TheBomb Posted September 25, 2007 Share Posted September 25, 2007 --------------------NB!!! WORK IN PROGRESS!!!!--------------------- Hi Guys, This is born out of utter frustration and dissapointment after countless hours spent here trying to get this thing to work. My aim with this is to provide a step-by-step (and I mean down to things like "Step4: Run the Terminal in /Applications/Utilities/) for people like me who are highly enthusiastic but don't have the time (or possibly the capacity) to read through the 500+ pages of threads regarding all manner of individual problems and solutions, and spend countless hours trying things and re-installing etc... These days it seems anyone and their grandmother can have full resolution selection with QE/CI enabled... ...except the odd person like me with the most unlucky combination of GPU and LCD on a Laptop. So this guide is specifically for those on 1280x800 LCD displays (found on 15.4 widescreen Laptops) fitted with ATI Radeon x700 mobility cards (M26) with device ids of 0x5653 or 0x5652 with vendor ids of 0000 or 1002, who are not able to use the standard fixes (Calisto, Koverg etc) to get QE/CI or a native 1280x800 resolution working. The solution(s) i believe exists but there are no clear, easy to follow, step by step instructions that start from the begining and can be followed by someone who has just installed OS X for the first time and knows nothing of coding, hex editing, terminals etc... I will however assume that, you are at least Windows literate if you've come as far as a working Hackintosh intallation. The GUide: Definitions Terminal - the OSX version of the DOS command prompt HexEditing - editing the code in files (mostly drivers) directly as it is in hexadecimal format using a hex editor. .Kexts Methods and their results: Callisto: -cal3 -cal5 -cal6 -cal6 OVOF fix & GeorG77 method -cal8 Koverg Patch: -all-4-1 patch Step-by-Step: -------------- its 5.30am so i'm going to stop here for now and i'll get back to this tomorrow, i'm posting it now so that anyone who wants to contribute can continue what i've started and i'll incorporate it into the main guide, thanks----- Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/64357-the-final-problem-ati-card-how-to-for-n00bs/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
newtrax Posted September 25, 2007 Share Posted September 25, 2007 I was close to giving up too, but now have my x700 working finally! I have uphuck 1.4i 10.4.9 installed on my Acer Travelmate 8104wlmi with Ati Radeon Mobility x700 128Mb 5653 at native lcd res (and with sound and network)! I used atidriverproject to build and patch using koverg & calisto6, and now have 1680x1050x32 with QE/CI !!!! http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showtopic=55838 Original Calisto dot clock value flickered badly at 121000, but after trial and error with 'Hex Fiend' a value of 121500 (0x01DA9C) fixed the flickering for me! All the instructions and solutions are scattered through this thread http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?sho...mp;#entry411655 but I agree that a concise guide would help a lot! Also it would be awesome if the makers of the koverg, calisto, & atidriverproject could make an integrated x700 installer like diabolik and natit have! BTW. A small amount of mouse pointer tearing/corruption still occurs occasionally... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/64357-the-final-problem-ati-card-how-to-for-n00bs/#findComment-455707 Share on other sites More sharing options...
samsunlu55 Posted April 14, 2009 Share Posted April 14, 2009 I was close to giving up too, but now have my x700 working finally! I have uphuck 1.4i 10.4.9 installed on my Acer Travelmate 8104wlmi with Ati Radeon Mobility x700 128Mb 5653 at native lcd res (and with sound and network)! I used atidriverproject to build and patch using koverg & calisto6, and now have 1680x1050x32 with QE/CI !!!! http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showtopic=55838 Original Calisto dot clock value flickered badly at 121000, but after trial and error with 'Hex Fiend' a value of 121500 (0x01DA9C) fixed the flickering for me! All the instructions and solutions are scattered through this thread http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?sho...mp;#entry411655 but I agree that a concise guide would help a lot! Also it would be awesome if the makers of the koverg, calisto, & atidriverproject could make an integrated x700 installer like diabolik and natit have! BTW. A small amount of mouse pointer tearing/corruption still occurs occasionally... Please make a tutorial for REAL Noobs like me! How do you change the Dotlclock?? I know many People with ATI X700 ( ID 5653 ) M26 need this to get 1280x800 with Qe + Ci Pleaseeeeeeeeee I found this on the web! " We have to setup 2 components: 1. 2D Driver (ATIRadeon9700.kext) 1.1) Update the Info.plist XML file with your hardware ID 3D Driver (ATIRadeon9700GA.plugin) 1.2) Update the Info.plist XML file exchange IONVDRVFrameBuffer with CallistoFB 2. LCD panel ModeLine for 1280x800 (Callisto 006 Patched) Install Callisto 006 patched in the easy way like other extensions. How to patch yourself Callisto 006 binaries: 2.A) You need to know the RIGHT Modeline of your Flat LCD panel (you can read it on Linux Xorg log output, easy and clear) May be (dot clock frequency): 71250 71500 71510 2. Find Callisto 006 already patched binary at addres 0x490E 2.C) Perform some numeric operations: 71250 Decimal to HEX = 0x00XXYYZZ Reverse the BYTES: ZZYYXX00 Write it from address 0x490E 2.D) Ready now you have the patched Callisto binary copy it into MacOSX Extensions folder clear cache and reboot Tip: if you read always 71250 on callisto dump at boot do not warry this is not updated. Warning: look at callisto 006 binary at address 0x490E you must find some like 71xxx decimal value, if you didn't find this you are using wrong binary " Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/64357-the-final-problem-ati-card-how-to-for-n00bs/#findComment-1132143 Share on other sites More sharing options...
creative4art Posted May 29, 2010 Share Posted May 29, 2010 Can someone tell me whats the procedure to edit the Hex value to modify Dot clock? I want to modify it to 96300 and I do not know which file to modify. I tried looking up Calisto, ATIRadeon9600 and CallistoHAL and none of them had anything like how the thread says at location 0x490e. It points to an entire line and I do not know which byte to change. Also Should I convert 96300 string to hex? Then the hex equivalent according to this site http://www.easycalculation.com/ascii-hex.php is 39 36 33 30 30. Where should I enter this? Someone please help. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/64357-the-final-problem-ati-card-how-to-for-n00bs/#findComment-1477810 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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