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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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Hi,

I have a XfX hd ATI 5870 and wanna install the kexts, but i'm New to the hackingtosh World, so the only thing in Need to do is install the Aty_init.kext and then if it Appears in the sys Profiler, install the Otter kext's? Do i first Need to Upgrade to 10.6.4? Atm i have 10.6.2 from Hazard , Running a amd

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Hi,

I have a XfX hd ATI 5870 and wanna install the kexts, but i'm New to the hackingtosh World, so the only thing in Need to do is install the Aty_init.kext and then if it Appears in the sys Profiler, install the Otter kext's? Do i first Need to Upgrade to 10.6.4? Atm i have 10.6.2 from Hazard , Running a amd

10.6.4 is a must.

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Hello guys,

 

I have a Club3D 5850, Gigabyte p55m-ud2 and a intel core i5 750, does anybody know

if this setup is OSX compatible (I was searching on some sites but I couldnt find the right info).

 

And if it is, could somebody please tell me how. I really want an OSX dualboot :D

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Heyyo,

 

Hello guys,

 

I have a Club3D 5850, Gigabyte p55m-ud2 and a intel core i5 750, does anybody know

if this setup is OSX compatible (I was searching on some sites but I couldnt find the right info).

 

And if it is, could somebody please tell me how. I really want an OSX dualboot ;)

Yes it is. The vidcard might work with this new aty_init.kext that Netkas is working on for proper screen resolutions and so fourth. For setting up OSX use [url="http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/"]#####[/url]:

 

http://tonymacx86.blogspot.com/

 

And once installed? use [url="http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/"]#####[/url] which is on there, and you would use the UserDSDT and grab the DSDT.aml that goes with your mobo.

 

[url="http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/"]#####[/url] (Check the vids on how to set it up with UserDSDT):

http://tonymacx86.blogspot.com/2010/06/[url="http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/"]#####[/url]-20.html

 

DSDT.aml file you will need:

http://tonymacx86.blogspot.com/2009/12/dsd...therboards.html

 

GLHFDD. If you have any more questions please start a separate thread just so that we keep this topic on track. :(

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Please can someone write a "how to, step by step" drivers for asus 5870 card. I have iatkos s3 instaled 10.6.3. i tried the .dmg with kext helper with no efect and tried separate drivers and than my snow leo crashed and wouldnt bootup after restart. I'm i doing something wrong?

my config> mb: asus p5ql pro, cpu intel e7300, gpu: radeon 5870 ram:8gig

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I am currently helping them at http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php...=1#post10431963 and testing the kexts but no luck so far.

 

excellent news, but when i went over and tried to download the kexts and such it said i need a forum account, no problem except their registration page is not working... script malfunction or so... anyway can anyone post the necessairy files for the 5850 please?

 

Solved: Netkas has his own site for this progress, goto, http://netkas.org/?p=465

 

but it didnt work... i get ablack screen after loading, sigh.

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Hey guys I have a problem with my Radeon 5850. Looking forward to getting it to work with OSX but now it won't even let me boot. When i boot with Chameleon I type:

i386 -v

 

After Chameleon loads some lines my entire screen turns black and my graphics fan starts spinning like mad. After a few seconds my monitor is starting to switch continuesly between analog and digital, indicating there is no input anymore. One guy one a other board said I had to put something in my second DVI-slot for it to boot, he said a DVI -> VGA dongle would do the trick but it didn't work for me.

 

My OSX install did use to work on my other graphics card (Nvidia 6600GT). It was a pretty easy job getting it to work on that card: I didn't have to do anything and I immediatly got FullHD and QE/CI. Strangely however, booting from my HDD instead of the [url="http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/"]#####[/url] CD always got stuck when not in -v mode. Now it doesn't let me boot at all with the CD nor my HDD in -v mode.

 

My system:

 

- Intel core i5 750

- Asus Radeon 5850 1GB

- Gigabyte GA-P55m UD2

- OSX 10.6.3 installation on AHCI HDD ([url="http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/"]#####[/url] + [url="http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/"]#####[/url] way)

 

I would appreciate any help :thumbsup_anim:

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did you try at least reading the message from -zero- that is 3 post above you?? it sure wouldn't hurt you to try

I'm sorry but i actually have been following this topic for quite some time. I know that updating to 10.6.4 is a must and it was stupid I didn't realise i have to use my old card first because otherwise I can't boot into OSX to perform the update. I guess I'm going to do that first, after installing the kext I will pop in my 5850 again and we will see.

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Great! I'll wait for your report on that

 

PS: sorry for the sarcasm in the previous post, but sometimes you see people who just doesn't care to help themselves, and want someone else to do it

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