First Group Posted August 8, 2006 Share Posted August 8, 2006 Well for starters i got a newbie Q? how do i take screen shots with Mac? Anyhow i now got my graphics card detected and got some options in display properties, however i cannot change any settings because when i click a choice it tells me to hold my reset button and restart after which the same old settings are applied. Ive tryed the <key>Graphics Mode</key><string>1280x1024x32</string> Before my graphics card was detected and it resulted in a clean install because id get the restart button screen everytime and couldnt bypass it. now that my graphics card is detected is it safe to try this method? if not what can i do so the pc wont restart after i select an option? Current config Callisto b003 fixed with correct device id and vendor id. it shows with AGP (i would screen shot but dont know how lol) if i get this working i would have reached a milestone and can commence to getting the sound working. I would like to thank Callisto Rammjet aqualeviathan for there support so far with the display settings Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Rammjet Posted August 8, 2006 Share Posted August 8, 2006 Well for starters i got a newbie Q? how do i take screen shots with Mac? Command-Shift-3 takes a whole screen shot as a .png and puts it on your Desktop. Command-Shift-4 will bring up crosshairs so you can select a portion of the screen to capture. Before my graphics card was detected and it resulted in a clean install because id get the restart button screen everytime and couldnt bypass it. now that my graphics card is detected is it safe to try this method? if not what can i do so the pc wont restart after i select an option? What is so tragic in giving it a try and suffering a crash causing a reboot? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
First Group Posted August 8, 2006 Author Share Posted August 8, 2006 if i give it a try the last time i did this i couldnt get out the loop of restarting therefore was a clean install again Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rammjet Posted August 8, 2006 Share Posted August 8, 2006 Well, the setting is stored in: /Users/(Your User Name)/Library/Preferences/ByHost/com.apple.windowserver.(A Bunch of Letters Here).plist If you decide to try it again and it goes into a loop, you could boot your install DVD and use Terminal to delete this file. First you would type: cd /Users/(Your User Name)/Library/Preferences/ByHost/ Then type: ls -al to find the com.apple.windoserver file. You need to record what the (Bunch of Letters) is. You can copy the name for pasting below. Then you would type: sudo rm com.apple.windowserver.(A Bunch of Letters Here).plist Obviously, you fill in your user name in the first line and fill in the letters in the last line. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
First Group Posted August 8, 2006 Author Share Posted August 8, 2006 going to try it, fingers crossed Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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