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Possibility of porting Linux driver to Mac for the GMA 4500 =D


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Ok well some of my linux friends from the ubuntu community and i are trying to port the linux driver for the GMA 4500 to mac.

 

We will keep u posted =D

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well, I too have this GFX card and I'm willing to test out any developments made. maybe you should try porting the BSD driver, as there is one for the 4500 available; BSD is, AFAIK pretty similar with OSX. anyway, I'm willing to help to some extent, although i don't know c++ that well ;)

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well, I too have this GFX card and I'm willing to test out any developments made. maybe you should try porting the BSD driver, as there is one for the 4500 available; BSD is, AFAIK pretty similar with OSX. anyway, I'm willing to help to some extent, although i don't know c++ that well ;)

 

BSD driver link please

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BSD driver link please

 

well, after some searches on the net, If found this http://forums.pcbsd.org/viewtopic.php?f=25&t=10936 about the x3100 gma, which is very simmilar to the x4500, where it says that xfree86 video i810 supports the g45/q45 chipset. i'm uncertain about the download page; i've found this http://www.freebsdsoftware.org/x11-drivers...ideo-intel.html but it doesn't point to a download link, so i'm now officially stuck :) . the x.org has the i810 is on the ftp(ftp://ftp.x.org/pub/individual/driver) but i'm afraid that's for linux, not bsd.

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If someone could upload or give me a link to that BSD driver then i might be able to get us a driver =D

 

 

 

Dont get ur hopes up though there is always room for a problem haha

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http://www.freebsdsoftware.org/x11-drivers...ideo-intel.html

 

Sorry for that link (has no download link). Here's a link to the original source and the BSD source.

 

Original Source: http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/driver/xf86-video-intel/

 

BSD Source: http://www.freshports.org/x11-drivers/xf86-video-intel/

 

Hope this helps.

 

Thnk you for the link. i have the driver ripped open now... looks promising =D

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I know that there is some FB drivers floating around and all that some people have edited to work with the 4500 for native res and all but i made my own editing probably the same stuff a while back.. they myn is probably not any better but ill post them anyway for anyone who needs it here in a lil bit when i get home.

 

I will be posting a driver for QE later tonight for testing as i currently am in the process of reinstalling os X

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The 3100.kext doesn't load at all it has some ,kextutil says :

 

Kext has a CFBundleExecutable property but the executable can't be found:

AppleIntelGMAX3100

 

ok this is good. there error you reported is good info as it helps direct me in the right direction to possibly make this load.

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