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[poadb]

Hi all,

Was wondering if anyone had experience with, or could help me get the above graphics card working with Moutain Lion?
At the moment I boot with GraphicsEnabler=No, so asthetically everything looks to be working however I can't open iDVD Player.. for example.

I use VGA only, but would liek the options of using HDMI/DVI etc eventually.

Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.

[iFIRE]

IOreg

[poadb]

iFIRE, on 14 January 2013 - 09:46 AM, said:

IOreg

Thank you. I will do this when I get home and provide the information tonight.

[poadb]

DSDT and IOReg attached. Thanks mate.

Attached Files

•  IOReg.zip   418.22K   14 downloads
•  Archive.zip   10.78K   14 downloads

[iFIRE]

MacMini ? you have laptop or Desktop, post your Extra folder, Mac mini not use this card. and post full report DarwinDumper app

[poadb]

iFIRE, on 14 January 2013 - 06:59 PM, said:

MacMini ? you have laptop or Desktop, post your Extra folder, Mac mini not use this card. and post full report DarwinDumper app

Editted.

[iFIRE]

first edit your post, don't post links or tolls from Tonymac here in Insanelymac,

For all those who don't yet know our position about tonymac, and your UniBeast software, your Forun, your Toll,  thank you for reading this and this.    p.s : pls read the forum rules  !!!

this is for your HD 3000 use MacMini, but for hd 5570 you need other SMBIOS iMAC12,2

[poadb]

OK, so do you still want the Darwin Dumper results?

[poadb]

I hope this is done correctly.

Please excuse my delay, I had boot issues and only today got around to resolving it.
Please find attached darwindumper produced zip, and my Extras folder.

Many thanks for your assistance so far.

Attached Files

•  Extra.zip   139.07K   17 downloads
•  localhost_12.2.0_x86_64.zip   193.23K   13 downloads

[eep357]

Any idea what the correct Framebuffer is for that card? Only loading the generic one right now which is why your DVD player app won't work. Assume you already tried the easy way using GE=Yes?

[poadb]

eep357, on 24 January 2013 - 04:26 PM, said:

Any idea what the correct Framebuffer is for that card? Only loading the generic one right now which is why your DVD player app won't work. Assume you already tried the easy way using GE=Yes?

Hi eep357, many thanks for your reply.

My hackintosh with patched DSDT had GE=Yes by default.
The screen res was fine, but it was pushed tot he right of my screen. So on the left side of my screen I had about a 2" gap. Even moving the image as far to the left as possible still resulted in a gap.
Switching to GE=No gives me full screen at the correct resltuion, but iDVD crashes.

[eep357]

you'll need a framebuffer loaded. I don't know which one is best for your card without having it's rom file, but can tell you it will be named after some kinda monkey you can either input it into your dsdt for each connector (i.e. 4 times for for connector card, as you saw in 5870 thread) or specify it in Chameleon using GE=Yes and AtiConfig=NameOfMonkeyFramebuffer substituting the framebuffer name you are trying. Example:

AtiConfig=Vervet

or

AtiConfig=Eulemur

You likley had issue just using GE=Yes because whatever Framebuffer it choose as default, is not the appropriate one for your card. Right now you are instead not loading a framebuffer other than generic, not a fix, just a different result

[poadb]

eep357, on 25 January 2013 - 08:07 PM, said:

you'll need a framebuffer loaded. I don't know which one is best for your card without having it's rom file, but can tell you it will be named after some kinda monkey you can either input it into your dsdt for each connector (i.e. 4 times for for connector card, as you saw in 5870 thread) or specify it in Chameleon using GE=Yes and AtiConfig=NameOfMonkeyFramebuffer substituting the framebuffer name you are trying. Example:

AtiConfig=Vervet

or

AtiConfig=Eulemur

You likley had issue just using GE=Yes because whatever Framebuffer it choose as default, is not the appropriate one for your card. Right now you are instead not loading a framebuffer other than generic, not a fix, just a different result

I used GE=Yes and AtiConfig=Eulemur
Rebooted and had full screen and correct resolution. Fired up iDVD Player - and walla! It worked

Nice and simple. Many thanks for your help!

[starobrno1]

I believe its juniper actually, at least thats the fb for my card.

[eep357]

Juniper, Redwood, Cypress...are AMD code names for different 5xxx series cards architecture where one is the entry level cards chipset (54xx, 55xx), then mid level (56xx,57xx) and the high end models (5870), just as 7xxx has "Souther Islands" where Tahiti is code name for 7970, etc. The Frame Buffer personalities are a completely different thing and afaik the names are only used by apple. 5xxx series FBs are all named after primates, 7xxx are all named after types of sushi.

[Lord Kamina]

I have an XFX 5570 and went through hell to get all three connectors working (in the end, I did manage it though)

Here's the framebuffer I ended up with:

0000000: 0400 0000 1400 0000 0001 0000 0112 0101  ................
0000010: 0008 0000 0402 0000 0001 0000 2205 0605  ................
0000020: 1000 0000 1000 0000 0000 0000 1010 0404  ................

Your sense-ID's might be different but if you have the same connectors, it would stand to sense that this will work.

[starobrno1]

My card is a sapphire card and it works wit just adding juniper to (if I remember it right) the plist of two kexts and GE no in the boot plist. I have three monitors hoocked up to it and it works great.