How to get nvidia 9800m gtx card to work

[n612ua]

Hello I have spent about a week trying to get os x 10.5.7 to work on my gateway 7811fx. Finally about 3 days ago I got it to install. I am now having problems with my nvidia 9800 gtx graphics card and intel wirlwire less 5100 card thats for another time.

I have read this post here on how to install the card drivers or whatever there card.

aquamac.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=hack1&action=display&thread=528

First off the opengl program he is showing I don't have that. I have done a Google search for that but it comes up with werid stuff which i'm not sure if it's the right stuff.

Next when I download the stuff to my usb stick to go back to mac and open programs kexts and nvinject. I double click the kexts and get a thing poping up asking me to choose which application to open this with I also get this when trying to open the nvinject.

Can someone give me better instructions on how to install this? Or translate what that forum means and how to do that? I am totaly lost.

Thanks mike

[aquamac]

To install a kext, you do not try to double click it. You need to download a program called Kexthelper b7. When you double click that, a window will open up and you drop the kext you are trying to install into the window then authenticate - kexthelper will do the rest. I would not use NVInject though, it is ages old and has not been updated for ages. Either use something like NVEnabler, GFX strings or probably the best solution adding this:

<key>GraphicsEnabler</key>
<string>yes</string>

to your com.apple.boot.plist.

This can be found in your Extra folder.

[n612ua]

Ok I went to install the kexts does anyone care to take a stab at which one I need for the 9800gtx? The download from the page I linked to on the first post has a ton of them. However none of them show anything like 9xxx so not 100% sure. This part may sound stupid but where is the extra folder at? Do you open the com.apple.boot.plist with kexthelper b7 or text editor? I opened it in texteditor and pasted the string aquamac said when I go to save it say I don't have permission to save. I right click and get to get info I change the 3 user info stuff to read and write and it still wont let me save the string to the boot.plist.
Thanks for all of the hekp mike

[n612ua]

Ok nevermind I pretty sure I just figured this out. Now the fun task of getting my intel wifi link 5100 agn to work.

Thanks for all of the help

[tpark]

Probably off-topic for this thread as I have a Sony Viao Laptop VGN 120D with a Nvidia 9600m GT at 512Mb. Without graphics enabled I get the usual 1024x768 and 32mb in Profiler. Enabling graphics or using strings or other injectors lead to a black screen. I hooked up another monitor with standard vga and have the picture. That monitor is recognized correctly as a Dell. My attached Flatscreen digital monitor is not recognized in preferences. I have tried the various string attachments for navcap as suggested by Netkas with mixed results but cannot get my flatscreen recognized. I am using SL 10.6.2 and everything else works except wifi and switched to a Linkys usb wireless which works. One other issue is that I cannot get this system to run under 64 bit without a panic. The mobu is proprietry and bios options are limited under Sony but it is a 45 processor with dual core Intel chip.