It may be that you need to drop a line to the ATI tech support folks
explaining the problem you are having (and carefully noting that the
ATI and Apple sites are pointing to each other rather than to a
solution). Your card, being a older pci style video card, is well,
older and quickly be left behind in favor of the AGP style video cards.
That last pci card from ATi was the 7000 series card which was released
a long time ago.
Failing any help there, you might consider upgrading the AGP card in
your G4 to one that supports dual monitors, I believe you have a 4X AGP
port, so the Radeon 9600 should work (IIRC it comes with at least 64 MB
of memory so to run two monitors you would have at least 32MB per
monitor.
Jerry
p.s. 10.3.3 is being tested by developers now and should be out in a
little while. It might fix the problem. Also consider dropping a line
to Apple's feedback listing the problems you are having.
On Mar 15, 2004, at 12:04 AM, Harry Jacobson-Beyer wrote:
> I installed the update. It didn't work. I've spent more time on this
> than
> I care to admit and I can find no solution to my graphics card problem.
> Surely I am not the only person to have bought this card. You would
> think
> there would be others out there with the same problem. If any of you
> who
> are more savvy with searching Apple's site for downloads and/or info
> about this issue, I will appreciate your help.
>
> Again, I have an ATI Xclaim 3D pro PCI video card. It works fine in
> 9.2xxx and in Jaguar, but under Panther the card shows 256 colors only
> and the picture is gray, almost posterized.
>
> Apple's web site tells me to go to the ATI web page for driver updates.
> ATI tells me to go to Apple's web site for the updates.
>
> I use the second monitor a lot and sorely miss it in Panther. I am
> almost
> tempted to revert to jaguar so I can use the monitor. If I were to buy
> a
> different video card how do I know it would work?
>
> Help! And thanks.
>
> Harry
>
> Tuesday, March 9, 200411:08 PMJerry Yeagerjerry at browseryshop.com
>
>> I did some more digging, the recent release was for the retail Radeon
>> based cards. (IIRC stands for If I Recall Correctly). You might ask
>> Ward if the chip in the XClaim will be affected by this (or on the of
>> the Rage 128 updates.)
>>
>> Jerry
>>
>> On Mar 09, 2004, at 6:50 PM, Harry Jacobson-Beyer wrote:
>>
>>> I did go to ATI's web site. They do not have drivers for OS X. They
>>> say
>>> apple has them, but when I search apple's site for the drivers I
>>> don't
>>> find them.
>>>
>>> What does llRC mean?
>>>
>>> Tuesday, March 9, 20046:23 PMJerry Yeagerjerry at browseryshop.com
>>>
>>>> Have you tried to download the latest drivers from ATI and
>>>> installing
>>>> them. IIRC, there was a recent video driver update for the cards.
>>>>
>>>> Jerry
>>>>
>>>> On Mar 09, 2004, at 6:12 PM, Harry Jacobson-Beyer wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> I have 10.3.2.
>>>>>
>>>>> Any other suggestion?
>>>>>
>>>>> And thank-you,.
>>>>>
>>>>> Tuesday, March 9, 20042:08 PMHarry
>>>>> Jacobson-Beyerharryjb at bellsouth.net
>>>>>
>>>>>> I have a G4 desktop computer. In 2001 I purchased a KDS LCD
>>>>>> monitor
>>>>>> and
>>>>>> an ATI Xclaim 3d video card. I installed the card, hooked the
>>>>>> monitor
>>>>>> up
>>>>>> and voila, everything worked fine.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Recently (and I don't know if it was before I installed panther or
>>>>>> after,
>>>>>> the KDS monitor quit working and I sent it back to the company for
>>>>>> repair. After I removed it from the computer the computer
>>>>>> continued
>>>>>> to
>>>>>> act as if I had a second monitor attached (ie I could move windows
>>>>>> off
>>>>>> the main screen onto the second screen-even though it wasn't
>>>>>> there-and
>>>>>> then I couldn't retrieve them because I couldn't find them to lock
>>>>>> on
>>>>>> them with the mouse). I removed the video card.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> The monitor was returned today. I reinstalled the video card,
>>>>>> hooked
>>>>>> the
>>>>>> monitor to it and when I booted the picture on the LCD monitor is
>>>>>> gray
>>>>>> and looks like a solarized or posterized photo-not good for a
>>>>>> computer
>>>>>> screen.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I removed the LCD monitor and hooked it up to a PC and it works
>>>>>> fine.
>>>>>> I
>>>>>> hooked the LCD monitor to the main video input on the g4 and it
>>>>>> works
>>>>>> fine. I reseated the video card and hooked the monitor to it
>>>>>> restarted
>>>>>> and it's as I described above. I moved the card to a different PCI
>>>>>> slot
>>>>>> and it didn't affect the monitor.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> THEN I rebooted the computer in 9.2 and the monitor works fine.
>>>>>> So I
>>>>>> booted the monitor in jaguar and the monitor works fine.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I booted back into panther and the monitor does not work fine!
>>>>>>
>>>>>> As I said, I don't remember if I installed panther before or
>>>>>> after I
>>>>>> removed the video card.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Bottom line, the monitor works, the video card works but not in
>>>>>> panther.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> What gives and how can I correct the problem?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Thanks
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
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