OSX dithering - Help wanted
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NewDwarf I will definitely share it soon but currently I keep it private.
Will greatly appreciate anything you could share when you are comfortable doing so.
Note that ditherig
is open-source but unfortunately only runs on Windows. It seems Apple new devices is using Apple ARM silicon but working Intel is still very useful.
Glad you got positive results, that's great!
NewDwarf By reversing the Intel driver.
That's awesome -- with IDA or something similar?
So do a documented clean-room approach if this requires code. One person who knows the details explains the general details to the other programmer without showing code or anything, and this should be cleanly documented and ideally, all code should be in a repo to show that it was organically grown.
NewDwarf what changes in 3 month?
think some people really need to calm down and stop the censorship comparable to bloody dictators
as determined by several recent court cases reverse engineering of legitimately obtained software to correct issues is de-facto legal.
you own a mac there is your legitimately obtained macos.
also apple has left the hackintosh scene alone only getting upset when people distribute copyrighted installer images or sell premade hackintosh systems
you are allowed to make install images from an existing mac system and selling a computer that could run macos is not illegal
distributing complete fixes can sound like a challenge but methods of binary patching can be done that do not involve the distribution of any items of copyright.
please pm or email and we can talk in private
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I had an idea awhile ago to try to do similar to ditherig using some existing tools like PCIUtils. or intel-gpu-tools. PCIUtils claims to use IOKit to run on Darwin. It's far from my area of expertise FWIW.
Not sure the approach @NewDwarf is taking, but food for thought anyway.
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NewDwarf I don't own any Apple device currently, unfortunately. I played around with IDA a few years ago, but I just wasn't into learning x86 assembly. To fix this miserable eye strain issue I would learn anything though! I did go to school for CS but we studied a much simpler MIPS assembly. Any tips to get started ?
Out of curiosity do you think your solution would for Linux?
NewDwarf I did it on MacBook Pro 13'' 2020.
The exact same Mac that is giving me issues and forces me back to my 2015 / 2017 13-inch. Did you have issues using this machine before "the solution"?
I have posted multiple times in this thread about my Dithering journey on both Mac and Windows and how I arrived at a conclusion a few years ago that this was an Intel driver issue (not a panel) all along
Now to figure out if I need IDA Pro or if Home is sufficient to try thisā¦.
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MAS-76 do you have any information regarding the modifications that he made to disable the Intel dithering?
NewDwarf why did you choose to edit the Broadwell graphics kext? Wouldn't a 2020 MBP use Coffee Lake or Ice Lake (depending on the version)?