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Hey guys,

Finally got my HD4830 to work! Spent almost a week trying different ACCELs and NATITs and finally got it to boot into GUI with everything supported!

 

Here is what I did...

 

I installed the 48x0 drivers and Natit.kext posted in the other thread...

 

Then I downloaded and installed this ACCEL kext

 

http://rapidshare.de/files/46893369/accel.tar.bz2.html

 

THIS IS THE ONLY ACCEL THAT WORKED FOR ME!

 

Install the drivers first, then using KextHelper install natit and accel files and reboot with -f -v.

 

Try it out... and let me know how it goes..

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Congrats man, finally! I can't wait to try those kexts when I get home!

 

e: Got black and white jitter. But there's definitely something different with these driver kexts. Don't know why it still doesn't work.

 

I got the black and white jitter at first myself, then I realized, I accidentally removed ATINDRV...

Reinstall http://rapidshare.de/files/45661062/7_rade...rivers.pkg.html and you should be fine...

 

i has same card,but not work for me ,i get black screen

 

You need a dvi2vga dongle connected to one of the ports on your videocard. Don't bother installing "motmots", they don't work for 4830

joeblowm
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EDIT:/ just to be clear, the "other post" referred to in this thread is the first post of this thread

http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=155477#

 

64bit, great news - but unfortunately no luck here - freezes up/no activity after loading ocspd[xx] which I gather is where it loads the video driver (btw, is this basically what you all are calling 'black screen'), which is pretty much the same result from all the 4830 methods I've tried so far.

 

Have you done the GL 10.5.7 update thing previous to getting it working? That's probably the only bit I haven't tried so far.

 

How big is your ATINDRV.kext in the ext folder when you are done? I've installed the packages which should have changed it out to a different one but it always comes back as 2.8M even after removing it in -s boot session it's there in the next gui boot so I can't be entirely sure it's getting replaced properly.

 

edit:/ forgot to mention, the pkg you link to above includes an ATY_Motmot.kext inside of it's ATINDRV.kext

64Bit
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64bit, great news - but unfortunately no luck here - freezes up/no activity after loading ocspd[xx] which I gather is where it loads the video driver (btw, is this basically what you all are calling 'black screen'), which is pretty much the same result from all the 4830 methods I've tried so far.

 

Have you done the GL 10.5.7 update thing previous to getting it working? That's probably the only bit I haven't tried so far.

 

How big is your ATINDRV.kext in the ext folder when you are done? I've installed the packages which should have changed it out to a different one but it always comes back as 2.8M even after removing it in -s boot session it's there in the next gui boot so I can't be entirely sure it's getting replaced properly.

 

edit:/ forgot to mention, the pkg you link to above includes an ATY_Motmot.kext inside of it's ATINDRV.kext

 

No, i haven't upgraded the GL.

What I did was:

I deleted ALL the video drivers I had in my Extensions, including the nvidia ones (i dont know how they got there), then made sure I deleted natit and ATINDRV again (everything was done in safe mode btw) and deleted the Extensions.kext. Then I rebooted in regular mode, installed the 10.5.7 drivers, and installed Natit and EVERY FILE in the ACCEL package I provided the link for in my 1st post. Rebooted with -f -v and it booted right into GUI, I really didn't expect it at all! QE and CI, and I don't even have the screen bounce issue!

Just to make sure it works fine, I rebooted again and it worked perfectly!

Installed CoD4 to try it out, and it runs better then in Windows!

 

EDIT: btw.. If you get black screen, make sure you have the dvi2vga dongle in your other port. Motmots don't work for me at all, so don't bother installing them...

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Well, I tried that and I wound up with the same results. Just as an odd experiment before reverting to no drivers I decided to swap my dvi->svideo adapter and my dvi monitor cable around (I had the dvi adapter in port '2', farthest from the mobo with the monitor on port '1') and - here I am now with CI/QE on my 4830.

 

I am getting screen bumping/bouncing occasionally, and profiler claims I have no display connected... I know how to reflash the card with different clocks instead of 2/3d different ones, hopefully that will fix it until/unless I find a better way - makes me wonder if it would have worked sooner had I tried swapping them previously, though now that it is at least working... not sure I want to change it. Edit:/ another imperfection for me, changing resolution results in a black screen.

 

MANY THANKS 64bit for your relentless pursuit of getting your 4830 working and sharing your info once you did :unsure:

 

As I mentioned in the edit above, 7_radeon_hd_48x0_drivers.pkg has a motmot file in it's ATINDRV (in fact, that was one of the last things in the other thread discussing all 48x0 installs), as seen from pacifist:

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Well, I tried that and I wound up with the same results. Just as an odd experiment before reverting to no drivers I decided to swap my dvi->svideo adapter and my dvi monitor cable around (I had the dvi adapter in port '2', farthest from the mobo with the monitor on port '1') and - here I am now with CI/QE on my 4830.

 

I am getting screen bumping/bouncing occasionally, and profiler claims I have no display connected... I know how to reflash the card with different clocks instead of 2/3d different ones, hopefully that will fix it until/unless I find a better way - makes me wonder if it would have worked sooner had I tried swapping them previously, though now that it is at least working... not sure I want to change it. Edit:/ another imperfection for me, changing resolution results in a black screen.

 

MANY THANKS 64bit for your relentless pursuit of getting your 4830 working and sharing your info once you did :(

 

As I mentioned in the edit above, 7_radeon_hd_48x0_drivers.pkg has a motmot file in it's ATINDRV (in fact, that was one of the last things in the other thread discussing all 48x0 installs), as seen from pacifist:

oqx34w.png

 

Glad you got it to work, bro!

My profiler says I have no display connected, yet a little above that it detects my monitor model.

I have not noticed any screen bouncing yet... what is it supposed to look like anyways?

I just played some CoD4 for about 30 mins... no problem at all, runs as good as it runs on windows, except it doesn't want to switch to Widescreen at any, but native resolution...

joeblowm
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Glad you got it to work, bro!

My profiler says I have no display connected, yet a little above that it detects my monitor model.

I have not noticed any screen bouncing yet... what is it supposed to look like anyways?

I just played some CoD4 for about 30 mins... no problem at all, runs as good as it runs on windows, except it doesn't want to switch to Widescreen at any, but native resolution...

Detects and calibrates my panel just fine as well. You know how the screen jumps a little and goes black when you are going to a game that switches the adapter to go to full screen mode? It's very much like that but without any screen color change to black, a tiny roll upwards that is almost fast enough to not see. Quite hard on the eyes after a short while - you'd definitely know if you had it.

 

Having native (1440x900) and hardware accel is definitely enough for me, I am definite amazed at how far hackintosh/OSx86 has come (new to OSX nearly entirely here.)

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Detects and calibrates my panel just fine as well. You know how the screen jumps a little and goes black when you are going to a game that switches the adapter to go to full screen mode? It's very much like that but without any screen color change to black, a tiny roll upwards that is almost fast enough to not see. Quite hard on the eyes after a short while - you'd definitely know if you had it.

 

Having native (1440x900) and hardware accel is definitely enough for me, I am definite amazed at how far hackintosh/OSx86 has come (new to OSX nearly entirely here.)

OMG I'm happy as hell not to have the screen bounce issue! This OSX install runs better then my other 2 windows installs!

Did you reflash the card yet? Let me know how it goes!

joeblowm
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Initial reflash taught me a lot, like for one that the ati flashing tools will not detect a PCIe card if you boot using IGP - meaning recovery is very tricky in the case of a brick (should have 2 PCIe cards to do a recovery, only have 1 PCIe slot on my PC.) Almost lost the 4830, luckily it worked well enought to just barely get into XP and reflash. I presume because the bios modification tool requires a voltage to be selected but only displays --- for the 3d level, and when --- is used on one being modified things do not go well. So far, no go.

 

Boombeng, if it's of any use to you the one I'm working with is a Sapphire HD 4830 (512M GDDR3.)

64Bit
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I just want to know which HD4830 do YOU have !

 

But thank you to teach me how to google, you're very kind dude :(

 

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx...N82E16814127420

 

^ link to the exact card I have with all the specs and everything. It's a nice card, runs all the newest games pretty well.

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Jtrx111
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Hey,

 

Sorry for replying to a somewhat old topic, but I figured this was a good place. I have an HD4830 and have tried all of the steps mentioned in the beginning of this thread (installing 7_radeon_hd_48x0_drivers, natit, accel). When I boot with -f -v i get a hang at: ACPI_SMC_PlatformPlugin::getCPU_PSSData - _PSS eval failed.

 

When I boot in safe mode, I can log in and have support for higher resolutions. Any ideas what I should try here?

 

Thanks

joeblowm
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Anyone looking in this old thread, try williamcsk's files from here:

http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=174600

 

It should hopefully be compatible with more cards, uses newer files from netkas (ATY_Init for multiple cards, for example), doesn't seem to need an injected bios and shouldn't care what port/connectors your have, hopefully.

 

 

Jtrx111: try clearing the other files out from safe mode or single user then use the ones mentioned in the thread above, hopefully that can solve your freeze issue.

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Thanks for the help, got the card working, but without QE/CI (and it claims that I have no display connected). I actually ended up reinstalling 10.5.7 and following the instructions here: http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=174600, which worked like a charm.

 

Any ideas what I need to do to get QE/CI?

joeblowm
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Thanks for the help, got the card working, but without QE/CI (and it claims that I have no display connected). I actually ended up reinstalling 10.5.7 and following the instructions here: http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=174600, which worked like a charm.

 

Any ideas what I need to do to get QE/CI?

It claims I have no display connected too, though it reports my syncmaster fine it just doesn't detect it on the line where it would normally.

 

QE/CI will be enabled if you have all the proper/compatible driver files installed and no leftovers from other ATI files: ATI*, Natit* and ATY*, plus any ATI related ones that were installed by 10.5.7 updater should go with a -f reboot after, before trying a new set - it seems to me macos tries to keep the kext files with the latest date/version or something equally odd and does not replace some kext on installing new ones, meaning basically broken loading of acceleration related binaries.

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dandare444
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Hey guys,

Finally got my HD4830 to work! Spent almost a week trying different ACCELs and NATITs and finally got it to boot into GUI with everything supported!

 

Here is what I did...

 

I installed the 48x0 drivers and Natit.kext posted in the other thread...

 

Then I downloaded and installed this ACCEL kext

 

http://rapidshare.de/files/46893369/accel.tar.bz2.html

 

THIS IS THE ONLY ACCEL THAT WORKED FOR ME!

 

Install the drivers first, then using KextHelper install natit and accel files and reboot with -f -v.

 

Try it out... and let me know how it goes..

 

Thank you sooooooooo much man, i love you!

Got my 4830 working with 1920x1200 output!

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Ok first let me say that this method worked for me on osx 10.5.7. However I have some issues, first issue the screen jumps every 5 seconds, and I cannot go into the display screen to change the resolution.

 

I have tried the methods in the "simple guide to..." for the jumping and display screen and they do nothing but either freeze osx or give me a garbled screen.

 

If anyone can help me I'd appreciate it, 1024x768 is horrible =)

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