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[YoYelloW]

i disabled gfxenabler and used another aticonfig, thats why it didnt work probly, but im wondering why you use hoolock, what make and model of teh card do you have?

[jamdox]

I have the MSI R5770 "Hawk".  A standard 5770 works with Vervet, but the Hawk has a different port layout; Hoolock is the Apple 5770 personality, and the kext plist has flags which enable displayport with it.  So I basically took the Vervet framebuffer, with a couple changes, and put it into Hoolock.  This takes care of the ghost display and enables displayport.

[YoYelloW]

so what ports do u have? i got 1dvi 1 hdmi and 1 display port

[jamdox]

That's what I have.  The reference layout has 2 DVI ports, which matches Vervet.

[YoYelloW]

OK got it working now, since i have the exact same card i used your settings and kext and now its all good

[jamdox]

Sweet!

[jamdox]

Here's my 10.8.2 version

Attached Files

•  ATI5000Controller.kext.zip   102.85K   87 downloads

[YoYelloW]

jamdox, on 20 September 2012 - 11:20 PM, said:

Here's my 10.8.2 version

fecking awesome, i came back to this post just to see if the problem was fixed and u already have the kext and all, thanks man

[miomika]

I have Ati Radeon 4670 and that *phuKin ghost monitor. Last few days I literally try everything, but I cannot get rid of ghost VGA display. I tried all your instruction here, but..no luck. Any chance to someone help me here...maybe tallest if he still drops bye here. PLS....HELP!!

[jamdox]

That's a whole different card.  You'll have to look on the first page and follow links to the different posts which tell you how to edit your framebuffer personalities.  Good luck.

[Lord Kamina]

Can somebody perhaps help me? I've got an XFX 5570. I've tried pretty much all personalities and the only ones that can match my DVI at all are Langur and Alouatta. Both detect it as "Display port" though, Langur also gives me a ghost and Alouatta doesn't.

Any edit I have tried to make to the kext, using the methods described in the first few posts, result in my computer not loading the kext at all anymore and my card not being recognized. Would anybody happen to know what I'm doing wrong? I assume it has to do with the way I'm patching the kext...

[jamdox]

If the patched kexts load but the ones you patch yourself don't, that probably suggests you're doing something wrong.  It's a long process with many steps that can go wrong, so I'd go to the links that Tallest left, and also search out those other posts which also go over framebuffer editing in detail.  I also remember, one time, forgetting "notrunc" at the end of the dd command writing the edited personality back into the kext.  This truncated the kext which naturally trashed it.

But I'm not sure the 5750 is supported at all...  I'd definitely search around.

[NOAEL]

hi,
did somebody patch 10.7.5 ATI5000Controller.kext ? please share it or can somebody explain how to edit the dsdt
thanks

[NOAEL]

axm, on 15 May 2012 - 02:48 PM, said:

Ok, now I managed to do the kext changes...

Here is the Kext, based on the original 10.7.4 Kext, but without the ghost VGA display.

hi axm,
have you maybe made a version for osx 10.7.5 ?
please help me i was stupid and did update now i can not use dvd and other important software.

or if anybody did the modification for the msi hawk and osx 10.7.5 please share it.

thank you and greetings

[jamdox]

Ugh.  I don't really have time to do the 10.7.5 drivers.  I'll attach the edited framebuffer.  You'll want to follow Tallest's instructions and instead of editing, just skip to the end and write the attached framebuffer into the 10.7.5 kext to the Hoolock location the ati personality.pl script says, then boot with Hoolock.

So you'll run the script, find the location for Hoolock, then type "dd if=Hoolock.new of=... ... count=48 seek= [HOOLOCK LOCATION HERE] ...

Hopefully this is enough to go on!

I'm also attaching an UNTESTED 10.8.3 kext.  Good luck, all.

Attached Files

•  Hoolock.new.zip   199bytes   7 downloads
•  ATI5000Controller.kext.zip   654.14K   11 downloads

[NOAEL]

thanks jamdox

will try tomorrow. hope to get it working.

if somebody is able to make the kext edit it would be grate.

if i will fix it i will share it.

greetings

[YoYelloW]

Gents, i got this weird problem now.. started before update but continued after 10.8.3, sleep is not workign anymore, and i suspect the gfx card has something to do with it. Also, my display is seen as a vga (again) this wasnt before,  have to set resolution manual Also, games like starcraft2 dont work in fullscreen anymore, i just get a black screen. windowed works.


Funny thing is while writing this it occurs to me that it might be that the mac thinks the screen i use now is the secondary screen..l ill be testing a few things with that.

EDIT:  hurr soo yea i properly reisntalled the ati5000 kext and screen works fine again, games running smooth and all, only sleep aint going well. its going down properly, but waking up its actually rebooting, guess thats something else then

maybe time for some new hardware, desperatly waiting for hasswell stuffs...