GFX-Strings

[blackknight]

netkas,

I thought that maybe I was just inputing the string into the boot.plist wrong since it was being wrapped instead of a single line, but that didn't fix the problem. One thing I did notice when looking at the Ioreg is that my graphics card is at PCE2@2 and not 0@0 like others I've seen. Is this info included in the 02010C00'D041030A'00000000'01010600'00010101'06000000'7FFF0400 string?

Thanks.

[netkas]

yeah
change
06000000'7FFF0
to
06000002'7FFF0

[djchaos82]

Hi,

i've got a 8800 GTS with 320MB (MSI 320MB 8800GTS T2D320E-HD OC PCIe)
so i thought that i should be able to get it running with gfx-string.


but it seems that i was wrong, when i insert the gfx-string from http://tinyurl.com/2cuaj all i get is a really distorted (pixelates,
low-res) screen.

it is still working and i can switch resolution but it has no effect,
the screen stats extremly low-res (<640).

any clue what i can do ?

thanks in advance...

PS: Apart from thats, EFI is great, THANKS

i hate to push it, but has anyone a clue whats going on?

if not i will just use the old method, which works fine too...

(using this http://rs283.rapidshare.com/files/73580074/gfx_strings.tar.bz2)

[gotoh]

you need to change the display EDID data in the GFX string you're using...

[netkas]

just remove EDID, so it will detect it

gotoh, do u want to mess around it and create small strings for gf7/8 ?

[time ed]

Ok here it is, very first alpha version.

one more dumb question, sorry -- will this only work with 2600 string?

I get "./gfxutil: invalid property list xml inputfile '7600.bin'!"

with Bob's 7600gt string from the first page

[mcmatrix]

Ok here it is, very first alpha version.

one more dumb question, sorry -- will this only work with 2600 string?

I get "./gfxutil: invalid property list xml inputfile '7600.bin'!"

with Bob's 7600gt string from the first page

This is how prog detects file type, gfxutil reads first 4 bytes and compares it with filesize. If both integers are same then gfxutil will read binary file, if not then util tries load xml plist.
So it is possible that your file is wrong binary, maybe hex or even modified manualy (so that datasize does not match real filesize.)

[lebidou]

Even by modifying the hex file in order to make file lenght and the first 4 bytes gfxutil tells me :

Code:

./gfxutil 7600G1bin 7600G1.plist
readBinary: invalid binary data
./gfxutil: invalid gfx inputfile '7600G1bin'!

four first bytes are F2 09 00 00 (0x09f2 = 2546) and file lenght 2546 bytes

[time ed]

The 7600 sting from first page is 2546 bytes. First four bytes F2090000 == 2546?

[lebidou]

The 7600 sting from first page is 2546 bytes. First four bytes F2090000 == 2546?

That's what Hex Fiend tells

[gotoh]

sure,

even for GMA X3100 now that I have a brand new shining MacBook

just remove EDID, so it will detect it

gotoh, do u want to mess around it and create small strings for gf7/8 ?

[gotoh]

anyone want to try this x3100 edited ?

[gotoh]

edited GeForce GFX strings :

for "any" GeForce 5/6/7/8, using NVCAP from MacBook 7300GT, generic "GeForce" encoded name.
number for each file according to physical VRAM on card, so try and report...

untested yet

[gotoh]

well, does not work here with GeForce 7900...

I'll try with GFX string from 7600GT...

[lebidou]

didn't worked for me too