Takahashi Posted February 25, 2015 Share Posted February 25, 2015 Hello, I am still researching on how to get my integrated AMD Radeon 8650G working on my Hackintosh. I haven't seen much for cards closely related to mine. So, I wanted to ask, does anyone have a fully working graphics card from the Richland (Radeon HD 8xxxD, 8xxxG) in OS X? Thanks. Edit: I have decided to make this post dedicated to progress concerning full Radeon HD 8650G (Richland) support in Yosemite. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Hervé Posted February 25, 2015 Administrators Share Posted February 25, 2015 Support for the 8xxx/9xxx families was only introduced in Yosemite. So it's only the beginning... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Takahashi Posted February 25, 2015 Author Share Posted February 25, 2015 I noticed that they implemented support for the Sea Islands and Solar System series... Maybe all that's left to do is wait.. Or is there a way to make a driver? I know porting from the Linux driver isn't an option because it uses a different window system.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Hervé Posted February 25, 2015 Administrators Share Posted February 25, 2015 The writing of such drivers is a matter for experts/professionals... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Takahashi Posted February 26, 2015 Author Share Posted February 26, 2015 I dunno. Hopefully they will implement support for Richland soon. I saw some threads in MacBook forums with people comparing my specific cpu with others as suggestions for the new MacBook's hardware... Who knows... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Hervé Posted February 26, 2015 Administrators Share Posted February 26, 2015 Check if the AMD 8000 controller + framebufffer kexts get loaded. If not and if you're game, try and patch the kext with your own device id, you never know... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Takahashi Posted February 27, 2015 Author Share Posted February 27, 2015 Hey, I've found that the AMD8000 controller does not load on startup! I can control the brightness fully without GraphicsEnabler (Chameleon). Maybe... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Takahashi Posted February 27, 2015 Author Share Posted February 27, 2015 Okay, I believe that the operation was mostly successful. My card was recognized by the system before I patched the controller, and after patching "No Kext Loaded" is not present. However, I didn't see the AMD8000 controller in the list of active kernel extensions (kextstat)... I was able to screen record after patching, surprisingly... I attached the video to show the "scraping" that I usually receive upon opening windows. Test.mov Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Hervé Posted March 1, 2015 Administrators Share Posted March 1, 2015 Yes, well, you may have added your card id to the device list of the AMD8000 controller Info.plist, but that's clearly insufficient and you still do not have graphics support (VRAM=4MB)... You could have to patch the binary files too and that's more complicated. It's probably worth checking the specs of the currently supported cards of the AMD8000Controller and your own integrated GPU. Maybe you can also fake one of the supported cards. Supported in Yosemite 10.10.2: 0x45001002 -> ? 0x46001002 -> ? 0x66401002 -> FirePro M6100 0x66411002 -> Radeon HD 4930M 0x66461002 -> Radeon HD M280X 0x66501002 -> ? 0x66511002 -> ? 0x665C1002 -> Radeon HD 7790/8770, R9 260 0x665D1002 -> Radeon R7 200 0x67B01002 -> Radeon R9 290X Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Takahashi Posted March 1, 2015 Author Share Posted March 1, 2015 I do not know how to patch the binaries in a kernel extension... Anyway, I am willing to learn! Also, how would I fake a supported device? I read somewhere that it concerns the DSDT of your system... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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