angst Posted March 1, 2006 Share Posted March 1, 2006 First of all, I've checked all over the wiki and google. The things I've tried from them do not work for me. I have a Dell Inspiron 8600 notebook with a GeForceFX 5200 (64mb) the display is a widescreen lcd. I downloaded from the macvidia site the kext for it and changed the plist file. I believe it's loaded fine. How do I get a better resolution? I editted the com.apple.Boot.plist file and have had no luck. I've tried 1280x800x32@60, 1280x800x32, 1280x960x32@60, 1280x960x32, 1280x1024x32@65, 1280x1024x32. None of those work. I also noticed when I'm in the System Preferences - Displays there are no "displays" loaded like I see in some people's. Any suggestions on a direction to go? The System Profiler says: GeForce FX Go5200: Chipset Model: GeForce FX Go5200 Type: VGA-Compatible Controller Bus: PCI Vendor: nVIDIA (0x10de) Device ID: 0x0324 Revision ID: 0x00a1 Kernel Extension Info: No Kext Loaded Displays: Display: Resolution: 1024 x 768 Depth: 32-bit Color Core Image: Not Supported Main Display: Yes Mirror: Off Online: Yes Quartz Extreme: Not Supported Here's my dmesg output: standard timeslicing quantum is 10000 us vm_page_bootstrap: 127089 free pages mig_table_max_displ = 70 CPU identification: Intel® Pentium® M processor 1.40GHz CPU features: FPU VME DE PSE TSC MSR MCE CX8 SEP MTRR PGE MCA CMOV PAT CLFSH DS ACPI MMX FXSR SSE SSE2 SS TM EST TM2 HTT: 0 core on a die; 0 logical cpu per core CPU extended features: Local APIC discovered and enabled Enabling XMM register save/restore and SSE/SSE2 opcodes battery clock configured [RTCLOCK] frequency 1400000000 (1398761280) PCI Ver=2.10 BusCount=3 Features=[ BIOS16 CM1 ] ACPI CA 20050408 [debug level=0 layer=0] Copyright © 1982, 1986, 1989, 1991, 1993 The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. using 655 buffer headers and 655 cluster IO buffer headers Security auditing service present BSM auditing present disabled From path: "uuid", Waiting for boot volume with UUID 7E906E26-88E1-3B54-B575-2C87CAB4325F Waiting on <dict ID="0"><key>IOProviderClass</key><string ID="1">IOResources</string><key>IOResourceMatch</key><string ID="2">boot-uuid-media</string></dict> ACPI: Supported S-states [s0 S3 S4 S5] (S3) AppleMTRRSupport: Enabled Write-Combining for memory range d0000000:400000 IOPCCard info: Intel PCIC probe: TI 4510 rev 02 extension "com.apple.iokit.IOGraphicsFamily" cannot be found can't determine immediate dependencies for extension com.free.driver.NVidia Can't determine dependencies for com.free.driver.NVidia. Couldn't alloc class "NVIDIA" AppleIntelPIIXPATA: ICH4 ATA/100 (CMD 0x170, CTR 0x374, IRQ 15, BM 0xbfa8) FireWire (OHCI) TI ID 8029 PCI now active, GUID 364fc000368340c1; max speed s400. AppleIntelPIIXPATA: ICH4 ATA/100 (CMD 0x1f0, CTR 0x3f4, IRQ 14, BM 0xbfa0) Got boot device = IOService:/AppleACPIPlatformExpert/PCI0@0/AppleACPIPCI/IDE0@1F,1/AppleIntelPIIXATARoot/PRI@0/AppleIntelPIIXPATA/ATADeviceNub@0/IOATABlockStorageDriver/IOATABlockStorageDevice/IOBlockStorageDriver/HTS548080M9AT00 Media/IOFDiskPartitionScheme/Untitled 3@3 BSD root: disk0s3, major 14, minor 2 Jettisoning kernel linker. Resetting IOCatalogue. VID: family specific matching fails Matching service count = 1 Matching service count = 3 Matching service count = 3 Matching service count = 3 Matching service count = 3 VID: stalling for module AirPort: failed to determine ram-size AirPort: allocated 64 clusters Matching service count = 1 VID: family specific matching fails VID: family specific matching fails NVIDIA::probe(VID) Found NVidia Chip NV: Found :64 MB Ram NV: Current Selected Head :0 NV: Write UnLock Start NV: Write UnLock Stop NV: Using DFP on CRTC i NV: Panel size is i x i NV: Panel is LVDS IPv6 packet filtering initialized, default to accept, logging disabled VID: vram [d0000000:10000000] Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/10638-1041-no-pae-and-display-resolution-stuck-at-1024x768/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
snowmen Posted March 2, 2006 Share Posted March 2, 2006 easiest way to go is... 1. Stick with XP or 2. Change to Linux or 3. Throw ur laptop to garbage and grab yourself a MacBook Pro. and 4. Please Search... I know the search function sux on the forum, but I can see "MacVidia" post at the first page of hardware and realized: Ah! There is no freeking nVidia driver yet! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/10638-1041-no-pae-and-display-resolution-stuck-at-1024x768/#findComment-66889 Share on other sites More sharing options...
angst Posted March 2, 2006 Author Share Posted March 2, 2006 I disagree, man. I've read through those posts and searched like crazy (google, too). I have seen others with Dell 8600's that claimed 1280x1024. I want something better than 1024x768. I have installed the macvidia driver, which people do claim work with my video card. I made the necessary changes to the plist file and I still can't change the resolution. Should I install more displays? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/10638-1041-no-pae-and-display-resolution-stuck-at-1024x768/#findComment-67382 Share on other sites More sharing options...
VaiOSX Posted March 2, 2006 Share Posted March 2, 2006 You can't actually change the resolution in the pref pane. But did you try to enter a different resolution at the darwin boot loader (without the @freq if your card is recognized as vesa 2.0) ? :Edit: if you want to know which resolution will be supported by your card you must type ?video at the boot loader. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/10638-1041-no-pae-and-display-resolution-stuck-at-1024x768/#findComment-67392 Share on other sites More sharing options...
angst Posted March 3, 2006 Author Share Posted March 3, 2006 It is Vesa 3.0, and lists from 320x240 - 1024x768. In windows I get 1280x960, and in linux I can get 1280x800. Bummer. Any ideas? Don't tell me to get a mac. Don't tell me to get a new computer (yet). Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/10638-1041-no-pae-and-display-resolution-stuck-at-1024x768/#findComment-67650 Share on other sites More sharing options...
VaiOSX Posted March 4, 2006 Share Posted March 4, 2006 I'm sorry to tell you this, but for now there is no way to get a widescreen resolution (16/9 or 16/10) with a NVIDIA or ATI graphics card on a Hackintosh. You can actually check the MACVIDIA project. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/10638-1041-no-pae-and-display-resolution-stuck-at-1024x768/#findComment-68397 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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