Hi,
I installed Kalyway 10.5.2 on my computer and had a successful install. When I click "about this mac" it tells me i have 10.5.2 installed.... BUT when I look, I dont have the option to make my menu bar transparent, I cant view raw pictures, and so on and so forth.
I am not exactly sure why this is... If you have any ideas, PLEASE let me know. If I get this figured out it would be awesome!! So any help would be GREATLY appreciated.
Thanks,


-David

Hi there,
It may be related to your video card not working correctly and doesn't have QE/CI supported.
Regards,

Is there some kind of a driver i need to install? Or is it most likely a hardware issue...?

Thanks,

-David

Hi,
Yes, your hardware needs drivers to work. Go to System Profiler, take a look at your hardware/kext. It should ID all of them. Under video, see if your card is supported and if kext is loaded, hardware accelerated.
You should also post your hardware specs.
Regards,

I went into system profiler and on the Hardware tab, this is what is listed:
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Model Name: Mac Pro
Model Identifier: MacPro3,1
Processor Name: Intel Core Solo
Processor Speed: 1.4 GHz
Number Of Processors: 1
Total Number Of Cores: 1
L2 Cache: 1 MB
Memory: 512 MB
Bus Speed: 400 MHz
____________________________________

When I click on the "Graphics/displays" tab, this is what it says:

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Display:

Type: Display
Bus: PCI
VRAM (Total): 128 MB
Vendor: ATI (0x1002)
Device ID: 0x4c57
Revision ID: 0x0000
Kernel Extension Info: No Kext Loaded
Displays:
Display:
Resolution: 1024 x 768
Depth: 32-bit Color
Core Image: Software
Main Display: Yes
Mirror: Off
Online: Yes
Quartz Extreme: Not Supported
________________________________________

I am not to savy about this sort of thing, so I don't really know what to make of this...? If this is not the info you were looking for, let me know and I will go and get some more

Thanks SOOOOO Much for the help so far,


-David

Originally Posted by Davidaw

I went into system profiler and on the Hardware tab, this is what is listed:
____________________________________
Model Name: Mac Pro
Model Identifier: MacPro3,1
Processor Name: Intel Core Solo
Processor Speed: 1.4 GHz
Number Of Processors: 1
Total Number Of Cores: 1
L2 Cache: 1 MB
Memory: 512 MB
Bus Speed: 400 MHz
____________________________________

When I click on the "Graphics/displays" tab, this is what it says:

____________________________________
Display:

Type: Display
Bus: PCI
VRAM (Total): 128 MB
Vendor: ATI (0x1002)
Device ID: 0x4c57
Revision ID: 0x0000
Kernel Extension Info: No Kext Loaded
Displays:
Display:
Resolution: 1024 x 768
Depth: 32-bit Color
Core Image: Software
Main Display: Yes
Mirror: Off
Online: Yes
Quartz Extreme: Not Supported
________________________________________

I am not to savy about this sort of thing, so I don't really know what to make of this...? If this is not the info you were looking for, let me know and I will go and get some more

Thanks SOOOOO Much for the help so far,


-David

Thank you for the information. So we are correct that your problem is with your video card driver (without it your cpu will have to do the work and therefor slowdown the system and can not run any program required hardware acceleration).
What your specs tell you are that OSX identified your video card make as ATI and device ID is 0x4c57 but can not find any driver (kext) for it and have to use VESA mode (generic video driver), therefor anything with video hardware acceleration will be disable.
So we need to find a driver (kext) and install it. If you could have that ATI model number then it is easier, and we need to do some search for the driver.
Try that first see what you can come up with. Let me know.
Regards,

Hi,
I am at work right now and kind of busy so I will get back to you later.

Hi,
First off, I realllllly apreciate you helping me. Thanks sooo much!

Ok, so, I believe that it is an "ATI Radeon 7500". I'm not sure if that is what you are looking for.... But I think it probably is. If not, just let me know, and I will try to figure it out.


Thanks again!


-David

Yes, I googled and with that device ID it comes up with ATI Radeo 7500 AGP Mobility, but having a little problem locate the driver, keep looking.

Hi,
I don't have much good news for you. Can't seem to find a kext for that ATI 7500. You could try video injection to see what happens, if that still doesn't work then we need to post for help locating the driver.
Go to kexts.com, under video section, download ATI ATY_init kext, and under tools section, get kext helper b7 (which is a kext installer), then use that to install your kext, and with chameleon v2 rc4 hopefully OSX will pickup your video card. Good luck.
Regards,