help, GFX String for GeForce 9300M G 256MB

[hectorox]

Hello,

I have some problem to get my graphic card working for 100% on snow leopard 10.6.7

What I managed is to get it showing on my system as Geforce 9300M G with 256 vram (it dont says GPU now anymore) BUT When I want to start a game like Counter Strike source, it says that my graphiccard dont fit the minimum for this game.
Info about my gfx:
id: 0x042e
versionid: 0x00a1
NVIDIA(0x10de)
outputs: 1xhdmi , 1xvga

here you can see my actual in.plist:
<?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>PciRoot(0x0)/Pci(0x1,0x0)/Pci(0x0,0x0)</key>
<dict>
<key>@0,compatible</key>
<string>NVDA,NVMac</string>
<key>@0,device_type</key>
<string>display</string>
<key>@0,name</key>
<string>NVDA,Display-A</string>
<key>@1,compatible</key>
<string>NVDA,NVMac</string>
<key>@1,device_type</key>
<string>display</string>
<key>@1,name</key>
<string>NVDA,Display-B</string>
<key>@2,#adress-cells</key>
<string>0x01000000</string>
<key>@2,#size-cells</key>
<string>0x00000000</string>
<key>@2,compatible</key>
<string>NVDA,sensor-parent</string>
<key>@2,device_type</key>
<string>NVDA,gpu-diode</string>
<key>@2,hwctrl-params-version</key>
<string>0x02000000</string>
<key>@2,hwsensor-params-version</key>
<string>0x02000000</string>
<key>@2,name</key>
<string>sensor-parent</string>
<key>@2,reg</key>
<string>0x02000000</string>
<key>NVCAP</key>
<data>BAAAAAAAAwAMAAAAAAAABwAAAAA=</data>
<key>NVPM</key>
<data>AQAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA==</data>
<key>VRAM,totalsize</key>
<data>AAAAEA==</data>
<key>device_type</key>
<string>NVDA,GeForce</string>
<key>model</key>
<string>NVIDIA GeForce 9300M G</string>
<key>name</key>
<string>NVDA,Parent</string>
<key>rom-revision</key>
<string>3172a</string>
</dict>
</dict>
</plist>

I hope you can help me

hectorox

[aquamac]

Hi hectorox,

I will have a look for you tomorrow night when I am near my computer!

[hectorox]

hi aquamac,

Thank you very much. I have read throw a lot of pages and I think it is because of no working QE/CI but I´m not 100% sure as I am a real newby to this. I hope we can solve this together to get this full working. If you need more information about my Geforce 9300M G card let me know.

with best wishes,

hectorox

[aquamac]

Take a look at the attached strings and output file + com.apple.boot.plist I made for your card. You may have to edit the com.apple.boot.plist if you need to put in various other commands to boot your PC. This wants to go in your extra file. The one that is in Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration needs to be standard.

Please also send me a list of all your kexts in your extensions folder and those within your Extra/Extensions folder.

Attachments:

[hectorox]

hi i will test it now:

here the extensions(one from the system has about 83MB!)

from extra/:
www.fileserve.com/file/EEpMntv

from system/:
www.fileserve.com/file/wkGzrqW

root library/extensions is empty.

i will test now the gfx string
EDIT.
game still says graphic card has not minimum spec

[aquamac]

Please post a grab shot from System Profiler from the Display section.

[hectorox]

sry for this picture but it looks like the screencapture here in snow leopard dont want to save me the screen( i cant find it anywhere)

img33.imageshack.us/img33/9139/dscf2553q.jpg

[aquamac]

Do you have a transparent menubar? Did you use the strings that I made? Also does DVD Player work for you?

[aquamac]

Can you answer my questions above, I need this information to determine if quartz extreme is working.

[hectorox]

just wanted to write it down now and you are already online ^^

Menue bar is transparent(zoom of icons is working fine). I used your strings of course and DVD Player says no video device.

with best wishes,

hectorox

edit.
I just could extract the bios from my video card with Aida64. Maybe this can help ?
www.fileserve.com/file/FQFXWK3

edit2.
I`m looking here a lot of threads of your nice page and I´m thinking maybe to instal your NVIDIA 9 Series Driver Installer ?

does this driver support geforce 9300M G ?

[aquamac]

No, don't install the nvidia 9 series driver as that is only for Leopard and NOT snow Leo! It is very odd that you have a transparent menu bar but DVD player says no video device? This is why your games don't work. I cannot remember if Apple ever used a 9300M in their laptops. It maybe that the device I'd needs adding to your Nvidia kexts. Have you deleted any of the apple snow leopard video kexts? There should be all the snow Leo kexts in your extensions folder. It may be worth going to the drivers section of this site and downloading and installing the Fermi drivers installer as this will make sure you have all the required apple kexts in your system.

link

[hectorox]

hi aquamac,

I know these kexts:

GeForce.kext
GeForce7xxxGLDriver.bundle
GeForceGA.plugin
GeForceGLDriver.bundle
GeForceVADriver.bundle
NVDAGF100Hal.kext
NVDANV40Hal.kext
NVDANV50Hal.kext
NVDAResman.kext

In which should i change or insert my videocard device id ? I know how to open the plists and how to save. When i changed the id what should i do next ? some repair permissions ?

I have now a fully with no warning DSDT.dsl file ready for compiling to DSDT.aml ( I tested a compiling to .aml and there was no warning anymore)

I wanted to integrate the gfx string in it, but it is not so easy as i thought:
I found out that the video cards device is P0P1, but it is connected with 3 times Device (VGA)-> when you type in search "device (VGA)" you will find 3 of them. It looks like the device (VGA) has to do with the LCD, DVI, TV outputs, and more. It is worth to have a look to the dsdt, maybe we can get a better understanding how the card just want to work ? Could you help me to integrate the gfx string to it ?
I already made the settings for this card (extracting nvcap,reg, etc) but dont know how to integrate it as the "device (vga)" is confusing me.

code for card:
www.fileserve.com/file/Bhh46Jn

edit.

Just want to share with you how far I got:
Its looks better now. As I understand, the kexts above have an universal device setting (0x000010de) except these kexts:
NVDAGF100Hal.kext -> plist
NVDANV40Hal.kext -> plist
NVDANV50Hal.kext -> plist
Strange is that these kexts normally are also universal for some supported Geforce video cards (like 0x086>0<, 0x042>0< , ... .)
Mine should be also recognized automatically (my device id is 0x042>e<) but for some reasons it doesnt do that. After changing 0x042>0< to 0x042>e< it detects my videocard !
Geforce 9300M (G) is not yet supported by apple ! So I decided to read about some video card chips which are similar to my. It is almost "identical" with Geforce 8400M (G) just a few differents. But I think this card is also not supported by Apple (not sure, couldnt find info about that) only Geforce 9400M (G) is supported by apple so I decided to change the universal device id of this card (0x086>0< (3) to my (0x042e). After all settings set i made a restart and there is no blackscreen.

For aquamac:
Now the dvd player dont say "no video device found" but there is another problem i will add here the report, maybe you can find a solution ? Video still black.

Here the error log:
www.fileserve.com/file/BQNq5c2

As the universal settings in the kexts seems not to work for my card should I change all universal id`s to my ?

with best wishes,

hectorox

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[b00tleg82]

hectorox ,

Did you ever have any luck with this card?

[bisk]

Yep, I wondering too.

I've been trying to get QE/CI for months and months but just black screen

The hard drive finally gave up the ghost so I'm about to reinstall and try all over again.

Anybody cracked this one yet ?

I've got an HP TouchSmart IQ506

NVidia GeForce 9300M GS 256 - 10de06e9

[hectorox]

hello guys,

Sorry, I didnt managed to get the videocard fully working. It only works 100% with external monitor. Internal Monitor always shows blackscreen.

with best wishes,
hectorox