GTX 260 on Snow Leopard

[FKA]

Are you saying that OS X won't boot with a SLI setup or that it simply won't recognize the second card? My intention is to have the second gtx 260 for windows gaming so I'm ok with os x only utilizing the first card. Now I see that some people have their setups with SLI in their sig (ie, jocelyn84) and I'm confused as to how they get os x running.

 

Try searching the forum or using google .

 

http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=33003

[prarez]

nVidia GeForce GTX260:

 

Chipset Model: nVidia GeForce GTX260

Type: GPU

Bus: PCIe

PCIe Lane Width: x16

VRAM (Total): 1024 MB

Vendor: NVIDIA (0x10de)

Device ID: 0x05e2

Revision ID: 0x00a1

ROM Revision: nVidia GeForce GTX260 OpenGL Engine [EFI]

Displays:

Display Connector:

Status: No Display Connected

SyncMaster:

Resolution: 1680 x 1050 @ 60 Hz

Pixel Depth: 32-Bit Color (ARGB8888)

Main Display: Yes

Mirror: Off

Online: Yes

Rotation: Supported

 

 

Works

 

Hi,

Will you help me, i have the same graphic card GTX260

how you make it works? please let me know step by step..

Thank you

[mbatriani]

Hi all!

 

Can someone help me out with this? I'm a total noob at this kind of thing and need some direction.

 

I own a Gigabyte GTX 260 graphics card but it shows up in System Profiler as an 'Nvidia Graphics Engine'.

 

What is it supposed to look like? I tried the EFI strings thing but not sure what it's meant to do. The DSDT patch looks promising but I need some instruction on how to go about it, or else I'll ruin something lolol

 

Best regards,

 

Mikey

[taihuynh]

currently booting DSDT injection for GPU and guess what .... mirror displays works !!!

 

Top HOle Smith@@ for helping me

 

This DSDT patch works for GTX260 - in fact it fixes a mirror display issues I had with GraphicsEnabler.

 

                Device (GFX0)
               {
                   Name (_ADR, Zero)
                   Name (_SUN, One)
                   Method (_DSM, 4, NotSerialized)
                   {
                       Store (Package (0x1C)
                           {
                               "@0,compatible", 
                               Buffer (0x0B)
                               {
                                   "NVDA,NVMac"
                               }, 

                               "@0,device_type", 
                               Buffer (0x08)
                               {
                                   "display"
                               }, 

                               "@0,display-cfg", 
                               Buffer (0x04)
                               {
                                   0x03, 0x01, 0x00, 0x00
                               }, 

                               "@0,name", 
                               Buffer (0x0F)
                               {
                                   "NVDA,Display-A"
                               }, 

                               "@1,compatible", 
                               Buffer (0x0B)
                               {
                                   "NVDA,NVMac"
                               }, 

                               "@1,device_type", 
                               Buffer (0x08)
                               {
                                   "display"
                               }, 

                               "@1,display-cfg", 
                               Buffer (0x04)
                               {
                                   0xFF, 0xFF, 0x00, 0x01
                               }, 

                               "@1,name", 
                               Buffer (0x0F)
                               {
                                   "NVDA,Display-B"
                               }, 

                               "NVCAP", 
                               Buffer (0x18)
                               {
                                   /* 0000 */    0x04, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x03, 0x00, 
                                   /* 0008 */    0x1C, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 
                                   /* 0010 */    0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00
                               }, 

                               "NVPM", 
                               Buffer (0x1C)
                               {
                                   /* 0000 */    0x01, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 
                                   /* 0008 */    0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 
                                   /* 0010 */    0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 
                                   /* 0018 */    0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00
                               }, 

                               "VRAM,totalsize", 
                               Buffer (0x04)
                               {
                                   0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x38
                               }, 

                               "device_type", 
                               Buffer (0x0C)
                               {
                                   "NVDA,Parent"
                               }, 

                               "model", 
                               Buffer (0x17)
                               {
                                   "nVidia GeForce 260 GTX"
                               }, 

                               "rom-revision", 
                               Buffer (0x06)
                               {
                                   "3172a"
                               }
                           }, Local0)
                       DTGP (Arg0, Arg1, Arg2, Arg3, RefOf (Local0))
                       Return (Local0)
                   }
               }
           }

 

NB this NVCAP is for Dual DVI and TV out ... havent tried the HDTV out on this card yet though !!

 

Enjoy

D

 

Could you please tell me where i can add that code in DSDT. I have blacksreen on Snow leopard 10.6.3 after back from restart. Thanks

[FKA]

Could you please tell me where i can add that code in DSDT. I have blacksreen on Snow leopard 10.6.3 after back from restart. Thanks

 

Use lspci to find the memory address of your GPU.

Search DSDT for that address, insert code under that device.

 

D

[taihuynh]

Use lspci to find the memory address of your GPU.

Search DSDT for that address, insert code under that device.

 

D

Please tell me step by step, I installed lspci but dont know how to find memory address of my GPU.

I want to fix dual DVI for my GPU, thanks for your help.