[ATi] [M17xR4] OSx86/Hackintosh Breakthrough!

Guys, I've finally managed to do it. Two years (on/off) worth of testing, and I've finally managed to enable FULL dGPU ACCELERATION in OS X Mavericks for the ATi Mobility Radeon 7970M HD!!!

Proof: http://i57.tinypic.com/2r60jzs.png


I found/decoded the correct connectors and patched the appropriate controller kext, and it works beautifully. So far, on the M17x R4, the following is working

Full CPU Support (all cores/threads) [native support]
All RAM Recognized (in my case, 16GB) [native support]
Intel HD 4000 Full Accleration (when set to iGPU or SG in BIOS) [patched in the DSDT]
ATi Mobility Radeon 7970M Full Acceleration (When set to PEG in BIOS) [needs my patched kext]
DVD/Blu ray drive (works natively)
Touchpad mimicking Apple's Touchpad (works with VoodooPS2)
All USB/ESATA Ports (works with correct DSDT)
Webcam (works with correct DSDT)
Wifi (replaced stock card with AR9280 card, recognized natively)
Bluetooth (works natively)

Things still need to be worked on:
Audio (the flaky Recon3Di chip is not helping my case....) [probably will approach with voodooHDA, later with AppleHDA]
Sleep/Wake support [needs DSDT tweaking] NOW WORKING!!!!
HDMI Output [needs connector patching in framebuffer]
DP Output [needs connector patching in framebuffer]
VGA Output [needs connector patching in framebuffer]
AlienFX Control [no freaking clue.....]
Memory card reader [will explore voodooSDXC]


Additional cards may be made to work if they are donated to me to work on (talking about ATi cards, I refuse to work on nVidia)

So all in all.....ITS POSSIBLE GUYS!

Link to my "Extra" folder, including patched AMD kext: M17x_R4 Extra

 

Awesome! Any special bios settings? For me I keep enduro off so I'm already amd only.

 

UNLOCKED BIOS REQUIRED

Yes. If you wish to use intel hd 4000, leave the video setting on SG or iGPU. If you want to use radeon only, set to PEG. Also, go under chipset and disabled VT-d, it causes issues in OS X as it is unable to handle VT-d instructions. Make sure hdd controller is set to AHCI. And really, thats it.

 

Thanks for sharing! +1 Rep.

 

Nice work, would try it but I'm on Nvidia side at the minute.

 

Cool stuff man.

 

nVidia should work easily as long as its a kepler card. much less screwing around compared to ati cards.

 

Any pointers for someone who has been trying to get his AW17 with 780M up and running with 10.9?

I jumped over from a MacBook Pro and there are some things I can't live without.

 

I can't speak for haswell systems, I haven't had any experience with them firsthand, but the procedure should be relatively similar:

you will need another mac anyway to make the installer media, so you need access to one. I would go ahead and proceed to make a DSDT dump in windows, and use MacIASL on the borrowed/temporary mac and patch the DSDT right there and then. Required kexts: FakeSMC, VoodooPS2 are really it for basics. Intel IGP isn't typically too hard to get working. Discrete GPUs are very difficult on the laptop to get working, and you will have to have an unlocked BIOS to do that.

 

I have 3 other Macs, but my hang up has always been the video.

IGP is disabled on my AW17 (120Hz screen), so it's been no bueno.

 

Yikes. 3d display uses eDP, not LVDS....I may not be of much help. Pretty much any info would be here:
http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/to...-np9380-working-but-nvidia-gtx-780m-problems/

I wish I could do more, I don't have eDP to test.

 

Thanks a lot for sharing. It helps a lot.

I've got the same Aw as you technos but when I boot with only my 7970m the screen becomes black after 3-4 s when I'm on the Apple logo.

With the hd4000 it works just fine

 

Did you replace AMD7000Controller.kext with mine? Replace your existing DSDT with mine as well. Also, you must repair permissions after replacing the kext:

open terminal
Run the following commands
sudo su
chown -R root:wheel /System/Library/Extensions
chmod -R 755 /System/Library/Extensions
exit

reboot.

 

I've just done that but now it freeze on the Apple logo...
And also when I don't use fit 1 min all the computer freeze

Edit: thanks a lot it works!!!! Just have to put GraphicsEnabler=No

 

But still, is it normal that my computer freeze ??

 

No thats very strange.....did you do clean retail install or did you use a distro? Only kexts you need are the ones I included

 

Yes I use a distro wich is the niresh distro because whenever I try to do a retail USB I have the boot0 error.
May be you can give a good tutorial where I can make my own retail USB booter without this error?

 

Edit: it doesn't freeze anymore. Everything's works flawlessly. Maybe it was because of the permission... I use it for about 1h and it was nice. I don't know how did you do that but hats off. Simply brilliant.

Just one last thing we can't a just the sound volume is it normal and the sound doesn't come out with the hdmi aswell?

 

HDMI audio requires another patch, I have not looked into it yet. I'm super busy with schoolwork.