Black screen AMD Radeon HD5670

[Mac-on-PC]

After upgrade from Sierra to High Sierra I just get a black screen after boot. Lilu.kext and WhateverGreen.kext in EFI/Clover/kexts/Other. I have a AMD Radeon HD5670 graphic card native supported by macOS out-of-the-box until now. What could be wrong? Can someone help. Thanks.

 

Mobo:        Gigabyte GA-EG45M-DS2H (rev. 1.0) Intel®G45 + ICH10R Chipset Socket 755

 

CPU:          Intel® Core™2 Quad Processor Q9550 (12M Cache, 2.83 GHz, 1333 MHz FSB)

 

Graphics:  ASUS AMD ATI Radeon HD 5670 1024 MB

 

SMBIOS:   Mac (27-inch, Late 2013)

 

Clover:      4220

[Guest ricoc90]

AMD cards need driver rollback from Sierra:

 

AMDRadeonX3000.kext

AMDRadeonX3000GLDriver.bundle

IOAccelerator2D.plugin

IOAcceleratorFamily2.kext

 

Sierra_Rollback.zip

[Mac-on-PC]

Thanks for your answer.

 

I have don that and I have a High Sierra screen now :-)

 

But it is a little bit shaky and the Dock turned gray with no transparency. Perhaps the HD5670 graphic card is outdated for High Sierra and Metal 2 :-(

[Guest ricoc90]

Show me the output of 

kextstat | egrep "AMD|IOAccelerator"

[Mac-on-PC]

I post the output later today.

[Mac-on-PC]

This is the result of kextstat | egrep "AMD|IOAccelerator"

 

 

Sierra (with EmuVariableUefi-64.efi)

 

Last login: Fri Sep 29 00:58:45 on console

xxxxs-iMac:~ xxxx$ kextstat | egrep "AMD|IOAccelerator"

   85    2 0xffffff7f82e5c000 0x122000   0x122000   com.apple.kext.AMDLegacySupport (1.5.1) 0670744B-B64C-3424-B186-FD972A37E78E <84 12 11 7 5 4 3 1>

   96    0 0xffffff7f82fc1000 0xea000    0xea000    com.apple.kext.AMD5000Controller (1.5.1) C6C2F59D-56C9-32F7-AB68-FEA67F42B413 <85 84 12 11 5 4 3 1>

  111    1 0xffffff7f82772000 0x90000    0x90000    com.apple.iokit.IOAcceleratorFamily2 (311.14) 13F71024-7246-3AD1-A551-5C186BC70889 <84 12 7 6 5 4 3 1>

  112    0 0xffffff7f82811000 0x571000   0x571000   com.apple.AMDRadeonX3000 (1.5.1) F6F37414-893B-3F66-8AB7-F3327DE6AC55 <111 110 84 12 7 5 4 3 1>

  115    0 0xffffff7f82f8b000 0x22000    0x22000    com.apple.kext.AMDLegacyFramebuffer (1.5.1) 930A7077-5EBD-3FA5-A023-415A1438E132 <85 84 12 11 7 5 4 3 1>

xxxxs-iMac:~ xxxx$

 

 

 

Sierra (without EmuVariableUefi-64.efi)

 

Last login: Fri Sep 29 13:07:50 on console

xxxxs-iMac:~ xxxx$ kextstat | egrep "AMD|IOAccelerator"

   86    2 0xffffff7f82e5c000 0x122000   0x122000   com.apple.kext.AMDLegacySupport (1.5.1) 0670744B-B64C-3424-B186-FD972A37E78E <85 12 11 7 5 4 3 1>

   95    0 0xffffff7f82fc1000 0xea000    0xea000    com.apple.kext.AMD5000Controller (1.5.1) C6C2F59D-56C9-32F7-AB68-FEA67F42B413 <86 85 12 11 5 4 3 1>

  100    0 0xffffff7f8260d000 0x156000   0x156000   com.apple.kext.AMDSupport (1.5.1) 86E4A4D6-A270-3BF3-AE81-A27F35EEC4D9 <99 85 12 11 7 5 4 3 1>

  110    1 0xffffff7f82772000 0x90000    0x90000    com.apple.iokit.IOAcceleratorFamily2 (311.14) 13F71024-7246-3AD1-A551-5C186BC70889 <85 12 7 6 5 4 3 1>

  111    0 0xffffff7f82811000 0x571000   0x571000   com.apple.AMDRadeonX3000 (1.5.1) F6F37414-893B-3F66-8AB7-F3327DE6AC55 <110 109 85 12 7 5 4 3 1>

  115    0 0xffffff7f82f8b000 0x22000    0x22000    com.apple.kext.AMDLegacyFramebuffer (1.5.1) 930A7077-5EBD-3FA5-A023-415A1438E132 <86 85 12 11 7 5 4 3 1>

xxxxs-iMac:~ xxxx$ 

 

 

 

High Sierra (without EmuVariableUefi-64.efi)

 

Last login: Fri Sep 29 12:54:33 on console

xxxxs-iMac:~ xxxx$ kextstat | egrep "AMD|IOAccelerator"

  100    2 0xffffff7f8241d000 0x122000   0x122000   com.apple.kext.AMDLegacySupport (1.5.8) 8D2ACF79-71D8-3500-A853-C1D2B01C4FDC <99 12 11 7 5 4 3 1>

  110    0 0xffffff7f825dd000 0xea000    0xea000    com.apple.kext.AMD5000Controller (1.5.8) 0D2838A6-1996-3CAF-8E3A-C1814269A179 <100 99 12 11 5 4 3 1>

  125    0 0xffffff7f82b02000 0x22000    0x22000    com.apple.kext.AMDLegacyFramebuffer (1.5.8) D1BFDFE9-3E2B-3D7C-AFA1-F59FA6C411AA <100 99 12 11 7 5 4 3 1>

xxxxs-iMac:~ xxxx$ 

 

 

 

Sierra (without EmuVariableUefi-64.efi, Lily.kext, WhateverGreen.kext)

 

Last login: Fri Sep 29 13:29:47 on console

xxxxs-iMac:~ xxxx$ kextstat | egrep "AMD|IOAccelerator"

  103    2 0xffffff7f82e5c000 0x122000   0x122000   com.apple.kext.AMDLegacySupport (1.5.1) 0670744B-B64C-3424-B186-FD972A37E78E <88 12 11 7 5 4 3 1>

  106    0 0xffffff7f82fc1000 0xea000    0xea000    com.apple.kext.AMD5000Controller (1.5.1) C6C2F59D-56C9-32F7-AB68-FEA67F42B413 <103 88 12 11 5 4 3 1>

  108    0 0xffffff7f8260d000 0x156000   0x156000   com.apple.kext.AMDSupport (1.5.1) 86E4A4D6-A270-3BF3-AE81-A27F35EEC4D9 <107 88 12 11 7 5 4 3 1>

  110    1 0xffffff7f82772000 0x90000    0x90000    com.apple.iokit.IOAcceleratorFamily2 (311.14) 13F71024-7246-3AD1-A551-5C186BC70889 <88 12 7 6 5 4 3 1>

  111    0 0xffffff7f82811000 0x571000   0x571000   com.apple.AMDRadeonX3000 (1.5.1) F6F37414-893B-3F66-8AB7-F3327DE6AC55 <110 89 88 12 7 5 4 3 1>

  112    0 0xffffff7f82f8b000 0x22000    0x22000    com.apple.kext.AMDLegacyFramebuffer (1.5.1) 930A7077-5EBD-3FA5-A023-415A1438E132 <103 88 12 11 7 5 4 3 1>

xxxxs-iMac:~ xxxx$ 

 

 

 

High Sierra (without EmuVariableUefi-64.efi, Lily.kext, WhateverGreen.kext)

 

Last login: Fri Sep 29 13:23:56 on console

xxxxs-iMac:~ xxxx$ kextstat | egrep "AMD|IOAccelerator"

   96    2 0xffffff7f829ca000 0x122000   0x122000   com.apple.kext.AMDLegacySupport (1.5.8) 8D2ACF79-71D8-3500-A853-C1D2B01C4FDC <90 12 11 7 5 4 3 1>

  111    0 0xffffff7f82b2f000 0xea000    0xea000    com.apple.kext.AMD5000Controller (1.5.8) 0D2838A6-1996-3CAF-8E3A-C1814269A179 <96 90 12 11 5 4 3 1>

  125    0 0xffffff7f82af9000 0x22000    0x22000    com.apple.kext.AMDLegacyFramebuffer (1.5.8) D1BFDFE9-3E2B-3D7C-AFA1-F59FA6C411AA <96 90 12 11 7 5 4 3 1>

xxxxs-iMac:~ xxxx$ 

 

 

 

 

Both situations have the same setup and High Sierra runs on Sierra kexts. When I but EmuVariableUefi-64.efi in EFI/CLOVER/drivers64UEFI High Sierra got black screen again. Under High Sierra it locks like com.apple.iokit.IOAcceleratorFamily2 and com.apple.AMDRadeonX3000 is not loaded.

[Hectorsky]

AMD cards need driver rollback from Sierra:

 

AMDRadeonX3000.kext

AMDRadeonX3000GLDriver.bundle

IOAccelerator2D.plugin

IOAcceleratorFamily2.kext

 

Sierra_Rollback.zip

May i ask why must do a rollback it is isn't any fix without rollbacking?

[Guest ricoc90]

Both situations have the same setup and High Sierra runs on Sierra kexts. When I but EmuVariableUefi-64.efi in EFI/CLOVER/drivers64UEFI High Sierra got black screen again. Under High Sierra it locks like com.apple.iokit.IOAcceleratorFamily2 and com.apple.AMDRadeonX3000 is not loaded.

 

run

sudo kextutil -v /System/Library/Extensions/AMDRadeonX3000.kext

May i ask why must do a rollback it is isn't any fix without rollbacking?

As far as I know there is not, indeed. But I don't have an AMD card myself, so maybe i am missing something. until now the rollback works pretty well, though it's not future proof 

[Mac-on-PC]

It lookes like there is a promblem when I run sudo kextutil -v /System/Library/Extensions/AMDRadeonX3000.kext

 

 

xxxxs-iMac:~ xxxx$ sudo kextutil -v /System/Library/Extensions/AMDRadeonX3000.kext

Defaulting to kernel file '/System/Library/Kernels/kernel'

Kext rejected due to improper filesystem permissions: <OSKext 0x7fe2aed16b70 [0x7fff9c5385b0]> { URL = "file:///System/Library/Extensions/AMDRadeonX3000.kext/", ID = "com.apple.AMDRadeonX3000" }

Kext rejected due to improper filesystem permissions: <OSKext 0x7fe2aed47990 [0x7fff9c5385b0]> { URL = "file:///System/Library/Extensions/IOAcceleratorFamily2.kext/", ID = "com.apple.iokit.IOAcceleratorFamily2" }

Rejecting invalid/inauthentic kext for bundle id com.apple.iokit.IOAcceleratorFamily2 at location file:///System/Library/Extensions/IOAcceleratorFamily2.kext/.

/System/Library/Extensions/AMDRadeonX3000.kext - no compatible dependency found for com.apple.iokit.IOAcceleratorFamily2.

Rejecting invalid/inauthentic kext for bundle id com.apple.iokit.IOAcceleratorFamily2 at location file:///System/Library/Extensions/IOAcceleratorFamily2.kext/.

/System/Library/Extensions/AMDRadeonX3000.kext - no compatible dependency found for com.apple.iokit.IOAcceleratorFamily2.

Rejecting invalid/inauthentic kext for bundle id com.apple.iokit.IOAcceleratorFamily2 at location file:///System/Library/Extensions/IOAcceleratorFamily2.kext/.

/System/Library/Extensions/AMDRadeonX3000.kext - no compatible dependency found for com.apple.iokit.IOAcceleratorFamily2.

Diagnostics for /System/Library/Extensions/AMDRadeonX3000.kext:

Authentication Failures: 

    File owner/permissions are incorrect (must be root:wheel, nonwritable by group/other): 

        /System/Library/Extensions/AMDRadeonX3000.kext

        Contents

        _CodeSignature

        CodeResources

        Info.plist

        MacOS

        AMDRadeonX3000

        PkgInfo

        version.plist

 

Dependency Resolution Failures: 

    Only incompatible kexts found for these libraries: 

        com.apple.iokit.IOAcceleratorFamily2

[Guest ricoc90]

Yeah, that's what I thought. How did you install the kexts?

run

sudo touch /System/Library/Extensions && sudo kextcache -i /

[Mac-on-PC]

I just copy/paste.

[Mac-on-PC]

I have reinstalled the Sierra kext with kext utility. And now everything is OK. Sorry. My mistake. Thank you very much rico90 for your help. And happy friday to all of you girls and guys.

Last login: Fri Sep 29 18:26:27 on console

xxxxs-iMac:~ xxxx$ kextstat | egrep "AMD|IOAccelerator"

  100    2 0xffffff7f830b4000 0x122000   0x122000   com.apple.kext.AMDLegacySupport (1.5.8) 8D2ACF79-71D8-3500-A853-C1D2B01C4FDC <91 12 11 7 5 4 3 1>

  107    0 0xffffff7f83219000 0xea000    0xea000    com.apple.kext.AMD5000Controller (1.5.8) 0D2838A6-1996-3CAF-8E3A-C1814269A179 <100 91 12 11 5 4 3 1>

  117    1 0xffffff7f829ca000 0x90000    0x90000    com.apple.iokit.IOAcceleratorFamily2 (311.14) 13F71024-7246-3AD1-A551-5C186BC70889 <91 12 7 6 5 4 3 1>

  118    0 0xffffff7f82a69000 0x571000   0x571000   com.apple.AMDRadeonX3000 (1.5.1) F6F37414-893B-3F66-8AB7-F3327DE6AC55 <117 116 91 12 7 5 4 3 1>

  127    0 0xffffff7f831e3000 0x22000    0x22000    com.apple.kext.AMDLegacyFramebuffer (1.5.8) D1BFDFE9-3E2B-3D7C-AFA1-F59FA6C411AA <100 91 12 11 7 5 4 3 1>

 

xxxxs-iMac:~ xxxx$

 

     

[Guest ricoc90]

Great 

[pico joe]

even in realmac have problem too https://forums.macru...macpro.2073218/

[chris1111]

Depends the hardware you have

 

If you have a CPU with IGPU Graphics injector like Intel HD 3000 or HD 4000, HD 4600

theres is not need to rollback kexts

See here AMD CARD   Also here Saphire Radeon Succès 5570 

I have ATI 5450 and Saphire Radeon HD 5570 working in High Sierra Dell Optiplex 790

no roll back 

[budest]

Great 

Hey Rico, 

 

You seem to know a bit about these issues and was wondering if you could help me?

 

Using a Radeon R9 280X in High Sierra with only one monitor working.  The second one is getting a signal but displaying only a black screen.  Both worked flawlessly in previous versions of OSX.  I've been working at this for months with no joy and followed the steps above too.  When I replace the aforementioned kexts with the Sierra versions my one working monitor defaults to what could be said is a VGA display with weird colours.  

 

I agree with your logic that it's a kext issue and therefore by replacing the kexts that worked in Sierra they should also work in High Sierra but that isn't the case for me.  It has me wondering if the 3000 kexts are the correct versions for HS?  Any further input?

 

Thanks

 

**EDIT** I am convinced it's the DVI that's broken under High Sierra.  Dual monitors still works OK in Ubuntu and Windows 10 so it isn't a hardware issue. Definitely software related. System Prefs picks up both monitors (See image) https://imgur.com/a/qylUp

 

**EDIT2** I was right DVI was not set up correctly. I had to edit a kext file adding frame buffer settings. All sorted now  

[igorwhore]

it's very cool if it works, I'll write off the results, I have a computer with i5-8600 and H370M DS3X and with such a video card.

and, sorry for my language))

[jsl2000]

On 9/29/2017 at 5:05 AM, ricoc90 said:

AMD cards need driver rollback from Sierra:

 

AMDRadeonX3000.kext

AMDRadeonX3000GLDriver.bundle

IOAccelerator2D.plugin

IOAcceleratorFamily2.kext

 

Sierra_Rollback.zip

Thank you very much.

I have looked for this solution for more than 1 year until now found it !

It worked in my P5Q Pro MB (LGA 775) with 5770 GPU and 6870 GPU at 10.13.3 & 10.13.6.

Edited January 1, 2019 by jsl2000

[monw3d]

On 1/1/2019 at 4:47 AM, jsl2000 said:

Thank you very much.

I have looked for this solution for more than 1 year until now found it !

 It worked in my P5Q Pro MB (LGA 775) with 5770 GPU and 6870 GPU at 10.13.3 & 10.13.6.

 

On 12/9/2017 at 1:46 AM, budest said:

Hey Rico, 

 

You seem to know a bit about these issues and was wondering if you could help me?

 

Using a Radeon R9 280X in High Sierra with only one monitor working.  The second one is getting a signal but displaying only a black screen.  Both worked flawlessly in previous versions of OSX.  I've been working at this for months with no joy and followed the steps above too.  When I replace the aforementioned kexts with the Sierra versions my one working monitor defaults to what could be said is a VGA display with weird colours.  

 

I agree with your logic that it's a kext issue and therefore by replacing the kexts that worked in Sierra they should also work in High Sierra but that isn't the case for me.  It has me wondering if the 3000 kexts are the correct versions for HS?  Any further input?

 

Thanks

 

**EDIT** I am convinced it's the DVI that's broken under High Sierra.  Dual monitors still works OK in Ubuntu and Windows 10 so it isn't a hardware issue. Definitely software related. System Prefs picks up both monitors (See image) https://imgur.com/a/qylUp

 

**EDIT2** I was right DVI was not set up correctly. I had to edit a kext file adding frame buffer settings. All sorted now  

 

can you guys please share the solution

where and what part is modified?

thanks

[hardcorehenry]

It's a bit wierd All you have better graphic than me. My old ATI 4850 works flawlessly on HS even Mojave 10.14.3. I just made proper SSDT-GFX0.aml by this thread https://github.com/acidanthera/WhateverGreen/blob/master/Manual/Sample.dsl and made proper connector patches by this thread https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/303186-how-to-modification-of-amd-fb-clover-injection/ and this is how I got rid of black screen problems. The only concern is present Mojave 10.14.4 betas.

Waiting for final 10.14.4 release

[tediiii]

I just select inject ATI in clover, use smbios imac 12.2 and the HIS HD 5670 works perfect with HDMI and D-Sub Port on My own GAZ68 + i5 2500 + 8GB Kingstone 1600mhz DDR3 

 

 

Check this video HD 5670 Macos High Sierra

Edited March 6, 2019 by tediiii

[jarmster]

I hate to drag up an old post but i believe it may apply to my situation.

 

This is my first Hackintosh and i started with Mountain Lion. I managed to get it installed only to get black screeen on my laptop monitor. When i plugged in and external monitor i was able to see the desktop.

After hours of searching and reading i managed to fix it by patching the framebuffer and i was successful. I was able to obtain full acceleration and all my video ports worked.

 

Then came the idea to upgrade. I went with High Serria because i read that Mojave had issues with my video gpu. So i installed High Serria only to come to realize that my framebuffer edits needed redone.

After more reading i realized that the framebuffer layout had changed and i needed to modify my edits and the way i patched them in the config.plist.

 

After repatching them and selecting the right boot options, everything loads up. System sees my card, ioreg see my personality but i dont have hardware acceleration. It should be 1024 and its 6,lol

 

I've not tried whatevergreen with the lilu method yet either. I've patched the framebuffer correctly. Now im wondering is it a problem with High Serria and my GPU.

 

The laptop is a HP8740w with an Intel i5-520M ---1st gen arrandale chip.

The graphics are Ati firepro M8720....This is the basically an ATI HD 5770 and this is what is detected by clover and my OS.

 

I'm not really sure but i don't have the amd5000controller.kext anymore either. Things have changed obviously.

I've read other threads with people with the same gpu having the same issue with no solution. This is the first thread that suggested a rollback to older drivers.

 

I'm willing to try that if someone could explain the process a little and provide or tell me which kext files i require.

 

Thanks guys.

 

Edit

 

I installed the above kext files with the kext wizard

I rebooted a few times but this was the output from the cmd 

 

kextstat | egrep "AMD|IOAccelerator"

 

iMac:~ jamesarmstrong$ kextstat | egrep "AMD|IOAccelerator"

  128    1 0xffffff7f8281e000 0x8f000    0x8f000    com.apple.iokit.IOAcceleratorFamily2 (311.14) 13F71024-7246-3AD1-A551-5C186BC70889 <108 12 7 6 5 4 3 1>

  129    0 0xffffff7f828ad000 0x571000   0x571000   com.apple.AMDRadeonX3000 (1.5.1) F6F37414-893B-3F66-8AB7-F3327DE6AC55 <128 127 108 12 7 5 4 3 1>

iMac:~ jamesarmstrong$

 

This differs a bit from what i think i was supposed to get

 

Last login: Fri Sep 29 18:26:27 on console

xxxxs-iMac:~ xxxx$ kextstat | egrep "AMD|IOAccelerator"

  100    2 0xffffff7f830b4000 0x122000   0x122000   com.apple.kext.AMDLegacySupport (1.5.8) 8D2ACF79-71D8-3500-A853-C1D2B01C4FDC <91 12 11 7 5 4 3 1>

  107    0 0xffffff7f83219000 0xea000    0xea000    com.apple.kext.AMD5000Controller (1.5.8) 0D2838A6-1996-3CAF-8E3A-C1814269A179 <100 91 12 11 5 4 3 1>

  117    1 0xffffff7f829ca000 0x90000    0x90000    com.apple.iokit.IOAcceleratorFamily2 (311.14) 13F71024-7246-3AD1-A551-5C186BC70889 <91 12 7 6 5 4 3 1>

  118    0 0xffffff7f82a69000 0x571000   0x571000   com.apple.AMDRadeonX3000 (1.5.1) F6F37414-893B-3F66-8AB7-F3327DE6AC55 <117 116 91 12 7 5 4 3 1>

  127    0 0xffffff7f831e3000 0x22000    0x22000    com.apple.kext.AMDLegacyFramebuffer (1.5.8) D1BFDFE9-3E2B-3D7C-AFA1-F59FA6C411AA <100 91 12 11 7 5 4 3 1>

 

But it's obvious the kexts from the above serria rollback.zip file were installed

I looked at the installed kexts in the wizard and i do not see the AMDLegacySupport.kext the AMD5000Controller.kext or the AMDLegacyFramebuffer.kext and none of those kext are in my

System/Library/Extensions

The only AMD file beside the 2 installed from the rollback file is the AMD9300Controller.kext

 

Any suggestions? Should i locate the other 3 and install them?

 

 

 

Edited November 23, 2019 by jarmster