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[netkas]

woot, reversed it and it works, it dumps bios via mmio, dword by dword.

[dong]

netkas, on May 15 2009, 10:38 AM, said:

woot, reversed it and it works, it dumps bios via mmio, dword by dword.

Great to know it works. Now almost done with ATI_Init.

[nami]

Could you explain what  that means for non-experienced users?  What it will allow us to do ?

[dong]

Check netkas.org for what ATI_Init does for.

For framebuffer driver, not yet.

[somorastik]

How is the framebuffer project looking? Will it be finished soon?
Thanks for hard work.

[ole2]

dong, on May 15 2009, 09:27 PM, said:

Great to know it works. Now almost done with ATI_Init.

hello Dong
it's a bit unclear for me, how ATOMBIOS able to run in protected mode in a virtual session.
is it not restricted to real mode only when system boot's up?
but anyway, thanks for real move toward porting framebuffer.
we definitely need somebody staying with the project as a maintainer/main developer.
thanks again

[dong]

Well, I guess real mode is required for card POST by VESA method. For ATOMBIOS, it's used all through the video driver, thus not restricted by this.

[netkas]

real mode part is using atombios too

[somorastik]

Any progress guys?

We have tons of mobile 34xx users to test out.

Applehacker actualy managed to get proper resouliton on his toshiba in safe mode.

[ole2]

hello Dong, Netkas

after researching 4 ATI laptops (HP, Samsung, ASUS, Toshiba) and discovery absence of universal ATI mobility drivers on AMD/ATI web, just came to confirmation on Slice statement about "manufacture card personality".

other words to say, Mobility chips on top of original content similar to PCI/AGP/PCIx card based chips, contain highly configurable FPGA matrix (they call it integrational ASIC). this sub-section of Mobility chip designed to simplify hardware integration for laptops side equipment (to avoid PCI bus use, when it's not mandatory, but to provide extra but direct capabilities, like SATA or HD Audio gateways, or something else). Such ASIC has no internal memory (as usual in all designs), neither have BIOS settings stored (quite often) for side equipment and non-VESA modes configuration/routing. And so, require ASIC registers settings to be applied before active graphics operations starts. So far ASIC settings information (at least in current approach) described in WinXP/Vista drivers (.inf files), named as "manufacture specific", and to which ATI/AMD redirects if you are looking for ATI Mobility driver on ATI/AMD site (they, integrators, play safe, so not re-writing Windows driver programming DLL's, but making a list of settings inside of .inf).
I believe establishing/development ".inf file parser/ASIC configurator" should help to address "magics" of mobility cards and tons of requests from other people, wondering "why mobility are not working?".

the short answer is: on power-up time, Mobility aren't connected properly into Laptop hardware, they have to be re-wired to let them work properly and this re-wiring is done by ASIC programming (setting register values, triggering ASIC blocks to be proper connected).

what do you think?

[Nick14]

ole2, on Jul 30 2009, 08:12 AM, said:

hello Dong, Netkas

after researching 4 ATI laptops (HP, Samsung, ASUS, Toshiba) and discovery absence of universal ATI mobility drivers on AMD/ATI web, just came to confirmation on Slice statement about "manufacture card personality".

other words to say, Mobility chips on top of original content similar to PCI/AGP/PCIx card based chips, contain highly configurable FPGA matrix (they call it integrational ASIC). this sub-section of Mobility chip designed to simplify hardware integration for laptops side equipment (to avoid PCI bus use, when it's not mandatory, but to provide extra but direct capabilities, like SATA or HD Audio gateways, or something else). Such ASIC has no internal memory (as usual in all designs), neither have BIOS settings stored (quite often) for side equipment and non-VESA modes configuration/routing. And so, require ASIC registers settings to be applied before active graphics operations starts. So far ASIC settings information (at least in current approach) described in WinXP/Vista drivers (.inf files), named as "manufacture specific", and to which ATI/AMD redirects if you are looking for ATI Mobility driver on ATI/AMD site (they, integrators, play safe, so not re-writing Windows driver programming DLL's, but making a list of settings inside of .inf).
I believe establishing/development ".inf file parser/ASIC configurator" should help to address "magics" of mobility cards and tons of requests from other people, wondering "why mobility are not working?".

the short answer is: on power-up time, Mobility aren't connected properly into Laptop hardware, they have to be re-wired to let them work properly and this re-wiring is done by ASIC programming (setting register values, triggering ASIC blocks to be proper connected).

what do you think?

I didn't get all of that but doesn't The manufacturer just rebrand the card with there own Specific Vendor ID ?

[kounelos]

Works great with my 2600XT and retail mac drivers on 10.5.6 - 10.5.7.
Would be nice though if i could add my card to my DSDT.aml since it is working with retail drivers.

[ole2]

I mean settings like following:

[ati2mtag_Mobile_SoftwareDeviceSettings]
HKR,, DALRULE_LCDSHOWRESOLUTIONCHANGEMESSAGE, %REG_DWORD%, 0
HKR,, DALRULE_GETLCDFAKEEDID, %REG_DWORD%, 1
HKR,, DisableEnumAllChilds,        %REG_DWORD%,    0
HKR,, DALRULE_SETMODEAFTERPOWERSTATECHANGE, %REG_DWORD%, 0
HKR,, DALRULE_USEOLDPOWERPLAYINTERFACE,               %REG_DWORD%,    0
HKR,, DALRULE_USEOLDPOWERPLAYPROPERTYPAGE,               %REG_DWORD%,    0
HKR,, DALRULE_WADSUPPORT,    %REG_DWORD%,    1
HKR,, GCORULE_WADSUPPORT,   %REG_DWORD%,    1
HKR,, DALRULE_NOFORCEBOOT,       %REG_DWORD%,    0
HKR,, DALOPTION_MinResBCD,  %REG_BINARY%, 00,00,00,00,00,00,00,60
HKR,, ExtEvent_EnableADCLogicalMapping,      %REG_DWORD%,    1

or like following:

[ati2mtag_RS780M_SoftwareDeviceSettings]
HKR,, DALRULE_NOTVANDLCDONCRTC,             %REG_DWORD%,    1
HKR,, WmAgpMaxIdleClk,     %REG_DWORD%,    0x20
HKR,, DisableIDCT,                          %REG_DWORD%,    0
HKLM,"SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run",ATIModeChange,,"Ati2mdxx.exe"
HKR,, DALR6 CRT_MaxModeInfo,                  %REG_BINARY%,00,00,00,00,40,06,00,00,B0,04,00,00,00,00,00,00,3C,00,00,00
HKR,, DisableFullAdapterInit,      %REG_DWORD%,    0
HKR,, MemInitLatencyTimer,         %REG_DWORD%,    0x775771BF
HKR,, GCORULE_FlickerWA,             %REG_DWORD%, 1
HKR,, SMOOTHVISION_NAME, %REG_SZ%, "SMOOTHVISION HD"
HKR,, GI_DEF, %REG_SZ%, 1
HKR,, AreaAniso_DEF, %REG_SZ%, 0
HKR,, VIDEO_NAME_SUFFIX, %REG_SZ%, "Avivo™"
HKR,, SameOnAllUsingStandardInVideoTheaterCloneMode, %REG_SZ%, "1"
HKR,, ASTT_DEF, %REG_SZ%, 0
HKR,, ASD_DEF, %REG_SZ%, 1
HKR,, 3to2Pulldown, %REG_SZ%, 0
HKR,, 3to2Pulldown_DEF, %REG_SZ%, 0
HKR,, 3to2Pulldown_NA, %REG_SZ%, 0
HKR,, GI_NA, %REG_SZ%, 1
HKR,, AntiAliasMapping_SET,  %REG_SZ%, "0(0:0,1:0) 2(0:2,1:2) 4(0:4,1:4) 8(0:8,1:8,2:16)"
HKR,, AAF_NA, %REG_SZ%, 0
HKR,, AreaAniso_NA, %REG_SZ%, "1"
HKR,, AAF_DEF, %REG_SZ%, 0
HKR,, AAF_Value_SET, %REG_SZ%, "Box:0,Narrow-tent:1,Wide-tent:2"
HKR,, AAF_Mapping_SET, %REG_SZ%, "0(Box:2,Narrow-tent:4,Wide-tent:6) 2(Box:2,Narrow-tent:4,Wide-tent:6) 4(Box:4,Narrow-tent:6,Wide-tent:8) 8(Box:8,Narrow-tent:12,Wide-tent:16)"
HKR,, Detail, %REG_SZ%, "0"
HKR,, Detail_DEF, %REG_SZ%, "0"
HKR,, Detail_DE_MIN, %REG_SZ%, "1"
HKR,, Detail_DE_MAX, %REG_SZ%, "100"
HKR,, Denoise, %REG_SZ%, "64"
HKR,, Denoise_DEF, %REG_SZ%, "64"
HKR,, Denoise_DE_MIN, %REG_SZ%, "1"
HKR,, Denoise_DE_MAX, %REG_SZ%, "100"
HKR,, ColorVibrance, %REG_SZ%, "0"
HKR,, ColorVibrance_DEF, %REG_SZ%, "0"
HKR,, ColorVibrance_DE_MIN, %REG_SZ%, "1"
HKR,, ColorVibrance_DE_MAX, %REG_SZ%, "100"
HKR,, Fleshtone, %REG_SZ%, "0"
HKR,, Fleshtone_DEF, %REG_SZ%, "0"
HKR,, Fleshtone_DE_MIN, %REG_SZ%, "1"
HKR,, Fleshtone_DE_MAX, %REG_SZ%, "100"
HKR,, ColorVibrance_NA, %REG_SZ%, "1"
HKR,, Fleshtone_NA, %REG_SZ%, "1"
HKR,, DALNonStandardModesBCD1, %REG_BINARY%,12,80,07,20,00,16,00,60,12,80,07,20,00,32,00,60,12,80,07,68,00,16,00,60,12,80,0
7,68,00,16,00,75,12,80,07,68,00,16,00,85,12,80,07,68,00,32,00,60,12,80,07,68,00,3
2,00,75,12,80,07,68,00,32,00,85
HKR,, DALNonStandardModesBCD2, %REG_BINARY%,12,80,08,00,00,16,00,60,12,80,08,00,00,32,00,60,14,00,10,50,00,00,00,60
HKR,, DALRestrictedModesBCD1, %REG_BINARY%,11,52,08,64,00,00,00,00
HKR,, DisableDualView,                 %REG_DWORD%,    0
HKR,, DisableDualviewWithHotKey,    %REG_DWORD%,    1
HKR,, ExtEvent_EnablePolling,      %REG_DWORD%,    1
HKR,, ExtEvent_BroadcastDispChange,      %REG_DWORD%,    0
HKR,, GCORULE_DisableHotKeyIfDDExclusiveMode,          %REG_DWORD%,    0
HKR,, ExtEvent_LCDSetMaxResOnDockChg,      %REG_DWORD%,    0
HKR,, GCORULE_DisableGPIOPowerSaveMode,   %REG_DWORD%,    1
HKR,, DALRULE_NOCRTANDDFPONSAMECONTROLLER,      %REG_DWORD%,    1
HKR,, GCORULE_IntTMDSReduceBlankTiming,      %REG_DWORD%,    0
HKR,, TVDisableModes,   %REG_DWORD%,    0
HKR,, GCORULE_ENABLERMXFILTER, %REG_DWORD%,   1
HKR,, DALRULE_RESTRICT2ACTIVEDISPLAYS,      %REG_DWORD%,    0
HKR,, DALRULE_POWERPLAYOPTIONCOLORDEPTHREDUCTION,      %REG_DWORD%,    0
HKR,, R6LCD_FOLLOWLIDSTATE,   %REG_DWORD%,    0
HKR,, DisableSWInterrupt,          %REG_DWORD%,    1
HKR,, ExtEvent_BIOSEventByInterrupt,      %REG_DWORD%,    0
HKR,, DisableD3DExclusiveModeChange,             %REG_DWORD%,    1
HKR,, DisableOpenGLExclusiveModeChange,             %REG_DWORD%,    1
HKR,, ExtEvent_EnableChgLCDResOnHotKey,                  %REG_DWORD%,    0
HKR,, DisableDalValidateChild,        %REG_DWORD%,    0
HKR,, DALRULE_ENABLESHOWACSLIDER,                  %REG_DWORD%,    1
HKR,, R6LCD_RETURNALLBIOSMODES,              %REG_DWORD%,    0
HKR,, ExtEvent_RestoreLargeDesktopOnResume,      %REG_DWORD%,    0
HKR,, ExtEvent_EnableMpAtLogon,      %REG_DWORD%,    1
HKR,, ExtEvent_EnableMpAtResume,      %REG_DWORD%,    1
HKR,, ExtEvent_EnableMpAtLidSwitch,      %REG_DWORD%,    1
HKR,, ExtEvent_EnableMpAtHotPlug,      %REG_DWORD%,    1
HKR,, ExtEvent_EnableMpAtHotKeyExtEvent,      %REG_DWORD%,    1
HKR,, ExtEvent_ApplyADCAtSBiosRequest,      %REG_DWORD%,    1
HKR,, ExtEvent_NonExtendedADCProfileOnHotKey,      %REG_DWORD%,    1
HKR,, DALRULE_ADDEXTDESKTOPTOPROFILEKEY,      %REG_DWORD%,    1
HKR,, ExtEvent_OverDriveSupport,      %REG_DWORD%,    1
HKR,, DXVA_WMV_DEF,                 %REG_SZ%,    1
HKR,, DXVA_WMV,                 %REG_SZ%,    1
HKR,, DALOPTION_MaxResBCD,                  %REG_BINARY%,   00,00,00,00,00,00,00,85
HKR,,  GXOForceRequestMode,             %REG_DWORD%,    1
HKR,, Gxo50HzTimingSupport,          %REG_DWORD%,    1
HKR,, DisableFBCSupport,      %REG_DWORD%,    1
HKR,, ExtEvent_VideoPlaybackCpuThrottle,        %REG_DWORD%,    0x64
HKR,, DigitalHDTVDefaultUnderscan, %REG_DWORD%, 0
HKR,, DP_EnableSSByDefault,      %REG_DWORD%,    1
HKR,, Main3D_DEF, %REG_SZ%, 3
HKR,, AntiAlias_DEF, %REG_SZ%, 1
HKR,, AntiAliasSamples_DEF, %REG_SZ%, 0
HKR,, AnisoType_DEF, %REG_SZ%, 0
HKR,, AnisoDegree_DEF, %REG_SZ%, 0
HKR,, TextureOpt_DEF, %REG_SZ%, 0
HKR,, TextureLod_DEF, %REG_SZ%, 0
HKR,, TruformMode_DEF, %REG_SZ%, 0
HKR,, VSyncControl_DEF, %REG_SZ%, 1
HKR,, SwapEffect_DEF, %REG_SZ%, 0
HKR,, TemporalAAMultiplier_DEF, %REG_SZ%, 0
HKR,, ExportCompressedTex_DEF, %REG_SZ%, 1
HKR,, PixelCenter_DEF, %REG_SZ%, 0
HKR,, ForceZBufferDepth_DEF, %REG_SZ%, 0
HKR,, EnableTripleBuffering_DEF, %REG_SZ%, 0
HKR,, ColourDesktopGamma_DEF, %REG_SZ%, "1.0 1.0 1.0"
HKR,, ColourDesktopBrightness_DEF, %REG_SZ%, "0 0 0"
HKR,, ColourDesktopContrast_DEF, %REG_SZ%, "1.0 1.0 1.0"
HKR,, ColourFullscreenGamma_DEF, %REG_SZ%, "1.0 1.0 1.0"
HKR,, ColourFullscreenBrightness_DEF, %REG_SZ%, "0 0 0"
HKR,, ColourFullscreenContrast_DEF, %REG_SZ%, "1.0 1.0 1.0"
HKR,, 3D_Refresh_Rate_Override_DEF, %REG_DWORD%, 0
HKR,, Display_Detection_DEF, %REG_DWORD%, 0
HKR,, Panning_Mode_DEF, %REG_DWORD%, 0
HKR,, Mouse_Track_Orientation_DEF, %REG_DWORD%, 1
HKR,, Force_TV_Detection_DEF, %REG_DWORD%, 0
HKR,, CatalystAI_DEF, %REG_SZ%, 1

[roboguy]

is this project dead?

[doof]

roboguy, on Aug 30 2009, 04:36 PM, said:

is this project dead?

Its just restin

[ole2]

ATY_init from iDeneb 1.6 installation (based on 10.5.8) cause system hang (Toshiba A300D with ATI Mobility HD3650 after loading (it's a last line seen on a screen). Processor is AMD.

[ShelaxMac]

Hi Can My ATI 4650 Work With This Script?

[dong]

ole2, on Sep 16 2009, 01:53 AM, said:

ATY_init from iDeneb 1.6 installation (based on 10.5.8) cause system hang (Toshiba A300D with ATI Mobility HD3650 after loading (it's a last line seen on a screen). Processor is AMD.

ShelaxMac, on Oct 13 2009, 02:54 AM, said:

Hi Can My ATI 4650 Work With This Script?

ATY_Init is not a framebuffer driver, so it will not help you on card that are unsupported by vanilla driver. Please test the framebuffer driver that I posted in another topic.

[ole2]

dong, on Oct 15 2009, 05:38 PM, said:

ATY_Init is not a framebuffer driver, so it will not help you on card that are unsupported by vanilla driver. Please test the framebuffer driver that I posted in another topic.

I confirm, and it wasn't expected to act as framebuffer, however, due to ASIC specifics in Mobility editions, I though ATY_Init is a MUST to be present in all laptops.
correct me if I'm wrong.

RadeonHD advanced test has began, any tuning manual as well as "how to get extended output log report" would be appreciated.

Ole2

[hackmymac]

OK, what do I need to do to help this little project along?