Manually installing CrystalHD driver/lib/firmware

-Matt- · 2010-08-25 21:43

davilla Wrote:did you reboot after updating the kext ?

Yes

davilla Wrote:cat /System/Library/Extensions/BroadcomCrystalHD.kext/Contents/Info.plist

Code:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">

<plist version="1.0">

<dict>

        <key>CFBundleDevelopmentRegion</key>

        <string>English</string>

        <key>CFBundleExecutable</key>

        <string>BroadcomCrystalHD</string>

        <key>CFBundleIdentifier</key>

        <string>com.broadcom.crystalhd.driver</string>

        <key>CFBundleInfoDictionaryVersion</key>

        <string>6.0</string>

        <key>CFBundlePackageType</key>

        <string>KEXT</string>

        <key>CFBundleSignature</key>

        <string>????</string>

        [b][color=red]<key>CFBundleVersion</key>

        <string>0.9.26</string>[/color][/b]

        <key>IOKitPersonalities</key>

        <dict>

                <key>FirstPersonality</key>

                <dict>

                        <key>CFBundleIdentifier</key>

                        <string>com.broadcom.crystalhd.driver</string>

                        <key>IOClass</key>

                        <string>BroadcomCrystalHD</string>

                        <key>IOMatchCategory</key>

                        <string>BroadcomCrystalHD</string>

                        <key>IOPCIMatch</key>

                        <string>0x161214e4</string>

                        <key>IOProviderClass</key>

                        <string>IOPCIDevice</string>

                </dict>

        </dict>

        <key>OSBundleLibraries</key>

        <dict>

                <key>com.apple.kpi.bsd</key>

                <string>8.0.0</string>

                <key>com.apple.kpi.iokit</key>

                <string>8.0.0</string>

                <key>com.apple.kpi.libkern</key>

                <string>8.0.0</string>

                <key>com.apple.kpi.mach</key>

                <string>8.0.0</string>

        </dict>

</dict>

</plist>

davilla Wrote:CFBundleVersion should be 3.6.0

Still stuck on 0.9.2.6. For some reason I can't seem to overwrite the old version. I must be missing a step to make the hard disk writable.

**davilla** · 2010-08-25 22:27

-Matt- Wrote:Yes

Code:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd"> <plist version="1.0"> <dict> <key>CFBundleDevelopmentRegion</key> <string>English</string> <key>CFBundleExecutable</key> <string>BroadcomCrystalHD</string> <key>CFBundleIdentifier</key> <string>com.broadcom.crystalhd.driver</string> <key>CFBundleInfoDictionaryVersion</key> <string>6.0</string> <key>CFBundlePackageType</key> <string>KEXT</string> <key>CFBundleSignature</key> <string>????</string> [b][color=red]<key>CFBundleVersion</key> <string>0.9.26</string>[/color][/b] <key>IOKitPersonalities</key> <dict> <key>FirstPersonality</key> <dict> <key>CFBundleIdentifier</key> <string>com.broadcom.crystalhd.driver</string> <key>IOClass</key> <string>BroadcomCrystalHD</string> <key>IOMatchCategory</key> <string>BroadcomCrystalHD</string> <key>IOPCIMatch</key> <string>0x161214e4</string> <key>IOProviderClass</key> <string>IOPCIDevice</string> </dict> </dict> <key>OSBundleLibraries</key> <dict> <key>com.apple.kpi.bsd</key> <string>8.0.0</string> <key>com.apple.kpi.iokit</key> <string>8.0.0</string> <key>com.apple.kpi.libkern</key> <string>8.0.0</string> <key>com.apple.kpi.mach</key> <string>8.0.0</string> </dict> </dict> </plist>

Still stuck on 0.9.2.6. For some reason I can't seem to overwrite the old version. I must be missing a step to make the hard disk writable.

and also ignoring the error message that would result Smile

-Matt- · 2010-08-25 22:34

Ok, I think I now have 3.6.0 installed properly.

Code:

-bash-2.05b$ kextstat | grep crystal

64    0 0x301e7000 0x18000    0x17000    com.broadcom.crystalhd.driver (3.6.0) <5 4 3 2>

Here is what I did (thanks to herod98 for suggesting adding the rm -rf commands):

Code:

sudo -s

mount -uw /

touch /.readwrite

rm -rf /System/Library/Extensions/BroadcomCrystalHD.kext

rm -rf /usr/lib/libcrystalhd.dylib

rm -rf /usr/lib/bcm70012fw.bin

rm -rf /usr/lib/bcm70015fw.bin

wget http://crystalhd-for-osx.googlecode.com/files/crystalhd-for-osx-3.6.0.zip

unzip crystalhd-for-osx-3.6.0

mv crystalhd-for-osx-3.6.0/BroadcomCrystalHD.kext /System/Library/Extensions/

mv crystalhd-for-osx-3.6.0/libcrystalhd.dylib /usr/lib/

mv crystalhd-for-osx-3.6.0/libcrysbcm70012fw.bin /usr/lib/

mv crystalhd-for-osx-3.6.0/libcrysbcm70015fw.bin /usr/lib/

chown -R root:wheel /System/Library/Extensions/BroadcomCrystalHD.kext

chmod -R 755 /System/Library/Extensions/BroadcomCrystalHD.kext

chown -R root:wheel /usr/lib/libcrystalhd.dylib

chmod -R 755 /usr/lib/libcrystalhd.dylib

chown -R root:wheel /usr/lib/bcm70012fw.bin

chmod -R 644 /usr/lib/bcm70012fw.bin

chown -R root:wheel /usr/lib/bcm70015fw.bin

chmod -R 644 /usr/lib/bcm70015fw.bin

touch /.readwrite

mount -uw /

Pretty sure that is effectively the same as what I tried last night. Anyway, I did everything really carefully one step at a time (checking that the files were removed after the rm commands etc) it seems to have worked this time.

davilla Wrote:and also ignoring the error message that would result

By the way, last night, the mv commands did not result in an error message but for some reason they failed to overwrite the existing files.

-Matt- · 2010-08-25 23:05

...So now I am allowed to use my tv! Upon testing the install I still don't get a "CrystalHD" option under "Settings>Video>Playback>Render method".

Please can someone confirm what is the expected behaviour if the install has worked? Should there be a "CrystalHD" option or am I mistaken?

I do have the: "Settings>Video>Playback>Allow hardware acceleration (CrystalHD)" checkbox checked.

Is that all I should expect?

dmesg

Code:

BroadcomCrystalHD::start

crystalhd_hw_open: setting up functions, device = Link

Starting Crystal HD Device

Opening HW. hw:0x1e94404, hw->adp:0x1f4ad00

Stopping Crystal HD Device

BroadcomCrystalHD: Found HW and started driver SW.

netsmb_dev: loaded

Opening new user[0] handle

crystalhd_hw_open: setting up functions, device = Link

Starting Crystal HD Device

Opening HW. hw:0x22ef404, hw->adp:0x1f4ad00

BroadcomCrystalHD opened

allocated 18 elem

Initializing Dio pool 10 1024 305c 0x1df0e64

crystalhd_link_download_fw entered

Firmware Downloaded Successfull

crystalhd_link_do_fw_cmd entered

**davilla** · 2010-08-25 23:10

-Matt- Wrote:...So now I am allowed to use my tv! Upon testing the install I still don't get a "CrystalHD" option under "Settings>Video>Playback>Render method".

Please can someone confirm what is the expected behaviour if the install has worked? Should there be a "CrystalHD" option or am I mistaken?

I do have the: "Settings>Video>Playback>Allow hardware acceleration (CrystalHD)" checkbox checked.

The setting for CrystalHD moved from Renderer to it's own checkbox several months ago. This is normal.

-Matt- · 2010-08-25 23:31

Ok great, so hopefully that means everything is installed correctly.

I'm still having problems playing a 720p movie but it might be the file.

-Matt- Junior Member Posts: 27 Joined: Apr 2009 Reputation: 0	2010-08-25 23:31 Post: #136 Ok great, so hopefully that means everything is installed correctly. I'm still having problems playing a 720p movie but it might be the file.
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