brlock Posted November 19, 2007 Share Posted November 19, 2007 hey! the link is not working, can someone please post it elsewhere? Thank you in advance Thanks for this paulicat edit: the link seems to be working again Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
socal swimmer Posted November 20, 2007 Share Posted November 20, 2007 hey are ioregs still needed for the GMA 950? I can post one from a 17" iMac if needed.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheGreatDeceiver Posted November 21, 2007 Share Posted November 21, 2007 Sorry mac.nub, it seems dell does something silly with their laptop displays...I had someone else test on irc with their dell, and they had the same problem.Its gonna be near impossible for me to fix it cause I don't have one to test on. Paulicat. Paulicat, have you seen this post by iGuru? http://forum.osx86scene.com/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=2734 the mouse tearing goes away when an external monitor is attached with vanilla graphic kexts. Seems like there is something that can be done without too much effort? what do you think? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
errandwolfe Posted November 21, 2007 Share Posted November 21, 2007 Just a request, please do not forget about us GMAX3100 users (mostly Dell and Compaq) who can't seem to get theirs working on the internal display. I realize the gurus are probably fairly busy, but it has been several days since I have any posts or requests for data regarding this issue. We would appreciate your help when you can get to us. We have a separate thread going over here: http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showtopic=71784 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Azurael Posted November 21, 2007 Share Posted November 21, 2007 It doesn't seem to be only GMA X3100s on Dell that don't work with this Natit, but GMA950s too. It's evident that Dell is doing something different in their video BIOSes to the rest of the industry (which has been noted regarding backlight control in OS X before too) - if somebody with a Dell could post their IOReg output with this Natit loaded, perhaps by logging in after boot with VNC or Apple remote desktop if the machine's not actually locked (ioreg -l -w0 >> ioreg.txt) I'll see if I can spot any obvious differences between that and a real MacBook to get to the root of this problem. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheGreatDeceiver Posted November 21, 2007 Share Posted November 21, 2007 It doesn't seem to be only GMA X3100s on Dell that don't work with this Natit, but GMA950s too. It's evident that Dell is doing something different in their video BIOSes to the rest of the industry (which has been noted regarding backlight control in OS X before too) - if somebody with a Dell could post their IOReg output with this Natit loaded, perhaps by logging in after boot with VNC or Apple remote desktop if the machine's not actually locked (ioreg -l -w0 >> ioreg.txt) I'll see if I can spot any obvious differences between that and a real MacBook to get to the root of this problem. sounds great. please try to get in touch with iGuru http://forum.osx86scene.com/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=2734 he has a Dell Inspiron 6400 and knows what he is doing. Hope there is a solution. thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kaaspad Posted November 22, 2007 Share Posted November 22, 2007 Thanks a lot paulicat, works flawless on Thinkpad X60 Tablet , with EFI Patch, running 10.5.1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anringfield Posted November 22, 2007 Share Posted November 22, 2007 Help me ! Anyone can create kext for GMA 3100 (in Gigabyte G33M-S2) It's GMA 3100, not GMA X3100 and I really need this kext because my resolution can't be changed :censored2: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
enb14 Posted November 22, 2007 Author Share Posted November 22, 2007 At least your GMA3100 is working, mine just hangs when booting. Fortunatelly I got a 8800 GT which doesn't works either but at least I can boot with that video card. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nomi81 Posted November 22, 2007 Share Posted November 22, 2007 any solution for the G33M-S2 I have the same mobo. Please any genious to get it work! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Azurael Posted November 22, 2007 Share Posted November 22, 2007 If the GMA950 kext doesn't work with the GMA3000/GMA3100, then I'm afraid you're out of luck as I see it. It's beyond our abilities and the available time to write a full, accelerated graphics driver for OS X for graphics cards that aren't supported, only do what we can to get the existing drivers to work. The best thing I can suggest is picking up a cheap card like a GeForce 7300 that is known to work. Sorry. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
i_am...me Posted November 23, 2007 Share Posted November 23, 2007 Tried this and it didnt work. Used stock FrameBuffer.kext and it would freeze when starting the LoginWindow.app.. Help? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flibblesan Posted November 23, 2007 Share Posted November 23, 2007 mac.nub, have you tried the combination of AppleIntelIntegratedFramebuffer v. 1.4.20 (which is what i believe ToH RC2 installs) along with the vanilla AppleIntelGMA950 v. 1.5.18 (which i don't think was updated on 10.5.1, so would be the stock kext from 10.5) and no natit? on my D620, that combination of kexts is giving me a pretty close to perfect display, although here and there sometimes i get a little grey square artifact (often -- not always -- near the apple menu) or an orphan image of the mouse pointer somewhere on the screen. not really often, and not really bad. dragging a window or something over these artifacts erases them. my graphics chipset has all the same vendor, device, and revision ID's as yours. are you running efi there? or if not, what kernel is that? i am running a 9.1.0 ToH kernel from IRC. I have this same issue, but with an ASRock ConRoe1333-D667 motherboard. Which is odd. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
enb14 Posted November 23, 2007 Author Share Posted November 23, 2007 I did it already but I bought a 8800 GT so now I have to wait to see which video card will be supported first. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gotoh Posted November 23, 2007 Share Posted November 23, 2007 is there some ioreg available around here from real Mac / Leo / GMA ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Azurael Posted November 23, 2007 Share Posted November 23, 2007 Did you not have a copy of the IOReg from my gf's MacBook, or are you looking for an X3100 IOReg dump? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gotoh Posted November 24, 2007 Share Posted November 24, 2007 Azurael, I don't have it. As I have desktop gigabyte cards with GMA 950 and 3100, I'll try to do something with it... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flibblesan Posted November 24, 2007 Share Posted November 24, 2007 Hmm, Using the AppleIntelIntegratedGraphics.kext that ToH installs, I get resolution changing which allows me to set my native resolution of 1440x900. But I get tearing and artifacts in some apps like iTunes. If I use the kext from 10.5.1, I get a better display but with no resolution changing at all. Even adding a resolution to com.apple.Boot.plist does not work. I've tried the Natit kext that Paulicat supplied for GMA950 Desktops, and it doesn't make any difference. This is on an ASRock Conroe1333-D667 board. Am I doing something wrong? My device ID is correctly in the kexts. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drbee Posted November 24, 2007 Share Posted November 24, 2007 same motherboard and same problem.. ASRock Conroe1333-D667 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flibblesan Posted November 24, 2007 Share Posted November 24, 2007 same motherboard and same problem.. ASRock Conroe1333-D667 Are you running EFI? edit: hmm, running the 10.5.1 kext means I lose the effects when you start frontrow, even though system profiler says I have hardware accelerated Core Image and Quartz Extreme supported. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drbee Posted November 24, 2007 Share Posted November 24, 2007 yes running EFI native kernel Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flibblesan Posted November 24, 2007 Share Posted November 24, 2007 yes running EFI native kernel Hope somebody can help with this or I'll have to buy an nvidia card. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drbee Posted November 24, 2007 Share Posted November 24, 2007 Hope somebody can help with this or I'll have to buy an nvidia card. that's what i'm thinking too.. it's very annoying Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheGreatDeceiver Posted November 24, 2007 Share Posted November 24, 2007 Hmm, Using the AppleIntelIntegratedGraphics.kext that ToH installs, I get resolution changing which allows me to set my native resolution of 1440x900. But I get tearing and artifacts in some apps like iTunes. If I use the kext from 10.5.1, I get a better display but with no resolution changing at all. Even adding a resolution to com.apple.Boot.plist does not work. I've tried the Natit kext that Paulicat supplied for GMA950 Desktops, and it doesn't make any difference. This is on an ASRock Conroe1333-D667 board. Am I doing something wrong? My device ID is correctly in the kexts. that is the identical scenario I have on my Dell 6400 with gma950. In my case an external display will work perfectly fine with the stock framebuffer.kext but otherwise will show me a black screen. I went back to ToH's and I get the tearing which I can rid of mostly via mousepose. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eucrow Posted November 24, 2007 Share Posted November 24, 2007 Hey, I just upgraded to 10.5.1. At first w/o the Natit kext i would boot straight to a plain blue screen, though i would have external monitor support. (i'm on a laptop with a gma950) So i went back to my old frame buffer kext and the native display worked again, albeit with the old artifacts. My second attempt was the 1.5.18 framebuffer with Natit installed. Instead of the blue screen i get intense flickering. The weird thing is the second i plug in an external monitor the flickering stops on the laptops native display. Also, even though Natit is in my extensions directory i never see it loaded. I can force load it with kextload but i figure it must be doing something since my problem went form one of a plain blue screen to one of flickering. Either way, i had to go to the old hacked frame buffer to get to any sort of working desktop. Any thoughts? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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