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Vaxan
19th March 2006, 11:56 PM
As I'm sure all of you know, OSX was hacked to run on generic PC a long time ago. I've never heard of any problem getting video drivers to work when running OSX on PC hardware. Does anyone know why OSX would handle this better? Could this perhaps lead to some solution to get Windows video drivers working?
CyberDoberman
20th March 2006, 05:36 AM
I was thinking of something along the same lines:

Get ahold of a WinBlows laptop with the X1600 Mobility chipset.

Use a utility to back up that laptop's PC-centric X1600 ATI BIOS...

Boot into WinBlows on the Mac... and use said utility to restore / overwrite the Apple Centric Bios.

Wonder how that would fare? If someone can get me the bios... I'm willing to be the guinne pig?
inkhead
20th March 2006, 06:33 AM
that's all fine and well, but do you know what happens after that? OS X never runs again. IT's called bricking your laptop or making it windows only.
CyberDoberman
20th March 2006, 01:16 PM
And you know this exactly how? The Intel version of OS X, when patched, works FINE on standard PC's with BIOS and REGULAR PC VIDEO CARDS...

So... why would it brick it?
RichP
20th March 2006, 04:33 PM
Its a good point, although then it seems like you may be running patched OSX on actual mac pc hardware. It may have issues with updates down the line, who knows.

That being said, all these people running all varieties of PC crap with OSX, what do they do for drivers?
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Vaxan
20th March 2006, 04:39 PM
That being said, all these people running all varieties of PC crap with OSX, what do they do for drivers?

Because I've never heard any discussion of it, I'm assuming the drivers bundled with OSX work on generic PC hardware. That would imply there must be something universal about the code that Apple is using.
gygysamurai
20th March 2006, 11:31 PM
Because I've never heard any discussion of it, I'm assuming the drivers bundled with OSX work on generic PC hardware. That would imply there must be something universal about the code that Apple is using.

Universal doesn't always mean better though. I'd much rather have drivers made for my card then universal drivers that restrict any special features or enhancements
CyberDoberman
21st March 2006, 01:48 AM
What are you TALKING about?

Universal means that it works equally well on both platforms... just like when an APP is universal... means it was written to run on EITHER PPC or INTEL...

I'd bet money that the drivers built into O S X are UNIVERSAL for either X86 Bios or EFI Bios...