Radeon 7000 PCI on 10.5

[WeeJeWel]

I am trying to configure this card to run as a second card next to my 8800GT for a third monitor. However, I had no luck with getting it to work so far.

 

What I have tried:

- Flash the card to a Mac edition. Didn't work, since the final step -where you update the rom- needs a Mac below 10.2.8. I don't have one.

- Edit ATIRadeon.kext and add my card id's (VEN 1002 DEV 5159)

 

Now I'm out of ideas. Can anyone help me?

 

Thanks in advance!

 

WeeJeWel

[Nick14]

card is too old wont work

[WeeJeWel]

card is too old wont work

 

And the Mac edition works out of the box eh? There must be a way to get it working.. adding some strings would do the trick I think, but where?

 

Or how to let the flash app think it's running 10.2.8? Editing SystemVersion.plist didn't do the trick =(

[Nick14]

I'll say it again To old it won't work even if it's mac edition

[printerati]

I assume nothing has changed since OS X 10.6 was released, as the only kexts I have found for the Radeon 7000 have been for PPC versions of 10.4. I have an old PCI Mac edition lying around that I'd like to use to drive a third monitor (at least until the X4500 driver gets sorted out, and I can use onboard video on my Gigabyte GA-G41M-ES2L), but I'm not having any luck. System Profiler recognizes it as an ATi card, but reports that it is also a Realtek NIC?!

 

If anyone has made any headway with one of these, I am all ears. (I apologize for bumping such an old thread, but it's the only mention of a PCI Radeon 7000 I found.)