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sgi02
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Just recived my new Built By ATI X850XT in the mail today and installed it without hesitation. Booted the machine and no dice no QE or CI. I then performed the following steps..

 

1.) Modified ATIRadeon9700.kext and added device id's with the following command ( 0X4b491002 )

 

sudo pico /System/Library/Extensions/ATIRadeon9700.kext/Contents/Info.plist

 

2.) Deleted the "Extensions.kextcache" and "Extensions.mkext" from the /System/Library/ Folder

 

3.) Chowned and wheel'ed the Extensions folder using the following commands

 

sudo chmod -R 755 /System/Library/Extensions/*

sudo chown -R root:wheel /System/Library/Extensions/*

 

4.) Repaired permissions using disk utility.

 

5.) Rebooted and used the following flags at the Darwin Boot Loader for Verbose and Safe Boot

 

-x -v

 

6.) Manually loaded the ATIRadeon9700.kext using the following command

 

sudo kextload /System/Library/Extensions/ATIRadeon9700.kext

 

Rebooted the machine again and had QE and CI. Same issues as with other Radeon cards , slight mouse pointer artifacts and also the System Profiler only sees 128MB of ram on the card instead of 256 , but the graphics redraw is much faster on this card compared to the 256MB 9550 it replaced and it even netted me 5+ points in Xbench. I will add this card to the wiki in a few. Hope that this post can help some fellow OSX86'ers out there. Cheers!

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sgi02
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This is using the 10.4.3 kexts, right? I guess that means 1280x1024 is pretty much the limit for you too.

 

If this was using 10.4.4 kexts, its big news. If not, its just... a mediocre card installation I guess.

 

Thanks for your valueable post :\ , You know in the wiki there are plenty of people running AGP Redeon cards who arent having such great luck getting them to work and what I wrote up may or may not help them achieve the same level of success that I had.

 

Anyways , I dont have dual displays to test , sorry. As far as resoloution goes 1280X1024 is my native resoloution so I cant test further there. If anyone has any other questions or anything I can help with just let me know.

WilboZ
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This is using the 10.4.3 kexts, right? I guess that means 1280x1024 is pretty much the limit for you too.

If this was using 10.4.4 kexts, its big news. If not, its just... a mediocre card installation I guess.

Thanks for your valueable post :\ ...

:) I think it's great that SGI got his X850X to work!

 

But, (and there always is one) :) I have a Sapphire X800Pro. I printed out sgi02's initial post so I could be sure and duplicate it, step by step... I did get the kext to manually load from safe mode, and SystemProfiler saw all 256 of my video ram. But (again), when I try booting without -x it gets down to the vram:0000, or whatever it says message, and my mouse pointer shows up in the upper left hand corner of the screen...but, it won't move. Nothing beyond that.....

 

Surely I have missed something! All input is welcome,

tim.

39thRonin
39thRonin
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sgi;

 

Perhaps you could shed some light on this. I have a new x800 card that I am using (sig says x300 - have that as well...) and can't get QE & CI on it (nor can anyone else that I can see). I was wondering what the difference is between an 850 and an 800? Mine is a PCI express card, but I fail to see how such a hole exists in these drivers...

antic
antic
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i dont know if this has any relevance, but in another post (improving X Bench scores) this guy reckons ha has got rid of screen artifacts by disabling Coalesced Updates.

Open "/Developer/Applications/Performance Tools/Quartz Debug.app", choose "Tools -> Show Beam Sync Tools" and choose "Disable Beam Synchronization".

 

He doesn't say if its mouse tearing or some other kind of screen artifact.

 

I can't try it myself as I dont have an ATI card

Biku
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i've got something like this:

 

ATIRadeon9700:

 

Version: 1.4.20

Last Modified: 1/16/06 12:16 PM

Get Info String: ATIRadeon9700 1.4.20.28 (3422)

Location: /System/Library/Extensions/ATIRadeon9700.kext

kext Version: 4.2.0

Load Address: 0x1f233000

Valid: Yes

Authentic: Yes

Dependencies: Incomplete

Dependency Errors:

com.apple.iokit.IOGraphicsFamily: No valid version of this

dependency can be found

com.apple.iokit.IONDRVSupport: No valid version of this dependency

can be found

com.apple.iokit.IOPCIFamily: No valid version of this dependency can be found

com.apple.kernel.iokit: No valid version of this dependency can be found

Integrity: Kext is modified

jccool
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hello, i have an ati radeon x850xt pci express, im sort of a noob at this so could someone tell me where exactly i put my device id in radeon9700.kext's info.plist? thats what im having trouble with and please ahead of time do not send me the nvidia audio guide, iv tried it but its different then ati.

 

thx

koverg
koverg
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sgi02 do you have QE and CI acceleration?

 

QE = Quartz Extreme

CI = Core Image

 

Can you please see in the Applications / Utilities / System Profiler? You can find everything under the Graphics / Display. You can even check the device id of your card. May be you did not specify the correct device id. I think that +5 points in Xbech doesn't necessery mean that you are accelerated.

 

Biku! VMWARE presents an emulated VESA compatible VGA card to the OS. So you won't be able to use QE and CI under VMWARE unless someone writes a driver for it.

 

Cheers,

 

Gabor

Biku
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Biku! VMWARE presents an emulated VESA compatible VGA card to the OS. So you won't be able to use QE and CI under VMWARE unless someone writes a driver for it.

 

Cheers,

 

Gabor

man, i've been waiting for reply like this :|. so now i know why it doesnt' work. i'll have to make a fresh, native installation in such a case. thanks :blink:

Biku
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i added my id 0x5d521002 and chmod, that told me no such directory existed, i repired permissions and everythging and rebooted and it says ati9700.kext was improperly installed and cannot be used, what did i do wrong?

do it once again. here you are a guide http://wiki.osx86project.org/wiki/index.php/Audio

  • 6 months later...
graphic Design
graphic Design
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Just recived my new Built By ATI X850XT in the mail today and installed it without hesitation. Booted the machine and no dice no QE or CI. I then performed the following steps..

 

1.) Modified ATIRadeon9700.kext and added device id's with the following command ( 0X4b491002 )

 

sudo pico /System/Library/Extensions/ATIRadeon9700.kext/Contents/Info.plist

 

2.) Deleted the "Extensions.kextcache" and "Extensions.mkext" from the /System/Library/ Folder

 

3.) Chowned and wheel'ed the Extensions folder using the following commands

 

sudo chmod -R 755 /System/Library/Extensions/*

sudo chown -R root:wheel /System/Library/Extensions/*

 

4.) Repaired permissions using disk utility.

 

5.) Rebooted and used the following flags at the Darwin Boot Loader for Verbose and Safe Boot

 

-x -v

 

6.) Manually loaded the ATIRadeon9700.kext using the following command

 

sudo kextload /System/Library/Extensions/ATIRadeon9700.kext

 

Rebooted the machine again and had QE and CI. Same issues as with other Radeon cards , slight mouse pointer artifacts and also the System Profiler only sees 128MB of ram on the card instead of 256 , but the graphics redraw is much faster on this card compared to the 256MB 9550 it replaced and it even netted me 5+ points in Xbench. I will add this card to the wiki in a few. Hope that this post can help some fellow OSX86'ers out there. Cheers!

 

If my card is X850 XTPE 256MB, Does it work follow this way?

Anybody have the experience about it, please help me!

  • 3 weeks later...
halo_bone
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Followed instructions with [sapphire] x850xt PCI-E, didn't seem to affect anything at all, still no QE and CI. Also, I've tried on both 10.4.6 and 10.4.3, no cigar =). At this point, the best option is to get a cheapo alternative card you know is supported, just to get basic graphics working properly, like playing movies, or working in graphic design programs.

  • 2 months later...
Rhys
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I've tried to do this but get the following error message:

 

/System/Library/Extensions/ATIRadeon9700.kext/Contents/MacOS/ATIRadeon9700's pentium4 arch is incomplete

kextload: error mapping module file /System/Library/Extensions/ATIRadeon9700.kext/Contents/MacOS/ATIRadeon9700

kextload: can't map module files

kextload: can't check load addresses of modules

kextload: a link/load error occured for kernel extension /System/Library/Extensions/ATIRadeon9700.kext

load failed for extension /System/Library/Extensions/ATIRadeon9700.kext

(run kextload with -t for diagnostic output)

 

I've got an ATI Radeon X850 with the Vendor ID 4B4C

 

Can anyone help?

  • 1 month later...
benni
benni
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Hi There!

 

Just for the records: I own an Asus AX850XT "Platinum" (whatever that means...) and I managed to get CI and QE working. But as Device-ID I had to use 0X4B4C1002. Thanks, SGI, for the manual!

 

Anyways, I wasn't able to set up dual monitoring - for now, the Image just gets mirrored to both screens I have here. I also can't choose a Resolution in the Displays-Thingie in the System Preferences. Any hints on that? ;-)

 

So far,

 

Greetings, Benni.

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IscreaMan
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Anyone successful getting QE/CI with a x850 pci-e in Leopard?

 

Same here. X850XT PCI-E Leo 10.5.6

 

  Type:	Display
  Bus:	PCIe
  PCIe Lane Width:	x16
  VRAM (Total):	256 MB
  Vendor:	ATI (0x1002)
  Device ID:	0x5d4d
  Revision ID:	0x0000
  Kernel Extension Info:	No Kext Loaded
  Displays:
Display:
  Resolution:	1024 x 768
  Depth:	32-bit Color
  Core Image:	Software
  Main Display:	Yes
  Mirror:	Off
  Online:	Yes
  Quartz Extreme:	Not Supported

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