LG W1 Pro EP00E ATI Radeon X1600 Install howto

[shaybc]

hi,

 

this is my success story of how to install the ATI Radeon X1600 512M onboard of LG W1 Pro Express Dual EP00E kext on Leopard 10.5.2 + updates (iAtkos)

this is the conclusion of many days of try and error and lots of solutions and ideas out there, this is the concentration of them, and it made mine work. have fun.

 

Downloads: (all downloads are attached and there is alink to them as well)

- ATIinject-Pack#Part1.zip (http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showtopic=36812)

- ATIinject-Pack#Part2.zip (http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showtopic=36812)

- Color LCD-42717C0.icc (http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?sho...=77685&st=0)

- Property_List_Editor_2.1.dmg (http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?sho...mp;#entry208018)

- softMCCS.exe (there are other options but i use vista so this one worked 4 me) (http://www.entechtaiwan.com/lib/softmccs.shtm)

- xcode_3.0.dmg (not attached) (http://developer.apple.com/tools/download/)

 

One mistake I made was listening to this instruction (found somewhere on insanelymac):

 

*** DO NOT DO THIS>>> sudo rm -R /System/Library/Extensions/ATI*

 

It caused me loosing my ci/qe abilities, lucky me I backup everything so I restored old files and bingo got myselfe ATI Radeon x1600 512M dual screen ci/qe enabled working.

 

Steps:

 

Rip EDID info from windows

======================

1. download and install the app "softMCCS"

2. open the app find tab EDID Information and copy from the entry "Raw Data" the long hex content

3. the content should be in 16 letters groups separate each 16 into 8 groups

4. for instance: 00FFFFFFFFFFFF00 should be converted to: 00FFFFFF FFFFFF00

5. save it into a text file as a single line at a shared location where the mac installation can access it (disk on key or use MacDrive to see your mac partitions from windows)

6. mine looks like this: 00FFFFFF FFFFFF00 320C0000 00000000 000F0102 80251778 0A8EF097 58518D28 24505400 00000101 01010101 01010101 01010101 01019525 A0405184 0C304020 33006FE6 10000018 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00FE004C 47506869 6C697073 4C43440A 000000FE 004C5031 37315758 322D4134 4B3500F5

 

Prepare ATIinject file with EDID info

============================

1. install Property_List_Editor_2.1.dmg find it or attached to this post.

2. extract maxx zip file: ATIinject_Pack_Part2.zip attached to this post or find it on insanelymac

3. right click ATIinject.kext and choose "Show Package Contents" from the popup Finder edit Contents/Info.plist using "Property List Editor" previousely installed

4. enter the previouselly saved Raw Data from EDID into keys: "LVDS,EDID" and "DFP1,EDID" just paste it between the triangle brackets: <PASTE HERE>

 

now lets deploy the new driver

========================

1. extract the zip file "ATIinject-Pack#Part1.zip"

2. copy the content of it into folder: /System/Library/Extensions

3. copy previouselly prepared ATIinject.kext file also into /System/Library/Extensions

 

(lastly the known part) fix permisions mod and ownership with these commands

=============================================================

1. sudo chmod -R 755 /System/Library/Extensions

2. sudo chown -R 0:0 /System/Library/Extensions

3. sudo rm -R /System/Library/Extensions.mkext

4. diskutil repairpermissions /

now restart

 

optional

======

copy the attached file Color LCD-42717C0.icc into /Library/ColorSync/Profiles/Displays/

then from System Preferences -> Display -> Color choose it

 

thats it Enjoy!

 

CI/QE

=====

In case ci/qe wont work here is a trick I learnd:

First of all what it means: CI = Core Image QE= Quartz Extreme

These are features your display card should support (or not) in order to perform 2D effects and calculations so the CPU wont be bothered with it.

Apple use smart diagnostics to determin if your card support it or not. If it is supported then some greate looking features appears such as: fast user switch with 3D cube effect, or when you add a widget it display water ripple effect etc.

 

Also you can check for support using: Applications->Utilities->System Profiler

This will display a screen telling what Leopard knows of your system. Goto Hardware and check these two entries: Core Image and Quartz Extreme it should say supported or not supported.

 

So lets get to work:

first know your vendor id and device id you can extract it from windows using this method:

on XP:

1. RightClick MyComputer

2. Hardware tab

3. DeviceManager button

4. DisplayAdapter entry choose your card

5. doubleclick or right click->Properties

6. in details use the dropdown and choose HardWare IDs

7. you should find at the first line something like this: PCI\VEN_1002&DEV_71C5&SUBSYS_00811854&REV_00

8. write down the device id after "DEV_" at this example it is: 71C5

9. write down the vendor id after "VEN_" at this example it is: 1002

 

on Vista:

1. Control Panel->System

2. device Manager

3. DisplayAdapter entry choose your card

4. doubleclick or right click->Properties

5. in details use the dropdown and choose HardWare IDs

6. you should find at the first line something like this: PCI\VEN_1002&DEV_71C5&SUBSYS_00811854&REV_00

7. write down the device id after "DEV_" at this example it is: 71C5

8. write down the vendor id after "VEN_" at this example it is: 1002

 

Copy from somewhere the original "ATIRadeonX1000.kext" from the web or from the install disk, if you backedup like me then from there, or you can install leopard on another partition and extract it from there (so you wont harm your installation), I use the last I always have spare partition that I try on it all the stuff out here, if it works and after I perfected the procedure only then I install it into the main active partition, but this is for another howto (use GParted),

 

So after getting the original kext

1. Download and install "0xED", it is a HEX editor

2. open with 0xED the file: ATIRadeonX1000.kext/Contents/MacOS/ATIRadeonX1000 found at the original kext

3. Use: Edit->Find->Find… and search for C071 search type: Hex

you should find it twice replace it with your vendor id but replace the 2 bytes for instance if your device id is:71C5 then replace it with C571

4. now do the same but this time search it the correct way: 71C0 and replace it with the correct form 71C5 (you may encounter up to 6 occurences)

5. save it, copy the kext into /System/Library/Extensions

6. edit with TextEdit or Property editor the file: ATIRadeonX1000.kext/Contents/info.plist

7. find the tag IOPCIMatch and make sure your device and vendor id string is there

8. the string is formed of the parts: 0x + DeviceID + VendorID so according to the mentiond example it should look like: 0x71C51002, the strings are seperated with space, if yours isnt there then write it next to one that is there and make sure space between your value and the others (and save it)

9. open terminal and write these commands:

10. sudo chmod -R 755 /System/Library/Extensions

11. sudo chown -R 0:0 /System/Library/Extensions

12. sudo rm -R /System/Library/Extensions.mkext

13. diskutil repairpermissions /

14. now restart yor system

 

1. If after all this you cannot enable ci/qe then you can do this:

Go to the original Leopard disk installation and install Xcode (a set of development tools)

2. if you don't have the install disk you can find it freely on the mac dev site its about more or less 1.1G!!

3. after installation go to folder: /Developer/Applications/Performance Tools

4. activate the application: Quartz Debug

5. from tools click "Enable Quartz Extreme"

6. reboot and that's it

 

This was my success story of how I installed my LG W1 EP00E ATI X1600 onboard internal display driver on Leopard!

 

Hope this has been helpful.

softMCCS.exe

Property_List_Editor_2.1.dmg

Color_LCD_42717C0.zip

ATIinject_Pack_Part1.zip

ATIinject_Pack_Part2.zip

[raul7]

DUDE you rock man, i was almost giving up hope until i saw this post, just wanted to thank you ....

got it working on Z96J ATI X1600 Mobility 0x71C5.

[nx9420]

Hello, I followed the original post and got the black screen. Then I followed this post http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?sho...p;p=397755& and got my screen back. However, i only have 1024x768 still. The only thing I did differently from this post was use Phoenix to get my EDID instead of softMCCS.exe because when I used softMCCS.exe, i got a blank EDID. Any help???

[JKervinen]

i got blank edid too with my acer aspire 5112wlmi. x1600 mobility working perfect with these instructions and external screen (and it's edid information)

[nx9420]

I just want to express my happiness that I finally got this graphics card working!!!!! I used this post to help. I got and HP nx9420. I'm running vista and the softmccs didn't work to retrive the edid so i used pheonix and got the edid. I'm not sure if i used the ATIinject packs from here or somewhere else. Anyways i'm rambling but happy. hit me up if you have 9420 and cannot get it to work.

[usastra]

I tried the above method, but couldn't boot into Leopard anymore.

I have installed iAtkos 4i on a Toshiba Tecra A7 with an Ati x1600 mobile.

I also noticed that at first I coudln't copy the content of "ATIinject-Pack#Part1.zip" into folder: /System/Library/Extensions, because I didn't have permissions. Though I tried it again the fourth step and I could overwrite the files.

Though as stated the boot got stuck at the grey apple window after it.

Any help would be apreciated!

[hobbes1234]

Great step by step instructions!! I followed everything exactly as mentioned in this topic on my Toshiba Tecra A7 with an ATI X1600 PCI Express video card.

 

After reboot it did show a higher resolution (before only 1024x768) but only on half of the screen! Then a blue bar (top-down) and most of the right side is black. The left side which shows half of the screen is a full screen desktop, so I think it has something to do with the resolution setup or timing/synching!? I used Win XP on the same laptop (dual-boot) to get the EDID information with the above mentioned tool.

 

Did some one experienced this before and was able to fix it?

 

Any hints/tips welcome

[wizzord]

ClamX found a trojan in softMCCS.exe. Might just be a normal function of the program, but I think mentioning it doesn't hurt…

 

Oh and thanks for your extensive walktrough. I hoped it might work for the RX1550, too, but unfortunately it leads to a black screen

[hobbes1234]

Anyone with more succes stories? I can't get it to work correctly; only on half of the screen :-(

[whitekingbolete]

I've been trying to get this to work for a week now and was hoping this was going to be the one, but on reboot I still get blue and black vertical lines and then the screen fades to black.

 

After a fresh install in all distro's my System Profiler shows that my card is working, at least I think it is. ( no video drivers selected on install)

Display:

 

Type: Display

Bus: PCIe

PCIe Lane Width: x16

VRAM (Total): 256 MB

Vendor: ATI (0x1002)

Device ID: 0x71c5

Revision ID: 0x0000

Displays:

Display:

Resolution: 1024 x 768

Depth: 32-bit Color

Core Image: Hardware Accelerated

Main Display: Yes

Mirror: Off

Online: Yes

Quartz Extreme: Supported

 

(if I select natit or ati video options on install I get blue and black vertical lines and then my screen fades to black)

If I select nothing on install everything looks great but the resolution is stuck at 1024 x 768, I would love to get 1440 x 900.

 

The same thing happens after this tutorial as well.(very clear tutorial) Thanks shaybc, sure wish it worked for me like you and the others.

 

Anybody getting full resolution on a Fujitsu Lifebook N6420 w/ ATI's Mobility Radeon X1600?

 

Is there a way to edit some hex values that will allow full resolution since my card does seem to work?

[ph.quentin]

Thank you man,

That really helped me!! It's working nearly perfekt, but I've got one little question: If I install Leopard with the Natit driver, I have the full power of my graphics card (like the "wubbling" effect on the dashboard, moving a new item on the desk). The only problem I have: I've got just 1024 x 768 pixels. So i tried to install my card the way you explained. It's rellay awsome, but there's now only one problem (again):

Leopard succesfully sets the Settings on 1440 x 900 pixels, QuartzGL, Quartz Extreme and so on is enabled and working, BUT: If I know press the F12 for the Dashboard, it appears really "slowly", it's not as flowly as it was with the Natit kext. And the worst of all, if I start Time Machine, my system crashes (because of problems displaying this "space-effects" and so on).

 

What maybe could be the reason for that?

 

Hopeing for help, I spent many hours on searching the solution of this problem ...

[osergios]

hi,

 

this is my success story of how to install the ATI Radeon X1600 512M onboard of LG W1 Pro Express Dual EP00E kext on Leopard 10.5.2 + updates (iAtkos)

this is the conclusion of many days of try and error and lots of solutions and ideas out there, this is the concentration of them, and it made mine work. have fun.

 

Downloads: (all downloads are attached and there is alink to them as well)

- ATIinject-Pack#Part1.zip (http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showtopic=36812)

- ATIinject-Pack#Part2.zip (http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showtopic=36812)

- Color LCD-42717C0.icc (http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?sho...=77685&st=0)

- Property_List_Editor_2.1.dmg (http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?sho...mp;#entry208018)

- softMCCS.exe (there are other options but i use vista so this one worked 4 me) (http://www.entechtaiwan.com/lib/softmccs.shtm)

- xcode_3.0.dmg (not attached) (http://developer.apple.com/tools/download/)

 

One mistake I made was listening to this instruction (found somewhere on insanelymac):

 

*** DO NOT DO THIS>>> sudo rm -R /System/Library/Extensions/ATI*

 

It caused me loosing my ci/qe abilities, lucky me I backup everything so I restored old files and bingo got myselfe ATI Radeon x1600 512M dual screen ci/qe enabled working.

 

Steps:

 

Rip EDID info from windows

======================

1. download and install the app "softMCCS"

2. open the app find tab EDID Information and copy from the entry "Raw Data" the long hex content

3. the content should be in 16 letters groups separate each 16 into 8 groups

4. for instance: 00FFFFFFFFFFFF00 should be converted to: 00FFFFFF FFFFFF00

5. save it into a text file as a single line at a shared location where the mac installation can access it (disk on key or use MacDrive to see your mac partitions from windows)

6. mine looks like this: 00FFFFFF FFFFFF00 320C0000 00000000 000F0102 80251778 0A8EF097 58518D28 24505400 00000101 01010101 01010101 01010101 01019525 A0405184 0C304020 33006FE6 10000018 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00FE004C 47506869 6C697073 4C43440A 000000FE 004C5031 37315758 322D4134 4B3500F5

 

Prepare ATIinject file with EDID info

============================

1. install Property_List_Editor_2.1.dmg find it or attached to this post.

2. extract maxx zip file: ATIinject_Pack_Part2.zip attached to this post or find it on insanelymac

3. right click ATIinject.kext and choose "Show Package Contents" from the popup Finder edit Contents/Info.plist using "Property List Editor" previousely installed

4. enter the previouselly saved Raw Data from EDID into keys: "LVDS,EDID" and "DFP1,EDID" just paste it between the triangle brackets: <PASTE HERE>

 

now lets deploy the new driver

========================

1. extract the zip file "ATIinject-Pack#Part1.zip"

2. copy the content of it into folder: /System/Library/Extensions

3. copy previouselly prepared ATIinject.kext file also into /System/Library/Extensions

 

(lastly the known part) fix permisions mod and ownership with these commands

=============================================================

1. sudo chmod -R 755 /System/Library/Extensions

2. sudo chown -R 0:0 /System/Library/Extensions

3. sudo rm -R /System/Library/Extensions.mkext

4. diskutil repairpermissions /

now restart

 

optional

======

copy the attached file Color LCD-42717C0.icc into /Library/ColorSync/Profiles/Displays/

then from System Preferences -> Display -> Color choose it

 

thats it Enjoy!

 

CI/QE

=====

In case ci/qe wont work here is a trick I learnd:

First of all what it means: CI = Core Image QE= Quartz Extreme

These are features your display card should support (or not) in order to perform 2D effects and calculations so the CPU wont be bothered with it.

Apple use smart diagnostics to determin if your card support it or not. If it is supported then some greate looking features appears such as: fast user switch with 3D cube effect, or when you add a widget it display water ripple effect etc.

 

Also you can check for support using: Applications->Utilities->System Profiler

This will display a screen telling what Leopard knows of your system. Goto Hardware and check these two entries: Core Image and Quartz Extreme it should say supported or not supported.

 

So lets get to work:

first know your vendor id and device id you can extract it from windows using this method:

on XP:

1. RightClick MyComputer

2. Hardware tab

3. DeviceManager button

4. DisplayAdapter entry choose your card

5. doubleclick or right click->Properties

6. in details use the dropdown and choose HardWare IDs

7. you should find at the first line something like this: PCI\VEN_1002&DEV_71C5&SUBSYS_00811854&REV_00

8. write down the device id after "DEV_" at this example it is: 71C5

9. write down the vendor id after "VEN_" at this example it is: 1002

 

on Vista:

1. Control Panel->System

2. device Manager

3. DisplayAdapter entry choose your card

4. doubleclick or right click->Properties

5. in details use the dropdown and choose HardWare IDs

6. you should find at the first line something like this: PCI\VEN_1002&DEV_71C5&SUBSYS_00811854&REV_00

7. write down the device id after "DEV_" at this example it is: 71C5

8. write down the vendor id after "VEN_" at this example it is: 1002

 

Copy from somewhere the original "ATIRadeonX1000.kext" from the web or from the install disk, if you backedup like me then from there, or you can install leopard on another partition and extract it from there (so you wont harm your installation), I use the last I always have spare partition that I try on it all the stuff out here, if it works and after I perfected the procedure only then I install it into the main active partition, but this is for another howto (use GParted),

 

So after getting the original kext

1. Download and install "0xED", it is a HEX editor

2. open with 0xED the file: ATIRadeonX1000.kext/Contents/MacOS/ATIRadeonX1000 found at the original kext

3. Use: Edit->Find->Find… and search for C071 search type: Hex

you should find it twice replace it with your vendor id but replace the 2 bytes for instance if your device id is:71C5 then replace it with C571

4. now do the same but this time search it the correct way: 71C0 and replace it with the correct form 71C5 (you may encounter up to 6 occurences)

5. save it, copy the kext into /System/Library/Extensions

6. edit with TextEdit or Property editor the file: ATIRadeonX1000.kext/Contents/info.plist

7. find the tag IOPCIMatch and make sure your device and vendor id string is there

8. the string is formed of the parts: 0x + DeviceID + VendorID so according to the mentiond example it should look like: 0x71C51002, the strings are seperated with space, if yours isnt there then write it next to one that is there and make sure space between your value and the others (and save it)

9. open terminal and write these commands:

10. sudo chmod -R 755 /System/Library/Extensions

11. sudo chown -R 0:0 /System/Library/Extensions

12. sudo rm -R /System/Library/Extensions.mkext

13. diskutil repairpermissions /

14. now restart yor system

 

1. If after all this you cannot enable ci/qe then you can do this:

Go to the original Leopard disk installation and install Xcode (a set of development tools)

2. if you don't have the install disk you can find it freely on the mac dev site its about more or less 1.1G!!

3. after installation go to folder: /Developer/Applications/Performance Tools

4. activate the application: Quartz Debug

5. from tools click "Enable Quartz Extreme"

6. reboot and that's it

 

This was my success story of how I installed my LG W1 EP00E ATI X1600 onboard internal display driver on Leopard!

 

Hope this has been helpful.

 

I love you man

i mean i really do

ohhhhhhhh i can go to sleep now

after one week...

thanks man

[mackol]

Just wanted to let everyone know that this solution works PERFECTLY with HP Compaq nc8430 (ATI Mobility Radeon X1600, device id: 71C5).

 

CI/QE works, native resolution 1680x1050.

 

[Hopingitworks]

Just wanted to let everyone know that this solution works PERFECTLY with HP Compaq nc8430 (ATI Mobility Radeon X1600, device id: 71C5).

 

CI/QE works, native resolution 1680x1050.

 

 

What's the p/n of your nc8430? Also, have you been able to connect an external display? And on a different note, how did you network yours? What OSX distribution are you running?

[Phnom77]

HI,

Everyone can help me about my Notebook ASUS W2J installed with iatKos v7 10.5.7, I have only the problem with Graphic card ATI Mobility Radeon x1600, i have only 1024x768 this by default

Thank u