Radeon HD 5800 and MacPro

Ati Hd5870

Hi to all of you on this forum!

I have a Sapphire ATI Radeon HD5870 Vapor-X 1GB GDDR5
and a Mac Pro 2008 Early 2x2.8 GHz Quad-Core Intel Xenon 8 GB 800 MHz DDR FB-DIMM Boot ROM-version: MP31.006C.B05
SMC-version (system): 1.25f4
I want to get my Graphic card to work on my Mac (This is a real Mac). Can i help with testing please let me no.

Here is what it shows in about this computer

Typ: Grafikprocessor
Buss: PCIe
Kortplats: Slot-1
PCIe-bandbredd: x16
Tillverkare: ATI (0x1002)
Enhets-ID: 0x6898
Revisions-ID: 0x0000

Regards MacRoysan :apple:
 
Any word yet with this working some how with an ATI 5870 mobile?
Is there another thread somewhere else?
 
Ati Hd5870

MacRoysan said:
Hi to all of you on this forum!

I have a Sapphire ATI Radeon HD5870 Vapor-X 1GB GDDR5
and a Mac Pro 2008 Early 2x2.8 GHz Quad-Core Intel Xenon 8 GB 800 MHz DDR FB-DIMM Boot ROM-version: MP31.006C.B05
SMC-version (system): 1.25f4
I want to get my Graphic card to work on my Mac (This is a real Mac). Can i help with testing please let me no.

Here is what it shows in about this computer

Typ: Grafikprocessor
Buss: PCIe
Kortplats: Slot-1
PCIe-bandbredd: x16
Tillverkare: ATI (0x1002)
Enhets-ID: 0x6898
Revisions-ID: 0x0000

Regards MacRoysan :apple:
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Hi!

I manage to get my card to work almost perfectly except for not hawing QE/CI. Can you help me???

ATI Radeon HD 5870:

Styrkretsmodell: ATI Radeon HD 5870
Typ: Grafikprocessor
Buss: PCIe
Kortplats: Slot-1
PCIe-bandbredd: x16
VRAM (totalt): 1024 MB
Tillverkare: ATI (0x1002)
Enhets-ID: 0x6898
Revisions-ID: 0x0000
ROM-revision: 113-B7710C-176
EFI-drivrutinsversion: 01.00.318
Bildskärmar:
SyncMaster:
Upplösning: 1920 x 1200 @ 60 Hz
Bildpunktsdjup: 32 bitars färg (ARGB8888)
Huvudbildskärm: Ja
Spegel: Av
Uppkopplad: Ja
Bildskärmskontakt:
Status: Ingen bildskärm ansluten


Regards / MacRoysan
 
there is no way to enable qeci yet on mac pro, tyvärr.
it has to do with the netkas initializers, hopefully he can produce a solution
 
Where's my Eye-Finity?

Anyone notice that the much vaunted Eyefinity feature is not mentioned anywhere?

In any case, flashing possibilities are pretty good.

Likely that at least 2 @ digital ports will work, and possibly three, though we may once again have a lack of Dual Link ports.

Pix coming.:)
 
And now for the card to be available...
Hopefully they will release the 5870 as a separate card too.
And even more hopefully, for a reasonable price. Do I think we can all doubt that. Again.
 
The Rominator said:
Anyone notice that the much vaunted Eyefinity feature is not mentioned anywhere?

In any case, flashing possibilities are pretty good.

Likely that at least 2 @ digital ports will work, and possibly three, though we may once again have a lack of Dual Link ports.

Pix coming.:)
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Eyefinity seems like it's mainly for gaming on the PC. I doubt this is something that Apple wanted to target. Apple does however heavily advertise the fact that it supports three outputs.

Three outputs is exactly what I'm looking for... I get to slim down from two power hungry cards (GTX285+GTS250) to a single to support my tri-monitor setup! :)
 
Cocoia said:
I think he doesn't want it to come with the computer attached to it ;). Let's hope for an upgrade kit.
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Ahh I see... my bad, sorry... :D

Well I'm sure we'll be able to flash PC ones.... ;)
Or so I hope, because I got two 5770s lying around here :D
 
Alright, I just read through this whole thread and the comments + article at netkas.org and I'm going to hop into this process with my HD5970 and see if I can get any progress going. I'll be using the same package Spanky used (uses?).
 
Cocoia said:
Alright, I just read through this whole thread and the comments + article at netkas.org and I'm going to hop into this process with my HD5970 and see if I can get any progress going. I'll be using the same package Spanky used (uses?).
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Yup, still using it. Bear in mind that I'm not using a Mac Pro though. My machine's an i7 hackintosh.

It's still working great though. The only issue I have is that the XFX ROM doesn't have the 2560x1600 VESA resolution built in so when Chameleon loads it displays at a low resolution. Unfortunately this means that when OSX boots up my display isn't initialised - a problem I had with my 4870s too. Unplugging the display and plugging it back in sorts it right out but another workaround I've found is that it does initialise the screen if the screen goes to sleep so for now I've got my screen sleep time set to one minute so all I have to do is wait one minute after booting up and then I can use it.
That may sound like a hassle but I don't reboot much and when I do I usually need to go pee or make a cup of tea anyway and it's much less hassle than having to move my computer to unplug and replug the cable.
The workaround with my 4870s was to have Chameleon start up with the 2560x1600 resolution. That way OSX wouldn't need to change the resolution and I could bypass the issue. This only works with VESA supported resolutions though. I'm hoping that when 5xxx Mac bioses start to float around that the Rominator will be able to create a 5970 bios using them and that they may have the VESA resolution for the 30" ACD.
 
Heyyo,

I hope this helps, it's an IOReg dump from my hackintosh notebook with ATi 5650 Mobility in it so maybe someday in the future I can have a widescreen resolution on my notebook. :)

At the time I did have aty_int.kext loaded, not the ati5000controller.kext or anything cause those just cause my screen to blank or get stuck on text in verbose mode, or corrupt my display.
 

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