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New in this release:

• Support for desktop Radeons 4300/4500/4600 in GraphicsEnabler
• Added system-id fix, system doesn’t forget your keyboard settings anymore
• Added fix for lynnfield cpus

2nd and 3rd are 3rd party fixes.
So it’s ready for snow leopard finaly
Enjoy.
booter (unbzip first)
sources

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opengl 3.0 test there doesnt work yet tho and most of gl3.0 specific functions aren’t present yet, but most of modern gpu’s functionality is now possible to use via extensions.

I hope they’re not going to hold opengl3.0 untill 10.7

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It reminds me good old days of 10.5.2, which brought support for many new vga cards.

So, what’s new in 10.6.2:

• 64-bit kexts for intel graphics
• 64-bit atheros driver
• support for desktop radeonhd 43xx/45xx/46xx (only dvi output works yet, dvi2vga dongle doesnt work) with beta booter(dont forget to unpack before installing;) )
• Bye bye atom, should be fixed as soon as apple releases kernel sources or use kernel&system.kext from 10.6.1
• better opencl support for radeons 4 series, also opencl support for 46xx cards
• Something I forgot to mention
• Radeon users need to use PCEFI 10.4.1 or 10.5, pre 10.4 will cause panic in ATIRadeonX2000.kext
• There is panic with geforce7 cards and 64-bit kernel mode, use 32-bit kernel mode
• New core i5/i7(8xx) is supported by vanilla kernel now.

How to update – it’s easy.

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Use any disabler for AppleIntelCPUPowerManagement.kext, for example – NullCPUPM.kext, install it to Extra mkext and reboot, of course if you made AppleIntelCPUPM to speedstep your cpu, you can skip this step.

Make backup of your kexts, you might need some.

Remove SleepEnabler.kext if you use it, this is very important step, old sleepenabler + new kernel = panic.

Hit the update button, if you need to edit some kexts AFTER update and BEFORE reboot – download and install update from apple site.

After reboot – re-add your device-ids to kexts where you need it and enjoy.

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Updated sleepEnabler for 10.6.2 – link, I binpatched the old one, so don’t ask for sources, I don’t have them, install(if you want) only AFTER updating.

Radeon 4830/4850/4870×2/4890 users, tired of adding device-id to ATI4800Controller.kext after every update ? Use this kext in Extra mkext.

Also, for atheros users, here is legacy kext for it, to stop thinking about dev-id insertion after every update, we made it together with XyZ, add your dev-id to it in two places and install to Extra mkext, the unique feature of it is ability to load old kext in 32-bit mode and new kext in 64-bit mode, this is needed because some users have problems with signal level and new driver.

Radeon 4830/4870×2/4890 users – you need to install this pkg – qe_ci_exotic_10.6.2

p.p.s. note our new file hosting.

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Latest 10.6.2 update have drivers for 46×0 45×0 43×0 card and we jsut made it to work.

You will need – a beta booter with GraphicsEnabler support for those card and drivers for osx (can find in irc.osx86.hu #radeonhd topic)

4650 – add devid into ATIRadeonX2000.kext after installing drivers, and remember to add your device-id to ATI4600Controller.kext and ATIRadeonX2000.kext after updating to 10.6.2 in future.
4670 doesnt need adding devid to kexts.

4350 – add devid into ATIRadeonX2000.kext after installing drivers, and remember to add your device-id to ATI4500Controller.kext and ATIRadeonX2000.kext after updating to 10.6.2 in future.

P.S. screenshots from 4650 card with DVI display, hdmi didnt work. VGA wasn’t tested, mobility wasnt tested too
P.S.S. this is only for snow leopard.

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Latest 10.6.2 beta has kext named AirportAtheros21.kext, just add there your dev-id, test and check if it works, devid = 0013 works.

Also its possible to use old kext for 32-bit and new for 64-bit automaticaly.

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New in release:

• Automatic detection of pci root uid value(for GraphicsEnabler and ethernetbuiltin options) based on parsing DSDT.aml file (if you dont use custom DSDT.aml, you will need to use -pci1 flag in case you have uid=1) . If booter fails to detect it or you dont have _UID property in pci root(in dsdt) then UID=0 used by default, but, if you have UID=1 and booter fails to detect it, use -pci1 boot flag. Uid detection works really well in most cases.
• Added aserebln’s patch for better cpu type detection, for example I dont need to add SMcputype key anymore
• Better handling of pci slot names if nvidia card present

Zipped booter – link1 link2(mirror)

Sources

More information and installation instructions here.

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This kext creates HPET device in ioreg, so you dont need(if you need) to edit DSDT to get it.

Originaly I created this kext for myself, because if HPET was enabled in DSDT then my pci wifi device was loosing interrupt and wasnt working, so this kext is workaround for it.

You can use it if you want to get HPET device in ioreg and are lazy to edit DSDT.

by default it uses these parametrs for HPET device (in Info.plist):

<key>base-address</key>
<integer>4275044352</integer>
<key>base-length</key>
<integer>1024</integer>
<key>irq</key>
<integer>12</integer>

which correspond to this:

Memory32Fixed (ReadWrite,
0xFED00000, // Address Base
0×00000400, // Address Length
)

I dont recommend editing irq .

The kext, for use with snow leopard:
HPETDevice.tar.bz2

Leopard version

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New version of chameleon based booter includes these new abilities:

• GraphicsEnabler now supports Radeon hd 2/3 series too, but only for Leopard
• GraphicsEnabler now set up bin_image property for all radeon hd cards found in system, should fix 100% fan speed issue.
• You can tell GraphicsEnabler(GE) to use custom version of bios(for overcloking/changing fan speed/ etc). Use option -useatirom, and GE will look for bios files in /Extra folder (from root and boot partitions, Extra from root partition has more priority). Place bios files to Extra folder and rename them to this format – ati_XXXX_YYYY.rom, where XXXX – devid, and YYYY – vendor-id, for example rom file for 4850 should be named – ati_9442_1002.rom.
• 3rd party sm_cpu_type patch added (well, doesnt work for me anyway) and 3d party patch to fix hibernation.
• Proper enumerating of all pci ethernet/video devices
• Fixed few typos
• Support for radeon hd 4730 (rv770 based card) added to GE, the card wasn’t tested tho
• Support for multiple Radeon hd 48×0 cards in SnowLeopard
• Added GE support for 2600 and 3870 in snowleopard, need to remove x2000.kext to get reschange, other pre-4xxx cards need to be tested yet

Installation – make sure you have chameleon2 installed, then replace boot file in boot partition with this one – boot_10.4.1
mirror

Sources – Chameleon-2.0-RC3-r658-src_PCEFIV10.4-src.tar.bz2

Also, legacyAti4800Controller kext, to forget about adding dev-id to that kext after every update – kext, use in mkext in /Extra/

p.s. Updated Graphics Enabler now works with 10.6.2 and ati 48×0 gpus.

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There is good news for owners of macbooks with intel graphics and 64-bit efi, who was successfull to enable 64-bit.

10.6.2 beta has 64-bit drivers for all intel igp’s used in macs.

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After installing ATI kexts and OpenCL/OpenGL frameworks from new 10.6.2 beta its possibly to use now Galaxies demo, also now we have more compute units (4->10)

[Platform 0]
Name: Apple
Vendor: Apple
Version: OpenCL 1.0 (Sep 29 2009 21:45:56)
Profile: FULL_PROFILE

2 OpenCL devices found!

[Device 0]
Name: Radeon HD 4870
Vendor: AMD
Type: GPU
Device Version: OpenCL 1.0
Driver Version: 1.0
Compute Units: 10

also bandwidth increased few times

/Developer/GPU Computing/OpenCL/bin/darwin/release/oclBandwidthTest Starting…

Running on…

Device Radeon HD 4870

Quick Mode
Host to Device Bandwidth for Pageable memory, direct access
…
Transfer Size (Bytes) Bandwidth(MB/s)
33554432 4619.7

Quick Mode
Device to Host Bandwidth for Pageable memory, direct access
…
Transfer Size (Bytes) Bandwidth(MB/s)
33554432 4955.3

Quick Mode
Device to Device Bandwidth
…
Transfer Size (Bytes) Bandwidth(MB/s)
33554432 19711.7

TEST PASSED

p.s. not recomended for users who need qe_ci_exotic

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