ATI Framebuffer development

Slice · September 22, 2008

Anyway to Port ati 9600 kext to Leopard ?? becouse it worked on Tiger with full qe/ci ??

Sorry, but I have no enough knowledge to do this. I can propose you to use Tiger kexts in Leo but I dunno if it works.

I am sure that Leo version of ATIRadeon9700GLDriver.bundle is PowerPC only so it doesn't work.

Slice · September 23, 2008

New (really very old) sources of Framebuffer driver. It may help us in some settings.

OCFramebuffer.zip

pere · September 23, 2008

Sorry Slice, i have failed adding iologs, get nothing to dispplay.

I have thinked about my card uses shared ram memory for the display and added a Maxmem=1024 to my com.apple.boot.plist to free some memory...

So:

If i dont use the command, the mouse got sluggish and irresponsive and then the system froze (system.log shows nothing about the hang)

If i use the command, the mouse moves freely and nice till the frozen occurs.

Maybe we have to use the maxmem parameter when trying the driver? Does the driver point to a place on ram memory and that pointer is already used by another process?.

Thanks for your work.

Nick14 · September 23, 2008

http://rs11.rapidshare.com/files/18697090/...Mobility.tar.gz

9600 for intel macs

Slice · September 23, 2008

Sorry Slice, i have failed adding iologs, get nothing to dispplay.

I have thinked about my card uses shared ram memory for the display and added a Maxmem=1024 to my com.apple.boot.plist to free some memory...

So:

If i dont use the command, the mouse got sluggish and irresponsive and then the system froze (system.log shows nothing about the hang)

If i use the command, the mouse moves freely and nice till the frozen occurs.

Maybe we have to use the maxmem parameter when trying the driver? Does the driver point to a place on ram memory and that pointer is already used by another process?.

Thanks for your work.

It is new for me. Thanks for the information. I will try it.

About correction of my Ati.kext I am sorry for delay. I am busy with another tasks now but I am always here catching news.

http://rs11.rapidshare.com/files/18697090/...Mobility.tar.gz

9600 for intel macs

Does it work for you? I can't check cause I need 8500. Other testers?

adamsalac · September 23, 2008

http://rs11.rapidshare.com/files/18697090/...Mobility.tar.gz

9600 for intel macs

----------------------------------------------------------------

Well,I'll give it a try as soon as i reinstall my iDeneb v1.1....

But I think that it will work ONLY in Tiger 'cuse the name of the file is 10.4.8-ATI9600Mobility.tar.gz

my config is:

AMD Athlon 64 3200+ 2 GHz SSE2

...

X700Pro 256 MB RAM

Nick14 · September 23, 2008

They worked On Tiger but in Leopard i only get screen solution but we cant install the Framebuffer driver i think thats where the problem Lies

Slice · September 24, 2008

They worked On Tiger but in Leopard i only get screen solution but we cant install the Framebuffer driver i think thats where the problem Lies

Don't know what you mean but yes, we need new Framebuffer driver for such radeon.

One news.

LaptopDisplay project may works if we write in our driver good definitions for methods

_doStatus( this, cscGetSync, &syncInfo);

ret = _doStatus( this, cscGetConnection, &multiConnect.csConnectInfo);

ret = _doStatus( this, cscGetMultiConnect, &multiConnect);

thisRet = _doStatus(this, cscGetFeatureList, &featureList);

because its needed for "backlight"

			if (kIOReturnSuccess != framebuffer->getAttributeForConnection(idx,
				kConnectionFlags, &connectFlags))
			continue;
		if (0 == (kIOConnectionBuiltIn & connectFlags))
			continue;
		if (kIOReturnSuccess != framebuffer->getAppleSense(idx, NULL, NULL, NULL, &displayType))
			continue;
		if ((kPanelTFTConnect != displayType)
				&& (kGenericLCD != displayType)
				&& (kPanelFSTNConnect != displayType))
			continue;

		OSIterator * iter = getMatchingServices(nameMatching("backlight"));

Nick14 · September 26, 2008

if you replace the framebuffer from 9600 with the on leopard it leopard wont boot

obijohn · October 2, 2008

I'd like to try these two kexts (ATILead and ATI) but I'm not sure what to edit in the Info.plist of ATILead.kext. I've read through the thread but I'm having trouble understanding exactly what I should edit.

My card is a Radeon X300 Mobility (it shows up as an M300 (M22) under System Profiler, although it's really supposed to be M24), the device ID is 0x5460, and right now I've got native resolution of 1920x1200@32 using Callisto (but of course no QE/CI). It's a PCIe card, would this possibly work with the kexts?

I understand that I'm supposed to edit the Info.plist to add my device ID and the resolution, but I could use a little help on where to put this info and in what format.

Ztardust · October 7, 2008

Has anyone managed to get X1300 mobility to native resolution on an internal screen?

I am trying to get 1280X800, but only get 1024x768.

I tried the RadeonDump thing, and the resaults are in the attachments. Seems like it has a problem with accessing the edid on my machine...

I have also tried extracting the edid in a program I have in Vista, and then use that in the RadeonHD kext(Dong version)... the kext loads but I see no difference. Not able to change resolution.

RadeonDump__i.rtf

RadeonDump__r_0_1000.rtf

dong · October 7, 2008

Yes, the RadeonHD is still under development and not supposed to work at the moment. I'm busy for graduation stuff, so not much time is available for it. I will try to catch up.

drumthrasher109 · October 8, 2008

How do I go about trying this for my 2600PRO?

AlexanderZhang · October 12, 2008

My Card: mobility hd2600 id:9581 System:10.5.4

With Ati.kext and Atilead.kext ,I got system hang.

It's my info.plist for ATILead.kext

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "[url="http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd"]http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd[/url]">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
<key>CFBundleDevelopmentRegion</key>
<string>English</string>
<key>CFBundleExecutable</key>
<string>ATILead</string>
<key>CFBundleGetInfoString</key>
<string>1.2.2, Slice, 2008</string>
<key>CFBundleIdentifier</key>
<string>com.slice.driver.ATILead</string>
<key>CFBundleInfoDictionaryVersion</key>
<string>6.0</string>
<key>CFBundleName</key>
<string>ATILead</string>
<key>CFBundlePackageType</key>
<string>KEXT</string>
<key>CFBundleSignature</key>
<string>????</string>
<key>CFBundleVersion</key>
<string>1.2.2</string>
<key>IOKitPersonalities</key>
<dict>
 <key>LeadPCIMatch</key>
 <dict>
  <key>CFBundleIdentifier</key>
  <string>com.slice.driver.ATILead</string>
  <key>IOClass</key>
  <string>ATILead</string>
  <key>IOMatchCategory</key>
  <string>IOService</string>
  <key>IOPCIClassMatch</key>
  <string>0x03000000</string>
  <key>IOProbeScore</key>
  <integer>40000</integer>
  <key>IOProviderClass</key>
  <string>IOPCIDevice</string>
  <key>entriesToAdd</key>
  <dict>
   <key>@0,AAPL,boot-display</key>
   <true/>
   <key>@0,IODisplayHasBacklight</key>
   <true/>
   <key>@0,backlight-control</key>
   <true/>
   <key>@0,built-in</key>
   <data>
   </data>
   <key>@0,compatible</key>
   <string>ATI,ATIPC</string>
   <key>@0,depth</key>
   <integer>32</integer>
   <key>@0,device_type</key>
   <string>display</string>
   <key>@0,display-connect-flags</key>
   <integer>0</integer>
   <key>@0,display-link-component-bits</key>
   <integer>6</integer>
   <key>@0,display-type</key>
   <string>LCD</string>
   <key>@0,fboffset</key>
   <integer>0</integer>
   <key>@0,height</key>
   <integer>768</integer>
   <key>@0,linebytes</key>
   <integer>4096</integer>
   <key>@0,model</key>
   <string>ATI,ATIPC</string>
   <key>@0,name</key>
   <string>ATI,ATIPC</string>
   <key>@0,width</key>
   <integer>1024</integer>
   <key>AAPL,gart-width</key>
   <integer>32</integer>
   <key>ATY,Copyright</key>
   <string>Copyright ATI Technologies Inc. 2007</string>
   <key>ATY,EFIVersion</key>
   <string>01.00.068</string>
   <key>ATY,VendorID</key>
   <integer>4098</integer>
   <key>CRT,EDID</key>
   <data>
   AP///////wBN2QBcAQEBASgPAQMIAAB4Ctmto1VGmCQQ
   R0otyABhTwEBAQEBAQEBAQEBAQEBZBkAQEEAJjAdiDYA
   AAAAAAAYDh8AgFEAHjBAgDcAAAAAAAAcAAAA/QA6Ph4y
   CAAKICAgICAgAAAA/ABLREwtUzMyQTEyVQogAMs=
   </data>
   <key>F8,size</key>
   <integer>3145728</integer>
   <key>IOName</key>
   <string>MyRadeon</string>
   <key>LCD,EDID</key>
   <data>
   AP///////wA2fwMAAAAAAAAAAQMBKB4A8gAAAAAAAAAA
   AAAhCAAxQEVAYUAAAAAAAAAAAAAAZBkAQEEAJjAQiAAA
   AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
   AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGU=
   </data>
   <key>M1,EDID</key>
   <data>
   AP///////wAGEGCcAAAAAAQQAQOAIhZ4Chz1l1hQjicn
   UFQAAAABAQEBAQEBAQEBAQEBAQEBnyWgQFGEDDBAIDMA
   S88QAAAZAAAAAQAGEDAAAAAAAAAAAAogAAAA/gBCMTU0
   UFcwMSBWMAogAAAA/ABDb2xvciBMQ0QKICAgALw=
   </data>
   <key>chipset-model</key>
   <string>ATI,ATIPC</string>
   <key>device_type</key>
   <string>MyRadeon</string>
   <key>name</key>
   <string>MyRadeon</string>
  </dict>
 </dict>
</dict>
<key>OSBundleLibraries</key>
<dict>
 <key>com.apple.iokit.IOPCIFamily</key>
 <string>2.2.0</string>
 <key>com.apple.kernel.iokit</key>
 <string>6.0</string>
</dict>
<key>OSBundleRequired</key>
<string>Safe Boot</string>
</dict>
</plist>

Slice · October 13, 2008

My Card: mobility hd2600 id:9581 System:10.5.4

With Ati.kext and Atilead.kext ,I got system hang. :censored2:

It's my info.plist for ATILead.kext
   <key>M1,EDID</key>
   <data>
   AP///////wAGEGCcAAAAAAQQAQOAIhZ4Chz1l1hQjicn
   UFQAAAABAQEBAQEBAQEBAQEBAQEBnyWgQFGEDDBAIDMA
   S88QAAAZAAAAAQAGEDAAAAAAAAAAAAogAAAA/gBCMTU0
   UFcwMSBWMAogAAAA/ABDb2xvciBMQ0QKICAgALw=
   </data>

Thank you for good testing!

Yes, I know the problem with model name. For ATOM_BIOS I need to set custom name.

With your testing I see that BIOS_4_SCRATCH give you non-expected value. I have no documentation about it so it would be great to know about this value from experiments.

Can you do a command

sudo -s
kextload -v RadeonPCI.kext

./RadeonDump -r 1700,1760

with different monitor connections?

And at last. Try again with corrected ATILead.info.plist

M1,EDID

->

no,EDID

I think you may enter GUI with it.

AlexanderZhang · October 13, 2008

Thank you for good testing!

Yes, I know the problem with model name. For ATOM_BIOS I need to set custom name.

With your testing I see that BIOS_4_SCRATCH give you non-expected value. I have no documentation about it so it would be great to know about this value from experiments.

Can you do a command

with different monitor connections?

And at last. Try again with corrected ATILead.info.plist

<key>M1,EDID</key>

->

<key>no,EDID</key>

I think you may enter GUI with it.

I changed <key>M1,EDID</key> to <key>no,EDID</key>

then i got system hang again !Of course,i have tried different monitor connections.

just can see this

I did the command.Without Ati.kext and AtiLead.kext

Found a device of class RadeonPCI: IOService:/AppleACPIPlatformExpert/PCI0@0/AppleACPIPCI/P0P1@1/IOPCI2PCIBridge/VGA@0/RadeonPCI
it matched on name "display"
Detected ATI Mobility Radeon HD 2600 (device id: 0x9581)
Start I2C dump
ATOM BIOS detected
ATOM BIOS Rom: 
SubsystemVendorID: 0x1043 SubsystemID: 0x1562
IOBaseAddress: 0xa000
Filename:             
BIOS Bootup Message: 
ASUS_F8Sa bring up M76 BIOS GDDR2 400m/500e ASID:A15116.012$                

object id 0005 01
src object id 2115 21
record type 1
rhdAtomParseI2CRecord:  I2C Record: GPIO_ID 9 EngineID: 0 I2CAddr: 0
ddc_line from ATOMBIOS: 0x0
record type 4
object id 000c 01
src object id 2113 19
record type 1
rhdAtomParseI2CRecord:  I2C Record: HW_Line 9 EngineID: 0 I2CAddr: 0
ddc_line from ATOMBIOS: 0x0
record type 2
record type 4
object id 000e 01
src object id 210f 15
record type 1
rhdAtomParseI2CRecord:  I2C Record: GPIO_ID 1 EngineID: 2 I2CAddr: 0
ddc_line from ATOMBIOS: 0x0
record type 4
object id 000f 01
src object id 2116 22
record type 4

Found a device of class RadeonPCI: IOService:/AppleACPIPlatformExpert/PCI0@0/AppleACPIPCI/P0P1@1/IOPCI2PCIBridge/VGA@0/RadeonPCI
it matched on name "display"
0x1700:  27BAE1C2 3B1B6994 FE1BB6CF 68D872C9 39A28E70 30DB8AAB 0EF5182B 85EE82BC
0x1720:  5406B6B9 00040002 0100C000 00000001 00010003 00013C00 00000003 00001000
0x1740:  41230109 00000000 00130013 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
0x1760:  00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000

schady4 · October 13, 2008

Hey Slice i don't know if this will help at all due to the fact that i'm a noob to programing, but here is the hardware dump from pc wizard for my laptop, acer extensa 5420 with the ati rs690 chipset, video ati xpress 1250 integrated. the igp info is at the bottom to the text file. i'd like to help as much as possible with this due to the lack of support for these video processors. I'm willing to install ubunto if you need a linux register dump also, i don't know if that will make any difference. Right now i'm running OS X tiger JaS 10.4.8 version with the sb600 patch from the kalyway disk. Let me know if there is anything else i can do. Thanks

acer5420_register_dump.txt

obijohn · October 13, 2008

Slice, need a little help. Finally got ATI.kext and ATILead.kext to load properly, but system hangs after loading them. No crash is reported, no kernel panic, just a hang. Attached are my dmesg dump (not loading ATI.kext or ATILead.kext since I can't run dmesg after they hang, but not using Callisto either), the "RadeonDump -r 0,100" dump, and the "RadeonDump -i" dump.

According to ioreg, my device address is 0xffffffffd000000, so I tried both "0" and "0xd0000000". I tried "RS300", "RS400", "X300", "9700", "M24" and "M22" for the model name in the ATILead.kext info.plist, but I'm not sure if the model name is the problem.

One thing odd is that RadeonDump doen't give an EDID, could that indicate an incompatibility with my hardware?

Also, for linebytes I used 288000 (1920x1200/8) but I'm not sure if that's the correct number for that resolution of my laptop monitor.

EDIT: added relevant part of system.log. After it hangs during boot, if I reboot in safe mode the reboot dumps a lot of irrelevant info into the system.log, so instead I rebooted into Tiger (dual-boot here) and copied the last part of system.log from the last boot of Leopard that hangs. There don't appear to be any errors in the log, so I'm kinda at a loss.

Let me know if you need any more info.

Eddie94 · October 14, 2008

HI Slice!I tried ATI.kext+ATILead +RadeonPCI!

Hangs at Start

ATILead+RadeonPCI doing the image in attachament!

IN attachments there is the result of

./RadeonDump -r 0,300

this is the result of :/RadeonDump -i

Found a device of class RadeonPCI: IOService:/AppleACPIPlatformExpert/PCI0@0/AppleACPIPCI/AGP@1/IOPCI2PCIBridge/VGA@5/RadeonPCI
it matched on name "display"
Detected ATI Radeon XPRESS 200M 5A62 (PCIE) (device id: 0x5a62)
Start I2C dump
Legacy BIOS detected
LCD DDC Info Table found!
Bios Connector table: 
Port0: DDCType-0x68, DACType-2, TMDSType-1, ConnectorType-CRT
Port4: DDCType-0x1a0, DACType-0, TMDSType-0, ConnectorType-LCD
EDID for connector 0:
Read data failed
EDID for connector 4:
0x0000: 00FFFFFFFFFFFF00320C00C800000000
0x0010: 00100103802115780AB3709959538D27
0x0020: 23505400000001010101010101010101
0x0030: 010101010101B61C00B8502025302028
0x0040: 44004BCF100000190000000000000000
0x0050: 00000000000000000000000000FE004C
0x0060: 475068696C6970734C43440A000000FE
0x0070: 004C503135345730312D544C4534002A

and this is the info.plist of ATILEad (for the hang at start! )




CFBundleDevelopmentRegion
English
CFBundleExecutable
ATILead
CFBundleGetInfoString
1.2.2, Slice, 2008
CFBundleIdentifier
com.slice.driver.ATILead
CFBundleInfoDictionaryVersion
6.0
CFBundleName
ATILead
CFBundlePackageType
KEXT
CFBundleSignature
????
CFBundleVersion
1.2.2
IOKitPersonalities

	LeadPCIMatch

		CFBundleIdentifier
		com.slice.driver.ATILead
		IOClass
		ATILead
		IOMatchCategory
		IOService
		IOPCIClassMatch
		0x03000000
		IOProbeScore
		40000
		IOProviderClass
		IOPCIDevice
		entriesToAdd

			@0,AAPL,boot-display

			@0,IODisplayHasBacklight

			@0,address
			-805306368
			@0,backlight-control

			@0,built-in


			@0,compatible
			ATI,ATIPC
			@0,depth
			32
			@0,device_type
			display
			@0,display-connect-flags
			0
			@0,display-link-component-bits
			6
			@0,display-type
			LCD
			@0,height
			768
			@0,linebytes
			4096
			@0,model
			ATY,RS300
			@0,name
			ATI,ATIPC
			@0,width
			1024
			AAPL,gart-width
			32
			ATY,Copyright
			Copyright ATI Technologies Inc. 2005
			ATY,EFIVersion
			01.00.068
			ATY,VendorID
			4098
			CRT,EDID

			AP///////wBN2QBcAQEBASgPAQMIAAB4Ctmto1VGmCQQ
			R0otyABhTwEBAQEBAQEBAQEBAQEBZBkAQEEAJjAdiDYA
			AAAAAAAYDh8AgFEAHjBAgDcAAAAAAAAcAAAA/QA6Ph4y
			CAAKICAgICAgAAAA/ABLREwtUzMyQTEyVQogAMs=

			F8,size
			3145728
			IOName
			MyRadeon
			LCD,EDID

			AP///////wAGEGCcAAAAAAQQAQOAIhZ4Chz1l1hQjicn
			UFQAAAABAQEBAQEBAQEBAQEBAQEBnyWgQFGEDDBAIDMA
			S88QAAAZAAAAAQAGEDAAAAAAAAAAAAogAAAA/gBCMTU0
			UFcwMSBWMAogAAAA/ABDb2xvciBMQ0QKICAgALw=

			chipset-model
			ATY,RS300
			device_type
			MyRadeon
			name
			MyRadeon



OSBundleLibraries

	com.apple.iokit.IOPCIFamily
	2.2.0
	com.apple.kernel.iokit
	6.0

OSBundleRequired
Safe Boot

hello to all!

edit:Any idea for the Change resoluction?

5A62.1179.5A62.vga.rom.zip

Slice · October 19, 2008

Hi all who want to have QE/CI in Leopard with Radeon

Leo driver ATIRadeon9700GLDriver.bundle is PowerPC only. But there is a trick.

You can rename ATIRadeonX1000GLDriver in the ..bundle/Contents/Macos/ to ATIRadeon9700GLDriver.

and also correct info.plist in all places where you see X1000 change to 9700.

About framebuffer sorry. I work on another project. If any programmer will continue I shall help.

Nick14 · October 19, 2008

what about the leopard 9a321 drivers aren't intel ? or something like that

Slice · October 20, 2008

what about the leopard 9a321 drivers aren't intel ? or something like that

Open /System/Library/Extensions/

Find ATIRadeon9700GLDriver.bundle

Click right button on it - "Get Info"

And look "PowerPC"

But for your X1300 you need X1000 driver that is Intel.

tomtefar · October 20, 2008

Slice: I could get one X600XT and X700 Pro (both PCIe) to test your code on. Would that be interesting to you? (I'm sorry I didn't read all of the thread so maybe it is just for HD cards or something). What ATI/AMD cards are you yourself using?

Cheers!

obijohn · October 20, 2008

Hi all who want to have QE/CI in Leopard with Radeon <X1000.
Leo driver ATIRadeon9700GLDriver.bundle is PowerPC only. But there is a trick.

You can rename ATIRadeonX1000GLDriver in the ..bundle/Contents/Macos/ to ATIRadeon9700GLDriver.

and also correct info.plist in all places where you see X1000 change to 9700.

About framebuffer sorry. I work on another project. If any programmer will continue I shall help.

I got very excited when I read this, but it doesn't work for me. My card is X300. I renamed ATIRadeonX1000GLDriver.bundle to ATIRadeon9700GLDriver.bundle, then in Contents/MacOS renamed ATIRadeonX1000GLDriver to ATIRadeon9700GLDriver. I edited the Info.plist and changed every "X1000" to "9700". But I still don't have QE/CI (I just have software CI, but no QE).

I am so sad!

Nick14 · October 20, 2008

Open /System/Library/Extensions/
Find ATIRadeon9700GLDriver.bundle

Click right button on it - "Get Info"

And look "PowerPC"

But for your X1300 you need X1000 driver that is Intel.

i got qe/ci on the X1350 but on my old nc8000 that has 9600 doesn't have qe/ci on leopard only on tiger could we get it

ATI Framebuffer development

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