Success iDeneb @ Dell Inspiron 1501 with working ATI Radeon XPress 200M

[DerFlash]

Hi all,

 

I've just managed to finally get the correct resolution working on my Inspiron 1501.

 

I've installed a iDeneb 10.5 and found out that Callisto b3 should work. First I had some display issues, because that driver tries to use the external VGA too. But I managed to disable this in the Callisto.kext by removing those two ECID entries(Info.plist>IOKitPersonalities>CallistoMatch), since this card is onboard and uses the BIOS ECID infos then...

 

So now I'm on 1280x800 here, and trying to enable Quartz Extreme now...

 

First I've just tried hint 11 of Callisto_b003fixed/faq.html :

How do I get the QE/CI/OpenGL KEXTs to work with Callisto?

Look in your /System/Library/Extensions folder for ATIRadeonXXXXGA.plugin/ (XXXX depends on your card model). Edit its Info.plist, under IOProviderClass key change IONDRVFramebuffer to CallistoFB, update or delete Extensions.mkext and Extensions.kextcache, then reboot.

 

Didn't work out of the box and I assumed that's because the ATIRadeonX1000.kext does not match my card.

 

So I've edited the Info.plist in /System/Library/Extensions/ATIRadeonX1000.kext to match my PCIE card (0x59751002) and also hexedited the binary in the MacOS subdir to match this one.

(http://wiki.osx86project.org/wiki/index.php/ATI_Install)

 

But when I'm trying to kextload this, I'm getting a kernel panic:

 

Now I'm stuck... Any ideas?

[its_on_now]

There was a whole thread about this and I read through about half of it (100 pages) and the problem is that the Dell 1501 has a shared memory video card and OSX has issues with shared memory... Without someone rewriting OSX code to fix the OS flaw, we are stuck without...