ATI 5650M right resolution but no QE/CI

[Segnale007]

Hello folks, its been a very busy week working hard to get some Snow Leopard flavors working on my Sony Vaio VPCEB3M1E. Initially I was trying to install Lion straight up using myhack, however I didnt have much luck with it due to a kernel panic right after the installation.

 

However according to this wiki post I found out my laptop is 90% Snow Leopard compatible so I decided to just focus on it.

 

ACPI, keyboard, mouse and GPU with vesa driver works out of the box, however I had to fix some things after the update to 10.6.6, but so far most of the hw works.

 

The thing that has been driving me nuts for the past two days is to make the GPU to actually work in full resolution and with hardware acceleration enabled.

 

After having spent hours reading and reading, sorting out the monitor EDID and getting the right driver (I guess) I managed to get full resolution, and I must say it looks good.

 

However though, I am still stuck with no hw acceleration. Menu bar is solid, frontrow wont turn on, and no flash player. Yes, you heard that.. No youporn FML!!

 

I have tried some drivers around the net, but those are the ones I am using now http://www.osx86.net/downloads.php?do=file&id=1502&page=3 , same result with all those I tried so far, full resolution and no QE/CI. Actually the ones I used before had some less flickering when moving windows around, I might go back to those for now.

 

I tried booting with the flags Hoolock and Eulemur, but same result really.

 

Here's my monitor info retrieved with moninfo as suggested.

 

Monitor
 Windows description...... Generic PnP Monitor 
 Manufacturer............. Sony
 Plug and Play ID......... SNY05FA
 Serial number............ n/a
 Manufacture date......... 2009, ISO week 4
 Filter driver............ Monitor
 -------------------------
 EDID revision............ 1.3
 Input signal type........ Digital
 Color bit depth.......... Undefined
 Display type............. Non-RGB multicolor
 Screen size.............. 340 x 190 mm (15,3 in)
 Power management......... Standby, Suspend, Active off/sleep
 Extension blocs.......... None
 -------------------------
 DDC/CI................... n/a

Color characteristics
 Default color space...... Non-sRGB
 Display gamma............ 2,20
 Red chromaticity......... Rx 0,640 - Ry 0,340
 Green chromaticity....... Gx 0,300 - Gy 0,600
 Blue chromaticity........ Bx 0,149 - By 0,060
 White point (default).... Wx 0,313 - Wy 0,328
 Additional descriptors... None

Timing characteristics
 Range limits............. Not available
 GTF standard............. Not supported
 Additional descriptors... None
 Preferred timing......... Yes
 Native/preferred timing.. 1366x768p at 60Hz 
   Modeline............... "1366x768" 72,000 1366 1395 1453 1540 768 770 774 780 -hsync -vsync
 Detailed timing #1....... 1366x768p at 50Hz 
   Modeline............... "1366x768" 54,860 1366 1374 1390 1414 768 769 771 776 -hsync -vsync

Standard timings supported

Report information
 Date generated........... 01/07/2012
 Software revision........ 2.60.0.972
 Data source.............. Registry-Active
 Operating system......... 6.1.7600.2

Raw data
 00,FF,FF,FF,FF,FF,FF,00,4D,D9,FA,05,00,00,00,00,04,13,01,03,80,22,13,78,F2,CE,50,A3,57,4C,99,26,
 0F,50,54,00,00,00,01,01,01,01,01,01,01,01,01,01,01,01,01,01,01,01,20,1C,56,AE,50,00,0C,30,1D,3A,
 24,00,54,BE,10,00,00,00,6E,15,56,30,50,00,08,30,08,10,12,00,54,BE,10,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,
 00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,7B

 

And here's my EDID converted to base64 and the rest of /System/Library/Displays/Overrides/DisplayVendorID-756e6b6e/DisplayProductID-717

 

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
<key>DisplayProductID</key>
<integer>1815</integer>
<key>DisplayProductName</key>
<string>Internal LCD Forced EDID</string>
<key>DisplayVendorID</key>
<integer>1970170734</integer>
<key>IODisplayEDID</key>
<data>
AP///////wBN2foFAAAAAAQTAQOAIhN48s5Qo1dMmSYPUFQAAAABAQEBAQEBAQEBAQEB
AQEBIBxWrlAADDAdOiQAVL4QAAAAbhVWMFAACDAIEBIAVL4QAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHs=
</data>
</dict>
</plist>

 

Anyone knows where I can get the right driver? Otherwise what am I doing wrong??

 

Thanks

[TheRacerMaster]

Most ATI 5xxx cards are only supported in Lion and higher. Those kexts you tried do not work on Snow Leopard.