adldesign Posted June 29, 2009 Share Posted June 29, 2009 This is what I followed ... Thanks to netkas and linathael Install Radeon HD 48x0 drivers shipping with Mac Pro 2009: http://www.sendspace.com/file/gvsi12 Install extensions allowing recognition of those PC version cards: http://rapidshare.de/files/46982841/ATI_Init.pkg.html Install patched extension to activate 3D acceleration http://rapidshare.de/files/46893369/accel.tar.bz2.html. Hi ncsa, This procedure brought me a blue screen hangup at restart. Does this work with fresh Kalyway 10.5.2 installation? EDIT: Nevermind. Fixed by using fix Nº 3 at this thread. http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=162622# adldesigner Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TeraHz Posted July 5, 2009 Share Posted July 5, 2009 I finally got the 2 HD4890 working perfectly with iDeneb 10.5.6 with 4 DVi full enabled. I guess my video-charts are working with both DVI because they are XFX ones. I've heared XFX graphic cards fully support multiple monitors in OSX, and it's the trhuth! Can you please share with us how you got it working? I have XFX 4890 but only 1 DVI at a time works I have an XFX HD4890 too and it's crashing every time I plug the second DVI Monitor in. Same happens to me as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Thailand Posted July 5, 2009 Share Posted July 5, 2009 http://is.gd/uHTX Thank you so much. My new HIS ATi HD4890 1GB work perfect on 10.5.6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
webking Posted July 5, 2009 Share Posted July 5, 2009 So I hope an ADMIN could make my link as IMPORTANT, because my guide seems to be working perfectly Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TeraHz Posted July 6, 2009 Share Posted July 6, 2009 webking, I tried your method on retail 10.5.7 and my second DVI is still not working. I will install iDeneb 10.5.6 and retry again tonight. THz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TeraHz Posted July 9, 2009 Share Posted July 9, 2009 Just tried ideneb 1.4 (10.5.6) with the steps you provided, but no joy. I'm trying to get an old 8600GT to work alongside the 4890 now, but doesn't seem to work either... Thanks for the effort anyways. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigPines Posted April 14, 2010 Share Posted April 14, 2010 I have the new 4890 card (Gigabyte's version) and yesterday I managed to boot (albeit with severe mouse lag) into Mac OS X 10.5.6 using digital_dreamer's guide here (since I have the GIGABYTE GA-EX58-UD5 (Core i7) MOTHERBOARD): http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php...00#entry1057767 I first used my MacBook Pro to clone a clean install of Mac OS X Leopard (10.5.4 I think) to the drive I want to use in the Hackintosh, an then I ran the combo updater to 10.5.6 (all from the MacBook). After this I ran the script �Gigabyte X58 Mobo Boot-132 Installer� from digital_dreamer's post linked to above. Then I put the drive in the PC, and after some time I got to the Mac OS X desktop! But, as I said there was sever mouse lag. The mouse cursor would move slow and laggy and after a few seconds it would freeze and slowly redraw itself (for about 20 seconds) then I could laggily move the cursor again for a few seconds then it would freeze again and so on. So more or less unusable. I can imagine one reason for the jerkiness is that the proper drivers fort this card is missing (should come in the 10.5.7 update if 4870 drivers will work with 4890) but it seems somewhat hopeful that it might be possible to get it to work! I sent you a PM but I thought someone else may be able to help me too so I am posting here. I have the same card you do (Gigabyte ATI Radeon HD 4890 1GB) and I have had nothing but problems with it in 10.6.3. I am running snow.legacy kernel because it is installed on a Dell Dimension 9150 (Pentium D). I tried netkas QE CI Exotic cards 10.6.3.pkg but I got a KP on install and boot. I tried other guides on this forum but none of them worked and some resulted in blank gray/white screens or garbled black and white boxes when booting in verbose mode. I finally got my card to work using Cindori's Zeus and the QECI_1063.pkg downloaded via Zeus. However, my card is slow in the benchmarks (not even close to what it should be) and I am getting crackling in my audio anytime anything graphics intensive is happening. Have you had any luck getting your rig to work? I am about ready to eBay this card and go with something else but I am going to give this card one more shot before doing that. Do you have any advice? Mike Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigPines Posted April 15, 2010 Share Posted April 15, 2010 It seems we can forget running the 4890 in Mac OS X, at least until Snow Leopard comes out. netkas (who seems to know what he's talking about) says: ”4870 = 4890, but a bit different chip” ”maybe framebuffer will work, but not qe/ci/3d for sure”. ”snow leopard has some rv790 renderer in x2000GLDriver” Edit: My 4890 works superb now with the 10.5.7 update and the drivers from Netkas! I am encouraged that you got your card working since I think I have the same one. My exact model number is GV-R489-1GH-B. What is yours? How does it benchmark? I tried the Netkas drivers on both 10.6.2 and 10.6.3 but both times they resulted in KP (see attached). If you have the same exact model, I will just hang onto my card and hope that my problem is related to snow.legacy kernel. This install was just my test run for the monster i7 Hackintosh I am planning to build anyway and obviously that won't require snow.legacy. Mike Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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