GFX Strings - How To

[aquamac]

sendblink,
Did you change the PCI address in the download above?

[sendblink23]

Jun 17, 2010 4:27:29 GMT aquamac said:

sendblink,
Did you change the PCI address in the download above?

yes I did doing as you mentioned in your steps:

Ok so here is the quick how-to. Get the attached gfxutil and in.plist (above) and copy them to your desktop. Open up terminal and type

cd ~/desktop (then hit return)
./gfxutil -f display (then hit return)

Then what i got I added it inside the in.plist replacing the line it had given, from the archive you sent me.... is this what you meant of PCI address ?

Sorry for again responding late, this forum board is not giving me any Email notifications(I made sure in my profile its set to receive them).. well anyways... I think my evga 9800GTX+ probably it isn't compatible on leo - I haven't read anywhere online with the same brand model card having it working under 10.5.7 or 10.5.8.... any other ideas on what to do?

Just incase my ID's
Device ID: 0613
Vendor ID: 10de

[aquamac]

You could try adding your device Id inside the nvdan50hal.kext but it is true your card is probably more suited to Snow Leopard.

[thadogg]

can no one help? I've managed to get the card to show in system profiler but I have to remove nvdaresman.kext for it to boot

[sendblink23]

Jun 20, 2010 20:51:40 GMT aquamac said:

You could try adding your device Id inside the nvdan50hal.kext but it is true your card is probably more suited to Snow Leopard.

Well thanks for at least trying... I tried adding the ID's repaired permissions.. and it wouldn't let me boot even on safe mode :/

so I'd say Fu*& it, I'll forget the plans for 10.5.8 for now (until I buy another card, suggest me any cheap or good one that actually works on 10.5.8 with no hassle)... so now I'll stick with Snow for that card - already at 10.6.4 working nicely.

[m41n1]

Hi, this is indeed a great guide

I had a question about this particular thing:

PLEASE NOTE - SNOW LEOPARD When making your output file - that must be done booted from Leopard only. Snow Leopard gives the wrong info in the output file and you WILL NOT get QE/CI working!

I downloaded and installed atkos v7 (10.6.3). Does this mean I won't be able to get QE/CI working without installing the 10.5 to get the right hex? Is not any other workaround?

My laptop is ASUS G50V with
2.53-GHz Intel Core 2 Duo T9400
RAM 4GB
Nividia GeForce 9800M GS - (512 mb)

In general, the OS goes well, but the zooming in dock and animations of minimization and maximation go kindda slow, would QE/CI improve this?

Thanks in advance

[ismolika]

Hi all, I fallowed your guide, all went right but i cant get dvi/hdmi working. i am using dvi/vga atm. is there a way to get hdmi working with 250 gts 1g ?
Thank you in advance



using 10.6.4
ge 250gts 1g
up45-u3rd MB
8g system memory

[moderndayblue]

Hello


I know that this thread is quite old
but I happen to have an interesting little situation.
I was recently given a dual Xeon processor
2.8Ghz Dell Precision 670 with a Nvidia Quadro FX1300 128Mb graphics card.
OsX installed perfectly fine except for the graphics card.
I have tried various solutions to getting it to run under
my Hackintosh which is the iAtkos v7 version 10.5.7 updated to 10.5.8
I was wondering if you would be able to help me get running with
QE/CI enabled natively as I when I run it with the NVidia kexts it crashes.
I've tried various different solutions but to no avail.
I'm currently running it in simulation mode.
Which gives me Quartz GL and Core Image under software.
When attempting to use your 9 series kexts it crashed as well.
I tried the various kexts and EFI strings also.


Thank you in advance


Device id is 0x00fe
Revision id 0x00a2.


10.5.8 Leopard
2.8Ghx Dual processor Xeon
Dell Precision 670
Nvidia Quadro FX1300 128Mb graphics

[aquamac]

Have you tried the GFX strings walkthrough at the beginning of this thread? I would suggest a different graphics card as I am not sure whether anyone has got that one working except in the basic VESA mode which you have. Is your card PCIe?

[moderndayblue]

Yes indeed I tried your walkthrough
at the beginning of this thread and
yes it is a PCIe card.


I have got it working in vesa mode.
I'm going to try my luck again with it though.
I tried the corevidia 1.1 drivers which have
the device id in the info.plist. to no avail.
Also various other kexts, NVinject,NVDarwin amongst others
and still stalling on boot up requiring me to go back into the
extension folder and taking out all the NVidia Kexts.
Which is also the state I'm running in right now
with the resolution set in Chameleon RC4.684.

also my PciRoot info came back as
<key>PciRoot(0x4)/Pci(0x4,0x0)/Pci(0x0,0x0)</key>
I stumbled across in another forum saying that maybe
if I custom patch my DSDT then there is a possibility
that I may be able to get it running natively.
Something about changing _adr to _uuid or somesuch
in the DSDT file but I have been unsuccessful so far with
compiling one and for some reason on my system
I cannot find it anyways.
I haven't got the specific details right will jot them down
a little later.
But that is a bunch of maybes.

I will see about getting another card very soon but if I can get this
running then all will be good.

[muiterz]

hi aquamac,

i bought a second videocard, a 8400gs 512 asus card (1 x DVI, 1 VGA). i have a 8800gt msi 512 card (Dual DVI + TV out). I can't get my second videocard working.

the problem is that i don't have leopard installed, so i can't make an efi string (startpost). can you do this for me?

i've installed 10.6.3. i have the asus p5n32e-sli plus. 8gb ram. would like to use triple 24 inch monitors.

thanks a lot in advanceD!!!!

[aquamac]

Unfortunately you need to obtain the 2 PCI addresses as they are specific to your motherboard. If you have them I can do the rest. You can get them from windows with device manager too.

[muiterz]

Sept 18, 2010 19:47:56 GMT aquamac said:

Unfortunately you need to obtain the 2 PCI addresses as they are specific to your motherboard. If you have them I can do the rest. You can get them from windows with device manager too.

wow what a great quick reply!! thanks a lot in advanced!! i'm searching for hours, without result.

i'm currently in windows, 3 screens running dual card

allright:

card 2: nvidia geforce 8400 GS 512: pci bus 5, device 0, function 0
card 1: 8800gt msi 512: PCI bus 1, device 0, function 0


is this enough? thanks!

[aquamac]

No, the info you need is the location paths. Get from the drop down box.

[muiterz]

Sept 18, 2010 23:21:42 GMT aquamac said:

No, the info you need is the location paths. Get from the drop down box.

i tried with gfxutil -f display. @ snow leopard i get:


DevicePath = PciRoot(0x1)/Pci(0x13,0x0)/Pci(0x0,0x0)

but i'm not sure if this is the right info (i downloaded a random file with the util inside of it)


edit:

@windows:

location path 8400gs


PCIROOT(0)#PCI(1300)#PCI(0000)


location path 8800gt

PCIROOT(0)#PCI(0300)#PCI(0000)