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aleingang69 · Feb 1, 2005, 08:47 PM

Hi,
I've found some older posts on here but nothing that solved my problem. I have an old PCI video card; an ATI Mach64, in my dual-450 G4. I use it to run a second monitor, mostly for palettes for Photoshop, etc. so I'm fine with the quality of the card. It runs perfectly with Jaguar, but the best I've been able to get it to do with Panther is a completely useless "256 colors" which in reality is an illegible grey screen. I read that 10.3.7 had added ATI drivers so I thought my problem was solved, but it made no difference.
Is there any work-around or hack for this? I don't want to but a new card and I think it's ridiculous that I should even have to consider it.
Help! I'm stuck in Jaguar and I want to get out!
Al

MORT A POTTY · Feb 1, 2005, 09:14 PM

oh lord. Get a Radeon 9200 and be done with it. it's fairly cheap and as good as it gets in terms of PCI video cards.

or do you have an AGP slot?

reader50 · Feb 1, 2005, 11:44 PM

Apple or ATi must have "cleaned out" some of the older display drivers in 10.3. It seems like I've heard others complaining about this too.

You need one of the extensions from your Jag partition, in:
/System/Library/Extensions/

Messing around with anything in here pretty much requires you to log in as root, or do the modifications from OS9.

I don't know which extension gives support for that card, so try pulling out a few likely extensions at a time and rebooting Jag until your 2nd display goes to 256 colors. Narrow it down to the correct extension, then copy that one over to your Panther partition.

ps - back up the corresponding file on the Panther partition ahead of time, if there is a corresponding file. Just in case this hoses either or both partitions. Backing up your data isn't a bad idea either.

aleingang69 · Feb 5, 2005, 10:37 AM

Thanks Reader50!
I'll give that a try and let ya'll know if it does the trick.
Al

aleingang69 · Feb 6, 2005, 08:54 PM

Oh well - any other thoughts?
I went in and trashed every single ATI-labeled file (kext, bundle and plugin) in the xtensions folder and both the old PCI card and the main Ragepro AGP card are working just fine in Jaguar. I compared the list of ATI files in Jaquar and Panther and Panther already has all of the files that Jag has, plus a couple of extras.
Maybe there's another file buried in there that isn't labeled as ATI? I looked around and nothing obvious presented itself.
Again: HELP!