GFXUtil News & Announcements (v0.71b + src)

[McNasty]

Can't you check the devicestring on the mac pro first?

Unfortunately not. The card was a deal off of Craigslist. I don't currently have a mac pro to test it on.

After some more fooling around I am now able to boot the card with full functionality on both dvi displays with Natit. I used the "ATI Radeon HD 2600XT PciE" installer from lastExile.  However I was hoping to be able to get it to work with efi gfx strings and eventually as a second card to run my third monitor.

After a little poking around in the plist from the Natit install I found that under the "ATI Radeon 2600 Series" it was using "ATY,Lamna" I replaced the "ATY,Hypoprion" and was able to boot to a blue screen but no further.

Maybe I am approaching this wrong. Is there an easier way to get dual graphics cards to work. I really need my third monitor on my OSX side. I have several cards to work with: 8800 GTS 512mb G92, 8800 GTS 320mb G80, 7900 GTX 512mb, and the HD 2600 XT. I have tried several combinations and they all pretty much lock up at login launch.

The only cards I was able to boot together so far was the HD 2600 XT and the 8800 GTS 512 and then only the monitors connected to the 8800 GTS 512 worked. The HD 2600 XT is the only one I can't get working on its own with gfx strings. I figure that I need to get them working on their own before I try to pair them up.

I really appreciate the help.

[sWORDs]

Can't you check the devicestring on the mac pro first?

Unfortunately not. The card was a deal off of Craigslist. I don't currently have a mac pro to test it on.

After some more fooling around I am now able to boot the card with full functionality on both dvi displays with Natit. I used the "ATI Radeon HD 2600XT PciE" installer from lastExile.  However I was hoping to be able to get it to work with efi gfx strings and eventually as a second card to run my third monitor.

After a little poking around in the plist from the Natit install I found that under the "ATI Radeon 2600 Series" it was using "ATY,Lamna" I replaced the "ATY,Hypoprion" and was able to boot to a blue screen but no further.

Maybe I am approaching this wrong. Is there an easier way to get dual graphics cards to work. I really need my third monitor on my OSX side. I have several cards to work with: 8800 GTS 512mb G92, 8800 GTS 320mb G80, 7900 GTX 512mb, and the HD 2600 XT. I have tried several combinations and they all pretty much lock up at login launch.

The only cards I was able to boot together so far was the HD 2600 XT and the 8800 GTS 512 and then only the monitors connected to the 8800 GTS 512 worked. The HD 2600 XT is the only one I can't get working on its own with gfx strings. I figure that I need to get them working on their own before I try to pair them up.

I really appreciate the help.

As far as I knew Framebuffer should be:
x1300 - Caretta
x1600 - Wormy
x1800 - Alopias
x1900 - Alopias
HD2400 - Iago
HD2600 - Hypoprion (Natit uses Lamna)
HD2900 - Franklin (not available in 10.5.3)
HD3400 - Lago
HD3600 - Lamna
HD3800 - Lamna
HD3800X2 - Triakis  (not available in 10.5.3)
I'm not sure where Prionace (not available in 10.5.3) and Spyrna are for.

But for the Macpro http://netkas.org/?p=49

January 27, 2008

New ATI Radeon HD news
January 27th 2008 Posted to ATI
There is few good and funny news
1) MacPro’s Radeon 2600 XT works fine in plain PC.
2) MacPro’s Radeon 2600 XT uses Lamna as framebuffer.
3) we managed to get working unmodified triakis (for 3870/3850) and Lamna (for 2600) , 3870 card even got working sleep
4) There is no more Triakis in 10.5.2 updates, but we have working fine version
5) Releasing natit for it planned after 10.5.2 release, because time is money

[sWORDs]

I've added all Geforce 6/7/8 single GPU cards that I could find

nice sWORDs , thank you 

Why won't you just add the memorysize plist files and auto fill the name by using lspci -s [path] -i [idfile]?

Or lspci -s [path] after putting this this in /usr/local/share.

with old id file:
bash-3.2# lspci -s 01:00.0
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation Unknown device 0421 (rev a1)

new id file:
bash-3.2# lspci -s 01:00.0
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation GeForce 8500 GT (rev a1)

Or:
bash-3.2# lspci -m -nn -s 01:00.0 -v
Device:   01:00.0
Class:   VGA compatible controller [0300]
Vendor:   nVidia Corporation [10de]
Device:   GeForce 8500 GT [0421]
SVendor:   ASUSTeK Computer Inc. [1043]
SDevice:   Unknown device [8264]
Rev:   a1

[sWORDs]

~pcwiz pm'ed about an error with 32, 64 and 128 mb cards which sometimes occured. I've found the mistake and changed all 32, 64 and 128 mb cards. Here's the new version.

[kd-hackin]

stupid question, i used efi studio and have graphics working great, but am havingg problems with audio, once i delete the injector but leave the patched hda kext i lose audio, i checked the paths efi studio used and they were correct, any ideas?  audio is rlt268.  Do i need to edit something on the hda kext?  Also how do i tell if my ethernet efi string is working, ethernet worked out of box but was told if i wanted to use time machine had to do efi string so would like to test incase i ever decide to use.  Thanks for the help and great programs
kev

[SkipG]

stupid question, i used efi studio and have graphics working great, but am havingg problems with audio, once i delete the injector but leave the patched hda kext i lose audio, i checked the paths efi studio used and they were correct, any ideas?  audio is rlt268.  Do i need to edit something on the hda kext?  Also how do i tell if my ethernet efi string is working, ethernet worked out of box but was told if i wanted to use time machine had to do efi string so would like to test incase i ever decide to use.  Thanks for the help and great programs
kev

Which audio? Are you using the HDAenabler?

Ethernet string only adds string for builtin = yes. Check your system log for UUID related errors. I have about 15 of them at boot, but none after that. Eliminating the error is the goal, and it can be eliminated by patching IONetworkingFamily or by including the builtin=0x01 string. Without the fix, you'll get a UUID error every time a program launches.

[kd-hackin]

audio is 268, patched with patcher"taruga" then deleted alcinject and loaded hdaenabler.  then wrote efi strings, deleted hdaenabler and lose sound

[sWORDs]

audio is 268, patched with patcher"taruga" then deleted alcinject and loaded hdaenabler.  then wrote efi strings, deleted hdaenabler and lose sound

EFI Studio does not create correct audio hex, besides that, using devicestrings for audio is pointless if your codec and pinout isn't in applehda.

[kd-hackin]

audio is 268, patched with patcher"taruga" then deleted alcinject and loaded hdaenabler.  then wrote efi strings, deleted hdaenabler and lose sound

EFI Studio does not create correct audio hex, besides that, using devicestrings for audio is pointless if your codec and pinout isn't in applehda.

what info is the patcher changing in the hda kext then?  i thought the efi string was to replace the injector, not the patched hda kext, is 268 not supported? don't really understand what you are saying? do i need to input some info from my linux dump to make the efi string correctly?  Please help thanks
kev

[poldi]

Hello netkas,

nice thing thi EFI studio!! But unfortunately it does not work for me :-((.

Here is what i did:

-installed Leo4all Version 2 (because with this my ASUS 8600 GT 512 MB runs with drivers from installation DVD)
- tested QE/CI with the onDVD drivers -> worked!
- then updated to 10.5.3 -> QE/CI has gone as expected.
- removed of course nvinject.kext, natit was not installed.
- tried both EFI string from EFI studio and generated myself the string with instructions of zeph's wiki page -> QE / CI did NOT   come back
- i installed EFI v8 from within EFI Studio and restarted system with -f -> no success :-(

I did not update the kernel, so i am still on default speedstep 9.2.0

the only thing i have is res change, but nothing more.
- I replaced prior the AppleSMBios to get rid of the "about this mac" crash. I believe this cannot be the culprit.
- 10.5.4 i did not try anymore, since i lost after that my docking bar and the fix by rogue did not change the situation.

The strange thing is, after adding MY EFI string to boot.plist the sys profiler showed my ASUS 8600 GT as 256 MB version?!??

Maybe u or someone else have a tipp?? I attached my string to this post.

Can somebody try that and report?

Still thanks very much for the good work!

cheers


 



 

[kd-hackin]

Hello netkas,

nice thing thi EFI studio!! But unfortunately it does not work for me :-((.

Here is what i did:

-installed Leo4all Version 2 (because with this my ASUS 8600 GT 512 MB runs with drivers from installation DVD)
- tested QE/CI with the onDVD drivers -> worked!
- then updated to 10.5.3 -> QE/CI has gone as expected.
- removed of course nvinject.kext, natit was not installed.
- tried both EFI string from EFI studio and generated myself the string with instructions of zeph's wiki page -> QE / CI did NOT   come back
- i installed EFI v8 from within EFI Studio and restarted system with -f -> no success :-(

I did not update the kernel, so i am still on default speedstep 9.2.0

the only thing i have is res change, but nothing more.
- I replaced prior the AppleSMBios to get rid of the "about this mac" crash. I believe this cannot be the culprit.
- 10.5.4 i did not try anymore, since i lost after that my docking bar and the fix by rogue did not change the situation.

The strange thing is, after adding MY EFI string to boot.plist the sys profiler showed my ASUS 8600 GT as 256 MB version?!??

Maybe u or someone else have a tipp?? I attached my string to this post.

Can somebody try that and report?

Still thanks very much for the good work!

cheers


 to make sure the efi string took, just look at about this mac and see what the rom says, you lost qe/ci during the upgrade nothing to do with efi strings.  To get back qe/ci open pacifist from applications, then open the nvinstaller package, and authorize root, then reinstall only the needed kext from pacifist and all video will be back



 

[websrvr]

I believe a lot of the issues could be resolved if the source for natit and gfxutil was available to help you figure things out.

The problem with that is netkas isn't making the sources available so you have to rely on him figure it out for you.

Personally I dread the though of relying on netkas to resolve things in a timely manner, the ATI DVI issue is still unresolved for more than a year now and as he stated, he has no intentions of fixing it so until it is released this will never be resolved.

[websrvr]

Try these paths: Acpi(PNP0A03,0)/Pci(0x1e,0)/Pci(0,0)/Pci(0,0) or Acpi(PNP0A03,0)/Pci(0x1e,0)/Pci(0,0)

efi shothand notation reference:
http://forum.netkas.org/index.php/topic,64.msg851.html#msg851

I tried using the latest version of gfxutil (0.6b) but it kept crashing using the device paths you suggested. So, I tired the two you gave as examples in the first post. The one which begins "PciRoot(0x0)/P" works and produces a hex output file. The other example, which looks like the two you suggested I try, failed with the following error:

bash-3.2# ./gfxutil -v -s -n -i xml -o hex ./timeMachine.plist ./timeMachine.hex
GFX Data: filesize=56
GFX Data: numofblocks=1

 Header: blocksize=44
 Header: records=1
UnpackDevicePath: Probably a bogus device path
Assertion failed: (UnpackDevPath != NULL), function ConvertDevicePathToText, file /Users/fox/Desktop/Projects/gfxutil/efidevp.c, line 1039.
Abort trap
bash-3.2#

Both of the strings you suggested for me failed with the same error.

I have attached the input ./timeMachine.plist file. Please tell me if I am using gfxutil incorrectly or the input plist file is bad.

Code:

void * ConvertDevicePathToText(int a1, char a2, char a3)
{
  void *v3;
  int v4;
  void *v5;
  void *v6;
  int v7;
  int v8 = ' ';
  int v9 = ' ';
  int v10 = ' ';
  int v11;
  int v12;
  void *v13;
  void *v15;
  size_t v16;
  char v17;
  char v18;
  void *v19;

  v3 = 0;
  v4 = a1;
  v17 = a2;
  v18 = a3;
  if ( a1 )
  {
    v5 = calloc(0x1000u, 1u);
    v15 = UnpackDevicePath(v4);
    v6 = v15;
    v19 = v15;
    if ( v15 )
    {
      while ( 1 )
      {
        v12 = *(_BYTE *)v6 & 0x7F;
        if ( v12 == 127 )
        {
          if ( *((_BYTE *)v6 + 1) == -1 )
            break;
        }
        v11 = 0;
        v10 = 28772;
        while ( *(_DWORD *)v10 )
        {
          if ( v12 == *(_BYTE *)(v10 - 4) && *((_BYTE *)v6 + 1) == *(_BYTE *)(v10 - 3) )
          {
            v9 = *(_DWORD *)&stru_7064[v11].anonymous_0;
            if ( v9 )
              goto LABEL_12;
            break;
          }
          ++v11;
          v10 += 8;
        }
        v9 = 21482;
LABEL_12:
        if ( *(_BYTE *)v5 )
        {
          if ( v9 != 21466 )
          {
            if ( *((_BYTE *)v5 + strlen((const char *)v5) - 1) != 44 )
              CatPrintf((int)v5, 28399);
          }
        }
        ((int (__cdecl *)(void *, void *, _DWORD, _DWORD))v9)(v5, v6, v17, v18);
        v6 = (char *)v6 + ((*((_BYTE *)v6 + 3) << 8) | *((_BYTE *)v6 + 2));
      }
      free(v19);
      v16 = strlen((const char *)v5);
      v13 = realloc(v5, v16 + 1);
      v3 = v13;
      if ( v13 )
        goto LABEL_22;
      v8 = 27821;
      v7 = 829;
    }
    else
    {
      v8 = 28377;
      v7 = 787;
    }
    __assert_rtn("ConvertDevicePathToText", "/Users/fox/Desktop/Projects/gfxutil/efidevp.c", v7, (const char *)v8);
LABEL_22:
    *((_BYTE *)v3 + strlen((const char *)v13)) = 0;
  }
  return v3;
}

[fmac]

Hello netkas,

nice thing thi EFI studio!! But unfortunately it does not work for me :-((.

Here is what i did:

-installed Leo4all Version 2 (because with this my ASUS 8600 GT 512 MB runs with drivers from installation DVD)
- tested QE/CI with the onDVD drivers -> worked!
- then updated to 10.5.3 -> QE/CI has gone as expected.
- removed of course nvinject.kext, natit was not installed.
- tried both EFI string from EFI studio and generated myself the string with instructions of zeph's wiki page -> QE / CI did NOT   come back
- i installed EFI v8 from within EFI Studio and restarted system with -f -> no success :-(

I did not update the kernel, so i am still on default speedstep 9.2.0

the only thing i have is res change, but nothing more.
- I replaced prior the AppleSMBios to get rid of the "about this mac" crash. I believe this cannot be the culprit.
- 10.5.4 i did not try anymore, since i lost after that my docking bar and the fix by rogue did not change the situation.

The strange thing is, after adding MY EFI string to boot.plist the sys profiler showed my ASUS 8600 GT as 256 MB version?!??

Maybe u or someone else have a tipp?? I attached my string to this post.

Can somebody try that and report?

Still thanks very much for the good work!

cheers


 



 

Hi poldi

I am  siiting here on a hackintosh with a Foxconn 8600 GTS 256 MB, running 10.5.4
my first efi string from efistudio did not work (only 1024x768 no ci/qe)
then i found the last version of efistudio here in this forum (from 10.July)
and now is it working (all resolutions, ci, qe, and rotation)
here is the string I´m using

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

[lilos]

Anyone know where I can find an EFI String for a ATI Radeon HD 2600 XT 256MB?

Use EFISTUDIO and select HD 2400 - 256 mb and replace Iago with Hypoprion and rename 2400 to 2600 XT.

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>!!!!PUTYOURCORRECTPATHHERE!!!!</key>
<dict>
<key>@0,AAPL,boot-display</key>
<data>
AQAAAA==
</data>
<key>@0,ATY,EFIDisplay</key>
<string>TMDSA</string>
<key>@0,VRAM,memsize</key>
<data>
AAAAEAAAABA=
</data>
<key>@0,compatible</key>
<string>ATY,Hypoprion</string>
<key>@0,connector-type</key>
<data>
BAAAAA==
</data>
<key>@0,device_type</key>
<string>display</string>
<key>@0,display-connect-flags</key>
<data>
AAAEAA==
</data>
<key>@0,display-type</key>
<string>LCD</string>
<key>@0,name</key>
<string>ATY,Hypoprion</string>
<key>@1,VRAM,memsize</key>
<data>
AAAAAAAAABA=
</data>
<key>@1,compatible</key>
<string>ATY,Hypoprion</string>
<key>@1,connector-type</key>
<data>
AAIAAA==
</data>
<key>@1,device_type</key>
<string>display</string>
<key>@1,display-type</key>
<string>NONE</string>
<key>@1,name</key>
<string>ATY,Hypoprion</string>
<key>AAPL,EMC-Display-List</key>
<data>
AwAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAYQAAAbkgAAAAAAAAAAAAAG
EAAAHJIAAAAAAAAAAAAABhAAACGSAAAAAAAAAAAAAA==
</data>
<key>AAPL,aux-power-connected</key>
<data>
AQAAAA==
</data>
<key>AAPL,backlight-control</key>
<data>
AAAAAA==
</data>
<key>AAPL00,blackscreen-preferences</key>
<data>
AAAACA==
</data>
<key>AAPL01,Coherency</key>
<data>
AgAAAA==
</data>
<key>AAPL01,blackscreen-preferences</key>
<data>
AAAACA==
</data>
<key>ATY,Card#</key>
<string>109-B148xx-00</string>
<key>ATY,Copyright</key>
<string>Copyright AMD Inc. All Rights Reserved. 2005-2008</string>
<key>ATY,EFICompileDate</key>
<string>Dec 18 2007</string>
<key>ATY,EFIDriverType</key>
<data>
Ag==
</data>
<key>ATY,EFIEnabledMode</key>
<data>
Ag==
</data>
<key>ATY,EFIHWInitStatus</key>
<data>
AAAAAAAAAAA=
</data>
<key>ATY,EFIOrientation</key>
<data>
AQ==
</data>
<key>ATY,EFIVersion</key>
<data>
MDEuMDAuMjM2AA==
</data>
<key>ATY,EFIVersionBios</key>
<string>113-B14801-023</string>
<key>ATY,FrameBufferOffset</key>
<data>
AAAAAIAAAAA=
</data>
<key>ATY,HWGPIO</key>
<data>
I6hIAA==
</data>
<key>ATY,IOSpaceOffset</key>
<data>
AAAAAAAAIAA=
</data>
<key>ATY,MCLK</key>
<data>
ADUMAA==
</data>
<key>ATY,MRT</key>
<string></string>
<key>ATY,MemRevisionID</key>
<data>
AQA=
</data>
<key>ATY,MemVendorID</key>
<data>
BgA=
</data>
<key>ATY,PCIConfigSpace</key>
<data>
AhCIlQcAEAAAAAADQAAAAAwAAIAAAAAABACikAAAAAAB
IAAAAAAAAAAAAABrEKYAAACgkFAAAAAAAAAAAAEAAAAA
AAAAAAAAAAAAAGsQpgABWAMGAAAAABCgEQCgjwAAEAgA
AAINAAhCAAIRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
AAAAAAIAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAUAgAAA
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA==
</data>
<key>ATY,PlatformInfo</key>
<data>
AQAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA=
</data>
<key>ATY,RefCLK</key>
<data>
jAoAAA==
</data>
<key>ATY,RegisterSpaceOffset</key>
<data>
AAAAAJCiAAA=
</data>
<key>ATY,Rom#</key>
<string>113-B1480A-236</string>
<key>ATY,SCLK</key>
<data>
YK4KAA==
</data>
<key>ATY,VendorID</key>
<data>
AhA=
</data>
<key>MVAD</key>
<data>
PlyCAP+QAMoAAAAAAAAAAHwukAYwBzAAIAAaBDgEAwAG
ABoEkAYAAQAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA==
</data>
<key>device_type</key>
<string>ATY,HypoprionParent</string>
<key>model</key>
<string>ATI Radeon HD 2600 XT</string>
<key>name</key>
<string>ATY,HypoprionParent</string>
</dict>
</dict>
</plist>

I'll add 1300, 1600, 1800, 1900, 2400, 2600, 2900, 3400 and 3800 ATI cards to EFISTUDIO one off these days.

I was make saphire2600XT string from your plist with my PciRoot and only get blue screen at login.
My card working fine with Natit.What i can take from natit and put it on plsit file ?