12-06-2009, 11:07 AM
Filliam H. Muffman wrote:
[quote=olnacl]
And, yes, it can be complicated. My Windows 7 install now needs a new video card to drive my 22" monitor which worked fine with XP. Max resolution I can get with the MS driver is 1280x1024 and no Vista/Windows 7 is available for my video card.
I commented before, is there a driver for the Mac version of your card in OS X 10.6? It might be possible to hack the 9500 Catalyst driver to recognize your card (or maybe flash your card to say it was newer) but this is the wrong forum to ask that on. There also might be a way to hack the default driver to add the resolution you want.
Thanks for that, but I don't believe there's a Mac version of my card, an ATI FireGL 8800 and so far nothing has turned up on the AMD site for it - stops at ATI FireGL 8650. Lots of posts complaining that there are no drivers for Vista or Win 7 though. I'm just going to stick my 19" 1280x1024 monitor on it for now and think about just putting a clean install of XP Pro back on it. I use it so seldom that, other than wanting to know if the Win 7 hype was real, I have no use for Windows other than to set up a TB SATA drive for my TiVo. I can't even remember the last time I used Boot Camp on my MacBook - just wasting 30 GB of disk space in my opinion.