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[thehuan]

@finetuned : same thing for me . After insert my EDID & modified all device id with my id 71d51002 , if I only replace ATIinject.kext I get a black screen but system still load properly . But if I replace both ATIinject & ATINDRV.kext , i get a garbage screen & system completly hang .

I try with uphuck 10.4.9 (1.4i) & Leopard (BrazilMac method) , nothing works T_T .

[torpie13]

Hi there,

My laptop is an Asus F3JP with a Mobility x1700 (ID: 0x71D5) 256 M memory (Up to 512M ).

I managed to make my mobility x1700 to work by using righteye's files (From Post 329 ) by changing the EDID and the Device-ID with mine (0x71D5).

So i got the right screen resolution (Yay!!) But the problem now is that QE/CI is not enabled !!!

Is QE/CI relative to ATIinject.kext/Contents/Info.plist or another file ? if it is can u please tell me what field to change in the ATIinject.kext/Contents/Info.plist in order to obtain QE/CI enabled.

I searched in that Topic and in the others but no clue.

BTW: Any one with the mobility x1700 has the QE/CI enabled (you could send me some kext files)

Thanx alot

[thehuan]

@torpie13 : which osx version you are using ?
Can you post your EDID to compare with mine . I am also using F3JP but can't get it to work .
Thanks .

[torpie13]

@torpie13 : which osx version you are using ?
Can you post your EDID to compare with mine . I am also using F3JP but can't get it to work .
Thanks .

I'm using uphuck 1.3 DVD. (Mac osX 1.0.4.9) for my F3JP EDID I'll tell you when i'll be at home (I'm at work).

BTW: Any one've heard a success on QE/CI on a x1700 ???

[finetuned]

OK, managed to get the resolution to 1680x1050 !! This is a real relief for me, because now it least it looks good.

Because I believe there are many people still trying to get their x1700 up and running at a decent resolution, here's a step by step guide of what I did:

(-3. Install Tiger 10.4.5 to a clean HFS+ Partition)
(-2. Don't boot into Tiger after install, but boot from ToH's Leopard DVD and install Leopard over Tiger)

Now for the driver stuff:
I attached all the files I used.
-1. Use Phoenix under Windows to extract your monitor's EDID. Save it as a .dat file, open it with Notepad, remove the stuff around the data and group the data into bits of 8 characters. For me, this was:

00FFFFFF FFFFFF00 244D8728 00000000 000F0103 80211578 0ABCA598 58558B28 24505400 00000101 01010101 01010101 01010101 0101A82F 90E0601A 10402040 13004BCF 10000019 B72790E0 601A1040 20401300 4BCF1000 00190000 000F00B3 0A32B30A 28140100 320C0000 000000FE 004C5031 35345730 322D544C 3036007F<BR>

Save it to a place you can load it in OSX and name it EDID.txt or something like that.

0. Download the files and install Property List Editor and Kexthelper.
1. In Leopard, I used Finder to extract the zip of the files, then go to downloads (stack from the dock) and open the ATiMRx1700 folder.
2. Right-click the ATIinject.kext file > show package contents
3. Click Contents, then Right-click Info.plist > open with > Propery List Editor (default).
4. Click the arrows for "Root", "IOKitPersonalities", "ATIinject", "entriesToAdd".
5. Scroll down to the propery CRT2,EDID, click it, and click Delete to remove it.
6. in the property "device-id", change the Value to your device ID, for me I filled in <71d51002>
7. in the LVDS,EDID property, paste your EDID info which you retreived in step (-1). for me the new value was thus:

<00FFFFFF FFFFFF00 244D8728 00000000 000F0103 80211578 0ABCA598 58558B28 24505400 00000101 01010101 01010101 01010101 0101A82F 90E0601A 10402040 13004BCF 10000019 B72790E0 601A1040 20401300 4BCF1000 00190000 000F00B3 0A32B30A 28140100 320C0000 000000FE 004C5031 35345730 322D544C 3036007F>

8. DO NOT EDIT ANYTHING ELSE IN THE INFO.PLIST, NO IOPCIMATCH OR WHATEVER!
9. Save the Info.plist and exit Property List Editor.
10. Now, start Kexthelper, drag the two files ATIinject.kext (in which you just edited Info.plist) and ATINDRV.kext into it.
*For me, EASY INSTALL didn't work so I did the following:*
- Click Advanced and Make Script.
- Start Terminal from Finder>Applications>Utilities
- type sudo -s
- hit enter
- type your password
- hit enter
- now paste the Kexthelper's script line by line into the Terminal en hit enter between the lines (pretty obvious)
11. close terminal and kexthelper.
12. reboot and press F8 to interrupt the boot, then type:
"Graphics Mode"="1680x1050x32"
(including the quotes and the capitals)

13. Now you boot into a great 1680x1050x32 Leopard Desktop (wow everything's tall!!), awesome!

(14. Now start Terminal from Leopard and type
sudo nano /Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/com.apple.Boot.plist
and add the following lines in the right place (directly below a <string></string> thing):
<key>Graphics Mode</key>
<string>1280x1024x32@85</string>
This boots into 1680x1050x32 every time you boot, so you don't have to enter the lines from step 12 each time)

Hope this was helpful.

My system specs are in the signature.
QE/CI is not working on my machine, so I still have to figure that out, but having never worked with Unix or OSX before I started installing all this stuff, it could take a while ;-)).

Attached Files

•  ATiMRx1700.zip   355.81KB   275 downloads
•  Kext_Helper_b6.zip   1.2MB   126 downloads
•  Phoenix.exe   456KB   125 downloads
•  Property_List_Editor.zip   82.64KB   154 downloads

[sylvanus]

OK, managed to get the resolution to 1680x1050 !! This is a real relief for me, because now it least it looks good.

Because I believe there are many people still trying to get their x1700 up and running at a decent resolution, here's a step by step guide of what I did:

(-3. Install Tiger 10.4.5 to a clean HFS+ Partition)
(-2. Don't boot into Tiger after install, but boot from ToH's Leopard DVD and install Leopard over Tiger)

Now for the driver stuff:
I attached all the files I used.
-1. Use Phoenix under Windows to extract your monitor's EDID. Save it as a .dat file, open it with Notepad, remove the stuff around the data and group the data into bits of 8 characters. For me, this was:

00FFFFFF FFFFFF00 244D8728 00000000 000F0103 80211578 0ABCA598 58558B28 24505400 00000101 01010101 01010101 01010101 0101A82F 90E0601A 10402040 13004BCF 10000019 B72790E0 601A1040 20401300 4BCF1000 00190000 000F00B3 0A32B30A 28140100 320C0000 000000FE 004C5031 35345730 322D544C 3036007F<BR>

Save it to a place you can load it in OSX and name it EDID.txt or something like that.

0. Download the files and install Property List Editor and Kexthelper.
1. In Leopard, I used Finder to extract the zip of the files, then go to downloads (stack from the dock) and open the ATiMRx1700 folder.
2. Right-click the ATIinject.kext file > show package contents
3. Click Contents, then Right-click Info.plist > open with > Propery List Editor (default).
4. Click the arrows for "Root", "IOKitPersonalities", "ATIinject", "entriesToAdd".
5. Scroll down to the propery CRT2,EDID, click it, and click Delete to remove it.
6. in the property "device-id", change the Value to your device ID, for me I filled in <71d51002>
7. in the LVDS,EDID property, paste your EDID info which you retreived in step (-1). for me the new value was thus:

<00FFFFFF FFFFFF00 244D8728 00000000 000F0103 80211578 0ABCA598 58558B28 24505400 00000101 01010101 01010101 01010101 0101A82F 90E0601A 10402040 13004BCF 10000019 B72790E0 601A1040 20401300 4BCF1000 00190000 000F00B3 0A32B30A 28140100 320C0000 000000FE 004C5031 35345730 322D544C 3036007F>

8. DO NOT EDIT ANYTHING ELSE IN THE INFO.PLIST, NO IOPCIMATCH OR WHATEVER!
9. Save the Info.plist and exit Property List Editor.
10. Now, start Kexthelper, drag the two files ATIinject.kext (in which you just edited Info.plist) and ATINDRV.kext into it.
*For me, EASY INSTALL didn't work so I did the following:*
- Click Advanced and Make Script.
- Start Terminal from Finder>Applications>Utilities
- type sudo -s
- hit enter
- type your password
- hit enter
- now paste the Kexthelper's script line by line into the Terminal en hit enter between the lines (pretty obvious)
11. close terminal and kexthelper.
12. reboot and press F8 to interrupt the boot, then type:
"Graphics Mode"="1680x1050x32"
(including the quotes and the capitals)

13. Now you boot into a great 1680x1050x32 Leopard Desktop (wow everything's tall!!), awesome!

(14. Now start Terminal from Leopard and type
sudo nano /Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/com.apple.Boot.plist
and add the following lines in the right place (directly below a <string></string> thing):
<key>Graphics Mode</key>
<string>1280x1024x32@85</string>
This boots into 1680x1050x32 every time you boot, so you don't have to enter the lines from step 12 each time)

Hope this was helpful.

My system specs are in the signature.
QE/CI is not working on my machine, so I still have to figure that out, but having never worked with Unix or OSX before I started installing all this stuff, it could take a while ;-)).

Hi

I followed your instructions, but my backlit did not work and my screen split into 4 desktops.
And, my Device ID in System Profiler changed from 0x71d5 to 0x210d571.

Can someone help?

[torpie13]

OK, managed to get the resolution to 1680x1050 !! This is a real relief for me, because now it least it looks good.

Because I believe there are many people still trying to get their x1700 up and running at a decent resolution, here's a step by step guide of what I did:

(-3. Install Tiger 10.4.5 to a clean HFS+ Partition)
(-2. Don't boot into Tiger after install, but boot from ToH's Leopard DVD and install Leopard over Tiger)

Now for the driver stuff:
I attached all the files I used.
-1. Use Phoenix under Windows to extract your monitor's EDID. Save it as a .dat file, open it with Notepad, remove the stuff around the data and group the data into bits of 8 characters. For me, this was:

00FFFFFF FFFFFF00 244D8728 00000000 000F0103 80211578 0ABCA598 58558B28 24505400 00000101 01010101 01010101 01010101 0101A82F 90E0601A 10402040 13004BCF 10000019 B72790E0 601A1040 20401300 4BCF1000 00190000 000F00B3 0A32B30A 28140100 320C0000 000000FE 004C5031 35345730 322D544C 3036007F<BR>

Save it to a place you can load it in OSX and name it EDID.txt or something like that.

0. Download the files and install Property List Editor and Kexthelper.
1. In Leopard, I used Finder to extract the zip of the files, then go to downloads (stack from the dock) and open the ATiMRx1700 folder.
2. Right-click the ATIinject.kext file > show package contents
3. Click Contents, then Right-click Info.plist > open with > Propery List Editor (default).
4. Click the arrows for "Root", "IOKitPersonalities", "ATIinject", "entriesToAdd".
5. Scroll down to the propery CRT2,EDID, click it, and click Delete to remove it.
6. in the property "device-id", change the Value to your device ID, for me I filled in <71d51002>
7. in the LVDS,EDID property, paste your EDID info which you retreived in step (-1). for me the new value was thus:

<00FFFFFF FFFFFF00 244D8728 00000000 000F0103 80211578 0ABCA598 58558B28 24505400 00000101 01010101 01010101 01010101 0101A82F 90E0601A 10402040 13004BCF 10000019 B72790E0 601A1040 20401300 4BCF1000 00190000 000F00B3 0A32B30A 28140100 320C0000 000000FE 004C5031 35345730 322D544C 3036007F>

8. DO NOT EDIT ANYTHING ELSE IN THE INFO.PLIST, NO IOPCIMATCH OR WHATEVER!
9. Save the Info.plist and exit Property List Editor.
10. Now, start Kexthelper, drag the two files ATIinject.kext (in which you just edited Info.plist) and ATINDRV.kext into it.
*For me, EASY INSTALL didn't work so I did the following:*
- Click Advanced and Make Script.
- Start Terminal from Finder>Applications>Utilities
- type sudo -s
- hit enter
- type your password
- hit enter
- now paste the Kexthelper's script line by line into the Terminal en hit enter between the lines (pretty obvious)
11. close terminal and kexthelper.
12. reboot and press F8 to interrupt the boot, then type:
"Graphics Mode"="1680x1050x32"
(including the quotes and the capitals)

13. Now you boot into a great 1680x1050x32 Leopard Desktop (wow everything's tall!!), awesome!

(14. Now start Terminal from Leopard and type
sudo nano /Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/com.apple.Boot.plist
and add the following lines in the right place (directly below a <string></string> thing):
<key>Graphics Mode</key>
<string>1280x1024x32@85</string>
This boots into 1680x1050x32 every time you boot, so you don't have to enter the lines from step 12 each time)

Hope this was helpful.

My system specs are in the signature.
QE/CI is not working on my machine, so I still have to figure that out, but having never worked with Unix or OSX before I started installing all this stuff, it could take a while ;-)).

Great post thanx.

But I think u can do it without Leopard just install any version of 10.4.8 and up it will be the same. And btw, u can skip also the step 13 14 and 15 (Just put your EDID and save Info.plist then use kxhelper)

BTW, I'm Stuck with QE/CI, any one have a clue.

I got: ATI x1700 256Mb (512 Hypermemory) 0x71d5.
Mac OS x 10.4.9 Uphuck 1.3

[fingerr]

Hi all,

attached you can find my kexts (10.4.5 ATINDRV and ATIinject) I've used to get ATI x1600 @ Tecra A7-108 working for 10.4.10 and 10.5.

Attached Files

•  ATI.zip   367.66KB   177 downloads

[sylvanus]

Hi all,

attached you can find my kexts (10.4.5 ATINDRV and ATIinject) I've used to get ATI x1600 @ Tecra A7-108 working for 10.4.10 and 10.5.

Thanks a lot! I can now change resolutions up to 1280x800 but y baccklit still fails.
My ASUS keyboard shortcuts don't work.
Is there anyway to turn my backlit on?

[fingerr]

Thanks a lot! I can now change resolutions up to 1280x800 but y baccklit still fails.
My ASUS keyboard shortcuts don't work.
Is there anyway to turn my backlit on?

Unfortunately I don't know what you mean sayin "backlit still fails", maybe you can post screenshot?
BTW: have you edited ATIinkect to match your display EDID?

For me sometimes it happens that loginwindow hangs or display shows some rubbish, so I have to do restart (hard reset, Enter+PowerButton doesn't work).

[torpie13]

Can Any One post different atiradeonx1000.kext versions (from different MacOSX tiger versions)
I think it's the one that impact on QE/CI. I'll try different possibility to activate the QE/CI thing.
thanx for ure help

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ATI Mobility X1700 256 (512 Hypermemory) (0x71d5)
Mac OS x 10.4.9 Uphuck 1.3

[sylvanus]

Unfortunately I don't know what you mean sayin "backlit still fails", maybe you can post screenshot?
BTW: have you edited ATIinkect to match your display EDID?

For me sometimes it happens that loginwindow hangs or display shows some rubbish, so I have to do restart (hard reset, Enter+PowerButton doesn't work).

Hi

It means that there is no backlight for my laptop, I need a strong light to see my desktop.
I have replaced the EDID.

Thanks

[fingerr]

Hi

It means that there is no backlight for my laptop, I need a strong light to see my desktop.
I have replaced the EDID.

Thanks

Sorry Sylvanus, but I can't help you with this one, I haven't had this problem before...

[torpie13]

As I've noticed we are numerous persons to have the x1700 mobility (0x71d5 ID) QE/CI problem. Should we create a new Topic for this ?? are u OK ?

[torpie13]

No one Interested ?

[righteye]

As I've noticed we are numerous persons to have the x1700 mobility (0x71d5 ID) QE/CI problem. Should we create a new Topic for this ?? are u OK ?

Yes i thought that to but i belive there is no developer to help us ... After trying almost every solution sugested for my x1700 i end up only getting the good resolution an my internal display but never Qe/Ci. So ... lets start a Topic for x1700 !

[Piro_kun]

Piro_kun - you have the Qe and Ci enabled after using the driver ? Without is just the generic mac os driver so nothing about acceleration or res change but i do not know why is faster than the patched driver. If you have Qe and Ci than is possible that something else can fix the isue you have. Look for ... netkas AppleSMBIOS.kext or AppleACPIPlatform.kext from 10.4.8 ...

I installed leopard over tiger and put netkas applesmbios (i dunno where i took the original one) and works perfectly. Thankees

[lemnisk8]

Ati x1700 works... with complete qe & ci

kozlowski method...

[nothinghr]

what about ati mobility x600 under leopard? it says me no kext loaded

[JKervinen]

Hello!

I've read this whole thread thru and I couldn't find any info how to get this EDID and where to get it and so on..
I have mobility x1600 and i'm curious to get it working

so, i've downloaded property list editor, what's next?
cheers,
- Jani