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was on 10.6.3, updated to 10.6.4 and no video, goes powersave mode, black screen...can only VNC into the machine.

anyone have ideas?

 

edited ATI4800Controller kext to enter my deviceid.

 

my software info shows:

 

ATI Radeon 4870 Series:

 

Name: ATY,Motmot

Type: display

Driver Installed: Yes

Bus: PCI

Slot: Slot-1

Vendor ID: 0x1002

Device ID: 0x9440

Subsystem Vendor ID: 0x174b

Subsystem ID: 0xe114

Revision ID: 0x0000

Link Width: x16

Link Speed: 2.5 GT/s

 

ATI Radeon 4870 Series:

 

Chipset Model: ATI Radeon 4870 Series

Type: GPU

Bus: PCIe

Slot: Slot-1

PCIe Lane Width: x16

VRAM (Total): 1024 MB

Vendor: ATI (0x1002)

Device ID: 0x9440

Revision ID: 0x0000

ROM Revision: 113-B7710C-176

EFI Driver Version: 01.00.318

Displays:

Display Connector:

Display Connector:

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ATI 4870 fixed!!! on 10.6.4..

looks like i'm stuck using the old 10.6.2 ATI files..

 

had to copy the following three ATI4800controller, ATIFramebuffer and ATISupport (all 3 are on 1.6.6 version) to S/L/E.

also needed LegacyATI4800Controller.Kext in /Extra/Stored_Kexts

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Any chance you can upload those kexts to a file and maybe expand a little on what you did?

I've tried searching around for those files and adding them to the right directories, but am still only getting about 30 seconds of video before the display shuts off.

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I run both EvoEnabler.kext, and LegacyATI4800Controller.kext with Graphics Enabler set to Yes and lm using the vanilla 10.6.4 updated files no problems at all.

 

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Updated to those kexts, has been running for about 10 minutes now without display problems. Thanks (knock on wood).

My profiler says that I'm running a 4890 though, when the card is a 4870. Any idea how to fix this? Some .plist I need to update or something?

 

Hm, I'm getting a bunch of these white lines through everything running. Is there a fix for this?

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  • 9 months later...

Hey guys,

 

It has been a long time since I've done anything to my 10.6.4 Snow Leopard setup and I've forgotten a lot of the locations and commands for critical items, etc. I'm switching over to a 4870 from the 9400GT that has served me well since I built this rig a while back. Can you guys remind me which folder these ATIextra files go in. Is it /System/Library/Extensions? There's no EVOenabler.kext or LegacyATI4800Controller.kext in there at this point.

 

Thanks!

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