menuhin Posted December 24, 2007 Share Posted December 24, 2007 Hi, I am running Kalyway on a Thinkpad T60 with unmodified display driver on an ATI Radeon Mibility X1300 card (CI/QE works) I want to connect my external 1680x1050 screen to the VGA port so that I can use the external screen as an extended monitor How can I do that? Is the current driver on this display card possible to do that? (I plug in the monitor and see nothing happens in the System_Preference-->Display settings) Thanks very much! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raymond Lambie Posted December 26, 2007 Share Posted December 26, 2007 I am trying to get the X1300 graphics drivers working with Kalyway 10.5.1 on a Thinkpad T60. I would be keen to know what options you used during the install. If I can get it working I may be able to help with the external display... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
royco Posted December 27, 2007 Share Posted December 27, 2007 My T60 X1300 works aok but no res change but with CI/QE (with mouse tearing tho). I would also like to know how you made the X1300 work with an unmodified driver. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mitro Posted December 27, 2007 Share Posted December 27, 2007 royco try this... Natit.kext.zip Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
menuhin Posted January 5, 2008 Author Share Posted January 5, 2008 Hi Raymond: For Kalyway 10.5.1, install I did not add any additional display driver in the option, having vanilla kernel option selected too, SSE2 unselected For resolution: I edited my Boot plist and hard code that to 1400x1050: ATI Radeon Mobility X1300 (Ven ID=1002, Dev ID=7149) 1) Hardcode your native resolution (1400x1050 in my case) Edit /Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/com.apple.Boot.plist, adding the following lines: Code: <key>Boot Graphics</key> <string>Yes</string> <key>Graphics Mode</key> <string>1400x1050x32</string> Reboot. You should boot successfully into gui, with 1400x1050 resolution. 2) Get CI/QE support Edit /System/Library/Extensions/ATIRadeonX1000.kext/Contents/Info.plist, adding Dev ID of your card (7149 for X1300) Search for: <key>IOPCIMatch</key> <string>0x71461002 0x71421002 0x71091002 … </string> Change to: <key>IOPCIMatch</key> <string>0x71491002</string> 3) Fix permissions and clear kext cache 4) Reboot I really want to connect my OSX Thinkpad to my external widescreen as an extended display... and also have resolution change options... I have tried a couple of homebrew display drivers, but failed; somebody please suggest some other drivers for me to try next! Thank you! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tldr-mac-legend Posted January 5, 2008 Share Posted January 5, 2008 Hi Raymond:For Kalyway 10.5.1, install I did not add any additional display driver in the option, having vanilla kernel option selected too, SSE2 unselected For resolution: I edited my Boot plist and hard code that to 1400x1050: ATI Radeon Mobility X1300 (Ven ID=1002, Dev ID=7149) 1) Hardcode your native resolution (1400x1050 in my case) Edit /System/Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/com.apple.Boot.plist, adding the following lines: Code: <key>Boot Graphics</key> <string>Yes</string> <key>Graphics Mode</key> <string>1400x1050x32</string> Reboot. You should boot successfully into gui, with 1400x1050 resolution. 2) Get CI/QE support Edit /System/Library/Extensions/ATIRadeonX1000.kext/Contents/Info.plist, adding Dev ID of your card (7149 for X1300) Search for: <key>IOPCIMatch</key> <string>0x71461002 0x71421002 0x71091002 … </string> Change to: <key>IOPCIMatch</key> <string>0x71491002</string> 3) Fix permissions and clear kext cache 4) Reboot I really want to connect my OSX Thinkpad to my external widescreen as an extended display... and also have resolution change options... I have tried a couple of homebrew display drivers, but failed; somebody please suggest some other drivers for me to try next! Thank you! Tried it, but didn't work. Are you using ATI X1300 Mobility? Still stuck at 1024x768. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
quarterpounder Posted January 5, 2008 Share Posted January 5, 2008 Hi friends... I have a T60 w ati radeon mobility x1400. The above stated trick did it for me with the ToH release, on kaly I tried the extened version as described in http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?sho...00+mobility+leo but reaching only the same. However, I have QE & therefore a lot of apps running including Time machine. By editing com.Apple.boot.plist I get my native resolution of 1400x1050x32 and I think with the recommendations here I'll get rid of the mouse artifacts again. But still I am neither able to use the external vga nor can I change the resolution in the preferences. And I think this driver issue prevents me from sleep mode as everything fells asleep but the display. Please stay all tuned on this thread as we are so many with similar config... The are a lot of issues beside ati-problems with laptops... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tldr-mac-legend Posted January 8, 2008 Share Posted January 8, 2008 Would it be possible to change resolution on ATI X1300 Mobility? I have ToH RC2 Leopard with vanilla. I am stuck at 1024x768 on Dell E1505. Can't get external display to work either. Please Help!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tldr-mac-legend Posted January 10, 2008 Share Posted January 10, 2008 Anyone? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
menuhin Posted January 11, 2008 Author Share Posted January 11, 2008 I can only hard code it, see point 1) above: but it does not work in the system preference --> display settings I think for some wide screen model, even hard coding doesn't work, and need to have "real" graphic card support to change resolution in the system preference I also want to know if there is anyone out there that can find the way to fully support ATI Mobility Radeon X1300 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GaryVegas Posted January 17, 2008 Share Posted January 17, 2008 I have the widescreen T60 (87744 5BU) with an 128MB ATI Radeon X1400 card. Only able to get 1400x1050 by changing ....Boot.plist. made the change for CI and QE but don't know what to look for to see if it works. no mouse tearing would also like to get 1680x1050 support. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gunnar1983 Posted January 17, 2008 Share Posted January 17, 2008 Got the same problems as you GrayVegas. I'll been looking for answers all around the net for a while now. And have come to a conclution that some cards x1400 card will not work on OSx 10.5.1. I hope that im wrong, because I cant install Final Cut pro or use Any other graphics programs, Even Chess without QE Working. CI works for me. IT says Core Image: SoftwareI got my sound working. and have 1400x1050 Res. but want my graphic card to work 100% ! so I can use additional software...Got the same problems as you GrayVegas. I'll been looking for answers all around the net for a while now. And have come to a conclution that some cards x1400 card will not work on OSx 10.5.1. I hope that im wrong, because I cant install Final Cut pro or use Any other graphics programs, Even Chess without QE Working. CI works for me. IT says Core Image: SoftwareI got my sound working. and have 1400x1050 Res. but want my graphic card to work 100% ! so I can use additional software... Cheers Gunnar Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maclac Posted January 26, 2008 Share Posted January 26, 2008 Hi Raymond:For Kalyway 10.5.1, install I did not add any additional display driver in the option, having vanilla kernel option selected too, SSE2 unselected For resolution: I edited my Boot plist and hard code that to 1400x1050: ATI Radeon Mobility X1300 (Ven ID=1002, Dev ID=7149) 1) Hardcode your native resolution (1400x1050 in my case) Edit /System/Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/com.apple.Boot.plist, adding the following lines: Code: <key>Boot Graphics</key> <string>Yes</string> <key>Graphics Mode</key> <string>1400x1050x32</string> Reboot. You should boot successfully into gui, with 1400x1050 resolution. 2) Get CI/QE support Edit /System/Library/Extensions/ATIRadeonX1000.kext/Contents/Info.plist, adding Dev ID of your card (7149 for X1300) Search for: <key>IOPCIMatch</key> <string>0x71461002 0x71421002 0x71091002 … </string> Change to: <key>IOPCIMatch</key> <string>0x71491002</string> 3) Fix permissions and clear kext cache 4) Reboot I really want to connect my OSX Thinkpad to my external widescreen as an extended display... and also have resolution change options... I have tried a couple of homebrew display drivers, but failed; somebody please suggest some other drivers for me to try next! Thank you! I'm giving this a go but everytime I try to save the boot.plist file it tells me I can't save files in the systemconfiguration (or whatever it is called) folder. Any tips? Malc Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pyxu619 Posted January 27, 2008 Share Posted January 27, 2008 I'm giving this a go but everytime I try to save the boot.plist file it tells me I can't save files in the systemconfiguration (or whatever it is called) folder. Any tips? Malc Did you use sudo to give yourself super user statues?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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