cclloyd9785 Posted February 5, 2010 Share Posted February 5, 2010 Does anyone have or know of any distro that can get me full resolution (1366x768 but will settle for any widescreen resolution) on my hackintosh or a kext. Suggestions or known working distros or kexts please. Full system specs attached. Report.htm Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/210004-distro-for-radeon-mobility-3100/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mushishi Posted February 5, 2010 Share Posted February 5, 2010 no distro or retail can help you because there are no mobility support... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/210004-distro-for-radeon-mobility-3100/#findComment-1403978 Share on other sites More sharing options...
cclloyd9785 Posted February 5, 2010 Author Share Posted February 5, 2010 no distro or retail can help you because there are no mobility support... I heard that just ATI Radeon 3100 will work. I just cant find a kext for it. Mobility just means its smaller and more expensive, because iv seen support for other ATI mobility cards. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/210004-distro-for-radeon-mobility-3100/#findComment-1403979 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mushishi Posted February 5, 2010 Share Posted February 5, 2010 IT WILL NOT WORK.... ATIL INTERGRATED CARDS (BOTH MOBILITY AND DESKTOP MODESL) DON'T WORK If you want to waste your time be my guest but i am telling you now.. it will not work... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/210004-distro-for-radeon-mobility-3100/#findComment-1404266 Share on other sites More sharing options...
meeker Posted February 5, 2010 Share Posted February 5, 2010 IT WILL NOT WORK.... ATIL INTERGRATED CARDS (BOTH MOBILITY AND DESKTOP MODESL) DON'T WORK If you want to waste your time be my guest but i am telling you now.. it will not work... By "ATI INTERGRATED CARDS DONT WORK" I'm sure he means "very few of these work, my good sir" and by "waste your time" im sure he means "it would be much appreciated if you were to contribute to our friendly community" I believe the kext that you are mentioning is called "ATIRadeonX1000" or something similar and if that doesnt work for you try the "RadeonHD.kext" by dong. it most likely wont get you qe/ci support but may get you full resolution other than that, search away Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/210004-distro-for-radeon-mobility-3100/#findComment-1404404 Share on other sites More sharing options...
cclloyd9785 Posted February 5, 2010 Author Share Posted February 5, 2010 By "ATI INTERGRATED CARDS DONT WORK" I'm sure he means "very few of these work, my good sir" and by "waste your time" im sure he means "it would be much appreciated if you were to contribute to our friendly community" I believe the kext that you are mentioning is called "ATIRadeonX1000" or something similar and if that doesnt work for you try the "RadeonHD.kext" by dong. it most likely wont get you qe/ci support but may get you full resolution other than that, search away Iv tried the RadeonHD.kext before for my 10.6.2 and it didndt work. Is there any way i could mabye port the windows driver to a osx kext, or somehow code it based off the windows driver? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/210004-distro-for-radeon-mobility-3100/#findComment-1404437 Share on other sites More sharing options...
smarty94 Posted February 6, 2010 Share Posted February 6, 2010 Iv tried the RadeonHD.kext before for my 10.6.2 and it didndt work. Is there any way i could mabye port the windows driver to a osx kext, or somehow code it based off the windows driver? Stop right there The ONLY Mobility cards that work are those listed in the stickies. The 3450,3470,43350, and anything NOT in the stickies that is a MOBILITY card will not work until Apple and ATI add support for it. The absolute best case for one of these cards is resolution change. No QE or CI, everything will be rendered on the CPU. All ATI drivers are adaptations and builds on top of apple supplied drivers. There is NO support for the mobility architecture in these drivers (exceptions are in the stickies are possible because Apple used a similar or the same card) Writing such a driver would require require intimate knowledge of the ATI hardware and an entirely new framebuffer (the thing that is the "base" for kexts that OSX uses to talk to the hardware) This would require an immense amount of work and complete knowledge and the sources (code before it is compiled in to a kext) of ATI drivers would be needed. This is not possible because ATI drivers are closed source and therefore not publicly available. Detailed engineering specs of ATI card would also be needed (again not possible). Your best bet is to wander over to the multi-booting and virtualization forum and install OSX in a vm if only to get video full screen. Lastly, Mushishi is labeled as a sage for a reason, listen to what he says, he may be overly concise but is getting the main point across. 1/2 the topics in this forum are about getting these card to work and it just isn't happening in the near future. PS a kext is like a driver. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/210004-distro-for-radeon-mobility-3100/#findComment-1404577 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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