macuser123123123 Posted February 3, 2009 Share Posted February 3, 2009 Hi there, i heard about no hardware acceleration support for ati 38xx and 26xx cards under snow ? Is that right ? Anyone tested one of these ATI cards with the beta snow version ? Is there a way to enable hardware acceleration ? Hope so.... thx4allinformations Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AiBear Posted February 4, 2009 Share Posted February 4, 2009 i heard about no hardware acceleration support for ati 38xx and 26xx cards under snow ? I can't say I'm sure and certain of it, as I haven't been able to test Snowy on an ATI yet (NV8800GT works just fine), but seeing as Apple still sells HD2600XT's with it's Mac Pro's, I very much doubt there will be support for those. There might be no *native* support for the HD3xxx series, but according to a thread in the Graphics section (which I can't find right now due to the new layout and search by google...) it shouldn't be much trouble to get those working; moreover - the HD4xxx seem to be supported! Well, I hope I've shed /some/ light on this matter for you... Greetings, AiBear There might be no *native* support for the HD3xxx series (edit of previous post not possible due to buggy new site-interface) Just found some info about HD3850 not being able to boot in Snow. So it indeed seems the HD3xxx series might be excluded - for now. As they got them to work under Leopard, I presume they will fix it quickly enough under Snow as well. Sorry... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
macuser123123123 Posted February 5, 2009 Author Share Posted February 5, 2009 I can't say I'm sure and certain of it, as I haven't been able to test Snowy on an ATI yet (NV8800GT works just fine), but seeing as Apple still sells HD2600XT's with it's Mac Pro's, I very much doubt there will be support for those. There might be no *native* support for the HD3xxx series, but according to a thread in the Graphics section (which I can't find right now due to the new layout and search by google...) it shouldn't be much trouble to get those working; moreover - the HD4xxx seem to be supported! Well, I hope I've shed /some/ light on this matter for you... Greetings, AiBear (edit of previous post not possible due to buggy new site-interface) Just found some info about HD3850 not being able to boot in Snow. So it indeed seems the HD3xxx series might be excluded - for now. As they got them to work under Leopard, I presume they will fix it quickly enough under Snow as well. Sorry... thx to your reply. We will see if the final version works or not!.. Hope so... If not i have to buy a 48... card to get it work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
macuser123123123 Posted February 5, 2009 Author Share Posted February 5, 2009 thx to your reply. We will see if the final version works or not!.. Hope so... If not i have to buy a 48... card to get it work. Is there any Programer in this forum who is able to program a working HD 38xx or HD 26xx driver ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cris900 Posted February 5, 2009 Share Posted February 5, 2009 there is a section for ATI DRIVER..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
macuser123123123 Posted February 7, 2009 Author Share Posted February 7, 2009 there is a section for ATI DRIVER..... Sorry Cris900, don´t know what you mean ?. I thought i posted this thread already in the ati section. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mitch_de Posted February 9, 2009 Share Posted February 9, 2009 Has anyone got OS X Snow 122 / 261 got booting with ATI 3850 / GA EP 35 Board ? Without QE/CI would be OK, but i cant boot at all (KP with orig. kernel, no screen with kernel_sn and safe boot) C2D and Installed PC-EFI V9 boot, which told me that it can do Snow Leo. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lastExile Posted February 10, 2009 Share Posted February 10, 2009 Has anyone got OS X Snow 122 / 261 got booting with ATI 3850 / GA EP 35 Board ?Without QE/CI would be OK, but i cant boot at all (KP with orig. kernel, no screen with kernel_sn and safe boot) C2D and Installed PC-EFI V9 boot, which told me that it can do Snow Leo. no worries ati radeon hd will work sooner or later with snow Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
macuser123123123 Posted February 10, 2009 Author Share Posted February 10, 2009 no worries ati radeon hd will work sooner or later with snow hope so... Is there any Programmer in this forum who wants to build a working driver for snow ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mitch_de Posted February 10, 2009 Share Posted February 10, 2009 no worries ati radeon hd will work sooner or later with snow Thanks. But i want to ask too if it is at least possible to use the ATI 38XX (runs well in my 10.5.6) without QE/CI as save boot VGA for first "lookings" into Snow ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bilow _51 Posted February 14, 2009 Share Posted February 14, 2009 I can't say I'm sure and certain of it, as I haven't been able to test Snowy on an ATI yet (NV8800GT works just fine), but seeing as Apple still sells HD2600XT's with it's Mac Pro's, I very much doubt there will be support for those. There might be no *native* support for the HD3xxx series, but according to a thread in the Graphics section (which I can't find right now due to the new layout and search by google...) it shouldn't be much trouble to get those working; moreover - the HD4xxx seem to be supported! Well, I hope I've shed /some/ light on this matter for you... Greetings, AiBear (edit of previous post not possible due to buggy new site-interface) Just found some info about HD3850 not being able to boot in Snow. So it indeed seems the HD3xxx series might be excluded - for now. As they got them to work under Leopard, I presume they will fix it quickly enough under Snow as well. Sorry... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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