AndrewK2685 Posted December 26, 2016 Share Posted December 26, 2016 Hello everyone! OK I know this is a relatively ancient system, but here it is: I was having some free time in the summer and thought of giving my old Toshiba Satellite A300 (PSAGCE) a second try in installing Mac OS X El Capitan with Clover. Generally, I think that this is a good hackintosh-candidate laptop, apart from its Mobility Radeon HD 3650 GPU (DevID 0x9591). So, I tried to follow-up guides from bcc9, mucha, slice and vlada on ATI kext patching to enable the internal LVDS display and see what will happen. I started with the two scripts decoding the VGA Bios. My results were the following: Radeon_bios_decode: ATOM BIOS Rom: SubsystemVendorID: 0x1179 SubsystemID: 0xff1c IOBaseAddress: 0x5000 Filename: 28109C.bin BIOS Bootup Message: Tosh_IEC_Potomac_M86_DDR2 M86 GDDR2_16Mx16 128bit 256MB 600e/500m PCI ID: 1002:9591 Connector at index 0 Type [@offset 45056]: VGA (1) Encoder [@offset 45060]: INTERNAL_KLDSCP_DAC1 (0x15) i2cid [@offset 45146]: 0x90, OSX senseid: 0x1 Connector at index 1 Type [@offset 45066]: LVDS (7) Encoder [@offset 45070]: INTERNAL_KLDSCP_LVTMA (0x1f) i2cid [@offset 45169]: 0x14, OSX senseid: 0x5 Connector at index 2 Type [@offset 45076]: HDMI-A (11) Encoder [@offset 45080]: INTERNAL_UNIPHY (0x1e) i2cid [@offset 45192]: 0x91, OSX senseid: 0x2 Connector at index 3 Type [@offset 45086]: 9 pin DIN (9) Encoder [@offset 45090]: INTERNAL_KLDSCP_DAC2 (0x16) Redsock_bios_decode: 28109C.bin : Tosh_IEC_Potomac_M86_DDR2 M86 GDDR2_16Mx16 128bit 256MB 600e/500m Subsystem Vendor ID: 1179 Subsystem ID: ff1c Object Header Structure Size: 266 Connector Object Table Offset: 46 Router Object Table Offset: 0 Encoder Object Table Offset: ce Display Path Table Offset: 10 Connector Object Id [5] which is [VGA] encoder obj id [0x15] which is [iNTERNAL_KLDSCP_DAC1 (osx txmit 0x00 enc 0x10?)] linkb: false Connector Object Id [14] which is [LVDS] encoder obj id [0x1f] which is [iNTERNAL_KLDSCP_LVTMA] linkb: false Connector Object Id [12] which is [HDMI_TYPE_A] encoder obj id [0x1e] which is [iNTERNAL_UNIPHY (osx txmit 0x10 [duallink 0x0] enc 0x0)] linkb: false Connector Object Id [15] which is [DIN] encoder obj id [0x16] which is [iNTERNAL_KLDSCP_DAC2] linkb: false As you can see, the Bios decode scripts point out this structure: CRTC1>DIG2>UNIPHY_KLDSKP_LVTMA>LVDS (SenseID 05 ???) CRTC2>DAC>DAC A>VGA (SenseID 01) CRTC2>DIG1>UNIPHY_A>HDMI (SenseID 02) CRTC2>DAC>DAC B>S-Video So, I tried to create a custom framebuffer string for each output: VGA 10000000100000000001000000100101 LVDS 02000000400000000901000010010205 HDMI 00080000000200000001000010000302 I injected the LVDS and VGA strings for AMD3800Controller.kext in Clover. This resulted in black screen in LVDS (nothing was showing up in system info as well), but the VGA was successfully detected and enabled. [FIRST WIN! ] I tested it with the single monitor setting in BIOS (in previous tests with Chameleon, the change in this setting gave me different results, I don’t know why, but they were weird - e.g. LVDS was showing up as a second VGA monitor with the same characteristics as the VGA monitor connected when both outputs were enabled in BIOS! Apparently, Clover uses only single monitor setting - even when LVDS+VGA setting is selected in BIOS, when Clover shows up, one monitor is off). What was strange, was the i2cid value of LVDS (0x14). Doing some search for it, I found a thread from 0xdeadbeef pointing that Radeon_Bios_Decode script may return wrong values about SenseID. http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/255199-editing-personalities-in-older-ati-framebuffers-iago-friends/ Also, an old thread from YannickD about this laptop on Leopard suggests that this laptop has a LVDS which behaves like a DVI in a way (I didn’t actually understand that to be honest). So, I decided to do some trial and error tests on SenseID and ATY-ControlFlag values of the framebuffer (I was considering Transmitter and Encoder values as well, but on HD3000 these are hardwired, so it wouldn’t make much difference). Also tried to change some settings in Clover (Rename my GPU from OVGA to IGPU in DSDT and play with Load VBIOS and Inject EDID options in Clover). http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/149872-ati-moblity-radeon-hd-3650-on-ideneb-13/ After some (not too many to be honest! ) tests (mainly brute-force attack on framebuffer values and change of options) I found out a setting which successfully worked on LVDS!!! My internal monitor is successfully detected and I can have the basic 2D functions for it (resolution & colour change)! [sECOND WIN! ] What did work was the default SenseID of the framebuffer (11 instead of 05) AND the ATY-ControlFlag for DVI (1402 instead of 4000 - others for DVI might work as well!) PLUS the options in Clover (Rename in IGPU for DSDT, Load VBIOS and Inject EDID, which are usual Clover settings for laptops). When tried both LVDS and VGA, both monitors were correctly detected and working! The only strange thing was that the GPU was detected as an ATI Radeon HD4330M instead of Mobility HD3650. Now the bad things… I can’t enable QE/CI acceleration, even though the DevID 9591 is included by default in ATIRadeonX2000.kext. Apparently, the kext is loaded, but returns zero values. This is the second computer that I cannot enable because of the damn ATIRadeonX2000.kext - YannickD says that after Snow Leopard Apple removed some detection routines with fixed values. Has anyone here found any clues about ATI Acceleration kexts and their values? I tested different controllers as well to see if I can get the acceleration. Results were the same for AMD2400Controller.kext, AMD2600Controller.kext and AMD3800Controller.kext, but on AMD4600Controller.kext the system crashed and rebooted before showing anything. Finally, I tested the HDMI string. The result was that the monitor was successfully detected and its properties were correctly showed up in Mac OS X, but the monitor was showing nothing (black screen). Since HD3650 can drive up to two different outputs, maybe a special switch must be enabled for the output, or might be a transmitter-encoder issue (don’t know - didn’t have the time to search more for it, as I was focused on the internal monitor, but it seems something minor). This was for the Video only - I have not tested the HDMI Audio To sum up The framebuffer working was: VGA (successfully detected and enabled - no QE/CI) 10000000100000000001000000100101 LVDS (successfully detected and enabled - DIFFERENT VALUES FROM SCRIPTS IN BOLD - no QE/CI) 02000000140200000901000010010211 HDMI (successfully detected but showed nothing in monitor - no QE/CI) 00080000000200000001000010000302 S-Video - not tested Load VBIOS, Inject EDID and Rename from OVGA to IGPU in DSDT were essential for the monitors to work. I tested these settings across different versions of Mac OS X as well, and got the same results. I can try them on Sierra as well, but I think results will be the same. Bottomline I think there is a need to do further search about framebuffer string values and their meaning. - IF they do not function for you DO NOT BLINDLY TRUST THEM - ESPECIALLY IF YOU GET BLACK SCREEN!!!!!!!!! Also, it would be very good if someone could tear down the acceleration kexts (especially the ATIRadeonX2000.kext) Anyone??? Please??? Thant’s all folks and sorry for my long thread! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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