Mobility Radeon 9000 thread

[lukefox]

Hi All,

 

First things first: please excuse my noobness. This is my first post.

 

I just set up my old Dell Inspiron 8600 laptop on Kalyway Leopard w/10.5.2 update.

 

It works great! ...mostly (including WiFi, bluetooth, and sound out of the box!) but I'm not quite there yet with my Radeon m9000 (4c66) video card:

- Thanks to this forum, I used Callisto 3 to get my native 1680x1050 @ 60.

- It correctly recognizes the card as "Radeon Mobility 9000 Lf" in system profiler.

- It correctly recognizes my 32MB of VRAM.

- It incorrectly recognizes it as PCI bus (I'm pretty sure the card is AGP)

- It lists "Core Image: Software" and "Quartz Extreme: Not Supported"

 

So, the display is generally smooth--no weird artifacts or sluggishness--but I can't run Chess or DVD Player, can't play video in iTunes, full-screen "Flurry" is choppy, etc. I've read all 22 pages of this thread, but still can't get a clear answer--is there anything that I can to do to resolve this?

 

Basically, I don't want to jeopardize the way the system is running right now, but it would be perfect if I could just get those QE-related graphics things working better. Any specific help would be much appreciated.

 

Thanks!

 

I have been researching this one for a while, and I have a very similar setup to you my friend. You are pretty much out of luck. QE/CI is not happening on this card. Unless you are an expert user, I would suggest you leave your system as is instead of messing around with the half-complete "solutions" suggested on this board and elsewhere. None of them work very well, and they are bound to screw up other drivers that are currently making your laptop run smoothly right now. That's my two cents, anyway...

[+PoppyLove+]

I use Kalyway Leopard 10.5.2

 

Intel M 1.7 SSE2

RAM 512

ATI Mobility 9000 64M (4c66)

 

everything working except my VGA Adeptor

 

I can't use color 32bit color (Always show "Thousand")

although I tried to install driver

 

AGP 2.2, 2.4

ATi1Slice106

Katana 0.2c

 

computer always show 1076*768 16 bit (can't change to 32 bit color)

then I tried "Callisto 0.3 Fixed" but it's not working with this driver

 

How can I solve this problem?

If I change my Leopard 10.5.2 to Tiger 10.4.x

Can I use 32bit color?

 

I really want to use OS X

Thankyou very much

[Slikkster]

Noob question:

 

What am I missing here? One of the original Powerbooks had the ATI Mobility 9000 built in, and they supposedly support QE. Are the Mobility 9000 cards in x86 laptops different than what was in the Powerbook? From what I've seen, some of these Powerbook users are now running Leopard, presumably with QE support.

 

So, what is the issue with non-Apple branded laptops with this same ATI chipset? Can't the same extensions/drivers used for the Powerbook ATI be used for, let's say, a Dell with the ATI 9000 mobility?

 

I know it sounds way too easy a solution, I don't see why this approach wouldn't work. Sorry if I'm missing something obvious. I've tried to wade through this entire thread.

 

Here's a blurb from an Apple discussion thread:

 

"If you google "ATI ROM Extender" you will find that there has been a problem with this going back to 10.1 as well as problems with Classic. I did the ATI driver 4.5.7 update but I removed ATI ROM Xtender from /System/Library/Extensions/AppleNDRV. My PowerBook has an ATI Mobility Radeon 9000 with 32mb of memory.

 

These are the driver links I used:

 

http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/driv...yutilities.html

 

and

 

http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/driv...eondrivers.html

 

PowerBook G4 Mac OS X (10.5) 867mhz 1gb SDRAM"

 

Titanium Powerbook with ATI 9000 blurb:

 

"The MOBILITY RADEON 9000 is the world's most powerful mobile visual processor, and is the first and only mobile visual processor to support version 1.4 pixel and vertex shaders, which deliver breathtaking realism to the latest 3D games.

 

All of the new Titanium PowerBook G4 and iBook models take advantage of Quartz Extreme in Mac OS X Jaguar. Quartz Extreme uses the OpenGL-based graphics engine rather than the G4 processor to accelerate the compositing and rendering of 2D, 3D, and QuickTime content. The entire desktop becomes a fully accelerated OpenGL scene to dramatically improve overall system performance and make the graphical user interface more responsive. For all-day mobile use, the new notebooks also offer industry-leading battery life."

[Slice]

The problem is ATI Utilities and AppleNDRV is PowerPC only drivers. We have no full set of the driver with Intel flavour.

I can write a driver. I don't know what to write.

[Slikkster]

Yeah, I noticed that shortly after I originally posted.

[exti]

Did anyone ever, for a moment, saw QE working on a Radeon 9000?

[mattiL]

No

[exti]

Am I right to assume that if we got hold of the PPC R. 9000 driver sources, it would solve all problems?

[brdi]

hey is there any drivers for ati radeon 9200? I will using iDeneb on an P4 3.2Ghz , Asus P4P800 MB and ATI Radeon 9200.

 

Pls help me.

[nitro2k01]

I just want to get this straight. We've come to realize by now that QE/CI for Radeon M9000 is a dream not to come true. But is any OGL at all possible for this card?

[Dan McGinn-Combs]

Hi!

I'm a new arrival to the OSX86 scene - but I've got my Dell D600 Hackintosh running. Well, of course, everything but the video card (ATL 0x4c66). I'll toss my Dell in the ring to test whatever.

 

I'd just like to be able to run World of Warcraft!

 

-- Dan

[john119]

I know QE most likely will never happen on this card, but since I only use my notebook for internet and email, I dont mind too much. but is there any way to get the resolution higher than 1024x768?, I would like to have it at 1400X1050

[Dan McGinn-Combs]

I know QE most likely will never happen on this card, but since I only use my notebook for internet and email, I dont mind too much. but is there any way to get the resolution higher than 1024x768?, I would like to have it at 1400X1050

 

John,

you can actually get the video resolution you want by editing the file com.apple.Boot.plist in the directory /Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration and adding the following:

<key>Graphics Mode</key>
<string>1400x1050x32</string>

 

This is on my D600 running 10.5.3.

 

-- Dan

[mac-fish]

John,

you can actually get the video resolution you want by editing the file com.apple.Boot.plist in the directory /Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration and adding the following:

<key>Graphics Mode</key>
<string>1400x1050x32</string>

 

This is on my D600 running 10.5.3.

 

-- Dan

 

hmm, may i ask you how you got os x running on that machine? i've been trying for some time now, but i got the timer issues in the bootloader ("Hey we are going backwards! -> restart timing" and then i'm just back at the prompt...)

[Dan McGinn-Combs]

hmm, may i ask you how you got os x running on that machine? i've been trying for some time now, but i got the timer issues in the bootloader ("Hey we are going backwards! -> restart timing" and then i'm just back at the prompt...)

 

Not being too savvy on MacOSX, I used the information on the HCL in the Wiki. Then I used the Kalyway 10.5.3 update. Of course, that killed it - but I was able to boot the DVD again and copied a TOHKernel file over to mach_kernel and got it running again.

 

I didn't know there were timer issues too! Sounds like an episode of Eureka!

 

Good luck!

- Dan

[drumthrasher109]

I'd hate to bump this thread, but there is no QE/CI working with this card? No sort of acceleration at all?

[Slice]

I'd hate to bump this thread, but there is no QE/CI working with this card? No sort of acceleration at all?

Yes, QE/CI is impossible. I stopped my investigations because the laptop is no more used.

My final result here http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showtopic=113238

 

2 moderator

I think the thread must be closed. If a new developer will occur, welcome to X-Lab.

[SticMAC™]

I'd hate to bump this thread, but there is no QE/CI working with this card? No sort of acceleration at all?

 

 

With this installer pack you still wont get QE/CI but Quicktime now works, ie, it plays videos!

http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?fym43mk1fon

[FreakyMac]

Well, 2 Years trying to find a solution for the ATI Radeon Mobility 9000 FireGL (AGP, PCI, IGP) and after my HDD crashed. I am going to buy a MacBook instead. I can't believe I was 15 when this was created. So can a Mod please close this thread. I hear Slice or someone is creating a ATI Framebuffer Driver in the X-Labs.

[atgrain]

can anyone suggest what kext/configuration to use to optimise PHOTOSHOP editing capabilities with the MOBILITY RADEON 9000?? I don't really care about video performance, ect. I just want something that will give me a good picture when using photoshop. That is, smooth gradients, photo realism, ect. I'm new to this so if you could please put the answer in lamens terms that would help :-D...thanks guys, and great work!!