borisbadenov Posted May 19, 2006 Share Posted May 19, 2006 I can help you out with that,Its looking for an offical apple display i.e lcd/crt Great So, what must we do? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JaS Posted May 19, 2006 Share Posted May 19, 2006 what i did was use DisplayconfigX to make a profile for my display,then renamed the display's plist to the true name of my lcd,now os x sees my monitor as an appl display & no more display matching failed ATI Radeon 9600 XT: Chipset Model: ATI Radeon 9600 XT Type: Display Bus: PCI VRAM (Total): 256 MB Vendor: ATI (0x1002) Device ID: 0x4152 Revision ID: 0x0000 Displays: Proview 17" LCD: Resolution: 1280 x 1024 @ 60 Hz Depth: 32-bit Color Core Image: Supported Main Display: Yes Mirror: Off Online: Yes Quartz Extreme: Supported here is a bit of my ioreg about my display "IODisplayPrefsKey" = "IOService:/AppleACPIPlatformExpert/PCI0@0/AppleACPIPCI/P0P1@1/IOPCI2PCIBridge/display@0/OMNI,CALLISTO/CallistoFB/display0/AppleDisplay-756e6b6e-130000" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
borisbadenov Posted May 19, 2006 Share Posted May 19, 2006 what i did was use DisplayconfigX to make a profile for my display,then renamed the display's plist to the true name of my lcd,now os x sees my monitor as an appl display & no more display matching failed Cool, I am going to try that no. No chance of having a space serail laying around. Hate to buy it and it not work HEy JaS, I tried ytour fix but could you be just a bit clearer for me? Sorry. Specifically, I want to try to just edit my display plist and see if that will stop family errors Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FaitH Posted May 19, 2006 Share Posted May 19, 2006 whoaaaaa.. Thats it.. Thank you Boris... you are an BTW ...Sapphire X1600pro... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snollygoster Posted May 19, 2006 Share Posted May 19, 2006 How do you rename the display's plist? Can you give detailed info? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RobNyc Posted May 19, 2006 Author Share Posted May 19, 2006 It's halarious how now all these X1600 users come out of the closet lol . Now join the channels to help others please Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snollygoster Posted May 19, 2006 Share Posted May 19, 2006 It's halarious how now all these X1600 users come out of the closet lol . Now join the channels to help others please Of course we will. As you can see I am a happy X1600 Pro user but I asked if we can decompile-edit-recompile the binary part of the kext to make the rest of ATI users happy... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hagar Posted May 19, 2006 Share Posted May 19, 2006 I deleted a couple of posts for legibility, I hope that is OK with everyone Keep up the excellent work! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moseschrist Posted May 19, 2006 Share Posted May 19, 2006 found something interesting... i think... i've manged to get ATINDRV.kext to load up without the vertical lines by using the callisto drivers... QE/CI didn't work if you wonder but the strange thing is that ATINDRV unloaded itself a couple of minutes after bootup ! maybe somekind of incompatability with callisto or maybe even the dependencies thing we get when we try to load it manually... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
munky Posted May 19, 2006 Share Posted May 19, 2006 update on the X1800 situation : installed myzar 10.4.4 (the 10.4.4/5 disc with the 10.4.5 update disabled) - boots to black screen going to try installing with 10.4.5 now. after that im going to look into hex editing the kext files. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
borisbadenov Posted May 19, 2006 Share Posted May 19, 2006 JaS, I tried your trick a few times, no luck, But on my system profile, I can see that my correct display is listed but it does not list my chipset. Also, in doing this, have you noticed any faster booting times? Maybe I am just missing something? Let me know when you can and good luck on your install when you get the card. what i did was use DisplayconfigX to make a profile for my display,then renamed the display's plist to the true name of my lcd,now os x sees my monitor as an appl display & no more display matching failed ATI Radeon 9600 XT: Chipset Model: ATI Radeon 9600 XT Type: Display Bus: PCI VRAM (Total): 256 MB Vendor: ATI (0x1002) Device ID: 0x4152 Revision ID: 0x0000 Displays: Proview 17" LCD: Resolution: 1280 x 1024 @ 60 Hz Depth: 32-bit Color Core Image: Supported Main Display: Yes Mirror: Off Online: Yes Quartz Extreme: Supported here is a bit of my ioreg about my display "IODisplayPrefsKey" = "IOService:/AppleACPIPlatformExpert/PCI0@0/AppleACPIPCI/P0P1@1/IOPCI2PCIBridge/display@0/OMNI,CALLISTO/CallistoFB/display0/AppleDisplay-756e6b6e-130000" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wig72 Posted May 19, 2006 Share Posted May 19, 2006 First at all big thanx to Boris - Great work ! Sorry for the annoying repetition, but has anybody fixed the dvi output ? Since I've used Boris method my dvi signal has gone after bootscreen. VGA output (adapter dvi to vga) works fine. Display : Dell LCD 1902FP, Graphics 3d-club ATI X1600 Pro 256mb. Thanks for your reply, best rgds., Wig Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deetman Posted May 19, 2006 Share Posted May 19, 2006 I'm going to go out on a limb here and I have no evidence to back it up, but I believe that the card is still not FULLY supported. It is damn close to being fully supported, but the lack of DVI output along with proper card not showing up in System Profiler, along with a few other things lead me to believe this. With some investigation, I think we can get this as close to how the cards on real Macs work as possible, especially the PCIe users. EDIT: More evidence to indicate not truly full support. In iTunes using visualization, any 2D effect unfocusing from the window such as a preferences window or finder causes an extreme drop in framerate along with the Apple/Song Info fade out effect used. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
munky Posted May 19, 2006 Share Posted May 19, 2006 Ladies and Gentlemen, Boys and Girls... I am {censored} VINDICATED. It works! Installed 10.4.5 Myzar disc WITH the 10.4.5 update applied boris's method rebooted - boom - full QE, CI, OpenGL, res changing, refresh rate changing, rotation etc checkout my sig for my setup - but this baby *WORKS* on an X1800 BORIS YOU ARE A STAR. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EdFlyer Posted May 19, 2006 Share Posted May 19, 2006 Congrats munky. Did you update to 10.4.6? and if so how did you do it (ie what version from who that did what kinda things) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
munky Posted May 19, 2006 Share Posted May 19, 2006 hi, not yet - just installed myzar's 10.4.5 and tried the boris solution. here's my proof pic: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
borisbadenov Posted May 19, 2006 Share Posted May 19, 2006 Munky, glad to hear that you have gotten your X1800 card to work. I see so many others out here with that card but no luck. What did you do differently? I do have to agree with Deetman, his observations are corrent though. SInce I do not use visualizations in iTunes, I did not notice but there are a few bugs still. I would like to have it post the card info too in System Profiler; working on that. I'm open to all ideas. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
munky Posted May 19, 2006 Share Posted May 19, 2006 i think if i do update to 10.4.6 i will be using quixos' manual method and being VERY careful about what i install. if i screw it up i'll just stick with 10.4.5 glad i persevered with this now.. EdFlyer: to answer your question about what versions etc... i did nothing clever. i just installed myzar's 10.4.4/5 disc and then applied boris' method. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deetman Posted May 19, 2006 Share Posted May 19, 2006 For faster/live discussion of this topic I have created #osx86.gfx on irc.macspeak.net Come join us... who knows what will happen! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
munky Posted May 19, 2006 Share Posted May 19, 2006 well, for now im calling it a night im afraid. good to end on a high note Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moseschrist Posted May 19, 2006 Share Posted May 19, 2006 just a qustion... for those who cant use this method because of the DVI connection... what exactly is the problem ? you get the vertical lines after boot ? i'm asking that since my laptop uses DVI connection for it's screen and a normat VGA connector for the outer world... now i wanted to know if the problem i'm having is due to the DVI connector or due to the non supported GPU (radeon 7500) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adalbertoma Posted May 20, 2006 Share Posted May 20, 2006 I really feel so excited for all you guys who could get this method to work. Any chance to patch this method for X800 series? Getting desperate here... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wig72 Posted May 20, 2006 Share Posted May 20, 2006 @moseschrist: No vertical lines after boot. Trying to boot with DVI connection results in a black screen after log in. No graphical crashes or something else. Booting with DVI to VGA works perfect, except the 4 to 5 times longer boot time as before applied Boris patch. In System Profiler the LCD is recognized as a VGA Monitor. Trying to boot in verbose Mode shows several "error messages" Display....not found. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moseschrist Posted May 20, 2006 Share Posted May 20, 2006 too bad i didn't read it before... i tried again with an external LCD which uses a VGA connector... no luck on my old dying radeon 7500 mobility... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ohpossum Posted May 20, 2006 Share Posted May 20, 2006 Munky, glad to hear that you have gotten your X1800 card to work. I see so many others out here with that card but no luck. What did you do differently? I do have to agree with Deetman, his observations are corrent though. SInce I do not use visualizations in iTunes, I did not notice but there are a few bugs still. I would like to have it post the card info too in System Profiler; working on that. I'm open to all ideas. Since you've bypassed the whole IOPCIDevice discovery by matching on "display" instead of whatever the card's real name is (if it even outputs a name at all), I'm thinking that it won't be easy to have the system recognize the card. If I understand whats happening, you've tricked ATINDRV into loading even those there is no "ATY, Wormy" hardware by matching on anything with the PCI name "display". Therefore the whole process where the card gets discovered is skipped (and needed to be skipped in order for it to work). ATINDRV is a good, but very, very simple framebuffer for x1600/x1800 series cards. With each new update, Apple restricts the hardware a little bit more, so I guess it makes sense that Munky's x1800 works under 10.4.5, but not 10.4.6 I wish someone with some real knowledge of IOKit graphics could chime in.. op EDIT: I think my terminology has been all wrong. I've mixed Framebuffer for Driver. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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