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My X11 crashes - no QI/CE

My X11 crashes and restart and restart itself again. QI/CE is not supported for my video card ATI 1150 - X200! No kext load at start and i have a 1024x768 vido resolution. Is that the reason for my problem? How can i fix it?

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@Jojo Published 2008-07-09
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OSx86 Core & 10.X
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3,830 historical reads · 5 curated field notes (from 8 dispatches) · 2008-07-09 – 2008-07-15
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@Jojo (3)@naquaada (2)@jbeckers (2)@vikas776

My X11 crashes and restart and restart itself again.
QI/CE is not supported for my video card ATI 1150 - X200!
No kext load at start and i have a 1024x768 vido resolution.
Is that the reason for my problem? How can i fix it?

Author Updates & Technical Revisions

Follow-up dispatches by @Jojo

Author Update #1 @Jojo 2008-07-09

I know that there is no solution for ati 1150 today.
But is CI/QE mandatory for X11?

Author Update #2 @Jojo 2008-07-15

So is it possible to get working X11 with ati 1150?

Synthesized Community Field Notes

5 technical responses curated from 8 original dispatches

Field Note #1 @naquaada 2008-07-09

Core Image and Quartz Extreme (CI/QE) are not working on 1150 - X200, this chipset is not fully supported.
Are you using one of Zephyroth's images He skipped X11 one some because it wasn't working correctly.

Field Note #2 @vikas776 2008-07-09

there is no solution of this ati 1150
i have also the same graphic card in my laptop
it never worked for me
i used callisto 003 path for changing the resolution but that one also not working for me

Field Note #3 @jbeckers 2008-07-13

no, but the issue is that X11 wants to know at startup at what bit-depth it should work (16-bit colour, 32-bit-colour). it gets this information from your graphics card driver, but when none of the available drivers work for your card (like in your case, no CI/QE means no working driver) it won't get this info and it will just crash and restart. this is not fixable AFAIK, unless you can hard code a fallback into X11.

I had the same issue with a radeon x1600pro which I sold and replaced by a geforce 7300gs

Field Note #4 @naquaada 2008-07-13

I have an X1600 Pro and X11 works without problems. I'm using LeoVall V3 + 10.5.3 Update by ASU.

Field Note #5 @jbeckers 2008-07-14

with QE/CI? I could never get that to work with 10.5.1 but maybe with the graphics update it's fixed?

Sources & Contributor Provenance (4 credited usernames · Thread #1211)
UsernameDossier ContributionDispatchesActive Window
@JojoPrimary Author32008-07-09 → 2008-07-15
@naquaadaContributor22008-07-09 → 2008-07-13
@jbeckersContributor22008-07-13 → 2008-07-14
@vikas776Contributor12008-07-09