chimerical Posted March 19, 2007 Share Posted March 19, 2007 (edited) Hi. I have an ATI Radeon 9550 (AGP), and right now, QE/CI are not supported. So far, I've gotten the Callisto driver to work (003), so I can now run at native screen resolution. Any ideas? I've searched the forums, and I've found a beta installer (still unsupported afterwards), as well as some mention of an ATIRadeon9700.kext. I'm running OS X 10.4.6. Mac OS X says this about my graphics card: Resolution: 1280 x 1024 @ 60 Hz Depth: 32-bit Color Core Image: Not Supported Main Display: Yes Mirror: Off Online: Yes Quartz Extreme: Not Supported Chipset Model: Radeon 9550 AS Type: Display Bus: PCI VRAM (Total): 256 MB Vendor: ATI (0x1002) Device ID: 0x4153 I appreciate any help. Thanks! Edited March 19, 2007 by chimerical Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
darkstar2k77 Posted March 19, 2007 Share Posted March 19, 2007 Hi chimerical, I've gotten QE/CI to work with my 9550 by cross flashing the video card bios with one from a radeon 9600. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chimerical Posted March 21, 2007 Author Share Posted March 21, 2007 We have to mess with the BIOS? (Also, what version of OS X are you using?) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tr5755 Posted March 21, 2007 Share Posted March 21, 2007 Did you try to edit the AtiRadeon9700GA.plugin file? From the FAQ with the Callisto Driver: 11. How do I get the QE/CI/OpenGL KEXTs to work with Callisto? Look in your /System/Library/Extensions folder for ATIRadeonXXXXGA.plugin/ (XXXX depends on your card model). Edit its Info.plist, under IOProviderClass key change IONDRVFramebuffer to CallistoFB, update or delete Extensions.mkext and Extensions.kextcache, then reboot. I have a 9600 Pro and this works for me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chimerical Posted March 23, 2007 Author Share Posted March 23, 2007 That worked! Thanks! So for future reference to any other Radeon 9550 256 MB owners out there, editing AtiRadeon9700GA.plugin with tr5755's method will get you support for QE and CI (with Callisto 003 in my case). I'm working on OS X 10.4.6, but I assume it would work for newer versions too. The only quirk so far is that a random block from a random portion of the screen will be duplicated (like a remnant of a left behind trail) floats here and there. Otherwise, it appears fine. Video playback isn't entirely smooth yet, but I assume that's something else. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snarl Posted March 23, 2007 Share Posted March 23, 2007 There's another topic about this here - http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?sho...mp;#entry326349 and just in case you can't be bothered clicking the link here's what you need to know.... Cool, I got it working, mines a Gigabyte AGP Card, ATI Radeon 9550, 256MB. I'm running 10.4.8 Edited /System/Library/Extensions/ATIRadeon9700.kext <string>0x41531002</string> now I get this - Display: Type: Display Bus: PCI VRAM (Total): 256 MB Vendor: ATI (0x1002) Device ID: 0x4153 Revision ID: 0x0000 Displays: Display: Resolution: 1280 x 1024 Depth: 32-bit Color Core Image: Supported Main Display: Yes Mirror: Off Online: Yes Quartz Extreme: Supported I got the resolution at 1680 x 1050, working fine, looks great on my 22" Chimei, but for some reason it says 1280 x 1024 in the system profiler. edit - /Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/com.apple.Boot.plist add this - <key>Graphics Mode</key> <string>1680x1050x32@60</string> I assume the Mirror is to display the same image through the TV out port, does anybody know how to enable this? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brunogves Posted April 2, 2007 Share Posted April 2, 2007 Hello! I have an ATI Radeon 9550 (AGP) too. But it doesn't run in 1280 x 1024 resolution. How did you get??? (Sorry for my bad english) Thanks, Bruno Brazil Hi. I have an ATI Radeon 9550 (AGP), and right now, QE/CI are not supported. So far, I've gotten the Callisto driver to work (003), so I can now run at native screen resolution. Any ideas? I've searched the forums, and I've found a beta installer (still unsupported afterwards), as well as some mention of an ATIRadeon9700.kext. I'm running OS X 10.4.6. Mac OS X says this about my graphics card: Resolution: 1280 x 1024 @ 60 Hz Depth: 32-bit Color Core Image: Not Supported Main Display: Yes Mirror: Off Online: Yes Quartz Extreme: Not Supported Chipset Model: Radeon 9550 AS Type: Display Bus: PCI VRAM (Total): 256 MB Vendor: ATI (0x1002) Device ID: 0x4153 I appreciate any help. Thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snarl Posted April 15, 2007 Share Posted April 15, 2007 Hello! I have an ATI Radeon 9550 (AGP) too. But it doesn't run in 1280 x 1024 resolution. How did you get??? (Sorry for my bad english) Thanks, Bruno Brazil Make sure your monitor can handle this first (check under windows) - edit - /Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/com.apple.Boot.plist add this - <key>Graphics Mode</key> <string>1280x1024x32@60</string> 1280x1024 is the resolution the 32 is how many millions of colours the 60 is the refresh rate check what numbers your using under windows and just use the same. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
emig647 Posted April 15, 2007 Share Posted April 15, 2007 Have you tried JCCool package? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr.Krabs Posted April 18, 2007 Share Posted April 18, 2007 hi guys. seemes like i tried all the possible ways to fix the problem with QE & CI. But still nothing, i managed to get the Calisto driver work on 10.4.8 (i see if loadin system with -v flag) but no Qe & Ci support. What do i want to ask is, is there a way how can i remove all the video drivers, like uninstall maybe (because i have plenty of them install, for different cards etc, it's a total messy place right now) so i could start it all over with a clean {censored} of paper. Or maybe somebody got the solution how to getthis working on 9550? Thx in advance My Pc configuration if the following : Celeron 2.1 modded to work for 3.6Ghz 512 Ram Mac Os X 10.4.8 Ati Radeon 9550 with 128 Mb on board. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
_DarkCommon_ Posted May 9, 2007 Share Posted May 9, 2007 Emm... sorry snarl, but I do all you say, and I'm now with RADEON 9550 AS chipset but, without QE CI... pd: How i modify ATIRADEON9700.kext (modify Info.plist, I suposse) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snarl Posted May 21, 2007 Share Posted May 21, 2007 Emm... sorry snarl, but I do all you say, and I'm now with RADEON 9550 AS chipset but, without QE CI... pd: How i modify ATIRADEON9700.kext (modify Info.plist, I suposse) yeah, pretty sure it was the info.plist, you'll see some numbers like this - <string>0x41531002</string> - so just change 'em to that. You can find exactly what numbers your card uses in the device manager under windows, it's the vendor and device ID's. It will probably be those numbers though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
darkmental Posted May 21, 2007 Share Posted May 21, 2007 9200se Gigabyte and 9250 Radeon Can support QE/CI Yet? or it can modify id vender in another version of Ati Kext (ex 9700) for work? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LeoTheLion89 Posted February 29, 2012 Share Posted February 29, 2012 i have a ATI Radeon 9550 as will mine its a 256MB AGP version i have installed ALL ATI 9000 series ktexts and i cannot get it working no matter what i do it is stuck at 1024x768 recolution. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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