Now before you get your hopes up, there is a catch: You must be using a G4 upgrade in your Lombard. This how-to relies on using Apple's Altivec DVD decoder bundle to enable proper playback.
I am also assuming you have 10.2 available, and upgraded to at least 10.2.4 (where Apple added the Graphics Accelerator plug-in for the RagePro chipsets).
STEP 1 - Edit the RagePro kext to recognize the Altivec DVD Driver... ----------
This is the first tricky part. open up a terminal window and enter the following commands:
cd /System/Library/Extensions/ATIRagePro.kext/Contents sudo pico Info.plist
(It will ask you for your admin password at this point)
(pico is a simple text editor we will use to modify the information about your graphics card drivers)
Hit Control-W, and type 'IOGLBundleName' and hit enter, it will search the file for that text and bring us to where we need to be... you should see these four lines:
<key>IOGLBundleName</key>
<string>ATIRageProGLDriver</string>
<key>IOMatchCategory</key>
<string>IOAccelerator</string>Now... between the second and third lines, add these two lines:
<key>IODVDBundleName</key>
<string>AppleAltiVecDVDDriver</string>So that you get this:
<key>IOGLBundleName</key>
<string>ATIRageProGLDriver</string>
<key>IODVDBundleName</key>
<string>AppleAltiVecDVDDriver</string>
<key>IOMatchCategory</key>
<string>IOAccelerator</string>Now hit Control-X and then 'Y' to exit and save the changes you made.
Your ATIRagePro driver can now tell Apple's DVD player how to play DVDs on your machine...
(I find it interesting that the driver references an OpenGL driver that isn't there... maybe Apple had intended to give OpenGL support or has some on low-priority in the works?)
STEP 2 - Install DVD Player ----------
The tricky part is getting DVD Player to install and work now... Download Pacifist from www.macupdate.com, and pop in your Jaguar Disc 1. In the Essentials.pkg package is the 3.2 DVD player, and you should be able to just have Pacifist install it for you.
Once this is done, reboot and you should be able to play DVDs on a G4-upgraded Lombard under 10.2...
If there are any errors or steps I missed or left out, contact me and we will get it all sorted out. I have yet to get a G4 Lombard to test this on, but if 3.2 works the way people have been reporting, this should work.
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