Sidebar Sidebar
Become a MacRumors Supporter for $50/year with no ads, ability to filter front page stories, and private forums.

Radeon HD 5800 and MacPro

Cindori said:
coolio doodio

ima gona shred sum games nao yo


actually scratch my earlier report, 5870 gives output on both ports without x3000. Dvi to Hdmi also works. Just no QECI.

atyinit from #70, my binimage
Click to expand...

With the ATY from #70, if it works like mine, the blue screen will EVENTUALLY (a few minutes) break into "The Desktop" which will be a mass of squares. AT a glacial pace, one square after another will be re-drawn with noisy black mess.

The one I emailed was an attempt to Init the card a completely other way. Netkas spent hours redoing it but when he got issues resolved, still no luck.

Where are those 10.6.5 seeds?
 
So, did anyone ever find unreleased drivers for the 4870 right before it came out with the 2009 MP? If so, how long after the find were they available? If not, well, crap.
 
When I copied over the drivers to S/L/E, I now get a KP.

It doesn't seem to matter if ATY_INT is in there or not. Seems to be a dependency issue, but it doesn't make sense. Ideas? Please help :D

Oh, I'm running a hack on 10.6.4

img0035c.jpg
 
New Test Rig - still no joy

Interesting info.

I am going to have a look to see if those files have newer versions in the Mini disk image we found rest of drivers on.

It would make sense that if those files don't have references to new cards/drivers, they would not know how to deal with.

Unfortunately, the fact that several folks have perfectly running 5870s on Hacks seems to say that ultimately these files aren't crucial to success.

SInce you have a Hack, you should post at InsanelyMac. Your luck will be better there.

Meanwhile, back at my 10th floor tenement, I couldn't STAND not knowing if that AGPM / MacPro 4,1 thing was important. So, I stuffed BOTH hands down the couch cushions, grabbed ALL of the change I could grab, and bought a 4,1 Mac Pro.

And no, it didn't make any stinking difference. Still runs EXACTLY the same, but now IOReg Explorer actually shows BOTH of the control strings, the ones my 1,1 showed, and the ones the 4,1 hack showed.

If Netkas can think of any 1,1 vs 4,1 tests that might help, I'll do them.
 

Attachments

  • agpm.png
    agpm.png
    87.7 KB · Views: 204
The Rominator said:
Meanwhile, back at my 10th floor tenement, I couldn't STAND not knowing if that AGPM / MacPro 4,1 thing was important. So, I stuffed BOTH hands down the couch cushions, grabbed ALL of the change I could grab, and bought a 4,1 Mac Pro. .
Click to expand...
You bought a new MP just to test this? You're insane! Why didn't you get a cheaper Quad too?
 
Thanks to everyone for getting ATI5xxx support moving so quickly.

My HD5850 is working fine with one major issue. The displayport won't output anything and it's where my main monitor goes (Apple Cinema Display with adapter from mini-dp to displayport).

I've tried Vervet, Eulemur and Uakari and none of these will wake up the displayport with the current drivers. Eulemur won't output anything, and Vervet and Uakari only talk to the main DVI port.

Does anyone have any ideas about how to get the displayport output going ? either alone or with a DVI monitor also connected ?

Is this something that later drivers might fix ? should I try more framebuffers, or other hackery ?

Edit: This is a hackintosh btw
Anton
 
antonenright said:
Does anyone have any ideas about how to get the displayport output going ? either alone or with a DVI monitor also connected ?

Is this something that later drivers might fix ? should I try more framebuffers, or other hackery ?

Edit: This is a hackintosh btw
Anton
Click to expand...

Tim to try different framebuffers

go down the list and switch out all 6 or 7 instances of each name and keep records of which ports work.

Quite often having a DVI to VGA adapter on one DVI port will enable one of the other digital ports. Ideally you would have 2 or or 3 of same monitor. Frequently the EDID doesn't get matched to port it actually got read from.

So try each name out, but try different combos of ports, whatever you can do. But do try each port via DVI and then plug in a DVI to VGA adapter. Can be Apple's or a cheapy. Just has to trigger "Hot Plug Detect"
 
Lol, AMD just confirmed Radeon 6000 series is coming in a few months. So much for mac pro getting in on the latest graphics.



"In the second half of the year, we expect GPU demand to remain healthy and supply constraints to ease. We remain on track to bolster our GPU leadership with the introduction of our second generation DX11 graphics products, later this year."
 
Cindori said:
Lol, AMD just confirmed Radeon 6000 series is coming in a few months. So much for mac pro getting in on the latest graphics.



"In the second half of the year, we expect GPU demand to remain healthy and supply constraints to ease. We remain on track to bolster our GPU leadership with the introduction of our second generation DX11 graphics products, later this year."
Click to expand...

I doubt it is the 6000 series, but a mid-life refresh of the 5000s. Expect things like the 5875...
 
nope, next generation, HD 6000.

"ATI’s add-in-card partner, Hightech Information System, better known as HIS, has revealed knowledge of the ATI Radeon HD 6000 series (thought to be codenamed Southern Islands) launch, saying that the next-gen GPUs will be due out by Q4 2010, and that they would follow with their own partner cards in Q1 2011."
 
Cindori said:
Lol, AMD just confirmed Radeon 6000 series is coming in a few months. So much for mac pro getting in on the latest graphics.

"In the second half of the year, we expect GPU demand to remain healthy and supply constraints to ease. We remain on track to bolster our GPU leadership with the introduction of our second generation DX11 graphics products, later this year."
Click to expand...

The earth would explode if Apple ever included anything other than a year-old graphics card in their products.

Anyways, it will be interesting to see what kind of hardware the 6000 series is, considering all of the rumors (RUMORS, mind you! RUMORS!!11!) saying that the 6000 series will just be a slight tweaking of the 5000s. Plus... the apparent fact that the 6000s will be released sometime later this year, but the 28nm boards won't be ready until 2011.
 
you are right and I am wrong





"nApoleon said R9xx chip should be the time to tape out at 40nm node,less stream processors than Cypress,performance target is 10%-20% higher than GTX480.There are some changes in architecture,but it's not a totally new architecture."
 
Cindori said:
"nApoleon said R9xx chip should be the time to tape out at 40nm node,less stream processors than Cypress,performance target is 10%-20% higher than GTX480.There are some changes in architecture,but it's not a totally new architecture."
Click to expand...

Looks like a marketing release and nothing really to worry about when the MP will get 5000 series.
 
Fiete5401 said:
Looks like a marketing release and nothing really to worry about when the MP will get 5000 series.
Click to expand...

Something tells me we WILL worry about it.

Sounds like equivalent of the 4870 moving to 4890. A double edged sword for us. Slightly faster once flashed for Mac Pro, but INFINITELY more bother.

I look forward to the (hopefully) coming day when I can use a 5870 in either of my Pros, but it will stink if just as we figure out 5870, the 5890/6xxx equiv shows up and the remaining 5870 start getting cheaper/nonreference parts / boards and we start the who;e "try to keep them working" game again.

Here's hoping we have SOME 5xxx series working BEFORE the replacement hits the market.
 
Hi

Hello, i am currently having problem with my graphic card, i can only set my display to 1024X768, and other things work just fine.

I installed iatkos s3 v2 (version 10.6.3)

My Spec:
ATI Radeon HD 5800 (ASUS Brand)
Core I7 860 @2.80ghz
4Gb RAM
P7P55D PRO

Any one can give any suggestion?
i have been seeking and digging on many sites but still can't find out the suitable driver for me.... :(

Thank you.....:apple:
 
jnickz said:
Hello, i am currently having problem with my graphic card, i can only set my display to 1024X768, and other things work just fine.

I installed iatkos s3 v2 (version 10.6.3)

My Spec:
ATI Radeon HD 5800 (ASUS Brand)
Core I7 860 @2.80ghz
4Gb RAM
P7P55D PRO

Any one can give any suggestion?
i have been seeking and digging on many sites but still can't find out the suitable driver for me.... :(

Thank you.....:apple:
Click to expand...

1. No such card as 5800
2. whichever card you have, you probably need to try different frame buffers
3. This is an actual Mac site with not much useful info for Hacksters
4. Insanely Mac or Netkas.org are only places you will likely find useful info.

But you're gonna hafta figure out which card you have first.
 
The Rominator said:
1. No such card as 5800
2. whichever card you have, you probably need to try different frame buffers
3. This is an actual Mac site with not much useful info for Hacksters
4. Insanely Mac or Netkas.org are only places you will likely find useful info.

But you're gonna hafta figure out which card you have first.
Click to expand...

Thx for your reply, oh :( then probably i will have to find again .....
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Register on MacRumors! This sidebar will go away, and you'll see fewer ads.
Top Bottom
Back