x1300 Ati PCI (not E) wont load kexts

[Tibian Ass Monkey]

I have a dell dimension 2400 p4 2.8 with built in video, no agp port.

Type: Display

Bus: Built-In

VRAM (Total): 64 MB of shared system memory

Vendor: Intel (0x8086)

Device ID: 0x2572

Revision ID: 0x0002

Kernel Extension Info: No Kext Loaded

Displays:

Display:

Resolution: 1024 x 768

Depth: 32-bit Color

Core Image: Software

Main Display: Yes

Mirror: Off

Online: Yes

Quartz Extreme: Not Supported

 

i really wanted quartz and all the other goodies..so,

I ended up getting an X1300 256 PCI CARD (not pci e)

Using this with TOH RC2 of leopard install.

 

The card detects

 

Type: Display

Bus: PCIe

PCIe Lane Width: x1

Vendor: ATI (0x1002)

Device ID: 0x7146

Revision ID: 0x0000

Kernel Extension Info: No Kext Loaded

Displays:

Display Connector:

 

But that's all, no other info is displayed, no kexts or display info.

It is working and outputting video though.

 

I followed this guide for x1650 to hexedit one of the files where you take you replace certain code with 4671 and 7146. Still nothing.

 

 

I am thinking maybe the original drivers only support PCI Express and not regular PCI?

 

is there a fix for this?

 

I'm pretty much a total newb, any help would be greatly appreciated.

[Tibian Ass Monkey]

Ended up turning off built in completely, I don't know what I did, but was having "please restart this computer" issues, and ati kext conflicts.

I also noticed that at boot it only detects the ATI as 16mb not 256mb ?

 

Update:

 

After reinstall with on board disabled, and boot -v i get tons of display specific matching failed. And it boots to grey screen apple logo, then goes to next screen with mouse cursor and hangs.

 

What could be the issue?

[Tibian Ass Monkey]

No one has any ideas? I really would like to get this card working. I had to resort to installing Vista which actually managed to pull a 3.0 in Performance Index on that system (memory being the culprit) the graphics where hitting a 4.5 for aero and 3.5 for gaming. But interface sucks and it hogs the memory.