jpa Posted March 16, 2011 Share Posted March 16, 2011 what card do you have? Every 6870 reference works with this procedure, not just the Sapphire (HIS, PowerColor, XFX, Gigabyte,...) the sapphire of andy is better fps in cinebech.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest ^Andy^ Posted March 16, 2011 Share Posted March 16, 2011 the sapphire of andy is better fps in cinebech.... Thats probably more to do with the i5 2500k processor or the slightly overclocked bios that I have used on the 6870 - St1v is correct - all reference 6870's should be the same. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
st1v Posted March 16, 2011 Share Posted March 16, 2011 Exactly, my old E6600 is holding my video card back. For comparison, I'll do the benchmarks again in a couple of week with a new i5-2500k like Andy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rominator Posted March 16, 2011 Share Posted March 16, 2011 Got an XFX 6870 from Newegg. Working beautifully in Mac Pro 4,1. (I think AGPM issue is only with Nvidia cards) 4 displays, OpenGL, QE/CI, cleans the house and irons the cat. PERFECT !!! Using complete 10.6.6 from MBP, likely only need a few of the kexts though. (Note "Thunderbolt" to left of 6000 controller) I would say 6950/70 will come in future update, or will require some deeper digging in kexts we have now. Thanks to you guys !!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jpa Posted March 17, 2011 Share Posted March 17, 2011 Got an XFX 6870 from Newegg. Working beautifully in Mac Pro 4,1. (I think AGPM issue is only with Nvidia cards) 4 displays, OpenGL, QE/CI, cleans the house and irons the cat. PERFECT !!! Using complete 10.6.6 from MBP, likely only need a few of the kexts though. (Note "Thunderbolt" to left of 6000 controller) I would say 6950/70 will come in future update, or will require some deeper digging in kexts we have now. Thanks to you guys !!! hi your points in cinebech is? novabech? thanks is? http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx...0-506-_-Product or http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx...0-507-_-Product Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mitalca Posted March 17, 2011 Share Posted March 17, 2011 ooh, please jpa, stop asking everyone wich newegg card do they have! it's been said already a 1000 times that any reference design will work, and will have the same performance Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rominator Posted March 17, 2011 Share Posted March 17, 2011 hi your points in cinebech is? novabech? thanks is? http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx...0-506-_-Product or http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx...0-507-_-Product The cheaper card. $179 after rebate. Cinebench is kinda embarassing, My mac has 8 cores...but the cheapest 8 cores, ie, @ 2.26 Ghz. The other cards tested are mostly mine too. I also have a 2006 with a Quad 3.0. Cinebench is very CPU bound, even the OpenGl part. Running in OSX is an embarassment. Neat OS, but Graphics Performance is not what it was in past compared to Windows. Haven't paid for Novabench. BTW, card does NOT have shutdown/sleep issues. To run 4 displays, you will need to have real DP monitors, or use Active DP adapters. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jpa Posted March 17, 2011 Share Posted March 17, 2011 ooh, please jpa, stop asking everyone wich newegg card do they have!it's been said already a 1000 times that any reference design will work, and will have the same performance i sorry just looking for the best card to buy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest ^Andy^ Posted March 17, 2011 Share Posted March 17, 2011 Just for info guys, I tried this same routine on my spare hackintosh with a sapphire 5870 card and it also works. So it's now possible to also use 5870's without an injector or graphics enabler. I suspect this will also work for other cards. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rominator Posted March 17, 2011 Share Posted March 17, 2011 Just for info guys, I tried this same routine on my spare hackintosh with a sapphire 5870 card and it also works. So it's now possible to also use 5870's without an injector or graphics enabler. I suspect this will also work for other cards. we have tried with reg 5870 and it worked well, but the Eye6 version still has issues. All MDPs are Legacy only, ie they pass through single link DVI, but no DP funtion, though System Profiler seemed to think otherwise I tried with 4870 and it worked, but still suffered from single link on upper port. I think someone reported that 4890 still no QE/CI but some kext fixing might solve that haven't tried 3870 yet. 2600XT didn't work I have only been trying cards that have device id like Mac OEM, hard to say about oddballs We were trying in Lion, just now realising that Lion ",Magic" actually starts in MBP 10.6.6 I just started a thread at Netkas place regarding "why" Interesting thing is that named FB may be on way out. My 6870 just says "RadeonFrameBuffer" where before they had to have names. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mitalca Posted March 17, 2011 Share Posted March 17, 2011 I'll give it a try with my 6850 as soon as I can I think it should work as well, since the IDs are in the kexts Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Setura Posted March 17, 2011 Share Posted March 17, 2011 My 6850 is for some reason stuck on a res of 1400x1050 on a 1920x1080 monitor and system profiler says that no kext is in use, despite the 6xxx series one sitting in its correct place. vram should be 1 gig but is reported as 256meg and my mouse is gittery. No such problems with my old 8800 gtx on the same snow leopard. (for some resaon the old card ran natively so I don't think I need to remove anything...) help... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mitalca Posted March 17, 2011 Share Posted March 17, 2011 SL version? did you install the MBP 2011 kexts, and did everything Andy said?? for the way you are talking, doesn't sound like it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
geticus Posted March 17, 2011 Share Posted March 17, 2011 My System is an Asus P8P67 Pro with an i5 2500k and 8gig of ram. I use a pair of crossfired AMD 6870's - one a Sapphire card the other an OEM (I have flashed them both to use the same slightly overclocked bios image). I'm using the latest Sandy bridge friendly chameleon build from [url="http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/"]#####[/url] along with the kernel and kexts from my posts above. Other than the usual fakesmc.kext and specific kexts for my sata controllers, usb3, network and audio (all of which can be found in [url="http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/"]#####[/url] for this board) there isn't much to tell. I boot into 64bit with no kernel flags. Looks like the built in bluetooth is detected too (I have the icon in the menu bar at least). Looking at the spec in your signature st1v you should be able to use the latest [url="http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/"]#####[/url] cd to boot up but be sure to specify GraphicsEnabler=n as a kernel parameter when you try. Assuming you are starting from a 10.6.6 install once booted you can install the new kexts using kexthelper (this will install them to /System/Library/Extensions). You can then install chameleon (hunt around for the unofficial rc5 installer package - you shouldn't need the experimental ATI support but it shouldnt matter either way as long as you specify graphicsenabler=no or just delete the <key>GraphicsEnabler</key> and <string>?</string> from your com.apple.Boot.plist file in Extra). Reboot and fingers crossed you should be done. Andy, this is nothing to do with ATI 6..., but with the new kernel. I'm trying to use the kernel you've upload for my MSI P67A-GD65 with i5-2400 and my system is keep re-booting. Have you any idea what can be the problem ? Did you just replace the legacy_kernel with the new one ? Or I have to do something more ? Thank you Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Setura Posted March 18, 2011 Share Posted March 18, 2011 SL version?did you install the MBP 2011 kexts, and did everything Andy said?? for the way you are talking, doesn't sound like it I sure did follow the instructions from Andy except I used my macbook pro to set things up (put the new kexts into place and repair permissions). After that failed I toyed around a bit with my system which achieved nothing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jpa Posted March 18, 2011 Share Posted March 18, 2011 mmmm i7 930 is compatible with kernel MBP? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest ^Andy^ Posted March 18, 2011 Share Posted March 18, 2011 My 6850 is for some reason stuck on a res of 1400x1050 on a 1920x1080 monitor and system profiler says that no kext is in use, despite the 6xxx series one sitting in its correct place. vram should be 1 gig but is reported as 256meg and my mouse is gittery. No such problems with my old 8800 gtx on the same snow leopard. (for some resaon the old card ran natively so I don't think I need to remove anything...) help... At a guess i'd say you have an nvidia injector loaded somewhere. Also did you use ALL of the ATI kexts? Andy, this is nothing to do with ATI 6..., but with the new kernel.I'm trying to use the kernel you've upload for my MSI P67A-GD65 with i5-2400 and my system is keep re-booting. Have you any idea what can be the problem ? Did you just replace the legacy_kernel with the new one ? Or I have to do something more ? Thank you Try repairing permissions just to be sure the mach_kernel has correct permissions and if that makes no difference try installing the sandy bridge version of chameleon from [url="http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/"]#####[/url]. Are you using any bootflags? If youy boot with -v whats the last message you see before it reboots? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest ^Andy^ Posted March 18, 2011 Share Posted March 18, 2011 OK this should make things easier. I have created a package that should install the kexts and set the permissions. ATI Graphics Update Package Hopefully it will work correctly and means the install is now simple. Just disable GraphicsEnabler (or delete your injector if you have used one), run the package and reboot when the installation completes! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
geticus Posted March 18, 2011 Share Posted March 18, 2011 Try repairing permissions just to be sure the mach_kernel has correct permissions and if that makes no difference try installing the sandy bridge version of chameleon from [url="http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/"]#####[/url]. Are you using any bootflags? If youy boot with -v whats the last message you see before it reboots? Thank you for the quick answer. I did repair permissions and I have install the sandy bridge version of chameleon from [url="http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/"]#####[/url] 3.3. my boot.plist <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd"> <plist version="1.0"> <dict> <key>Default Partition</key> <string>hd(1,2)</string> <key>EthernetBuiltIn</key> <string>Yes</string> <key>Kernel</key> <string>mach_kernel</string> <key>Kernel Flags</key> <string>-v</string> <key>Legacy Logo</key> <string>Yes</string> <key>Timeout</key> <string>3</string> </dict> </plist> The last line, well, any kext is loading. Black screen and re-boot after the first lines, whitch are coresponding to wht you get when "Pause" in boot option. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest ^Andy^ Posted March 18, 2011 Share Posted March 18, 2011 Thank you for the quick answer. I did repair permissions and I have install the sandy bridge version of chameleon from [url="http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/"]#####[/url] 3.3. my boot.plist <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd"> <plist version="1.0"> <dict> <key>Default Partition</key> <string>hd(1,2)</string> <key>EthernetBuiltIn</key> <string>Yes</string> <key>Kernel</key> <string>mach_kernel</string> <key>Kernel Flags</key> <string>-v</string> <key>Legacy Logo</key> <string>Yes</string> <key>Timeout</key> <string>3</string> </dict> </plist> The last line, well, any kext is loading. Black screen and re-boot after the first lines, whitch are coresponding to wht you get when "Pause" in boot option. h'mm that looks ok to me. Are you using a dsdt ? if so try without it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
geticus Posted March 18, 2011 Share Posted March 18, 2011 I've just tried without the DSDT but I get the same thing... Strange, I can boot from [url="http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/"]#####[/url] CD. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest ^Andy^ Posted March 18, 2011 Share Posted March 18, 2011 I've just tried without the DSDT but I get the same thing...Strange, I can boot from [url="http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/"]#####[/url] CD. Do you have nullcpupowermanagement and fakesmc kexts installed? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
geticus Posted March 18, 2011 Share Posted March 18, 2011 Do you have nullcpupowermanagement and fakesmc kexts installed? Yes, I do. With DSDT I don't need it, but I've tried without DSDT with nullcpupowermanagement but got the same. Fakesmc is always installed. Anyway, the sytem is booting properly when I use legacy_kernel !!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest ^Andy^ Posted March 18, 2011 Share Posted March 18, 2011 Yes, I do. With DSDT I don't need it, but I've tried without DSDT with nullcpupowermanagement but got the same. Fakesmc is always installed. Anyway, the sytem is booting properly when I use legacy_kernel !!! That's weird. I don't know what else to suggest - that kernel works fine for me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
geticus Posted March 18, 2011 Share Posted March 18, 2011 Very starnge all this. Can't be IOUSBFamily Rollback witch I used ? Can you tell me what exactly you have installed ? I'm trying to find out what is the problem for my system. Anyway thank you for your time and sugestions. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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