Jabbawok Posted October 6, 2009 Share Posted October 6, 2009 Im trying to clarify the issues with th ATI HD2xxx cards. I bought the HD2600 because it was a standard fit card in a Mac Pro, assuming that it would be more likley to workin my Hackintosh. and in 10.5 it was. NETKAS posted "install aty_init and remove atiradeonx2000.kext, to get res change" So i assume that means no QE or CE. Is there someithing wrong with the HD2xxxx drivers in 10.6 or are they simply unfinished? I understand they are missing some features required for open CL support. Would I Be best just swapping them (I have two) for an nvidia 8/9 series card if i can? Cheers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
errandwolfe Posted October 6, 2009 Share Posted October 6, 2009 You are correct, the card will almost certainly never work fully on Snow. That includes OpenCL, QuartzExtreme, and CoreImage. Right now as you stated in your own post, the only thing working is resolution changes. SunLizard gave a very good explanation of the problem. You can read his post here: http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php...t&p=1281778 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jabbawok Posted October 6, 2009 Author Share Posted October 6, 2009 So if i had bout an apple one of these for my Mac Pro i'd be left without QE and CE too then? It still narks me that I cant boot a 64bit kernel on it (being a 1st gen). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nour Posted October 6, 2009 Share Posted October 6, 2009 Hi, all. I install snow leo on iMac with ATI 2600 HD PRO and it works fine. Id do't no why the pc's version of this card dosn't work with snow ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
asapreta Posted October 6, 2009 Share Posted October 6, 2009 Is it possible to flash the hd2600 card on a PC (for APPLE FIRMWARE - the one on System Update) and get it working for Windows and OSX? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jabbawok Posted October 7, 2009 Author Share Posted October 7, 2009 Only if the card has a big enough rom. My card is identical to the one Apple shiped for the Mac Pro aside from the TV-Out port but only has a 1/2 meg rom on it which isn't big enough for the apple rom. I dont know if a card with a mac rom would boot in a PC because they are designed for EFI not bios. Some time ago I was lucky enough to get a P.C. reference design Geforce 8800GT that had a 1MB rom on it and flashed that with the frimware that comes on the apple card and it has been working perfectly in my mk1 Mac Pro since.(with the apple PCI-E power lead) I did think you could "inject" the rom from a real apple card into the boot loader but im no expert on this bit. Ben.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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