lifeto Posted March 11, 2015 Share Posted March 11, 2015 It appears to be the graphic driver has problem. it happened right after I applied new kexts from this website. http://www.reddit.com/r/hackintosh/comments/2t5nb1/intel_965gm_problem/ does anyone know how to fix this problem? i don't even know how to get into the safe mode. excuse my english skill and my questions, i just joined this forum. http://imgur.com/aZc3Lm3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Allan Posted March 11, 2015 Share Posted March 11, 2015 Hello and Welcome to InsanelyMac forum! You read this reply? The good news is that your GPU was used in Macbooks from ~2007-2008. The bad news is that those macbook models haven't been supported since OS X Lion, so it's likely that the X3100 GPU drivers were removed after Lion. I believe people have got 10.8 working on those macbooks though, if so you may have a chance of getting your GPU working on a new release of OS X. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lifeto Posted March 11, 2015 Author Share Posted March 11, 2015 Hello and Welcome to InsanelyMac forum! You read this reply? I read the comment, but the guy succeeded i think with mavericks? Yosemite. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Allan Posted March 11, 2015 Share Posted March 11, 2015 Ok. The VRam size is not a problem, is aesthetic. If you have full QE/CI is the most important. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gringo Vermelho Posted March 12, 2015 Share Posted March 12, 2015 The X3100 has native driver support up until 10.7.5 and the drivers are 32-bit only, you must boot in 32-bit mode to have hardware accelerated graphics. Mountain Lion and up are 64-bit only, you can't use 32-bit drivers on a 64-bit only OS. The X3100 drivers from 10.6.2 had 64-bit support and can be hacked to work on newer versions of OS X but stability is sketchy at best. Note that GMA 3100 is not the same device as GMA X3100. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lifeto Posted March 13, 2015 Author Share Posted March 13, 2015 SO I'm guessing installing lion will simply fix the problem then? Thanks for the reply. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gringo Vermelho Posted March 13, 2015 Share Posted March 13, 2015 Some X3100's (there are two or three versions, most common being 0x2a02) need a little extra work to run stable but yes, essentially. I have a clean retail installation of 10.7.5 running on a Thinkpad T61 with X3100 graphics here, still some power management issues to iron out but it's working well. It is not necessary to use older drivers, you'll see lots of posts claiming this but it's not true. If you run into trouble with brightness controls there's a patch you can apply to the 10.7.5 X3100 driver but that's all. Don't use older drivers, despite what you may read. Post here if you run into any issues and I'll help if I can. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lifeto Posted March 14, 2015 Author Share Posted March 14, 2015 Thanks for the kind advice. I succeeded installing both SL and Lion. I decided to install the Snow Leopard first, because that's what people have been telling me about supporting the intel965 chipset. It had 1920*768 (I think) option from the start, but the screen had problem with its height like the image below. So I decided to give it another go with Lion. http://imgur.com/gjNaKm9 This time I downloaded a USB bootable image of Lion and installed it with chameleon boot loader, and It installed just like the Yosemite version, but it only supported 1024 by 768. so I installed the same kexts above i had in the first place, and encountered the same problem as before. I wonder if the kexts have problem. do you know how i can get this problem solved? http://imgur.com/EmeoajC GraphicsEnabler=No IGPEnabler=No doesn't work this time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bronxteck Posted March 14, 2015 Share Posted March 14, 2015 adding resolutions dylib module to chameleons module folder can help some times in this instance as well as specifying your native resolution in org.chameleon.Boot.plist. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lifeto Posted March 14, 2015 Author Share Posted March 14, 2015 Only if i could know how. adding resolutions dylib module to chameleons module folder can help some times in this instance as well as specifying your native resolution in org.chameleon.Boot.plist. Only if i could know how. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bronxteck Posted March 14, 2015 Share Posted March 14, 2015 you can use chameleon wizard app to simplify it for you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gringo Vermelho Posted March 14, 2015 Share Posted March 14, 2015 resolution.dylib goes in /Extra/Modules but it will not help with any OS X specific issues. The purpose of this module was to fix issues with the Chameleon GUI. lifeto: I repeat - there is no need to use any other drivers than the ones that come with Lion. One of the issues with the X3100 is getting the internal display properly recognized. Sometimes OS X has trouble reading EDID info from the display and this causes all sorts of issues, your photos show two of them. Try creating a MacBook display profile override with this: http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/290130-fixedid-v232-application-to-generate-overrides-automatically-for-apple-displays/ If you can't get a usable display on the internal LCD, try connecting an external display. Also try booting with -x (safe mode, disables acceleration) while you work on fixing it. I can help you but you need to be running unmodified retail Lion - not a distro. Distros are pre-patched and modified, I don't know what is modified and what isn't and trying to help you could turn out to be a huge waste of time if the distro is patched somewhere that I don't know about. Also The Intel 965 chipset is not the issue here, the chipset itself is supported just fine all the way up to Yosemite. Chameleon's IGPEnabler does not do anything for the X3100. IGPEnabler is for recent on-die GPUs on Core i series CPUs, like the HD4000. Chameleon's GraphicsEnabler has a long standing bug where it injects wrong data for the X3100. The X3100 is obsolete several times over and so there is no hope of anyone ever fixing this bug, so always use GraphicsEnabler=no 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lifeto Posted March 15, 2015 Author Share Posted March 15, 2015 Okay, so i opened up the FixEDID and run the DarwinDumper to create EDID. but EDID folder has no EDID.hex file. I don't know what I have to do, I'm lost here. I do not own a second display at the moment. btw, I did install the Lion retail version. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
artur_pt Posted March 15, 2015 Share Posted March 15, 2015 hello take a good read here http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/208410-fixing-scrambledstretched-or-wrong-resolution-laptop-display-problems/ windows utils http://www.entechtaiwan.com/util/moninfo.shtm http://www.eldim.fr/products/display-controller/fpdlite/edidviewer good hack Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lifeto Posted March 16, 2015 Author Share Posted March 16, 2015 which one is EDID? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gringo Vermelho Posted March 16, 2015 Share Posted March 16, 2015 All of it. You want the "raw data". I'm not familiar with that particular app, look in the menus for an options to export it. I used "EDID Manager" from Extron Software. It's freeware. Please attach files locally. Once your image hosting sites no longer hosts your images, your posts here will not make much sense to future users. Use the Full Editor to attach files. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lifeto Posted March 16, 2015 Author Share Posted March 16, 2015 Thanks for all the help. I followed the guideline but Prefskey Value of mine is something like "IOSerivce:/AppleACPIPlatformExpert$ with no numbers at all.How do i proceed...? ;( Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lifeto Posted March 17, 2015 Author Share Posted March 17, 2015 Self-Answer : I fixed the problem by simply typing this on Terminal ioreg -lw0 grep IODisplayPrefs 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lifeto Posted March 17, 2015 Author Share Posted March 17, 2015 Obviously this file doesn't work even though i properly pasted it into the folder. can anybody who's more experienced in this part than me help me out here? (I only added the .txt because the editor won't take a file that doesnot have an extension.) DisplayProductID-717.txt Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
artur_pt Posted March 18, 2015 Share Posted March 18, 2015 hello u rename the file to .plist the data u try to insert .. is the raw data (hex values) read carefully the first link .. and there is .. how to do it good hack Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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