Monitor is not being recognised. [SOLVED]

iwannasave · October 5, 2008

Hello,

I am using iDeneb 1.3 OS X 10.5.5 DVD release which installed fine. Here is my hardware Config:

2.8 GHz Core 2 Duo, 2 GB RAM, GMA945G video Controller, Marvell Network 10/100/1000, Audio ALC662, Monitor ViewSonic 22 inches 1600x1200.

Once the installation is complete, I am unable to change the monitor resolution. It comes up as 1024x800 and has no other listing and the detect monitor button is greyed out.

While installing I did select Video Fix for GMA950/945 and the System Profiler does show GMA950.

So how do I get the monitor resolution fixed?

Please advise.

-IW

iwannasave · October 5, 2008

Got it solved.

Tried to use OSX86Tools, but it gave me a script error. So I edited that file manually (vi), with some help from OSX8Tools.

So now my com.apple.Boot.plist looks like this:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple Computer//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
<key>Kernel</key>
<string>mach_kernel</string>
<key>Kernel Flags</key>
<string>-v</string>
<key>Graphics Mode</key>
<string>1600x1200x32@60Hz</string>
<key>Timeout</key>
<string>10</string>
<key>device-properties</key>
<string>6d0000000100000001000000610000000200000002010c00d041030a01000000010106000002
fff0400100000006d006f00640065006c0000000b000000474d41203935302000000041004100500
4c002c00480061007300500061006e0065006c0000000800000001000000</string>
</dict>
</plist>

So now even though my resolution is fixed and cannot be changed, it looks and works great.

-IW