w00t ?
to get it working go to irc.osx86.hu #radeonhd
in channel topic click on first two links, and install them both, then reboot….should works then
p.s. second link is only for 10.5.1/10.5.0 systems, 10.5.2 doesn’t need it.
p.p.s. for 3850 card solution is in changing devid in bios, modified bios is in comments
I have finaly figured out why newer FrameBuffer drivers doesn’t work at all, reason is PowerPlay and powermanagement, disabling it makes newer framebuffer works.
Good news, fixed ATY_Triakis, now, with it, DVI and Dual monitors finaly works for 2600 cards !
also, that’s hope for 3870/3850 cards, testing in progress, stay tunned
It works with 10.5.2
but u can use 10.5.2 nvidia kexts in 10.5.1, so will have little gui glitches
After apple seeded 10.5.2 to adc, funny news come out.
e.g., there is mentions about RV770 video chip (amd/ati)…and…RS780 system chip with integrated video card
what does it mean ?
_PHM_TF_RV770_EnableL0s
_PHM_TF_RV770_EnableL1
_PHM_TF_RV770_EnablePLLSleepInL1
_PHM_TF_RV770_ProgramDisplayGap
_PHM_TF_RV770_RetrieveDisplayConfiguration
_PP_RV770_Thermal_Initialize
PhwRS780_UnInitialize
PhwRS780_Initialize
PhwRS780_SwitchMemClk
Also that kext mentiuoned abotu rv6xx, so maybe it’s hope for 3850/3870 cards.
Also, Dense jsut figured out there is g92 devid in new nvidia kexts
After we did a lot of researching in this area, user matrix finaly wrote an app to convert gfxstring to plis and then back to gfxstring
it would help a lot of peoples
GFX string is a hex dump of some OSDictionary
I’m not familar with CoreFoundition coding, so if somebody can write an app (console
app e.g.)
read such string, convert it to array and fill OSDictionary var with it, then print all
values from it.
- U r welcome.
Changes since 7.4
now it supports both mbr and gpt(guid) partition tables (also Apple
Partition Map)
added device-properties string for x1600
P.S. boot0/boot1h is not hybrid
Main improvement; plugable videocards support
what does it mean ?
let’s open /Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/com.apple.Boot.plist
after installing v.74 add one properties to that file
for example, find this entry
<key>Timeout</key>
<string>10</string>
and add after it
<key>device-properties</key>
<string>73120….32000000</string>
73120….32000000 – is a long string which need for bootloader to make your gfx work without natit.
At this moment this string is ready for radeon 2600XT/pro
strings for other cards will be added later, to this post.
Updated, strings for 8800GTS/GTX is here http://tinyurl.com/2cucaj
if u don’t add device-properties key to Boot.plsit file then pc_efi will just ignore it.
u need just copypast string from file to space bettween <string> and </string>.
p.s. current limit for com.apple.Boot.plist file size is 16384 bytes
p.p.s. gpt/mbr pc_efi is planning for future, so will be done soonly.
Long waited solution 
To make it , need to use gptsync, i found binary for linux (from apt-get isntall refit)
Good luck with finding out binary for osx.
Ok, so, u need to sync your gpt table to mbr table, the only limitation - mbr can have only 4 entry for partitions,
and first entry will be used for guid protective entry (partition with type 0xEE)
So, u will have three partitions to install windows.
However installing windows will overwrite mbr boot sector (where u installed boot0),
so need to reinstall boot0 after it
So, u can have up to 128 guid partitions, but only first three (excluding efi partition)
will be windows-compatible
If windows knows about gpt (not xp, 2003sp1 knows guid e.g., or 64-bit xp, or vista),
then u can use other gpt partitions
for data, u still can’t boot windows of it(diskXs2-4 – bootable for windows, diskXs5+ – not bootable).
pc_efi is able to boot windows bootloader from partition (chainloading).
Good luck.
Users posted gptsync for OSX in comments.
P.S. binary gptsync for linux I found - gptsync
P.P.S OSX will see drive ad guid still, after any changes to guid partition table, u need to resync it again.
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