Beermaster Posted November 4, 2005 Share Posted November 4, 2005 My friend just installed the DVD last night. Load it clean, and then add "Graphics Mode" = "whatever" to boot.plist. Works like a charm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
K e V i N Posted November 5, 2005 Share Posted November 5, 2005 My friend just installed the DVD last night. Load it clean, and then add "Graphics Mode" = "whatever" to boot.plist. Works like a charm What kind of Graphics Card? Which osX version? Which install dvd? There are lots of people here, waiting for solution, so please give us some more details! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dirtydog Posted November 5, 2005 Share Posted November 5, 2005 My friend just installed the DVD last night. Load it clean, and then add "Graphics Mode" = "whatever" to boot.plist. Works like a charm No, that doesn't work for most people, hence this thread! It only works on a very limited number of setups, eg. Intel 915 graphics. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sama7896 Posted November 5, 2005 Share Posted November 5, 2005 hi all please answer this: if manually typing at darwin the "Graphics Mode"="1024x768x32@85" does not work, is there a chance this "fix" could do the job ? thank u p4 sse2 gfFX5500 all working except the refresh Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
efimovich Posted November 10, 2005 Share Posted November 10, 2005 Hello I wonder if anyone could help ... I'm not quite sure where I'm going wrong here. I'm booting with the Darwin CD. My OSx86 partition is disk0s1. I have TRAC's BOOT file on a FAT32 USB drive which is disk1s1. Following macgirl's instruction previously, I type mount -uw / which results in disk2s1s2: device is write locked launchd: mkdir("/var/launchd") No space left on device and then mount -t msdos /dev/disk1s1 /mnt results in lots more disk2s1s2: device is write locked and launchd: mkdir("/var/launchd") No space left on device I imagine this is because what I'm trying to do with the mount command effectively makes disk1s1 (my USB HDD) accessible in the CD-ROM's file structure in the folder /mnt and the CD-ROM (disk2s1s2?) is obviously read only? Apologies in advance - I know I must be doing something rather stupid as the rest of the world seems to be able to mount USB hard disks after booting from CD. And thanks in advance too, if anyone can point out where I'm going wrong. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
archi386 Posted November 14, 2005 Share Posted November 14, 2005 my 5200FX didn't work-- still at 60 hz when I ask for more (at least it doesn't reboot now). I did install boot right, since it says modified by TRAC on boot. I had hopes up since someone else said their 5200 worked. oh well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bakman Posted November 14, 2005 Share Posted November 14, 2005 I need some help here....where do I find this "startupfiletool" as I cannot seem to find it anywhere on my disk ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bakman Posted November 15, 2005 Share Posted November 15, 2005 No one can help me with the startupfiletool ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
efimovich Posted November 20, 2005 Share Posted November 20, 2005 Hello I wonder if anyone could help ... I'm not quite sure where I'm going wrong here. I'm booting with the Darwin CD. My OSx86 partition is disk0s1. I have TRAC's BOOT file on a FAT32 USB drive which is disk1s1. Following macgirl's instruction previously, I type mount -uw / which results in disk2s1s2: device is write locked launchd: mkdir("/var/launchd") No space left on device and then mount -t msdos /dev/disk1s1 /mnt results in lots more disk2s1s2: device is write locked and launchd: mkdir("/var/launchd") No space left on device I imagine this is because what I'm trying to do with the mount command effectively makes disk1s1 (my USB HDD) accessible in the CD-ROM's file structure in the folder /mnt and the CD-ROM (disk2s1s2?) is obviously read only? Apologies in advance - I know I must be doing something rather stupid as the rest of the world seems to be able to mount USB hard disks after booting from CD. And thanks in advance too, if anyone can point out where I'm going wrong. I still can't work it out. TIA to anyone with helpful hints... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
glufx Posted November 21, 2005 Share Posted November 21, 2005 Every time I try this it fails to boot, it gets stuck on loading usb. I hope the Macvidia folks have something soon, I'm gonna go blind if they don't. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kaiwei Posted November 22, 2005 Share Posted November 22, 2005 Would this resolve the video ram issue allocation with the Intel 855GM video? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trac Posted November 23, 2005 Author Share Posted November 23, 2005 Would this resolve the video ram issue allocation with the Intel 855GM video? no, sorry. it only resolves some screen refresh issues. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
archi386 Posted November 23, 2005 Share Posted November 23, 2005 No one can help me with the startupfiletool ? It is on the Darwin 8.0.1 CD, in /usr/sbin/startupfiletool, and the deadmoo image put it there as well. Not in the release1 DVD though, so deadmoo must have added it later. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bakman Posted December 2, 2005 Share Posted December 2, 2005 (edited) It is on the Darwin 8.0.1 CD, in /usr/sbin/startupfiletool, and the deadmoo image put it there as well. Not in the release1 DVD though, so deadmoo must have added it later. Well I have the deadmoo image, but I cannot find it on there. Can someone post the startupfiletool for me ? I am currently running 10.4.3....i suppose it should still work with this version ? TIA! Edited December 2, 2005 by bakman Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
macgirl Posted December 3, 2005 Share Posted December 3, 2005 The 10.4.3 has a new boot files, so you need to recompile them. In any case the new 10.4.3 has not the same problem of rebooting as the 10.4.1 boot files do when you put a higher refresh rate than 60. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bakman Posted December 3, 2005 Share Posted December 3, 2005 The 10.4.3 has a new boot files, so you need to recompile them. In any case the new 10.4.3 has not the same problem of rebooting as the 10.4.1 boot files do when you put a higher refresh rate than 60. It is very unfortunate then I guess, my Radeon X800pro is recognized as a VESA3.0, and now runs on 1280x1024x32, but I cannot change the refresh rate without ending up with the display mismatch (I am using a CRT screen) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iRob Posted December 13, 2005 Share Posted December 13, 2005 Can someone please post a compiled boot file? I'm struggling to compile it...too many errors. Using 10.4.3. Thanks, R Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
macgirl Posted December 13, 2005 Share Posted December 13, 2005 It's already posted, see the firsts posts of this thread. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
XanthraX Posted December 22, 2005 Share Posted December 22, 2005 (edited) Download this file: http://darwinsource.opendarwin.org/tarball...boot-122.tar.gz, then unzip and untar, edit the graphics.c file, then do a make in the root directory of boot-122. Then put the resulting boot file (which is in boot-122/sym/i386/boot) on a floppy or usb drive boot with the Darwin CD or Install DVD in single user mode, then mount the floppy / usb drive and use "startupfiletool /dev/rdiskXsY <mount point of floppy or usb>/boot" X is the pysical drive and Y is the partition number of your MacOSX. Hi, I downloaded the file, unpacked, edited the graphics.c file, but when I did a make, I obtained the following error (see in the attached text). Where I'm wrong? Error.rtf Edited December 22, 2005 by XanthraX Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
macgirl Posted December 22, 2005 Share Posted December 22, 2005 Better use the boot file that Trac attached in the first page of this thread. It is already compiled. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zaxos Posted January 15, 2006 Share Posted January 15, 2006 OK, I used startuptool and all that, and I type -x Graphics Mode=1024x768x32@85 Platform=X86PC Then I get the 85 refresh rate, but it goes into safe boot so I have no networking or anything. Any suggestions? Oh and I already installed the SSE2 patch from the wiki, would that make a difference? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
macgirl Posted January 16, 2006 Share Posted January 16, 2006 Don't type -x in that command Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snackole Posted January 21, 2006 Share Posted January 21, 2006 Just press F8 when you turn on your machine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mcfresh Posted October 5, 2006 Share Posted October 5, 2006 HI! I post here cause i think this thread needs an update (last post is from beginning of 2006). Id really like to have the following questions answered somehow. - Does this method still work with 10.4.6 or will it ruin your system? - Where can i get startupfiletool, and is it really needed, maybe theres another way to do this... - is there another way to solve the "VESA 60hz Problem", so many users with CRTs have ? I think if this works and can be somehow put in an easie way to install, so that it somehow gets "userfriendly" (meaning follow a guide step by step and your good to go), then it would help many ppl who are using x86 on VESA and are suffering from 60hz. Any help's appreciated! thx Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
banini_jeque Posted December 23, 2009 Share Posted December 23, 2009 I tried this with pc_efi 10.5 on my little itx nvidia ion board, and it didn't work. Tried to specify 1024x768x32@75, but it only ran at 60Hz. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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