LogicalUser Posted February 7, 2010 Share Posted February 7, 2010 I am attempting to replace a Nvidia card in my friend's hackintosh with a ATI 4850 (dual-dvi) and have hit a wall. The card in question is an Asus EAH4850/HTDI/512M, the single slot one with reference-style cooler (and a pretty graphic of a female asian archer surrounded by cherry blossoms) The hack in question is a vanilla retail 10.6.2 install with bootloader on USB stick which was using nothing more than graphicsenabler=yes for video beforehand. I have no problem getting it to boot without res switch/QI/CE using -x, but nothing else works Thus far I've tried: Chameleon RC3 w graphicsenabler=yes = kernel panic, (ATIx2000) Chameleon RC3 w graphicsenabler=yes & legacyati4800.kext = kernel panic (ATIx2000) PC-EFI 10.6 w graphicsenabler=yes = garbled video PC-EFI 10.6 w graphicsenabler=yes and legacyati4800.kext = garbled video Chameleon pre-RC5 pkg from Tonymac w graphicsenabler=yes and legacyati4800.kext =garbled video aserebln's RC4/PC-EFI 10.5 based loader w graphicsenabler=yes and legacyati4800.kext =garbled video all of the above with removed ATI4500 & ATI4600Controller.kext, same results and I tried something with EVOenabler in /E/E with a few diff bootloaders, unsure which, same results. any suggestions? Have I missed something obvious? The bulk of the other methods I see predate snow leopard by a good 6-8 months, so am unsure what to try next. I'm trying to fix it without swapping back in the old card and taking the 4850 home to my hack for further troubleshooting, but thus far its not looking promising. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/210144-asus-4850-and-1062-issues/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
klh6686 Posted February 7, 2010 Share Posted February 7, 2010 Hey there, this is a link to some files from netkas that I used to get my 4670 working with very minimal work, I am running dual screens and have qe/ci working great. http://is.gd/4y27Q EDIT: these files are meant for 10.6.2 I used the 4600 kext and graphicsenabler=yes and I'm pretty certain that is it. I had tried a bunch of other things like you had done, and none of it worked so i just reinstalled with the above files and it was golden. Hope this helps. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/210144-asus-4850-and-1062-issues/#findComment-1405645 Share on other sites More sharing options...
LogicalUser Posted February 7, 2010 Author Share Posted February 7, 2010 Thanks for the info, however everything I've read leads me to believe that the 46x0 cards require a different set of drivers than the 48x0 series, and the 4850 in particular. I'm really trying for a near-retail install if at all possible, but it seems all the methods I've found that I've yet to try require patched kexts and/or removal of all sorts of stuff from S/L/E/ I mean... that'd be fine if its required, but I'm hoping for something less invasive Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/210144-asus-4850-and-1062-issues/#findComment-1405770 Share on other sites More sharing options...
wlp5 Posted February 8, 2010 Share Posted February 8, 2010 You shouldn't need any of the legacy kexts. Make sure you edit ati4800 kext to include your device-id and that should do it. Then either use graphicsenabler=y or DSDT fixes.tonymacx86 forum Here's some more help. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/210144-asus-4850-and-1062-issues/#findComment-1405993 Share on other sites More sharing options...
wickedpengiun Posted June 3, 2010 Share Posted June 3, 2010 I am attempting to replace a Nvidia card in my friend's hackintosh with a ATI 4850 (dual-dvi) and have hit a wall. The card in question is an Asus EAH4850/HTDI/512M, the single slot one with reference-style cooler (and a pretty graphic of a female asian archer surrounded by cherry blossoms) The hack in question is a vanilla retail 10.6.2 install with bootloader on USB stick which was using nothing more than graphicsenabler=yes for video beforehand. I have no problem getting it to boot without res switch/QI/CE using -x, but nothing else works Thus far I've tried: Chameleon RC3 w graphicsenabler=yes = kernel panic, (ATIx2000) Chameleon RC3 w graphicsenabler=yes & legacyati4800.kext = kernel panic (ATIx2000) PC-EFI 10.6 w graphicsenabler=yes = garbled video PC-EFI 10.6 w graphicsenabler=yes and legacyati4800.kext = garbled video Chameleon pre-RC5 pkg from Tonymac w graphicsenabler=yes and legacyati4800.kext =garbled video aserebln's RC4/PC-EFI 10.5 based loader w graphicsenabler=yes and legacyati4800.kext =garbled video all of the above with removed ATI4500 & ATI4600Controller.kext, same results and I tried something with EVOenabler in /E/E with a few diff bootloaders, unsure which, same results. any suggestions? Have I missed something obvious? The bulk of the other methods I see predate snow leopard by a good 6-8 months, so am unsure what to try next. I'm trying to fix it without swapping back in the old card and taking the 4850 home to my hack for further troubleshooting, but thus far its not looking promising. Ihad similar problems, Try booting from CD with [url="http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/"]#####[/url] ATI. If it doesn't boot, type PCIRootUID=1 at the boot screen. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/210144-asus-4850-and-1062-issues/#findComment-1481543 Share on other sites More sharing options...
MaLd0n Posted June 7, 2010 Share Posted June 7, 2010 http://www.megaupload.com/?d=W242MOW0 http://www.mediafire.com/?zizmmyjjdlt arch=i386 these files are for the leopard, but run on Snow 32 64 use graphicsenabler/pciroot + legacyati4800controller.kext Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/210144-asus-4850-and-1062-issues/#findComment-1483647 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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