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New driver release! Credit goes to KINKADIUS that got a shinny new iMac :D

 

You can get them from here:

 

EDIT: Removed content violating DMCA

 

For the ppl experimenting ATI:

 

Do a backup of the extensions with

sudo cp -rf /System/Library/Extensions /System/Library/Extensions.bak

 

then copy the following extensions properly to the extensions directory

-> AppleNDRV <- This one has ATI related stuff in it, so don't forget about it.

-> ATINDRV.kext

-> all ATI*

-> IONDRVSupport.kext

 

Than

sudo chown -R root:wheel /System/Library/Extensions

sudo chmod -R 755 /System/Library/Extensions

sudo kextcache -k /System/Library/Extensions

and reboot macosx!

 

Status:

1) ATINDRV loads without errors

2) resoltuion change: unknown

3) QI and CE on newer cards: unknown

 

Please:

a) Post your experience

:D Post the card model

c) Tell us if you can change resolutions

Edited by MrBond
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I successfully loaded ATINDRV.kext.

Here is the output:

 

kextload: extension /System/Library/Extensions/ATINDRV.kext appears to be valid

kextload: loading extension /System/Library/Extensions/ATINDRV.kext

kextload: /System/Library/Extensions/ATINDRV.kext loaded successfully

kextload: loading personalities named:

kextload: FirstPersonality

kextload: sending 1 personality to the kernel

kextload: matching started for /System/Library/Extensions/ATINDRV.kext

 

And there exists no graphic glitches

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please add this to post #1.

 

Make a backup archive of your original extensions folder, then copy over the original with the 10.4.4 extensions contained in the new archive. Then do the following.

 

In terminal, cd to the "/System/Library/Extensions" folder:

 

sudo chown -R root:wheel /System/Library/Extensions

sudo chmod -R 755 /System/Library/Extensions

sudo kextcache -k /System/Library/Extensions

 

REBOOT and post back!

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I've rebooted many times because of Airport testing. The ATINDRV is in /System/Library/Extensions since 4 or 5 boots ago ;)

No, it is matching for ATY,Wormy driver, and we have just "generic vga" cards in system profiler. In Mac OS X on PPC, the ATI cards are named ATY, something.

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I rebooted my computer and saw that that kext is not loaded.

Then I tried with sudo kextload -t /System/Library/Extensions/ATINDRV.kext

that failed:

 

kernel extension /System/Library/Extensions/ATINDRV.kext has problems:

Validation failures

{

"Kext has a kernel dependency prior to version 6.0 and CFBundleVersion does not match executable's MODULE_VERSION" = true

"Kext has a kernel dependency prior to version 6.0 and CFBundleIdentifier does not match executable's MODULE_NAME" = true

}

 

but i kept on trying

 

sudo kextload -v /System/Library/Extensions/ATINDRV.kext

kextload: extension /System/Library/Extensions/ATINDRV.kext appears to be valid

kextload: loading extension /System/Library/Extensions/ATINDRV.kext

kextload: /System/Library/Extensions/ATINDRV.kext loaded successfully

kextload: loading personalities named:

kextload: FirstPersonality

kextload: sending 1 personality to the kernel

kextload: matching started for /System/Library/Extensions/ATINDRV.kext

 

 

success.

There are no resolution changes working.

 

There are some glitches also, I noticed, but they are so much reduced.

 

By the way, that is 9600xt

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Please, post your card model.

Also, I can post NVIDIA drivers if someone want to test them,.

I will go out of my way to install tiger (i have a CD) on to my nvidia box to see if the drivers work, if someone can try to compile this (http://www.acc.umu.se/~erikw/program/smartdimmer-0.1.tar.bz2) under OS X. just extract the thing move to the folder you and type "make" see if it compiles cleanly. I am asking because this is the only know way for me to control the brightness of my laptop under a unix system.

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I will go out of my way to install tiger (i have a CD) on to my nvidia box to see if the drivers work, if someone can try to compile this (http://www.acc.umu.se/~erikw/program/smartdimmer-0.1.tar.bz2) under OS X. just extract the thing move to the folder you and type "make" see if it compiles cleanly. I am asking because this is the only know way for me to control the brightness of my laptop under a unix system.

 

Oh man, maybe this will bring hope to me being able to play Halo. . . will try to install drivers now.

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Ok, so I copied over all the ATI kexts, fixed all the permissions and ownership stuff, and then rebooted. The grey apple logo comes up, but after that the screen is filled with garbage and artifacts, so much that the desktop is not visible. I'm going to keep experimenting with this.

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Copy AppleNDRV too, please! It contains ATI stuff on it.

OSX86 Dave, you have an X800 right?

 

Also, how often does ATI updates their drivers on the website? They now will put updated drivers for their X1600 on Macs too, so, probably we will have some luck

on the future.

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Ok, so I copied over all the ATI kexts, fixed all the permissions and ownership stuff, and then rebooted. The grey apple logo comes up, but after that the screen is filled with garbage and artifacts, so much that the desktop is not visible. I'm going to keep experimenting with this.

 

same thing... you can see that the system is working, but the display is messed up.

Managed to boot using -x

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