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Sapphire Radeon X1650 XT

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I've used the modbin installer (for 10.4.10).

Since it's made for the X1650 Pro, and was able to enable Quartz Extreme and Core Image for that card, I thought maybe it would be worth a shot.

 

It ended up not doing anything, and seemed to cause the temporary blacking out of the screen during startup.

 

I've searched for a solution before, but they all led to ones confirmed only for the X1650 Pro.

The last one I tried involved editing an info.plist file in one of the kexts. It rendered the whole operating system unusable.

 

Could someone help to point me in the right direction? I'm new to this forum, and probably relatively new to the OSx86 scene as well.

 

Thanks in advance. :(

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When I search for NeoPheus, I'm always eventually led to http://www.installers.dl.am/, his site for the Natit installer.

 

If this is the installer you meant, then I've tried it before, and was presented with 1024x768 as the only available resolution.

 

Well, the site does say that the installer is only compatible with kernel 8.8.1, and I have version 8.10.1.

 

Is there any driver out there that is made for 8.10.1, and enables QE/CI?

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Sorry, someone has already tried changing the device ids around with your exact same card. Didn't work for them. Here are the posts:

 

I have a Sapphire radeon x1650xt id: 7291, chipset R560, anyone knows how to hexedit the files to make it work with QE + CI ?

I tried to edit the files in the same way as others guy in this forum did, changed c6 71 with 91 72, but the system hangs on reboot.

 

The system is working well without QE and CI (I can change resolution)

 

Any help will be appreciated,

Giuseppe

 

I posted some instructions on this thread (3rd post), hopefully you can make it work. Here's the link: http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?sho...mp;&do=findComment&comment=379397

 

Thanks for your advice but I already tried that and is not working.

Besides that I have doubts about changing all the occurrence of the id, as there is very high probability that you change also parts of the file that is not referencing to the id of the board but to something different (strings, pointer or in the worst case cpu instructions).

If the 16bit numbers inside a files were random (they aren't but for simplicity we can assume they are) we'll have 1/65536 as the probability that a number in a particular position will match with our id, so if the files are big enough we have high probability to have our id number at random positions. Besides that I believe that we should change only the numbers stored on 2-bytes boundary as Intel CPU access 16-bit numbers in that way.

 

Maybe there is a way to know exactly what portion of the files contains the board id.

 

Thanks anyway,

Giuseppe

 

Your point is very logical and I was prepared for something like this to happen on my own system. But check this out, my card has everything enabled (QE/CI/Rotation), no Mouse Artifacts, and I tested through: DVD Player, All the Screensavers, Need For Speed Most Wanted (using Cider), Richard Burns Rally (using Cider), Tetris Zone, etc. Not a single graphic glitch.

 

All these are applications that require acceleration.

No flaws... so I guess all the ID's I refer to change are truly references to Device ID's.

 

Good luck anyway

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Seems like it :unsure: For now, anyway. You could try adding your device ids by yourself as that other person tried using these instructions:

 

http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?s=&...st&p=379397

 

I doubt it works though. I'll update you if a solution is found.

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