First of all , this is not a whole solution.Just a post for this gfx card owner to start their test and reply the result.

Now we have two inject kext : ATIinject.kext and Natit.kext.Both of them do the same thing.But the Natit.kext is still developing ,so maybe you should try it first.

QE/CI enabling:

Thinkpad T60/Moblity X1400/Natit.kext

I try the natit.kext and need to modify the value under <key>default</key> ,change the Alopias to Caretta.
And it work like the ATIinject.kext.

What's the result:
When in the internal lcd ,it cause a black screen.
It work in the external display.When i choose to the vga+lcd display mode(show the pic on both screen), sometime it would cause the external CRT down, show a message"Frequency is out of range".
When the res is set to 1280*1024, it show 111k/104Hz.
When the res is set to 1024*768, it show 78K/97Hz.

i do it this for my X1400 but when i reboot h e show me a message: you should restart you computer.....
what can i do to get QE/CI working .....
where can i find ATIinject.kext
help!!!!

heeeeeeeeeeeeeeelpppppppppppp!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

There is a topic about ATIInject.
To Enable QE/CI look at the first post.

this might sound stupid but it had resolution change, rotate and both dvi working on 10.4.8 with 10.4.4 kernel no qe/ci. I recently reformatted and upgrade to the 8.8.1 kernel now i have qe/ci no resolution change. i installed the natit kext hoping it would fix this i get black screen and i edit it just as weichen said. maybe i did somehting wrong or forgot the dev id editing i dont know. but they are hope for x1300 pci-e card guys.

edit boot.plist again now i have 1280x1024 full qe/ci minor mouse tearing overall i would say 95% of this set up work for notebook guys there was some guide that u need to put a pin into the vga behind the laptop to get the internal lcd to work this take some poking around to get the right combo in my belief i htink certain laptop need to plug a certain hole... so go give that a try..

Since the mac havent provide a laptop with the mobility X1400 , it is hard to make it done with this card.

lon36unn3r , sorry .I didn't catch you.

Have you tried to get it done?

weichen i fix the problem using the 3.6 installer with agp support checked.. and it worked just fine now thnx ..

lon36unn3r.
As i know, you have the X1300 pro card, rather than the mobility X1300.
Congratulation that you make it work.

I have tried the 3.6 and it worked the same as the ATIinject.kext or Natit.kext.I really wait for the solution of the internal display.

i hope so soon i wonder if radeon express 200 would work i dont want to try my lucky with mac os x on my laptop yet.

I have a card x1300 512 mb kernel installs 3,6 Screen: Type: Compatible controller with VGA Bus: PCIe VRAM (total): 64 MB Manufacturer: ATI (0x1002) YOU GO of the device: 0x7146 YOU GO of revisin: 0x0000 Screens: CMC 19AW: Resolucin: 1440 900 xs @ 60 Hertz Depth: Color of 32 bits Core Image: Incompatible Main screen: S Duplicate: Deactivated In lnea: S Quartz Extreme: Incompatible this is the result if I follow east position of a guardian the possible on

Pantalla:

Tipo: Controlador compatible con VGA
Bus: PCIe
VRAM (total): 64 MB
Fabricante: ATI (0x1002)
ID del dispositivo: 0x7146
ID de la revisión: 0x0000
Pantallas:
CMC 19AW:
Resolución: 1440 x 900 @ 60 Hz
Profundidad: Color de 32 bits
Core Image: Incompatible
Pantalla principal: Sí
Duplicado: Desactivado
En línea: Sí
Quartz Extreme: Incompatible

help me pleased

Still no progress for X1400?
I've tried Natit Beta but unsuccessfull. After reboot there are changing colors on the screen. Fixing ATIRadeonX1000.kext gives no result.

I have the same card but in a Dell E1505. I edited the X1000 kext explained in the first post, but QE/CI still doesnt work still says kext not loaded. Anyone has any other solutions to get QE/CI working ?

Never Mind, just for future reference make sure that the KEXT CACHE is cleared eather -f on boot or rm it.

Still no driver avialable for Ati Radeon Mobility X1400.
I have a Thinkpad T60
Thank's

Has anyone tried it with 10.4.9 kernel?

10.4.8 or 10.4.9 makes no difference...
I'm on 10.4.9 with QE/CI working, but only at 1024x768 on my Dell Inspiron 6400 with 1280x800...

I'm now waiting for months to get my whole screen filled, but there does not seem to come any solution :-(

It's the same for me
I had to remove OSX because I can't work with 1024x768 resolution. Now I'm running Ubuntu hoping for a good news.

My book works with 1400x1050 resolution, but i can't set to full 1680x1050

I think there will be no hope to see X1400 working properly. The only solution should be to write down a driver (even minimal as Callisto), but I have no experiences in driver programming

guys y dont u try this post by dcpark, the solution is posted for x1700 mobility, but this can be used for x1400, i will try this as soon as i get my laptop back from acer repair center!!

any progress homer007???

still w8in for my laptop!! should be back next week.

I hope that your method will work... It is a pity that the video driver is a problem... I know that this would sound funny, but maybe if we contact the omega driver developer and ask him to pull this up, who knows???
this is his emai omegadrivers@gmail.com found in google



new post:
I`ve send a message to omegadrivers so we will wait and see what will happen

I myself tried this, along with backing up every file I replaced. Seems to load normally, but something came up with the loginwindow application that crashes it. It may be that my loginwindow application wasn't backed up and replaced by the 10.4.9 combo update I had, I'm not sure, but I do know that it doesn't work for my X1400.

UP!

Still no progress for X1300 mobility? I need change the res....

I think there will never be any solution for the res change to widescreen...

widescreen
the pain of my mobility x1300

Really, there's going to be no solution at all unless someone is smart enough to implement LVDS detection for the Caretta driver in the ATInject kernel extension.

The Wormy driver is the only driver that has this capability of LVDS detection, which is the function that detects a laptop's internal LCD screen. However, that only works for the X1600 models and up. It has no backwards compatibility, otherwise, this problem would have been solved by now.

If anyone wants to try that, go ahead. I'd love to see something more than a stretched 1024x768 on my Tablet PC.

still no solution?

the only thing i managed to obtain tryin different solutions and both the toh and brazilmac distros is that i'm still stuck with no widescreen ( 1024x768 max9 and minor mouse tearing...). X1400 is a damnation...ATI IS A DAMNATION and not only for osx86 users..................

3d acceleration works fine though =) oh dear..eheheh

i guess we have no hope...anyone?????????

what is your "mobility x1300" device ID?

has anyone ever thought of combining code from different drivers?
i personally have everything "working" by editing the ATIRadeonX1000 kext.
but i think since there is a X1300 kext out there, why not add in the LDVS detection from another kext?
just sounds reasonable.

of course, i dunno much about coding. jsut a thought though.

Perhaps, but that requires the source code of the ATY_* drivers, none of which I've been able to find. Otherwise, I'd have tried for the LVDS implementation myself.

Your signature says that you have x1400 fully functional with NatitX1300.kext? Is this true?

Would it be possible to flash a X1400 to a X1600? because the only fundamental changes are core clock and memory mhz if I'm right?

Mobility.kext works for CI software enabled.

The biggest problem is resolution, and i don't think we'll ever see that working for x1400 guys. So probably when i get my next laptop.

I'm really pleased with x1400 working after editing ATIRadeonX1000.
Quartz & CI enabled, mouse locator cures tearing, but:

1) no any screen saver working
2) can't start windows under parallels - parallels window begin to glitch... but as I guess windows stars under it, but could not be shown in that window due to graphic card errors...

screen saver is not a true problem, but parallels is...
any1 managed to run XP under it (or may be VMWare), while using x1400?
Crossover does not help, because I offten need Microsoft Visual Studio...

Thats strange cause my x1400 mobility works well with screensaver and parallels though vmfusion not work.

Another dissapointed gateway osx86 user. Followed every guide on the internet and cannot force 1280x768x32 res. Enabled quartz with artifacting. Currently using gateway cx210x. No sound, no wireless, no power management. None of this bothers me until I can get the resolution to change to be correct as I cannot stand 1024x768 default. I have tried just about everything but cannot get resolution to be forced with x1400...if anyone can get this working properly I would gladly donate 20$ to their paypal account for their efforts. My email is 87boosted@gmail.com if anyone gets this working properly or can explain to me how to force the resolution...

The card is fully functional to the extent of the Caretta drivers, which doesn't do much. You'll notice I put my LCD screen in there under partial support, seeing that it only has VESA mode.

This is perhaps a dumb question, but I am wondering whether one could extrapolate from Linux solutions to ATI problems. I currently have XP and Ubuntu and I had to fiddle quite a bit to get my x1400 to work at 1680x1050 under the latter. Previously, I had a ATI 200M, which caused even more problems. What makes the OSX case vastly different from Linux? I know there are additional layers in OSX, but does the driver interact with the operating system at these levels rather than the base Unix level?

I have been following the thread for a while. Thanks to everyone who advanced the debate.

I think the main problem with using the linux driver is that that the linux driver is dependent on the linux kernel installed. OSX runs on a proprietary kernel.

Darwin is Unix, not Linux. The way that a Linux kernel and Darwin kernel handle drivers are different (Darwin using kernel extensions).

To fiddle with the Caretta driver is to pretty much rewrite it, as you can't put in any values into the plist to enable an LVDS feature it doesn't have.

Thank you. Both of your answers were quite helpful. Then, I wonder, would that mean something could be done with, say, FreeBSD drivers?

one little update here...

i didnt use my leopard on the dell inspiron 6400(x1300 mobility) for a month or so.
in this time i think i did a bios update which does now a nice trick :-)
after i booted up into leopard now my screen is stretched to fit the screen. its still 1024x768 BUT there are no black bars on both sides ;-)

Anybody has the ability and interest can try to port the linux driver RaedonHD to OSX. The major work should be figuring out how to replace the xf86 functions with IOKit stuff. As read and write to display via i2c is not very clear for ATI card, we may not be able to fulfill this part of function, but the possibility of porting the resolution switch part should be large.