August 17, 2009
4890 4870×2 4830 and SL
A pkg with patch for qe/ci support on SnowLeopard for those cards: 4830 4870×2 4890
also addes dev-ids for those into ATI4800Controller.kext plist
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Have the MSI 4890 card. Installed this pkg but it’s still doing the same thing, namely main monitor is frozen on apple screen while 2nd monitor becomes main monitor.
do I need injectors or to toss any kexts?
running macpro1,1
Works fine for me
thx
ps: I needed to do it twice before it works and removed x2000.kext by hand
Thanks a lot. It works perferctly on my rev1 MacPro, with a flashed 4890 (Powercolor).
Unfortunately, since the flash, the 4890 is recognized as a 4870 on Windows Seven.
Is there a problem ?
////what rom u flashed into card O.o
any chance that pkg will work for HD 4350?
After installing the package I get a garbeled screen, black, white and colored stripes
////didnt u forget aty_init?
after installation I too get a garbled screen with grey and black stripes
radeon 4890 1gb
suggestions?
///install aty_init, and note its 32-bit only !
As Toraz said I also just saw that aty_init is in 32 bits only and therefore not loading for me in 64 bit mode.
Hope you can make one in 64 bits also ?
Thanks, the kext is working well with my flashed HD4890.
Okay, so I get different corruption patterns with or without the -x64 flag, but I don’t get a working display :/
without, it’s white corruption on black, with it’s the grey and black stripes, suggestions?
and is there a force 32bit flag I’m missing out on?
////ATY_init is 32-bit only yet
////by default cham2 boots x64 kernel, pcefi has short key to force 32-bit mode, its -x32
hi netkas, i have the hd4850 but its not working in Sl, i added the dev id in ati4800controller.kext and installed the aty_int.kext, but when booting up in 32bit mode it says ati_int: card posted on 0×9442 and then ati_int: quitting card, and then i get a black screen with white dots and stripes, do you know why?
Okay, clearly I’m missing something here, I tried to install PC EFI v10.2 (over the top of a Chameleon install) and now the thing just restarts as soon as it gets to it… won’t even give a boot menu or anything.
If I redo the bootloader2.dmg method, I can get into SL in safe mode, but as it stands I’m at a headache of an impasse.
any solution for 4850 yet?
have the same problem – can only run in safemode
“-f -v” flags: black screen with white lines and dots
in normal mode just white screen…
Working here, on 4890 with dual DVI both working.
P5QC 10a432
No qe/ci though.
Donation location please?
///this package should bring you qe/ci, strange that it arent working, new sysprofielr doesnt show qe/ci even if its present
/// http://netkas.org/?page_id=20
4850 1 gig – gray stripes with Snow Leopard here as well. I have ATY_init installed and changed the dev id in ati4800controller.kext to match.
Working nice. Dual monitor ok. Using a Sapphire 4890 OC.
How can I tell that QE/CI is working. Xbench result are really low.
it’s work on ATI Radeon 4830?
i’m lil bit desperado to find the right driver for my video card
HIS ATI Radeon 4830
Still get a garbled screen when running SL in 32bit
.
As I told before, it Works fine with my brand new MacPro 2,96 under SL, 30″, dual screen is okay. Benchtest I’ve done under Motion are better then ever.
Thanks to Netkas !
I’m very sorry for my english – what can i try to do with my integrated HD 3200?
Shood it works if I write “dev id” somewhere in kexts? I found info that my HD 3200 (rs780) looks like rv620 chip… Any chance to have normal resolution fnd hardware aceleration?
///Nothing, osx has no drivers for this card
Hey netkas,
I finally have Snow Leopard working on my AMD desktop system, but I’m having an issue with my 4870×2 that I think you might be able to help me with. I’m using the enabler that you provided which works with Leopard perfectly, but in SL, it thinks I have a VGA monitor connected as well as my HDMI TV. This wouldn’t normally be a problem, except that it thinks this invisible VGA monitor is the primary. Full screen video tries to go to it rather than the TV that I can actually see. I only have one actual monitor, so I need to tell it not to find the VGA monitor.
Thanks.
ok it works ;> never realized some extensions from leopard can work on this, used the injector you made earlier for the cards earlier, everything works
sapphire 4890 toxic edition, thanks netkas 
Works with Sapphire VaporX 4890 1GB and 10a432 like a charm
I have the exact same issue with my Sapphire 4870 2GB I’ve had with 10.5.7/8 with most driver setups. When Snow Leo boots, I get a seemingly random clutter of black and white dots on screen.
Is there anything I can do to to incentivize you to check if this can be fixed?
I have 10.5.7 and 10.5.8 working with a combination of drivers I pieced together from various sources, so I have no idea what’s causing it to work under 10.5 and fail under 10.6.
out of interest is there a 64bit version of netkas’s ATY_init available?
I got my 4890 to work finally by installing “MacOSX_10.5.6_radeon_hd_48×0_drivers.pkg” (google it) and then installing the above patch.
Don’t know if I got CI/QE though since system profiler doesn’t show anything about it. ?
Bummer since the screensavers won’t run ci/qe isn’t enabled…. back to square one
The MacOSX_10.5.6_radeon_hd_48×0_drivers.pkg replaced SL’s
*ATIRadeonX2000GA.kext
*ATIRadeonX2000GLDriver.bundle
*ATIRadeonX2000VADriver.bundle
By putting back the original files from the SL CD everything works
“Thanks a lot. It works perferctly on my rev1 MacPro, with a flashed 4890 (Powercolor).
Unfortunately, since the flash, the 4890 is recognized as a 4870 on Windows Seven.
Is there a problem ?
////what rom u flashed into card O.o”
==> Yours !
hey netkas, can we expect a 64bit version of the injector in the future? ;>
///the kext itself is exists in 64-bit, but the problem is keys
Installing the package makes my MSI 4890 work with dual DVI in a MacPro1,1 with no problems. Thanks Netkas. You soooo smart
[...] card , you’ll have to use 32-bit kernel to get netkas’ ATY Injector to work. You may grab the installer from netkas’ site . Another thing to note , according to lastExile (he’s [...]
Any idea why the injector is not working for some 48xx cards but is working with the old 10.5.8 drivers?
Just thought I should point out where I think a few people might be going wrong. I was trying for a while to get my graphics to work, but couldn’t really figure out why they weren’t. After taking a look into the package available from this post I realised it didn’t contain some of the kexts available from the older 10.5.x package.
So I managed to get hold of both and installed them and it seemed to work. You also need to make sure ATY_init.kext is in your S/L/E directory too. There’s a link below to the 10.5 package – use it in conjuction with the package available in this post.
http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/790162/radeon_48×0_10.5.zip
Hi Guys,
For some reason, I can’t download QE_CI_Exotic_SL.pkg on the hosted website… Could anybody give me an alternative link?
Thanks & Regards
-Zapp
So far no luck. 2009 Mac Pro, Saphire Vapor X HD4890 1G. All I get is a constantly spinning fan on the card and monitors don’t come up and the system profiler doesn’t even see that their’s anything in the PCI slot.
First I just tried the QE_CI_Exotic_SL.pkg, then after I read through all the comments, tried installingMacOSX_10.5.6_radeon_hd_48×0_drivers.pkg (which I don’t think I should need). And then the QE_CI_Exotic_SL.pkg again. I did verify that the ATY_init.kext was present in /System/Library/Extensions/…
Any ideas would be greatly appreciated!
////what exactly you trying?
///flashed card needs only qe_ci_exotic_sl
///and never install leopard graphics drivers to snowleo
///there is no solution for flashless way of handling 4890 in snowleo yet
Please help, I still get a black screen with these drivers and a dual-link 30″ monitor. Have to re-connect the dvi to get a proper picture going, is this fixable??
Hi
I have a Saphire HD 4830 but this just doesn’t work :/ All I can get is a black and white dirty screen, even though I boot in 32-bit mode.
Checking ATY_init.pkg, it seems like there isn’t any reference to 4830 card..
My only way of making my card work is to use EVOenabler with a specific 4850 bios in ATY,bin_image but this isn’t working well at all and seems pretty dangerous as the fan is making some really strange noises.
So.. any help would be appreciated to make my 4830 work with your exotic pkg
If needed I can provide a gpu-z bin image of my bios, I thought the solution was to put it as a string to the ATY,bin_image of ATY_init but I didn’t find any way to make the conversion in hex string.
Thanks for any help!
OK, So my mistake then? Everyone here is booting up the card in windows and flashing it with a different ROM? Are there instructions for that somewhere because I think I missed it!
I’d swear people were saying you could do it without flashing, maybe that was only in Leopard?
Thanks!
Netkas!!!
Please make a kext that will work with 4870 in SL that has Dual monitor support!! 1dvi / 1hdmi / 1vga!!! at the least let me use 1dvi & 1hdmi2dvi so i can get dual monitor!!
please? =)
I’m running 10.6 in 64-bit with EVOenabler.kext + QE_CI_Exotic_SL.pkg – it works great. Thank you Netkas!!!
The only thing is, after I wake my Hack, the screen is frozen and the mouse is jumpy, so I have to do a hard reset. I patched my DSDT so that my high-speed USB ports show as “Built-in”.
hi all,
does the card have to be flashed??
or like in 10.5.7 working without flashhing???
thanx
hi,
strangely i get a spinning fan like crazy when booting SL after i installed all of the stuff needed..
i think i had the same problem in 10.5.6 can’T remember a workaround…
any help??
I am having a similar issue with a 4870×2, there seems to be a “ghost” monitor which becomes the primary, and I have no way of accessing the main desktop/dock.
Does any one know why that may be?
I did a clean install of Snow Leopard, and it boots no problem into “non accelerated mode” once I install the ATI drivers, it does set the correct resolution for the monitor I am using, alas the main monitor seems to be virtual and I can’t access the desktop properties to tell my hackintosh otherwise.
hi netkas
thanks for your superior work. I worked with 10.6 (10a432) and QE_CI_Exotic_SL.pkg (flashed 4890)- all o.k. Now with 10.6.1: there are problems… in iWork no text… windows flackering… So: will there be an update of QE_CI_Exotic_SL.pkg for 10.6.1 ?
(sorry about my english)
thanks a lot…
Flashed 4890 MSI working great with latest update in 10.6.1.
DUal Display works…with one small caveat. There is a very mild instance of screen tearing. If you move mouse vertically over and over you will see that 1 out of 5 or 6 passes will have a place where screen rears horizontally at point where mouse intersects.
Oddly, this was much worse before I updated the package.
If I run with just the 30″ connected the behavior is flawless. COD4 ran fine. It only does the quick little tears when it is running both displays at once.
[...] card , you’ll have to use 32-bit kernel to get netkas’ ATY Injector to work. You may grab the installer from netkas’ site . Another thing to note , according to lastExile (he’s [...]
My Snow leopard is 10a432GM and boot with bootthink,after install iti got a garbled screen.
Snow leopard 64bit model.
Card: sappine hd4830 512m gddr3 with VGA/DVI/HDMI.
i have hd4890 Vapor-X and with your driver for SL dont work, have you any sugetion to repair this. Tnx very much for your help.
okay, i’m a noob when it comes to hackintoshing. I got iPC working on my PC, installed it, and my audio and ethernet work great. I have no idea where to start when trying to make my ATI 4890 work. I don’t really know what i have to install kext-wise. Can someone tell me what I should install to get my 4890 to be recognized, make it work, and most importantly….GET OFF 1024 x 768 RESOLUTION!? I really need help with my video card. And if it’s not too much trouble, give me links to the proper files for it to work….thanks in advance to any helpers : )
hi netkas!
i have Sapphire vapor-x 4890 1GB everything looks fine with my 10.6.2 with digital dreamer script on my ex58-ud5.
I installed your package. so CI and QE are working fine.
but i cant get dual Display mode running.
hope u can help me iam desperately trying to get this running.
greeetz
Pablow
hello netkas !!
I have big problems with patch in my hackintosh !!
When i install this, i have a screen’s bug, with artfacte
I have a snow leopard 10.6.2 retail with ATI HD 4890 Vapors-X 2 GB
Please Help me !!
Hi Netkas,
I have some problems about graphics
Here is my setup
ASUS M3A78-T Mainbord
8 GB CORZAHAIR RAM
HIS 4870 1GB GPU with default flash (DVI / DVI)
AMD PHENOM II X4 940 Black Edition
Samsung BW2233 Monitor
i installed 1.5.6 and tried drivers which is from by insanlymac (a simple guide for 4870..). In 1.5.6 all ports gives me light blue screen. On the other way in 1.5.7 the driver within ideneb 1.5.7 distro gives me a gray background with a cursor for 2nd DVI. (ps: also DVT2VGA adapter on first dvi which is closest to mobo).
Everything works great in safe boot. 1680×1024 reso and some shadows etc.
Thanks for your helps.
Help me please! I can not download a PKG-file. Send a file to me on mail – indigen@bk.ru. Many thanks!
Link dosnt work…. in all other places dont work too for those files. fix it please.. fcuk the rapid share upload them on diff repo.
Hi Netkas, the link doesn’t work so could you please fix it. Many thanks!!
All links in this blog are dead ?
New link please