Hey everyone, check out:
http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php...t&p=1164771
and
http://netkas.org/?p=105

Thanks to netkas for the heads up!







Original title: Is GeForce GTX 260/280 support possible?
Original post: I was looking at picking up a new card soon. Before the card came out, I read it was based on G92. I don't know if that was a rumor or not. Does anyone have one, or know what it's based on?

The GTX 260 and 280 are *similar* to G92, but it's a much more advanced design than the 8800GT/9800GTX so i doubt the existing drivers will work.

not with 10.5 for now, maybe in a future patch. 10.6 is looking like it will support it tho.

Bump...

Anyone using one or more 260/280 now? My main concern is multi-mon support.

i too have been searching for a solution to no avail.

not working in this version
(10.5.6)

i take it that there is versa (or vesa??) support but no acceleration??

i believe so

should work soon the mac pro should ship with it as upgrade option

I have a gtx260 and I only want to develop app. for iPhone/touch because I have some ideas right now... Is there any way to get it work?

Please use Search.

Here's the thread that I helped someone with their GTX260 and I know this through experience as I personally own one of these monster cards.
http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showtopic=142999

Snow Leopard has been released to developers ... anyone looked for graphics ktext from that?

I hope so cause I have a 260 GTX and I'm having trouble installing.

http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?s=&...t&p=1000295

Here is what I did, this thread got off on a tangent a bit, but the method in the above link works for me and my GTX260@1680x1050 (no QE/CI).

Thanks a lot! I'll try it

I did it exactly the same way that Josh D did it, but I didn't feel like putting it in my Boot.plist because I move my computer around a lot, using my 1920x1200 monitor and a 1280x1024 monitor. If you want to try it out, just type the same thing you would put in the Boot.plist as your boot options at startup.

Oh and the string is formatted like this:


EX: For the 1920x1200 resolution I use this as a startup parameter, either at boot time, or in your Boot.plist:

Hello Users of the GTX 260,

there are a lot of posts that this card doesn´t work, but you can install the card, it works with a resolution of your choice, for example "1680*1050*32 or 1280*1024*32.
Also Qicktime is displaying movies and you get a sound with a little tool, also the Divxplayer works for me.

I tried a lot of drivers before and i always had problems to start the OSX regular with my GTX260.
So i deleted the

GeForce.kext
NVDAN40Hal.kext
NVDAN50Hal.kext
NVDAResman.kext
NVKush

i also edited the com.apple.boot.plist and defined the resolution

"Graphics Mode"="1680*1050*32"

The " needs to be typed in, if you don´t find it, it is the "shift" Ä" key on a german keyboard :-)

To get sound on the avi movies, i installed "Perian_1.1.3" an easy tool.

IMPORTANT NOTE:

If you already tried to install your geforce and the system won´t boot even if you trie the save mode "-X", than you can as mentioned, delete the kext in the singlemode and the system will start again in vesa-mode.

So do the following:

sbin/mount -uw /
LS /System/Library/Extensions

you´ll see the list with your kext

delete wrong kext:

rm -r /System/Library/Extensions/GeForce.kext
rm -r /System/Library/Extensions/NVDAN40Hal.kext
rm -r /System/Library/Extensions/NVDAN50Hal.kext
rm -r /System/Library/Extensions/NVDAResman.kext

then type in:

reboot

now, the system will boot again normally, you can work like before and try some different things.

I don´t know how often you read the tip but i searched a while for this informations so i took them in this lillte post.

Good luck to you all

Basically, you need Snow Leopard which works with QE & CI fine. Here it is with dual cards in my hack. Note the driver version 1.6 in Open GL Extensions Viewer.





However, I suspect support will be along soon in either 10.5.7 or 10.5.8. Unfortunately, Snow Leopard drivers are not backwards compatible with Leopard, they are just too different.

not in 10.5.7

Thanks for the heads up Netkas.

Sorry if this has been asked. Think Snow will be out before 10.5.8? I have no clue lol

So is there no possibility to run QE with a GTX260 at the moment?
I tried so many different things, but i failed.

Any idea would be fine...or no chance?

Thanks

Looks like we owners of 200 series must wait until Snow Leopard becomes available.

There is no way to get 260/280 on Leopard at the moment. You must have Snow Leopard. The earliest looks to be possibly 10.5.8.

I have an entirely different problem. I have a GTX 260 and a build of snow Leopard, 10a261. It works, but when the desktop would normally come up, I just get a black screen. Is there anything like nvinject or nvkush that works on these beta builds of snow Leopard?

I don't know how similar the cards are, but I have my GTS 250 1024MB working 100% with QE and CI. No strings required, just a single kext. If anyone has a GTX 260 and would like to try out my NVinject.kext I'd be happy to upload it. I'm pretty sure the cards are completely different though aren't they?

Well, the GeForce GTS 250 is nothing else than a rebranded GeForce 9800GTX+.


e1ement

Cardassian Vole,

Use GFX strings - follow the walkthrough here.

Hey SkyFluff, I want to install OS X on my C2D / p45 machine and I've got 2 GTS 250s (used just for folding@home). Could you upload your GTS 250 driver? Also did you have to do anything special during install? I plan to use one of my Kalyway discs to install OS X.

It's been a while since I've installed OS X, so I'm prob gonna be a little rusty

Thank you! That was all I was missing. Now I'm running build 10a286 with no problems (as of yet...). All I did was edit the GTX 280 plist file on that page to rename my card to GTX 260 and specify the RAM amount.

I'd be grateful for that GTS 250 kext too if anyone knows where I can find it

I'm guessing I will wait on the GTX 285 I was thinking of purchasing for my new OSx86 build...

Here is the GTS 250 Kext a few of you have been requesting. I've included the 512MB and 1024MB strings for the different card models. Hope it works for you guys. There's a read me file included for those who need help, and the disclaimer that pops up when you mount the DMG also includes the instructions.

GeForce GTS 250

EDIT: The download didn't work originally. It's working now.

Has anyone tested this with Geforce 260 GTX?

GeForce GTX260 is a totally different GPU. It's based on the GT200-Chip unlike the GTS250 which is based on the G92b-Chip.

But there's hope for GTX-Series Support:

http://www.macrumors.com/2009/04/01/snow-l...boost-and-more/



Quadro FX 5800 is based on the GTX285 and uses the GT200b-Chip. So in future versions of Mac OS X there will probably be GTX-Series-Support.


e1ement

UH e1ement?

On Page 1. There is another guy already posted pic of working GTX280 in SLi setup in Snow Leopard.
We already know 280 will work with Snow Leopard.

Does anyone know how to get multi monitor support for one card 260 gtx? I am running 10.5.2 . First time installed.

Thanks

The Rumor doesn't say that GTX-Series will work with Snow Leopard. It says that Mac Pro will be upgradable to Quadro FX 5800 and this will probably happen before Snow Kitty is released. That means GTX-Series support in 10.5.x.


e1ement

My Geforce 260 GTX is fully working on beta builds of Snow Leopard, I hope there will be support in 10.5.8 and it will be released before Snow Leo
By the way, I've heard that Snow Leopard will be released in summer.

Late Q2 / Early Q3 allegedly. I'm pretty sure that's just a rumor, but I can't wait for it's release.

Did anyone try the XxX_x86_10.5.6_Install_Disc_Universal_Final v.2?

I saw there is Ndarwin, Nvkush, Nvinject 768mb support option, does it fully suport the GTX 260 768mb?

edit: I just remembered I have 896mb ((((( no luck again, and the xxx project is discontinued

Just because Ndarwin, Nvkush and Nvinject supports a 768mb option doesn't mean it supports a GTX 260 768mb card.

[iDeneb 10.5.6] Zotac GTS 250 512MB - worked like a charm. thanx ^100000.

So nVidia has announced the Quadro FX 4800 for the Mac Pros based on the GT200 will support for the GTX 260 Core 216 be coming soon?

http://www.nvidia.com/object/product_quadr...for_mac_us.html

Yep.

Looks like 10.5.7 combo update will support FX 4800 cards, which can be used for other GT200 based cards hopefully!!!

I would think that the final 10.5.7 will have support for GTX260/280 cards and is imminent, but if support is not there in the combo update, (as the later 10.5.7 installed on the Mac Pro build may be slightly newer) it should only be a case of getting the kexts from a new Mac Pro to gain support.

So will gtx275/285/295 be possible as well?

whats funny is i have been usuing my hackintosh since feb of 08 and i have been usuing a 8800GT OC and i totally didnt even think about it and sold it and bought a GTX 260 Core 216. Im supposed to get in the mail today and i wont be able to use it :-/. Only in winBLOWS.

is there like a certain site i can check to find when the drivers release?

I would think check back here under the Nvidia section, as soon as it's released and we get the 260/280/285 going all hell will break loose! As you can see from the similar device id's all cards should be supported, obviously the GTX 295 may suffer the same potential problems as 9800 GX2.

0x05E0, GeForce GTX 295
0x05E3, GeForce GTX 285
0x05E1, GeForce GTX 280
0x05E2, GeForce GTX 260
0x05FD, Quadro FX 5800
0x05FE, Quadro FX 4800

Use IRC, search the forums for the channel and server etc... and join #natit and other rooms

btw i did the same thing had a 8800gt sold it bought a gtx285 so i'm waiting for my support as well...but IRC and netkas blog are where you wanna be at, at all times when expecting something.
but be patient these things take time





Thanks aqua-mac i wasn't 100% sure if 285 was supported. saved me the suspense. I still have the option of selling it and getting 4870s and doing crossfire...decisions decisions...