Leopard installed, but I have GMA950 issues

[jWin]

On my laptop, I installed a vanilla version of 10.5.5 leopard. When using the stock gma950 kexts, my laptop boots up to a blue screen on my internal display. However, when you plug in an external monitor, everything displays on it just fine. I then used OSX86 tools utility by pcwiz to install GFX strings in my com.apple.boot.plist file. It's pretty self explanatory, just click on add EFI strings/boot flags, and then click the graphics part. It walks you through it all, its pretty intuitive.

 

After rebooting, my graphics work great without using any "hacked" kexts, which leave me with full acceleration and no artifacts. I assume you can use GFX strings even if you're not using an EFI boot since they're added to the boot.apple. My guess would be that you could get a copy of the default gma950 kexts, install those, and add the GFX strings. However that's just my speculation, so do not sacrifics an install that has important files on it before backing up.

 

Hope that helps

 

All that works fine for me as well and solves corruption however sleep does not work, cant even put the monitor to sleep, just gets stuck on the screensaver.