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7,144 reads · 2009-10-07 – 2009-10-10

how to get QE/CI to work on ati x1550

hi i installed snow leopard but my chraphic card is not installed properly my QE and CI is not working my Device ID: 0x7187 can somebody help me?

Primary Author
@rebel6 Published 2009-10-07
Collection
Snow Leopard 10.6
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7,144 historical reads · 3 curated field notes (from 6 dispatches) · 2009-10-07 – 2009-10-10
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@rebel6 (3)@thorazine74 (2)@jacoweb

hi i installed snow leopard but my chraphic card is not installed properly
my QE and CI is not working
my Device ID: 0x7187
can somebody help me?

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Follow-up dispatches by @rebel6

Author Update #2 @rebel6 2009-10-09

if i have to buy an new one which would you recommend with a budget of 100 Euro
ps:my motherboard support only this slot: PCI Express x16 graphics PEG slot

Synthesized Community Field Notes

3 technical responses curated from 6 original dispatches

Field Note #1 @jacoweb 2009-10-08

There is many problems with ati cards on SL. maybe you have luck.. but i will tell you to buy nvidia card.

Field Note #2 @thorazine74 2009-10-09

I think Apple only supports a handful of ATI HDxxxx in Snow so, without having any experience with ATI first hand, I'm afraid it wont work. The card needs to be supported by Apple first before you think about injectors and plists, if its not sharing same core as the ones officially supported I think you would need to buy a new one.

Field Note #3 @thorazine74 2009-10-10

Any NVIDIA with the same core as the ones Apple officially support should work without much troubles. If you are not playing games probably even an old 8800 GT would work.

OpenCL requires one of the following graphics cards or graphics processors: • NVIDIA GeForce 9400M, GeForce 9600M GT, GeForce 8600M GT, GeForce GT 120, GeForce GT 130, GeForce GTX 285, GeForce 8800 GT, GeForce 8800 GS, Quadro FX 4800, Quadro FX5600 • ATI Radeon 4850, Radeon 4870

One of the ATIs would do too I guess but I dont know how hard they are to make it work on a hackintosh.
QuickTime h264 acceleration requires a 9400M though, I'm not sure what other models would support it.

Sources & Contributor Provenance (3 credited usernames · Thread #4357)
UsernameDossier ContributionDispatchesActive Window
@rebel6Primary Author32009-10-07 → 2009-10-09
@thorazine74Contributor22009-10-09 → 2009-10-10
@jacowebContributor12009-10-08