Well, I guess not many people is going to try this, but yesterday I installed a Protools HD Core card on a hackintosh and surprisinly got recognized by Os X after installing the drivers.

This is pretty weird since there is no Intel Macs with pci interfaces and so Digidesign shouldn´t have compiled PCI support in the Intel version of the drivers.

The bad part is I had no audio interface at that moment and couldn´t completly test Protools 7 running, but I will in the next days.

It may work...but given Protools uses a such low-level hardware approach to process audio I´m not too confident about, and in addition to this maybe the drivers have endianess problems.

More news, next week.

Cool Very good news.
I've tryed to install it with OSX 10 4 8 With no success.
Only the 10 4 6 Wok for me.
What is you're PC And You're OSX 10 4 X?

Thanks

safnight

Yep, 10.4.8 with lastest semthex kernel, I have´nt been able to test audio yet, I just have the core card at the moment, but you can see the systems recognizes the card, and protools pass the "Hardware Check" when you load it.

The PC is a Carrillon AC1D but with different specs (don´t know why). It haves a Intel 945 board, a cheap Radeon x550 (no qi ce :/ ) and a couple of sata disks.

About you, you say you have already tested Protools HD with real hardware in 10.4.6, and worked?

Regards.

Thanks,

Yes it works for me. I have PT HD 2 With 196 I/O.
All it work fines.( without my graphique card: ATI RAdeon X 3OO) No Pb with the 10 4 6.
( In 10 4 8 Pro tools crash : error DSi and Digidesign core audio crash to
and i don't know why )
Hope it help U.



Safnight

Hi what about U're audio in Pro Tools?
All working fine for U?

Safnight

Finally I got the chance to test audio and yep, worked for me.

No problem at all.

Digidesign loves hackintoshes lol.

I never thought a Protools HD Core card would work on a hackintosh.

Are you using the PCI or the PCIe hardware?

It´s a PCI card. As I said is incredible this works, as there´s no real intel mac with PCI slots.

Cool, I hope they support their M-AUDIO cards as well but they seem to not care anymore about M-audio

HI VooD
Could U tel me what exactely osx DVD u installed?
For me 10 4 8 don't work

thanks

Safnifgt

I used JaS.10.4.8.AMD.Intel.SSe2.SSe3.v1p.diskutility7.iso. You can download it from demonoid, in addition to a more recent version with ichr7 patch applied.

Mine has 073eb015d77bbf5e4a97d0d37ceb3855 MD5.

I have HD3 working with 10.4.7 with IOPCIFamily kext from 10.4.4
Still can't make it work with 10.4.8 (tried different kernels)
It seems that PCI cards can not be detected by OS

Mmmm, the Protools HD Core card I tested didn´t show at PCI section in System Profile, (even after installing the drivers) but the card itself works perfectly once you install them. Also I can use a pci firewire card without any trouble in 10.4.8.

Maybe is a chipset/hardware specific problem.

But do you have any of pci cards shown as presenting in System Profiler? Or there's smth like "No Pci cards installed in you system" ?

Shows exactly that: "No Pci cards installed in you system"

I will tell you that the M-audio delta 44 PCI slot doesnt work with any drivers.

I got it working now! 7.3.1cs2 solved the problems.
Many thanks to VooD

Thks Vokator

Now
Pro Tools HD II V 7 3 2 Cs2 WOrks

And My UAD Works too

So cool

Safnight

Great

Anyone here had success using an Protools HD PCIe Card in leopard? So far i cant get it to be recognized on my hackintosh.