Chameleon > Feature Requests
Support for HIS Radeon HD 6670
onecubeowner:
I purchased HIS 6670 iSilence 4 1GB DDR3 PCI-E DVI/HDMI/VGA (http://www.hisdigital.com/un/product2-662.shtml) to replace my ASUS nVidia 9500 in hopes of eliminating one fan.
Running into issues trying to get this card fully supported on my ep43-ud3l with Cartri BIOS. The system is running the MLDP4 with the update on one drive, latest Lion on another, and latest SL on another.
I've tried the most recent Chameleon and Chimera. I've tried adding a different Personality with AtiConfig=xxxxx boot flag and restarted about a hundred times. The result is the same regardless of which version of OS I'm running: The system boots and I get native resolution, and QE and CI seems to be working (there is ripple effect when I add a widget). However, DVD player does not launch, and audio does not get pass-thru via HDMI or DVI-HDMI (as it does in Windows 7 -- which is on another drive). Audio works find via rear output and VGA to TV/monitor.
My org.chameleon.Boot.plist:
<key>EthernetBuiltIn</key>
<string>Yes</string>
<key>Kernel</key>
<string>mach_kernel</string>
<key>Kernel Flags</key>
<string>-v</string>
<key>GraphicsEnabler</key>
<string>Yes</string>
Also, ioreg | grep ATY always output this:
| | | | +-o ATY,AMD,RadeonFramebuffer@0 <class AtiFbStub, id 0x1000002c0, registered, matched, active, busy 0 (246 ms), retain 8>
| | | | +-o ATY,AMD,RadeonFramebuffer@1 <class AtiFbStub, id 0x1000002c1, registered, matched, active, busy 0 (0 ms), retain 8>
| | | | +-o ATY,AMD,RadeonFramebuffer@2 <class AtiFbStub, id 0x1000002c2, registered, matched, active, busy 0 (0 ms), retain 8>
This tells me that a generic frame buffer is running, and system information always reports "AMD Radeon HD 6xxx 1024 MB".
I've read up on pages at insanely and tonymacs, and some have reported having full support. But, the cards are not from the same manufacturer as mine.
My HIS Radeon HD 6670 reports vendor ID as 1002, device ID 6758, and subsystem 20121787. Upon further investigation at http://forge.voodooprojects.org/p/chameleon/source/tree/HEAD/trunk/i386/libsaio/ati.c I notice that my subsystem is not in there.
I believe the missing subsystem in Chameleon's ati.c is preventing the system from accepting AtiConfig boot flag's Personality. Am I wrong? How can I officially make a request and have this added for future Chameleon so that others won't have to spend days with the trial-and-error/research? In the meantime, can someone help with compiling a Chameleon for me? I don't know what it takes as I don't have Xcode, and don't know anything about it. (Maybe I can learn if you point me in the right direction.)
Thank you.
ErmaC:
I add it to my branch.
--- Code: --- { 0x6758, 0x20121787, CHIP_FAMILY_TURKS, "AMD Radeon HD 6670", kBulrushes },
--- End code ---
http://forge.voodooprojects.org/p/chameleon/source/commit/2004/
Pls report.
Fabio
onecubeowner:
Thank you, Fabio. I'll keep an eye out for someone (onehalfkiller?) to create a binary/package with commit 2004 of your branch, and will report on the outcome.
/mod
Don't quote entire posts when replying directly below them.
onecubeowner:
Thank you, Fabio, for adding my card ID to your branch. I downloaded r2009 and tested each personality for Radeon HD 6xxx with the following in my com.chameleon.Boot.plist:
<key>EthernetBuiltIn</key>
<string>Yes</string>
<key>Kernel</key>
<string>mach_kernel</string>
<key>Kernel Flags</key>
<string>-v</string>
<key>GraphicsEnabler</key>
<string>Yes</string>
<key>AtiPorts</key>
<string>3</string>
<key>PciRoot</key>
<string>1</string>
<key>Timeout</key>
<string>0</string>
<key>UseKernelCache</key>
<string>Yes</string>
The only way my system will recognize the card natively is with PciRoot=1. This was true when with nVidia 9500 where having PciRoot=0 booted into a black screen. Radeon was behaved slightly differently where some personalities actually loaded the generic frame buffer with PciRoot=0.
The one personality that worked out well is Pithecia, which shows 6770 in System Profiler (ML and Lion) and can be seen loaded in Terminal via ioreg | grep ATY. I'm able to use two of the three ports (HDMI, DVI, VGA) at once. HDMI to my TV/monitor (720p) produced the worst picture quality. VGA is OK but DVI seems to be the best, which is what I was using with the 9500 to also pass audio. HIS Radeon HD 6770 1GB does not pass audio via DVI or HDMI by default. Audio works fine via rear green out + VGA (there's a "Digital Out" that I used with the 9500 that produce nothing with the 6770), with a modified AppleHDA for ALC888.
The system seems to work just fine with this personality loaded. (One strange thing is that DVD player will launch in Lion and play a disc, but in ML I get an error about how the software is unable to locate the drive. I'm hoping this will be worked out with ML's public release version.)
The following is what has been noted about Pithecia at different forums. The journey continues for me to get this card fully working. Any tips, pointers, or addition to ati.c for audio passthrough via DVI would be great!
Kext ATI6000Controller
Personality: Pithecia
ConnectorInfo count in decimal: 3
Disk offset in decimal 500508
0000000 00 04 00 00 04 03 00 00 00 01 00 00 21 03 02 04
0000010 04 00 00 00 14 02 00 00 00 01 00 00 00 00 04 03
0000020 10 00 00 00 10 00 00 00 00 01 00 00 00 00 00 01
0000030
Thanks again!
ErmaC:
Hi!
I switch from kBulrushes to kPithecia in commit 2014.
I hope this change "fix" your card injection.
Fabio
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