Elf Posted March 11, 2006 Share Posted March 11, 2006 Read a bunch of threads on ATI drivers but did not find any specific info about this... can someone give me some up to date infor on this? Thanks in advance! Elf. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/11729-any-drivers-for-ati-mobility-fire-gl-9000/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elf Posted March 17, 2006 Author Share Posted March 17, 2006 I did not see the exact card on the compat list... does anyone have any more info on this? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/11729-any-drivers-for-ati-mobility-fire-gl-9000/#findComment-77802 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elf Posted March 20, 2006 Author Share Posted March 20, 2006 This is my info: Type: VGA-Compatible Controller Bus: PCI VRAM (Total): 128 MB Vendor: ATI (0x1002) Device ID: 0x4c66 Revision ID: 0x0002 Displays: Display: Resolution: 1280 x 1024 Depth: 32-bit Color Core Image: Not Supported Main Display: Yes Mirror: Off Online: Yes Quartz Extreme: Not Supported Any news? Anyone with a Thinkpad T40p? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/11729-any-drivers-for-ati-mobility-fire-gl-9000/#findComment-79440 Share on other sites More sharing options...
maxx2097 Posted March 20, 2006 Share Posted March 20, 2006 No, your card ist not supported (same ID as the one in my Acer TM 800, though its no FireGL just a "normal" M9). The rule for supported cards is rather simple (based on the knowledge I gathered from this forum): - must be ATI 9600 (or greater) or Intel Integrated 900+ Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/11729-any-drivers-for-ati-mobility-fire-gl-9000/#findComment-79450 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elf Posted March 21, 2006 Author Share Posted March 21, 2006 Too bad... Thanks for the clarification. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/11729-any-drivers-for-ati-mobility-fire-gl-9000/#findComment-80054 Share on other sites More sharing options...
MCheiron Posted March 27, 2006 Share Posted March 27, 2006 Elf, I have the same card as you. I still hope that we will have more luck about the QE and CI support with a new ATI driver that seems to be in work by some really smart people here in the forum. Hopefully ours is in that driver. But maxx2097 might be right, too. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/11729-any-drivers-for-ati-mobility-fire-gl-9000/#findComment-83640 Share on other sites More sharing options...
maxx2097 Posted March 27, 2006 Share Posted March 27, 2006 I also have a hope for at least Video acceleration (you can already get this with 10.4.1 drivers, as I read. But this limits resolution to 1280x1024, what is not the native resolution of my display). QE should be theoretically possible. CI is out of sight, since this card doesnt offer the hardware capabilities for CI. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/11729-any-drivers-for-ati-mobility-fire-gl-9000/#findComment-83769 Share on other sites More sharing options...
MCheiron Posted April 1, 2006 Share Posted April 1, 2006 I didn't know that CI is not possible, thanks for the information. Is there any way to get QE running and would that be enough for Keynote to work? Right now the Inspector in Keynote 06 is not working. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/11729-any-drivers-for-ati-mobility-fire-gl-9000/#findComment-87061 Share on other sites More sharing options...
maxx2097 Posted April 1, 2006 Share Posted April 1, 2006 CI needs hardware shaders that are not available on ATI < 9600 (well... 9550 has it). Until now, there is no solution to get QE running on ATI cards below 9600. But theoretically this should be possible (it is enabled on PPC Macs equipped with these cards). For Keynote to run, you could try to enable (hardware) OpenGL following the instructions in this thread: http://forum.osx86project.org/index.php?showtopic=11134 For an ATI 9000 you should use/modify the ATIRadeon8500.kext instead of the ATIRadeon.kext, but I dont know if this will work... just try it The reason, why I didnt try this for now was that Im limited to 1280x1024 (using boot.plist or kernel option) when I activate the kext for my card and I cannot work with the native resolution of my display. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/11729-any-drivers-for-ati-mobility-fire-gl-9000/#findComment-87239 Share on other sites More sharing options...
dio Posted April 1, 2006 Share Posted April 1, 2006 Hello, I don't know the specification of this fire Gl but I have an ati Fire gl Z1 in my desktop. And after adding the devide number and the other (scuse me I don't remember exactly the name, ...) in the atiradeon9700.kext she's running perfectly apart the change of resolution and refresh rate. I don't know on wich ATI radeon number chipset is based, but you can allways try. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/11729-any-drivers-for-ati-mobility-fire-gl-9000/#findComment-87249 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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