Whats the best Driver Set for the Radeon 7000? |
December, 09, 2002 5:34 AM |
cschmidt |
Okay... PM7300 with the following: New G4-800 Sonnet New 512MB Ram 18gb AtlasV HD on the internal SCSI I had been having random lock ups. Made the decision to replace my ram. Did a CLEAN install using the new Sonnet 1.2.6 upgrade and all seemed to go well. I am still on the internal 4MB VRAM and the PCI Radeon is NOT installed. I wanted to make sure things were fine with the G4-800 and the new ram. I am VERY pleased with the performance boost that I am getting with the G4- 800. Very peppy, quick boot, and it's ripping MP3's at 2x the rate of the old G4-400 board. I want/need to have the Radeon installed to get things to perk up on the Video side of the house So the question is.....What driver version seems to work the Best in this config? Chris |
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RE: Whats the best Driver Set for the Radeon 7000? |
December, 26, 2002 8:37 PM |
joevt |
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If you have more than one monitor plugged in to the Radeon 7000 then use A for the VGA connector and B for the DVI connector. If you only have one monitor then use A. If that doesn't work then XPostFacto might have a problem writing the setting to NVRAM. Maybe 2.2.5b3 will help. If not, you can test the output-device by going into Open Firmware. You should get a second computer and plugin a serial cable between the modem ports of each. Start the second computer, run a terminal communications program like ZTerm, set the port to Modem port, 38400bps, 8N1, XOn/XOff. Run XPostFacto on the first computer that has OS X, set the output- device to ATY,RV100ad_A, input-device to keyboard, and auto-boot? to false and restart. If you see text on the monitor then you don't have a problem. Type boot to exit Open Firmware and continue starting up. If the monitor remains black, then try setting the output to the modem port by blind typing " ttya" output Make sure you include the spaces. you should start seeing text appear in the communications program on the second computer. You can also type " ttya" input to set the input to the modem port so you can type on the second computer instead. Use printenv to get a list of settings. You should see a setting for the output- device which should have been set to the Radeon 7000 by XPostFacto. It should look something like this: output-device pci1/ATY,RV100Parent/ATY,RV100ad_A ttya ttya is the default when PRAM is zapped. Try setting the output to the above like this " pci1/ATY,RV100Parent/ATY,RV100ad_A" output If you don't see anything on the monitor then set the output back to the modem port (if it isn't already). Then try dev / ls to display the device tree. For my 8600, I find the Radeon 7000 at FF831B68: /bandit@F2000000 FF840480: /ATY,RV100Parent@D FF8620C0: /ATY,RV100ad_A@0,0 FF863188: /ATY,RV100ad_B@0,0 Use the following to get a list of aliases for items in the device tree: devalias For my 8600, I see these lines (among others): vci0 /chaos@F0000000 pci1 /bandit@F2000000 kbd /bandit/gc/via-cuda/adb/keyboard ttya /bandit/gc/escc/ch-a So for my Radeon 7000, I can substitute pci1 for bandit, and @D for ATY,RV100Parent and try " pci1/@D/ATY,RV100ad_A" output If that works, you can make the change permanent (until XPostFacto changes it) by typing setenv output-device pci1/@D/ATY,RV100ad_A If that doesn't work then I don't know what else to do. Type boot to continue booting. Hold down option key to get back to OS 9. The following Open Firmware command is interesting: dump-device-tree |
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RE: Whats the best Driver Set for the Radeon 7000? |
December, 25, 2002 5:17 PM |
alan |
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I have a Radeon 7000 now, with 10.2.3, and I have set the XpostFacto output selection to "A", and checked reinstall extensions. I still don't get video until the blue screen. Any suggestions? |
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RE: Whats the best Driver Set for the Radeon 7000? |
December, 15, 2002 6:35 PM |
rpjallan |
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I also have a PM7300 at the moment running 10.1.5. I have just acquired an original ATI Radeon PCI Mac Edition which is supposed to be a better card than the 7000. Does anyone have any experience running OS X on one of these video cards? |
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RE: Whats the best Driver Set for the Radeon 7000? |
December, 14, 2002 3:58 AM |
joevt |
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Alan, you need to still change the startup screen in XPostFacto (or you can use Open Firmware if you know how) to get the startup screen to show on the Radeon 7000. It won't hurt to try and just replace the card. Just remember to wait a while if nothing shows up; the screen will eventually turn blue and you can restart to OS 9 from OS X and change the setting (which is in XPostFacto's Open-Firmware menu -> output- device -> ATY,RV100ad_A). Muri, those drivers don't include the ATI Utilities : ATI Displays and ATI Monitor; and the TVOut kext. If you don't care about TV Out settings or adaptive de-interlacing for DVD playback then you can stick with the 10.2.2 drivers at least until ATI releases even newer drivers. Maybe you can save copies of Apple's ATI extensions, run the ATI Installer and then replace the older extensions with newer ones from the saved set. |
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RE: Whats the best Driver Set for the Radeon 7000? |
December, 13, 2002 5:30 PM |
muri |
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Tony 10.2.2 seems to have newer ATI drives than October upgrade. |
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RE: Whats the best Driver Set for the Radeon 7000? |
December, 10, 2002 8:07 PM |
alan |
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I have a Rage Orion card with the October 2002 update. Can I upgrade to a Radeon 7000 just by swapping the card? Don't I have to change something in XpostFacto's menu (from OS 9) to get the startup screens to display - or has this been resolved now? |
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RE: Whats the best Driver Set for the Radeon 7000? |
December, 10, 2002 3:01 PM |
Tony.Scaminaci |
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Oops, forgot to answer the second part of your question. Yes, it's safe to install the October 2002 update over the Jaguar drivers. As a matter of fact, I recall that the 10/02 update fixed some bugs in the Jaguar ATI drivers. |
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RE: Whats the best Driver Set for the Radeon 7000? |
December, 10, 2002 2:59 PM |
Tony.Scaminaci |
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ATI's October 2002 release is the correct update for the ATI cards. |
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RE: Whats the best Driver Set for the Radeon 7000? |
December, 10, 2002 6:10 AM |
muri |
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Wich is newer? Jaguar drivers or October 2002? Can I safely install October 2002 update over Jaguar drivers? |
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RE: Whats the best Driver Set for the Radeon 7000? |
December, 09, 2002 11:25 AM |
Tony.Scaminaci |
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First, install the drivers from your 7000 CD. Then, update those drivers with the latest retail update (October 2002). I've done this and my 9500 is working pretty well. There's an occasional artifact, but no big deal. |