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9,290 reads · 2009-08-31 – 2009-09-01
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How to make HD4850 work with Snow Leo installation

I've tried a lot of methods to make Snow Leo installation boot with my HD4850. There are a lot of solutions involving kexts (ATIRDRV.kext, ATINDRV.kext, evoenabler.kext, gfxstring ) but none of them seems to work with Snow Leo…

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@davidcmc Published 2009-08-31
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Snow Leopard 10.6
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9,290 historical reads · 1 curated field notes (from 4 dispatches) · 2009-08-31 – 2009-09-01
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I've tried a lot of methods to make Snow Leo installation boot with my HD4850.
There are a lot of solutions involving kexts (ATIRDRV.kext, ATINDRV.kext, evoenabler.kext, gfxstring ) but none of them seems to work with Snow Leo installation.
I think the problem is that Chameleon loads Snow Leo installation kexts instead of the ones in /Extra/Extensions folder.

Did anyone manage to boot Snow Leo installation using an HD4850?

--David

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Author Update #1 @davidcmc 2009-09-01 ↳ Re: @x986123
@x986123Same happened to me and my GTX 260, I found no solution currently.

How did you install Snow Leopard?

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Field Note #1 @x986123 2009-09-01

Same happened to me and my GTX 260, I found no solution currently.

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