Dewdman42 Posted June 29, 2008 Share Posted June 29, 2008 Hi all. I am having some trouble getting a particular PCI card to work on Kalyway Leo 10.5.2. I have read that the driver for this card does work, so I hope there is something simple you guys know about, possibly related to PCI in general. I am trying to get the MOTU PCI-424 card working on a gigabyte GA-P35-DS4. I have the card sitting on PCI slot#1 (I have tried both available PCI slots). I have the BIOS configuration for both PCI slots set to auto. When I boot into OSX, About mac shows no PCI card. I have installed the driver from MOTU, no errors, but when I try to run the MOTU configuration software after that, it gives me an error that no MOTU card can be found. About mac also shows no PCI cards after that. However, when I ran lspci and get the following: 05:00.0 Multimedia audio controller: Mark of the Unicorn Inc Unknown device 0003 (rev ff) Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx- Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx- Latency: 32 (250ns min, 4000ns max), Cache Line Size: 32 bytes Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 20 Region 0: Memory at eb000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) Region 1: Memory at ea000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) Region 2: I/O ports at d000 Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 2 Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1- D2- AuxCurrent=0mA PME(D0-,D1-,D2-,D3hot-,D3cold-) Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME- So its able to read the PCI slot and see the card there at some very low level, but obviously, OSX needs some tweaking to recognize the card more at a higher level. Anyone have any ideas? Thanks in advance Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/113148-help-needed-with-pci-card-not-working/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Headrush69 Posted June 29, 2008 Share Posted June 29, 2008 The PCI info in System Profiler will always be empty. (Doesn't mean card isn't working.) What version of the driver did you install? I found a reference to a version for OS X 10.4. I don't know if a newer version exists. (MOTU site requires signing up, I'm not going to just to look.) Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/113148-help-needed-with-pci-card-not-working/#findComment-800785 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dewdman42 Posted June 29, 2008 Author Share Posted June 29, 2008 thanks for responding. So you are using the PCI-424 successfully? If so that will be good news with light at the end of the tunnel. I did actually download all three of the versions from their website. First I tried the newest one, which was noted as adding support for Leopard. Seems like I may HAVE to use that one. It didn't work. Then I tried the first one that is pretty old, v1.08. Same problem. I didn't try the middle version yet but I will.I tried the middle verison. No luck there either. It just says no MOTU pci card found. Somehow its not being detected. :-( Serious bummer. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/113148-help-needed-with-pci-card-not-working/#findComment-800787 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Headrush69 Posted June 29, 2008 Share Posted June 29, 2008 No I don't have that card. If they have a driver designated for Leopard, I would use that and stick with it. As you try to work it out I would suggest NOT running overclocked. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/113148-help-needed-with-pci-card-not-working/#findComment-800813 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dewdman42 Posted June 29, 2008 Author Share Posted June 29, 2008 I turned off overclocking. Same result. It does make sense to re-overclock though with the card now because voltage requirements may have changed. In any case I have set the machine back for the time being to standard clock and auto voltage, which should be plenty. Still not working though. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/113148-help-needed-with-pci-card-not-working/#findComment-800815 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Headrush69 Posted June 29, 2008 Share Posted June 29, 2008 Fine, but I seriously doubt that is the issue. Me neither but you always eliminate things to try to narrow it down. Although most modern motherboards hold the PCI clock at 66MHz when overclocking, not all are so good. That the card is seen by lspci is a good sign. I would try manually loading the kext (provided by the installer) in verbose mode and see if there is any useful output. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/113148-help-needed-with-pci-card-not-working/#findComment-800820 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dewdman42 Posted June 29, 2008 Author Share Posted June 29, 2008 Headrush, yep, I agree. I turned off overclocking. same result. Please help an OSX newbie out. How do I manually load a kext in verbose mode? Let me see if I can find the kext.... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/113148-help-needed-with-pci-card-not-working/#findComment-800824 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Headrush69 Posted June 29, 2008 Share Posted June 29, 2008 Start the Terminal app, and enter: sudo kextload -t -v /System/Library/Extensions/WhateverTheDriverIsNamed.kext Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/113148-help-needed-with-pci-card-not-working/#findComment-800831 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dewdman42 Posted June 30, 2008 Author Share Posted June 30, 2008 This is what I get when I try to manually load what I think is probably the right kext: Hack-DS4:Extensions sjs$ sudo kextload -t -v MOTUPCIAudio.kext kextload: resolving dependencies for kernel extensions with validation and authentication failures extension MOTUPCIAudio.kext has potential problems: Warnings { "Kext has immediate dependencies on both com.apple.kernel and com.apple.kpi components; use only one style" = true } kextload: extension MOTUPCIAudio.kext appears to be loadable kextload: loading extension MOTUPCIAudio.kext kextload: MOTUPCIAudio.kext loaded successfully kextload: sending personalities to kernel: kextload: from extension /System/Library/Extensions/IOPCIFamily.kext: kextload: IOPCI2PCIBridge-Name kextload: IOPCI2PCIBridge-i386 kextload: IOPCI2PCIBridge-PCI kextload: from extension /System/Library/Extensions/MOTUPCIAudio.kext: kextload: PCI-424a kextload: PCI-424b kextload: PCI-424e kextload: sending 6 personalities to the kernel kextload: matching started for MOTUPCIAudio.kext There is also another MOTU driver, but has the word Tiger in it. I get this when I try to manually load that one: Hack-DS4:Extensions sjs$ sudo kextload -t -v MOTUTigerDriver.kext kextload: resolving dependencies for kernel extensions with validation and authentication failures extension MOTUTigerDriver.kext has potential problems: Warnings { "Kext has immediate dependencies on both com.apple.kernel and com.apple.kpi components; use only one style" = true } kextload: extension MOTUTigerDriver.kext appears to be loadable kextload: loading extension MOTUTigerDriver.kext kextload: sending 1 personality to the kernel kextload: kmod_control/start failed for com.motu.kext.MotuTigerDriver; destroying kmod kextload: a link/load error occured for kernel extension MOTUTigerDriver.kext link/load failed for extension MOTUTigerDriver.kext (run kextload with -t for diagnostic output) Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/113148-help-needed-with-pci-card-not-working/#findComment-800840 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scoobie Posted September 11, 2009 Share Posted September 11, 2009 Hi Dewdman Have you had any joy with this installation yet?? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/113148-help-needed-with-pci-card-not-working/#findComment-1262114 Share on other sites More sharing options...
papdo Posted October 2, 2009 Share Posted October 2, 2009 Hi Dewdman Have you had any joy with this installation yet?? Hi, Did you got the CARD WORKING ? If yes ,please can you share your setting I have the same problem with my Motu 2408 mk2 sound card. Thanks papdo Hi, Did get the card working 'CAUSE I HAVE THE SAME PROBLEM' with my soundcard Motu 2408 mk2.it also gives me an error that no MOTU card found. please Can you help? mac os x 10.5.8 Thanks Papdo. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/113148-help-needed-with-pci-card-not-working/#findComment-1287899 Share on other sites More sharing options...
indraganzo Posted December 7, 2009 Share Posted December 7, 2009 I think no one has achieved working the 424 PCI card on OSX yet because OSX simply uses PCIx or PCIe so as the motu drivers eventhough the system would recognise the PCI card the Motu Drivers don't. So for running a 424 card on a hack is buying the 424 PCIe (express) card.. I have one working without problems Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/113148-help-needed-with-pci-card-not-working/#findComment-1353302 Share on other sites More sharing options...
ConcreteSurfer Posted June 28, 2010 Share Posted June 28, 2010 I don't know if this helps , but there's a driver here: http://mac.softpedia.com/get/Drivers/MOTU-...io-Driver.shtml it states on the site "Adds PCIe-424 compatibility for the Intel Mac Pro. Installer contains drivers for PCI-424 audio systems under Mac OSX. It also adds support for MOTU PCI-424 PCIe cards. Cuemix provides now control surface support, listenback and talkback capabilities, and I/O port naming." Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/113148-help-needed-with-pci-card-not-working/#findComment-1500435 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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