How to get 1440x900 on apple boot screen [nvidia]

[MGJulius]

Hey,

 

I currently have a 10.5.5 AMD rig with an nVidia 8600GT w/ 256MB RAM properly working with EFI strings.

 

However i've heard that you can edit the boot process resolution if you have your graphics working by EFI, but when i try to put in my graphics list

 

<key>Graphics Mode</key>
<string>1440x900x32</string>

 

it only goes to 1024x768 resolution.

 

I currently have it set to 1280x1024x32 but it would be awesome to get it to 1440x900 like on real macs.

 

Attached is a current settings of my graphics card in system profiler

 

Thanks in advance.

Graphics_1.tiff

[Denicio]

Hey,

 

I currently have a 10.5.5 AMD rig with an nVidia 8600GT w/ 256MB RAM properly working with EFI strings.

 

However i've heard that you can edit the boot process resolution if you have your graphics working by EFI, but when i try to put in my graphics list

 

<key>Graphics Mode</key>
<string>1440x900x32</string>

 

it only goes to 1024x768 resolution.

 

I currently have it set to 1280x1024x32 but it would be awesome to get it to 1440x900 like on real macs.

 

Attached is a current settings of my graphics card in system profiler

 

Thanks in advance.

 

Get SwitchResX and add 1440x900 resolution, but still I would like to know the answer for your problem as well. Because it would be cool not having to install an external application to do that.

[Azurael]

It's not possible while your GPU is in VESA mode (as opposed to the EFI framebuffer on a real MAC) unless the resolution you want is in your video card's BIOS (else it will resort to the nearest thing - I have 1920x1200 set in my com.Apple.Boot.plist and it auto-selects 1600x1200) and widescreen resolutions aren't usually.

 

You'll just have to live with pre-loginwindow graphics in the wrong resolution without 'real' EFI with a 'real' EFI graphics firmware.