Ok gang,
If you didn't know, ATI released the full release Catylist 5.3(?) drivers yesterday for both XP 32 AND 64 bit.
Since there's no Omega version for the 64 bit XP yet, I had to hack the drivers to make them work on my M6809. Here's how you do it if you're trying to run them....
First, download and attempt to install the Catylist x64 edition package from ATI. It will fail with some "Missing .inf" from Thunk.exe. Don't worry about it. Just take note of which directory it creates for all the files.
Next, navigate to that directory, (should be C:\ATI\SUPPORT\wxp64-8-12-050317m-022144C\Driver\XP64A_INF) and open up the CA_22144.inf file.
In there scroll down until you see a list of different model cards. For the first 9600, change that line to read:
"RADEON 9600 Mobility" = ati2mtag_RV360, PCI\VEN_1002&DEV_4E50
Now, scroll down a bunch further until you see a section labeled:
[ati2mtag_RV360_SoftwareDeviceSettings]
(Make sure it's the one with RV, not just R, I screwed this up a few times until I realized there was an RV and THAT'S the one you need.)
In that section you'll see 3 lines with a whole bunch of numbers. Change the second line to read: (make sure it's all on 1 line, there's a space between the first % and the REG_BINARY that the posting system will word wrap on)
HKR,, DALNonStandardModesBCD2, %REG_BINARY%,12,80,07,20,00,00,00,75,12,80,07,20,00,00,00,85,12,80,07,68,00,00,00, 60,12,80,07,68,00,00,00,75,12,80,07,68,00,00,00,85,12,80,08,00,00,00,00,60,12,80,0 8,00,00,00,00,75,12,80,08,00,00,00,00,85
Save and close the file.
Next, go into My computer-->properties-->Hardware-->Device Manager-->Display Adaptor. Double click on the entry for the card. Driver Tab. Tell it to update driver. "Not at this time" then hit Next. Install from a specified Location. Don't search, you'll choose. Have Disk. Point the file browser to that .inf file you just edited.
Once you do that you should see a listing for "Radeon 9600 Mobility". Select it. Once it's done installing it'll ask to reboot. Do so. Once it does, you should be able to then do Display properties and set to 1280x800x32 bit.
And you're good to go!
Now, with that said, you're not going to have any of the sweet tools nor the PowerPlay feature that you get with the Omega Drivers, but this will at least get you up and running in the correct resolution for our laptops until the Omega Driver dude gets around to x64 support.
Enjoy!!!
(Thanks to the gang at PlanetAMD64 for pointing me in the right direction...)
--Mike
If you didn't know, ATI released the full release Catylist 5.3(?) drivers yesterday for both XP 32 AND 64 bit.
Since there's no Omega version for the 64 bit XP yet, I had to hack the drivers to make them work on my M6809. Here's how you do it if you're trying to run them....
First, download and attempt to install the Catylist x64 edition package from ATI. It will fail with some "Missing .inf" from Thunk.exe. Don't worry about it. Just take note of which directory it creates for all the files.
Next, navigate to that directory, (should be C:\ATI\SUPPORT\wxp64-8-12-050317m-022144C\Driver\XP64A_INF) and open up the CA_22144.inf file.
In there scroll down until you see a list of different model cards. For the first 9600, change that line to read:
"RADEON 9600 Mobility" = ati2mtag_RV360, PCI\VEN_1002&DEV_4E50
Now, scroll down a bunch further until you see a section labeled:
[ati2mtag_RV360_SoftwareDeviceSettings]
(Make sure it's the one with RV, not just R, I screwed this up a few times until I realized there was an RV and THAT'S the one you need.)
In that section you'll see 3 lines with a whole bunch of numbers. Change the second line to read: (make sure it's all on 1 line, there's a space between the first % and the REG_BINARY that the posting system will word wrap on)
HKR,, DALNonStandardModesBCD2, %REG_BINARY%,12,80,07,20,00,00,00,75,12,80,07,20,00,00,00,85,12,80,07,68,00,00,00, 60,12,80,07,68,00,00,00,75,12,80,07,68,00,00,00,85,12,80,08,00,00,00,00,60,12,80,0 8,00,00,00,00,75,12,80,08,00,00,00,00,85
Save and close the file.
Next, go into My computer-->properties-->Hardware-->Device Manager-->Display Adaptor. Double click on the entry for the card. Driver Tab. Tell it to update driver. "Not at this time" then hit Next. Install from a specified Location. Don't search, you'll choose. Have Disk. Point the file browser to that .inf file you just edited.
Once you do that you should see a listing for "Radeon 9600 Mobility". Select it. Once it's done installing it'll ask to reboot. Do so. Once it does, you should be able to then do Display properties and set to 1280x800x32 bit.
And you're good to go!
Now, with that said, you're not going to have any of the sweet tools nor the PowerPlay feature that you get with the Omega Drivers, but this will at least get you up and running in the correct resolution for our laptops until the Omega Driver dude gets around to x64 support.
Enjoy!!!
(Thanks to the gang at PlanetAMD64 for pointing me in the right direction...)
--Mike
