GFX Strings - How To

[audiophileuser]

aquamac, is my card different? with the details i provided you at the other forum.

8800GT 256mb 256bit? from Inno3d

which one should i choose? a regular 256mb generic kext or a specific for 8800GT ?

i'm having a hard time getting info

i think there is something missing

[aquamac]

Hi,

I have put an in.plist up on page 1 of this thread for you for a 8800 GT 256 mb to make things a little easier.

[audiophileuser]

thanks a lot aquamac i'll let you know when i fixed the issue. so i can post this for other people can solve this issue too

[audiophileuser]

ahh aquamac the thing is not working. i don't for some reason. i followed your instruction but i still get no QE/CI:( what should i do?

[lylem]

Wasn't able to get this to work, am running a retail 10.6 install with a 8800GT 512MB card. Wanted to try this method over the nvinject, natit etc.. I've tried multiple times to get this going but it seems to just ignore my string i add. Any suggestions? Thanks

[aquamac]

Hi Lylem,

You need to give me some information to work with. Can you start with pasting your graphics info info from System profiler.

[lylem]

I went ahead and used natit to get things going, however is there any "performance" benefit over this method rather than natit? Heres my info now after natit being used. Only thing that changed i think was the it went from 32MB ram to 512MB

NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT:

Chipset Model: NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT
Type: GPU
Bus: PCIe
PCIe Lane Width: x16
VRAM (Total): 512 MB
Vendor: NVIDIA (0x10de)
Device ID: 0x0611
Revision ID: 0x00a2
ROM Revision: 0x00

[aquamac]

The main benefit of strings is that there is one less kext in your kext folder and there is slightly less chance of problems when you update OS X. It was the whole of system profiler that I was looking for really (see below for mine)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 285 DDL:

Chipset Model: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 285 DDL
Type: GPU
Bus: PCIe
Slot: Slot-1
PCIe Lane Width: x16
VRAM (Total): 1024 MB
Vendor: NVIDIA (0x10de)
Device ID: 0x05e3
Revision ID: 0x00a1
ROM Revision: 3172a

Displays:
Apple Studio Display:
Resolution: 1280 x 1024
Pixel Depth: 32-Bit Color (ARGB8888)
Main Display: Yes
Mirror: Off
Online: Yes
Rotation: Supported
Display Connector:
Status: No Display Connected

The one above is for Snow Leopard, but Leopard will actually tell you if QE/CI are enabled. It would be necessary to show what you were getting with strings though if you wanted help and that would involve deleting Natit. If your strings were ignored then you must have missed something. If you are using the latest version of Chameleon, then the com.apple.boot.plist needs to go in your Extra folder.

[lylem]

Ok i removed natit, rebooted added my string i got with efi studio. Below i will paste with out natit but before string and then with string.

with out natit before string:

Display:

Type: GPU
Bus: PCIe
PCIe Lane Width: x16
VRAM (Total): 32 MB
Vendor: NVIDIA (0x10de)
Device ID: 0x0611
Revision ID: 0x00a2
Displays:
Display:
Resolution: 1024 x 768
Pixel Depth: 32-Bit Color (ARGB8888)
Main Display: Yes
Mirror: Off
Online: Yes

With string:

Display:

Type: GPU
Bus: PCIe
PCIe Lane Width: x16
VRAM (Total): 32 MB
Vendor: NVIDIA (0x10de)
Device ID: 0x0611
Revision ID: 0x00a2
Displays:
Display:
Resolution: 1024 x 768
Pixel Depth: 32-Bit Color (ARGB8888)
Main Display: Yes
Mirror: Off
Online: Yes

[aquamac]

lylem,

Have you tried adding your string manually as at the beginning of this thread and NOT efi studio? The info above shows your string is indeed not working. If you are trying to make your string in Snow Leopard as has been mentioned many times - it will not work. You have to make your out.plist in Leopard ONLY until GFX strings are re-written for Snow Leopard. You can get all the PCI address stuff done in Snow but the output file must be made in Leo only, as Snow gives the wrong info and QE/CI will not work. If you follow that advice I am sure you will get strings to work.

[lylem]

Actually i missed that part in the tutorial my bad, so i preceded to boot my old leopard install and go through it and i copied the string to my snow install and i still get the same results. Maybe i will have to wait awhile until some bugs get worked out. Thanks for the help though.

[abdell]

Hello all. thank you all for your info. i tried 2 different metods and failed then i tried the more simple thing. In iatkos v7 i checked the nvdidia vga-dvi drivers and violá. I´m really happy. Everything works.



i7
ex58
9800gt 1024mb ( it recognizes it all)
virus ti

Maybe if i used 3d applications i´m sure i would run into trouble, but for music production it´s wonderfull.

Thank you all......

[maozen]

hi acquamac!

you're making a great job!

i'm trying to install your driver but i can't get nothing working....

i've acer aspire 6930 with nvidia geforce 9600m GT 1024 and actually i'm running SL 10.6.2

im trying to install gfx files for 9600m GS 1024 and after your nvidia driver but it's not working can you help me ?
thanks!!
mao

[aquamac]

Hi if you take a look at the instructions, once you find your PCIe address you have to make the out.hex part in Leopard as the GFX program is not working in snow leopard yet and you will just stall at the blue screen.

[maozen]

hi
i write down the intire procedure i've done so you can tell me where i'm wrong......

1) ./gfxutil -f display (on the sl machine)
and i get an PCI root little bit different form the one in the file

your file : PciRoot(0x1)/Pci(0xe,0x0)/Pci(0x0,0x0)
sl machine : PciRoot(0x1)/Pci(0x1,0x0)/Pci(0x0,0x0)

2) on a original leo i get the out .hex
3) modify com.apple.boot.plist on the SL machine
4) install your nvidia 9000 driver
5) reboot

but at the end i'm still with 1024x768

so this is the com.apple.Boot

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple Computer//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
<key>Kernel</key>
<string>mach_kernel</string>
<key>Kernel Flags</key>
<string></string>
<key>device-properties</key>
<string>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</string>
<key>Graphics Mode</key>
<string>1680x1050x32</string>
</dict>
</plist>
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and this is how the card is recognized........

Monitor:

Tipo: GPU
Bus: PCIe
Larghezza Lane PCIe: x16
VRAM (totale): 32 MB
Fornitore: NVIDIA (0x10de)
ID dispositivo: 0x0649
ID revisione: 0x00a1
Monitor:
Monitor:
Risoluzione: 1024 x 768
Profondità pixel: Colore 32 bit (ARGB8888)
Monitor principale: Sì
Mirror: Spento
Online: Sì

thanks!!