GFX Strings - DUAL CARDS - How To

[m500sesp]

I followed you instructions to a tee and still no luck.
mobo P5N32-E SLI Plus
2 nvidia 8800 GTS's
It seems like it is freezing right before it launches the gui with -v
Here is my plist. I was hoping you could look at in and give me advice?
This is exactly how it looks
Thanks,
Sam
<?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>Boot Graphics</key>
<string>Yes</string>
<key>Graphics Mode</key>
<string>1920X1200X32@65</string>
<key>Kernel</key>
<string>mach_kernel</string>
<key>Kernel Flags</key>
<string>cpus=1</string>
<key>Quiet Boot</key>
<string>No</string>
<key>Timeout</key>
<string>5</string>
<key>device-properties</key>
<string>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</string>
</dict>
</plist>

[steenamaroo]

that lovely big space near the end of your string probably isn't helping

shouldn't a hex value have no spaces??

[m500sesp]

The plst that is shown as the example has a space in the same place, so I'm thinking that's not the issue.

[steenamaroo]

oh,,ok,,just never seen a space in one before,,,,sorry..


aquamac, something of relevance,,,,,perhaps.....


i'm strugglin on with the two 2400xts,,,and i noticed something today..


if i make an efistring for the two cards with efistudio,,it allows one card only to display,,as we know....



in efistudio, if i dump the hex to a file,,,,,then convert it to xml with gfxutil,,,,then open my new plist in plisteditpro,,

i only see one devicepath!!!?



whereas, if i dump the hex from my working 7600gs setup and do the same thing,,the resulting plist shows two device paths,,



needless to say, i tried making a new string manually starting with plistedit pro, and coverting to hex etc, to no avail,

but, i thought it might be worth mentioning to someone who'd know a lot more about it than me!!

[ac]

aquamac,

Thank you very much for the excellent work. I greatly appreciate your knowledge transfer.

My configuration:
Gigabyte EP45-UD3P - stock (BIOS disabled JMicron - kernel panic otherwise)
Quad Core Q9550 Yorkfield
Two! BFG Tech 9800 GTX+ 512 MB - three monitors at the moment
4 Gig OCX Reaper 1066
Chameleon 2.0 r431
A bunch of HDD's
LG Blu Ray Burner
Leopard 10.5.6 Retail

There was an additional step required above your guide. The background is that each card would work individually but not together without modifying NVDANV50Hal.kext info.plist to include my device ID. This information was gathered from: www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=131914

In my case, each card is Device ID: 0x0612 (System Profiler revealed hex identifier). Then following the direction in the above link and making the single entry got everything functioning.

To help further my understanding, I needed to place the modified com.apple.Boot.plist in both locations being /Extra and /Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration. I'm not sure if that is correct/necessary. Can you shed some light?

I am really impress how the OSX project has matured. It is due to the efforts put forward from the community, like yourself, that has made this a reality. Thanks again.

~Albert

[aquamac]

Hi ac,

Thank for you kind words! You are right to put both com.apple.boot.plists in both your extra folder and your System Configuration folder. I have never had to modify my NVDAResman kext or any kexts manually and I have the same cards as you - if you have both cards entered into your com.apple.boot.plist.

The way shown in your link is just a different way of achieving the same thing. But watch out as every time OSX is updated the NVDAResman is overwritten with a new version.

On my Raid system with Chameleon 2, I put my modded: com.apple.boot.plist in my Extra folder, but just placed a vanilla com.apple.boot.plist in my System Configuration Folder. The system boots with correct graphics as the path is to the Extra folder.

[thunderbob]

OK. Having a few issues and wondered if anyone had an idea.

Asus P5N-D (Nvidia Chipset) and 2x 8800GT(512MB).

Running 10.5.5

Ran through your tutorial and everything looked good.

Rebooted and got

Display
Display.

At this point i remember you said that this means EFI isnt working. OK! i thought.....Install EFI v9........Kernel Panic......

Went back to Chameleon v2 (Which had previously booted into the OS but showing 'Display')......Freezes as its about to load GUI.....tried Safe Mode......Kernel Panic...

Took out 2nd Card....Everythings fine.....1 card running from its EFI string...

Put 2nd card into 2nd slot and took out first card.......Everythings Fine.....

Any ideas because i seem to have tried everything i can find on these pages...

Oh and yes i have checked for NVinject,NVkush etc

[dfiore]

hello all.

having an issue here. Im pretty seasoned when it comes to hackintoshs (10+ built, rebuilt, ect ect), but this has taken about 15 hours of my time already.

i have a ep45c-ud3p, q6600, 7300le 128m and 6600ultra 256m.

i previously had the 7300le setup with gfx strings and it was working properly (via efistudio), with a 22 and a 24. I gave the GF my 22, and picked up a pair of 21's to go with the 24 for (1600x1200 x2 and 1920x1200 x1). I followed this guide multiple times and still no dice. I use munkys efi method of booting (via efi partition and a modified chamelon), and when i put in the hex string from the converted in.plist, it says there is an error with the com.apple.Boot.list (not the /Library/..., but rather the one from the efi partition). It will go on to boot but without proper graphics.

www.fiore-consulting.com/dualdisplay.zip
in.plist (with my mods)
com.apple.Boot.plist (with hex string from in.plist)

any help would be greatly appreciated

dave

/// Update ///
Scrapped the 7300/6800 and picked up a pair of 9400gt 1gb's. They are fully working now.

[fonthead]

I am somewhat of a hackintosh noob, but I have a complete system running... except for the dual video cards that I really need.

Here's my setup:
Gigabyte EP-UD3P board
2x EVGA GeoForce 9800 GTX+ video cards
Vanilla Kernel booting with Chameleon 2 RC1

I get Great video from the card in slot one. No video at all from slot 2. BIOS is set to PEG2 and works from slot 2 when I have a card in slot 2 only. When there are two cards installed, only the one in slot 1 works. Anybody have any insight here? I cannot figure it out. I've followed the directions to a T as far as I can tell.

Thanks-

Ethan

[aquamac]

Did you install the two PCIe addresses into your input file?

[fonthead]

Aquamac-

Let me just say first of all... THANK YOU. I used EFI Studio to create the strings and thought maybe I did something wrong. I gave up really. Then I unplugged the case, installed another harddrive, and put the case back together... and wham! Suddenly PEG2 was working! It worked! Must have been some kind of caching issue with the BIOS? Have no idea. Seems that the motherboard needed to be reset somehow. Anyway, everything is working great. Got three monitors going great now.

Here are some photos of the rig. Thanks again!!!

www.flickr.com/photos/fonthead/sets/72157619877225935/

[aquamac]

Hi fonthead,

Nice setup, that is some serious screen "real estate" you have. Those Dell monitors (they look like Dells) are very good. Do you notice a significant speed increase over your G5?

[ciobinn]

I extract the files. plist from osx86 utility of the card 256 and the 512 and combined into a file. hex

copied the contents of the file. com.apple.boot.plist hex file ...
I repaired permissions and restarted

in the system profile I see the two cards but CI \ QE do not go and PCIe x8!

mainboard intel dp45sg


helppppppp!!!!

[ciobinn]

nvinject with 0.2.1 and only one card works, so good ... QE / CI etc. PCIe 16x.

how do I extract a file. plist what am I using?

[ciobinn]

update ....

performing the procedure for writing and leaving com.apple.boot.plist file in the folder the file extentions GeForce.kext, NVDANV50Hal.kext and NVidJect.kext, the system starts but does not work QE / CI and the second DVI card ....

if I delete everything and leave the file NVDaresman.kext with two video cards, I go to kernel panic if I leave only the first video card is working QE / CI is the two DVI connectors.

so if I have not misunderstood is the file that runs NVDaresman.kext QE / CI! You can edit the file in order for him to recognize two cards?

please help me!