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http://netkas.org/?p=903 10.7.2 might be good for us.

I had my acd27 + 5770 single slot setup running flawless for a few weeks. Without me making any changes I am now often confronted by a Kernel Panic on boot up. It seems like the panic is graphic kexts related. I only did the small edit a la redratto to get the vervet frame buffer running. Any...

good to hear! I haven't done any benchmarking yet but I am so glad to have this running with the good 'ol 5770 ;)

It works fine now. I don't know how I could manage to forget to add graphicsenabler ;) Thank you very much for your solution redratto!

hmm can't get it to work unfortunately. :banghead: this is how I edited the Ati5000Controller Kext and my com.apple.boot.plist. Any ideas ?

Wow redratto, all you did was making this small edit and its working just fine now? Are there no other activation methods apart from graphicsenabler=yes involved? Sure sounds great!

hmm straight replacing the kexts - and some next wizard treatment resulted in a kernel panic on boot. I might have to spend some more time with this ..hmmm

Guys what are you using to activate the 5770? Thing is when I used Snow Leopard - I used the Lion ATi Kexts to make it work via graphicsenabler = Yes. So it worked straight out of the box. So, to use the older SL Kexts in Lion I will have to settle for another activation method right? :wtf:

Hey Justruss - many thanks for your reply! would be cool if it works that way - if updates become to much of a hassle one could still go for the 6870....

just got my 27 inches of beauty. Is there any progress with the XFX single Slot 5770 + Cinema Display Combo on Lion? I don't mind using older kexts... or anything. Just got this 5770 a couple of weeks ago because I was sure it would work - now it seems like everyone is jumping board for the...