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

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..

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?

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.