Help! Screwed up trying to patch video card kext's - where did I go wrong?

[bajabronco]

I was attempting to patch my video card kext's to get full monitor support- I am running a VGA Saphire 1600XT, - and TeKKI graciously sent me his Kexts ( he has the same card) and is working for him. -

 

what I did is the following

 

put the 8 new files on my desk top

 

ATINDRV.Kext, ATIRadeon.kext , ATIRAdeonGLDDriver. bundle ATIRadeonX1000.kext ATIRadeonX1000GLDriver.bundle, ATIRadeonGLDriver.bundle, ATIRadeonX1000VADriver.bundle, ATIRadeon1000GA.plugin, ATIRadeonGA.plugin

 

Then logged in to terminal,

 

 

sudo -s

 

cp -R /system/library/extensions/ATINDRV.Kext /system/library/Extensions.Disabled

 

Did this for all of the files - so I have a backup

 

then

 

cp -R /Users/MYUSERNAME/Desktop/ATINDRV/System/Library/Extensions/

 

I did this for all the files as well and then rebooted, - nada, nothing - no monitor at all. Before I had monitor support, but could not change resolution, now I have nothing.

 

Did I miss a step? Forget something ?

 

I backed up the files, then copied the new ones to the extensions folder, shouldn't it be working?

 

I am going to try to copy the backedup extensions back tomorrow and see if I get any type of monitor support

 

Mark

[Technobob]

You did not repair permissins

 

Run the following commands in terminal

 

chown -R root:wheel /System/Library/Extensions/FILE NAME

 

chmod -R 755 /System/Library/Extensions/FILE NAME

 

 

Flush the kextcache, so Mac OS X is aware of new kext files

 

Run the following commands in terminal

 

rm -r /System/Library/Extensions.kextcache

 

rm -r /System/Library/Extensions.mkext

 

kextcache -k /System/Library/Extensions/

 

 

You will need to do this in single user mode

 

At the boot prompt type -s this will take you to a command line or you can use Terminal from the install DVD

[bajabronco]

Thanks a ton Technobob! I got it to boot into the desktop now, but am now getting an error message. I am getting an error message - System Extensions Cannot be used

The system extensions "/System/Library/ExtensionsATINDRV.Kext was installed improperly and cannot be used. Please try reinstalling it, or contact the products vendor for and update.

 

I get the same notice for System/Library/extensions/ATIRadionX1000.Kexts

 

I then attepted to re-install the Kexts by copying them from the desktop again, repair premissions, clear cache and reboot - and still the same problem.

 

cp -R /Users/MYUSERNAME/Desktop/ATINDRV.kext/System/Library/Extensions/

 

I then tried to copy my backups, repair premissions in terminal and reboot - I then get the same error

 

cp -R /System/Library/Extensions.disabled /ATINDRV.kext /system/library/extensions/

 

 

and I still get the same error -

 

I then tried to repair premissions using disk utility - I then re-booted, and blank monitor again, to fix it I went back into safety mode, single user, repaired premissions and cleared the cache and rebooted, I still get the same 2 error messages

 

Any ideas?