Dr. Watz0n Posted May 26, 2008 Share Posted May 26, 2008 Yea, I know I am probably going to get flamed up the whazoo for this, but here I go anyway. So, I installed Leopard today. Works great, except the resolution. I knew before I installed that Leopard doesn't like the GMA 3100 chip I have, but I figured I would work towards a solution once I had it installed. So, I browsed through some of the topics and have yet to find a solution (obviously). I've tried using SwitchRes X to no use. So, my question is: Is there any method, risky or not, to be able to change the resolution (either threw the System Preferences Display panel or manually) with the GMA 3100 chip? By the way, the specs are in my signature. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Signal64 Posted May 26, 2008 Share Posted May 26, 2008 Dual Boot: Mac OS X Leopard 10.5.2 and Windows Vista Home Premium SP1Processor: 1.8 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo Memory: 1GB DDR2 SDRAM Hard Drives: Mac OS X - 250GB, Windows Vista - 320GB Display: 19" Widescreen Flatpanel Graphics: Intel GMA 3100 (Need the resolution fix... ) What motherboard is that on? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr. Watz0n Posted May 26, 2008 Author Share Posted May 26, 2008 A MSI MS-7525 motherboard (aka Boston-GL6). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
macgirl Posted May 26, 2008 Share Posted May 26, 2008 Is not a matter of Leo likes or does not like the GMA3100, there are no drivers for other Intel cards than GMA950 and GMAX3100 on Leopard, on Tiger add GMA900. GMA300 and 3100 are very different chipset from X3100. Is the same case trying to run a Nvidia 9600 card knowing that only G92 chipsets are suported (8800 and 9800 cards). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marliwahoo Posted May 26, 2008 Share Posted May 26, 2008 You may be able to change resolution on boot. This may give you your resolution with vesa. 1. In OSX go to Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/ 2. Copy the file "com.apple.Boot.plist" to desktop 3. Open "com.apple.boot.plist" in Text Editor. 4. Add this in: <key>Graphics Mode</key> <string>"1280x1024x32@60"</string> you can change the resolution to your liking. "x32" means 32 bit color, "@60" is the refresh rate. 5. save the file, save it as a .plist not .txt! 6. copy and replace the original. Good luck. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr. Watz0n Posted May 27, 2008 Author Share Posted May 27, 2008 Just as a note, trying the method of editing the plist file doesn't work. Just ends up corrupting the install (though I was able to replace the modified one with the original, so no big deal). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
macgirl Posted May 27, 2008 Share Posted May 27, 2008 You can try in a sigle line: "Graphics Mode"="1280x1024x32" you can have different plist files with -obviously- different settings, then when it is booting write "config=any-name-you-want" with ".plist" or without it. I have tv.plist in my Desktop hack, when I want to have a certain configuration I just write "config=tv" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jenciso Posted December 30, 2008 Share Posted December 30, 2008 Hi there... ending this year and still no solution for this?? I have a (desktop-not laptop) DG31PR mobo that claimed to have GMA x3100 on board graphic, but everywhere I see that x3100 is only for laptops... so I suppose it is wrong labeled and it's in fact GMA 3100. No luck with kalyway 10.5.2 so far. Only 1024x768 @ 60hz (the refresh rate is killing my eyes!) No kext is loaded for the graphic. How did your saga end? Did you find any solution? happy ending! better start!! /j Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thristan Posted January 2, 2009 Share Posted January 2, 2009 yeah let's start a development team for this gcard! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KayR Posted January 2, 2009 Share Posted January 2, 2009 on my DELL Inspiron 530 I installed iDeneb v 1.3 (=10.5.5) with GMA 950 option. It works without extreme support. nothing new. I can change the resolution by editing darwin bootloader parameter that is explained above. somehow, it changed to 1280x1024 but not more than that.. strange. I tried to fix the file permission using OSXtool and disk utility. - that corrupted plist file though .. arg. I will try to repair it. any advice for this poor novice? Don't expect any device driver development anytime soon.. since it is not gonna happen by Apple anyway. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hk_2000_pe Posted August 10, 2009 Share Posted August 10, 2009 You can change resolution using universal installer. But no QE/CI is supported. Be careful to not select a resolution that your monitor cannot support. I hope this could help. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joeydg Posted October 4, 2009 Share Posted October 4, 2009 HEy, I'm looking for Intel GMA3100 drivers too. I have an Intel DG31PR MoBo with OS X.5.8 and am trying to get this blasted thing to work. Quartz can be enabled using the Quartz enabler in OSX86Tools - but not QE. If anyone else has a way to get that enabled I'd be stoked out of my mind right now. TIA Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sanver Kapur Posted December 4, 2011 Share Posted December 4, 2011 See here http://www.taiwanpcs...telgraphics.htm difference between GMA 3100 and x3100 BTW, when i installed BURG(a gui bootloader) from ubuntu, booting OSX from it made my hackintosh start in 1600x1200 resolution while with the chamelion bootloader, i could get max 1280x1024 by editing boot.plist file my motherboard is MSI MS-7525 (aka Boston-GL6). GMA3100 device id is 0x29c2 currently running iPC 10.5.6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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