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Second monitors and Quartz Extreme in 10.2 System
I recently installed 10.2 on my G4 workstation- a machine with a 32mb AGP NVidia card and a 16mb Rage 128. OS X decided that since the Rage isn't supported by Quartz Extreme, I wouldn't want to use it, and made me reboot until I unplugged the monitor.

Quartz Extreme is, of course, not supported on the Rage PRO, and the system steadfastly refused to use the card at all in the presence of Quartz Extreme capable hardware. Even the "enable Quarz Extreme" hacks floating around were of no use, but this didn't stop me from beating on the system until I got it to work. I have chronicled my exploits for those who might be interested how I solved the problem.

If you're having problems with secondary displays in 10.2, this tip might be just the thing to bring your PCI video card back from the "dead" of unsupported software.
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RE Quartz Extreme
Authored by: UnknownPPC on Sep 14, '02 06:34:46PM

I have a rage pro on my second monitor and had no problems other than Quartz Extreme is only available on my studio display.



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writeup
Authored by: lukemelia on Sep 14, '02 07:26:46PM

very entertaining writing. thanks for taking the time to do it.



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ATI Behavior
Authored by: thinkyhead on Sep 14, '02 11:59:51PM

Reminds me of typical ATI driver behavior in a way. When installing new drivers ATI actually advises removing the video card, installing the drivers, and then putting the card back in. I've never understood the reasoning, but at least once I did have to do this. Obviously ATI's instructions can't apply if you'd have to remove *all* the video cards. But in some cases this is an important aspect of getting the ATI drivers to recognize a given card.



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video card confusion
Authored by: corradokid on Sep 15, '02 05:36:38PM

Jaguar installed without a problem and worked as expected in the following configurations for me in my 533MHz 'digital audio" G4:

AGP ATI Rage128Pro, PCI ATI Rage128 (Orion) = no Quartz Extreme on either monitor.

AGP nVidia GeForce4 MX, PCI ATI Rage128 (Orion) = Quartz Extreme on GF4MX only.

AGP nVidia GeForce4 MX (driving dual monitors) = Quartz Extreme on both monitors.

With every configuration, there were no oddities and things worked seamlessly OS-wise under OS 9 and OS X.



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PCI Extreme! [was] video card confusion
Authored by: crephoto on Mar 20, '04 01:16:17PM

I've been running the PCI "hack" to enable Quartz Extreme on PCI video cards which support it (ATI RADEON) in my old (unsupported) Umax S900-G3/400. I recently installed Jaguar on a Beige MT-G4/400 which also has a Radeon card. When I attempt to enable QE on the Radeon card, Jaguar refuses to boot. Likely this is due to the fact that the built-in video can't handle QE, but I can't find any way to selectively enable the hack only on the Radeon. I read this thread which was interesting, but obviously I can't remove the built-in video to try the solution myself. Anyone else have a suggestion? perhaps adding anothe rline to the Configuration.plist file to further qualify the enabling of QE? Finder windows are dog slow without QE on this machine. Thanks.



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