ATI x1600 under 10.4.6

[minko]

Hy all.

 

Now there are a few people that have updated to 10.4.6! I have to and my Graphikcard GMA900 isen't supported there. My question, does the same happens with the x1600, any experience yet? I want to buy a saphiere, and want to know.

 

Today I have tested a sapphire x1600 pro with 512MB. But there was no chance to run it corectley (changed the id in the atix1000.kext), I think because of the 512 memory inside, but dunno exactley..

 

Let me know

 

PS: Or is there an other .kext for this card around? I have read there are modified .kext for sapphire cards!!??

[dewdoobrown]

I am waiting for my hackintosh to come in the mail, it should be here tomorrow! I have bought the same card too. Once my box get here, I will help you. Can u tell me what is ur device id's are. Mean while I can try patching some kext files manually/hexedit and pass them along to ya to test

[minko]

Here they are:

 

0x71c21002 .. do you need more?! :-) thanks for your help. Hey, your hackintosh you mean a pc - where you put in this card?

 

PS: Should I return the x1600pro 512mb and take the 256mb card?

[dewdoobrown]

email me at samuelATkents.mine.nu

[fasthonda450r]

I would appreciate some help with QI QE to work in ati x1600 card

[Alexiase]

try a lot of things

finally I update to 10,4,6

here is the result

 

then went to the

/Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration

with nano I edited the com.apple.Boot.plist

 

in console mode (sudo -s ...... password)

 

cd /Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration

nano com.apple.Boot.plist

 

I added

 

just under the line <key>Kernel Flags</key>

<string>-v "Graphics Mode"="1280x1024x32"</string>

 

then CTRL X type Y to accept writing

 

I restored access right with

chmod -R 755 com.apple.Boot.plist

at least

chown -R root:wheel com.apple.Boot.plist

 

reboot good luck

 

Type : Contrôleur compatible VGA

Bus : PCIe

Logement : PCIEX16_2

VRAM (totale) : 256 Mo

Fournisseur : ATI (0x1002)

Identifiant du périphérique : 0x71c2

Identifiant de révision : 0x0000

Moniteurs :

Moniteur de type inconnu :

Résolution : 1280 x 1024

Profondeur : Couleurs 32 bits

Core Image : Géré

Moniteur principal : Oui

Miroir : Désactivé

Connecté : Oui

Quartz Extreme : Géré (mean supported in french)

[minko]

I had to change the com.Apple.boot, now it locks good, but I have Mouse artifacts and in System Profiler it shows me only 256MB.

Is there a simply way that my system recognize the full memory?

And whats about the Mouse artifacts? Alexiase, do you got this too?

 

here my xbench results (I must confess, it's not that good I thought):

 

Results 106.90

System Info

Xbench Version 1.2

System Version 10.4.6 (8I1119)

Physical RAM 1024 MB

Model ADP2,1

Drive Type SAMSUNG SP2004C

Quartz Graphics Test 90.44

Line 93.54 6.23 Klines/sec [50% alpha]

Rectangle 71.15 21.24 Krects/sec [50% alpha]

Circle 68.24 5.56 Kcircles/sec [50% alpha]

Bezier 87.21 2.20 Kbeziers/sec [50% alpha]

Text 226.28 14.16 Kchars/sec

OpenGL Graphics Test 125.34

Spinning Squares 125.34 159.00 frames/sec

User Interface Test 110.77

Elements 110.77 508.38 refresh/sec

[dewdoobrown]

Just a couple of questions? Using itunes visualizer can it display full screen? Also, how BAD is the mouse artifacts? Can anyone take any screen shots. I SHOULD be receiving my box today...just CANT WAIT!

[c0nfused]

For me mouse artifacts occur when you are scrolling a page using a scroll wheel. It just leaves a trail of mouse pointers as you scroll. The mouse also becomes completely unusable when you exit a fullscreen OpenGL game (like Warcraft 3).

[dewdoobrown]

Does the tearing occur with Mouse Locator or Mousepose when u exit games? How about fullscreen visualizer (itunes) or screensavers?