ATI Framebuffer Stuffs

In order to find out if your lion is properly supporting your 6xxx card, you must run in a term. window:

ioreg | grep ATY

If you have a framebuffer loaded (other than generic) you'll see +-o ATY,xxx,RadeonFramebuffer...

If you Don't, you'll see ATY,ATY,Radeon....


Okay so using the supposed Stock kexts included with GM, I was able to JUST turn on GraphicsEnabler=Yes in com.apple.boot.plist and the ioreg cmd returned this:

| | | | +-o ATY,Duckweed@0 | | | | +-o ATY,Duckweed@1 | | | | +-o ATY,Duckweed@2 | | | | +-o ATY,Duckweed@3 | | | | +-o ATY,Duckweed@0 | | | | +-o ATY,Duckweed@1 | | | | +-o ATY,Duckweed@2 | | | | +-o ATY,Duckweed@3
Which means that Ati.c automatically picked up Duckweed... A Good thing. Now DVD Player, Steam, Geekbench won't crash on us. Video is a little smoother overall possibly?

Improving your DSDT

If you want a proper mackintosh, you'll need a good dsdt.aml file. You can use DSDT Auto Patcher to make a good basic dsdt.aml from your already running computer. After that, you can do some of the following:

1. Read the ACPI Spec
2. Learn about ssdt.asl
3. Use iasl

More to come. Just creating a template.

Lion went Gold.

It's official.

Lion is about ready for release, with the GM seeding to devs as we speak.

changelog will follow.

I will also be releasing a Lion "Preview" for your viewing pleasure in the next coming days.