ATI Radeon HD 5770 - bad font smoothing
I have a MSI R5770 graphic card which uses which uses ATI radeon hd 5770 chipset and its full supported on SnowLeo 10.6.8. I can boot it with graphicsenabler=NO, and everything works (full resolution, 3D).. The only problem is bad font…
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- @nightf4ll Published 2011-08-17
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I have a MSI R5770 graphic card which uses which uses ATI radeon hd 5770 chipset and its full supported on SnowLeo 10.6.8.
I can boot it with graphicsenabler=NO, and everything works (full resolution, 3D).. The only problem is bad font smoothing. When i use my old Nvidia 9400gt i have much better fonts then with the ATI card.
The Nvidia 9400gt works only with graphicsenabler=yes, but full resolution and 3D work fine.
So I m guessing that Nvidia has better hardware and better rendering? Is there any fix for the ATI card? Mybe other kexts or smthing?
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Hmm.. i tried some of your suggestions, but not much success..
First I tried downloading Aty_init and replaced Uakari with Vervet, and not much improvement. Almost same like before.
Then I downloaded different Efi strings, same thing.. They got the name of the card right, but no improvement in font rendering.
Well, I m gonna have to put old Nvidia card back in -.- Those fonts annoy me to much -.-
P.S. If you use EFI injection, can u send me the XML or HEX file so I can try yours XD
Hmm, I think i found out whats wrong.. My monitor gets flagged as CRT instead LCD when i use the ATI card.. Probably has something to do with HDMI connector...
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1 technical responses curated from 4 original dispatches
Do you use the lion kexts?
Because if you´re booting without injecting the framebuffer, it will not load the right one.
So i would look which framebuffer is currently in use.
The Framebuffer has to be Vervet.
You can inject it via Bootloader, dsdt or kext.
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| Username | Dossier Contribution | Dispatches | Active Window |
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| @nightf4ll | Primary Author | 3 | 2011-08-17 → 2011-08-20 |
| @wastez | Contributor | 1 | 2011-08-19 |