trus0und Posted October 5, 2008 Share Posted October 5, 2008 Hey guys, after a long hard read and alot of head scratching, i finally got QE/CI enabled on my ATI Mobility Radeon x600 with Mac OS X Leopard! Whether this is a good thing or not is a question ive yet to answer. A few cosmetic things are annoying now, such as the completely transparent menubar which has lost the apple logo. But, i have faith that now, if this method of enabling QE/CI on pre x1000 cards can be proven for more models, then maybe the brains here at InsanelyMac will be able to help me in ironing out the issues and making the full OS X experience available to people with older hardware such as myself! The Situation So Far... Ok so whats new with QE/CI enabled? 1. Completely Transparent Menu Bar with loss of Apple menu Icon. 2. Cant view pictures with Preview. Though they work fine in iPhoto. 3. DVD Player DOES play dvd's! it just doenst show the video. Audio works though haha! Shows thumbnails for each chapter though, which makes me think theres hope for video yet! 4. Mouse tearing is still there. My Goal... My goal is to irradicate these issues and come up with a solution for osx86 users like myself with older hardware. Any help is welcomed! How Did i Do It? Ok, this is how i got QE/CI working on my x600! (I dont think i can post the kexts, though i can email them to anyone that wants them as i have the complete collection needed for this guide!) 1.Download Kext Helper b7!! this makes implementing the new kexts alot quicker/easier! http://www.cheetha.net/Kext_Helper/Softwar...Helper%20b7.zip 2.Step two was to install the appropriate Callisto kexts in order to enable full resolution changing on my graphics card. Basically chuck the files into Kext Helper, Type your password, Install and Reboot! The ones for the x600 will be posted at the end of this guide. If other can please email me their working Callisto kext for other cards along with the device ID's i can add them at the bottom of the post!! THE FOLLOWING STEPS WILL REQUIRE MY KEXT PACKAGE, PLEASE PM ME FOR THE LINK. 3. Ok, so upon downloading my kext package, you should have natit.kext, Leo Kexts and Tiger Kexts, this is all you need to get it working. 4. Navigate to Tiger Kexts and drop and drag all the kexts inside the folder into Kext Helper. Now go into Leo Kexts, and drag the kext thats in there into Kext Helper also. Type in your password and install. Do not reboot. If you reboot now i believe that only QE will be enabled, not CI. 5. The next step is to navigate to /System/Library/Extensions/ . Inside there, right click on the kext: ATIRadeonX1000GLDriver.Bundle and click Show Package Contents. Go into the contents folder then the MacOS folder and there will be a file called ATIRadeonX1000GLDriver. Copy this to your desktop. Once on your desktop, Rename the file to this EXACTLY. ATIRadeon9700GLDriver. Then copy the file and navigate back to /System/Library/Extensions/. This time right click on ATIRadeon9700GLDriver.Bundle and go Show package contents. Move through the contents folder to the MacOS folder and paste the file there. It will ask for a password and make sure you replace the file!!!! 6. Next go back into my kext package and now drag natit.kext into a fresh Kext helper. install the kext but dont reboot. 7. Open the Terminal from utilities.It is essential that you type the following commands correctly: sudo rm -f /System/Library/Extensions/ATINDVR.kext It will ask you for your password, enter it and all should go smoothly. 8. Next repair permissions: diskutil repairPermissions / 9.When thats done, all thats left to do is remove the extensions.mkext! sudo rm -f /System/Library/Extensions.mkext 10. Now that thats done, you can reboot the system! Upon rebooting you should have QE/CI Enabled! check it in the system profiler if you are not sure! Please post your results and perhaps a screenshot of it working! The sooner we get started on fixing the issues the quicker we can have full support on our gfx cards!! (NOTE: This method was not created by me, all credit goes to the members that posted in this thread: http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showtopic=70808 All i did was compile the tutorial and gather the appropriate kexts!) -flashGX Callisto__ATI_x600_.zip 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
emudux Posted October 7, 2008 Share Posted October 7, 2008 Pls can you send me your kext, I'm not able to find it. Thks emudux@gmail.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Donw35 Posted October 8, 2008 Share Posted October 8, 2008 after seeing this thread I decided to give my HP NC8230 laptop another go, install iDeneb 10.5.5 v1.3, allworks but video and ethernet, wireless works so not a total loss. I install the Callisto_ATI_X600 kext and now I have resolution change, not bad. From you write up even with QE and QI enable you are still not able to watch a DVD or use other aspects of the OS so just having it say its enabled but not functioning makes it just as useless. I will start more work on this, thanks for the post, once we have DVD playback I will consider this close to usable. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trus0und Posted October 8, 2008 Author Share Posted October 8, 2008 Yeah basically the idea is i need help fixing these issues because the more people the more solutions can be tested. first thing we need to do is to find out the reason why things arent working! -flash Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adamsalac Posted October 16, 2008 Share Posted October 16, 2008 Hi Flash! I've tried your KEXT package with callisto 003 fix and 008 on my Radeon X700 Pro. I added my PCI ID into the plist if necessery. The only thing that happened was that Leo refused to boot... Well , I'm now playin' around with Kexts and if I find a solution,I'll post it here. Adam Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trus0und Posted October 19, 2008 Author Share Posted October 19, 2008 hey dude! yeah im not sure how many cards this will work with but its worth testing. It took me a few goes to get it going. thanks for the feedback! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slice Posted October 19, 2008 Share Posted October 19, 2008 Cheer! Very useful hack! I want to know if it works for other ATI Radeon pre X1000. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trus0und Posted October 20, 2008 Author Share Posted October 20, 2008 Me too! maybe if it takes off my post will get stickied haha! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amiga 4000T Posted October 20, 2008 Share Posted October 20, 2008 flashgx I left you a message in private, you can send me the package? bmw_80@hotmail.it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eddie94 Posted October 20, 2008 Share Posted October 20, 2008 Hello, can you send me the package? Eddie94osx86@gmail.com hello and thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gurukool Posted October 20, 2008 Share Posted October 20, 2008 Hi, I tried with your kexts. It did not work on the 200M. Is there any specific modification required for radeon xpress 200M. I am open to suggestions and experiments.... ...working on spare test install. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SubTexel Posted October 20, 2008 Share Posted October 20, 2008 Hi,I tried with your kexts. It did not work on the 200M. Is there any specific modification required for radeon xpress 200M. I am open to suggestions and experiments.... ...working on spare test install. That sucks, was hoping to try it out on my 200G (speaking of which I wonder what the difference is between the two? I do know mine has 128MB -dedicated- memory, with the ability to use shared memory on top of that (up to 128mb)) Is yours shared memory only? At any rate, I'd like to give this a go. Gonna shoot the OP a PM and hopefully get the info Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gurukool Posted October 20, 2008 Share Posted October 20, 2008 That sucks, was hoping to try it out on my 200G (speaking of which I wonder what the difference is between the two? I do know mine has 128MB -dedicated- memory, with the ability to use shared memory on top of that (up to 128mb)) Is yours shared memory only? At any rate, I'd like to give this a go. Gonna shoot the OP a PM and hopefully get the info Yes..i have 256MB shared memory....I was trying something else after putting in the patches....ruined my install but no worries...it was a test install... .....will try experiment again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eddie94 Posted October 20, 2008 Share Posted October 20, 2008 hello, can you post the original version of ATIRadeon9700.kext wich is into "Tiger kexts" ? thanks!I need it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SubTexel Posted October 21, 2008 Share Posted October 21, 2008 Well, still working on it... This is what I get now: Radeon XPRESS 200M (PCIE): Chipset Model: Radeon XPRESS 200M (PCIE) Type: Display Bus: PCI VRAM (Total): 256 MB Vendor: ATI (0x1002) Device ID: 0x5955 Revision ID: 0x0000 Displays: Display: Resolution: 1024 x 768 Depth: 32-bit Color Core Image: Software Main Display: Yes Mirror: Off Online: Yes Quartz Extreme: Not Supported QuartzGL: Supported Display Connector: Display Connector: Before it had unknow, then when I was fooling with it before I happened onto this thread it would list it as an ATI XPress Video Card... I guess I am getting somewhere, slowly... dmesg output after adding device ID to CallistoHAL (I now have translucent menus, still no QE/CI) however it now says I only have 16MB of video memory (I have 128 on the graphics card): Also, finally able to change resolution finally... Before I was stuck @ 1024x768, now I'm @ 1280x800 (much better for this monitor). Still working on it, maybe this info will help? VGA: family specific matching fails VGA: family specific matching fails Natit: Starting. device-id: 0x5955 Natit: Found device Natit: Found device name Natit: Setting @0,device_type=display Natit: Setting @0,compatible=ATY,Alopias Natit: Setting @1,display-connect-flags=0x00000400 Natit: Setting @1,name=ATY,Alopias Natit: Setting @0,display-connect-flags=0x00000400 Natit: Setting device_type=ATY,AlopiasParent Natit: Setting @0,name=ATY,Alopias Natit: Setting @1,compatible=ATY,Alopias Natit: Setting @1,device_type=display Natit: Setting model=ATI Radeon Xpress Series CallistoHAL Initialized! Callisto: omni's ATI Driver&FrameBuffer, build 003 (fixed), 27-May-2006 Callisto: Model Radeon XPRESS 200M (PCIE) (rv410) Callisto: MMIO range@0x18 (b0100000) mapped to kernel virtual address 0x2059f000 Callisto: 16 MB DDR SGRAM found on 64 bit wide bus Callisto: VRAM range@0x10 (c0000000:01000000) Callisto: Found ROM @0xc0000 Callisto: Legacy ATI BIOS detected Callisto: Retreived PLL infos from BIOS Callisto: Reference=14.32 MHz (RefDiv=6) Memory=300.00 Mhz, System=250.00 MHz Callisto: PLL min 20000 max 40000 dsmos: Initializing... dsmos: Hook and decryption contexts set! dsmos: Starting... Callisto: Non-DDC laptop panel detected Callisto: Found Monitor: LCD Callisto: panel ID string: LPL Callisto: detected LVDS panel size from BIOS: 1280x800 Callisto: BIOS provided dividers will be used Callisto: Default panel mode: 1280x800, pixel clock: 71250 KHz Callisto: done with Radeon XPRESS 200M (PCIE) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SubTexel Posted October 21, 2008 Share Posted October 21, 2008 Well bumped video memory up by going into the BIOS and adding 128MB of shared memory to bring it up to 256MB... However OS X only sees 48MB Anyone else messing with this? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amiga 4000T Posted October 21, 2008 Share Posted October 21, 2008 Unfortunately nothing to do no qe/ci active on the board. Ce possible that something that still escapes? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SubTexel Posted October 21, 2008 Share Posted October 21, 2008 Unfortunately nothing to do no qe/ci active on the board. Ce possible that something that still escapes? Dunno, hoping to at least get QE/CI working... Dunno if it's possible, but with the tweaking of model types I have been able to get it to see all of my video memory now (128MB). Turned off shared mem in BIOS... It's so close it sucks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SubTexel Posted October 22, 2008 Share Posted October 22, 2008 *BUMP* Anyone else have any luck with their respective ATI cards? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
darkyp Posted October 22, 2008 Share Posted October 22, 2008 ATI Mobility X300 - Callisto is OK. Waiting for the Kexts. Will write once I have them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keena Posted October 24, 2008 Share Posted October 24, 2008 flashGX u have PM plz could send me kext pakage? (my mail is in PM) TIA Keena Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kalabaza Posted October 24, 2008 Share Posted October 24, 2008 I want the package of the kexts too, can someone give a link for downloading? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lunux Posted October 24, 2008 Share Posted October 24, 2008 FlashGX, please can you send me the link of kext you used, I think it could work on my ATI X600 mobility ID 5462 . I tried very hard to activate QE but no succes until today. many thanks lunux my e-mail : lunux@libero.it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keena Posted October 25, 2008 Share Posted October 25, 2008 someone has flashgx's kext package plz could share??? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lunux Posted October 26, 2008 Share Posted October 26, 2008 here there is the solution check my post http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?sho...mp;#entry943853 finally after months of efforts I'll do it it is working QE CI ENABLED !!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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