As I was re-doing my OS recently, I figured it was a good time to give a guide of how you can get your hardware up and running. This is also partially an off-site backup of every step I performed, just in case my computer completely crashes.

Edit: These instructions should work on a lot more cards than just an X800 XL. If you get your card to work with these instructions, add the card model that you own to this thread. You also need to be running OS X 10.4.4 or 10.4.5 (or have the ATIRadeon9700 set of Extensions from that version of OS X). Please do not ask me for those files as I cannot legally redistribute them.

Getting ready

It would be a good idea to backup your entire Extensions directory before proceeding just in case you royally mess up anything.
Enter your password when prompted.

In order to do some of these steps more easily, we're going to run TextEdit and HexEdit in Super User mode. This will save you having to learn nano, vi, or any of those other terminal-based programs.

For TextEdit, open a new window in Terminal. Copy and paste the following:
Enter your password when prompted.

For HexEdit, things are a little bit more tricky, especially because HexEdit doesn't come on the computer.
HexEdit 2.00 at MacUpdate

It's in a .sit archive, and since OS X no longer comes with Stuffit Expander, you'll have to download that, too.
Stuffit Expander 11.0 at MacUpdate

After you've downloaded and extracted HexEdit, drag HexEdit Release into your Applications folder. Open up another window in Terminal, and copy and paste the following:
Enter your password when prompted.

Now you have two simple editing utilities set up with some pretty advanced power. Until you close them, they have the potential to harm protected files.

Part 1, Callisto Installation

I used b006 for installation purposes. It's available on Omni's new website.

After extracting b006, Look in the folder for CallistoHAL.kext. Right-Click on this file and go to Show Package Contents. Double click on Contents, and then drag Info.plist to TextEdit in the dock.

Find
and change it to

Make sure you replace 554d with whatever your specific Device ID is, which is avaliable in System Profiler, and then save and close the file.

Open up another Terminal window, and type (or copy) this into Terminal:
Enter your password when prompted

Reboot your computer and make sure you can set new resolutions before continuing.

Part 2, QE/CI Installation

Jump back to the top and re-open TextEdit and HexEdit as described.

I performed this while my system was still at version 10.4.5. Newer .kext files may not perform the same.

Navigate to /System/Library/Extensions, locate ATIRadeon9700GA.plugin, right-click and go to Show Package Contents. Double click on Contents, and then drag Info.plist to TextEdit in the dock.

Find
and change it to

Save and close the file.

Open up another Terminal window, and type (or copy) this into Terminal:
Enter your password when prompted.

Now for the hex editing part. Edit: If your card's device ID is listed anywhere in the bottom of this post, you are probably finished. If it is, restart your computer and check before continuing.

Note: The following does the SAME thing as the "Koverg" patch. However, I was never able to get the Koverg patch to work automatically for me, so I performed the following:

Navigate to /System/Library/Extensions/ locate ATIRadeon9700.kext, right-click and go to Show Package Contents. Double click on Contents, and then drag Info.plist to TextEdit in the dock. We'll come back to it in a minute.

In your Finder window, go inside the MacOS folder, and then drag ATIRadeon9700 to HexEdit in the dock. In HexEdit, Go to Find->Find & Replace.

Under Find, type in

Under Replace, type in


If you did not have the same Device ID as me (0x554d), you need to swap each half. For example, if my card had a Device ID of 0x1234, I would put in the Replace box "3d 34 12 00 00".

Set the Matching to Hex, and hit Find Next/Find Previous to make sure that there are two occurrences of this in the file. Once you're sure there are two occurrences and that your Device ID is correct, go ahead and click on Replace All. Go ahead and save your changes and exit HexEdit.

Go back to TextEdit and scroll down thru Info.plist

Find
and change it to

replacing 554d with your Device ID.

Save and close the file.

Open up a fresh Terminal window, and type in the following:
Enter your password when prompted.

Go ahead and restart your computer. Check System Profiler, and you should have QE/CI working, complete with mouse tearing. I'll leave you to the Search feature to figure out how to turn that off.


The following information was relocated from post #96.

If you're interested on whether or not your Device ID is already contained inside of the Info.plist file or in the file you need to HexEdit already, here's a list, with an (approximate) graphics card equivalent. If your card's Device ID matches the first list, you probably don't need to mess with ATIRadeon9700.kext; if it matches the second, I would not touch it at all.


Those dots signify I could find them inside the ATIRadeon9700.kext/Contents/MacOS/ATIRadeon9700.


These are grouped according to what other numbers I found them near.

works perfect for the x800pro aswell. i also used the Callisto_b008 driver. i am able to set the resolution in the display settings tab full qe/ci!!!

thanks for the great write up and the easy to follow instructions!!!

I forgot to mention...If your computer won't boot, here's how you can fix it:

Boot into Single User Mode (-s)

Hi, boris also has a solution to this. I have a question though, well a few actually. Does this work with sleep and wake? Can you use a dvi monitor? Can games such as cod2 or quake 4 play with this? The first two questions appear to be the limitations of boris' solution.

I don't know a whole lot about Boris' solution, but from what I can tell, it's designed to get X1000-series cards working by replacing codes which are used for the X1600. This method (the "Koverg" section) is designed to replace the values for the X300 PCI Express card in the ATIRadeon9700 files.

Past that, I'm not sure how to answer your questions. Final Cut Pro works for me, and that's what I was aiming for in my OSX86 installation.

Sorry, i just re-read the title, x800xl not x1800xl. Doh

I tried to get this working with my X800 GTO, but the damn thing won't boot. Restoring the old kexts worked, so it's got to be the 10.4.6 9700.kext. Is there a way to get an older ATIRadeon9700.kext anywhere on the internet? Could any of you send me yours?

Oh, and the Callisto drivers work alone. It's the QE/CI I want. And btw, I'm installing Mac for FCP too.

lol...nice....

Mine won't do you much good because I didn't backup mine until I upgraded from 10.4.5 to 10.4.6/10.4.7, which was after I fixed QE/CI.

Could I try yours anyway?

i've got everything working. THe only problem is that I have X300SE but system only shows 32MB of video RAM. Any ideas?

Yeah...Don't play any video games that weren't designed for the mac in the first place

Your card misreporting itself may or may not be problematic, but if it is, try the following and see if it improves at all:

• Remove Callisto
• Restore/undo your changes to ATIRadeon9700GA.plugin ONLY.
• Manually/Permanently set your resolution in com.apple.Boot.plist

Search the forums for more information on the last step.

I have done every step. I finally got QE, CI, and adjustable resolution. However, I still see the mouse tearing.

If I install only Callisto, I always get adjustable resolution and no mouse tearing.

Which option should I pick? Is there any way to get everything perfect? or I have to use mouse locator with the first option.

PS. I have X300SE with 5B60

Because we don't have the ability to report our cards to the Operating System correctly, you have the choice of either having mouse tearing (with QE/CI) or not having mouse tearing (without QE/CI). Mouse tearing is just one of the things that you'll have to live with probably until they release the Intel Towers and someone hacks the drivers off of them.

QE/CI (and the mouse tearing that comes with it) is a critical part of OS X, and is used in everything from webpage renders (which can work without QE/CI) to DVD Playback (which does require QE/CI) to applications like Final Cut Pro (which will not even install without QE/CI support).

P.S. If you have an ID of 0x5b60, what did you do of the last half of the instructions? Just the ATIRadeon9700GA.plugin?

What I did was modify this code only

<key>IOProviderClass</key>
<string>CallistoFB</string>

Moreover I also did change some value in this because it was not exactly the same value as you said

<key>IOPCIMatch</key>
<string>.... 0x5b601002 0x3E541002</string>

Lastly I ran these commands
sudo -s
chown -R root:wheel /System/Library/Extensions/ATIRadeon9700.kext/
chmod -R 755 /System/Library/Extensions/ATIRadeon9700.kext/
rm /System/Library/Extensions.mkext
rm /System/Library/Extensions.kextcache

Well...you are right about that one part...

I had already checked back at what I had done, and there should be 0x5b601002 listed somewhere on that line...it's just not next to last. I think I just figured that it wasn't worth doing another edit operation to the original command, but it could possibly cause confiusion, so I'll fix it.

In other words, 0x5b601002 probably appears on that line in your ATIRadeon9700 twice.

I could change resoltions on a Mobilty 9200 but I accidentally checked the wrong resolution how do I get my system back?

Okay for some reason I after I reinstalled everything. When I did all of part 1 and im going to select my resolution my screen goes black and it has lines all over it. Im going to try the alternative build. Does anyone know if this is because im not selecting the correct resolution?

Finally! I got callisto to work on my system by using build 003. But after I tried q support my system won't start. I haden't been able to figure out how to install callisto. Your instructions are really awesome. Your the man!

This may (make or) break your system, but...

Try going into ATIRadeon8500.kext/Conteints/Mac OS/ATIRadeon8500 in HexEdit, search for 3D 63 5C and replace it with 3D XX XX (with XX XX being your device id swapped). There's only one instance of it, and don't add on the extra 0's as seen below. Do the same changes I listed for the rest of the 9700 files, except apply it to the 8500 set instead, replacing 0x5c631002 in the process with your device id.

0x5c631002 is supposedly the Radeon Mobility 9200 AGP, so I'm thinking that it would be the closest thing that you could change.

As always, make sure you remember how to fix it if it messes up.

Well. I tried with the latter instructions that you gave me. Turns out my device ID is 5c61. So its really really close. After I made the changes my system works. But anything that needs hardware accelerations fails. It seems that we are really close. Is there something that Im missing. The DVD player opens. It used to say that it couldn't. But now it crashes. Chess opens but crashes. I bet its probably the next kext or something. Any ideas. Greatly Greatly appreciated.

PS: Also I replaced Hex Edit the right way swapped with 61 5C capital
Also I replaced in text edit with capital C -could that be it

hmm...maybe they never finished developing that driver for OS X...

What version of kext files are you using? People seem to have the best luck with .4 or .5 kext files (at least for 9700)

As far as lowercase/capital C, it should make no difference. The letters are simply part of the hex numbering scheme, and Info.plist is processed by the system before the file you HexEdited is processed, meaning that it doesn't matter.

Is the card running through AGP? You might have to search around for the AGP->PCI kext file people are circulating. And for my last idea, you might check to see if QE/CI is even supported on the Apple computers that would have used that kext - which includes everything from the Radeon 8500 LE to the 9200 Pro.

P.S. From the research I just did, it looks like your comp should support QE, but not CI. You might look at finding some way of disabling CoreImage, seeing as that could be what's crashing your system.

Well. The Emac has a radeon 9200 and it supports CI. But it didn't mention QE. My system isn't really crashing its just the apps themselves shut down. I tried teh 9700 kexts again with no luck. My card supports AGP. But its on a sony vaio s150 laptop. So maybe its just pci. Im gonna try the kexts files when I find them. Im runing 10.4.6. So thats probably it. How do I know if the cards runing through agp? Im going to try different kext files. But Im not gonna play any games on my pc. I only need the screen big. Which I wasn't able to do until I read your instructions. Thanks for the awesome help.

Hi,

The 9200 AGP does not have QE, i have a G4 Emac....sorry!

it did this and got it working a diffenent way because the manual editing of the kext through hex editing did not work for me for some reason so the first thing i did was install the koverg patch got qe/ci working then came back and did the callisto patch qe/ci now not working, so then i changed to CallistoFB and rebooted and there it was qe/ci and resolution changing but heres the thing when i try to put the computer to sleep everything goes fine except when trying to resume screen will not come back up and then i reboot and cant get back into the os stopes before boot and hangs. nay solutions?

The Koverg patch does the same thing as the Hex Edit...it's just that Koverg's patch wouldn't work for me, so I manually did it.

I don't know much about sleep mode with the drivers, but you might be able to reset the graphics settings by doing the following:

Boot into Single User mode (-s)


If that doesn't work, do what this post says to do to remove Callisto, and then reinstall Callisto.

Thanks for the reply ps your guide was the only guide way i was able to get the Callisto driver to work thank you , and also is the callisto crashing or do you think its the koverg patch? im using 10.4.5 and ati radeon x800 pro pcie

I think it's the power saving feature, which I'm failrly certain Omni never developed. If I was you (which, if you have a laptop, this might not be possible), I would just turn off your monitor manually.

Power saving features seem to cause problems for me a lot - I had to turn off the disk power saving feature because OS X didn't know how to wake my hard drives back up, causing a computer crash.

No QE eh. Oh well. Im very glad and happy I got the extended resolution. It really makes such a humongous difference. Guess Ill just save for a new machine. Man Im sure glad I got callisto working.

Well works fine finally with QE/CI, all resolution , and energy save for monitor work too (sleep after x minutes)
My card : Asus Extreme AX550 128 M pciex

Thanks for all the info.

I finally got my atix600 at full resolution (1680x1050) and with QE going. I used the Callisto 008 patch and
changed the 9700 files like suggested and it all works.

Radeon Mobility X600 (M24) (PCIE):

Chipset Model: Radeon Mobility X600 (M24) (PCIE)
Type: Display
Bus: PCIe
Slot: PCI
VRAM (Total): 256 MB
Vendor: ATI (0x1002)
Device ID: 0x3150
Revision ID: 0x0000
Displays:
Cinema Display:
Display Type: LCD
Resolution: 1680 x 1050
Depth: 32-bit Color
Core Image: Supported
Main Display: Yes
Mirror: Off
Online: Yes
Quartz Extreme: Supported

running OSX and WindowsXP on a partitioned Compaq x6000.

Followed the instructions in "Part 1, Callisto Installation" and now have 1280 x 800 on my Dell Inspiron 6000 with the X300 card. I used Callisto_b003fixed. Yesterday I tried b008 and ended up reinstalling Mac OS. Not sure if it was a difference in versions or the fact that I followed omni's instructions (maybe incorrectly). I had a black screen shortly after boot and that was it.

Thanks OP for the very clear instructions!

If your installing from a 10.4.6 DVD that is truly 10.4.5 with Combo Update and your in need of .5 kexts to make QE work... use Pacifist (http://www.charlessoft.com/) to extract the ati kexts from the installer package on the CD, worked for me. (I got black screen with the .6 kexts).

Callisto 008 and ATI Radeon x800xl PCIE, on 10.4.6 Jas DVD.

OKAY, HERE IS EXACTLY HOW TO GET THE 10.4.5 KEXTS OFF YOUR 10.4.6 JAS DVD (and probably all others)

Step 1. Download Pacifist. http://www.charlessoft.com/Pacifist.dmg
Step 2. Open Pacifist, then select 'Open Package', the file you want is OSinstall.mpkg, you can find it it under /System/Installation/Packages/ on your CD.
Step 3. Nagivate down to Contents of EssentialSystemSoftware, Conents of EssentialSystemSoftwareGroup, Contents of Essentials.pkg, System, Library, Extensions.
Step 4. Select the kexts you want, in this all the ATI kexts. Click the 'Extract To...' button.

Voila! 10.4.5 kexts for patching.
I'll upload patched kexts later when i figure out exactly which ones are needed.

Note: Originally I left the 10.4.6 ATI kexts, and just replaced the 9700 ones, but that resulted in black screen with mouse syndrome, so be sure to replace all the 10.4.6 ati kexts.

MY ATI X800XL is working fine under CALLISTO 008, however when i go to step two to enable QE/CI I get a blank screen and, I ended up reinstalling my OS... I tried over 8 times so far.

I use JaS 10.4.6, and looking at the post above I have some hope to get the QE to work, i just need the old KEXT files! Could someone please send me the files to my e-mail rangelm (AT) rogers.com ...


I really appreciate!


Thanks

I also have a X800XL but neither step one or two seem to work. I followed step 1 to the letter and still couldn't change resolution. I'm using 10.4.4.

Edit: Nevermind I fixed it. Turns out it was an edit to the com.apple.boot.plist file that prevented me from changing the resolution after step 1 was completed.

Huzzah! QE and CI now enabled. But as a very new mac user having installed OS X last night and just got the networking enabled this morning I'd like to know what exactly Quartz Extreme and Core Image do. Just thought I'd ask since this thread involves enabling QE and CI.

All,

I have a ATI X800 XL PCI ID 554d. The Callisto drivers are not needed at all. I tried so many times to get Callisto to work "correctly" and was never able to fix the Monitor Refresh rate problem.

So just use Koverg's patch and everything works. You CAN'T change screen resolutions BUT QE/CI and OPenGL all work.

Run Koverg's script and change the ATIRadeon9700.kext to match your PCI ID and reboot.. VOILA.

I guess people are installing Callisto just to be able to change screen resolution. But in fact that was causing my problem with my LCD. (OUT OF RANGE)

guys, will this work for an ATI 9550 AGP card?any one with the same card succeeded?thanks.

I just Got it...

Radeon X800 GTO2 PCI-E
Used the ATI kext extracted from the 10.4.6 JaS DVD (10.4.5 on DVD)
Used the Calisto 3 Modified drivers (I did at leat 100 boot-up in verbose mode to get it)

Then I've got them all...
QE, CI, OpenGL (tested in iTunes).. and I got the Mouse Tearing (I'll check fot it later).

I've got all the resolutions available for my Dell 2407 Wide Screen => 1920x1200 but when I change the resolution from the menu or from the control panel... The screen turns itself in blue and remain like that... until my reboot...

When I set the resolution into the boot.plist the screen change it's resolution while in verbose mode but, when the loginwindows apprears... it took the superior edge of the screen in 1024x768 stretched mode, and the mouse is movable but not usable (draw a lot of straight lines)

What can I do next ?

Thank you for your How-to... but just a little thing was missing from it... The EDID (it won't work for a DVI LCD screen without the informations of the panel).

Hi Flasher, my english is not so good ok??
but i have a ATI Radeon 9550 GPx8 256 MB Sapphire and is working very good .... all work
whit OS X 10.4.5 and callisto 006

MB ASUS P4GE-MX
512 Mb RAM
Intel celeron D 2.4 GHz

all is working !!!

....DJ Solo.....
Chile

They're video acceleration routines which are used in programs like Safari (to reduce it having to refresh the entire page when you scroll), and is critical in a decent number of video playback programs; especially DVD Player and Final Cut Pro.

Ooookay, throw in the exception... Just kidding. On my platform I have two 19" CRT monitors (mirroring only, of course), so I never bothered going down that road. The first time I tried installing b008, I tried hardcoding the EDID from my CRT, and that lead everything to crash.

A few people have mentioned using a separate program to change the resolution after they install Callisto. If that doesn't work, back up your existing Callisto drivers and try installing the newer Callisto drivers again to see if they will do you any good this time around.

When I set the resolution into the boot.plist to a wide mode the screen change it's resolution while in verbose mode but, when the loginwindows apprears... it took the superior edge of the screen in 1024x768 stretched mode (I can see the verbose underneath, and the mouse is movable but not usable (draw a lot of straight lines)

I tried but doesn't work with my X200.
Any help??

pierrandre, Callisto is not designed to work in concert with (at the same time as) the boot.plist setting. You should remove either the Callisto drivers or the boot.plist setting.

private, you're not giving enough details to make an accurate assessment at all. About the only thing I can tell you based on your sig is that you probably do not have the Koverg QE/CI patch installed correctly, but even at that point I'm guessing.

Yup I get that. But when I tried to change the resolution from the monitor control panel, I only get a blue screen.

Then I've done the radeon9700 plugin mod, but when I changed the resolution via the control panel, the screen remains blue as said previously.

I've tested with several callisto drivers. beta 8, beta 3, then beta 3 'special'.

only the beta 3 'special' have worked. but I only get a blue screen whatever I've tempted.

In the meantime my MacBook Pro was shipped. it works like a charm

the x300se gets qe/ci out of the box in 10.4.5

Phoenix,
Thanks for your answer, but me and others X200 owners we have already tried Koverg patch following the instructions, but didn't have results.

It seems that X200 is a very difficult integrated card to set.

My X600 XT has QE/CI out of the box as well. Make sure you have a clean install of Myzar's patched 10.4.6 DVD. I used the callisto driver to get resolution switching, but it ended up killing my QE/CI. Changing "IONDRVFrameBuffer" to "CallistoFB" in ATIRadeon9700GA.plugin corrected this.

Cheers

OK, I'm getting some interesting results here.

My card is the ATI x850 XT Platinum Edition w/256 MB VRAM (Device ID 5D4D).

I install the latest Callisto drivers, and get full resolution and refresh rate switching. Then I perform the manual hex edit, and the Login screen won't load normally 9 times out of 10. Also, despite specifying a Desktop of 1600x1200x32 in System Preferences, OS X intially loads-up in what appears to be 1024x768. Then, at the login screen, the top 1/3 of the screen is the grey-silver of the login window (with the mouse pointer displaying/behaving normally), and the bottom 2/3 is black (refresh problem?). If I specify the resolution in the bootloader, it still won't load the login screen correctly 9/10 times; however, on the rare occasion, under the latter circumstances, the login screen loads, I login, and have QE/CI enabled.

The same thing happened when I patched the driver with Koverg's utility. The only differences here are 1) I can change resolutions now, 2) monitor sleep works, and 3) my card is being detected properly in System profiler now, instead of as a "VGA-compaitble controller" or whatever, as was the case when I was merely applying Koverg's patch. I should mention that I've noticed a corellation between rebooting into XP, modifying the display settings in some way, and then being able to successfully boot OS X with full acceleration. Maybe the state of the hardware is being changed somehow? OTOH, it could just be a coincidence...

Any advice guys? It seems like there's just one little thing out of place which, were I to fix it, would make OS X stable on my system. As it is, having to hard-reset the system frequently has corrupted my OS X partitions 3 times, including the large HFS+ partition I share between OS X and XP, requiring 3 reinstalls so far.

SUCCESS!!!!11!!0neowe!!!111

I figured-out why OS X wasn't booting reliably. I booted from the install DVD, and verified the permissions. Apparently the 9700 kext and GA plugins' were incorrect. After repairing them, the system boots normally and consistently now.

Give that a try if you're having trouble. Now I have a reliable install of OS X with full video acceleration. About the only thing left to do is locate a compatible 5.1 surround sound card *w/digital out*, an' I'll be sittin' pretty.

EDIT: Oh, and I thought you might be interested to know that OS X takes less than 5 SECONDS to get to the Login screen, after pressing Enter at the boot loader. That's friggin crazy fast man!

Ok, I have x850xt and I can't manage with it.
Can sombody tell what to do, whitch version of OS should I use, drivers, what to change in .kext files etc.
Please help. I really need to work with Final Cut and it recommends an accelerated graphic.