Video Wallstreet in Tiger

[jcthomas]

I have upgraded my 300 MHz Wallstreet Powerbook (stock) maxed RAM and installed Tiger as described using another machine. No problems now up to 10.4.11. HD within the size limit (7.4gig I think). 3 other partitions.

Only issue is that the video reports as 16MG VRAM (only 4 in gen II Wallsteet). I noticed the ATI RagePro driver default for Tiger was from long ago (2002, probably OS 10.2 era?). Anyway, screen delivering millions of colors but video in QuickTime (7.6) running latest Flip4Mac breaks up quite a bit. ditto Chroma and VLC.

I replaced the ATI Rage Pro driver with the one that I hacked in 10.3 (discussions in other posts - kextcache etc.). Anyway, no dice. Ran kext in terminal to clean up and no go, repair permission and still no go. Still finds ATI Rage Pro 1.0.0

Wallstreet is reporting the video card Device ID as 0x50 (no other numbers). Odd. This driver was working great in Panter, but Tiger is way faster and I would prefer keeping it.

Any ideas? Does the video hack used in Panther also work in Tiger or not? I think the Quicktime software thinks there is more VRAM than there really is. Anyway to better inform Quicktime?

Thanks

jct