mattrobs Posted September 1, 2006 Share Posted September 1, 2006 I have a ATI Mobility Radeon X600 and I can't get a 1600x1050 resolution (even after forcing it with the boot.plist) Does anyone have concrete fixes? I'm seeing a 1024x768 screen being stretched across a widescreen 17" screen. My eyes hurt. Everything else works -- and I mean everything -- but this resolution is needs to change. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/26424-forcing-resolution/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rammjet Posted September 1, 2006 Share Posted September 1, 2006 You need to investigate the Callisto video drivers for ATI - http://omni.starchaser.org/callisto Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/26424-forcing-resolution/#findComment-179250 Share on other sites More sharing options...
mattrobs Posted September 1, 2006 Author Share Posted September 1, 2006 Does anyone have a tutorial on installing Callisto? Callisto's read me is not much help... Thanks a lot. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/26424-forcing-resolution/#findComment-179576 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shirahime Posted September 4, 2006 Share Posted September 4, 2006 same problem as mattrobs, i tried to install callisto's drivers but what i get is a completely messed up screen :/ if someone who has tried to use these drivers could do a small tutorial it will be nice ... i have a pavillion zd8000 with a x600 mobility 1024*768... native : 1440*900 it's the best ... thanks a lot Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/26424-forcing-resolution/#findComment-181281 Share on other sites More sharing options...
brentford9 Posted September 10, 2006 Share Posted September 10, 2006 I have a Dell Latitude D810 with an ATI Radeon Mobility X600 that runs 1680x1050x32bit in Windows. And like mattrobs, OS-X is stuck with this 1024x768 business being stretched across the 17" lcd serving only as a good source of a head ache. So I investigated the Callisto video drivers, and went about the task of installation them. I used a fresh clean installation of OS-X 10.4.6 and then proceeded to go about the installation. I printed the installation instructions out, followed each and every step verbatim. I used the Monitor Asset Manager to figure out the PCI device ID while in windows prior to beginning, which was 0x31501002. I skipped Step 9 which was coding the EDID 128byte string for the monitor, because below that step in bold it specifically says for Mobilitiy owners the settings come from the BIOS. After completing all instructions exactly, and rebooting I booted with the switch -v to get some sort of verbose, and once it made it to where it started loading the Callisto video drivers and gui, the screen just went black and hung. So, I went to the troubleshooting page that I printed out, and the only suggestion that it had was to modify the Info.plist file of Callisto.kext, and to change the CallistoUseAltPLLMethod from "false" to "true", to activate the alternative PLL Method, and that was it. So I rebooted and used the " -s " switch to boot into single user mode since I couldn't get the to gui, and modified the file from there, and restarted. Needless to say, it didn't make any difference and the video still didn't work. So I rebooted with the " -s " again, and deleted the video drivers and i'm back to the migrane inducing 1024x768. If someone else has the same video card and has had success with it, maybe you can explain what you did different.. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/26424-forcing-resolution/#findComment-185101 Share on other sites More sharing options...
mattrobs Posted September 10, 2006 Author Share Posted September 10, 2006 Well I managed to get it working. The latest version of Callisto produced no results for me, so I tried b003-fixed. I followed the installation instructions. Safari will download and unzip the archive. Yep. I put the archive in a folder on my desktop and called it A (so that Callisto.kext and CallistoHAL.kext was in folder A). In Terminal, I followed what was said cd -/desktop/A .. to change the location to the directory of my .kexts. I didn't know how to use vi, so I used nano: nano CallistoHAL.kext/contents/info.plist .. and replaced my PCD device ID under IOPCIMatch key (I found my device ID by clicking on the Apple logo in the menu bar, About This Mac > More Info > Graphics list item.) I completely skipped step 9 because I had an LCD. The rest of the steps were straight forward. (I also consulted the FAQ to enable Quartz Extreme) Let me know how you guys went. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/26424-forcing-resolution/#findComment-185112 Share on other sites More sharing options...
brentford9 Posted September 13, 2006 Share Posted September 13, 2006 Excellent, the older b003-fixed version worked seamlessly. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/26424-forcing-resolution/#findComment-188160 Share on other sites More sharing options...
poppo Posted October 24, 2006 Share Posted October 24, 2006 hi! i've a MOBILITY RADEON X600SE (device id 0x5462) i tried every kind of patch or driver. has anyone some ideas? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/26424-forcing-resolution/#findComment-215905 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Turbo50t Posted October 25, 2006 Share Posted October 25, 2006 hi! i've a MOBILITY RADEON X600SE (device id 0x5462) i tried every kind of patch or driver. has anyone some ideas? Try using Koverg patch and then Callisto b0003_fixed Patch it should work on that card. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/26424-forcing-resolution/#findComment-216045 Share on other sites More sharing options...
debauchery1st Posted November 27, 2006 Share Posted November 27, 2006 Well I managed to get it working. The latest version of Callisto produced no results for me, so I tried b003-fixed. I followed the installation instructions. Safari will download and unzip the archive. Yep. I put the archive in a folder on my desktop and called it A (so that Callisto.kext and CallistoHAL.kext was in folder A). In Terminal, I followed what was said cd -/desktop/A .. to change the location to the directory of my .kexts. I didn't know how to use vi, so I used nano: nano CallistoHAL.kext/contents/info.plist .. and replaced my PCD device ID under IOPCIMatch key (I found my device ID by clicking on the Apple logo in the menu bar, About This Mac > More Info > Graphics list item.) I completely skipped step 9 because I had an LCD. The rest of the steps were straight forward. (I also consulted the FAQ to enable Quartz Extreme) Let me know how you guys went. The CallistoHAL patch worked wonders on my zd8000 (changed IOPCIMatch key to 3150), now I can set the display resolution to 1440x900 thank you for that. I've consulted the FAQ on Quartz extreme, but I don't see an X600 in the /System/Library/Extensions folder. Did you get open GL working by editing some other file? (edit) nevermind, I got it all working with the koverg-patch9700-v0.2 and the callistoHAL patch. Just have to clean up the mouse artifacts now. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/26424-forcing-resolution/#findComment-243238 Share on other sites More sharing options...
warrenc Posted December 1, 2006 Share Posted December 1, 2006 Not sure if this will help anyone..but I finally gave up on the drivers with my Thinkpad T42. I now have it driven at full resolution and bit depth using the following steps.. sudo nano /Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/com.apple.Boot.plist and add the following.. <key>Graphics Mode</key> <string>1440x1050x32</string> just add the modelines that best fit your display. I still can't get external video to drive however. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/26424-forcing-resolution/#findComment-245799 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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