how do i find out which GMA driver my system is loading?

[matemago]

i have 1.4.6 installed, but while i was reading some forum's posts, if found this:

 

kextstat | grep GMA

 

but when i try that, it doesnt find any GMA kext. my system profiler shows this:

 

GMA 950:

 

Modelo de chipset: GMA 950

Tipo: Controlador compatible con VGA <=== is this correct?

Bus: Incorporado

VRAM (total): 256 MB

Fabricante: Intel (0x8086)

ID del dispositivo: 0x2772

ID de la revisión: 0x0002

 

and in Extensions, only this one:

 

IOGraphicsFamily:

 

Versión: 1.4.2

Última modificación: 19/10/06 10:50 AM

Texto de información: 1.4.2, Copyright Apple Computer, Inc. 2000-2004

Ubicación: /System/Library/Extensions/IOGraphicsFamily.kext

Versión de kext: 1.4.2

Dirección de carga: 0x297ce000

Válido: Sí

Autenticación: Sí

Dependencias: Satisfecho

Integridad: Correcto

 

 

am i loading the correct drivers? because i cannot find any GMA950 kext loaded. i have an ASUS P5LD2-VM SE 2.0 mobo.

 

i dont have any problems with resolutions or slow graphics, i have CI/QE enabled. Do i need to do anything? perhaps loading the correct drivers? when i run xbench, this is what i get for graphics:

 

Results 175.62

System Info

Xbench Version 1.3

System Version 10.4.6 (8I1119)

Physical RAM 1024 MB

Model ADP2,1

Drive Type ST3250820AS

Quartz Graphics Test 131.83

Line 115.36 7.68 Klines/sec [50% alpha]

Rectangle 112.73 33.66 Krects/sec [50% alpha]

Circle 110.50 9.01 Kcircles/sec [50% alpha]

Bezier 113.84 2.87 Kbeziers/sec [50% alpha]

Text 391.48 24.49 Kchars/sec

OpenGL Graphics Test 197.74

Spinning Squares 197.74 250.85 frames/sec

User Interface Test 225.21

Elements 225.21 1.03 Krefresh/sec

 

 

if i load the correct drivers, can i have a better result?

 

thanks guys...

[CyBrian]

it looks doesn't look bad to me. what's wrong with that?

[matemago]

do i have to load GMA950 kext?

i know that if its not broken, dont fix it, but if i load the correct extension, can i have a better performance?

[ROXR]

In the oses previous to 10.4.8 for GMA900 and GMA950 os x use appleintel915.kext's, and after, now, osx use GMA950.kext's-

 

for the best performance gma950 kext's is better than i915 but more complicated because the source of appleintelframebuffer 1.4.4 version included into gma950 kext's use efi calls and not work properly.

[ROXR]

I forgoting that JASGMA900 support installer prevent malfunction and include intelframebuffer 1.4.2.28 for correct this trouble, and GMA950 klonic cards working relatively well.

 

XD sorry for my english

[matemago]

thanks roxr!

 

so it seems that i'm ok with this driver right?

 

by the way, how can i know if my hard disk is working at a correct speed? i have a s-ata II 250Gb disk, but i see other user having IDE drives with the same speed. can you show me you xbench results or something similar so i can compare and see what can i do to speed it up?

 

these are mines:

 

Results 53.24

System Info

Xbench Version 1.3

System Version 10.4.6 (8I1119)

Physical RAM 1024 MB

Model ADP2,1

Drive Type ST3250820AS

Disk Test 53.24

Sequential 104.62

Uncached Write 85.67 52.60 MB/sec [4K blocks]

Uncached Write 127.39 72.08 MB/sec [256K blocks]

Uncached Read 104.84 30.68 MB/sec [4K blocks]

Uncached Read 109.03 54.80 MB/sec [256K blocks]

Random 35.71

Uncached Write 12.45 1.32 MB/sec [4K blocks]

Uncached Write 72.18 23.11 MB/sec [256K blocks]

Uncached Read 91.81 0.65 MB/sec [4K blocks]

Uncached Read 143.54 26.64 MB/sec [256K blocks]

 

i see you have a s-ata II harddrive too...

 

thanks for your help, i'm trying to help others too, this forum has been very useful to me.

[Rammjet]

In System Profiler, click Extensions on the bottom left to see what Extensions are loaded in your system.

[McSkywalker]

Or open terminal and type

 

kextstat

 

Edit: It will give you the extensions which are currently loaded and used by system.

[matemago]

ok! this are my extensions, and sorry to about my english, i speak spanish =)

 

Index Refs Address Size Wired Name (Version) <Linked Against>

1 1 0x0 0x0 0x0 com.apple.kernel (8.4.1)

2 20 0x0 0x0 0x0 com.apple.kpi.bsd (8.4.1)

3 23 0x0 0x0 0x0 com.apple.kpi.iokit (8.4.1)

4 26 0x0 0x0 0x0 com.apple.kpi.libkern (8.4.1)

5 23 0x0 0x0 0x0 com.apple.kpi.mach (8.4.1)

6 15 0x0 0x0 0x0 com.apple.kpi.unsupported (8.4.1)

7 1 0x0 0x0 0x0 com.apple.iokit.IONVRAMFamily (8.4.1)

8 1 0x0 0x0 0x0 com.apple.driver.AppleNMI (8.4.1)

9 1 0x0 0x0 0x0 com.apple.iokit.IOSystemManagementFamily (8.4.1)

10 1 0x0 0x0 0x0 com.apple.iokit.ApplePlatformFamily (8.4.1)

11 32 0x0 0x0 0x0 com.apple.kernel.6.0 (7.9.9)

12 1 0x0 0x0 0x0 com.apple.kernel.bsd (7.9.9)

13 1 0x0 0x0 0x0 com.apple.kernel.iokit (7.9.9)

14 1 0x0 0x0 0x0 com.apple.kernel.libkern (7.9.9)

15 1 0x0 0x0 0x0 com.apple.kernel.mach (7.9.9)

16 11 0x238d9000 0x9000 0x8000 com.apple.iokit.IOPCIFamily (1.8) <11>

17 6 0x238e5000 0x4000 0x3000 com.apple.iokit.IOACPIFamily (1.2.0) <11>

18 2 0x23920000 0x37000 0x36000 com.apple.driver.AppleACPIPlatform (1.0.3) <17 16 11>

19 0 0x239a7000 0x5000 0x4000 com.apple.BootCache (25.1) <6 5 4 3 2>

20 3 0x23a6a000 0x32000 0x31000 com.apple.iokit.IOHIDFamily (1.4.7) <6 5 4 3 2>

21 0 0x23b88000 0x4000 0x3000 com.apple.driver.AppleAPIC (1.1.0) <11>

22 0 0x23b9c000 0x4000 0x3000 com.apple.driver.AppleSMBIOS (1.0.6) <11>

24 0 0x2940b000 0x5000 0x4000 com.apple.driver.AppleRTC (1.0.2) <17 5 4 3 2>

25 0 0x295cf000 0x4000 0x3000 com.apple.driver.AppleACPIButtons (1.0.3) <20 18 17 6 5 4 3 2>

27 0 0x29690000 0x3000 0x2000 com.apple.driver.AppleACPIPCI (1.0.3) <18 17 16 11>

28 7 0x29749000 0x16000 0x15000 com.apple.iokit.IOStorageFamily (1.5) <6 5 4 3 2>

30 3 0x297b3000 0xd000 0xc000 com.apple.iokit.IOATAFamily (1.6.0f2) <11>

31 0 0x297c7000 0x7000 0x6000 com.apple.driver.AppleIntelPIIXATA (1.7) <30 16 11>

32 8 0x29835000 0x19000 0x18000 com.apple.iokit.IOUSBFamily (2.4.6) <11>

33 0 0x29861000 0xc000 0xb000 com.apple.driver.AppleUSBUHCI (2.4.6) <32 16 11>

35 0 0x29969000 0x10000 0xf000 com.apple.driver.AppleUSBEHCI (2.4.5) <32 16 11>

36 0 0x299b3000 0x9000 0x8000 com.apple.driver.AppleUSBHub (2.4.6) <32 11>

37 4 0x29a0e000 0x15000 0x14000 com.apple.iokit.IOSCSIArchitectureModelFamily (1.4.7) <11>

38 0 0x29a32000 0x4000 0x3000 com.apple.iokit.IOATAPIProtocolTransport (1.4.3) <37 30 11>

39 0 0x29b07000 0xa000 0x9000 com.apple.iokit.IOATABlockStorage (1.4.3) <30 28 11>

40 2 0x29c7c000 0x8000 0x7000 com.apple.iokit.IOCDStorageFamily (1.4) <28 5 4 3>

41 1 0x29cac000 0x13000 0x12000 com.apple.iokit.IOSCSIBlockCommandsDevice (1.4.7) <37 28 11>

42 1 0x29cd7000 0x5000 0x4000 com.apple.iokit.IODVDStorageFamily (1.4) <40 28 5 4 3>

43 0 0x29d08000 0x12000 0x11000 com.apple.iokit.IOSCSIMultimediaCommandsDevice (1.4.7) <42 41 40 37 28 11>

45 0 0x29dff000 0x6000 0x5000 com.apple.iokit.SCSITaskUserClient (1.4.7) <37 28 11>

46 0 0x29e47000 0x3000 0x2000 com.apple.driver.AppleUSBComposite (2.4.5) <32 11>

47 1 0x29f37000 0x5000 0x4000 com.apple.iokit.IOUSBHIDDriver (2.4.5) <32 20 11>

48 0 0x23869000 0x9000 0x8000 com.apple.iokit.IOUSBUserClient (2.4.5) <32 11>

49 0 0x2387a000 0x5000 0x4000 com.apple.driver.XsanFilter (2.7.0) <28 11>

50 0 0x2387f000 0x14000 0x13000 at.obdev.KUC (1.2.62) <6 5 4 3 2>

52 1 0x295d3000 0x9000 0x8000 com.apple.iokit.IOSerialFamily (9.0.0d30) <6 5 4 3 2>

53 1 0x29642000 0x8000 0x7000 com.apple.driver.Apple16X50Serial (1.7) <52 16 11>

54 0 0x23866000 0x2000 0x1000 com.apple.driver.Apple16X50ACPI (1.7) <53 17 11>

55 2 0x296a0000 0x16000 0x15000 com.apple.iokit.IONetworkingFamily (1.5.0) <6 5 4 3 2>

56 0 0x296b6000 0xb000 0xa000 com.apple.driver.AppleIntel8254XEthernet (1.1.2) <55 16 5 4 3 2>

57 3 0x297ce000 0x1b000 0x1a000 com.apple.iokit.IOGraphicsFamily (1.4.2) <16 6 5 4 3>

58 0 0x296c1000 0xb000 0xa000 com.apple.driver.AppleIntelIntegratedFramebuffer (4.2.0) <57 11>

59 0 0x2978a000 0x2000 0x1000 info.yuriev.driver.FrontRowPass (1.0.0d1) <47 32 20 11>

60 2 0x2978e000 0x5000 0x4000 com.apple.iokit.IOHDAudioFamily (1.0.0d1) <5 4 3 2>

61 0 0x29793000 0x6000 0x5000 com.apple.driver.AppleAzaliaController (1.0.0d1) <60 16 5 4 3 2>

62 1 0x297e9000 0xf000 0xe000 com.apple.iokit.IONDRVSupport (1.4.2) <57 16 6 5 4 3>

63 1 0x297f8000 0x17000 0x16000 com.apple.iokit.IOAudioFamily (1.5.6b1) <32 11>

64 0 0x2980f000 0xc000 0xb000 com.apple.driver.AppleAzaliaAudio (1.0.0d1) <63 60 5 4 3 2>

65 0 0x299bc000 0x23000 0x22000 com.apple.driver.AppleIntel915 (4.2.0) <62 57 16 11>

66 0 0x29918000 0x5000 0x4000 com.parallels.kext.Pvsnet (2.2) <5 4 3 2>

67 1 0x2991d000 0xa000 0x9000 com.apple.driver.AppleSMC (1.0.1d9) <17 5 4 3>

68 0 0x29927000 0x3000 0x2000 com.apple.Dont_Steal_Mac_OS_X (6.0.0) <67 6 4 3 2>

69 0 0x40afb000 0x8000 0x7000 com.apple.filesystems.ntfs (1.2) <4 2>

70 0 0x40c9a000 0xb000 0xa000 com.apple.filesystems.msdosfs (1.4.5) <6 5 4 2>

71 0 0x30091000 0xe000 0xd000 com.parallels.kext.hypervisor (2.2) <11 6 5 4 3 2>

72 0 0x29fcf000 0x2000 0x1000 com.bresink.driver.BRESINKx86Monitoring (2.0) <11>

73 0 0x300ab000 0x5000 0x4000 com.parallels.kext.vmmain (2.2) <11 6 5 4 3 2>

74 0 0x23980000 0x3000 0x2000 com.parallels.kext.Pvsvnic (2.2) <55 4 3>

75 0 0x2a186000 0x41000 0x40000 com.apple.filesystems.udf (1.4.2) <6 5 4 2>

[Rammjet]

System Profiler only gives the extensions loaded by the system. It tells you what version each one is and what problems it may be having.

[matemago]

rammjet, i have a lot of extension with this kind of error:

 

dependency errors: no valid version.... etc.