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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!

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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!

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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.

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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...

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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

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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.

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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. :P 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

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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

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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??

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