Great work everyone.

I got a system with 2x GT200 boards now working quite nicely now on OSX (except for the second DVI port on each of the boards).

However, I am having a tough time getting CUDA to work now. I reinstalled both the tookit/kext and the SDK and CUDA still refuses to acknowledge there is any NVIDIA card for it to use. Even though the CUDA kext is loaded.

Anyone having the same issues regarding CUDA?

Wow, this is great! So what would be the procedure for a fresh Retail 10.5.7 + Chameleon v2.0 RC1 install like the one detailed here? Would I need to run the install first with another video card first, then install the GX 200 drivers, shut down, swap the cards, and reboot?

Thank you, Аlega!!

was the vram amount of both cards recognized properly

Thanks - but couldnt get it to work on my machine,
Just got stuck at a black screen at boot (using the drivers and netkas enabler).
This was using lawlessppc 10.5.4 .

I tried installing ideneb v1.3 (with nforce patch too) and v1.4 with no luck (got stuck at detecting root device during startup). Tried changing graphics card to 8600gts and still wouldnt install.

Anyone know any other good distros for amd phenom procs (amd hammer chipset)

Thanks

i just have to reply to say thank you netkas and to everyone else for their hard work - am now very happily running my GTX 260 on my Gigabyte EX58-UD5. CI/QE are now hardware accelerated with 896MB VRAM - and it runs sweeeeeet!

as for install - removed NVinject kext and old geforce kext's, installed drivers and injectors, rebooted and rebuilt caches, all as per others have said earlier in this thread.

Everything works fine now with the latest CUDA driver from the irc. Thanks Netkas!

BTW, the GTXs are kinda picky when they initialize the PCI-E (i.e. if having more than 1 which one decides to be the display for the BIOS, etc). So make sure your mobo settings are taking care of that, esp. regarding PCI memory remap, PEG port initialization (those are the main things to check in my ASUS mobo, dunno about other brands).

Cheers, and again... great work!

javi, does deviceQuery (in CUDA samples) detect shader clock properly on your cards?
for some reason it doesn't on my gtx 260's, should be 1.2 ghz, detects as 600 mhz.

i am also somewhat sad about the speed of CUDA on macos, non-graphical samples run as fast as xp cuda, but when it comes to CUDA-opengl interop performance blows completely.

Just got my 280 set up on my iPC 10.5.6 build.

1. Deleted the following kexts.

GeForce.kext
NVDANV40Hal.kext
NVDANV50Hal.kext
NVDAResman.kext
NVinject.kext

2. No reboot, install package, then install enabler.

3. Swap cards, reboot, and viola!

Note: As previously stated, multiple monitors does not work, and will not display anything if both cables are plugged in. Pull out the cable and one display works fine.

Thanks to netkas and everyone on this thread, I've been waiting for this for a long, long time!

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hello all i got my gtx295 working nicely with these drivers

so thank you netkas and all those involved with the driver

Is there anything that can be done to enable both dvi outputs on each card? I have a three display setup, and would like to use the second out on one of my GTX280's. Regardless, thanks a ton for this.

Hmmm... In my case deviceQuery picks up the correct frequency for my shaders (1.5 Ghz), it seems that your cards are stuck in the low throttle state (I think the GT200 parts have 3 speed levels for their shaders/cores) and aren't kicking out of it.

I haven't noticed any significant slowdown between my linux CUDA code and the version I just compiled for OSX. Although my GL calls are minimal, so I may not be stressing that part of the driver. For normal computation, as I said... I don't see an appreciable slowdown when I time them between linux and OSX.

Nod, thanks, I'll look into it.
I am not sure about Linux, never tried CUDA on it. If you have access to XP machine, try running smoke and fluids demo on XP and OS X and compare. It's about 5x performance difference in my case.

Anyone know if the GTX 260 works with dual DVI monitors?

No, none of the gtx cards work with dual monitors with this new injector.
I run a dual monitor setup with 1 screen connected to each GTX 260.

Doh.. the wait continues for me. Happy to see all this success tho! Have fun ppl

What is your card?
Is dual display work for you?

I got dual monitors working with dvi and efi string on the 260

Hey guys, can someone write step-by-step guide what exactly i have to do? I tried install drives x-times but still with no result. I'm absolutely noob at Mac so pls have a patience. First removed GeForce.kext (if there is one), NVDANV40Hal.kext, NVDANV50Hal.kext, NVDAResman.kext, NVinject.kext, installed the package, then downloaded latest_nvinject_0.2.1.zip, opened it and installed with kext helper. Also tried other version of nvinject and some universal injector (found with google). But I still getting this



pc: C2D E8400, ASUS P5Q-E with modified bios, Gigabyte GTX260 896MB, 4GB DDR2, blackmagic hd extreme .... everything else works well, only that stupid graphics not

Thanks for each advise.
Papek.

i have only one display but it is connected via vga to dvi connecter nearest to the mother board n its a zotac gtx295

also the second core on the card only shows 512mb instead of 896 unlike the one in the screenshot n i dont know if the second core has hardware acceleration.

using 10.5.5

First of all thanks netkas!

I have my Club3d Gtx 260 running like a dream in 10.5.7 on a Asus p5q modified bios 2002 with C2Q Q 9550 overclocked to 3,72 Ghz. Same as most others in this thread; no dual output. Performance increase from 8600 GTS is disappointing. Flashed the GTX260 with firmware modified to overclock values that were stable in Windows (rivatuner) and saw hardly any speed increase in OSX. (The overclocked values were mega; +/- 18%. In Windows the card was only becoming unstable at around 23%+ GPU and RAM speed)

Does anybody know if the OSX drivers override BIOS speed settings and if so, can the driver side speedsettings be modified withe hexedit?

Just bought a GTX 285 will need to fly about 13 Hours before I can test it. If needed I'll flash it later on with a mac bios.

Cool! Could you post the EFI string or tell us how to generate one?

I followed aqua-mac's instructions here http://aquamac.proboards.com/index.cgi?boa...&thread=569


its a little shifty with the sound and every now and again it pops out. I had it working as a 9500GT with the efi strings I got from that and surprise to me it worked and no problems. I think I might go back to that.



*EDIT
It seems to work great now that I reinstalled the kernel my bad.

thanks aqua for the info

Sorandomitworks, thanks a million. Have my two GTX280's running now with three monitors at 4960x1600. For my purposes my Hackintosh is complete now.

sorandomitworks

run this command in terminal and post the outputs, kthx

ioreg -l -w0 | grep NVCAP

| | | | "NVCAP" = <d38d34d34d34d34d34d37d34d38d34d34d34d34d34d34d3bd34d34d34d34>


I am pretty sure I used the preselected NVCAP I think I will switch back to the cards NVCAP tonight I will post that as well. Thanks for all your help Netkas. If you don't mind me asking what do you need this information for?

*edit

here is the NVCAP from the original card and rom file:

| | | | "NVCAP" = <d38d34d34d34d34d34d1fd34d34d34d34d34d34d34d34d3bd34d34d34d34>

I guess they are the same.

I have one minor problem. I booted into safe mode, installed the package and the enabler, but when trying to boot in osx, i have to unplug my monitor for it to work. Why do I have to do this? I downloaded the package from the IRC channel and the enabler from netkas' site.

OMFG finally I have it running

Info:
Distro: iDeneb 10.5.6 patched to 10.5.7
CPU/Mobo: i7 920 ... eVGA x58 w/AHCI enabled. Hyperthreading disabled.
Video: eVGA Geforce GTX 285 ... Dell 30" monitor
Boot Flags: busratio=20 cpus=1 "Graphics Mode"="2560x1600x32"

What I did:
1.
cd /System/Library/Extensions
sudo rm -r GeForce.kext
sudo rm -r NVDANV40Hal.kext
sudo rm -r NVDANV50Hal.kext
sudo rm -r NVDAResman.kext
(no other injectors installed)

2. download/install
GT200 Drivers for Leopard: http://fileshare.in.ua/2058748

3. download/install
Netkas Universal Injector: http://netkas.org/?p=104 "Link to pkg" link


Thanks so much to netkas, this community, and anyone else who deserves creds

your NVCAP looks odd, here is my for example"



  | | | | "NVCAP" = <05000000000001000e0000000000000700000000>

Perhaps I can help... I'm also using a device-propertie string for my GTX 285 and I got dual DVI display working with QE/CI on both screen. Didn't test the TV out though.

| | | | "NVCAP" = <04000000000003001c0000000000000a00000000>

I've changed it six times and still I get the same NVCAP. I don't know whats up. here is my NVCAP from the ROM file

0400000000000f00000000000000000700000000

I've gone into the com.apple.Boot.plist file with vi and edited the NVCAP still that weird NVCAP shows. I also have not tested the TV out. My machine is running too hot and with not enough power I think that is why it is just shutting off with no warning. its hot in dc.

Just wanted to chime in from my lurking and give my +1 internets for getting my gtx285 working perfectly in OSX

It's fantastic.

i tried these 2 packages, but only one Monitor work if both pluged in i see only black screen and nothing more !

using ' 8600GT ' before, now ' LeadTek GTX 260 Extreme+' but in SystemProfiler i see the old Card anyway, it's strange !

resolution is ' 1024x768 ' !

removed the old ' *.kext * ' before !

can somebody please help me out to activate my second Monitor ???

i already update to 10.5.7.

Using 2 CRTs pluged with adapter ' DVI to VGA ' !

sorry for my bad english!

CooSee ' Ya

Help me please! I’m trying to get my 2 GTX 260’s working!

I am using iPC ppf5 10.5.6, and I install the driver, then enabler, and no video. After reboot, the apple logo stays and stops spining. I switched from HDMI to DVI, no luck. Any help please?

Will this also work with Dual 280m GTX Nvidia GPU's on a Laptop?

I am thinking of purchasing a new Kobalt Commanche SLI laptop with dual 285m GTX GPUs.. Powerhouse of a laptop.. Will it work with Leopard?

Mines not working please help me! no one on IRC is willing to help. I did everything! I installed the package then enabler.

I Went into safe mode deleted the Kexts and installed both again. Nothing. i switched to DVI, VGA, and HDMI, the apple logo freezes after a while of spinning. (GTX 260 SLI) (2x). PLEASE help me!

Start up in -s mode, type mount -uw /, hit enter
type rm -r Ge*.* && rm -r NV*.* && rm -r ATY_Init.kext && rm -r ../Extensions.mkext , then hit enter
reboot
Go to the sight that sorandomitworks told us about and follow the instructions there. Install the driver package. Don't install the enabler. Reboot, and should work.

Can anyone elaborate on getting dual monitor workin with a GTX260 and EFI string? I went over to the link but saw nothing for the GTX260.

Follow the instructions for GTX280, but change the name and memory values to match your 260 card.
EDIT: Try 00000038 for the VRAM hex value, and nVidia GeForce GTX 260 for the name.

Could someone post their EFI string for a single GTX260 896 MB? I've tried making my own but when I use the EFI string my display just goes to sleep and never wakes up.

Yes, I did remove the injector first and PCIroot should be right too (was slightly different from the ones included in aquamac's 9800 plists) and I removed the second card from the plist too. Used VRAM value 00000038 as stated in earlier post.

First off, I want to apologize for another newbie adding something on this page. However, I am desperate for help. I need direction. My Macbook Pro does not cut it as a video editor, so I recently purchased some new hardware for a hackintosh build...
ASUS p6T X58 mobo
Intel I7 920
BFG GTX 260 OC

So I followed this tutorial for putting iDeneb on my x58 board....
http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/lofiversi...hp/t167420.html
then when i saw the video patches, i saw that my vcard was not supported. So, my question is, as I have seen people now successful with this, how do I get OS X on my build, and how do I make sure my video card (GTX 260) works? I still own the Leopard Retail disk. Please help! It is difficult to patch together what to do from different sources from these forums, because I get lost in the translation. I would be eternally grateful for an answer that says this...do this, do that, do this, do that, and voila, you have the best machine in the world! And thanks for being geniuses and lending your support to the non-geniuses of the world. When you end up ruling the world I will happliy plow your fields and milk your cows.
Thanks
ed

I am stuck in the same boat. GTX260 works great, but want dual monitor support.

Do I actually type "rm -r Ge*.* && rm -r NV*.* && rm -r ATY_Init.kext && rm -r ../Extensions.mkext" In one line? The way you wrote it?

I tried everything you said, I get a black screen with HDMI and DVI Cables.

Do you have 2 displays attached? When I installed mine with 2 displays connected, all I got was a black screen. After reading some people's comments, this seems to be the norm. I unplugged one of my displays and everything came up just fine.

No 2nd display attached. Only one 25.5".

Netkas told me to set my Graphics to PEG2, I cannot find where that is in my bios. Does the 2nd GPU have to be in 2nd PCI slot or can i leave it in 3rd?

Hi I am a noob in the scene. I've been struggling to get my GTX 275 to work. I have used the gt200_drivers_pkg.pkg and the enabler exactly as suggested however when leopard boots up I get past the White apple loading screen then there is simple a black screen with a cursor that can be moved. The card does however work in safe mode using -x. The gpu works fully in safe mode but does not work otherwise. In safe mode I get all my resolutions and shows up properly under Graphics/Displays.


I would really appreciate any help. Spent 10 hours trying to sort this out !

thanks

I wouldn't know about that. BTW I got my GTX 260 to work by pulling out my 2nd GTX. I think you should try switching cables.. try a dvi to VGA adapter and plug VGA into your monitor.

Got my GTX260 to work straight off, but some new issues have popped up that I didn't have beforehand.

1) When I change resolutions, I get a solid color screen (usually the light blue color that pops right after the apple logo, sometimes black).

2) The system won't shutdown anymore. It'll log off, screen will go blank, then nothing. It doesn't shut off or reboot.

Try plugging your display in to your other output.