7300gt unable to display opaque meny bar? 2006 Mac Pro

[Sean Dempsey]

I have a 2006 Mac Pro with the 7300gt card. The machine is fully updated with 10.5.2 and all other updates, but there is no "transparent menu bar" checkbox in the Desktop/Screensaver preference pane.

I took screengrabs of each machine, the first is the imac (alu 2.4) with the ATI HD2600, the second is the Mac Pro with the 7300gt.

Anyone know what gives with this?

 

[martinlk]

My PowerBook 12" (GeForce FX Go5200) can't display the opaque menu bar either.

 

[Mackilroy]

I don't see it either, and I'm running with the HD2600 XT in the Mac Pro. In the same vein, my MacBook can see it. When I was poking around the Internet to find out, one suggestion was that if you're running a hack which changes how it appears, that would prevent the option from showing up, but I'm running no such hack. Are you?

 

[martinlk]

No hacks here.

 

[ungraphic]

Download the application 'Onyx' and you can change it from there.

 

[Sean Dempsey]

no hacks

 

[OZMP]

hey mate
same machine as mine, did you do the graphics update? I have done all updates and can do it...

 

[Mackilroy]

Download the application 'Onyx' and you can change it from there.

Thing is, that's one of the programs that would prevent this from working. Sean might care about it, but I don't, I like the transparent menu bar just fine.

 

[netnothing]

I have a 2006 Mac Pro with the 7300gt card. The machine is fully updated with 10.5.2 and all other updates, but there is no "transparent menu bar" checkbox in the Desktop/Screensaver preference pane.

I took screengrabs of each machine, the first is the imac (alu 2.4) with the ATI HD2600, the second is the Mac Pro with the 7300gt.

Anyone know what gives with this?

Sean...is that the only card in the Mac Pro? Also, how many displays is it hooked up to?

Can you post a pic of your Graphics/Displays screen in Profiler?

-Kevin

 

[vohdoun]

[Edit]Removed.

Maybe the update slightly messed up that part...

 

[Sean Dempsey]

Sean...is that the only card in the Mac Pro? Also, how many displays is it hooked up to?

Can you post a pic of your Graphics/Displays screen in Profiler?

-Kevin

3 displays on 2 7300gts. The main display (which has the menu bar) is on it's own card in slot 1, then the other 2 monitors are on the 2ndary 7300gt in slot 4.

 

[netnothing]

3 displays on 2 7300gts. The main display (which has the menu bar) is on it's own card in slot 1, then the other 2 monitors are on the 2ndary 7300gt in slot 4.

After searching......I'm beginning to think this has to due to having more than one card in the machine.....or maybe even multiple displays.

I've read where people have removed one of the cards, going down to 1 card, and the option appears.

-Kevin

 

[netnothing]

3 displays on 2 7300gts. The main display (which has the menu bar) is on it's own card in slot 1, then the other 2 monitors are on the 2ndary 7300gt in slot 4.

Here's one of the support topics where someone had the same issue:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=6583462&tstart=0

-Kevin

 

[Mackilroy]

kbmb: that's what did it for me. When I removed the 7300 GT and left the HD2600 XT in the machine, it reappeared.

 

[netnothing]

kbmb: that's what did it for me. When I removed the 7300 GT and left the HD2600 XT in the machine, it reappeared.

Then it must be because of the 2+ cards in the system, because I know for a fact that the 7300GT can power the translucent menu bar (that's what I'm running....but only 1 card).

So I think the common thread in all this is users with multiple cards in the system. Apple must be having a hard item checking if they meet the requirements with 2 in there....weird.

Let's see if Sean tries and that solves it. If so, we should submit feedback to Apple to get it fixed in 10.5.3.

-Kevin

 

[Sean Dempsey]

After reading the thread at the Apple forums I am sure it is is, it's been happening the same way for anyone with a Mac Pro and 2 video cards.

It's not that big of deal, just a little annoying. Probably some tiny little piece of code they were just sloppy with and will be fixed in a patch.