DerRolf Posted May 3, 2011 Share Posted May 3, 2011 Hi everyone! I have searched the whole internet about a working solution to get my Intel GMA950 working with OS X Lion. I don't have QE or CI. I am using a notebook with a GMA950 - no desktop. What I've tried so far is this: - add my GMA950's Dev-ID to AppleIntelGMA950.kext and AppleIntelIntegratedFramebuffer.kext - tried old Snow Leopard kexts for my GMA950 - added GMA950 dev to my DSDT with DSDTSE (but it was stated that this was for Desktop GMA950's only) - use EFI string from OSX86Tool But none of these tricks were working. Does anybody have some advice for me? Thanks in advance! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fabio78 Posted May 4, 2011 Share Posted May 4, 2011 I have a Dell Latitude D620 with Intel GMA 950, it's has QE/CI. It wil only work in 32-bit, because there are no 64-bit drivers with QE/CI support for Intel GMA 950 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DerRolf Posted May 5, 2011 Author Share Posted May 5, 2011 I have a Dell Latitude D620 with Intel GMA 950, it's has QE/CI. It wil only work in 32-bit, because there are no 64-bit drivers with QE/CI support for Intel GMA 950 I was using Lion DP1 on my Atom Netbook - so it was booting in 32 bit mode Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Santi Aguado Posted June 27, 2011 Share Posted June 27, 2011 I have a Dell Latitude D620 with Intel GMA 950, it's has QE/CI. It wil only work in 32-bit, because there are no 64-bit drivers with QE/CI support for Intel GMA 950 Hi Fabio, I'm trying to get QE/CI working on my D620 with no success, I tried everything so it seems that I'm not doing rigth things. Could please let me know the files version are you using for these: AppleIntelGMA950.kext (mine is 1.6.26) AppleIntelGMA950GA.plugin (mine is 1.6.26) AppleIntelGMA950GLDriver.bundle (mine is 1.6.26) AppleIntelGMA950VADriver.bundle (mine is 1.6.26) AppleIntelIntegratedFramebuffer.kext (mine is 1.4.20) IOPCIFamily.kext (mine is 2.6) Thanks in advance !! PD: I have installed all these files y S/L/E folder instead of the Extra folder and Graphics Enabler is Disabled from boot.plist. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yurkaaa Posted July 2, 2011 Share Posted July 2, 2011 AFAIK Lion only supports 64-bit systems, the GMA950 drivers are only 32-bit thus are not supported by Lion. Hope that helps Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Foxic Posted July 7, 2011 Share Posted July 7, 2011 Are you using a 27AE or 27A2 GMA 950? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MTWomg Posted July 7, 2011 Share Posted July 7, 2011 AFAIK Lion only supports 64-bit systems, the GMA950 drivers are only 32-bit thus are not supported by Lion. Hope that helps Wrong. Lion doesn't support 32 bit processors, it does support the 32 bit kernel. Numerous old Macs that are supported (like the Mac Pro 1,1 and 2,2, a few Macbooks, etc) require the 32 bit kernel as the EFI doesn't support the 64 bit kernel. There are Macbooks with the GMA 950 and Core 2 Duo processors. They work in Lion. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rorydaredking Posted July 14, 2011 Share Posted July 14, 2011 Use chameleon r1140. It has graphics enabler features for gma950 if you use graphicsenabler=yes. Booting in 64 bit gives a mach-o error, and for me, booting in 32 bit gives very low brightness. But I am trying to fix the low brightness issue with some hex editing. But QE/CI are enabled with that boot loader, and no dsdt edits, no efi string and no patched kexts on lion GM. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JaS Posted July 14, 2011 Share Posted July 14, 2011 I have lion running on a c2d 2008 macbook with the x3100 igp. the drivers for the graphics are 32 bit only. this macbook can run the lion installer without edits and the graphics have QE / CI . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rorydaredking Posted July 14, 2011 Share Posted July 14, 2011 To add, to make it finally work perfectly, use the newest chameleon, then I used the frame buffer next from snow leopard 10.6.0, but kept all the other gma950 kexts stock lion GM. Works great now, full res and QE/CI. And no stupid dark screen Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PeterHaas Posted July 15, 2011 Share Posted July 15, 2011 Both the GMA950 and GMAX3100 kexts are in Lion. To use the GMA950, you must boot in 32-bit mode. Like Snow, Lion defaults to 64-bit mode, but it can be booted in 32-bit mode. You should not need to add any kexts, particularly not the older ones. But, you must add your GMA950 device (GFX0 within PCI0) to your DSDT. After that, boot Lion in 32-bit mode and your GMA950 will come up with all resolutions and Ci/QE, just as it did in Snow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
orakanggo Posted July 18, 2011 Share Posted July 18, 2011 i have same experiences without success Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lylanuel Posted August 15, 2011 Share Posted August 15, 2011 you only have o add arch=i386 to the boot.plist, or write it everytime you boot the sistem, so it uses the 32-bit kernel. can you share the link to the guide you used to install lion, i've had no success, i'm stuck at "DSMOS has arrived" and i have a core2 Duo and GMA950 too, thanks in advance. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
usr-sse2 Posted August 18, 2011 Share Posted August 18, 2011 27ae can be enabled by patching AppleIntegratedFramebuffer and AppleIntelGMA950 kexts + DSDT, 27a2 - by just DSDT. No need to use SL kexts. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
afiser Posted August 21, 2011 Share Posted August 21, 2011 getting low brightness when using the latest chameleon SVN trunk while in 32bit mode. any way to fix it? i can boot into 64bit mode and have full resolution, but no QE/CI because whenever something graphics intensive happens it black-screens and reloads the desktop. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edmondwck Posted September 8, 2011 Share Posted September 8, 2011 Success native resolution and full QE/CI I use Chameleon 2.1 r1395 with GraphicsEnabler = Yes MB : Asrock Conroe 945GZ-DVI CPU : Celeron 420 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MacGTO Posted September 12, 2011 Share Posted September 12, 2011 Success native resolution and full QE/CI I use Chameleon 2.1 r1395 with GraphicsEnabler = Yes MB : Asrock Conroe 945GZ-DVI CPU : Celeron 420 your gma is 27ae? because this trick don't work for me Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edmondwck Posted September 12, 2011 Share Posted September 12, 2011 your gma is 27ae? because this trick don't work for me It's 2772. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MacGTO Posted September 20, 2011 Share Posted September 20, 2011 any ideas for gam 950 id27ae? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shivashambo Posted November 16, 2011 Share Posted November 16, 2011 To add, to make it finally work perfectly, use the newest chameleon, then I used the frame buffer next from snow leopard 10.6.0, but kept all the other gma950 kexts stock lion GM. Works great now, full res and QE/CI. And no stupid dark screen Thanks, no more dark screen! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rubenmato Posted December 16, 2011 Share Posted December 16, 2011 booting in 32 bit gives very low brightness. But I am trying to fix the low brightness issue with some hex editing. I am exactly having the same problem. I have full resolution, but my screen is so dark I can barely use the computer. How can I fix it? I already looked that "frame buffer next" thing on facebook but I don't really get how I can take it back from 10.6.0. Could anyone bring some light into this? =) Thank you! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rubenmato Posted December 17, 2011 Share Posted December 17, 2011 Ok, after trying a lot of things, this is what I did in order to sort the weak(est) brightness on my GMA950 I installed AppleIntelIntegratedBuffer.kext from 10.5.8 (attached here) with Kext Helper b2 (google it) aaand Uploaded my chameleon bootloader to the last version. You just need to download this package and execute it. DON'T FORGET to boot using arch=i386 (i.e. in 32 bits) sice there's no lion 64 bit kexts for our beloved gma950 and, therefore, the kext you just installed won't load if you boot in 64 bits. AppleIntelIntegratedFramebuffer.kext10.5.8).zip 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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