quagmire Posted May 17, 2006 Share Posted May 17, 2006 just got 10.4.5 (myzar) working on my system: P4 3.0 ghz asus p4p800-vm ati radeon 9700 pro (128mb) I'm currently trying to get the video resolution set right before I tackle anything else. this is what is displayed in osx about graphics/displays: Display: Type: VGA-Compatible Controller Bus: PCI VRAM (Total): 128 MB Vendor: ATI (0x1002) Device ID: 0x4e45 Revision ID: 0x0000 Kernel Extension Info: No Kext Loaded Displays: Display: Resolution: 1024 x 768 Depth: 32-bit Color Core Image: Not Supported Main Display: Yes Mirror: Off Online: Yes Quartz Extreme: Not Supported how can I go about enabling 1280x1024 res? Any chance i can get QE/CI working? I've searched all over the forums for an answer but I havn't been able to find one. If you know of a thread please link to it. Thanks!!! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/17718-ati-9700-pro-only-displays-1024x768-need-help/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
quagmire Posted May 18, 2006 Author Share Posted May 18, 2006 ok... i switched over to vga instead of dvi and i got 1280x1024. Anyone know how to achieve this through dvi? or how to enable qe/ci or graphics acceleration? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/17718-ati-9700-pro-only-displays-1024x768-need-help/#findComment-114688 Share on other sites More sharing options...
quagmire Posted May 18, 2006 Author Share Posted May 18, 2006 man... after reading some of the other Ati threads its no wonder why nobody is posting any replys. well... rest assured that I will be COMPLETELY grateful for any help that I recieve :-). I've heard some people talking about editing the 9700kext to make their 9700 pro cards work with QE and CI, can anybody explain this process or point me in the right direction? Thanks Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/17718-ati-9700-pro-only-displays-1024x768-need-help/#findComment-114764 Share on other sites More sharing options...
rhodar Posted May 18, 2006 Share Posted May 18, 2006 no offence, but you havent read the forums very well, as its how i found out how to edit mine. Open up the atiradeon9700.kext open info.plist in textedit scroll down till you find a section where the vendor and device ids are (it will be something like 0x41531002 <- this is just an example) add the id of your video card, which acroding to your info up the top is 0x4e451002. Save the info.plist to your desktop, then drag and replace the old one in the atiradeon9700.kext. Press authenticate, type password. Then go into terminal and type; sudo -s (then enter your password) chmod -R 755 /System/Extensions/ATIRadeon9700.kext chown -R root:wheel /System/Extensions/ATIRadeon9700.kext kextload /System/Extensions/ATIRadeon9700.kext restart hope that helps, next time search a little hard rhodar Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/17718-ati-9700-pro-only-displays-1024x768-need-help/#findComment-114786 Share on other sites More sharing options...
quagmire Posted May 18, 2006 Author Share Posted May 18, 2006 No offence taken (but in my defense I did spend about 4-5 hours reading the forums trying to figure out how to do it). thanks a million! I have been trying to edit the .plist file but i did not know that you had to combine those two numbers to get the full vendor ID. QE and CI are now both enabled Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/17718-ati-9700-pro-only-displays-1024x768-need-help/#findComment-114812 Share on other sites More sharing options...
philter Posted August 15, 2006 Share Posted August 15, 2006 Did you get the resolution working with DVI? I am using dvi and have QE & and CI working, but only 1024x768 resolution. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/17718-ati-9700-pro-only-displays-1024x768-need-help/#findComment-166363 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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