Blair78 Posted January 12, 2006 Share Posted January 12, 2006 I've been having a problem trying to get my display to work correctly. I'm using a BenQ LCD FP567s Monitor, when I boot into MAC OSx86 the resolution of my monitor (According to the diagnostic on screen display) reads 1280x1024@60hz. In the Hardware Panel in MAC OSX, the resolution reads 1024x768. This seems to be causing my display to go crazy, it's almost as if it's trying to display in widescreen with a flicker. I've tried changing any and all settings within my montior but nothing seems to be working the way i want it to. In the hardware panel, I can not change the screen resolution at all, the only one displaying is 1024x768, and there is no refresh rate to change. Any help would be great, I don't know if i have to somehow install some drivers for my monitor or what, but I'm kinda going in circles with this. Thanks in advance. Blair78 Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/6712-resolution-problems-with-lcd-monitor-in-mac-osx86/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
aquabot Posted January 12, 2006 Share Posted January 12, 2006 In future, please do a search to make sure this question hasnt been answered 40 times already please. In order to make your monitor display the correct resolution wait till you get to the darwin boot loader, and enter this at the prompt For VESA 2: "Graphics Mode"="1280x1024x32" For VESA 3 "Graphics Mode"="1280x1024x32@60" So you dont have to enter this every time you start the computer, edit the boot.plist file. instructions are here: http://wiki.osx86project.org/wiki/index.php/Tips_And_Tricks it's under "Messing with Boot options" Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/6712-resolution-problems-with-lcd-monitor-in-mac-osx86/#findComment-41526 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blair78 Posted January 12, 2006 Author Share Posted January 12, 2006 Hi, I've been searching through the forum's and haven't found an answer yet. I've tried the combination you gave me, and many others too. I did a typo however in my original post, the monitor was displaying at 1280x960@60hz, NOT 1280x1024. This is what i've tried, all of which have the exact same outcome. "Graphics Mode"="1024x768x32" "1280x960x32" "1280x1024x32" "1024x768x32@60" "1280x960x32@60" "1280x1024x32@60" The only time I had something different happen, is when I tried this: "Graphics Mode"="800x600x32" This outcome gave me an error message on my monitor which said it was "Out Of Range". and did not display anything. after I press the F8 button and load the boot menu, this is what I see: Darwin/x86 boot v5.0.128 1023 MB memory VESA v2.0 64 MB (ATI RADEON VE) then it shows the only partition which is the OSX partition on the drive, then: boot: Anyone that can help me out or perhaps steer me into the right direction, I would be greatful. Thanks. Blair. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/6712-resolution-problems-with-lcd-monitor-in-mac-osx86/#findComment-41835 Share on other sites More sharing options...
39thRonin Posted January 12, 2006 Share Posted January 12, 2006 Sounds like your display may not support the resolution you want to use. At the noot prompt try typing ?video and a list of supported screen resolutions will be displayed. Note that you may not like what is displayed, but those are the only resolutions you can use... Sorry... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/6712-resolution-problems-with-lcd-monitor-in-mac-osx86/#findComment-41846 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blair78 Posted January 12, 2006 Author Share Posted January 12, 2006 I've been searching through these forums for hours now, seems like most people are just complaining about being stuck in 1024x768, however I can't even have that working properlly. My screen looks like my monitor doesn't support the resolution of the OS, it's all stretched and hard to make anything out. (Remember back in the old windows days when you'd change the resolution to something really high and when you accepted the changes your screen would be hard to make out, full of lines and flickering) well that's what I have after installing. I can however make out in the Mac Hardware panel that it states my resolution is 1024x768.. but like I was saying before, when I go into the On Screen Display of my LCD Monitor and I look at the Display Information, it reads a resolution of 1280x960@60hz. which is obviously not what the OS is set at. I tried to manually change the resolution of the OS in the boot options to what the monitor thinks it is. (1280x960) but it still looks the same. I do not have a widescreen LCD either, it's just a standard 4:3 aspect. I tried ?video, and tried changing the graphics mode to several of the supported resolutions.. but my monitor is still stuck at the same "1280x960" resolution, therefor I keep getting the exact same outcome. I don't understand what's going on.. Everything was fine when I was installing the OS. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/6712-resolution-problems-with-lcd-monitor-in-mac-osx86/#findComment-41847 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blair78 Posted January 13, 2006 Author Share Posted January 13, 2006 Am I the first person this has happened to? Hasn't anyone ever heard of something like this before?? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/6712-resolution-problems-with-lcd-monitor-in-mac-osx86/#findComment-42004 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blair78 Posted February 11, 2006 Author Share Posted February 11, 2006 I'm still having this problem. Any updates?? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/6712-resolution-problems-with-lcd-monitor-in-mac-osx86/#findComment-55152 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blair78 Posted February 11, 2006 Author Share Posted February 11, 2006 It's almost as if OSx86 is sending a signal to my monitor telling my monitor to display in a widescreen format (1280x960@60Hz). I'm pretty sure that resolution is widescreen anyway. That's what it looks like when the OS is running. But like i said before, when I view the specs in the hardware profiles, it does say 1024x768. I'm very confused. At this point I'm willing to try anything if anyone at all has any suggestions. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/6712-resolution-problems-with-lcd-monitor-in-mac-osx86/#findComment-55345 Share on other sites More sharing options...
detriment Posted February 16, 2006 Share Posted February 16, 2006 have you tried booting into safe mode to see if that does anything? (-x at the boot menu.) Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/6712-resolution-problems-with-lcd-monitor-in-mac-osx86/#findComment-57290 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blair78 Posted February 19, 2006 Author Share Posted February 19, 2006 Yes, I booted into safe mode with the exact same affect. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/6712-resolution-problems-with-lcd-monitor-in-mac-osx86/#findComment-58111 Share on other sites More sharing options...
david.won Posted February 19, 2006 Share Posted February 19, 2006 Am I the first person this has happened to? Hasn't anyone ever heard of something like this before?? i have the same problem crying Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/6712-resolution-problems-with-lcd-monitor-in-mac-osx86/#findComment-58130 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blair78 Posted February 20, 2006 Author Share Posted February 20, 2006 Hi david.won, Do you also have the BenQ LCD Monitor ? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/6712-resolution-problems-with-lcd-monitor-in-mac-osx86/#findComment-58611 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blair78 Posted February 20, 2006 Author Share Posted February 20, 2006 I found something on the apple.com website that said the videio requirements for mac x86 I have to make sure that the Core Image and Quartz Extreme are both supported. Right now I've booted to osx86 (Still with my problems) I've opened the System Profiler and discovered that in the Graphics/Displays option this: Display: Type: VGA-Compatible Controller Bus: PCI Vendor: ATI (0x1002) Device ID: 0x5159 Revision ID: 0x0000 Kernel Extension Info: No Kext Loaded Displays: Display: Resolution: 1024 x 768 Depth: 32-bit Color Core Image: Not Supported Main Display: Yes Mirror: Off Online: Yes Quartz Extreme: Not Supported .. So does anyone know what this means? Is there a way to work around this? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/6712-resolution-problems-with-lcd-monitor-in-mac-osx86/#findComment-58626 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blair78 Posted February 20, 2006 Author Share Posted February 20, 2006 actually.. i just found out what those two items were and they have nothing to do with my problem This is so frusterating. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/6712-resolution-problems-with-lcd-monitor-in-mac-osx86/#findComment-58637 Share on other sites More sharing options...
R. Bear Helms Posted February 20, 2006 Share Posted February 20, 2006 VESA support in 10.4.3 is poor. You really do need to have support for your graphics chipset to see anything other than crud on LCD monitors. Apple simply didn't make this developer release that flexible. Nor is there any incentive for them to improve upon that in the future. Some things will always stay a hack. However, since a lot of open source Linux display drivers exist, in time it's possible someone will figure how to patch in the right .kext to make other graphics chipsets and monitors work better in 10.4.3 and maybe beyond. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/6712-resolution-problems-with-lcd-monitor-in-mac-osx86/#findComment-58640 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blair78 Posted February 22, 2006 Author Share Posted February 22, 2006 Ok, i understand what you mean by that. But during the installation of Mac OSx86 the screen resolution was fine. I had no problems what so ever during the installation of the OS, it only started happening after the first reboot (after everything was installed). So i'm sure that there must be some way to revert whatever changes were made after the install. Does anyone have any idea what the display is set to during install ? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/6712-resolution-problems-with-lcd-monitor-in-mac-osx86/#findComment-60881 Share on other sites More sharing options...
R. Bear Helms Posted February 22, 2006 Share Posted February 22, 2006 Post install for my Mac Mini (talking about a non hacked, PPC OS X here) left it in 1024x768x32. I used the displays control on System Preferences, and was able to choose 1280x1024x16 (well, the latter being "Thousands" of colors) and 60 Hz refresh. Originally the refresh was 75hz. If you can see what you're doing at all, Choose "About this mac" from the Apple menu, then the bottom button for system details. In the list find the software section, click extensions, and find what display extension it's using. If it's a VGA extension, then the real support for your chipset didn't take hold. If you can look at the /System/Library/Extensions on your system, see if you can find what probably is better for your display. Then you either open a terminal session, "sudo -s" and perform a kextload -t [whatever extension.kext] - it should indicate why it won't load. Sometimes if you just get a copy of the kext from a Darwin 8.01 release, making sure you change ownership and repair permissions, rebooting may set you right. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/6712-resolution-problems-with-lcd-monitor-in-mac-osx86/#findComment-60892 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blair78 Posted February 23, 2006 Author Share Posted February 23, 2006 I went to the extensions window, There's about 50-60 items listeded, I'm not too sure exactly which one displays my display extension. the closest thing I could find is probably this: IOGraphicsFamily: Version: 1.4 Last Modified: 5/26/05 9:55 PM Get Info String: 1.4, Copyright Apple Computer, Inc. 2000-2004 Location: /System/Library/Extensions/IOGraphicsFamily.kext kext Version: 1.4 Load Address: 0xd7797000 Valid: Yes Authentic: Yes Dependencies: Satisfied Integrity: Correct I can view the /System/Library/Extensions folder, but that lists 198 items. How would I know which is the right one for my LCD Monitor? The only one I could really find pertaining to monitor support was AppleSMUMonitor.kext and this was the outcome of that: root# kextload -t AppleSMUMonitor.kext kernel extension AppleSMUMonitor.kext has problems: Validation failures { "Executable file doesn't contain kernel extension code" = true } Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/6712-resolution-problems-with-lcd-monitor-in-mac-osx86/#findComment-61135 Share on other sites More sharing options...
R. Bear Helms Posted February 23, 2006 Share Posted February 23, 2006 I'm on XP right now, so OS X isn't handy (torrents... waiting on torrents...) But the IOGraphicsFamily is a very generic driver, so it's probably too dumb to understand what resolutions your LCD can do and what it can't, so is picking sub-optimal choices. I think full-featured extensions for displays have "ATI" or "Nvidia" or "GeForce" in their name - something similar to whomever makes the graphics chipset your system has. Mine's an Intel GMA 900, there's some IntelDisplay extension loaded for it. AppleSMUMonitor.kext apparently is a data or control extension, nothing pertinent to your problem. Generally the extension needed will have "Display" in its name, not monitor. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/6712-resolution-problems-with-lcd-monitor-in-mac-osx86/#findComment-61141 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blair78 Posted February 26, 2006 Author Share Posted February 26, 2006 I tired all of the kext files that I could find that would have to do with the display properties and still nothing. However. I was messing around in windows xp with my dual display ATI Raedon card. The current settings were set to output to my monitor and TV (S-Video Out) at the same time. I turned off the S-Video output and now everything works. I can't explain what or how this works. my OSX is on a separate drive from my WinXP drive. So the video card itself must keep these settings stored. But that's all I did. And it works, weird 'eh ? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/6712-resolution-problems-with-lcd-monitor-in-mac-osx86/#findComment-63699 Share on other sites More sharing options...
cronnos Posted December 24, 2008 Share Posted December 24, 2008 I know I'm replying to a 2-year-old post, but I've been going crazy about fixing my screen's resolution to no avail... Have there been any new solutions in the past two years? I've looked through the forums and I can't seem to find anything... I'm running 10.4.8 on a HP Pavilion dv1000 with a native resolution of 1280x960, but I only get 1024x768. I have tried following the instructions here, and I still can't fix it. Any help will be much appreciated. Thanks. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/6712-resolution-problems-with-lcd-monitor-in-mac-osx86/#findComment-1012296 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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