Comment 1 by MacMan, Oct 9, 2011
Yes it is possible to have multiple cards with the same ID. For example, the 5770 and some 6770's share the same ID of 0x68B8, the only way to differentiate them is by the subsys_id.
Comment 2 by MacMan, Oct 10, 2011
In reviewing http://developer.amd.com/gpu_assets/ATI_Device_ID_List_July_2011.txt this looks like an error.
Comment 3 by ugo kind, Oct 10, 2011
ok.so in the trunk effectively i see a new entry 6490m but are you sure it fit RV chipset? i tried to boot with this untouched trunk and to compile also a variant..but none are good in lion with graphicsenabler= yes i see always unsupported card! the secondary problem is the ability to catch data from the bus. i tried to use radeonpci and radrondump. (1st those tools run only in 32bit but the dump return the bios of the hd3000!! even if lion detect and load ati kects and framebuffer, there is no way to force switching. also ioreg reports.a lot of data.
Comment 5 by ugo kind, Oct 18, 2011
here you are
- kextstat.txt - 10.67 kB - view
- bdmesg.txt - 103.19 kB - view
- ioreg.txt - 835.98 kB - view
Comment 7 by Cosmosis Jones, Oct 18, 2011
neermind i see you're using ATY_Init. I need a bdmesg and ioreg from you using GraphicsEnabler=YES as well. Thanks
Comment 9 by ugo kind, Oct 19, 2011
ok sorry I can write only at this time everyday so I had atyinit for a test.. because if I use or not ATYinit I have the same output -> no info about any part of ATI display Because of dualgpu.. everywhere is wrotten to use pcirootid=1 and GraophicsEnabler=No.. So I attach the reports in GE Enabled yes and in GE Enabled NO. BUT with yes ort no I have the same.-> no ati believeme.. my philosophy is to leave as untouched as possible the S/L/E.. and my HPDV6 (recent HW sandybridge i7) and others similar are able to start with less patches. Then.. SATA/USB/CAM/PWRB/SLEEP are Ootb (sleep only if I patch dsdt/speedstep appleintelcpupowermanagement) remains:audio-video video is HD3000 (I see it fine in mac, always in the 16 combinations of :GEnabler:PCIrootid:Drivers:VBIOS) and the utility igfxxxx detects it fine. the only problem is that with ATI.C at boot (modded or last trunk) report : unsupported video card as I told above bye ugo
- GEdisabled.zip - 114.45 kB
- GEenabled.zip - 114.50 kB
Comment 10 by Cosmosis Jones, Oct 21, 2011
ah this is not just an ati.c issue.. This is the entire graphics enabler when u have more than 1 card. Just like when people have 2 nvdias, or 1 ati and 1 nvidia, they have to do an EFI string or a DSDT patch for the graphics.. We'll still keep this open..
Comment 11 by ugo kind, Oct 21, 2011
k i see even if i consider it true/untrue i mean: in windows.the ati catalyst driver has a newer and fundamental option: the power management: you can force using ati instead of intel hd3000 that mean..i suppose..that ati can drive bith nd this is universal in all newer laptops..also apple but to complete the picture, there are models with thunderbolt engine..models with 6gb pcie and an external slot (ex an express card) and thosecheaper without any graphic expansion my opinion is that there are no 2 vga..but 2 engines switchables and it confirms the ioreg bye
Comment 12 by MacMan, Oct 24, 2011
CHIP_FAMILY_RV730 for 6490M and 6470M was changed to CHIP_FAMILY_CAICOS in revision 1657.
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Reported by ugo kind, Oct 9, 2011
I see { 0x6760, 0x00000000, CHIP_FAMILY_RV730, "AMD Radeon HD 6470M", kNull }, but must report 2 info: my card ATI radeon 6940M is 0x6760 (and is possible to have 2 cards with same ID??) and it has seymour GPU (southern island) i Inform that the chip family is CAICOS.. starting from jan2011 but .. strange.. everywhere in the net I see that 6470M is also Caicos chipset .. and no RV730 so why all the branches have the same ati.c with wrong data? I don't want to take the ownership of that change.. please could you do a verify? in the end.. I'll test the boot with my mod.. to see if I have better run