Jump to content

borisbadenov ATI X1000-series Solution


RobNyc
 Share

1,381 posts in this topic

Recommended Posts

Hi all

 

i tried with my card XT 850 PE with CINEMA DISPLAY APPLE 23 it doesnt works

but with koverg patch just Qi and CE works but no resolution

 

i m gone to buy a xt 1600 tomorow

Link to comment
Share on other sites

I know it´s kinda offtopic, but it´s not easy to see a post with this information. I also got this Q2E Supported on my x800 card. What does it do? Any banetfits?

 

For Quartz 2D Extreme support yo just need to enable it. i have been tel that it make the mac inestable, so i havent tested it, for mor info search for enable quartz 2d extreme and try it :)

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Hi all

 

i tried with my card XT 850 PE with CINEMA DISPLAY APPLE 23 it doesnt works

but with koverg patch just Qi and CE works but no resolution

 

i m gone to buy a xt 1600 tomorow

 

 

DON'T!!! CD 23" and x1600 cards don't play well together! I posted my results with this on the forum--search for cinema display and x1600.

Link to comment
Share on other sites

for u guys having a 9XXX u should try renaming ur kext and file into the kext to X1000 and see if ATINDRV works with it

ie : drag and drop ATIRadeon9700GA.plugin's contents (only the exec file not the plist!! and rename it to match ATIRadeonX1000) into ATIRadeonX1000GA.plugin and same thing for ATIRadeon9700.kext and contains, cause ive seen ATINDRV seek for ATIRadeonX1000

 

u see what i mean?

Link to comment
Share on other sites

I got my x1600 and everything is working well,thanks for the great work borisbadenov

Display:

 

Type: ATI Radeon X1600 Pro <-- I edited this osx does not see the true card

Bus: AGP <--- I edited this also,osx does not see it as agp

VRAM (Total): 256 MB

Vendor: ATI (0x1002)

Device ID: 0x71c2

Revision ID: 0x0000

Displays:

VGA Display:

Resolution: 1280 x 1024 @ 75 Hz

Depth: 32-bit Color

Core Image: Supported

Main Display: Yes

Mirror: Off

Online: Yes

Quartz 2D Extreme: Supported

Quartz Extreme: Supported

Rotation: Supported

Display:

Resolution: 1024 x 768

Depth: 32-bit Color

Core Image: Supported

Mirror: Off

Online: Yes

Quartz 2D Extreme: Supported

Quartz Extreme: Supported

 

How did you edit the names?

And how did you get Q2DE ?

Link to comment
Share on other sites

for u guys having a 9XXX u should try renaming ur kext and file into the kext to X1000 and see if ATINDRV works with it

ie : drag and drop ATIRadeon9700GA.plugin's contents (only the exec file not the plist!! and rename it to match ATIRadeonX1000) into ATIRadeonX1000GA.plugin and same thing for ATIRadeon9700.kext and contains, cause ive seen ATINDRV seek for ATIRadeonX1000

 

u see what i mean?

That's an interesting idea... I don't think it'll work though but I'll give it a shot anyway...

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Cyclonefr, I tried to make boris' trick on my 9700 kext (wich is known to be OK for my X300) and I got a black screen with some white vertical lines. I doubt the x1000 kext is compatible with 9XXX (and some Xxxx) but it worths a try

Link to comment
Share on other sites

To answer you question, yes.

 

I have noticed that my GUI is much fatser, more responsive. Also, with games like Civilization 3, Call of Duty, Rise of Nations, I can play full screen, full resolution om all games and not a glitch at all. I had a friend play CoD last night, did not let him know it was on my OSX86 til we finished the game, he was amazed. Always with my GMA900, it was a bit sluggish and never when settings were pushed to the max. The only downside so far is a longer boot time; it is now as long as XP, gasp!!!

Hey Boris, so how's Natasha? :angel: Have you compared the performance in XP and OS X of, say, CoD? I know that, with my card, everything is working in OS X, but not nearly as fast as in XP. For example, I'm able to run UT 2004 at 1920x1080 with all detail settings maxed in XP, but barely get a slideshow in OS X (interestingly, but not surprisingly, it doesn't matter what detail settings are used in OS X - the game is equally slow regardless :hysterical: ).

 

Regarding the boot speed: I bet it's the video driver and not the hacks, or even trying to get this all to work on an unsupported platform. If you recall how long it takes one of the new iMacs to load, it's pretty much in line with what you are experiencing. I've always wondered why they take so long, seeing as how my system boots in, like, 11 seconds.

Link to comment
Share on other sites

I just had to try this method out myself with my 30" LCD.

I was hoping to get the full qe/ci support with 2560x1600 resolution, but

No go for my x1600pro(PCI-E 256MB GDDR3), just a black screen via dvi connection.

 

I clean installed Myzar's 10.4.5, did exactly what boris suggested.

 

So, I took out the card and plugged it into another system(AMD Nforce4 ultra chipset)

Using 10.4.5 kexts, applied the boris method and the same dreaded black screen. :)

 

Down to my last option, I tried d-sub cable(NEC 20" lcd monitor has both dvi and d-sub inputs)

and..there it is..a beautiful finder at 1600x1200x32 resolution without any mouse tearing what so ever :censored2:

It's not a pure digital stream but, it's surprisingly sharp enough to read a small font.

 

I am very grateful for all this (BIG thanks to Boris, of course :D ), but at the same time

I just can't help but wondering what would cause dvi output non-functioning for some

and perfectly functioning for others :blink:

Link to comment
Share on other sites

I just bought a Sapphire ATI Radeon X1600XT 256MB PCI-E on ebay because in the Wiki it says it fully supported out of the box. whats up! is this true?? its in the video card 10.4.5 wiki

Link to comment
Share on other sites

I just bought a Sapphire ATI Radeon X1600XT 256MB PCI-E on ebay because in the Wiki it says it fully supported out of the box. whats up! is this true?? its in the video card 10.4.5 wiki

 

Oh come on, somebody please gimme a gun!

Isn't there a shoot-yourself-in-the-head icon?

 

:)

Link to comment
Share on other sites

How is your display recognized??

 

On a real MBP :

 

"ATIEnableWideBlitSupport" = Yes

"ATIUseTearingWideBlit" = No

"ATY,EFIDisplay" = <"LVDS">

"display-type" = <"LCD">

"LVDS,EDID" = <00ffffffffffff000610569c0000000004100103802216780a87f594574f8c272750540000000

0101010101010101010101010101019f25a04051840c30402033004bcf1000001900000001000610

000000000000000000a20000000fe004c544e31353458370000000a20000000fc00436f6c6f72204

43440a20202000d5>

 

You know if it's possible to "tune" this settings? Maybe from the PLIST?

 

Like:

<key>ATIEnableWideBlitSupport</key>

<true/>

<key>ATIUseTearingWideBlit</key>

<false/>

 

Maybe other settings work :)

Link to comment
Share on other sites

How is your display recognized??

 

On a real MBP :

 

"ATIEnableWideBlitSupport" = Yes

"ATIUseTearingWideBlit" = No

"ATY,EFIDisplay" = <"LVDS">

"display-type" = <"LCD">

"LVDS,EDID" = <00ffffffffffff000610569c0000000004100103802216780a87f594574f8c272750540000000

0101010101010101010101010101019f25a04051840c30402033004bcf1000001900000001000610

000000000000000000a20000000fe004c544e31353458370000000a20000000fc00436f6c6f72204

43440a20202000d5>

 

is that from system profiler? or ioreg?

Link to comment
Share on other sites

i have tried it with x1400 mobility keep getting kernal panics....!!! still no help from u guys!!!its my third time that have posted about my problem!!

 

 

No luck for me either :) My laptop has an x1400. I tried replacing the device ids with the ones reported in Windows XP but no luck. I dont get kernel panics, but after loading the extensions the framebuffered screen turns to small thin lines and the screen turns off. Apparently unsupported settings. Wish someone comes up with a solution.

Link to comment
Share on other sites

well well well, i guess we can close this topic cause i dont see what we can add to this driver until real IMAC dont have dual display...and everything is working fine so...

 

btw anyone experienced (in my case 1 time every 10hours) a little video bug when scrolling pages such as 2 lines that get mixed together and it's fixed just by scrolling up and down...i guess it's the flash plugin that is not perfect.

Link to comment
Share on other sites

well well well, i guess we can close this topic cause i dont see what we can add to this driver until real IMAC dont have dual display...

 

Don't they have dual display?

 

Correct me if im worng but i've seen posts of ppl having extended desktop on Intel iMac's

 

Nuno Maia

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Guest
This topic is now closed to further replies.
 Share

×
×
  • Create New...