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Hey everyone!

I've tried to follow what has been going on in this thread, but I got lost somewhere around page 18

In any case, I'm on a ThinkPad R61 with an x3100 card. The issue that I'm having revolves around sleep.

I can put the computer to sleep just fine... but waking up produces a black screen. The computer runs just fine, and the computer itself wakes up-- but the display does not load! I don't quite understand what is going on behind the scenes, but the computer sleeps just fine functionally, but the internal display fails to wake up!

I've seen a 'Sleep Fix' somewhere in this thread, but there is a ton of confusion about what to actually do, how to get it working, and if it actually works!

I would appreciate it very much if somebody could post a thorough step-by-step for this!

I am on:

iAtkos r2
10.5.2
Vanilla Kernel 9.2.2
Leopard Graphics Update
ThinkPad R61
x3100

the tutorial u quoted above works for some but not for us with bloody Dell

Update for Dell Inspiron E1505/6400 users with GMA950. I got it to work without mouse tearing or artifacts for the first time on my notebook. Note that this is likely very system specific. I apologize if this has been posted before.

See my sig for details on my system. I had Kalyway 10.5.2 installed when I started with 10.5.3 upgrade. As commonly observed, I still had mouse artifacts on memory hungry programs such as MS Word, Adobe PS...
Sleep never worked. Only lid closing would work, but it wouldn't really sleep (power light would still be steady instead of blinking). I did have screen saver on enable when mouse moved to top right corner. This was done because the notebook would wake up from lid close sleep with black screen and I could invoke screen saver and got my desktop back that way.

This may be a combination of things or plain due to an upgrade to either one of the two things below. I don't know the details yet. The only thing I know is that it works.

I first upgraded with Jas 10.5.3 combo update. After the system booted I was welcomed with a blue screen and nothing happened. Only after about 5-10min. (got this by chance), the desktop would slowly build up and be fine after that. Everything else was the same as before, mouse tearing, no sleep...
I did not apply smbfix (maybe should have to fix long boot time, not sure).

Instead I downloaded Kalyway 10.5.3 combo update and installed right over it. I then used modbin's kernel to replace current.

System rebooted fine and right into the desktop. It returned to a black screen. I moved my mouse into the top right corner and voila the desktop came back (screen saver invoked). I then noticed that there was no mouse tearing or artifacts, everything was perfect. I uninstalled mousepose and still no mouse tearing or artifacts.

so, for some reason the 10.5.3 upgrade corrected this issue. I have no idea at this point why this, but I am happy.

All I had to do next was to fix sound for sigmatel and everything is working except sleep and only 1 CPU.

I would be happy to hear experience by others who have E1505/6400 with gma 950 who installed either of the combo updates. I will dig in deaper to find what caused the fix. I'd be great to hear from the more experienced folks here where exactly to look for. Maybe it's possible to make a simple package to fix gma950 on dells now?

thanks

edit 1: sorry, my bad. when I wrote screensaver I really meant sleep/wake function. You need to enable sleep/wake on mouse to active corner of screen. When you get the black screen after boot, move mouse into active corner and the main laptop monitor will wake up. without artifacts!

What I don't understand, is that when I load warsow, i get like 3-4 fps, on low settings.

However when I was in windows, i get like 70fps on high settings.

Something can't be right here

I updated the Dell GX620 to 10.5.3, it has a GMA950 everything worked ok until I try to connect with Screen Sharing, result instant panic.

Re-read a lot of the firsts posts, I ended restoring AppleIntelIntegratedFrameBuffer.kext from 10.5.0 now everything works fine, no glitches or tearing and no kernel panics.

@bense:

i'm new to the apple shell, could you be a little more clear with how to change the permissions?

running as root:

chgrp -R wheel *

inside of my 0x27a2 directory still gives me permission errors when i try to kextload.


edit:

don't know if this fixes my screen, but to load the kext's, do the chgrp, then cp them to

/System/Library/Extensions/

then

kextload /System/Library/Extensions/whatever.kext/

edit:

SUCCESS!!!

thanks paulicat and bense for pointing me in the right direction.

chown -R root:wheel /System/Library/Extensions is the command you're looking for.

I've successfully installed 10.5.3 and installed the natit.kext as per this thread here http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?sho...=89257&st=0
However, when I boot into the OS, Finder loads, and then immediately starts to throw a fit - the entire screen just go crazy.
When I plug my external monitor in (Dell 2405), the laptop screen returns to normal useable state.

I'm running an Acer Aspire 5570. I've used iatkos 10.5.1r2 and updated to 10.5.3.

Do I have to replace AppleIntelIntegratedFramebuffer.kext? My current version is 1.5.28.1. My previous version is from Mac OS X 10.5.2 (had updated from 10.5.1 to 10.5.2 to 10.5.3).

*Edit, yes, I do have too.

Just figured that out.

I really wish instructions on this forum were much more specific than general.

Does anybody that has an x3100 card have any brightness controls? I read through a lot of forums and noticed that by using an old verion of AppleIntelIntegratedFrameBuffer.kext they can get their brightness to work-- however when I use that the machine fails to boot (Login window App hangs in verbose mode). Has anybody found any working solutions?

hi everyone

Is there any solution for a desktop gma950 card under leopard10.5.3 ?

THX!

GMA950 for Desktops works, just read my previous post.

I tried to follow your steps in order to replicate this exactly.
Here is what I did

1) Kalyway EFI MBR install with the supplied GMA 950 kexts (tiger's appleintelintegratedframebuffer) used Speedstepkernel. No patches, no audio, clean install
2) Turn on sleep display hot corners at right, i.e. when u move pointer to right corner top, display sleeps
3) Updated to 10.5.3 using Jas 10.5.3
4) Updated to 10.5.3 using Kalyway - installed on top of Jas 10.5.3
5) I did not select any kernel from the Kalyway's kernel package as I wanted to keep the 9.2 speedstepkernel
6) Machine rebooted fine, display is still black (laptop monitor), i move to right corner, still black
7) Connected to external display - all works fine. Not a single glitch

If there is something wrong with what i tried to do to replica your steps exactly, pls let me know.

Specs:
Dell D430
1.2ghz C2D (1 core)
BCM4318 wireless
GMA950

My Notebook Acer Aspire 3690 works fine with driver in 10.5.3. Some notebooks works too.

when you move to right corner you may have to wait a little or try a couple more times. You also have to move the mouse back to main desktop. It sounds like you may not have waited long enough or missed the corner at the right time. This happens to me sometimes as well.
hope that's the case.

So the mouse tearing problem(desktop mobo 950 chipset) has been solved under 10.5.3 ?

Did you read the post?

My Device ID is '0x2772', It seems that it doesn't work on it...

same to me..
i will try the kext from 10.5.0, but downloading the whole dvd takes a while..


may you (or anyone else) send me this kext?
i havent found it anywhere.. otherwise i have to download the whole leopard-dvd..

my card is working (device id 2772 with kext from 10.5.2) on 10.5.3, but with artefacts in programms like illustrator or indesign (no go for me)..

Ok I've been looking everywhere since a week for my problem and cant seem to find any solution

I'm using a thinkpad T60 with GMA 950 graphic

The good thing is EVERYTHING ( except wifi, wich I solve with a dongle ) is working on Leopard 10.5.2

Bad new is I'm trying to connect to a seconday monitor. Unfortunaly, when I do so, both screen just go weird ( mutiples stips appear on the screen, in differents colors and I cant see anything except that ). When I disconnect the screen, everything is fine again.

I know that at first I plugged my screen and didnt seem to work, so I decided to test mirror mode...and then it got all weird. Now I guess it might work ( I changed some .kest, etc... ) but I dont know how to disable mirror mode, since when I plug the monitor ( wich give me the option to have mirror mode ), boths screen are unreadble ( colors strips ) and I cant say to Leopard to diable mirror mode.

So anyone have an idea how, with my GMA 950 I can get both screen to work and disable the d*** mirror mode.

thanks in advance for your help, I really tried hard to look everywhere for that answer and cant seem to find it. I saw some other people with similar problem but I never saw the answer going with it. thanks again

ok with some luck I got the second screen to work ( was clicking everywhere and it seem I manage to click at the right place to do something )now it seem that if I rotate the GMA 950 display setting, the screen go back. So in short, I get get the second monitor to work IF it is rotated from 90, 180 or 270 degree. Wich mean, the only one that look " good " is 180 degree.Only downside...I need to have my monitor upside down. Anyone have an idea why it need to do that or a way to solve this problem. At least I think I'm on somethingwell finaly the problem wasnt even from Leopard ! It was from the display itself...didnt though it would work but I decided to take one of my others screens I use on my desktop and this one did work whitout any problem !So now I have 2 screens on Leopard 10.5.2 whitout any problemI now have a 100% workable Mac Leopard

Hi, I just want to clear some info. I have a gma950 desktop with ASUS, the Natit is loading fine, but I just can't make the resolution work.
I'm using all APPLE INTEL GMA950 from 10.5.3, and I restore with 10.5.0 for buffer.kext,which is the 1.5.16 / what natit you using? would you please let me know or e-mail me?

thanks a lot!!

Anyone know about GMA950 OSX86 Project ?

It seems work it out...

X3100 Without sleep trick!?
Does anyone solved this?!

the problem is that when I start a game (rise of nations), the screen goes black (as the sleep on startup) and I can´t wake the video during the game.

how can I solve this!?
could someone make this x310 video card without the sleep trick!?

Thanks!

Ok, I've been lurking this thread and a few others for the past couple days now, and I have to say its become pretty difficult to pick out a solution to my problem. I've got a Dell Inspiron 1525, GMA X3100 with chipset 965. I'm using the Kalyway Leopard 10.5.2 DVD to install to my system, but I'm running into the snag you guys are discussing here. I'm sure you guys have already figured out how to get Leopard up and running on this hardware (I was referred here by the wiki, which notes someone else as having a successful install), I'm just having a hard time sifting through everything and picking out what actually works. The case from the wiki is here: http://wiki.osx86project.org/wiki/index.ph...s#Inspiron_1525

I tried adding all the files from errandwolfe's post to the ISO image before install, but didn't have any luck, blue screen when it tried to load the installer. I'm guessing I wasn't supposed to add all of them, but I'm not entirely sure which ones I need to put on there.

Do I only need the natit.kext or do I need to add the other kext's, and can I add drivers to the Kalyway ISO in the same way I added natit for a standard install?
Do I need to edit anything in errandwolfe's files before using them, or do I have what I need already?
I've seen in a few posts about Leopard 10.5.3. Has this issue been resolved with that installation, and if so would I have better luck going with 10.5.3?

Any help with this would be much appreciated. This whole process has become fairly confusing.

Thanks

can you upload the kext from 10.5.0 somewhere and send me the link via pm?
i also have the desktop gma950 and trying to fix it..
thanks!

can you upload the kext from 10.5.0 somewhere and send me the link via pm?
I have a asus desktop mobo with gma950 and the DEVICE ID is 0x2772. I can change the resolution by edit kernel flags in Boot.plist, but the system can't boot when I insert a refresh rate param(example:[email="1280x1024x32@75"]1280x1024x32@75[/email]).

do you have adobe cs3? if so, can you check if you can highlight text in illustrator cs3?
would like to find out if this is a illustrator or tearing issue.. highlighting text works in indesign cs3, but not in illustrator for me.. (double click on a word inside a text-box to see the highlighted text gets a blue background)

restoring AppleIntelIntegratedFrameBuffer.kext from 10.5.0 didn't solve anything (at least for me).

same artifacts and also stuck at 1600x1200.
i am now back to 1900x1200 + artifacts.

if anyone know how to solve the artifacts-issue with desktop gma950 and leopard (10.5.3), then please post

I have same problem:
AppleIntelIntegratedFrameBuffer.kext from 10.5.0: can change res and refresh rate but have artifacts-issue.
AppleIntelIntegratedFrameBuffer.kext from 10.5.3: can change res but lose control of refresh rate without artifacts-issue.

My device id is 0x2772 and i will change it to 0x27a2 and try darwin950 project on google code.

i have the same device id.
with older kexts i can't go over 1600x1200, with kext from 10.5.1/2 i have native 1900x1200.. but i always have artifacts depending on the programm.. i cant see cursor or highlighted text in illustrator cs3 for example..
if you have illustrator cs3, please check if you notice the same behavior.. (is it my graphic card or is it illustrator?)

Finally I get rid of artifact with full QE/CI supported. My card is Intel GMA 950 built in Toshiba Satellite A-105. Resollution is 1280x800 for my 15,4" display.

This what i've done:

1. Install Leo4allv3 marked drivers for my card (After install full support QE/CI but with artifacts
2. Heard here about LeopardGraphicsUpdate1.0 so I installed and nice surprise artifacts gone

I hope this will be helpfull for someone!

I wish i can do one more thing because I have very bright view on my monitor. I can't calibrate it because i get a notice that:

"The factory profile for the display could not be found" I wish i could change to Adobe because on another notebook i could manage to do that and it looks cool! Please help me with that it's 3'rd screenshot:


Below are screenshots, I had artifacts on iTunes, Firefox 2 and now take a look

mst0192:

illustrator cs3 is fine with GMA950 driver in iATKOS2.0i, but can't change resolution and refresh rate. booting the system with "Graphics Mode = 1280x1024x32" is ok but refresh rate=60Hz.

qupa's solution only works on a GMA950 card with device id = "0x27a2" and "0x27ae".

Now I know

By the way I have device id = "0x27a2"

i know.. most of the posts here are laptop gma related (27a2/27ae).




i notice the artifacts only in memory intensive programs (like photoshop or illustrator).
you dont see the square near the apple logo as soon as you open illustrator?
you see highlighted text within textboxes in illustrator?

may you send me your files? then i would try if they work at 1900x1200..

The resolution can't be changed to 1900x1200, the system can't boot

Editing Device ID(By editing BIOS binary code and DMI items) doesn't work, it makes the computer VERY unstable.

I will send u my files after change it back to "0x2772".

mst0192:

GMA950 files

For some of the people using a DESKTOP GMA950:

I have a set of kexts, you can safely install using Kexthelper or by hand,
it's the vanilla kexts for the GMA950 desktop on 10.5.3 and the AppleIntegratedFramebuffer from 10.4.8.
This combination has always given me full QE/CI support with working resolution change.

Some artifacts are still shown, but who cares, when all the other solutions don't work.. ;-)

Hope this helps the few of you out there.. It's been tested on a DELL GX620.
Please let me know if you find any problems.

Edit: Make sure you are not loading the Natit.kext when trying this solution, as this was giving me problems. The assumption here is you are running 10.5.3 with support for GMA950 from Kalyway update 10.5.3/ no resolution change possible.

@Yang Yang Yang: This should be a possible solution to your problem, as I'm assuming you're a desktop user.. (0x2772 should be right..) Let me know whether it worked?

I found out that my illustrator-problem was caused by a bug within illustrator itself.

with my kexts, everything is running except of minor artifacts (really minor and onyl visible in a few apps) which doesn't influence usability.
I have all resolutions, CI and QE and the display was detected automatically.

as long as no one posts a 100% working solution, I will work with my installed kexts..

in case you don't have luck with charles extensions, let me know and I will upload mine for you..

anyone knows if gma 950 vga card support rotate options???

I have Intel D945GCLF Atom CPU motherboard. Installed Kalyway 10.5.2 worked very good! Full video support QE/CI with resolution change, sleep support, network support, have sound output but no Mic. Work very good with my Logitech QuickCam® Ultra Vision camera and built in USB Mic. Than update to 10.5.3 and lost resolution change. With your pack can change resolution to 1680 x 1050 again! Thank you so much!
By the way, My computer no mouse tearing and artifact problem, the video card work perfect at 10.5.2 and 10.5.3 with your kext ! I use PS2 KB/Mice.

My device id is '0x2772', a gma950 card for desktop mobo.

Changing device id in bios binary and dmi items doesn't work properly for my machine.

The good things is the resolution and refresh rate can be changed via system settings panel and no mouse tearing and artifact problem, but the bad one is my machine becomes very UNSTABLE and the leopard crashes continuely !

I think the problem cards with device id '0x27a2' and '0x27a2' have different memory allocation.

after installing kalway this is my display info
can anyone tell which display its using ATI or GMAx3100(Intel GM965 Chipset)
i'm confused because , i didn't see any driver for of ATI radeon mobility HD yet, but i read in wiki that Intel GM965 Chipset have GMA x3100
only problem i have is Resolution:1024 x 768(cannot change) & mouse artifacts


Display:

Type:Display
Bus:PCIe
PCIe Lane Width:x16
VRAM (Total):256 MB
Vendor: ATI (0x1002)
Device ID:0x7210
Revision ID:0x00ce

Displays:

Resolution:1024 x 768

Depth:32-bit Color
Core Image:Hardware Accelerated
Main Display:Yes
Mirror: Off
Online: Yes
Quartz Extreme: Supported

my system configuration is

Acer Aspire 5720G
Dual boot-XP64 & leopard10.5.2
Intel Core 2 Duo Mobile
Intel GM965 Chipset
ATI Mobility Radeon HD 2300
RAM:3GB
Intel HDA(Realtek ALC268 codec )
Intel PRO/Wireless 3945ABG Wireless Card
Broadcom BCM5787M Gigabit Ethernet

Right guys. I have a X3100 and i'm using the drivers from the 10.5.3. I'm not using natit. All i did was install a file called laptopdisplay.kext and i have full hardware support. I got the kext file from here http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showtopic=37630.

Have fun!

acer 4710 laptop with gma950. laptop display and vga out works with complete resolutions changes, qe, ci and absolutely no artefacts. using natit. updated to 10.5.3 using kalyway update and also had the graphic updates done from apple site.

Excellent! Thank you. This solved my problem.

I tried the mentioned solution, but it didn't work. My device id is 0x2992 and revision id is 0x0002. Could anyone help me find the soltuion?

Hi guys,
I'm using Dell 1505 with GMA 950 (Leopard 10.5.2 installed). Everything works well but Graphic Display does not support QE/CI.
I did all the tips found on the forum but it does not make scence.
Please help me.
Thank in advance.

Where can I get the driver to make my GMA965 X3100 work properly?
My laptop is a Sony VAIO VGN-CR220E...

Vendor: Intel (0x8086)
Device ID: 0x2a02
Revision ID: 0x000c

I've tried the Leo4All v3 X3100 driver, but when I boot, I always get a damn white screen...
Any solutions for it?

Thanks in advance!