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[Serpentza]

I've managed to get full resolution with QE & CI on the 2185dx. Both VGA and HDMI working.

Thanks to smartie77 (used his shrike patcher and kexts) and Misha Vakulich (for the shrike personalities he posted in mucha's thread).

Attached are the kexts I used with instructions.

Attached Files

•  4650m.zip   707.64K   118 downloads

[Lordadmiral Drake]

Does your internal screen work correctly too? And which OS X version do you use?

[Serpentza]

Internal screen works 100%. Using snow leopard 10.6.6.

[Lordadmiral Drake]

Hmm. then I should try this out as my internal screen is distorted

EDIT: I'm on 10.6.7, do you think the kexts will also work there?

[Serpentza]

It should. I think all the dv7 laptops use the same info for internal screen. The shrike personalities i used from Misha worked 100% and he has a different model. I patched the shrike info into both ATI4600 and ATIframebuffer.

[Lordadmiral Drake]

I installed your ATY_Init.kext and LegacyATI4600.kext, no change.

[Francesco Diaz]

Doesn't work :/

[Serpentza]

@ Lordadmiral Drake - Did you install my ATIframebuffer and ATI4600 ?

[chrisys32]

i can confirm this as working. i installed 10.6.6 today, used kext installer to install kexts to s/l/e and e/e according to instructions and replaced boot plist. works flawlessly. front row, quicktime, transparent menu bar... everything you wish i guess it just doesnt work on 10.6.7. thanks Serpentza, you finally made this working! qe ci on dv7 1600x900, i've been dreaming about this day. if you want i can take some proof pics and upload them tomorrow. anyways.. keep the good things coming, good night

[Lordadmiral Drake]

Serpentza, on 08 March 2012 - 07:16 AM, said:

@ Lordadmiral Drake - Did you install my ATIframebuffer and ATI4600 ?

Not yet, but I will now, as I've finished my first playthrough of Mass Effect 3

[boombari]

chrisys32, on 11 March 2012 - 11:07 PM, said:

i can confirm this as working. i installed 10.6.6 today, used kext installer to install kexts to s/l/e and e/e according to instructions and replaced boot plist. works flawlessly. front row, quicktime, transparent menu bar... everything you wish i guess it just doesnt work on 10.6.7. thanks Serpentza, you finally made this working! qe ci on dv7 1600x900, i've been dreaming about this day. if you want i can take some proof pics and upload them tomorrow. anyways.. keep the good things coming, good night

Hi chrisys,

can u explain me your hardware, and the correct sequence of installation ... updates, combos, etc ?

[Yudistira]

anyone try ML 10.8.2 QE/CI on Hp DV7 2185dx ? this kext can't works on M.L 10.8.2.

[Yudistira]

After I did a research I can make it this qe/ci works on

HP DV7 2185dx - 4650m

using Mountan Lion 10.8.2 , thanks to   Serpentza and smartie77 .

1. I'm installing Hazard 10.6.6i without choose any VGA kext
2. I follow Sepentza guidance to install 4650m.zip
3. hazaed 10.6,61 Qe/Ci works perfect
4. I go to S/L/E and copy all ATI*.kext including all ATIRadeon*.kext to usb drive
5. Install Mountain Lion 10.8.2
6.  I follow Sepentza guidance to install 4650m.zip in Mountain Lion 10.8.2
7. Using kext utility I install (replace) all ATI*.kext from the usb drive (that I copied all ATI*.kext there) to S/L/E
8. Restart the mountain Lion
9. Chack on AboutThis Mac/More Info/System report/Graphics/Displays, you can see that Mountain Lion recognised the VGA as ATI Radeon HD 46000 with Vram 1024 MB

8]Chipset Model: ATI Radeon HD 4600

8]  Type: GPU

8]  Bus: PCIe

8]  Slot: Slot-1

8]  PCIe Lane Width: x16

8]  VRAM (Total): 1024 MB

8]  Vendor: ATI (0x1002)

8]  Device ID: 0x9480

8]  Revision ID: 0x0000

8]  ROM Revision: 113-B1480A-236

8]  EFI Driver Version: 01.00.236

8]  Displays:

65]Display:

65]  Resolution: 1600 x 900

65]  Pixel Depth: 32-Bit Color (ARGB8888)

65]  Main Display: Yes

65]  Mirror: Off

65]  Online: Yes

65]  Built-In: Yes

I you don't want to install Hazard 10.6.6i first and just make it faster with installing Mountain Lion directly and follow step 5 , and using all the ATI*.kext please ask me for the files and I will inform you the location file you can download.