XP32 and XP64 patchscript for FireGL and FirePRO (driver 8.44 and higher)

[virtualex]

Originally Posted by gellmar

Don't worry, I'm trying to understand what config registers does the driver change relative to 8.453. And I have found several places in 502 absent in 453 Now I need a second PC to run a stalled debug, and in two days max I will have all necessary info

Hey gellmar, any news ?

[mikeswlee]

Originally Posted by wesley8

somebody can download those drivers from herehttp://www.newdisk.cn/mypane.aspx?Pa...2fNew+ATI+Mod/
and test it.

Hi,

I tried your driver and saw no big difference. Performance improvement was seen only in ugnx set. Thanks for your trial though.

mike

[juang3d]

There is no new news, isn't it?

Cheers.

[gellmar]

Originally Posted by juang3d

There is no new news, isn't it?

Cheers.

No, there are some

Finally I had to reinstall my XP and set up SoftIce 3.2.0 to try debugging on one machine (the second one I tried with before was not mine). After a couple hours of debug-BEERing I have revealed that either PCI Config space or the majority of registers remain untouched, except those of clocks and profiles (that's constantly changing, however I could not understand whether the bitmask uses some IDs while being constructed). Now I am examining the ports and Device Extension (which holds that regions). Now I think that some ports are used together while applying a pixel format or OpenGL Profile, and the question now is to track the stats of that ports' usage.

The problem is that I cannot attach the debugger to a miniport's DriverEntry in single-machine mode. I will now try /SOS bootkey to get inside the driver.

Regards, gellmaR.

[casebuyer]

nothing to download I could find

[casebuyer]

gellmar I dont use debuggers much yet sometimes there are good plugins for them to make things work and sometimes ollydbg or disassembly tools like ida pro helps

[gellmar]

Originally Posted by casebuyer

gellmar I dont use debuggers much yet sometimes there are good plugins for them to make things work and sometimes ollydbg or disassembly tools like ida pro helps

OllyDBG is a user-mode debugger, it can not debug drivers, especially miniports.
IDA Pro is a disassembler with a dbg, but again it cannot run in kernel mode.

[juang3d]

anything new? the new drivers are being difficult

[gellmar]

Yes, I have dug into Escape function and now I am trying to connect to the appropriate REAL register of FirePro's caps. As far as I could understand, the protection based on 'FGL' string in BIOS ( already patched in the driver) is only an initialization trigger (accel/noaccel), while the specific caps are set up by several ports NOT listed either in ATI manual NOR discovered by RivaTuner or ATT.

[gellmar]

TO ALL!

I have found the difference in workstation features supported in 8.543 vs 8.453. So, I need the statistics of that capabilities on HD2xxx/3xxx/4xxx cards. I have developed a simple helper program, and I ask all of you to run it, press 'Features' button and post a report about the features present here. The software is virus-free, so you can run it as trusted.

Waiting for your reports and thanks in advance!

Regards, gellmaR.

ATI Workstation Feature Test:
http://************.com/files/pr6huwsfz

EDIT: Updated both the program and the link on ************

[juang3d]

I press the features button and i don't get any window or ifle or anything, nothing happends when i press the features button or the workstation button.

Cheers.

[NormanBates]

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This limit is reached.

[juang3d]

I run the program and this is what it tells to me.

gellmaR's ATI FireGL Features Report created on 04/12/2008 11:54:44

Card is reported as:
Workstation Feature Test:
End of Report

[gellmar]

Originally Posted by juang3d

I run the program and this is what it tells to me.

Are you sure you have NO features supported? Which drivers do you currently use?

[snuggles0220]

2900xt --> v8650. Driver version 8.453.1 x64

Results:
gellmaR's ATI FireGL Features Report created on 12/4/2008 10:28:08 AM

Card is reported as: Workstation
Workstation Feature Test:
Feature = 2 OK!
Feature = 4 OK!
Feature = 5 OK!
Stereo Support = 4
End of Report

Keep up the good work! I hope the newer drivers fix the secondary screen corruption when exiting maya.

[NormanBates]

here you have another set of results:

http://forums.guru3d.com/showthread....ghlight=firegl

[juang3d]

I have the 8.11 for radeon, if i need to change my drivers just tell me.

Cheers.

[Rectifier]

It makes sense, I guess. My HD4670 (replacement) tells me the same thing, but then again, it is also using a radeon driver, not a fireGl one (since there's no working mod yet ;-))

I could try to use a modded x64 driver once more, after the weekend.

[khogan112]

HD 3850 as FireGL V7700, on Driver 8.453.1.6 ( Dell )


gellmaR's ATI FireGL Features Report created on 12/5/2008 12:49:34 AM

Card is reported as: Workstation
Workstation Feature Test:
Feature = 2 OK!
Feature = 4 OK!
Feature = 5 OK!
Stereo Support = 4
End of Report


HD 3650 as FireGL V7700, on Driver 8.453.1.6 ( Dell )

gellmaR's ATI FireGL Features Report created on 12/5/2008 1:42:36 AM

Card is reported as: Workstation
Workstation Feature Test:
Feature = 2 OK!
Feature = 4 OK!
Feature = 5 OK!
Stereo Support = 4
End of Report


HD 4670 as FireGL V7700, on Driver 8.453.1.6 ( Dell )
did not boot.


HD 4670 as FirePro V5700, on Driver 8.543
gellmaR's ATI FireGL Features Report created on 12/5/2008 4:53:22 AM

Card is reported as: Workstation
Workstation Feature Test:
Feature = 0 OK!
Feature = 1 OK!
Feature = 2 OK!
Feature = 4 OK!
Feature = 5 OK!
Stereo Support = 4
End of Report

HD 3650 as FireGL V7700, on Driver 8.543
did not boot.

HD 3850 as FireGL V7700, on Driver 8.543
did not boot.

[virtualex]

gellmaR's ATI FireGL Features Report created on 12/5/2008 6:51:45 PM

Card is reported as: Workstation
Workstation Feature Test:
Feature = 2 OK!
Feature = 4 OK!
Feature = 5 OK!
End of Report


Radeon 2600pro @ FireGL V5600
Driver 8.391, OS win 2003 server.

[sponka]

Hello!

Have 4850 and Vista x64 with 8.541 (8.10) drivers and I get empty result. it seems I need to update drivers

Keep the good work, thank you!

[snuggles0220]

Originally Posted by sponka

Hello!

Have 4850 and Vista x64 with 8.541 (8.10) drivers and I get empty result. it seems I need to update drivers

Keep the good work, thank you!

There is no working softgl mod for vista.

[sponka]

Ah ... Thx for note; didn't read whole thread and when I saw x64 I assumed it's for vista. Anyway, I'm gonna keep an eye on thread, despite fact that I won't downgrade to XP

[Rectifier]

Well, Vista's a whole different pile off...
I have both (x64), but must say that support for XP is almost non-existing. Vista appears to be pushed by not just microsoft, so in the long run, someone will have to come up with a vista-mod. or we'll be stuck with XP forever.
The trouble with Vista is probably that it does not have any _real_ openGl anymore; only some ported version to DX10.

But let's first try to fix the firePro's, perhaps they'll shed some light on what's changed in Vista as well...

[snuggles0220]

To add more to the vista troubles windows 7 should be out in about one year. Although there probably similar enough that if you can get a mod working one one it will work on the other with little to no change (hopefully).