen and computer on. The Samsung displays as an extension of my Mac screen. I open systems preferences and select 'detect display' but the Syncmaster window does not appear. If I then shut the lid of the Mac to put it to sleep, the Samsung goes dark. But when I wake the machine up, the Samsung screen comes on momentarily, then goes dark again. When I open the lid of the Mac, it does not 'wake up' but stays dark and I have no option but to turn off and restart. BUT on second start up, the process works, the synmaster is detected and I have lovely clear 1680x1050 resolution on the samsung with the Mac's lid shut.
Why would I need to start, then restart to get the Mac to do this? Any clues as to what I might be doing wrong?
Apologies for the lengthy post.
Jacqui
I recently purchased a Samsung SyncMaster 206 20 inch display for my MacBook Pro- seemed to share most features with the apple display for half the price 🙂 It works fine- sort of. Having not used an external display before, I carefully read the user guide for my computer, which said I had to make sure to 'mirror displays.' When I did this though, I could not get the Samsung to display it's native resolution- just that of the Mac LCD, which didn't look fantastic. Finally worked out I had to turn mirroring off and then it works fine. However I am having a problem getting the computer to recognise the monitor at start-up:
I turn the screen and computer on. The Samsung displays as an extension of my Mac screen. I open systems preferences and select 'detect display' but the Syncmaster window does not appear. If I then shut the lid of the Mac to put it to sleep, the Samsung goes dark. But when I wake the machine up, the Samsung screen comes on momentarily, then goes dark again. When I open the lid of the Mac, it does not 'wake up' but stays dark and I have no option but to turn off and restart. BUT on second start up, the process works, the synmaster is detected and I have lovely clear 1680x1050 resolution on the samsung with the Mac's lid shut.
Why would I need to start, then restart to get the Mac to do this? Any clues as to what I might be doing wrong?
Apologies for the lengthy post.
Jacqui
MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.5.1)