daddyo Posted November 29, 2005 Share Posted November 29, 2005 Hi, Reporting sucess with an Asus Radeon 9550, P4 3G HT, Asus P4P800E-Deluxe board. 10.4.3 + maxxuss 1.1a patch. Installed in Vmware onto a physical drive (native booting caused strange CPU panic), then plugged the hdd into the primary channel and booted off it Using GF6600GT got vesa modes only. Searched high and low for a 9600 but couldn't find one, settled for ASUS radeon 9550 (supposed to be cut down 9700). Booted up fine in accellerated mode (moving windows was snappy) but no QE or CI, DVD playback not possible. Edited /System/Library/Extensions/ATIRadeon9700.kext added the pci device id Type: VGA-Compatible Controller Bus: PCI VRAM (Total): 256 MB Vendor: ATI (0x1002) Device ID: 0x4153 Revision ID: 0x0000 Rebooted, didn't work. Rebooted into safe mode and loaded the drive manually (kextload /System/Library/Extensions/ATIRadeon9700.kext), and then let os x continue bootup. Sucess, QE an CI enabled. Slight tearing of mouse cursor. I suspect that the 9700 driver is not using the hardware cursor on the mouse. removed old extcache, and recached, now when I boot up it works fine. Cheers Daddy-o Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yossarian Posted February 5, 2006 Share Posted February 5, 2006 How do you enter the above information into a kext file? I have very similar hardware to the above post (ASUS P4P800E-Deluxe / Intel 3.2 Ghz / 4 x 512 MB RAM / ATI Radeon 9550) and am running 10.4.3. Thanks, Mike Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Louse76 Posted February 10, 2006 Share Posted February 10, 2006 Thanks for posting that this worked. I will be looking to do exactly what you did. I am currently building all of this outside of my pc case and don't have that card installed yet, but when I do, I will likely come back to this thread with questions. I have pretty extensive knowledge when it comes to windows, but I am a TOTAL MAC n00b!! Thanks in advance!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gfwyzxj Posted February 13, 2006 Share Posted February 13, 2006 I tried, but no success.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alexaltair2 Posted February 13, 2006 Share Posted February 13, 2006 Did your mouse cursor turns to garbage after entering in fullscreen OpenGL mode?... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Louse76 Posted February 24, 2006 Share Posted February 24, 2006 Do you know if 1680x1050 resolution will work if this is done? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CogitoErgoSum Posted September 26, 2006 Share Posted September 26, 2006 I'd like to add my own little success story to this thread. I have an ATI Radeon 9500 Pro (AGP 128mb)....not a 9550. Followed the same process of editing my Device ID to the Info.plist of the ATIRadeon9700.kext. Got QE/CI working no problemo, but have to edit boot options to get anything better then 1024x768x32. I can't get it to run up to 1600x1200 (which my monitor(s) run just fine in Windows XP. Now someone just needs to figure out how to make the second out on the card work as not a mirror but as a span, and I will be a superhappy nerd. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snarl Posted March 18, 2007 Share Posted March 18, 2007 (edited) 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? Edited March 23, 2007 by snarl Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cosmicfrog Posted May 20, 2007 Share Posted May 20, 2007 Hey there - can someone please help - Hardware : AMD Semperon 3000, Gigabyte MV800m Motherboard, 512mb RAM (to be upgraded) PowerColour ATi 9550 AGP Card with 256mb Ram, Apple Cinema HD Display (over DVI port) Software : JaS 10.4.8 Intel AMD version Problem : Darwin boots - no problem (but detects card as Radeon 9600 with VESA 2.0) Grey Apple and spinning timer - no problem As soon as the grey screen is replaced with the blue loading OS X screen, i get a split screen and jitters for about 1 second, then a perfect screen at native resolution (1920x1200), then screen goes black and thats that. I've followed all the advice on the forums, including adding the info to the 9700's kext file, but am at a loss - If i do a safe boot with "-x" same problem If i do a safe boot with "-x graphics mode=anyresolutionxanydepth" i get same problem If i do a safe boot with "-x graphics mode=1920x1200" same problem again If i do a safe boot with "-x graphics mode=1920x1200@60" system boots perfectly to the OS - no glitches have edited com.apple.Boot.plist to include working resolution - same problem presents. Have swapped monitors for another DVI monitor - no joy, tried on VGA monitor - identical symptoms (adjusted resolutions accordingly) If i take out the Radeon, no problems - system boots fine - everything else working - really am stumped - cant work out why will boot fine in safe mode, but not normally, unless another kext file is conflicting, arghh! Any, Any advice out there? Many thanks in advance guys Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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