10.5 Drivers for Ati Radeon 7000 in a g5 xserve

Question

Please help me as i am tearing out whatever hair i have left. I have an apple xserve g5 machine. I am trying to run os x server 10.5.4 leopard on this. The problem i am having is i have put an ATI radeon 7000 pci card into one of the slots but when i plug a monitor into the card on the normal vga port, nothing shows up on the screen. I have talked with the technical department at ATI in the uk and they say i have to go back to apple for a driver for this card to work in this situation because they dont have one but i cant find anywhere where this driver for 10.5.4 would be on the apple website.
Please would someone help me in getting this card or any other card working in this situation as this is very urgent.
Kind regards,
Neil Watson

Answer 1

There are drivers for the ATI Radeon 7000 PCI Mac edition here:
http://ati.amd.com/support/drivers/mac/macosx10-4x-3x-radeon.html
But I'm not sure they're necessary... my server has them built-in:
xlabxs01:/System/Library/Extensions blloyd$ ls ATI*
ATIRadeon.kext:
Contents
ATIRadeon8500.kext:
Contents
ATIRadeon8500DVDDriver.bundle:
Contents
ATIRadeon8500GA.plugin:
Contents
ATIRadeon8500GLDriver.bundle:
Contents
ATIRadeon8500VADriver.bundle:
Contents
ATIRadeon9700.kext:
Contents
ATIRadeon9700DVDDriver.bundle:
Contents
ATIRadeon9700GA.plugin:
Contents
ATIRadeon9700GLDriver.bundle:
Contents
ATIRadeon9700VADriver.bundle:
Contents
ATIRadeonDVDDriver.bundle:
Contents
ATIRadeonGA.plugin:
Contents
ATIRadeonGLDriver.bundle:
Contents
ATIRage128.kext:
Contents
ATIRage128DVDDriver.bundle:
Contents
ATIRage128GA.plugin:
Contents
ATIRage128GLDriver.bundle:
Contents
ATIRagePro.kext:
Contents
ATIRageProGA.plugin:
Contents
xlabxs01:/System/Library/Extensions blloyd$
I don't know... do you have the Mac version of the card, or did you just slap a generic 7000 card in there? If it's not the Mac version of the card, it may not work -- it may expect BIOS and the G5 Xserve has Open Firmware.