Adam1203 Posted July 26, 2011 Share Posted July 26, 2011 All, I'm sure someone with more skills has seen this, but I wanted to point it out and see if anyone had some input. I think the issue with the 6970’s not working is due to the EFIVersion strings in the ATY_Init.kext file. When I go into RBE and look at my 6970 BIOS, the version string is 113-HD697ACNF0V1. When I look at the version strings in the ATY kext it shows the following: ATY,Card# 109-B77101-00 ATY,EFIVersionB 113-B77101-012 ATY,EFIVersionE 113-B7710A-318 ATY,Rom# 113-B7710C-176 I’m wondering if these need to match the version string of the 6970 BIOS, and if they did, would OS X Lion recognize the device and allow its use. The device ID is listed in the ATI6000Controller.kext..... so the EFIVersion strings would be the only thing that I've seen to not match up. Thoughts? Adam Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/263616-aty_init-kext-possible-6970-support/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Giakys Posted August 3, 2011 Share Posted August 3, 2011 news from this? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/263616-aty_init-kext-possible-6970-support/#findComment-1728617 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adam1203 Posted August 9, 2011 Author Share Posted August 9, 2011 news from this? It didn't work. Even if I replaced all the device IDs using 0xED editor... I was able to get full res by using the HDMI port, but no QE. Without QE, I might as well run it in a VM. I really hope someone out there figures out a way to inject a driver for the 6950/70. Here's a reply I got on Netkas's blog... Adam, no, problem isn’t in the injection, but in the driver itself: 69XX cards use new ATI’s VLIW4 desigh of shader units, not VLIW5 as in all other cards (from 24XX to 6870), so there is no any original Mac card with new desigh yet and that is why driver not supports them, it’s a big change it card architecture and requires high level graphics commands to translate into new microcode. So we need to wait for new MacPros with 69XX cards, I think upcoming LGA 2011 Intel platform will be used for new MacPro and so there is a big chance that Apple choose 6970 card as one of a option for it. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/263616-aty_init-kext-possible-6970-support/#findComment-1732249 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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