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Kalyway 10.5.2 Leopard installed perfectly on my Toshiba Satellite P205

 

When I boot OSX, the grey screen with an apple appears, then the screen glitches (and i'm fairly certain its running, no crashes).

It's either white and black jaggedness or white and blue jaggedness (see attachments).

 

If I boot into safe mode (-x) everything appears fine (no sound though). So this leads me to believe I have some bad graphics kexts.

I removed: NV*.* , Natit.kext, and GeFo*.* (basically all non-ATI graphics kexts)

 

I check ATIRadeonX2000.kext and my device ID is listed there...

 

Any ideas? I can't seem to find anything.

Is there any significant disadvantage to using OSX in safe mode only?

 

Specs:

Kalyway 10.5.2, Kernal 9.2.0

Intel Core 2 Duo 2.0ghz

ATI Mobility Radeon HD 2600 (device ID: 9581)

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Kalyway 10.5.2 Leopard installed perfectly on my Toshiba Satellite P205

 

When I boot OSX, the grey screen with an apple appears, then the screen glitches (and i'm fairly certain its running, no crashes).

It's either white and black jaggedness or white and blue jaggedness (see attachments).

 

If I boot into safe mode (-x) everything appears fine (no sound though). So this leads me to believe I have some bad graphics kexts.

I removed: NV*.* , Natit.kext, and GeFo*.* (basically all non-ATI graphics kexts)

 

I check ATIRadeonX2000.kext and my device ID is listed there...

 

Any ideas? I can't seem to find anything.

Is there any significant disadvantage to using OSX in safe mode only?

 

Specs:

Kalyway 10.5.2, Kernal 9.2.0

Intel Core 2 Duo 2.0ghz

ATI Mobility Radeon HD 2600 (device ID: 9581)

 

i got the same problem with my 3870

havn´t found a solution yet ;(

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but does anybody know where this garbled screen comes from?

 

wrong driver<->hardware relationship, framebuffer?, differnt bios?, different ram (timings)? ???

 

ANY hint in the right direction would be appreciated !

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i spoke to lastExile on irc and he is very helpful (thanks alot ;) )

he did some custom driver packages which did not really fix the

problem yet but got me a slight glimpse at the desktop.

so i´m on my way..

 

he said something about these garbled screen being caused by the

framebuffer not properly found / initialized by driver..

 

maybe i dont have to switch back to old card ..

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bump, as this is exactly the same problem i have on my toshiba p200 with an ati mobility 2600HD card

 

 

btw. is it possible to boot in normal mode, but without the *not-working* graphics drivers? as its perfectly possible for me to boot into safeboot -x, .. i could live with the lower resolution, if it was possible to actually use my hackintosh without being in safemode without sound etc..

 

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to use the "vesa" mode, you have to remove the specific drivers.

in my case the ati**.kext and maybe even natit. without drivers

the card is only recognized as standard vga card with a low resoltution

and now hw accel.

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i did what you said, and now im able to log in and modified the boot strings so i got 11**x8** ress :censored2:

 

i just hope for a solution to the ati radeon hd 2600 mobility soon :'( and ofc to my wifi intel 39**

 

well thanks for your help bob

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