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I have a question about CI and QE


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When did apple impliment CI and QE? was it with tiger? I was at work today and a client had an older G4 mac with an nvidia card it was running 10.2 but everything was smooth... I'm wondering if I can get tehe driver from there and recompile it to work with 10.4.3+ at least we'd get 2d accel thats all im asking for

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i really don't know if macvidia is still on it or have abondoned the project since the macvidia site isn't updated anymore. the only option for now is to buy supported ati cards or wait in the near future for apple to release nvidia drivers.

Buying an ATi card is really not a problem for me.. I was just curious... because nvidia cards have been supported in earlier versions of 10

 

someone know when apple started QE?

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From WikiMac...

 

Starting with Mac OS X 10.2, Quartz Compositor was extended by Quartz Extreme, which uses OpenGL to render screen displays faster by presenting them as textures within a 3D OpenGL context. This permits faster compositing of screen images using 3D hardware acceleration. To use Quartz Extreme, the Macintosh must have an AGP graphics card with support for arbitrary texture dimensions and a minimum of 16 MB of VRAM. In practice, this means either any nVidia or an ATI Radeon or better.
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To use Quartz Extreme, the Macintosh must have an AGP graphics card

 

so sad, new intel macs doesn't support anymore agp :D no way of recognizing agp cards as agp but instead is seen as pci... applei386pci.kext doesn't work in 10.4.4 - 5 anymore too... and apple has somehow didn't release full source (necessary kexts) of recent build of darwin...

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