Needed: ATI drivers for OS 9
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Thanks Dan! That works fine for res, but still I only get 256 colors. It appears as though OS 9 sees two displays, #1 is the 1440x900 LCD at 256 colors, and #2 is some 640x480 device running at millions of colors. Anyone know what the deal is? I know this card can do 1440x900 at millions of colors easily, OS X has no problems at all.
Also- anyone know of any programs for OS 9 that let you remap your keyboard? I'd like to tell my option key to be the apple key.
Also- anyone know of any programs for OS 9 that let you remap your keyboard? I'd like to tell my option key to be the apple key.
thats bizarre...could you take a screenshot of the monitors panel which says that?
my OS9 skills are rusty, but it would be my guess that for whatever reason the card is viewing both headers on the back of the card as having a monitor plugged in and it has them setup as a panoramic view. i would try and see if you could find a way to change the panoramic setting to a Mirrored setting, which should cause "both" monitors to revert to a single resolution and color depth. you could then try to setup the display you actually use as the "main" display and change the resolution and color accordingly.
just a thought.
i could check to see if i have any keyboard utilities, but no promises. i still owe a few other people stuff but i've been hella busy lately lol >_<
my OS9 skills are rusty, but it would be my guess that for whatever reason the card is viewing both headers on the back of the card as having a monitor plugged in and it has them setup as a panoramic view. i would try and see if you could find a way to change the panoramic setting to a Mirrored setting, which should cause "both" monitors to revert to a single resolution and color depth. you could then try to setup the display you actually use as the "main" display and change the resolution and color accordingly.
just a thought.
i could check to see if i have any keyboard utilities, but no promises. i still owe a few other people stuff but i've been hella busy lately lol >_<
I'm not sure that a lack of drivers for the ATI card would lead to such problems - I never installed any drivers on mine (Radeon Mac Edition PCI) beyond the ones supplied with OS 9.2.2 and it works fine (1024x768, millions of colours, one display connected and detected).
OS 9.2.2 comes with generic ATI drivers. but i dont think they will 100% enable the cards full potential.
i have the Mac OS 9.2.2 jan 2005 ATI drivers for the radeon and below video cards if you need them. the file is the one i downloaded from ATI before they went to AMD crap non Mac os havin drivers site.
i have the Mac OS 9.2.2 jan 2005 ATI drivers for the radeon and below video cards if you need them. the file is the one i downloaded from ATI before they went to AMD crap non Mac os havin drivers site.
Is that the newest version of the driver for Radeon cards then? if so, it would be great if you could put in online somewhere, as all the links I could find were either dead or it was very unclear exactly what cards the file was for and so I didn't want to risk installing the wrong driver. It would be useful to have this if it is better than the OS 9.2.2-supplied driver (not that I've noticed any problems with it, but then again all the 3D-intensive Mac games that I've tried so far have OS X conversions).
I couldn't find any for any 9 version last time I looked - I even emailed them about it and they wouldn't send me the file, they just said they don't support OS 9 any more.
