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Radeon HD 5800 and MacPro

Pharos said:
To 5750 owners:

I can confirm it's working :)

Before all I got was a messed up screen just like Rominator.

Downloaded the drivers and aty_init from netkas' website;

I had to add devid 68BE to ati5000controller.kext , I also replaced the Uakari framebuffer to Eulemur in the aty_init's info.plist.

Only one port is working, however (the bottom DVI one), but I can totally live with that, never had a dual monitor setup and never will :)
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Can you copy paste the edited part in the plist so others can adjust as well? I'm not sure whjat to change.
 
Anyone find a fix for the kernel panic with the x3000 kext? I'm working with a 5870 on an i7 hackintosh and nothing seems to work. I can start with -x, but obviously that doesnt help.
 
More Znalis & Vervet findings

With the Zonalis framebuffer, the lower DVI port can be enabled by plugging an HDMI display. However, using this framebuffer, BOTH DVI ports are Single Link. The DP port can sense Hot Plug, but no signal comes from it.

Someone with a 5770 that only has upper DVI should try plugging HDMI cable in. HDMI cable may need to terminate in a display.

And again, no QE/CI.

Also, have a theory that messed up screens may be due to incorrect math for pixel clock. May or may not know what I am talking about. Pix at 11.

Vervet has same basic behavior. When used with an ATI 2600XT, either X2000 will load or x3000. If 2000 loads, the 5870 works as 2D frame buffer and 2600 works normally. When x3000 loads the 2600 stays locked on boot screen and 5870 shows mess.

When I tried VGA on the 5870, it becomes somewhat easier to see. Instead of strange repeating squares of distorion, it seems that the desktop is stretched horizontally.

This is bourne out by the resolution choices with the Apple 30" on the 7300GT in. It only wants to mirror, doesn't allow me to click the off selection for mirroring. When 1920x1200 is chosen for 30", the 24" Dell is given 1600x1200. It even seems like you could SQUEEZE the picture from the sides and line it up. Mind you, each action or resolution change takes 40-50 seconds. The machine seems mostly locked up and occasionally a mouse click gets through.

Further tests tomorrow with other Frame Buffers. I may also try flashing my 5870 with the Sapphire Vapor-X ROM and see if it runs better with the ATY-Init that includes it.
 

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I've got an Asus 5870, and working from an otherwise successful hack install of 10.6.4 I've been unable to get it to boot with the aty_init and driver bundle kexts installed. Serious artifacting similar to Rominator, or just hangs at a blue screen. I'm going to try the trick you recommended, netkas. However, with the level of artifacting i've been getting it'll be hard to do anything, such as change resolution. If I set Graphics Mode to 1024x768 in my com.apple.boot.plist, will that start osx in 1024x768? Or rather, should it?

Edit: didn't work, oh well. I removed that line from my plist and it's not artifacting at all anymore. Now it's just hanging at a lightish blue screen.
 
am I doing this right?

I have an i7 920, and a 5870. 10.6.4 32-bit
I plan on installing aty_init.kext
along with all the kexts, bundles, and plugins
that were in netkas's download?

netkas said something about disable graphicsenabler,
so in com.apple.boot.plist, under graphicsenabler, I just change the "yes" to a "no"?

was there something about x3000 kext, thats causing a panic, should I not install that?
 
Mattsasa said:
I have an i7 920, and a 5870. 10.6.4 32-bit
I plan on installing aty_init.kext
along with all the kexts, bundles, and plugins
that were in netkas's download?

netkas said something about disable graphicsenabler,
so in com.apple.boot.plist, under graphicsenabler, I just change the "yes" to a "no"?

was there something about x3000 kext, thats causing a panic, should I not install that?
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Sometimes it would cause a KP for me, but after removing and reinstalling all the kexts from this thread, it doesn't KP anymore. From my understanding, if you don't install x3000 kext, you don't get hardware acceleration. Removing that kext if you have issues may seem like it solves problems, but you're not gonna get any QE/CI.
 
emodeca said:
Sometimes it would cause a KP for me, but after removing and reinstalling all the kexts from this thread, it doesn't KP anymore. From my understanding, if you don't install x3000 kext, you don't get hardware acceleration. Removing that kext if you have issues may seem like it solves problems, but you're not gonna get any QE/CI.
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so should I install with the x3000 kext, and if I get kernel panics, uninstall and reinstall all of my graphics kexts

another side question... should I install these into /system or /extra?
 
Mattsasa said:
so should I install with the x3000 kext, and if I get kernel panics, uninstall and reinstall all of my graphics kexts

another side question... should I install these into /system or /extra?
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download one of the zips posting in this thread, if that doesn't work, then your best bet is honestly to just wait for an update from netkas.

use kext helper. just moving them into /s/l/e/ isn't good enough.
 
emodeca said:
download one of the zips posting in this thread, if that doesn't work, then your best bet is honestly to just wait for an update from netkas.

use kext helper. just moving them into /s/l/e/ isn't good enough.
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k cool, yea don't worry im using kext helper, thanks for your help
 
If a 5870 really is released through Apple or AMD/ATI I will buy one and with needed help (aka instructions) I'll dump the EFI to a file.
Still remains a big if though...
 
I got a 5970 delivered today after reading about all this great new progress over the weekend and placing my order.

I've got it working on my i7 hackintosh using netkas' method but with the 5970 in I get some very strange behaviour in OSX. Finder, Safari, System Preferences and Activity Monitor all stall and give me "Application Not Responding" when I right click their icon in the dock.

Finder works for a little while before bugging out and beachballing. Safari starts and works on some pages but on others it fails. For example, if I go to the macrumors homepage, it starts loading but freezes and beachballs before the two side columns can be rendered. System Preferences and the Activity Monitor don't start. No window comes up, they appear to be running in the dock but right clicking gives the not responding status.

Replacing the 5970 with my old 4870 (and leaving all the kexts etc that I installed to get the 5970 working in place) fixes everything.
 
My renderer is still Software. Tried to boot with -x32 and graphicsenabler=no. Will this work to boot in 32-Bit mode and disable graphicsenabler? What could I try to set OpenGL renderer to graphicscard?
 
Need help from a lucky 5870 OSX86'er

Some lucky people have 5870s running beautifully right now. I'm still trying to help work out 5870 for everyone else.

If somebody with a well running 5870 could take 2 minutes and run & post an IORegistryexplorer report, it would be nice.

If you installed the "Developer" folder from the Snow Leopard DVD, you already have this app.

(located in /Developer/Applications/Utilities)

If not, you can download here:

http://www.filestube.com/50ee75c67365ae3e03ea/details.html

(be careful, they're trying to get you to join their service, etc, and I wouldn't go there in Windows)

Just open the app, and save the file. Takes like 3 seconds to run.

Zip it up and attach here, please.

Thanks from the unlucky ones !!!
 
I'm still having trouble getting my Asus EAH 5870 to work with my Hack. It occurs to me that besides having an Asus card as opposed to a Sapphire, the only other difference is that I used a retail Snow Leopard DVD to install on my Hack. It's vanilla kernel, no patches, and for all intents and purposes, thinks it's a legitimate iMac. I'm not sure if this makes a difference, but I would think it might. Would anyone happen to know if my problems getting this card to work are resulting from it not being a reference 5870 card, or the fact that my Hack's kernel is... not hacked?
 
Tenchu55 said:
ME TOO! DAMMIT!

Does your GPU fan just start running at full speed?

Also, when you said "your ATY_Init.Kext with 5700 item", what do you mean '5700 item'? Don't you just install that kext to S/L/E?

How important is the graphics enabler option? The string for mine is set to 'yes'.

EDIT: I'm forcing the boot to 32-bit with x-32, but still no avail.
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No GPU Fan at full speed
5700 item : the answer of netkas :

57x0 support, only hacks for now. http://mirror.netkas.org/5700/ATY_Init.kext.zip

installed in S/L/E and the other Kext from mini Mac.
and graphics enabler : no
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But Black screen. Netkas says here : http://netkas.org/?p=465

5770 works, but need both dvi to be connected to display.
for 57×0 it worth to try Eulemur Vervet as framebuffer (edit plist), default one is Uakari
Vervet seems to support dual dvi on 57×0
unpack and install both at time, then reboot and pray, cards to test so far – 5850/5870/5970.
consider this as beta
things to keep in mind – disable graphicsenabler, boot in 32-bit kernel mode.

--- BUT Black Screen at this time because i have only one display plus a TV screen.
 
Any advances on the drivers? I've tried just about everything with my 5870 and still no luck. I've resorted to just playing the waiting game, but was hoping for any updates from netkas or Rominator.
 
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