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Here's the deal -

I have spent countless hours searching this forum to find a simple way to get my ati 9000 mobility to display in the native 1400x1050 format of this LCD and NOTHING has seemed to be right for this laptop.

 

SO...

 

I have gotten wireless working beatifully, networking in general, sound, USB, everything else... but the 2 remaining little pieces of the pie, for me, are-

 

1: video. i need the higher res. this 1024 {censored} is making me want to die.

2: a battery meter.

 

Thanks in advance for anyone nice enough to help me out here!

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Here's the deal -

I have spent countless hours searching this forum to find a simple way to get my ati 9000 mobility to display in the native 1400x1050 format of this LCD and NOTHING has seemed to be right for this laptop.

 

SO...

 

I have gotten wireless working beatifully, networking in general, sound, USB, everything else... but the 2 remaining little pieces of the pie, for me, are-

 

1: video. i need the higher res. this 1024 {censored} is making me want to die.

2: a battery meter.

 

Thanks in advance for anyone nice enough to help me out here!

 

 

Umm you havent looked very hard at all. I had the same one and the wiki tells you all you need to know for both of those.

 

http://wiki.osx86project.org/wiki/index.ph...Latitude_D600_2

 

A higher resolution of 1400x1050 can be had by changing the line in com.apple.Boot.plist to "1400x1050x32", deleting all ATI directories in /System/Library/Extensions, and deleting the files Extensions.mkext and Extensions.kextcache in /System/Library.

 

The battery meter is here:

http://forum.osx86project.org/index.php?sh...=14912&st=0

A higher resolution of 1400x1050 can be had by changing the line in com.apple.Boot.plist to "1400x1050x32", deleting all ATI directories in /System/Library/Extensions, and deleting the files Extensions.mkext and Extensions.kextcache in /System/Library.

 

I already tried that myself a few days ago and it did not work. I am using the JAS 10.4.6 version.

Umm you havent looked very hard at all. I had the same one and the wiki tells you all you need to know for both of those.

 

http://wiki.osx86project.org/wiki/index.ph...Latitude_D600_2

 

A higher resolution of 1400x1050 can be had by changing the line in com.apple.Boot.plist to "1400x1050x32", deleting all ATI directories in /System/Library/Extensions, and deleting the files Extensions.mkext and Extensions.kextcache in /System/Library.

 

The battery meter is here:

http://forum.osx86project.org/index.php?sh...=14912&st=0

 

 

 

umm

yes i have looked pretty hard. the Wiki answer didn't work for me. Maybe I changed the wrong line? Could you post your plist?

 

Thanks for the battery meter link. I saw that already and it didn't work - must have screwed something up. Will try again.

I just tried again and still have the same old screen resolution. I deleted all ATI files, bundles, kext and plugins. There were a total of 24 files I deleted. Most be something more. I wont reinstall due to all I have already setup and configured. I can live with 1024x768 for now.

Also just noticed that the system is going a saver after I made the changes, even though I have it set to never. It didn't do that before i made the change.

 

Also, for the ones that have a higher res on this model, are you using the laptop display or an external monitor?

As you can tell by my signature, I have the D620 now (100000x better than what I used to call the Dsh*t hundred.) so I no longer can give you my exact plist. All I can say is that what was listed in the wiki is what worked for me for over 3.5 months. I got 1400x1050 the first time I tried. In fact I even got a 1280 setting too. It does work. I even managed to get the screensaver working. (NO QE or CI or OpenGL however) This was all on the LCD, no external monitor.

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