ATI Radeon 9200 + Mac OS 9.2.2

[Mike Richardson]

Can the Radeon 9200 on an eMac be flashed with any of this new ROM? Does flashing then allow acceleration in OS 9?

eMac has a very old ROM, like, maybe version 106? Horribly old it seems? It never got any updates either?

[drzeissler]

- Do the R9200 PCI drivers for MacOS9 also work with the G4-Mini R9200AGP?
- Can these drivers be installed/bundeled in the G4-Mini install-cd
- Do these drivers (ati-displays) provide control over the gpu. (activate vsync and 16AF) ?

Thx
Doc

[darthnVader]

- Do the R9200 PCI drivers for MacOS9 also work with the G4-Mini R9200AGP?
- Can these drivers be installed/bundeled in the G4-Mini install-cd
- Do these drivers (ati-displays) provide control over the gpu. (activate vsync and 16AF) ?

Thx
Doc

The v8 CD already comes with a modified version of the R9200 drivers.

There are no OpenGL overrides for Mac OS 9, ATI also never updated the ATI Control Panel to support the R9200.

[drzeissler]

Not sure about that: https://gona.mactar.hu/ATI_Mac/
ATI-Displays also works up OS8 and above. I think it might be possible to get control over the gpu (vsync/af)
https://gona.mactar.hu/ATI_Mac/#CR
https://gona.mactar.hu/ATI_Mac/#CS


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update: you are right: "This installer has no "ATI Displays" control panel so you should use this driver as update (exclude the Radeon 9200, that is not supported by the ATI Displays control panel)."

Argh, that's BAD news.

[trag]

Saw this old thread today and it brought back an old trouble shooting memory.

I think what I mention below might explain some of the problems that folks in this thread reported.

This was my experience on an MDD.

With the ATI drivers which are installed with the OS 9.2.2 update, QuickTime 6.0.3 will lock up the machine during extension loading. The mouse will move but clicking the mouse and typing on the keyboard will have no effect.

The culprit is ATI Video Accelerator 4.8.5. Update to 4.8.7 by installing the January 2005 ATI OS 9 Mac Software Update. If you have an nVidia card, this probably isn't a problem. This experience occurred with a Radeon 9000.