The Front Row problem mentioned in yesterday’s blog post was corrected by doing a complete reinstall and setup of the Mac Pro.
The Mac Pro’s video card hell continues. I spoke with an Apple representative named Candi and got the resolutions for the ATI Radeon HD 4870. The max resolution is 2560×1600. This seems okay but the proof is in the pudding or in this case the Apple dumpling. I am not sure I want to buy the card for $359 (a PC version costs $157 at Newegg) to find out it does not resolve the issue.
Candi told me that the Apple hardware engineer she spoke with suggested I connect the Mac Pro to the HDTV using a VGA connector to resolve the display resolution issue. This strikes me as like buying a Ferrari and only driving in school zones – not going to happen!
I tried using two Mac OS X video control utilities to resolve this issue, switchResX and DisplayConfigX, without success. I invested several hours trying to get these two utilities work. I finally gave up, at least for now.
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