2013年5月12日星期日

[UPDate]connect Retina MacBook Pro 15' LCD 2880x1800 to iMac as external display


Teardown

http://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/MacBook+Pro+Retina+Display+Teardown/9493/1

MacBook Pro 15" A1398  two module:  LSN154YL01-001    LP154WT1-SJA1 

how to use this LCD Screen
http://www.ifixit.com/Answers/View/92815/What+is+the+model+number+of+the+2880x1800+LCD


I have buy one Retina MacBook Pro upper kit, then plug it to my MBP, it's work fine.
But if i plug it as second Screen, must teardown the connect cable, so I buy a LCD screen.

connect to my Retina MacBook Pro


identity as a Color LCD
rmbp:~ yarshure$ ioreg -lw0 | grep IODisplayEDID | sed "/[^<]*</s///" | xxd -p -r | strings -6
Color LCD
Color LCD

but can't show modes,  and the machine is very hot, I must shutdown it.

I have another Mac ,iMac 27 2011, so the connect the screen to iMac.

System Information screen
 Display Menu screen shot

System Preferences setting arrangement

my cable 


note:
1 cable + LCD, no LED back light kit,  I have buy some LED light, When arrive , I will test it, use My Retina MBP LCD as a light kit is too bad.

update 2013.9.18
 connect rMBP LCD to rMBP  use dp2mbpr http://dp2mbpr.rozsnyo.com
RDM(retina display menu) show two LCD running in HiDPI mode on Mac OS X Mountain Lion
on Mac OS X Mavericks Beta8 external LCD can't running in HiDPI mode, scale 1.0 very fine.

 System info:
 Detail infomation
 Setting: