ATI 2900 GT

[cnrtechhead]

Trying to get a Hackintosh going for a friend of mine. Everything's good except his graphics card. I can't find _any_ info on it here or on Google. It's a Radeon 2900 GT, which is a bit obscure of a card. Anyone here have experience getting this card working, with acceleration, reschange, etc? My only success with it so far has been the fact that Chimera 1.8 sees it at boot, and correctly identifies the model, but sees the number of ports as 0. It's not identified properly in System Profiler. Any help would be appreciated. I am by no means a n00b to the realm of Hackintosh graphics, having made dual nVidia cards work in my system (twice), but this just has me stumped.

Should also mention that this is on 10.6.8.

 

[leoni]

Trying to get a Hackintosh going for a friend of mine. Everything's good except his graphics card. I can't find _any_ info on it here or on Google. It's a Radeon 2900 GT, which is a bit obscure of a card. Anyone here have experience getting this card working, with acceleration, reschange, etc? My only success with it so far has been the fact that Chimera 1.8 sees it at boot, and correctly identifies the model, but sees the number of ports as 0. It's not identified properly in System Profiler. Any help would be appreciated. I am by no means a n00b to the realm of Hackintosh graphics, having made dual nVidia cards work in my system (twice), but this just has me stumped.

Should also mention that this is on 10.6.8.

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[goober296]

I used to have a 2900xt never tried it with osx but I googled it and a guy was whining it was no longer supported in 2010 so I would guess you need a different card sorry

 

[cnrtechhead]

Hmm, ok. He has a Radeon 2400 as well that I can try. Just irritates me that Chimera sees the 2900 GT but doesn't do much with it.

 

[goober296]

i think that might be a little old as well, you may have to move up into the 4000 series to get something working, or search function for working cards.

 

[cnrtechhead]

I ordered him a 9800GT earlier today, so in the meantime if I can get the 2400 working with little effort I will, otherwise he can deal with no QE/CI for a few days. No way I'd leave the 2400 in the system permanently, it's a pathetic little card, especially for someone who edits video.