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Post by aquamac on Feb 19, 2009 21:35:05 GMT
Hi Badpete,
If you are using 10,5.6, don't use my drivers, they were only intended for 10.5.5. 10.5.6 should work with 9800 GT anyway + GFX strings. Maybe this is your problem. I don't know that the nvcap is the problem. When you had success, was it with 10.5.5 or 10.5.6.
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Post by badpete on Feb 20, 2009 1:55:28 GMT
Success once with iPC 10.5.6 (ppf5)
tried again with clean install using gfxutil and in.plist with your instructions.
nope. Same as the last 6 times. Boots up 800x600 res 60hz with only the screen background drawn around the icons. Mouse unresponsive, like a boat in molasses, but jumpy. Using the keyboard to move, I can change the resolution and frequency. Higher freq (75 hz) gives me a tiny bit more control of the mouse.
quartz extreme is listed as unsupported.
background drawn when windows are closed.
GPU-z reports the card as G92 GPU rev A2 65nm technology with a bios of 62.92.46.00.2B.
did not install your 9 series drivers.
Surf'd your website (one of them) last night and enjoyed your work. Makes me feel foolish with my case lifted from the recycle depot, spray painted flat black, pink disk drive for the girls and a skull and x-bones on the side for my son (well... and me too). With hacksaw modifications to try and improve the air flow (to no avail, I can't put the sides on it). I really must improve the wires when I sort out what will be in the box.
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Post by aquamac on Feb 20, 2009 8:23:09 GMT
I put together an installer from my working 10.5.6 installation that will re-instal 10.5.6 Nvidia kexts to your extensions folder here. Can anyone let me know if they find any bugs. Badpete, If you tried them, at least you would know that you were starting with the Std drivers. But it maybe that your problem lies elsewhere. PS. The last paragraph of your post made me smile, the bit about the skull & crossbones, sounds like you have a full house there!! My son has a similar type of comp too! |
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Post by badpete on Feb 20, 2009 15:21:36 GMT
Thanks aquamac,
I've seen other posts with what sounds like similar problems but no solutions. I know someone has one working somewhere.
I see that the other drivers are all 8xxx 7xxx etc. the 9 series don't look like that, I can't see them as that anyways.
I'll keep trying. Something will work. check out your standard drivers.
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Post by aquamac on Feb 20, 2009 16:31:47 GMT
Pete,
Let me know if you try the drivers.
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Post by badpete on Feb 20, 2009 16:38:59 GMT
aqua,
just did a clean install with iPC (didn't choose the install series 9 drivers). Voodoo and NForce chipset installed.
tried your nvidia installer and on reboot it said that
NVDAResman, Geforce and NvDANV50Hal were all installed improperly.
no time to play anymore this morning (Canada). Got to take the kids skating.
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Post by aquamac on Feb 20, 2009 17:34:18 GMT
Strange, I don't get that message, Hmm. Run this to correct your kext permissions: Kext Permissions RepairHey have a great time skating. Have rellies' in North Van & Salt Spring Island, been a number of times - love it! Where abouts in Canada are you. |
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Post by badpete on Feb 20, 2009 20:38:13 GMT
I used Disk Utility to repair permissions but, I guess it doesn't work the same as your command line. yours fixed the errors on the install.
went ahead and reinstalled the gfx string. No luck. jumpy mouse spotty graphics and this time system preferences would not open... Seen that before though.
Saltspring is a great place to have rellies. My mom used to spend her summers there. I Grew up north of Whistler. lived in Vancouver for 10+ years. Living in Edmonton now. Could buy a house here, less $$. Not as nice but I see more sunshine.
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Post by srini on Feb 22, 2009 6:12:49 GMT
Hi aquamac. i followed your instructions and compiled out.hex file. copied the hex string and added that to com.apple.boot.plist. removed nvkush, repaired the permissions. on successful restart i lost transparency i had with nvkush. when checked the sys profile for graphics card showed correct model name vram size etc.. but CORE IMAGE > SOFTWARE support & QUARTZ EXTREME > NOT SUPPORTED. using osx86 tools i enabled the QE&CI but got only QUARTZ OPENGL NO QE. using macdrive from windows i have again placed nvkush in the extensions folder and removed hex string in boot.plist and on reboot repaired the permissions. to my amazement i got transparency and QE supported and CI hardware acceleration including Qe open gl support but the sys profiler showing unidentified model name and only 256mb vram instead of 1 gb
what can i do to get back my QE&CI WITH YOUR STRINGS METHOD.
SHALL I HAVE TO REMOVE ALL NVIDIA DRIVERS FROM EXTENSIONS FOLDER BEFORE REBOOTING WITH YOUR STRINGS?
HELP ME PLEASE..THANKS
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Post by aquamac on Feb 22, 2009 7:32:32 GMT
Under no circumstances should you remove any of the Nvidia drivers! Can you answer the following questions for me.
1. What version of OSX do you currently have?
2. Is your disk formatted with MBR or GUID.
3.Are you using Chameleon or Netkas's EFI for a boot loader and which version of EFI. EFI will not support strings before V8.
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Post by digitaldeath on Feb 22, 2009 21:06:02 GMT
no luck with 9300m gs (on Acer Aspire 6930z), screen turns blank booting with -v flag, otherwise osx crashes.
My osx is a "clean" Kalyway 10.5.2 updated to 10.5.5...EFI v9 / mbr partition map, no video kext installed.
I really don't know if my card is supported or not. I copied 9600m gs in.plist, modified card name (9600 to 9300), RAM string and bios revision then generated long hex with gfxstring shell tool.
Watching boot message it seems loading nvhdal50 (something like that)
Am I doing something wrong?
Thank you for your efforts!
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Post by aquamac on Feb 22, 2009 22:04:33 GMT
Your card needs a minimum of 10.5.5 + my drivers that are downloadable on this site or 10.5.6 as a minimum. Std 10.5.5 won't cut the mustard! |
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Post by digitaldeath on Feb 23, 2009 14:02:59 GMT
Of course I installed your driver package  but maybe I did something wrong when generating the long hex string. In another post you say that on 10.5.6 your drivers are not needed (because they are "backported" from this update revision, right?), so what can I do now? Must I build strings even on 10.5.6? Maybe I didn't understand this procedure, correct me if I am wrong: - get PCI path from gfxstring -f display
- get some in.plist template and replace correct pci path, RAM size, bios revision and card name
- build hex string and put a key/value couple in com.apple.boot.plist
- reboot
Thank you in advance |
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Post by aquamac on Feb 23, 2009 18:19:19 GMT
I did also post 10.5.6 drivers in the kext section for people that installed my 10.5.5 drivers on 10.5.6. So you can overwrite the drivers if you want. You will still need strings though as you will on any Hackintosh. Your synopsis of string installation looks correct. If you try my 10.5.6 driver installer, you may need to run this permissions command as although it went OK for me, another user said he got the message kexts not installed correctly which this command will fix. |
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Post by digitaldeath on Feb 24, 2009 16:38:56 GMT
Ok it loads the GFX string, in System Profiler I can see "fake" BIOS revision I copied from your file. I reinstalled original drivers and repaired permission but it fails loading kext: "System extension cannot be loaded, they were installed improperly, try reinstalling or contact your vendor". This message repeats 4 or 5 times, once for each kext it can not load.
NVDAResman
NVDAHL50
etc...
I also noticed it ignores -F flag on boot.
Any suggestion? I don't want to give up and I'm not in a hurry so will leave the notebook alone. Well, not so alone, there's gentoo linux installed on another partition ;D
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