Radeon X800 GTO No QE/CI?

[tonyt1978]

OK. I have tried and tried and searched and read and read. This is my last resort on this. I have an AGP card in my IBM Thinkcentre 8194E2U. It's a Sapphire Radeon X800GTO card (AGP). I'm running a triple boot system of Windows 7 Enterprise, OS X 10.5.8 (iDeneb v1.6 Lite Edition), and Kubuntu 10.10. I bought the card second hand (used). The person before me had flashed the card to unlock 4 extra pipelines so it had 16 instead of the default 12 that it ships with. This was causing the card to freeze up my computer every so often, (and immediately when launching any sort of 3d game). So ... I re flashed the card back to default, until it only showed the 12 pipelines, and this fixed the freezing and locking up issue (for the most part). Now I am able to play games etc.. (in windows, that is). Now ... I followed the instructions on the post in the Graphics Cards --> ATI section of the forum. The very last "sticky" post (says something like unlocking qe and ci on x800 XL). Anyways, I did the Callisto part first and that enabled me to switch resolutions (Thank God!). Then I followed the 2nd part on how to enable QE and CI. I used textedit to edit ATIRadeon9700.kext - psinfo file. I changed the correct parts to my vendor and device ID numbers (554f 1002). Then used Hexedit to open the ATI9700 file in MACOS folder and changed those values to 554f. By the way, 554f is what System Profiler reports and what is shown under hardware ID in windows also. So, I did that exactly as instructed, saved my work, installed the kexts, and rebooted. Still no QE/CI. Hmm... ... So, I read some more ... I Pulled them all out and re-edited them made sure it was all completely correct then reinstalled them again (this time using kext helper), and repaired disk permissions, Still ... nothing. I don't know if it helps but, System Profiler reports my card as a ATI Radeon X800 UO with a Bus Type: PCI (even tho it's AGP). Device id: 554F etc etc. Kubuntu reports my card as a PCIe card for some reason, and it shows 2 instances of my card: ATI Radeon X800 GTO and: ATI Radeon X800 GTO (Secondary). Both report they are PCIe. The first one says the device ID is 554F and the (Secondary) card says it's device id is 556F. which struck me as weird, but I don't know a whole lot about it. I've even formatted my HDD and reinstalled OS X to see if that worked... it did not. I love being able to switch resolutions, but it's frustrating not being able to watch DVDs or play games when I know there are people out there with the same card who have it fully functional. ATITools reports my card as the R430 if that means anything to anyone. I know a lot of ppl in the forum say theirs is a R423 or R480. Mine is definitely an R430. I thought maybe I needed AGPgart.kext or something, but i read that is only for people with Tiger (10.4.x) or lower. I'm running Leopard. I have been wracking my brains trying to figure this out. I have never ran Koverg's patch ... but according to that walkthru I used, The Hexediting was to get around Koverg's patch. So, I figured it would be useless since I Hexedited that file. Should I go ahead and try koverg's? I'm sorry this post is so terribly long, but I wanted to let people know exactly which bases I'd covered and give as many details on my card as possible. Again:

 

Sapphire ATI Radeon X800 GTO (AGP) 256mb

Was flashed by previous owner to unlock 4 extra pipelines (16)

Reflashed by me to original GPU BIOS (12 pipelines)

Vendor ID: 1002 Device ID: 554f

R430

Reported as X800 UO pci by mac OS X

Reported as X800 GTO PCIe by linux

 

I would be amazed and in debt to anyone who could solve this for me.

Thanks!

 

Edit: P.S. - After I did the 2nd part (after Callisto) I do get some mouse tearing. Just fyi.

[Giorgio_multi]

X800 GTO AGP works only in Tiger (Callisto framebuffer + Koverg Patch).

 

Not supported in Leopard and Snow Leopard. (No QE/CI)

[tonyt1978]

ahh ... i see. Is there a big difference between Leopard and Tiger? Or do they pretty much look and perform the same?

[Giorgio_multi]

ahh ... i see. Is there a big difference between Leopard and Tiger? Or do they pretty much look and perform the same?

 

 

There is a big difference, but with your hardware, you can have satisfaction with it.