XFX Radeon HD 6870 help sorta working in Snow Leopard

[projectpb]

Any idea what will cause this In system profile card is showing op as ATI Radeom HD NI40. Dvd player crashes but screen saver and front row works. I have ran othe OpenGL tests and all worked.
The card is a XFX HD-687A-ZDFC HD6870 it is said this card works out of box.
LG EW224 monitor connected to DVI port 1 Both DVI ports are working.

Fresh install Retail 10.6.0 used combo update to 10.6.8 then mutibeast current version.
GE= YES

sudo lspci -nnvd 0x1002: | grep -B2 Subsystem
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI Barts XT [ATI Radeon HD 6800 Series] [1002:6738] (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
	Subsystem: XFX Pine Group Inc. Unknown device [1682:3103]
--

01:00.1 Audio device [0403]: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI Barts HDMI Audio [Radeon HD 6800 Series] [1002:aa88]
	Subsystem: XFX Pine Group Inc. Unknown device [1682:aa88]

ioreg | grep ATY
    | |   |   | +-o ATY,ATY,RadeonFramebuffer@0  <class AtiFbStub, id 0x1000002$
    | |   |   | +-o ATY,ATY,RadeonFramebuffer@1  <class AtiFbStub, id 0x1000002$
    | |   |   | +-o ATY,ATY,RadeonFramebuffer@2  <class AtiFbStub, id 0x1000002$
    | |   |   | +-o ATY,ATY,RadeonFramebuffer@3  <class AtiFbStub, id 0x1000002$
    | |   |   | +-o ATY,ATY,RadeonFramebuffer@4  <class AtiFbStub, id 0x1000002$

ATI Framebuffer Addr: @0xD0000000  MMIO Addr: @0xE1000000 I/O Port Addr: @0x00009000 ROM Addr: @0x00000000
ATI card POSTed, reading Video BIOS from legacy space
Card reported ports: 4
Framebuffer set to: Duckweed using device's default.
Number of ports set to: 4 using framebuffer's default.
AMD Radeon HD 6870 1024MB [1002:6738] (subsys [1682:3103]) (Barts:Duckweed) :: PciRoot(0x0)/Pci(0x1,0x0)/Pci(0x0,0x0)

 

[fenrir2003]

Just installed my XFX Radeon 6870 and I have the same thing. I'm poking around for a solution still.

 

[projectpb]

Just installed my XFX Radeon 6870 and I have the same thing. I'm poking around for a solution still.

Let me know if u find anything if i do first i will post what i find here.
thanks
jeff

 

[projectpb]

I tired the new Chimera 1.8.0 stand alone and nothing it did not help.

 

[powerpcg5]

Are you guys using MacPro 3,1 system definition?

All you need with the 6870 is GraphicsEnabler=Yes in the plist.

 

[fenrir2003]

Are you guys using MacPro 3,1 system definition?

All you need with the 6870 is GraphicsEnabler=Yes in the plist.

My system profile is Mac Pro 3,1 and it does not matter -- card still showed up as NI40 in the System Profile. I'm using both latest MultiBeast and Chimera. Other posts I have read shows that this is a problem. Some have resolved using PCIRootUID=1 or overriding default framebuffer with something else. I'm still working on restoring files in my system so I have not done any further testing.