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[HowTo] X1600/X1800 Full Support (Borisbadenov Method)


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hello everybody...

 

Again I post, i am desperate.....

I'm using Jas 10.4.6

It's one week i'm tryin Boris's method, neophus patcher or the

sudo pico /Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/com.apple.Boot.plist

- Ajouter dans le fichier les lignes suivantes:

<key>Graphics Mode</key>

<string>1280x8OOx32</string> method

to get a 1280x800 resolution on my laptop ASUS A6JA....

 

 

i tried all methods before and after installing Jas updates to 10.4.7

with boris' manual method,

i get first a vertical striped (black and grey) screen, then blackscreen, no signal on any out of the ATI X1600 card....

 

with neophus patcher,

i get black sreen, no signal on any out of the ATI X1600 card....

 

with the third method (<key>Graphics Mode</key> <string>1280x8OOx32</string>)

i get long serie of lines during the booting that end up with something like:

 

appleHDA.kext failed to load unable to locate"lay out ID"property

 

then screen blinking total panic!!

 

all works ok except this f...in' resolution..

i have internet thru a linksys USB200M

bluetooth dongle ok

some problems with the keyboard (no @) !!!!!

only printer recognized on my Epson scanner/printer

not able to get wireless workin, even with 2 different PCMCIA cards.... and a dongle..

 

ANYBODY HEARD ABOUT CALLISTO DRIVER??

can u post anything about it??

i googled and find them but they were useless to me as i didn't know what to do with them

dont have them no more nor remember the version..

any help on that or any other method to get that bl...y resolution 1280x800!!!!

a member pmed me about it then no news....

I don't know if this has been figured out yet, but it was news to me, and I've been working to try and get my laptop's screen to work at 1920x1200x32.

 

Both the boris method and the installer provided by NeoPheus would ultimately make it impossible for me to get into OS X using my laptop's monitor, which is a fairly nice widescreen LCD. I know that a lot of people don't want to try this method because it disables their laptop's monitor.

 

I cannot remember what gave me the idea, I thought maybe if OS X only loaded the ATIRadeonx1000 kexts and removed the ATINDRV.kext that maybe I'd have some success. And in fact, I found that if you take out ATINDRV.kext, laptop users can use their laptop screens. OS X will boot using the laptop's screen with Quartz Extreme and Core Image enabled. It does not give you any other resolution options, however.

 

So the next big thing I'm wondering if people can help me out with... is there a way to edit ATINDRV.kext in such a way that doesn't default it to a monitor (ie. using our native laptop screens), and yet, still allow us to change resolutions?

thanks a lot cyclonefr...

even if its a sad news to me....

 

what i dont understand is that i dont even get graphics on external display....

 

so after all i m not that dumb...

it is not possible so far to solve the resolution problem with ATI X1000 mobility...what a pity.. the rest works quite ok...

i hope someone solves it anyway in the near future,

counting on youse little geniuses!!

aaaaaaaaaargh its frustrating !!

I thought being the same graphic card as on the mac pro it would be possible... big mistake...

I have 10.4.6 Hotiso version installed

Video card = Sapphire X1600 pro 512

Mobo = Intel D915PBL

 

Following installation of the latest installer after grey screen with apple

screen goes black

 

I tried the deinstaller but with no luck.

 

Do I reinstall the MacOS?

I tried Callisto 008 for my card: X850XTPE but my system detect only my VGA with the resolusions I can change, no QE&CI, no OpenGL!

Now I'd like to try "Borisbadenov Method" with my X850 XTPE, What is your idea? Should or not?

ok i got my ati x1900xt working here is what i did to get it working

 

quick guide

 

enter su mode in terminal

go to /system/library directory

backup "Frameworks" and "Extensions" directory respectively

add the contents of the Extensions_10.4.7_Disabled directory to the extensions directory

replace the opengl.framework in frameworks with the one in the Frameworks_10.4.7_Disabled directory

 

update kext cache and restart

 

what i did step by step

 

fresh install 10.4.6 jaz

install 10.4.7 update on 1st boot

when prompted to restart kill installer using applications/utilities/Activinity monitor

 

bring up terminal and enter the following bold commands

 

su root

cd /System/Library

cp -R Extensions ./Extensions.bk //backup extensions directory

cp -R Frameworks ./Frameworks.bk //backup frameworks directory

 

cp -R Extensions_10.4.7_Disabled/* ./Extensions //add additionaly extensions

cp -R Frameworks_10.4.7_Disabled/* ./Frameworks //replace opengl framework

 

installed nforce4 forcedeth lan driver and updated kesh cashe and restarted and it worked.

 

full qe and ci, guna post a screen shot later on. T.T

post-22250-1157354844_thumb.jpg

I'm not having luck with Sapphire X1600xt 256mb.

 

 

Motherboard:

Gigabyte GA-965P-DS3

OS Version:

10.4.6 Jas

 

I've tried Neophus installer twice. I get half blue screen, half blank with the mouse pointer.

 

I've tried Badenov method manually.

 

When I repairPermissions, I get the following:

 

./Users/Shared/SC Info does not exist

 

Could that have anything to do with it or is it normal?

I tried borisbadenov yet again on a clean install of JaS 10.4.7

 

The original instructions for running the deinstall script did not work for me

 

When I entered

./deinstallscript

 

I received a permission error so then I tried

 

sudo -s ./deinstallscript

 

and the deinstaller worked for me and I was able to boot back into MacOSX

 

Hope this helps others - but the Sapphire x1600 pro is still not working - sadly

Hi, i bought an ATI Radeon X1600 Pro, i installed JaS 10.4.6, did the boris method and mac os x starts to boot but at the login window it just displays a Blue Screen, this reminds me of the GMA 900 (Second monitor problem) on laptops, i think the driver loaded fine (if not i would have garbage on the screen right?)... anyway i connected a monitor to the vga output later to the dvi output and later on both and i just see the blue screen... i think maybe mac os x is getting confused with the layout or arrangement of displays, if so is there any way to change the arrangement of displays from the terminal?? maybe some plist???

 

have anyone had similar problems?

 

i bought ATI X1600 because i had problems finding Saphire X1600 here in Mexico...

 

thanx

at the login window it just displays a Blue Screen... think maybe mac os x is getting confused with the layout or arrangement of displays, if so is there any way to change the arrangement of displays from the terminal?? maybe some plist???

You can try deleting the preferences for your display: http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?s=&...st&p=185272

I'm one of the lucky ones who did the borisbadenov patch manually and now have resolution switching and so on, as well as full GUI accelleration support. I have an MSI RX1600XT, so two DVIs and one SVHS out. I also have two screens: one TFT 19", using DVI and a CRT 21" using the DVI2VGA adapter. Both work, but not at once.

 

So if there's any progress with dual screen in this area, I'd be very glad to hear about it.

 

If I can help with anything or test anything, I'll also be glad to do that

 

:D

OK - I am just unlucky or something.

Maybe it is my motherboard - an Intel D915PBLL.

 

I now have the Asus EAX1600XT - the 'perfect card'

And still the same shiit - goes to black - and I try VGA then DVI to VGA and still nothing.

 

Is there some special settings in BIOS that I need to set up?

 

Before running boris automated - in the About this Mac - it shows the card and it shows that QE and CI are supported. Shows up as 71c2 (as did my Sapphire x1600 pro). Running clean install of JaS 10.4.7. I did not put in x1600 support during install. After inserting card and seeing that it works then I ran the boris automated.

 

I will post the rest at

http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showtopic=23809

This is the discussion thread for the EAX1600

You can try deleting the preferences for your display:

 

i booted in single user mode but i have no com.apple.windowserver.plist ... in Library/Preferences and /Users/me/Library/Preferences,

 

im almost sure im having the same problem as the guy you said... but wasnt ATI Radeon X1600 Pro fully supported? or just saphire? i also flashed my card bios with the Sapphire X1600XT bios, but it didnt worked, i had to reflash it again with the original one...

 

can you please post your windowserer.plist? , maybe i can edit it...

  • 2 weeks later...

If you are having trouble getting your x1600xt to work in OS X please visit this thread:

 

http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showtopic=25405

 

We still have not found a way to get new sapphire x1600xt's working properly. If you are an expert please donate some of your time to our cause :)

Tried the method on my setup (see signature), this is what I get in boot (-v):

 

display: family specific matching fails

display: family specific matching fails

Matching service count = 2

Matching service count = 5

Matching service count = 5

Matching service count = 5

Matching service count = 5

(date) kextd[25]: 328 cached, 0 uncached personalities to catalog

display: family specific matching fails

display: family specific matching fails

Apple16X50ACPI1: Identified Serial Port on ACPI Device=UAR1

Apple16X50UARTSync1: Detected 16550AF/C/CF FIFO=16 Maxbaud=115200

display: family specific matching fails

AppleHDA.kext failed to load: unable to locate 'layout-id' property

(date) localhost mDNSResponder-108 (Dec 25 2005 11: 57:53)[45]: starting

 

... then stuck. Looks familiar?

 

I'm 100% sure I use the correct vendor/device id when editing the drivers Info.plist files.

I tried to redo the install from scratch several times.

 

Any hint appreciated!

Just do the neopheus installer!!!

Or install Jas 10.4.7 iso it has the x1600 package included

Neopheus - It will be great to create a installer with 10.4.8 drivers .... if you have time ...

 

Hm, I have to go to work, but I will take a look on the new drivers... I think it will be difficult because the 10.4.7 drivers have an other architekture than the old (10.4.6)! But like I said I will try it! :blink:

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