skj Posted December 16, 2007 Share Posted December 16, 2007 total noob here to mac stuff... ie: please respond by typing slowly (LOL!) With Kalyway 10.4.10, the ati 9800 pro only comes up with 1024x768 resolution. Trying the callisto stuff to add resolution choices. In the installation process, was trying to edit the info.plist in the CallistoHAL.kext/contents. After replacing the device ID, tried to save by overwriting and the message came up "Couldn't save document as "Info.plist" in folder "Contents"." I did some stuff that I thought gave me root priveledges: (in the terminal, typed "sudo chown -R root:wheel /System/Library/Extensions/callistoHAL.kext" and "sudo chown -R 755 /System/Library/Extensions/callistoHAL.kext" also did the same for callisto.kext) 1. Where did I go wrong? 2. What do I need to do to get this to save? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/76460-couldn%E2%80%99t-save-document-as-%E2%80%9Cinfoplist%E2%80%9D-in-folder-%E2%80%9Ccontents%E2%80%9D/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
bibendum Posted December 16, 2007 Share Posted December 16, 2007 I'm almost afraid to answer this. It's not Mac stuff you're a noob to, it's Unix commands and concepts. For instance, what you did was set the ownership (chown) and permissions (chmod - I assume you used chmod as chown doesn't use -R 755) recursively (-R) on the folder/kext calistoHAL.kext - that has nothing to do with giving you root permissions. The sudo command at the beginning of the line executes the following command (chmod, etc) as though you were root - (sudo/pseudo - get it?). So - either use sudo <your editor of choice> Info.plist - or sudo -s (which spawns another shell with you as root), then <your editor of choice> Info.plist. Just remember - there's no safety net here - you can do major mess as root. I HEARTILY suggest you do some unix/linux command research. This is a hobbyist computer situation. Proceed at your own risk. Patrick Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/76460-couldn%E2%80%99t-save-document-as-%E2%80%9Cinfoplist%E2%80%9D-in-folder-%E2%80%9Ccontents%E2%80%9D/#findComment-540113 Share on other sites More sharing options...
skj Posted December 17, 2007 Author Share Posted December 17, 2007 Thanks Patrick. Now you've uncovered my total lack of knowledge in terminal commands (but that wasn't really that hard... LOL!) Anyway got it all sorted out. Now I have 640x480 all the way up to 1600x1200 in resolution choices. What I finally did was just to "get info" on the file, then just click the lock to unlock it in Details of the Ownership & Permissions section. After that, was able to save and finish up the installation instructions. p.s. yeah you were right about the chown and chmod mix up. was up a long time at that point and not too coherent at that time. p.p.s now onto qe and ci. I saw another thread about that. Maybe tomorrow. need sleep. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/76460-couldn%E2%80%99t-save-document-as-%E2%80%9Cinfoplist%E2%80%9D-in-folder-%E2%80%9Ccontents%E2%80%9D/#findComment-540798 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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