My laptop is a B43S and uses the switchable 6470M ATI/AMD card. What I want to do is edit the newer drivers for the 7400M to include the 6470M. Main reason being that only recently did ATI/AMD fix their drivers to work with the ASLR always-on through EMET, which is what I want.
The latest drivers from ASUS (http://dlcdnet.asus.com/pub/ASUS/nb/...64_Z884070.zip) is very old, 03/28/2011, 8.840.7.0000. These do not work with ASLR forced system-wide.
Relevant portion of driver inf that works with my card is here:
"AMD Radeon HD 6470M " = ati2mtag_Vancouver_PXAI, PCI\VEN_1002&DEV_6760&SUBSYS_1D221043
Using DriverMax and SlimDrivers, they pull down a much more recent driver but they're missing any references to Vancouver_PXAI. Instead they have VANCOUVER and VANCOUVERA, which they label as the 7400M. Google searches reveal that the 7400M is a re-badged 6470M and people with a 6470M (but not an ASUS) have a working card, just labeled as a 7400M in device manager.
I have tried forcing the 7400M and it only half works. The backlight won't turn on. I have tried restarting, switching from the Intel card to the AMD, none of it worked. The screen is still working though, because I can hold a flashlight up to it and see everything, but obviously that is not a real solution.
How can I combine them in some way, so that I can get the functioning backlight from the old drivers but have the updated system files and drivers of the new drivers? Is it possible to just copy/paste the portions of the older inf in to the newer one?
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Originally Posted by Ket
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