Luke1995 Posted April 10, 2011 Share Posted April 10, 2011 Here is how to get your ATI Radeon HD 4650 working in Snow Leopard with everything working My System Specs: Gigabyte GA-MA69VM-S2 AMD Athlon 64 X2 4800+ XFX ATi Radeon HD 4650 1GB PCI Onboard HD Audio Files you need: http://www.mediafire.com/?2u72i00u331l78x At the moment, I can only get this to work in 32-bit mode, but I am pretty sure it will work in 64-bit mode. Firstly, you'll need the kexts attached to this post (thanks to Sincro77 for providing them). THESE KEXTS HAVE BEEN PRE-MODIFIED WITH THE DEVICE ID'S SO THAT YOU DON'T NEED TO CHANGE ANYTHING (0x94981002) Enabling Full Resolution, QE and CI In the folder named 'Tools' there is a tool called 'Kext Helper b7' - drag this to your applications folder, and then place in your dock (we'll be using this tool a lot). Next, in the folder called 'Kexts' there are 2 more folders - one called 'Full Resolution' and another called 'QE and CI'. Open the first folder, ('Full Resolution'), and drag all 3 kexts to Kext Helper b7 in your dock Enter your password in the 'Password' field, and then click 'Easy Install'. After this, quit Kext Helper, (it may not let you - in this case, right click on it, then click 'Force Quit'). Next, go to the folder called 'QE and CI', and drag those 4 kexts to Kext Helper b7 in your dock. Enter your password in the 'Password' field, and then click 'Easy Install'. Fixing the 'Extra' Directory Go to your System Root, then double click the 'Extra' folder. Go to the 'Extra' folder in the attachment, and copy all of the files from there into the 'Extra' directory in your hard drive, overwriting any files already there. Finally, copy the com.apple.Boot.plist to this directory: (system root)/Library/Preferences/SystemPreferences/ Installing the new bootloader Go to the folder called 'PCEfi 10.6', and double-click the DMG Install to your boot volume, (normally your main hard drive). Finally, copy the 'boot' file in the attached folder to your system root, (MAKE SURE YOU BACKUP YOUR OLD BOOT FILE) Now Pray and Reboot! If it successfully works, you should see something like this: If you do not have any QE, CI, or Native Resolution, type these 2 commands into console, and post them on here, along with your exact card info: sudo -s kextutil -t /System/Library/Extensions/ATI4600Controller.kext and sudo -s kextutil -t /System/Library/Extensions/ATIRadeonX2000.kext Hope it works for you Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Funky frank Posted April 29, 2011 Share Posted April 29, 2011 Cool, this works on my Acer X3810 with HD4650 1GB! Only one problem, after sleeping, the display does not awake again... Any ideas or dsdt patching available? EDIT: The screen also remains black if I change the screen resolution from 1920x1080 to another. So it's not power management related I guess. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
auro Posted June 4, 2011 Share Posted June 4, 2011 the link to download files is broken Please reupload them 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AkimoA Posted June 29, 2011 Share Posted June 29, 2011 Well i thought id share this success too Asus LOW Profile 4650 1GIG http://www.cl.ly/0c0E3c1H2N1v1t2L2c2W These are modified Lion kexts in addition with x2000 from 10.6.8 + boot_vga wich needs to be replaced in the root folder off course repair kext cache after install via kext utility reboot and cross your fingers tested here on vga and dvi both work currently running on a Pentium 4 on 10.6.8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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