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pitchcomic

Oct 12 2007, 03:05 AM

I'm sorry in advance if I missed a post that has what I need.

I'm looking for drivers that will work with my Nvidia 8600m GS graphics card, because when I boot up it only allows me to be in 1024x768.

I had randomly tried the macvidia drivers but it gave me a kernel panic.

I'm trying to install this on a HP dv9000 and searched through the post about this laptop but havn't found anything.

Thank you for any help

Methodz

Dec 15 2007, 07:52 AM

Well you're not alone. I thought this would be a great idea, until I got all the stuff loaded and realized how much stuff depends on accelerated video, I have a dv9500t with 8600M GS... nothing exists for it. Looks like when people are talking about the 8600 it's the GT, so I wonder how I can start messing with this w/o killing my card..

WaxTrax!

Dec 15 2007, 10:02 PM

I'm not a kernel hacker by any means, but I just can't understand why if with the EFI patch, since people are able to run vanilla kernels and kexts, why won't the drivers for the 8600M card work since that's what apple uses in the mbp's? Anyone know?

Megamixman

Dec 16 2007, 12:37 AM

On Macs the 8600 drivers initialize the gfx card through EFI.
PC_EFI IS NOT EFI. IT MERELY TRICKS OSX INTO THINKING APPLE EFI IS RUNNING.

To the OP, if you did a half decent search you would have realized that there are no working drivers for 8x00 series BESIDES the G80 8800s.

realityiswhere

Feb 7 2008, 05:31 PM

This driver (http://scottdangel.com/blog/?p=19) worked very well for me for the 8600M GS, 256mb dedicated, I got full Quartz Extreme, hardware acceleration, running native 1440x900 on the HP DV9644CA shown here http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/documen...product=3554705

realityiswhere

Mar 6 2008, 08:51 PM

I had to reinstall, and can't find v.32 again, does anyone have a copy of it?

*EDIT* found a copy of it later that month but neglected to post it, here you go to anyone looking: http://localhostr.com/files/d20b76/NVInstallerV.32.pkg.zip

demoniac

Sep 21 2009, 12:49 PM

QUOTE (realityiswhere @ Feb 7 2008, 07:31 PM)

Can you please send me this file? At least upload it? The site is having problems.

I have a 8600M GS 256MB card, and I need to get Quartz Extreme enabled.

Please help me!

I'm tired of trying all the fixes and patches etc.

niewiem

Oct 22 2009, 06:23 PM

Coluld someone please update information about installation 8600m GS on osx 10.5.7 ? Tried evrything and still have a no go for QE (quartz extreme) . Thank you

mi1kman

Nov 20 2009, 08:04 PM

hi from Moscow! I have this problem on 10.6 , 10.5.6 . I have no idea how get QE on my roverbook gf8600M GS 512. PLEASE I need help from GURU.

TE0I0TEJIb

Dec 20 2009, 08:52 AM

п�€иве�‚ milkman
try nvisntaller 52
ive told you about it on applelife.ru forums
UPD
ok, on the clean 10.6.2 edited natit works fine, but the perfomance isnt good
but now Ive messed with geforce and NV* drivers, so Im trying other drivers, cause natit doesnt work anymore(there are strange squares and "space"

UPD2:
Yeah, i found much better solution, NVEnabler with modified NV**.kext

MY Nvidia 8600M GS how-to!!!(Tested on NVidia 8600M GS 512 mb, OSX 10.6.2)
This may work on 64 bit(I cant test it, because of AMD)
0. Delete any injectors(like natit, nvkush, nvinject) and any gfx string
1. Download this file: link
If you have devID not 0x0425(look in System Profiler(r sth like this cause I cant remember how it is named in English) for it) then edit all NV*.kexts Info.plist
2. Install this kexts
3. Reboot
4. You may have Q Extreme (bar will be transparent)
5. Download OSX86 tools and enable quartz GL with it. It will give you a big boost of perfomance
6. You can test it with glview, here are my results:
without enabling Quatz GL with OSX86
with it
And test with oclinfo:

CODE

[Device 0]
    Name:             GeForce 8600M GS
    Vendor:         NVIDIA
    Type:             GPU
    Device Version:     OpenCL 1.0
    Driver Version:     CLH 1.0
    Compute Units:         2
    Work Group Size:     512
    Clock:             1000 MHz
    Global Memory:         512 MB
    Local Memory:         16 KB
    Cache Size:         0 KB
    Cache Line Size:     0 Bytes
    Available:         Yes
    Double-Precision:     No
    Extensions:
                cl_khr_byte_addressable_store
                cl_khr_global_int32_base_atomics
                cl_khr_global_int32_extended_atomics
                cl_APPLE_gl_sharing
                cl_APPLE_SetMemObjectDestructor
                cl_APPLE_ContextLoggingFunctions

[Device 1]
    Name:             AMD Turion(tm) 64 X2 Mobile Technology TL-60
    Vendor:         Intel
    Type:             CPU
    Device Version:     OpenCL 1.0
    Driver Version:     1.0
    Compute Units:         2
    Work Group Size:     1
    Clock:             2064 MHz
    Global Memory (Total):     2560 MB
    Global Memory (Host):     1536 MB
    Global Memory (PCIe):     1024 MB
    Local Memory:         16 KB
    Cache Size:         512 KB
    Cache Line Size:     64 Bytes
    Available:         Yes
    Double-Precision:     Yes
    Extensions:
                cl_khr_fp64
                cl_khr_global_int32_base_atomics
                cl_khr_global_int32_extended_atomics
                cl_khr_local_int32_base_atomics
                cl_khr_local_int32_extended_atomics
                cl_khr_byte_addressable_store
                cl_APPLE_gl_sharing
                cl_APPLE_SetMemObjectDestructor
                cl_APPLE_ContextLoggingFunctions

Ocon

Jan 23 2010, 08:00 PM

i have a dell XPS laptop with a 8600M GT and i have snow leopard retail and updated to 10.6.2 and cant get the card to show up, The "about this Mac" page just says this under graphics/display

Display:

Type: GPU
Bus: PCIe
PCIe Lane Width: x16
VRAM (Total): 32 MB
Vendor: NVIDIA (0x10de)
Device ID: 0x0407
Revision ID: 0x00a1
Displays:
Display:
Resolution: 1280 x 800
Pixel Depth: 32-Bit Color (ARGB8888)
Main Display: Yes
Mirror: Off
Online: Yes

And because of this I only have one resolution setting in display options and cant change the resolution when I use the HDMI output on the laptop and don't have the transparency effect option for the menubar ( don't know if that's related )

I have tried a number of things but so far nothing has worked

You can help

Thanks
Alex

pj.paito

Feb 19 2010, 04:58 PM

I have the dell xps 1530 and on most hdmi monitors it works but i just got a Acer s243hl and when i plug it in or boot from it, my computer freezes instantly?

Maybe this has something todo with HDCP?

andersbjerreg

Feb 28 2010, 06:02 PM

Hi..

I have a problem with my 8600m and my internal laptop screen.

When I have qe/ci I get black screen, but my vga out works perfect!

I have try alot of things. Efi, DSDT and Nvinject, but can´t get it to work with internal!

I have find out my nvcap and EDID string, and added it to the NVenabler. But still no luck..

Any suggestions to what I can do/try?

I have make a dump, if that could help you?

Click to view attachment

Thx

vuglll

Mar 10 2010, 01:30 PM

I am having also problems with my 8600m GS 512MB (HP Pavilion dv9500). I can not even change resolutions or anything else.
I have tried almost all listed tips but with no sucess (DSDT patch, NVEnabler, NVInject ..., GraphicsEnabler=Yes)

Hope there will be some solution that will work for me too

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