MichalK Posted October 31, 2006 Share Posted October 31, 2006 Does anyone know why GMA900 users to have 10.4.8 QE/CI working must recover previous versions of AppleIntelIntegratedFramebuffer.kext and OpenGL.framework ??? Why newer kext/framework doesn't work properly with GMA900? Is there any way of patching it? Not that there's anything wrong with the previous ones, just I'm curious why cannot use latest drivers. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/31694-what-happened-to-gma900-1048-support/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
munky Posted October 31, 2006 Share Posted October 31, 2006 only the developer transition kit used GMA900 - all intel macs using onboard graphics use the GMA950. either apple deliberately broke support for GMA900, or by accident. either way, they have no reason to support hardware which doesnt exist in any intel mac ever released. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/31694-what-happened-to-gma900-1048-support/#findComment-220959 Share on other sites More sharing options...
quixos Posted October 31, 2006 Share Posted October 31, 2006 down the page on this site, there is an old tutorial for enabling gma900 on 10.4.6. http://art5dog.com/techcast/2006/04/osx86-...working-on.html what makes it interesting, is that his solution includes gma950 kexts. someone should mess about and see if there is anything helpful there. might be, might not. back in the day, i tried his directions out, they worked. i'm unable to experiment with gma900 and true 10.4.8 myself, cause i'm not switching to an SSE3 capable cpu until until the 4.8 kernel is adapted for SSE2 and tested. good luck! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/31694-what-happened-to-gma900-1048-support/#findComment-220999 Share on other sites More sharing options...
hell Posted November 19, 2006 Share Posted November 19, 2006 I just want to let everybody know that I followed the old tutorial and my intel GMA 900 had QE/CI working. Before that I had blue/black screen with unreadable screen if I removed all the *950* files. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/31694-what-happened-to-gma900-1048-support/#findComment-237939 Share on other sites More sharing options...
MichalK Posted November 19, 2006 Author Share Posted November 19, 2006 I just want to let everybody know that I followed the old tutorial and my intel GMA 900 had QE/CI working. Before that I had blue/black screen with unreadable screen if I removed all the *950* files. I've also tried to follow this guide - everything seemed to work fine except for a mouse cursor. The effect I was getting was like the mouse cursor was not accelerated (keeping it over some animations - quicktime movies, or widgets core image "waves" caused the cursor to flicker). After following paulicat's guides these symptoms are gone. The downside is I must use older versions of AppleIntegratedFramebuffer.kext and OpenGL.framework. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/31694-what-happened-to-gma900-1048-support/#findComment-237950 Share on other sites More sharing options...
snackole Posted November 19, 2006 Share Posted November 19, 2006 You can reinstall the opengl.framework from the 10.4.8 install DVD and will still have full support. This was the only way I could get FinalCutPro to work. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/31694-what-happened-to-gma900-1048-support/#findComment-237990 Share on other sites More sharing options...
MichalK Posted November 19, 2006 Author Share Posted November 19, 2006 You can reinstall the opengl.framework from the 10.4.8 install DVD and will still have full support. This was the only way I could get FinalCutPro to work. You mean, reinstall opengl.framework to old, or new drivers? There are two approaches to get the GMA900 working (at least, these two I know): 1) edit 915.kext's info.plist to use gma950's kexts (new opengl.framework, new appleintelintegratedframebuffer.kext) - which gave me worse support for mouse cursor (flickering over animations) however qe/ci was working 2) use old files (AppleIntel915*.*, old appleintelintegratedframebuffer.kext, old opengl.framework) - everything seem to work fine; haven't tried final cut pro yet. This combination gives me stable mouse cursor. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/31694-what-happened-to-gma900-1048-support/#findComment-238007 Share on other sites More sharing options...
snackole Posted November 19, 2006 Share Posted November 19, 2006 Use the new OpenGL.framework Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/31694-what-happened-to-gma900-1048-support/#findComment-238041 Share on other sites More sharing options...
MichalK Posted November 19, 2006 Author Share Posted November 19, 2006 Use the new OpenGL.framework Of course I cannot do that with my "old" kexts (garbled output) - so you suggest to use new files and not to care about flickering cursor? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/31694-what-happened-to-gma900-1048-support/#findComment-238062 Share on other sites More sharing options...
tivimac Posted November 19, 2006 Share Posted November 19, 2006 The old tutorial is not there anymore, where I can find these steps... Thanks. I just want to let everybody know that I followed the old tutorial and my intel GMA 900 had QE/CI working. Before that I had blue/black screen with unreadable screen if I removed all the *950* files. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/31694-what-happened-to-gma900-1048-support/#findComment-238074 Share on other sites More sharing options...
mianos Posted January 7, 2007 Share Posted January 7, 2007 i'm trying the new jas dvd and patched it (read topic in #jas.dvd) now i have no qe/ci on my intel gma 915 before on 8.4.1 on 10.4.7 all is fine how can i fix this? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/31694-what-happened-to-gma900-1048-support/#findComment-270500 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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