Custom ATI Personality for Sapphire 5850 Xtreme 1GB

[seim]

just login with sudo -i in terminal as root and copy the kext over "cp -R kext /S/L/E"

make sure to set UseKernelCache to 'no' during testing

 

[seim]

Same procedure works for Mac OS X 10.8.3 !

If you get bad information when using the perl script like this..

[COLOR=#000000][FONT=Verdana]Kext /System/Library/Extensions/ATI5000Controller.kext/Contents/MacOS/AMD5000Controller[/FONT][/COLOR]
[COLOR=#000000][FONT=Verdana]Personality: Douc[/FONT][/COLOR]
[B][COLOR=#000000][FONT=Verdana]ConnectorInfo count in decimal: 0[/FONT][/COLOR][/B]
[COLOR=#000000][FONT=Verdana]Disk offset in decimal 106741[/FONT][/COLOR]
[COLOR=#000000][FONT=Verdana]Personality: Langur[/FONT][/COLOR]
[B][COLOR=#000000][FONT=Verdana]ConnectorInfo count in decimal: 0[/FONT][/COLOR][/B]
[COLOR=#000000][FONT=Verdana]Disk offset in decimal 106794[/FONT][/COLOR]
[COLOR=#000000][FONT=Verdana]Personality: Uakari[/FONT][/COLOR]
[B][COLOR=#000000][FONT=Verdana]ConnectorInfo count in decimal: 0[/FONT][/COLOR][/B]
[COLOR=#000000][FONT=Verdana]Disk offset in decimal 106846
[/FONT][/COLOR]....

(obviously the script isn't working properly, because a count of 0 is definitively not right!)
..you can use this values for editing the ATI5000Controller.kext from 10.8.3:

[COLOR=#000000][FONT=Verdana]Personality: Uakari[/FONT][/COLOR]
[COLOR=#000000][FONT=Verdana]ConnectorInfo count in decimal: 4[/FONT][/COLOR]
[COLOR=#000000][FONT=Verdana]Disk offset in decimal [B]591232[/B][/FONT][/COLOR]
[COLOR=#000000][FONT=Verdana]0000000    00  04  00  00  00  04  00  00  00  71  00  00  12  04  04  01[/FONT][/COLOR]
[COLOR=#000000][FONT=Verdana]0000010    04  00  00  00  14  00  00  00  00  71  00  00  01  12  01  03[/FONT][/COLOR]
[COLOR=#000000][FONT=Verdana]0000020    00  02  00  00  14  00  00  00  00  71  00  00  00  00  06  05[/FONT][/COLOR]
[COLOR=#000000][FONT=Verdana]0000030    00  08  00  00  00  02  00  00  00  71  00  00  22  05  05  04[/FONT][/COLOR]
[COLOR=#000000][FONT=Verdana]0000040[/FONT][/COLOR]

credits to alexanderq from this post: http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/to...onality-ati-personalitypl-issue/#entry1892499

After applying the same edits (clear line 2 with zeroes, change 71 to 01 in the middle column) the ghost monitor is gone and sleep works again for the Sapphire Radeon 5850

 

[seim]

Seems that 10.8.4 uses the same kext than 10.8.3 - works as well

 

[seim]

Download version 0.12 of ati-personality.pl from here and use same settings as always to modify your driver kext for 10.9 Mavericks

The file is now named AMD5000Controller.kext

 

[im82]

Helloes,

I can't make my ATI 5850 render 2.560 x 1.080 pixels.
I have tried editing the DSDT like suggested here:

http://www.tonymacx86.com/graphics/82548-sapphire-5850-xtreme-1gb-lion.html

All that does this is no screen on loading aqua/desktop.

Do you have a running solution for 10.9.x regarding wide screen on HDMI or DP?

 

[im82]

Is that simply run by command line:

"perl filename.pl" and it correctly modifies the kext? Also for 10.9.4?

 

[im82]

Also, even after logging in I cannot download the files at insanelymac

 

[im82]

Seim, if you by incident have the Sapphire 5850 xTreme 1GB:

http://www.sapphiretech.com/presentation/product/product_index.aspx?pid=1152&lid=1

Then ... may you somehow send me your custom KEXT?