[CUBE] DVD Player software not happy with GeForce2

[Thubten Kunga]

I just looked at my B&W G3 install with an old 1999 16MB ATI Rage 128 
Pro card. Every nVidea and ATI driver is there including Radeon 8500, 
GeForce 2 and GeForce 3 drivers — even though that computer just has 
the old ATI Rage 128 inside. So you must have an incomplete install or 
corrupted driver files. It appears that the 10.2.3 puts all the drivers 
in there in case you change cards (I guess).

k

On Tuesday, January 21, 2003, at 09:22  AM, a l a n t h o m p s o n 
wrote:

> No problems with the DVD player and my 2MX -
>
> I would venture to guess that you don't have the proper drivers 
> installed - which in itself is odd, as they should be included in your 
> base install of OS X (since 10.1, when I installed my card).
>
> Swapping out the fence was always a given, and you won't notice super 
> performance in the Finder - but you will notice an improvement when 
> things get straightened out.  Absolutely.  You'll have quartz extreme, 
> and some more video ram to play with, but it still won't be the end 
> all be all performer (the finder is just plain slow, still).
>
> Anyhoo,
>
> Check here to see if you have the proper drivers installed/present 
> (would be cool to check out your startup system.log to see which 
> driver is being loaded upon boot, too).
>
> /System/Library/Extensions/GeForce2MX.kext - kernel extension for this 
> card
> /System/Library/Extensions/GeForce2MXGLDriver.bundle
>
> They're both under a MB, so I can stuff 'em up and email them to you 
> if you like.
>
> --alan
>
>
> On Tuesday, January 21, 2003, at 08:11 AM, John H. Lincoln wrote:
>
>> Installing the card required swapping out the "fence" from the stock 
>> ATY 128 Pro video card that came with the Cube. That was OK. But 
>> performance with the GeForce2 (under OS X 10.2.3) was not noticeably 
>> different (!). What did I forget? My GeForce2 was from eBay, and did 
>> not include any software. Should there have been a driver on CD? For 
>> OS X?
>>
>> But the real problem came later in the day, when I attempted to play 
>> a DVD. Turns out the GeForce2 is not compatible with the DVD Player 
>> from Apple.