On Monday, June 16, 2003, at 09:24 PM, Robyn J. Lyons wrote:
<quote who="Luis A. Salazar">Today I received an ATI Radeon 7000 PCI 32 MB Card that I got on eBay, and installed it on my 8600 Sonnet G3 500MHz Power mac, Mac OS X 10.2.6, 352 MB Ram
Apple System Profiler shows the card, but when opening the ATI Display application, it shows a warning dialog "ATI Display product not found" also any 3D Open GL game or screen saver like Marine Aquarium, just quit at start up, that include System Preferences when I choose a screen saver like "flurry" or Plasma Tunnel, System Preferences just quit I think that my mistake was to install ATI last driver for this card overwriting maybe any driver that Mac OS 10.2.6 already installed.
Do I have to reinstall Mac OS X, any ideas suggestions will be much appreciated.
You should NOT install the ATI drivers if you are running 10.2.5 or
higher. The Apple drivers are much more recent and faster. I am assuming
that the card is functioning properly (except the OpenGL issues), because
it is the one that you have the monitor connected to. It may help to
reboot into OS9 and have XPF reinstall the extensions, while you are
there, put the machine into Verbose mode (from XPF) and select the
Keyboard from the Input menu and the Radeon (ususally labeled like
ATY...something something) from the Output menu. If you don't you
sometimes experiance wierdness.
-Rob
Good advice, the drivers in OSX updates maybe started being the best available even before 10.2.5 can't remember when but a while back. If the drivers are the issue this can be fixed easily. Download the 10.2.6 update from Apple and reinstall it after getting rid of the ATI display app. It's not needed and is old. The 10.2.6 combo updater is even better to use but is a large download. Some machines are picky about PCi slots for the ATI card but I thought the Apple 8600 wasn't but worth trying another slot if other things fail. Will S
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