enzomusic Posted October 29, 2007 Share Posted October 29, 2007 Hi, maybe everyone who has a GMA900 and wants to get CoreImage and Quartz Extreme working will have problems. 1st I tried with 3 files from my 10.4.8. I copied: - AppleIntel915GLDriver.bundle - AppleIntel915GA.plugin - AppleIntel915.kext did a chmod -R 755 a chown -R root:wheel and then kextloaded -t them. It went well and it loaded. But it has not shown up in Sys-Profiler with QE supported. Even after a re-login. So I copied the AppleIntelIntegratedFramebuffer.kext, and set the permission like with the other files. EDIT: I now tried to load the AppleIntel915.kext now with the old IntelFramebuffer. But it doesn't load. While trying to post an edit with the error I got, I tried to kextunload the IntelFramebuffer, just to kextload it again. But while unloading it, it freezed my computer. /EDIT Well, maybe if someone has the same problem (and I guess there's a lot of you, too) just post here. Maybe a solution can be found by sharing some information. I'll play a bit now with that files and look for some more information on other boards. But first trying to let Leo boot from HD and not via DVD and the rd= switch. Ah, btw. I have a patched kernel, (the one you can patch yourself, distibuted with sourcecode). Well, I have an SSE3 but no HPET and NX, so for now I'm stuck with that nice thing. EDIT 2: Now trying an other method. Will be posting if it works, and if it does, I'll make an How-To for you. Greetz eNZO Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aboldinu Posted October 29, 2007 Share Posted October 29, 2007 Would like to know progress . Does Diabolik's patch work? http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&saf...amp;btnG=Search Is there any way to find out if CI/QE is supported without going to the system profiler? I think SSE2 users (myself included) will find when we install (there is a thread going on in the leopard forum) the system profiler will crash. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
systimax Posted October 30, 2007 Share Posted October 30, 2007 Diaboliks patch doesnt not work in 10.5 Still looking for the answer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
studentism Posted October 30, 2007 Share Posted October 30, 2007 Is there any way to find out if CI/QE is supported without going to the system profiler? I think SSE2 users (myself included) will find when we install (there is a thread going on in the leopard forum) the system profiler will crash. I'm fairly certain the Zoom feature in Universal Access is QE dependent. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zhaiai Posted October 31, 2007 Share Posted October 31, 2007 I tried to replace OpenGL.framework. But after set the permission, it freezed my computer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
enzomusic Posted October 31, 2007 Author Share Posted October 31, 2007 Okay, back again. Well, nothing worked. I tried combining the old'n'new framebuffer.kext with the old'n'new files. This just freezed my computer. I tried to use the GMA950 files by editing their Info.plist's referring to my DevID and VenID. Then permissions were set, the Extensions.mkext deleted and I rebooted the computer. While booting in verbose it has shown some errors about the AppleIntelGMA950.kext file, but booted into the OS. Now I have some artifacts sometimes under the Apple-menu but still no CI/QE. Then, after trying to kextload the AppleIntelIntegratedFramebuffer.kext I got some fancy artifacts all over my screen and it freezed. Btw. You can look if you have QE/CI if you open up dashboad and activate a new widget. While appearing/dropping it on the Dashboard, there should be a water ripples effect. My Menu-Bar at the top and the dock aren't translucent. Maybe that's an indicator, too. Greetz eNZO Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aboldinu Posted November 1, 2007 Share Posted November 1, 2007 thanks for trying, if you come across any news please post . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thireus Posted November 1, 2007 Share Posted November 1, 2007 Diaboliks patch doesnt not work in 10.5 Still looking for the answer Did you find the solution? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aboldinu Posted November 1, 2007 Share Posted November 1, 2007 According to this: http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showtopic=68289 The Kalyway Leopard DVD has GMA 900 drivers; Can someone find them and upload them separately? (Don't want to have to download the DVD, It's from betas I think) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
enzomusic Posted November 1, 2007 Author Share Posted November 1, 2007 The Diabolik patch has the same *.kext and *.bundle and *.plugin-Files, like I used. The difference is, that it has included the OpenGL Framework from a 10.4.x version. zhaiai tried to replace that OpelGL Framework and it freezed his computer. Well, maybe when Apple releases Darwin 9.0 x86 source and binary with the new Kernel, it may be, that they'll distibute the source for the gma900, too. With that it should be not very difficult to build/compile one in XCode 3, that works in harmony with leopard. If I have new information I'll post it right here. Btw. yeah, it'd be very nice, if somebody could upload that kexts and the opengl.framework from kalyway's dvd. Greetz eNZO Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
greekgoat91 Posted November 1, 2007 Share Posted November 1, 2007 any updates? I really want to run Leopard but I have a GMA900 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
enzomusic Posted November 2, 2007 Author Share Posted November 2, 2007 Well, most users here want to run 10.5. You also can, but just without QE/CI Updates? Well, Apple released the source code for Darwin, but no source for the GMA900 is included there. So, no source, no compile, no run. A binary version of Darwin has not been uploaded by Apple for now, but it may follow next week. We'll see when it's out on ADC. Then the big question will be, if drivers are inside there. :/ Greetz eNZO Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yozh Posted November 2, 2007 Share Posted November 2, 2007 Wow I cant belive that so many people have this problem and no one wants to work on it so sad Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aquanutz Posted November 2, 2007 Share Posted November 2, 2007 No one wants to work on it because no one wants to actually use a GMA900. It's a crappy card. Throw down a few bucks (like 25) on a 7300 if you need the bells and whistles. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NuhkaX Posted November 3, 2007 Share Posted November 3, 2007 No one wants to work on it because no one wants to actually use a GMA900. It's a crappy card. Throw down a few bucks (like 25) on a 7300 if you need the bells and whistles. What about the people with laptops that can't just swap out the card? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yozh Posted November 3, 2007 Share Posted November 3, 2007 I dont get how people dont understand that we are talking about laptops. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thireus Posted November 3, 2007 Share Posted November 3, 2007 Someone know if there's GMA900 support with the TOH-RC2 DVD? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yozh Posted November 3, 2007 Share Posted November 3, 2007 Didnt work for me I hope some one really steps up to this challenge Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
systimax Posted November 3, 2007 Share Posted November 3, 2007 no TOH does not support. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thesog Posted November 3, 2007 Share Posted November 3, 2007 I found an old Tiger post that took the AppleIntel915.kext and edited the Info.plist to reference the GMA950 supporting files, then "moved" the AppleIntalGMA950.kext out of Extensions. Upon reboot, Quartz Extreme now says supported however I'm not convinced it really is since it still appears sluggish as compared to my Tiger install and dropping a widget doesn't produce the ripple effect (although the widget bounces as if it should). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kocoman Posted November 3, 2007 Share Posted November 3, 2007 I found an old Tiger post that took the AppleIntel915.kext and edited the Info.plist to reference the GMA950 supporting files, then "moved" the AppleIntalGMA950.kext out of Extensions. Upon reboot, Quartz Extreme now says supported however I'm not convinced it really is since it still appears sluggish as compared to my Tiger install and dropping a widget doesn't produce the ripple effect (although the widget bounces as if it should). If you can get front row and photo booth working then CI/QE is enabled Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NuhkaX Posted November 4, 2007 Share Posted November 4, 2007 Kalyway GMA900 kexts are on the demon from 9A527. Not sure if they work though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thesog Posted November 5, 2007 Share Posted November 5, 2007 As suggested, I tried launching Front Row and Photo Booth. While Front Row launches (fades to black) it doesn't do much else beyond that. So that didn't work. Photo Booth launched but I didn't have any photos or see how to add any (never used it before). Guess it's back to the drawing board. For those who want to give this a try, I'll summarize what the old post said. Copy an existing AppleIntel915.kext file (probably from your Tiger installation) into your Leopard's /Systems/Library/Extensions directory. Edit the Info.plist file. Under the section IOCFPlugInTypes, change the plugin file toAppleIntelGMA950GA.plugin. Under IODVDBundleName, change the driver to AppleIntelGMA950DVDDriver. Under IOGLBundleName, change the driver to AppleIntelGMA950GLDriver. Save. Move the AppleIntelGMA950.kext file out of the Extensions directory (or rename) so that it doesn't get loaded. Change permissions/owners (chmod/chown) as necessary. Rebuild your kernel extensions cache (kextcache -k /System/Library/Extensions) and reboot. You should see "Core Image: Hardware Accelerated" and "Quartz Extreme: Supported" in your System Profiler though it lies. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xopher Posted November 15, 2007 Share Posted November 15, 2007 I can't even open the System Profiler, crashes every time I try A bit off-topic, but I guess you'd know this right? My laptop's performance is really sluggish, could this be because of the not fully functional gma900 driver? Hope someone'll find/make a working driver for us, best of luck for him/her! By the way, is there a way to disable the 'external monitor' that's spooking around after applying the 'paper clip-trick'? Thanks for listening Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
troisd Posted November 21, 2007 Share Posted November 21, 2007 I've read that Kalyway's GMA900 package works on certain machines, more specifically those that have SSE3 and HPET. Anyone fits this criteria? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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