tkeyesjr Posted January 15, 2011 Share Posted January 15, 2011 I installed retail snow leopard v.10.6.3 on my hp pavilion A6400f PC using tonymacs [url="http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/"]#####[/url]+[url="http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/"]#####[/url] method and updated to v.10.6.6. Everything seems to work fine except that imovie and logic wont work because they say that i need quartz extreme. This is the message that pops up when I open iMovie, "iMovie requires a graphics card that is compatible with Quartz Extreme. One or more of your graphics cards does not support Quartz Extreme." So how do I know if my graphics card is compatible with quartz extreme? If it is not compatible what graphics card should I get that is cheap (preferably under $100)? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alessandro17 Posted January 15, 2011 Share Posted January 15, 2011 How can anybody reply if they don't know which card you have? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dothacker Posted January 15, 2011 Share Posted January 15, 2011 Give us your specs... or read the rules: "Give your hardware specs when necessary (asking for support) and any other time where it may be beneficial to have them listed." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eldersnake Posted January 16, 2011 Share Posted January 16, 2011 Yeah you'll need to tell us what card you have and also what driver/injector you used, if any. In my experience I used a modified driver for my ATI that came with the iPC distro I used, but QE/CI refused to work with it no matter what. Turns out I had to use Apple's vanilla ATIX2000 driver instead (+ the natit kext from this forum) for it to work. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tkeyesjr Posted January 17, 2011 Author Share Posted January 17, 2011 Sorry for leaving out details im new to all of this. Im not really shure how to check this stuff. I think I have an intel graphics card. I looked in macs system profiler to check. It's whatever came preinstalled on my desktop. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dothacker Posted January 17, 2011 Share Posted January 17, 2011 well, again... specs!!! what computer is it, model number... serial number... part number... just give us a number! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bahman2000 Posted January 17, 2011 Share Posted January 17, 2011 Sorry for leaving out details im new to all of this. Im not really shure how to check this stuff. I think I have an intel graphics card. I looked in macs system profiler to check. It's whatever came preinstalled on my desktop. Take a look at System Profiler - Graphics/Displays and copy paste here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flywhc Posted January 17, 2011 Share Posted January 17, 2011 Google HP Pavilion a6400f Specifications and got Intel GMA 3100 which is your graphic card. Try to find a driver/injection/EFI whatever for that card. It is hard to get this QE/CI work especially on 10.6.6. I suggest you make 10.6.3 work first. My NVIDIA Geforce 6600 almost works well with 10.6.3 but not work with 10.6.6. I copied those kext from 10.6.3. to 10.6.5 and it works before but not work with 10.6.6. sigh Chameleon RC5 may have built-in support but as soon as I change bootloader from BootThink to Chameleon it won't boot up. so, Good luck! If you can't get that card work, see some wiki to check what graphic card are supported. such as : http://macmod.wikispaces.com/Graphics-Cards http://www.tonymacx86.com/wiki/index.php?t...s_Card_Database Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
emitflesti Posted January 17, 2011 Share Posted January 17, 2011 I've never been able to get QE/CI working with GMA3100. This forum shows many people wanting it; no one getting it. http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php...13999&st=20 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tkeyesjr Posted January 18, 2011 Author Share Posted January 18, 2011 Thank you for the help. Now that I know my graphics card wont work with quartz extreme what card should I get? I just want something cheap as long as it works so I can get logic working and make some beatz. ya feel me! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flicka Posted January 19, 2011 Share Posted January 19, 2011 You can search in the wiki for some working external usb video card. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hmorris48 Posted January 20, 2011 Share Posted January 20, 2011 Since you're on a desktop and your should have a open slot for a graphics card, (from the hp specs for your system)Integrated graphics using Intel GMA 3100*Integrated video is not available if a graphics card is installed Integrated graphics using Intel GMA 3100 Also supports PCI Express x16 graphics cards* I would go with a any of the newer nvidia card. I using a GeForce 9600 GT 512MB card on 10.6.5 with the lastest nvidia drivers and CUDA drivers without any problems with all the heavy lifting being done by the Chameleon boot loader. Just turn on the Graphics Enabler in you com.apple.Boot.plist and let the lizard do a the dirty work. My /Extra/com.apple.Boot.plist: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd"> <plist version="1.0"> <dict> <key>GenerateCStates</key> <string>Yes</string> <key>GeneratePStates</key> <string>Yes</string> <key>Graphics Mode</key> <string>1920x1080x32</string> <key>GraphicsEnabler</key> <string>Yes</string> <key>Instant Menu</key> <string>Yes</string> <key>Kernel</key> <string>mach_kernel</string> <key>Kernel Flags</key> <string></string> <key>SMBIOSdefaults</key> <string>No</string> <key>Theme</key> <string>Default</string> </dict> </plist> Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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