Dave A Posted January 16, 2006 Share Posted January 16, 2006 What is the ATINDRV.kext supposed to do? I copied it over and changed the permissions, did a kext load and it said it loaded successfully. Now what? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rjtd Posted January 16, 2006 Share Posted January 16, 2006 (edited) New driver release! Credit goes to KINKADIUS that got a shinny new iMac 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 Post the card model c) Tell us if you can change resolutions Edited February 17, 2006 by MrBond Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bofors Posted January 16, 2006 Share Posted January 16, 2006 Ok, ignore that other thread I just started... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
serioussman Posted January 16, 2006 Share Posted January 16, 2006 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sigxcpu Posted January 16, 2006 Share Posted January 16, 2006 off-topic: nice thread ID ; on-topic somehow: it seems that all geforce/nvidia related exts are fat binaries. does anyone try a shot? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave A Posted January 16, 2006 Author Share Posted January 16, 2006 We can discuss ATI in http://forum.osx86project.org/index.php?showtopic=6969 OSX86 Dave, can you reboot your PC and see if you can change the resolution on display properties? No, I cannot change the resolution. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rjtd Posted January 16, 2006 Share Posted January 16, 2006 Reboot your PC now, serioussman, and see if you can change resolution on display properties. Also, what is your card? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
serioussman Posted January 16, 2006 Share Posted January 16, 2006 Now exists no graphic glitches even if I exit Mousepose. I tried hard to create them in Safari, but really they were lost! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rjtd Posted January 16, 2006 Share Posted January 16, 2006 Please, post your card model. Also, I can post NVIDIA drivers if someone want to test them,. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sigxcpu Posted January 16, 2006 Share Posted January 16, 2006 (edited) actually, yes. there are no graphics glitches. could this be true? EDIT: Nope, I was wrong. It was placebo effect. There still are glitches Edited January 16, 2006 by sigxcpu Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rjtd Posted January 16, 2006 Share Posted January 16, 2006 You need to reboot the PC to use the kext ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
domino Posted January 16, 2006 Share Posted January 16, 2006 (edited) 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! Edited January 16, 2006 by domino Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sigxcpu Posted January 16, 2006 Share Posted January 16, 2006 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
serioussman Posted January 16, 2006 Share Posted January 16, 2006 (edited) 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 Edited January 16, 2006 by serioussman Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blinksilver Posted January 16, 2006 Share Posted January 16, 2006 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
domino Posted January 16, 2006 Share Posted January 16, 2006 please add mirrors also. kinkadius: [Violation of DMCA] [Violation of DMCA] if any more mirros, please post them. thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
New001 Posted January 16, 2006 Share Posted January 16, 2006 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
serioussman Posted January 16, 2006 Share Posted January 16, 2006 Also success on ATIRadeon and ATIRadeon9700 kexts. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rjtd Posted January 16, 2006 Share Posted January 16, 2006 (edited) serioussman, did you copied all the kexts I indicated? Also, what was the CFBundleVersion and CFBundleInfoDictionaryVersion of the Kexts on 10.4.3? Do you know? Edited January 16, 2006 by rjtd Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave A Posted January 16, 2006 Author Share Posted January 16, 2006 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
autoy Posted January 16, 2006 Share Posted January 16, 2006 I would be glad to hear of any xX00 family working... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rjtd Posted January 16, 2006 Share Posted January 16, 2006 (edited) 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. Edited January 16, 2006 by rjtd Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sigxcpu Posted January 16, 2006 Share Posted January 16, 2006 same garbled screen with black boxes. I have SSE2 (NC8000 laptop) and also I didn't copy IONDRV blah blah. Could these be problems? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rjtd Posted January 16, 2006 Share Posted January 16, 2006 Post the card model PLEASE! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pontiac Posted January 16, 2006 Share Posted January 16, 2006 (edited) 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 Edited January 16, 2006 by pontiac Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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