ATI 5XXX KEXT

[Elf89]

I've tried many times to make work ati mobility 5470 on my laptop without success. Modifying ati5000controller.kext (that one you can find on kext.com) i noticed that in info.plist is listed the 0x68e01002 that it's 5470 mobility id. this means that in near future my card will be supported. so i'm right or theese kext have already been modified (by netkas for example)????

[lince5]

Try this:

 

Source: www.kexts.com

 

What everyone's been saying about the kext installs is first install  aty_init.kext in "System/Library/Extensions" solo and see if it detects  the card info. If it does? then install ati5000controller.kext,  atisupport.kext and atiframebuffer.kext into "S/L/E". If it's still good  on reboot then throw atix3000controller.kext and the .bundle and  .plugin files all into "S/L/E".. if all still good? then you're set!

For  what's happening to your system? my main guess is your problem is that  you may need to modify the info.plist in the aty_init.kext as others  did... to do that? just copy aty_init.kext to your desktop or something,  menu-click on it and select "show package contents".. once it opens,  just go one folder in and there will be the info.plist... just open that  in text editor or Properly List Editor (Part of XCode on your Snow  Leopard disk) and look for your card in there it should be under  IOKitPersonalities>ATY_Init>ATi Radeion 5870 Series... and what  you can try is what others did and change the "Uakari" to "Vervet" or  "Eulemur".. I know some folks have had good luck with Vervet so try that  one first.. then reinstall the aty_init.kext and hope for the best!  Hope this helps! 

Oh, if you get a kernel panic? yeah you can try and  use your 4870 to get it going again, if that fails though? boot in  single user mode (-s) and then once in do the two "/sbin" commands it  shows. Once in there? do without quotes "cd /system/library/extensions"  and then "rm -rf aty_init.kext" and repeat for ati5000controller.kext,  atisupport.kext, atiframebuffer.kext and atix3000controller.kext and  reboot and set it to "ignore cashes" which I think is -f or -x...  {censored}in' I forget, lol.... anywho? hope this gets something going for  ya.. just {censored} I've learned doing this all.. just be happy your  vidcard works man, lol, I'm still dreaming about the day Netkas starts  getting the 5650 series going.. especially mobility in my case, lol.

 

Comment if it works... I'm trying to get working my ati mobility 5650.

 

Here's my post

 

http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php...p;#entry1533583