Video Solutions

This is a compilation of many of the different video solutions available. It is not exhaustive. If you don't find what you want, search for it.

Please do not post questions in this thread looking for a solution that is not listed. Use other threads for that.

Please do post other good known video solutions in this thread. I will try to incorporate any posted solutions into the list. Otherwise, users can read the thread for any other solutions.

AGP cards - see the old AGPGart driver and the new AGPGart driver and forum.

ATI cards - see Callisto, AGPGart and Koverg patch and combo patches like All-In-One and Katana. For 10.4.8/8.8.1, check out Natit.

x200 - Use Callisto beta 3 (fixed) to get 1280x800 resolution

x300 PCI-E - Go here (Italiano)

x800 and similar cards - Go here

x850XT AGP - Go here

x1400 Mobility - Go here

x1600/x1800/x1900/x1950 cards - see the Borisbadenov manual method or use the NeoPheus installer method. They use slightly different methods, so if one doesn't work, try the other. (does not work for x1600 mobility video or for x1650 video card). Also, check out the Titan and Natit projects for new breakthroughs. Beta Natit installer.

DiaboliK's NatitX1600.kext Thread, Questions, Problems, And other....

x1600 Mobility - For 10.4.8/8.8.1 only. Read this.

x1650 - For 10.4.8/8.8.1, 10.4.9/8.9.1 and 10.4.10/8.10.1. They work on AGP too. Use this installer by modbin and these by kozlowski.

7500 - Go here and here and package

9000 - 9550 - Read this

9200/9250 patchers - Enables resolution switching, enables AGP, installs ATI Radeon drivers for the ATI 9000 Radeon Mobility. No QE, CI or hardware OpenGL.

9200 - (faster 2D acceleration, but no 1400x1050 res) here

9200 - (Slower, but 1400x1050 res works) here

9250 - (untested, CallistoHAL device ID 5960) here

9550 AGP - Go here (Italiano)

9550 - Go here

9600 - see this and this

9600 AGP - Go here (Italiano)

All In One package - Koverg + Callisto + Framebuffer for x600, x800, or other Radeon cards (like maybe 9700). Go here

FireGL Mobility V3200 - Go here

Beamsync - Disabling Beamsync speeds up performance on LCD monitors only. Use QuartzSimple or QuartzDebug or type this command into Terminal.

Blue screen - if you have an Intel graphics chip on a laptop and the boot is hanging at a blue screen,
try installing: an external monitor, a VGA dongle, the 2-wire trick or the 1-wire trick

Callisto drivers - for many ATI cards, x200-x850 and 7200-9850, go here

Intel cards

8xx resolution - (for 10.4.1 only) see this

9xx - see this and this

900 - For 10.4.8, see this and find packages on Demon.

950 - Got a funny pattern on your screen? See this

Kantana - For ATI cards, combines Callisto, AGPGart and card autodetection to provide OpenGL and resolution change. Go here.

Koverg patch - for getting QE and CI on some ATI cards, use the Koverg patch

Macvidia drivers - go here. No QE or CI yet.

Mouse Tearing - Also known as artifacts/artefacts, trails, blocks. This results from not having proper video drivers. To help reduce this tearing, use the commercial product Mousepose or this freebie: Mouse Locator and the associated image. Also, use commercial product Mighty Mouse with this cursor.

Natit - open source development program for ATI and Nvidia cards (a clone of Titan). Go here or here or here or the Wiki. Note: If you get a black screen after installation and you are running 10.4.8, try updating to a newer 8.8.1 kernel. Also, currently, Nvidia cards with 512 MB VRAM will not work.

Neopheus - installer for the Boris method for ATI x1600-x1950 cards. Go here

Nvidia cards - use the Macvidia drivers or try either Titan or Natit.

5200 - installer using Titan. Read this

5500 - installer in 2 parts. Get part 1 and part 2

7600 GS - Dual screen using Natit. Read this

7600GS AGP - One screen tested using Natit. Read this

Quartz Extreme 2D - Enabling QE2D speeds up performance of graphics. You must already have video drivers working and QE/CI. Use QuartzSimple or QuartzDebug or type this command into Terminal.

Titan - closed source development program for ATI and Nvidia cards. Go to Omni's website or Omni's Titan page. Also read this or this or the Wiki. Note: If you get a black screen after installation and you are running 10.4.8, try updating to a newer 8.8.1 kernel. Also, currently, Nvidia cards with 512 MB VRAM will not work.

TV-Out - Read this

The first option for ATI Radeon 9200 does not work with my AGP Radeon 9200 (8X, in a desktop). Causes black screen and hang.

I think I have the same card which one of these drivers worked for you the same black screen happened to me? can you let me know please.

I tried Katana, and it enabled extra resolutions, but did not seem to give any performance increase.

http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?sho...c=35345&hl=

JCCool method for X1900XT and X1950XT. Also, as of yet none of these methods work for X1950 Pro.

I didnt know exactly where to post this so i figured i'd put it here

I found a way to fix the screen stretching on the Atix1400 on Dell Laptop's.. it runs at 1400 x 1050 res in 4:3 mode so theres black bars on the sides but hey it's not stretched so its ok til the smart folks find a solution to the res prob . ANYWAYS on to my solution...

Load up the bios when u boot up the Laptop and in the menu go down to Video, then go to lcd expansion and shut it off. and thats it , it will stop stretching all the images to fit the screen now. your res on windows will be the same but if you used a lower res the the max in windows it will be smaller. I use 1680 x 1050 as my res in windows so it fills the whole screen.

Anyone knows where i can get drivers for ATI Mobility Radeon X600??

How do you find out which intel driver youve got?

Same here. Anyone know how to undo the 9200 patch without having to reinstall Mac OS X?

You should add the BIOS ROM fix for nVidia cards, via the gotoh/Aqua method.

Check here:
http://www.macvidia.com/index.php?option=c...mp;topic=1082.0

This method was successful in making my MSI 7900 GTO 512MB completely compatible with OS X.

Hello guys! Could it be possible to get OpenGL acceleration (or QE/CI) from a VESA driver?
My system drives a Radeon Xpress 1150 (with X200M video i guess), and there is no driver for it

I am lost.

I am not sure if i have a video issue.

I have dell d600 with video card mobility radeon 9000.

I have installed jas 10.4.8 and it loads up and gets the grey apple screen and loads for a min or so and then i have a white screen that just sits there.....

OK so now what??


any thought.

My onboard VGA (AGP I think) Works very well but only resolution/refresh rate 1024x768x32*60Mhz
Standard VGA Graphics Adapter
ID VEN 1106 DEV 3230
PCI\VEN_1106&DEV_3230&SUBSYS_81B51043&REV_11
Have tried every drive I found reading insanelymac, but still unable to change resolution. I know can use a ship Vídeo card but than I’m unable too fit my hackint0sh into my nice slim box I’d like to.
Can you teach this old man how to?

Tks

By the way motherboard is ASUS A8V-VM skt 939 (50 euros everything working)
I’m running 10.4.8 semthex 8.8.1 pppf1
Everything works right out of the box except:
Sound (AzaliaAudio) http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?act...ost&id=6740
Ethernet (Rhine) http://www.pinxue.net/mac/viarhine-rel.tar.gz
Firewire (added a very low profile concentronic 9 euros card, rebooted, plugged in my camera and it was fully supported/working) actually don’t know ID info. Can get it and PM if somebody needs info.

same here when i installed it it was fine, told me to reboot, so i did, at startup (darwin bootscreen) there was a line with my video card listed "ATI Radeon 9200"..starts loading..then just hangs...is there anyway to undo this without having to reinstall ?? any help is appreciated.
thanks

The driver for the Radeon 9250 works for me. I can now change my resolution and stuff. How ever it only boots OSX when there is only 1 display connected.. When there are 2 it will hang during boot.

And once in OSX I still cant get "multiscreen" working....????

Anyone who's got that working??


My setup:

Asus K8V-X
AMD Athlon 64 2.4 Ghz
1024 DDR
ATI Radeon 9250 AGP
Terratec Aureon 7.1 FireWire

hey ratanplan for the x600 mobility ce search this forum for "zd 8000 extensions" and you will find a external site that have the zd8000 graphics extensions a.k.a. the x600 mobility pcie driver, for enable QE and CI search the forum and use "Quartz Simple", disable beamsync to avoid a whistle when you move the mouse (it start when you enable QE and CI. for the s-video tvout nothing to do now but i'm found an application from ati site "ati display control panel" that install a new kext called ATITVout.kext i'll working on this but i'm not sure about to do if someone is interested in help me in this work is very appreciated so we can have a fully working video card.

P.S. also both method to permanently disable beamsync won't work for me even the temporary solution with quartz simple, also help to set this would be appreciated.

Thanks at all for this great forum and for all the help with configurations .

3mend0 & kikay

I'm losing my mind!

I have an x300 pci-e (dev: 5B60). Immediately after installation Core Image and Quartz extreme were supported but I had some annoying mouse tearing and the resolution sucked.

After using the Natit installation I no longer have mouse tearing and it detects my x300 card - however, Core Image and Quartz Extreme are now disabled - and I can't get resolution above 1280x768.

Any advice? Detailed instructions very much appreciated.

is there anything for intel springdale g

Does anyone knows which one is suitable for Dell 700 m machine?
i m not sure about my Monitor???

Help

SOMEBODY PLEASE GIVE ME AN ANSWER

i neeed kext for intel 865

Any solution for GMA 3000???

Hey after I had installed Mac OS X 10.4.8,everything was ok except few things bother me are:Sound onboard with Soundmax AC97,refresh rate.

Problem with sound that I have solved with help of topic 99% works with....... in this forum (I thanks so much for that ^^)

But now my last problem is how can I change my refresh rate.Current setting now is 1280x1024x32@60. I have read that can change at boot.list (sorry can't not remember clearly) by add key Graphic mode and key string and I type it excactly as this
<key>Graphic mode</key>
<string>1280x1024x32@85 </string>

(because my monitor can support that resolution & refresh rate) result is the resolution was changed like I want but the refresh rate was 60Hz.I can't make it higher to 85Hz.Anyone can help me with this,I thank so much !

My computer uses Pen4 Northwood no HT 2.4GHZ,Main P4P800-X,sound onboard AC 97 soundmax,512MB Ram,Ati Radeon 9550 GE 256MB.
Hope everyone can help me!

<key>Graphics Mode</key>

Hello everyone. I am in the process of getting my Dell XPS to dual boot WinXP and Mac OS X . I have installed JAS 10.4.8 on my hard-drive and when it loads up I see the grey apple and the loading symbol and when it goes away the screen just stays blank white. Also I can hear music and I guy talkin in my USB headset about setting up my installation with voice commands. I am assuming that since I cant see anything that this might be a video issue. I have an ATI radeon 9800 XT and I dont see this specific card listed anywhere on the osx86 site. So I was wondering if katana or something would work and if so how I could install the drivers without being apple to get into the OS. I do have winXP working properly on another partition. Thanks in advance.

Chuck.

When you install OSX, don select any auxiliary graphic driver from the install list and then it should start with default resolution and no QI/CE. Like that you will be able to search for a compatible driver and to install it from GUI. However you can press F8 while darwin bootloader starts and then boot in single mode (type "-s" @ boot option) but you will get just a text terminal and it's not easy to debug from there your graphic driver.

Hey everybody,

I have a Xabre 200 Graphic card ! I have only the driver for Win but not for Mac !

I need help !!!

hi,

need help to enable GMA900 QE&CI support on leo 9a466.

Any help ?

I have the (Club brand.) ATI x1950 pro with 250megs..

is there an easy (heh i know) way to have it working on leopard (from ToH rc3 flat image)..

I need to know which is the best for x1950 pro.. Boris/NeoPheus/Natit or other..

i'd appreciate the help!

Is the only resolution the castillo v3 works with for the x200 is 1280 x 800 or can I get it to work with 1280 x 1024???? Because im going to attempt an install.

The Bronya 7280 id installer worked for me like charm..

Now i have qe/ci and full rez with all refreshes plus both dvi's ... damn thats wonderful !!!

i have ati radeon hd2600 mobility in an acer travelmate 5720g. I have search in the forum but i don't have find a solution. What driver? I'm italian sorry for my english

wher I can find driver for my video card radeon X1300 ????

GEFORCE Series 8 solution!!!

Anyone who is having trouble getting an NVIDIA series 8 Geforce card to work should go to this site.

http://scottdangel.com/blog/?p=18

What I did was install Kelway 10.5.1 with Vanilla and no Video drivers, then ran the installer (v3.1 as of today) from normal OSX (running in default driver mode).

It worked like a charm.

I get full resolution, no "tearing or clipping" and HDTV looks awesome!

I have an 8600GT 256MB ram, but there are people reporting no problems with 8800GT/X etc etc with more RAM.

Woohoo!

I must have spent 4 hours looking for something.

People who have other problems may do well to check out ;
http://forum.osx86scene.com/
they have some great forums there also.

Cheers and Good luck!

hey, i use an ATI radeon2600 HD mobility,
ive been told the card works with the 9200 (i think) drivers,
it does, but only when using an external moniter, not my laptop screen
we spent a long time getting this card to work, and its a bummer it doesnt work on my screen,
any solution that you know of?
thanks

GMA GMA X3100 / GME 965 GeForce 6150 :(GMA GMA X3100 / GME 965 GeForce 6150

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Hey after I had installed Mac OS X 10.4.8,everything was ok except few things bother me are:Sound onboard with Soundmax AC97,refresh rate.

Problem with sound that I have solved with help of topic 99% works with....... in this forum (I thanks so much for that ^^)

But now my last problem is how can I change my refresh rate.Current setting now is 1280x1024x32@60. I have read that can change at boot.list (sorry can't not remember clearly) by add key Graphic mode and key string and I type it excactly as this
<key>Graphic mode</key>
<string>1280x1024x32@85 </string>

(because my monitor can support that resolution & refresh rate) result is the resolution was changed like I want but the refresh rate was 60Hz.I can't make it higher to 85Hz.Anyone can help me with this,I thank so much !

My computer uses Pen4 Northwood no HT 2.4GHZ,Main P4P800-X,sound onboard AC 97 soundmax,512MB Ram,Ati Radeon 9550 GE 256MB.
Hope everyone can help me!
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actually u can try using 60 hz refresh rate,normally lower hz the better..

Hi, I'm loking for ATI Mobility Radeon xt 2400 hd (PCI\VEN_1002&DEV_94c8) solution for my Acer Aspire 4920 Gemstone...
HELP, PLEEEEEASE!!!

My GPU FAN is not running - kalyway 10.5.1
NVidia laptop (the one you can choose when installing Leopard kalyway 10.5.1 in setup).
GPU = Geforce Go 7900GS 256mb
look on signature...
plz help

1280 x 1024 is supported without callisto so nothing stopping you from tryingI have an x200 card. Before installing callipso system profiler said i had 256 mb of VRAM. After installing it went down to 48... Can anything be done to shange this??? I tried watching a movie and it lagged horribly. I changed resolution from 1280x800 to 1280x786 and it worked just fine . But still lags on for example screen saver is this because of the QE/CI issue or the low VRAM?

how do i get my ati x1200 to work

Hi,

im running leopard 10.5.2 with netkas 9.2.0 speedstep kernel and a nvidia geforce fx 5200 pci 128mb card and everything runs fine exept s-video/tv out, does anyone know a solution to this problem? ive tried nvinject, titan and natit none of them seems to work. help please!!!

Macvidia's Site is no longer there. It shows a test page.

The forum is passed to forum.osx86scene.com

For all of you who have an Intel GMA 900 chipset, (like me on my Fujitsu Siemens Amilo M6450G) and the "Tricks" (2-Wire, 1-Wire) doesn't work when you have a blue screen on Boot / Install, try this:

It's a simply modified One-Wire Trick (IMHO wrong GND was used)

Simple make a connection between Pin 12 (Display Data Channel), and Pin 5 (Display Data Channel GND) and you should be able to start your hackintosh without an external Monitor.

One-Wire-Trick (doesn't work for me, I had to plug in ext. monitor):


Modified One-Wire-Trick (works fine for me):



Maybe somebody should add this to the Bluescreen solutions.

A piece of software that should be part of this thread, that helped me with resolutions: DisplayConfigX. On 10.5.2 with an nVidia 7300GT on a GA-P35-DS3P, my second monitor is slightly defective and was not recognized. I was only able to drive it at 1600x1200. But DisplayConfigX let me whack up up to its native 1920x1200x32@60. In fact I have dual 1920x1200x32@60. Viewsonic Optiquest q241wb's with the PVA panel, before they did the switcheroo to TN panels like Westinghouse did. Says QE is supported. Am I missing something, what is the big fuss about QE, does it just help Time Machine look cool?

solution for ati x1600 pcie 71c2 check this topic http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showtopic=95169

You want the Intel 950GMA driver....this driver works fine on Kalyway, Leo4All v2, and iATKOS.

FOR PEOPLE WHO CAN'T RUN GAMES BECAUSE OF SCREEN SLEEP PROBLEM

(!!!THIS APP MUST BE PLACED IN THE APPLICATIONS FOLDER TO WORK!!!) <----------------

This is a solution that I coded for people who when they run games can't see them because the screen goes blank (screen turns off , monitor goes black , etc) aka they have a x3100 graphics chipset and like what I have on my Dell Inspiron 1525.

The application is called GameSleepX, when you run it you have 20 seconds to start your game, then when the game starts you simply press the space bar on you keyboard wallah you screen is back up and ready to play those games. I created this because of a void that existed for our problem so please show you support buy emailing Cerieti@gmail.com to let me know if this has worked for you!

If your an avid game player you might want to add this app to your dock for quick access, now without further ado here is the link to the app ENJOY!

If the added file doesn't work you can download this app at my website address, just be sure to RIGHT CLICK AND SAVE AS
OR YOU MIGHT BE TAKEN TO THE WRONG SITE!
www.cerieti.com/GameSleepX.zip
or
http://rapidshare.com/files/146866104/GameSleepX.zip.html

Atkos - Kalyway sleep/wake cycle resolution black out fix for Dell and any other computers with this problems

-Ariel Ruff
Cerieti ink
(We Do Not Condone Piracy)

It should also be noted in this page (to avoid mountaints of topics about it) that up till today, most or all Sony VAIO laptops' internal screen will not work. Only two workarounds are:

1. do not install any video drivers (graphics performance will be terrible, no QE/CI, res stays at 1024x768) or
2. install a video driver and have an external monitor ready (kills portability, but have max res/QE/CI).

This has been an ongoing issue, and no solution exists as of yet. Some have speculated to be NVCAP's fault.

This should be noted at the top of the topic. Basically a "DO NOT BUY SONY VAIO, IF U DID, SELL IT AND GO TO THE WIKI TO SEE WHICH BRAND WORKS" kind of advertisement.

I should know. I own one. ;;