Flashed Radeon 7000 Problem |
February, 27, 2003 10:51 PM |
tippingj |
Greetings to all. Pretty sure this problem isn't my card. I note that other users of the Mac Edition have had the same problem. Whenever I return from "deep" sleep, ie- AppleMenu>SLEEP, the display goes corrupt and wonky. My mouse is still here and "ontop" of the corrupt screen, and the graphics appear to still be working (ie- I can make out most of the screen, very little text though) so it isn't overheating. As I said- others report the same problem. 10.2.4 is my OS. I tried installing ATI's October Driver update, it didn't appear to install everything? Dunno why.. Cause my KEXT files are still dates when I installed OS X(and not modified?). No new files that should be there ether.. Any ideas? |
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RE: Flashed Radeon 7000 Problem |
March, 03, 2003 7:30 PM |
tippingj |
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Hmm. I can confirm that SLEEP in OS 9 (Specail>SLEEP, as in physical deep- sleep) when the monitor goes off and the HD turns off, etc, low power mode, etc, works just fine in 9.1. Using the July (?) Drivers. Works just fine. Must be a oldworld-PCI Video issue. I am tempted to say that the graphics are somehow not being written back into the card/card is not being setup properly on wakeup as the problem, since it is a BSD system, and I have never heard of a system being put to sleep while running BSD...... Anyhow. Card is still working great. So it isn't the flashed PC thing. |
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RE: Flashed Radeon 7000 Problem |
March, 03, 2003 2:00 PM |
tippingj |
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Hmm.. There is no DVI on the PC Flashed version. I am not the only one with the problem. It appears that several other people have had the same problem on the net (WITH the Mac Edition). I don't know what it is.. I can't suspect that it is something with the PC card, as it is the identical PCB and components as the Mac Edition- just no TV or DVI and the BIOS. I hope that it isn't something with the PC version.. Cause I like my 64mb DDR. I am going to take a look into what is causing the problem. Some have said that the ATI OS 9 July update "extender" file when copied into the apple NRDV (is that right?) folder fixes the problem, but I don't know if that will kill QE or not. Or maybe it is the whole PC flashed thing. Doubt that cause everything else works- including the sleep without going into deep sleep. Hrpmh. |
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RE: Flashed Radeon 7000 Problem |
March, 03, 2003 1:00 PM |
macman |
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I have a 7k Mac edition and the deep sleep/fake sleep does not wonk my graphics. I'm using the default drivers with 10.2.4 & I've not flashed since 2.07. Might be a PC flashed issue. Odd thought - have you tried the DVI-VGA adpater on that interface to see if the DVI logic breaks, too? Stephen |
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RE: Flashed Radeon 7000 Problem |
March, 03, 2003 11:28 AM |
tippingj |
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I mean DEEP sleep. As in what you get from the Applemenu -> SLEEP. I just set it up to go to sleep with the monitor only and the HD spins down (although not true deep-sleep). it IS NOT set to "go to sleep" under that seperate option.. It is quite odd. The system is usable after the corruption- its just the graphics are whacked (I can somewhat make out the screen). A restart solves the problem from the apple menu.. Anyone else have any ideas? |
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RE: Flashed Radeon 7000 Problem |
March, 02, 2003 4:38 PM |
marcush |
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It is OK to allow your drives to spin down because the machine itself is not going into deep sleep. I've been using this feature for the last 1-1/2 years. Monitor sleep is OK similarly. I've never experienced the problem you've described coming out of either monitor or drive sleep. I even tried deep sleep for a week about a year ago but saw no perceptible difference from what I was already doing. Apart from that deep sleep is not supported in oldworld Macs so it is a moot point anyway. I don't have a Radeon 7k but do have an original Mac Edition Radeon. I'm also running 10.2.4. |
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RE: Flashed Radeon 7000 Problem |
March, 02, 2003 2:07 PM |
mjoecups358 |
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I have never had any problems with allowing my drives to spin down in any of my old world macs, under ANY version of OSX ort XPF... I've always wondered what this is about? TippingJ, maybe it's something else in your system thats making trouble? Marty |
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RE: Flashed Radeon 7000 Problem |
March, 01, 2003 7:25 PM |
nickis_que |
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Trippingj, I do not have this problem with my flashed version. Though I do not put it to sleep much, I ran power saving for about a week. I stopped using it because my daily croms would not run, If the mac is asleep croms cannot run :( as soon as I figure out this design I will go find a large lake and jump in it, because I must have gone nuts. with Regards Marc |
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RE: Flashed Radeon 7000 Problem |
March, 01, 2003 7:04 PM |
mjoecups358 |
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You don't want the october drivers, they don't work with 10.2x Marty PS my Mac edition Radeon does not have this issue. I wonder why? |
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RE: Flashed Radeon 7000 Problem |
February, 27, 2003 11:22 PM |
cjsconfections |
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When you say "deep sleep" do you mean with the hard drives spinning down or just the monitor off. The instructions for Xpostfacto say that there are problems with deep sleep on legacy macs. Monitor sleep is ok.Just for shits and giggles I tried deep sleep with h/d's spinning down and for a few weeks had no problems. Then one time came upon the screen jumble you describe and had to do a hard boot to get out of it. Then fsck -y to clean things up. I have also had probems if I use the sleep command under the apple in the upper left. No problems with sleep on the monitor when activated by the energy saving control panel. |