skezza Posted February 20, 2008 Share Posted February 20, 2008 Hey Guys, Got iatkos installed. Runs great, really impressed with it. Apart from the soundcard, all is well pretty much. Got the GeForce 8400 running, but when I change resolution, it seems to go to the desktop background without any GUI. Then if i click the off button, i get for a second the interface but it just shuts down. So i have not got time to save the changes. is there anyway of doing it in terminal, the gui itself, a patch etc? Cheers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skezza Posted February 20, 2008 Author Share Posted February 20, 2008 Its kind of ironic, because changing the resolution too high nailed my last mac install, yet, i cant change it for the life of me, to one that works, and im using the same methods Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skezza Posted February 21, 2008 Author Share Posted February 21, 2008 okay, continuing on about the resolution. The natural res is 800x600. without drivers and just using VGA its 1024x768. I can get it to change, but not show up the GUI for me to save the changes. I am not sure what the deal is with that, ideas are welcome but im going to look into some more methods of how to do it. i think it really needs to be done, that and the wireless card, but anyway Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skezza Posted February 21, 2008 Author Share Posted February 21, 2008 Ive found a file called windowserver.plist. i expected it to be editable, but it was just garbled. any ideas? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hclleke Posted February 21, 2008 Share Posted February 21, 2008 same here, after changing resolution all goes blue and now I can't change back! Really annoying, have to boot in safemode to get my desktop back... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skezza Posted February 21, 2008 Author Share Posted February 21, 2008 And once in safe mode, its actually quite difficult to change the resolution on the main desktop. very annoying. my main issue is that the file that is 'supposedly' editable with a text editor, is totally garbled, but when i remove it, so it can make a fresh one, it just gets the same thing as before. can anyone upload a fresh com.apple.windowserver for us? i might be able to fix it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nofxx Posted February 21, 2008 Share Posted February 21, 2008 Thats something I need to know... After leopard GFX update, intel 945 goes do 1024x.. my mon cant handle that, so I m f*ck*d.. Even if I restore the old kexts, it stills gets that resolution as default... so I woud really like to know how to change resolution in single user mode.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
7twelve Posted February 21, 2008 Share Posted February 21, 2008 I had the same issue on my 19" TFT at home, but as soon as I hooked it up to my 23" Cinema Display at the office everything works as should. I know this doesn't solve your problem, but perhaps might lead to a solution of some sorts....my first guess would be somewhere in the monitor detection (whichever kext/plist/etc that may be...I'm still pretty new to all of this) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nofxx Posted February 21, 2008 Share Posted February 21, 2008 hmm... I havent check mon auto-detection... it always works (LG 22'' 1680x1050) .. on the vga-out, the internal laptop also cant handle 1024x.. both screens go dark.. I reinstalled it all, was testing kalyway (btw jez how it is faster then iatkos here, both vanilla on a acer 5630 c2d t5500... ) There is a kalyway 10.5.2 kernel update (besides 10.5.2 combo) on p(rateay I didnt make... you did it ? can you change resolution with that kernel on 945 ? (after gfx update) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hclleke Posted February 21, 2008 Share Posted February 21, 2008 I'm running kaly 10.5.2, with vanilla 9.02 didn't do the graphics update because my screen goes dark when I try it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skezza Posted February 21, 2008 Author Share Posted February 21, 2008 the deal is, basically, theres a plist file called com.apple.windowserver. It is supposed to contain the height, width etc, however mine is garbled. Im looking on the internet for somewhere where i can possibly download a replacement default. In that you can define the refresh rate, and the resolution. Ill keep you updated Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hclleke Posted February 21, 2008 Share Posted February 21, 2008 Well my res is back to normal, and I'd give you my file but it's garbled 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nofxx Posted February 21, 2008 Share Posted February 21, 2008 skezza, well you get my answer.. just tell me where I can find that file, I backup it... and use wherever my resolution tryes to trick me. =D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hclleke Posted February 21, 2008 Share Posted February 21, 2008 It's in /Library/Preferences, you could upload it here Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skezza Posted February 21, 2008 Author Share Posted February 21, 2008 ive been reading elsewhere that the reason its garbled, is because you have to use a Mac Text Editor. There isnt one for Windows ironically hahaha but, apparantly opening it in terminal may be the answer. Im finding a command that might help. apparantly got to open it with the property list editor, so we'll see im getting closer i hope Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nofxx Posted February 21, 2008 Share Posted February 21, 2008 Here it goes... a 10.5.2 w/o Graphical Update. 2 monitors: 1680x1050 and 1280x800. http://uploaded.to/?id=xy15mf Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skezza Posted February 21, 2008 Author Share Posted February 21, 2008 Cheers for that For those who need to reset the res and refresh rate, apparantly holding shift while booting will reset the values. What im trying to do is set a non standard res, which is 1680x1050. It is not available in sys prefs but my monitor and card can handle it. It would be easier if the wireless was working. any usb wireless cards that work in both windows and mac? http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/USB-Wireless-Card-fo...7QQcmdZViewItem im assuming this beast would be supported? oh i see, some files are in binary. you can convert them From binary to text (XML): plutil -convert xml1 some_file.plist From text or XML to binary: plutil -convert binary1 some_other_file.plist Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hclleke Posted February 21, 2008 Share Posted February 21, 2008 editing the plist doesn't do the trick for me just reverts back to 1440x900 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skezza Posted February 21, 2008 Author Share Posted February 21, 2008 im starting to get the hang of this actually. i might be able to post up a couple of plist files which declare the resolution if you want me to. Its actually easy enough once you get into it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nofxx Posted February 21, 2008 Share Posted February 21, 2008 problem is.... 945 is broken.. we need to spot diff on AppleIntelIntegratedframebuffer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skezza Posted February 21, 2008 Author Share Posted February 21, 2008 broken in what sense? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nofxx Posted February 21, 2008 Share Posted February 21, 2008 well, as in 10.5.1 all works in 10.5.2 i got a blank screen. =D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skezza Posted February 21, 2008 Author Share Posted February 21, 2008 what graphics card? if its nvidia, did you use nvinject. a lot of my issues went when i installed nvinject. but i have not updated to 10.5.2 ive been to into just getting the wireless etc working. Im still trying to get the same as your third one working, the chip just doesnt want to Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nofxx Posted February 21, 2008 Share Posted February 21, 2008 intel GMA950 945... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hclleke Posted February 21, 2008 Share Posted February 21, 2008 i'm using ATIinject, got acceleration and everything, list graphics modes but can't change or I get blue screen Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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