Comments on: Connecting a Dell Mini 10v Hackintosh to an External Monitor

By: Victor Goh

Victor Goh — Thu, 13 Jan 2011 00:28:51 +0000

Brian, thanks for the link.

By: brian

brian — Thu, 13 Jan 2011 00:24:07 +0000

Dudes, this program solved the external monitor issue when I accidentally turned on mirroring: http://www.fabiancanas.com/Projects/MirrorDisplays/

A quiet little app to install, no command line stuff needed.

By: YourFriendBen

YourFriendBen — Tue, 04 Jan 2011 04:24:38 +0000

Thanks, knew there had to be a terminal command, but didn’t know it till I read what you guys wrote.

By: Mike Godwin

Mike Godwin — Sat, 13 Nov 2010 17:31:54 +0000

Have lost my ability to mirror from Dell Mini 10v to external VGA monitor. None of the instructions here seems to work. What am I missing?

By: wawa

wawa — Sun, 17 Oct 2010 23:05:01 +0000

/Extra/bin/mirroring off

works!

thx

By: VirgilioL

VirgilioL — Sun, 08 Aug 2010 16:24:25 +0000

I had the same problem when I connected my Dell Mini 9 to a screen projector and turned on mirroring. What I had to do to turn off mirroring was:

1. Open Terminal app
2. sudo -s
3. Type in your password (leave cursor in terminal window)
4. plug your external monitor
5. /Extra/bin/mirroring off

THis restored my displays.

Hope this helps….

By: DenisM

DenisM — Sat, 31 Jul 2010 12:35:50 +0000

Ok
Read about Fabian Canas Mirroring utility on MyDellMini.com.

Search: Fabian Canas mirror.

Installed that and all is well.

I can now turn off mirroring

By: DenisM

DenisM — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 17:40:02 +0000

AAARRRRGH !!!!

When I reboot without recovery , it’s still the same….

Any solution ?

By: DenisM

DenisM — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 17:16:22 +0000

I could not boot to a viewable screen – all purple and stripes.- for the same reason.

Is there any way to recover I asked myself ??

I tried recovery=Y on booting and it worked

Standard screen back again

Regards

By: hans wurst

hans wurst — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 14:45:14 +0000

It’s a pain in the behind into which I had gotten myself last week.
Turns out that you can’t see the checkbox when you don’t have an external monitor connected (that’s computer “intelligence” for you), and of course you can’t see it when the monitor is attached either, because mirroring doesn’t work with the Hackintosh.

Turns out there is a tool on your Hackintosh that allows you to turn mirror off.
Type the following in a terminal window: /Extra/bin/mirroring off
Then connect the external monitor before hitting enter.