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10.6.7 Patch for Exotic ATI 4870 (4890 probably?)

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Keita 1

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Sorry for the delay. The operating system check has been removed, since it does not appear that apple is working on 4870 drivers anymore. You can download it here. As usual for 4890 you can use netkas following this one to get quartz back. Goodluck
 
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Patch Didn't work

MacPro 1,1

ATI Radeon HD 4870 with Device ID 0x00009440

I'm assuming this was the real patch and not a April Fools joke...

Didn't have a problem with the previous several patches, but this one didn't work.
 
Alright, thanks for the heads up. I will take it down for a bit, and test it some more.
 
Your patch didn't work for me either
2008 mac pro. 4890 sapphire

Finally got QECI working using all ATI 1.6.26.31 kexts
and ATIX2000GLDriver 1.6.10.32
ATIX2000GA 1.6.10.32
ATIX2000VADriver 1.6.10.32
ATIX2000 1.6.10.32
ATI4500Controller 1.6.10.32
Zeus confirms as does EyeTV and DVDplayer.
 
Alright I posted the updated patch in the link above and it should be ready to go.

@temejin
You may not need my patch but one of netkas only.

UPDATE
Sorry again, I accidentally linked to the old patch. The link has been updated.
 
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New Patch worked for me....

Thanks very much, Keita. Your latest patched worked on my system with 10.6.7:

MacPro 3,1
Radeon HD 4870 1GB VRAM device 0x9440
QECI working with 2 DVI displays.
 
Also works for me after a fresh re-install of 10.6.7 (I had a terrible potpourri of patches that needed removing.) No additional drivers from netkas.

Mac1,1
XFX HD4870A ZWFC vC0 1GB device 0x9440
QE/CI enabled
OpenGL tests comparable to my old 10.6.4 installation.

-Steve
 
Thanks Keita.
finally upgraded to 10.6.7
Macpro 1,1 with 4870

worked great!
 
Thank you, thank you. I haven't had QE since 10.6.4; and no QE means no Keynote and Preview function. Perhaps you and Netkas can get together to make a unified solution.
 
This patch worked for my Sapphire 4870 1GB GDDR5 (SKU# 11133-19-20R)

Thank you, Keita!!!! :)
 
Dual display

Thanks for this, makes it easy. Dual monitors doesn't work with my 4870, is this normal? If I have two things plugged in (say DVI & VGA), each will only work when only one is plugged in. My DVI is dual-link, maybe that's part of the problem. DVI & HDMI combo also doesn't work, only individually.

I'm on a Mac Pro 1,1, and I flashed my ATI 4870 card from instructions elsewhere on this forum, and used this patch after 10.6.7 update broke the display.
 
jamesdstark said:
Thanks for this, makes it easy. Dual monitors doesn't work with my 4870, is this normal? If I have two things plugged in (say DVI & VGA), each will only work when only one is plugged in. My DVI is dual-link, maybe that's part of the problem. DVI & HDMI combo also doesn't work, only individually.

I'm on a Mac Pro 1,1, and I flashed my ATI 4870 card from instructions elsewhere on this forum, and used this patch after 10.6.7 update broke the display.
Click to expand...

Exactly which mfg/model # is your card? Were dual displays working before 10.6.7+patch?

-Steve
 
Is there any reason to apply this to a MacPro1,1 with the Apple supplied ATI Radeon HD 4870 running OSX 10.6.7 ?

Code: 
    ATI Radeon HD 4870:

      Chipset Model: ATI Radeon HD 4870
      Type: GPU
      Bus: PCIe
      Slot: Slot-1
      PCIe Lane Width: x16
      VRAM (Total): 512 MB
      Vendor: ATI (0x1002)
      Device ID: 0x9440
      Revision ID: 0x0000
      ROM Revision: 113-B7710C-176
      EFI Driver Version: 01.00.318
 
audio_inside said:
Exactly which mfg/model # is your card? Were dual displays working before 10.6.7+patch?

-Steve
Click to expand...

Well that was a pain I had to pull the card to identify it, seems to be the only way.
It's a Sapphire Vapor-X HD4870 1G GDDR5 Sku 11133-16

Catalyst control center says Device ID 9440, vendor 1002

I didn't have both monitors before 1.6.7 to try. However when I boot my mac into WindowsXP, the card runs flawlessly. Both monitors work at the same time, and it even scales down my 2560x1600 display to show on the smaller screen (I wish OSX could do this). So certainly the hardware is capable.

This is what System Profiler shows if it's any help:

ATI Radeon HD 4870:

Chipset Model: ATI Radeon HD 4870
Type: GPU
Bus: PCIe
Slot: Slot-1
PCIe Lane Width: x16
VRAM (Total): 1024 MB
Vendor: ATI (0x1002)
Device ID: 0x9440
Revision ID: 0x0000
ROM Revision: 113-B7710C-176
EFI Driver Version: 01.00.318
Displays:
DELL 3007WFP:
Resolution: 2560 x 1600
Pixel Depth: 32-Bit Color (ARGB8888)
Main Display: Yes
Mirror: Off
Online: Yes
Rotation: Supported
Display Connector:
Status: No Display Connected

Again my ROM is flashed so it displays the apple at bootup. Any ideas to try are appreciated.
 
jamesdstark said:
Thanks for this, makes it easy. Dual monitors doesn't work with my 4870, is this normal? If I have two things plugged in (say DVI & VGA), each will only work when only one is plugged in. My DVI is dual-link, maybe that's part of the problem. DVI & HDMI combo also doesn't work, only individually.

I'm on a Mac Pro 1,1, and I flashed my ATI 4870 card from instructions elsewhere on this forum, and used this patch after 10.6.7 update broke the display.
Click to expand...

Hi. For most (if not all) 4870's there is one dvi ports that is specifically for Dual-link DVI and the other ONLY supports single-link DVI. If you were looking at both DVI ports, the Dual DVI specific port would be the one on the right.


Also, I do not believe the 4870(flashed ones anyway) could ever really support VGA monitors. Even when it was VGA -> DVI converterted it would still fail on the Mac OS X side of things. It is necessary that both monitors communicate via a DVI port for Mac OS X.
 
spidey3 said:
Is there any reason to apply this to a MacPro1,1 with the Apple supplied ATI Radeon HD 4870 running OSX 10.6.7 ?

Code: 
    ATI Radeon HD 4870:

      Chipset Model: ATI Radeon HD 4870
      Type: GPU
      Bus: PCIe
      Slot: Slot-1
      PCIe Lane Width: x16
      VRAM (Total): 512 MB
      Vendor: ATI (0x1002)
      Device ID: 0x9440
      Revision ID: 0x0000
      ROM Revision: 113-B7710C-176
      EFI Driver Version: 01.00.318
Click to expand...

There should not be. The card worked fine on Mac 1,1. There may have been issues with the mini display port but I do not remember.
 
What are the chances it will be working on this:

Model Name: Mac Pro
Model Identifier: MacPro1,1
Processor Name: Dual-Core Intel Xeon
Processor Speed: 2 GHz
Number Of Processors: 2
Total Number Of Cores: 4
L2 Cache (per processor): 4 MB
Memory: 4 GB
Bus Speed: 1.33 GHz
Boot ROM Version: MP11.005C.B08
SMC Version (system): 1.7f10


This is what displayed in PCI cards:

ATI Radeon HD 4890:

Chipset Model: ATI Radeon HD 4890
Type: GPU
Bus: PCIe
Slot: Slot-2
PCIe Lane Width: x1
VRAM (Total): 1024 MB
Vendor: ATI (0x1002)
Device ID: 0x9460
Revision ID: 0x0000
ROM Revision: 113-B7710C-176
EFI Driver Version: 01.00.318
Displays:
ASUS VH236H:
Resolution: 1920 x 1080 @ 60 Hz
Pixel Depth: 32-Bit Color (ARGB8888)
Display Serial Number: 94LMTF072691
Main Display: Yes
Mirror: Off
Online: Yes
Display Connector:
Status: No Display Connected

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I'm experimenting with different roms, drives, patches right now and already got the card not working in Linux.
Keita, what would be the better way to try in with your patch?

Thanks!
 
Hi Keita. I was wondering if 10.6.7 is the end of the line for these 4870s, or if your magic might work for 10.7?

Your patches are the only thing that ever worked for my 4870 card (and I tried 'em all!).
 
Keita 1 said:
Hi. For most (if not all) 4870's there is one dvi ports that is specifically for Dual-link DVI and the other ONLY supports single-link DVI. If you were looking at both DVI ports, the Dual DVI specific port would be the one on the right.


Also, I do not believe the 4870(flashed ones anyway) could ever really support VGA monitors. Even when it was VGA -> DVI converterted it would still fail on the Mac OS X side of things. It is necessary that both monitors communicate via a DVI port for Mac OS X.
Click to expand...

There is only one DVI port on the card, so that's irrelevant.
Also I'm not really interested in the VGA port, but the HDMI port, which I've also tried without success.
 
Props and a request

Hi Keita,

I wanted to add my voice to the others by saying that your patches have been the only thing that consistently kept my 1GB Sapphire 4870 purring smoothly throughout all of the Snow Leopard changes. Now that Lion is out, I have it working on both monitors, but without QE/CI and I would greatly appreciate it if you saw your way to continue working your magic on Lion.

I really appreciate what you do.

All the best!
 
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