From: Gerald Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Tue, 3 Feb 2004 09:43:18 +0000 Folks,
I am slowly taming a new unsupported configuration:
9650 Sonnet G4 PCI 800 ATI 7000 PCI Sonnet Tempo Trio Jag 10.2.8
I'm starting with simple old SCSI disks, and will add some big IDE drives to the Tempo card once the base configuration becomes stable.
Everything works fine save for one thing. If the system lets the screen sleep then on wake-up the display is garbled. No amount of fiddling with configurations seems to fix this. The only practical fix is to hard reset the system - ouch. (I could probably ssh in from another box to do a more gentle restart, but that's not really a fix now is it...)
It may be relevant that on restart the display remains blank and unsynched until it turns graphical. In other words, even in verbose mode there's nothing shown during the early part of startup, which doesn't improve my chances of diagnosis.
You don't say but I'd guess this is a flashed PC 7000 card? The Mac Ed 7000 doesn't have the sleep issues generally but the flashed card do for unknown reasons. The fix for this is to set the hard drive to never sleep in the energy control preferences. Display sleep works fine. The fix for the blank screen until nearly the end of booting is: In XPF under advanced setting at the top or options in the 3.x versions. Set input to keyboard and output to your ATI card. You can then see the whole booting process including using verbose mode .This works for both Mac and PC flashed cards.
I have not yet loaded any special ATI drivers. I'm simply using whatever Jag has selected from a vanilla Jag install patched direct to 10.2.8 with all security patches as well.OSX has the latest ATI drivers built into it. Downloading from ATI will give you older drivers and you will be sorry .
At present, the attached screen is a Samsung Syncmaster 171P (flat panel), connected via the DVI port.
Are there known problems with the ATI 7000 and OS X sleep?
Anything known to be different between behaviour of the VGA and the DVI ports?
Anything known to be improved in Panther, which might be an option for this box?
thanx for any info
GeraldWW
No sleep doesn't work any better in Panther using flashed PC cards.. I know of no difference between DVI and vga ports. A friend has bought one of all the available ATI 7000 cards Mac and PC and is looking into what the differences are. If there is a fix in the future i'll report on it. Oddly sleep works fine in OS 9.x using the flashed cards. Will > S
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