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[MoDs]

is this right:

./gfxutil -s -n -v -i hex -o xml 8800gts320.txt out.plist?

Yes, it should be.

MoDs

[westwaerts]

apprechiating everyones work for this
but for my understanding 2 questions:

how to check the efi version ( i have one running, but simply dont know which)?

the theory of string appendices i got, but whats the effort ?
will the graphic errors, that appear randomly in preview be gone ( or is it a beta drivers fact)?

[countercraft]

Hi guys, I've followed this guide, but when I reboot the PC, the system hangs up before start the GUI. I read somewhere this work only for mobo with Intel chipset. My chipset is VIA, but I'm running PC_EFI v8 perfectly. My processor is a Celeron 420.

So, it's true that only works with Intel mobos?

thanks

[MacPaq]

Hi Mods,

I am so excited to learn about this. I have some questions tho. I have a ACER M5630 quad core, with  Kalyway installed, GUID and pc_efi_v80. I am dying to get the ATI HD2400pro to work. (tried Triakis' package without luck) So I follow the guide to the letter twice without success. I boot up the machine, it makes absolute no different. I am still getting only one resolution 1024x768. Is version 8 efi the right one to use or is there a newer one I don't know of?

Some other questions in general, where did these string come from in the first place? When I downloaded from the link for ATI, there are two files, one is R2400.hst and the other is R2400.bst, what is the .bst file for? I also need a string for the ALC888 ICH7 for the sound. And could this method be apply to WiFi cards as well.

Thank you so much.

[time ed]

I assume you verified your device path(s) and modified downloaded strings accordingly?

[0xdeadbeef]

I am dying to get the ATI HD2400pro to work. (tried Triakis' package without luck) So

I don't think anyone has had success with the 2400. I would like to know what exactly was done to the power-management of Triakis to see if we can do the same with Iago, but since i don't have an original Triakis, I can't compare

[MacPaq]

Hum, that's very disappointing. I did get the ATI HD2400 Pro to response after I put the hex of the plist in com.apple.Boot.plist. It gets as far as the a blue screen then it hangs there. But I guess it's good that at least it was responding. Here is the plist I have, funny that the dev path is the same as in the tutorial. Does this look right? I wonder why the 2400 is such a PITA? Is there another card any of you gurus can recommend ? Does the 2600 have a great chance of success?

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
   <key>PciRoot(0x0)/Pci(0x1,0x0)/Pci(0x0,0x0)</key>
   <dict>
      <key>@0,compatible</key>
      <string>ATY,Iago</string>
      <key>@0,device_type</key>
      <string>display</string>
      <key>@0,display-connect-flags</key>
      <string>0x34323031</string>
      <key>@0,name</key>
      <string>ATY,Display-A</string>
      <key>@1,compatible</key>
      <string>ATY,Iago</string>
      <key>@1,device_type</key>
      <string>display</string>
      <key>@1,display-connect-flags</key>
      <string>0x34323031</string>
      <key>@1,name</key>
      <string>ATY,Display-B</string>
      <key>ATY,EFIVersion</key>
      <string>01.00.207</string>
      <key>ATY,EFIVersionBios</key>
      <string>113-B22501-X22B</string>
      <key>ATY,Rom#</key>
      <string>113-B2250F-207</string>
      <key>ATY,memsize</key>
      <string>268435456</string>
      <key>ATY_EFIEnabledMode</key>
      <string>0x32</string>
      <key>VRAM,totalsize</key>
      <string>268435456</string>
      <key>device_type</key>
      <string>ATY,IagoParent</string>
      <key>model</key>
      <string>ATI,RadeonHD2400</string>
      <key>name</key>
      <string>ATI Radeon HD 2400 EFI</string>
   </dict>
</dict>
</plist>

A dump question,

is this the whole thing I should put in the com.apple.Boot.plist? It's LONG!
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

Sorry for the long post. I am just learning. Thanks again for the tutorial, I learn a lot.

[brywalker]

I don't understand why I am having so much trouble here. I really really don't. I am very technically inclined, but this just never ever works.

When I try to convert my hex:

Code:

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

To plist via:

Code:

./gfxutil -s -n -v -i hex -o xml in.hex out.plist

I get:

Code:

./gfxutil: cannot convert from hex to bin, invalid hex inputfile 'in.hex'!

Fantastic.

Well I have another plist that I can convert back to test (taken directly from this forum)...

Code:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
<key>PciRoot(0x1)/Pci(0x1,0x0)/Pci(0x0,0x0)</key>
<dict>
<key>@0,compatible</key>
<string>NVDA,NVMac</string>
<key>@0,device_type</key>
<string>display</string>
<key>@0,name</key>
<string>NVDA,Display-A</string>
<key>@1,compatible</key>
<string>NVDA,NVMac</string>
<key>@1,device_type</key>
<string>display</string>
<key>@1,name</key>
<string>NVDA,Display-B</string>
<key>@2,#adress-cells</key>
<string>0x01000000</string>
<key>@2,#size-cells</key>
<string>0x00000000</string>
<key>@2,compatible</key>
<string>NVDA,sensor-parent</string>
<key>@2,device_type</key>
<string>NVDA,gpu-diode</string>
<key>@2,hwctrl-params-version</key>
<string>0x02000000</string>
<key>@2,hwsensor-params-version</key>
<string>0x02000000</string>
<key>@2,name</key>
<string>sensor-parent</string>
<key>@2,reg</key>
<string>0x02000000</string>
<key>NVCAP</key>
<data>
BAAAAAAAAwAMAAAAAAAABwAAAAA=
</data>
<key>NVPM</key>
<data>
AQAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA==
</data>
<key>device_type</key>
<string>NVDA,GeForce</string>
<key>model</key>
<string>NVIDIA GeForce 7600 GS</string>
<key>name</key>
<string>NVDA,Parent</string>
<key>rom-revision</key>
<string>0x32323033</string>
</dict>
</dict>
</plist>

I get:

Code:

./gfxutil: invalid property list xml inputfile 'in.plist.rtf'!

Bollocks.

What could be going wrong here??

[MacPaq]

Did you type exactly as this:
./gfxutil -s -n -v -i hex -o xml in.hex out.plist

If so the in.hex sould be YourFileName.hex

[time ed]

Did you type exactly as this:
./gfxutil -s -n -v -i hex -o xml in.hex out.plist

If so the in.hex sould be YourFileName.hex

You are correct, sir....

[brywalker]

Did you type exactly as this:
./gfxutil -s -n -v -i hex -o xml in.hex out.plist

If so the in.hex sould be YourFileName.hex

Yes. In fact, I copied and pasted directly into terminal. I also renamed the file to in.hex (via mv) to insure that it wasn't something on my end.

I have no idea what could be going wrong unless textedit is playing tricks on me. Maybe I do it all on notepad on the PC and transfer it over.

[mtrr]

do a "file yourinfile" in terminal, I bet you're not using a plaintext file as input. textedit defaults to rtf (AFAIR).

cheers

[MacPaq]

Hi,

Is there a vid card that works for sure with any of these strings or even the inject method? I don't care whether it's a nVidia or Radeon, as long as it's PCIe 16 and  works in dual head 1680x1050 and 1280x1024, I prefer to have one DVI and one VGA, two VGAs  is ok as well. Any recommendation? I don't understand why the ATIRadeon2400Pro is such a PITA as I have read so many posts and there are very few mention about this card

TIA

[MacPaq]

Yes. In fact, I copied and pasted directly into terminal. I also renamed the file to in.hex (via mv) to insure that it wasn't something on my end.

I have no idea what could be going wrong unless textedit is playing tricks on me. Maybe I do it all on notepad on the PC and transfer it over.

cheers

Just a thought, I don't know for sure since I didn't write the gfxutil, it may be using some frameworks from the library, if so then you will need to have xcode installed, d/l free from Appe. One way or the other, it you like to play with OS X, always nice to have xcode handy cause it contains lotta goodies.

[0xdeadbeef]

I have no idea what could be going wrong unless textedit is playing tricks on me. Maybe I do it all on notepad on the PC and transfer it over.

Textedit is a complete fuckup. Use pico or vi in a terminal. Pico is easier.