On 3/6/09 12:24 AM, tortoise of cymraeg...@gmail.com sent > > > > On Mar 4, 7:57 pm, tortoise <cymraeg...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On Mar 3, 9:11 pm, insightinmind <billycarm...@verizon.net> wrote:> On Mar 4, >> 2009, at 12:06 AM, tortoise wrote: >> >>>> ?Drivers? Os9 includes ati drivers but not nvidia. >> >>>> found an os9.2.2 driver here: >> >>>> http://mac.softpedia.com/get/Drivers/Apple-NVIDIA-Driver.shtml >> >>> My 9.2.2 partition has nVidia drivers ... >> >> well mine don't. maybe not installer does unless you have an nvidia > > I did a custom install last night and found the nvidia drives on 9.2.1 > (no for 9.1). > > **Extension manager description for the basic nvidia driver says no > monitor support without it *** > > however they're version 2.x and the link above has 3.x
Greetings all, I am chiming back in with my experiences on this issue - thanks much both/all of you for the links and discussions-they helped a lot. At the last, I was not able to get the NVidia 4MX unit to work in my OS 9-powered Dig. Audio unit, however, by that time some directory corruption may have been the issue, that part being the result of repeated PRAM zapping and improper shutdowns (freezes). The issue was circumvented by swapping in a proven trustworthy Radeon 9000 that I had in another unit. Somewhat related, I have, at the school music creation studio, an MDD dual 867MHz unit that also runs in OS 9.2.2 (for legacy app. support needs); its video card is also an NVidia 4MX 64Mb; it has always run with the ability to offer only one resolution, just like having a video card with no drivers installed yet; hardly an issue if the monitor being used is a 23" Apple Cinema display, but really an issue if you have to swap that Apple display with a standard 19" ViewSonic LCD monitor (which I had to do recently), now being stuck in 640 x 480 (yech!) The drivers are the NVidia version 2.4 as installed by the OS. I am hoping that these version 3 drivers will fix this problem. BTW, to install the drivers I am having to bypass the installer; this did NOT work on the MDD; I presume it is looking for that extra Matrox codec card as mentioned in the ReadMe file attached to the downloaded .smi file. I used Tome Viewer to extract the needed extensions and will put those on the machine tomorrow. Hope it helps! Best regards, Dana --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to g3-5-list-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
