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what AGP card is better supported in 10.4.11 ?


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I've installed tiger (10.4.11 build by XxX) on rather old pc (iCeleronD 2.53, 512+256 RAM, Gigabyte IPE1000 on 865PE, PATA hdd and dvd, AGP Radeon 9600PRO, 3COM 905-TX) - everything is just wonderful, tiger runs on this pc even faster than snow_leo on my mb466 (expanded to 4GB ram) BUT there is one big problem - it is video card.

I was able to start video card in every possible way:

- resolution via Callistro (008)

- QE/CI via fixing 9700GA file

- agp via agpgart 1.2 (2.2 broke screen into thousands of stripes, 1.1 don't work)

- mouse flickering via mighty mouse and cursor scheme without shadow.

Everything seems to work BUT i get bugs all around - in Pages i don't see document content (only white sheet), in QuickTime video start to loose frames as long as cursor is above window with video ( = fullscreen video in unusable), if i start to move window or scroll webpage it seems very slow, but again, only while mouse cursor is above moving/scrolling object. :(

Also i get very poor speed in expose (while showing all windows or selecting one of them - animation is veeery slow) :(

So my perfect tiger is ill with video card :(

Looks like radeon 9600 can't work "perfectly" (at least google didn't find any answer - if there is one, i'll be very glad to hear it), so i decided to change it to something else.

So what do i need from video card:

- AGP (IPE1000 doesn't have any PCIE and classic PCI cards are rare here) card

- Dual display support (dual VGA is ok) for connecting monitor and video projector.

- QE/CI with adequate speed for gui and expose

No gaming is required

Passive cooling is a great plus

Does "perfect card", that doesn't require any injections/3rd party kexts(looks like agpgart will be needed in any way)/plists modifications, exists ? :) (not "mac editions" certainly :P )

P.S. 10.4.11, not 10.5 or 10.6 ;)

Does "perfect card", that doesn't require any injections/3rd party kexts(looks like agpgart will be needed in any way)/plists modifications, exists ? ^_^ (not "mac editions" certainly :P )

P.S. 10.4.11, not 10.5 or 10.6 :P

 

 

My XFX 7800GS (PV-T70K-UAF7) card works now for 3 years in my PowerMAC G5 DP (very silent ! (not like BFG))

 

I did a flash with a modified rom and is native from up of OSX 10.4.8 !

 

Look here for good info on this topic:

http://themacelite.wikidot.com/

 

I a hack I don't know ! Dépends if you use other OS then OSX

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