Garbled Screen Experts needed!

[- Doogie]

After installing callisto and the QE / CI Patch my screen looks like this:

 

I need some input on what to do from here to fix it. I know how to undo it but I need QE/CI so any suggestions would be greatly appreciated..

 

I have a Radeon X600 Mobility (ID 3150) 128mb, Native Resolution is supposed to be 1440x900

[- Doogie]

No takers?

[Harietje]

Press and hold F8 when booting system (before the white screen with apple logo appears), you'll get a boot prompt. Type "-s" to boot in text mode, mount root filesystem and give this command to remove the Callisto drivers: "rm -rf /System/Library/Extensions/Callisto*" and ATIRadeon9700 drivers: "rm -rf /System/Library/Extensions/ATIRadeon9700*" , remove extensioncache (Extensions.kextcache and Extensions.mkext in /System/Library/) and reboot after that.

 

You probably have installed the JaS 10.4.6 dvd with support for Ati Radeon enabled?! That won't work with these notebooks, you have to install it without the patched ATI Radeon extensions from the JaS distribution. Maybe we can try to put my ATI Radeon & Callisto extensions within your extensions dir.?

 

Let me know if you want to try it, then I will upload those kexts somewhere so you can download them and try it. The only other solution is to reinstall the whole system from JaS's installation DVD WITHOUT the patched ATI extensions....

 

It should work perfect with this notebook: http://wiki.osx86project.org/wiki/index.ph...ables#HP_ZD8000

[Rammjet]

Press and hold F8 when booting system (before the white screen with apple logo appears), you'll get a boot prompt. Type "-s" to boot in text mode, mount root filesystem and give this command to remove the Callisto drivers: "rm -rf /System/Library/Extensions/Callisto*" and ATIRadeon9700 drivers: "rm -rf /System/Library/Extensions/ATIRadeon9700*" , remove extensioncache (Extensions.kextcache and Extensions.mkext in /System/Library/) and reboot after that.

To clarify, when you select your OSX partition in your bootloader, the screen will turn black. As soon as the screen turns black, start tapping the F8 key quickly and repeatedly until a command prompt appears. Type -s at the prompt and hit Enter.

 

This boots you into single user mode - a command line environment. When you get to the prompt, type:

 

mount -uw /
cd /System/Libray/Extensions
mkdir my_backup
mv ATIRadeon9700* my_backup/
mv Callisto* my_backup/
cd /System/Library
rm -rf Extensions.mkext
rm -rf Extensions.kextcache
reboot

If you want them in the future, you'll find the removed kexts in /System/Library/Extensions/my_backup

[tomtefar]

I have an X600XT and I got the same screen at a few occasions. All of them after installing JAS 10.4.7 update (I'm on an AMD system).

 

What has worked was: Jas 10.4.6 + Callisto 008 + ATI*.kexts and OpenGL.framework from 10.4.5

 

You can extract the 10.4.5 kexts from the Jas 10.4.6 DVD using Pacifist.

 

Here is what I needed to do to make it work:

 

1) Install 10.4.6

2) Change ATI*.kexts and OpenGL.framework to 10.4.5

3) Install Callisto 008

4) Install / use koeverg's method.

 

Of course I had an NViDIA-card (so I could get a desktop at least) to extract 10.4.5 things using Pacifist which might be difficult for you. Maybe you have an other comp to do that on?

 

Would be interesting to know of any other solution.

[Harietje]

I have an X600XT and I got the same screen at a few occasions. All of them after installing JAS 10.4.7 update (I'm on an AMD system).

 

What has worked was: Jas 10.4.6 + Callisto 008 + ATI*.kexts and OpenGL.framework from 10.4.5

 

You can extract the 10.4.5 kexts from the Jas 10.4.6 DVD using Pacifist.

 

Here is what I needed to do to make it work:

 

1) Install 10.4.6

2) Change ATI*.kexts and OpenGL.framework to 10.4.5

3) Install Callisto 008

4) Install / use koeverg's method.

 

Of course I had an NViDIA-card (so I could get a desktop at least) to extract 10.4.5 things using Pacifist which might be difficult for you. Maybe you have an other comp to do that on?

 

Would be interesting to know of any other solution.

 

Boogie and I both have the same laptop, this is a new thread which continues on the same problem. This is the old one:

http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showtopic=29969

 

First of all, he cannot use any other version from Callisto as 003b. Furthermore, this problem is encountered by a lot of people with a Radeon X600 Mobile, when they selected the patch for ATI interfaces from the JaS install dvd during initial installation. So, I would try as mentioned earlier.

 

I'll try to upload my ATIRadeon9700* and Callisto* extensions and let you know where to download as quick as possible today...

[Harietje]

Here you have a download link for the correct ATIRadeon9700* and Callisto* extensions for a HP ZD8000 series laptop:

 

http://www.box.net/public/kd5ulo8u6h

 

First remove or move the original ATIRadeon* and Callisto* extensions if you not already did.

Place these new extensions in your /System/Library/Extensions directory, remove Extensions.kextcache and Extensions.mkext from /System/Library/, repair permissions with diskutil and reboot...I hope this works, otherwise you have to re-install from scratch without the patched ATI extensions from JaS's distribution and follow the steps I explained in the old thread again...

[Harietje]

Well, I've tested this and it worked on the laptop of my neighbor. He also has a HP Pavilion ZD8000, he made the same mistake as you by selecting the ATI drivers during initial installation and also had the "garbled screen experience".

 

I modified the archive which can be downloaded at earlier mentioned address. There is a little script (install.sh) in the archive and a README in which way everyone with a Pavilion zd8000 series laptop from HP can easily install the correct configured Callisto and Koverg patches.

 

Content README:

 

Pre-configured graphical interface extensions for HP Pavilion ZD8000 series with ATI Radeon X600 (deviceid 3150)

 

1. Copy all these files to a subdir of home directory on local filesystem

2. Open console

3. Go within this console towards that subdir of home directory with these files

4. Enter: sh ./install.sh

5. Password is asked and installation will complete automatically.

 

There will be made a backup of the ATIRadeon9700 and Callisto extensions before before replacing them . Can be found in a subdir of the directory from which the install script ran.

 

6. Restart system and check graphics!

 

Download still same location: http://www.box.net/public/kd5ulo8u6h

[Harietje]

Just discovered it also works perfect for HP nc8230 notebooks