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Radeon HD 5800 and MacPro

I just restored a 10.6.3 image to usb-stick w/myHack_Installer_1.1, can I drop in these new files on the stick and do a fresh working install? Where would they go, Extensions?
 
I am a noob about this.

How do I get this working? I really want to install Mac OS X on my laptop, and it seems some have made it succesfully work with Radeon 5850.

What should I download here, what should I download else where, what guide should I follow?

Can someone please, very short, write me a mini guide how I shall get this working? :)
It would be freakin' amazing if someone would give their time to do that for me. Really.

I am using an i5 Intel 430M CPU and my laptop is GX640 from MSi.

Thank you VERY, VERY much in advance!
 
Hafnium said:
I am a noob about this.

How do I get this working? I really want to install Mac OS X on my laptop, and it seems some have made it succesfully work with Radeon 5850.

What should I download here, what should I download else where, what guide should I follow?

Can someone please, very short, write me a mini guide how I shall get this working? :)
It would be freakin' amazing if someone would give their time to do that for me. Really.

I am using an i5 Intel 430M CPU and my laptop is GX640 from MSi.

Thank you VERY, VERY much in advance!
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Mobile cards are usually a different story. If I'm not mistaken, the 5850 mobility is actually based on the 5700 core. It's best to wait until mobility chips have some support.
 
netkas said:
looks like you need to remove atiradeonx2000.kext first.

could be wrong tho.

what aty_init kext do u use ?

at #70, or later one for vapor-x ?
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I have removed X2000

I looked inside the ATY_init in ext folder and can see the ROM for my XFX 5870, so it is right ATY

Basically, whenever it loads X3000 it slows boot to a CRAWL which ends in blocks of color on 5870 screen.

Don't know what else to do.

Reinstalled all the driver kexts one by one through terminal.

Started from Macbook HD which has never been fiddled-with. Freshly installed correct ATY and drivers. Same behavior as if from Mac Pro hard drive.

From Nvidia 7300 I can see that X3000 is loaded, but connecting a display to 5870 it first turns blue, then very slowly turns into the blocks of color.

If anyone else has gotten a 5xxx series card working on an actual "designed in Cupertino" Mac, please post about it.

Can't understand why a Hack would interact with X3000 so differently from actual Mac.

Let me know if there are any other logs, dumps, etc that might hold a clue. It almost seems like card is running wrong RAM speed or GPU clock. Wonder if that AGPM kext has anything to do with this?

Just remembered another weird thing.

If I have 2 screens side by side, the 7300 nice and clear and 5870 all blocks of messy color, I can move the cursor over to 5870 screen and it reacts normally, looking like little black arrow.

However, if I drag a window over there it breaks up into the color blocks, kind of like it is sprayed all over the screen. I can take pix with a camera if that will help. Sometimes the window just won't go over there and will "bounce" back into 7300 side. It feels very unhappy.
 
This is AWESOME! You guys ROCK!

(Saying "muahahahahahahaHA!" in my head as I imagine picking up a PC Radeon 5800xt in the near future to install in my Mac Pro..... while simultaneously giving the finger to Apple for being so ridiculously slow with updating the Mac Pro).

I can't wait until this works for actual Mac Pros! For all you Hacks out there with working ATI 5xxx cards, CONGRATS!
 
Alright, I'm sicker then can be, I'll pick up a 5-series card to help, although by the time I get it the whole thing'll be done. (2009 MacPro reporting)

However, is there a particular make/model that I should nab?
 
I suppose this means that a 5xxx series in a Mac is now an imminent inevitability, like in the next few weeks. Apple wouldn't have bothered stuffing it into 10.6.4 if it weren't. They could've waited for 10.6.5.

I'm wagering on both the Mac Pro and the iMac getting one. July is when Intel is supposed to ramp up 6 core Xeon production, and I doubt Apple is going to waste any time when they know that supplies are sufficient for an update.
 
Hello super great works !

I have a Sapphire VAPOR-X HD 5770 - 1 Go HDMI/Dual DVI/

Is it possible to use your last ATY-Init or a futur version with 5770 reference into.

Many Thanks.
 
Mac Pro 2009 with Sapphire Vapor-X 5870. I'm a bit late to the whole scene - anything I can do to help?
 
Durendal said:
If we're sharing the same settings, then according to OGLEV...the 5870 is half again as fast as a GTX 285, at least on 10.6.3.

JESUS.
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mmm. The 5870 appears between 50% and 75% faster than my 4870 (same settings, lower resolution 1680*1050).
 
Say got my XfX Hd 5870 working, but the FPS is soo Baad and also the DvD Player doesnt Works --
 
netkas said:
57x0 support, only hacks for now. http://mirror.netkas.org/5700/ATY_Init.kext.zip
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ok i try it this afternoon.

But please help me dear Netkas :

can i install in my System/Extension Folder your :

ATY_Init.Kext with 5700 item

AND :

ATI5000Controller.kext
ATISupport.kext
ATIFramebuffer.kext
ATIRadeonX3000.kext
ATIRadeonX3000GA.plugin
ATIRadeonX3000GLDriver.bundle
ATIRadeonX3000VADriver.bundle

PS : it is for my hackintosh core i5 750 on Asus P7P55D Premium
 
Tesseract said:
Mac Pro 2009 with Sapphire Vapor-X 5870. I'm a bit late to the whole scene - anything I can do to help?
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Hi, just joined the Show. Same Setup 2009 Mac Pro and Sapphire Vapor-x 5870.
But gimme some hours. Have to read myself into the whole kext thing first but im open to help out.
 
Ok, just threw in all of the kexts at once and rebooted with the GT120 still plugged in via DVI and the Vapor-X 5870 via HDMI. Both are connected to the same display via two different inputs.

Aaaaaaaaaaand same problem as you, Rominator. At least... I think so. Its detected, and outputs... but the mouse cursor is the only coherent thing on the screen. Same deal no matter what output I use (2x DVI, HDMI, Display Port - although I don't have the right stuff to test the display port). Same deal if I remove the GT120 completely.

System also hangs a LOT with the kexts loaded - I assume its trying to send certain tasks (image viewing / hardware acceleration / etc) to the 5870 and thats when it hangs.
 

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Again, are you guys using the openGL framework that's in the new Mac Minis' 10.6.4 image? There might be issues if the openGL has been updated to match drivers, and if you use an outdated framework.
But this might not be the issue, since the card seems to work well in hacks.
 
huscat said:
can someone let me know what kind of score they get? I'm thinking about buying one.
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There are benchmarks all over the internet. It appears to be about half again as fast as a GTX 285. The only thing that would be able to beat it is a GTX 480, but with Nvidia's history of garbage drivers for OS X that get better over a long period of time, the Radeon might be the better choice.
 
looks like we need to get that opengl.framework from macmini 10.6.4
 
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