zebulla Posted March 17, 2006 Share Posted March 17, 2006 Hello! hope somebody has the time to help me out!! anyway I have a Dell latitude d600 with ati radeon mobility 9000.. I have osx 10.4.4. looking for a little guidance and help. here is my question: After installing osx 10.4.4 everything work pretty good.. I could get video working perfectly, however with the 8500.kext installed I can only get a max resolution of 1280x1024 (by forcing it through the "graphics mode"="1280x1024") this is with the .kext still installed.. this is fine but the text on my screen is fuzzy and somewhat irritating to look at.. though I still get working video. However when I try increasing the resolution to 1400x1050 the screen get impossible to read..not mouse tearing just boots then gets very jumbled.. However when I take away the ATI8500.kext and force the kernal flags to 1400x1050 it works fine.. however i dont get streaming video anymore.. which is a definate downside. I have even tried changing the resolution to different sizes and still no go. I have to have the ATIRadeon8500.kext installed inorder to get video. how do I force .kext into 1400x1050 resolution? is there a way I can reprogram the .kext myself inorder to get it to work? also, anyone have any suggestions on how to get the tv-out to work on this card through mac os? is there a way I can program in that as well? thanks in advance! ken Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/12263-problems-with-ati8500-kext-and-resolution/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarlboroEdo Posted March 17, 2006 Share Posted March 17, 2006 I'm afraid none of these things can be done. There are heavy problems with the apple's ati kext, so hold on like the others and hope for a future solution. More deep: No tv-out (never worked) No kext resolution force (because syply resolutions aren't hard-coded in the kext) You can only try changing "graphics mode", if it doesn't work, it doesn't work P.S. Please search the forum next time you have questions about graphics, there are tons of answers like these Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/12263-problems-with-ati8500-kext-and-resolution/#findComment-77282 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Suser Posted March 17, 2006 Share Posted March 17, 2006 I had the same issue. I downloaded the 10.4.4 extension package with ATI (can be found somewhere on the net) deleted all the ATI extension and copied the ones from the packages to the Extensions folder and now I have 1400x1050 pixels, no mouse tearing, no garbage when moving windows or scrolling in windows. The only thing is that it's a bit slower and the nice rotating cube is gone when switching to the login screen. I created a script to switch automatically between drivers and resolutions whenever I want the 3D thing or high resolution. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/12263-problems-with-ati8500-kext-and-resolution/#findComment-77522 Share on other sites More sharing options...
zebulla Posted March 17, 2006 Author Share Posted March 17, 2006 I had the same issue. I downloaded the 10.4.4 extension package with ATI (can be found somewhere on the net) deleted all the ATI extension and copied the ones from the packages to the Extensions folder and now I have 1400x1050 pixels, no mouse tearing, no garbage when moving windows or scrolling in windows. The only thing is that it's a bit slower and the nice rotating cube is gone when switching to the login screen. I created a script to switch automatically between drivers and resolutions whenever I want the 3D thing or high resolution. now where talking.. how did you build the script to change between resolutions? when I want to run films I have to reinstall the 8500.kext everytime then restart.. really a pain Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/12263-problems-with-ati8500-kext-and-resolution/#findComment-77633 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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