manu2b Posted February 4, 2008 Share Posted February 4, 2008 Hello, I have MacOSX 10.4.8 on my Intel P4c AGP. It was working fine with my ATI Radeon X1950XT, but now, I put back my old Radeon 9700 Pro, and when I'm booting, I'm finishing with a black screen instead of having the logon screen... I guess the ATI drivers I have in my OSX should work for the 9700 as well, but I guess I need to delete the KText cache or something like that... As I'm really not sure what procedure to follow, anyone could give me a little help..? I'd rather avoid to do the whole OSX installation again... Thanks in advance ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
westwaerts Posted February 4, 2008 Share Posted February 4, 2008 Look in the wiki which cards are supported and how. if you change kexts, use kexthelper +or repair permissions. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
manu2b Posted February 4, 2008 Author Share Posted February 4, 2008 I'm almost sure that the 9700 Pro is supported, as it worked on my previous installation of OSX 10.4.4 without any trouble. After that, I removed it just before I installed OSX 10.4.8 with the X1950XT. But I'm clueless about what I have to do now, coz the startup doesn't reach the logon screen, so I cannot do anything within the OS... Can I start the OSX in console mode ? And from there, what commands should I use to change the KText used for the video card ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
westwaerts Posted February 4, 2008 Share Posted February 4, 2008 boot in verbose mode -v and have a look at the errors Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
manu2b Posted February 4, 2008 Author Share Posted February 4, 2008 I already did this, that's why I know it's blocking on the logon, coz the last line is about "LoginWindows"... and after, it's going all black (I never see the logo or anything else)... I just tried -f as well, and it didn't change anything... EDIT: and I think there's no special error ... But It's going quite fast, so not sure... It shows error message about display family, but it was already doing this when it was working with the previous card, if I recall well... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
manu2b Posted February 4, 2008 Author Share Posted February 4, 2008 Ok, it seems I should reinstall the drivers, following the steps from this topic : http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showtopic=30084 ; coz I likely need to change the Device ID referenced in OSX ... I give up for now, not much time to try all of this... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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