problem with 9600 GT 256

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I often got a distorted display when using Safari with NVKush, where all text became unreadable. While loading a page in Safari, the display became unresponsive and wouldn't let me click anything for almost a minute ... when it came back the text all over the screen was distorted (as if it were smudged or behind water). I saw many entries like the following in system.log:

<pre style="border: 1px inset; margin: 0px; padding: 6px; overflow: auto; width: 640px; height: 66px; text-align: left;" dir="ltr" class="alt2">Nov 17 19:29:02 myhost kernel[0]: NVDA(OpenGL): Channel exception!  status = 0xffff info32 = 0x3 = Fifo: Unknown Method Error
Nov 17 19:29:02 myhost kernel[0]: 0000000b
Nov 17 19:29:06 myhost kernel[0]: NVDA(OpenGL): Channel exception!  status = 0xffff info32 = 0xd = GR: SW Notify Error</pre>

There were also many entries like the following in windowserver.log, but none that seem to correspond with the timing of the NVDA errors above:

Nov 17 19:50:53  [112] kCGErrorFailure: destroyBackingSurface : IOAccelWriteLockSurface = e00002bd

I don't know whether this is a kernel problem (9.8.0, based on Voodoo) or graphics problem (GeForce 7600 GT), or if they're two separate problems

 

I tried using NVinject instead of NVKush ... seemed like it may be a bit more stable, but under NVKush, my card listed "Supported" for Quartz Extreme, QuartzGL, and Rotation in Profiler, but under NVinject, Quartz Extreme is not supported, and Rotation was not even listed.

I then tried NVEnabler, but that ended up with a black clear screen, with a mouse pointer that I could move but do nothing with.

 

I don't know what else to try. From LSPCI, graphic info is:

02:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: nVidia Corporation G70 [GeForce 7600 GT] [10de:0391] (rev a1)

 

Using OSX86Tools, I get this plist:

<pre style="border: 1px inset; margin: 0px; padding: 6px; overflow: auto; width: 640px; height: 498px; text-align: left;" dir="ltr" class="alt2"><?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
	<key>PciRoot(0x1)/Pci(0x9,0x0)/Pci(0x0,0x0)</key>
	<dict>
		<key>@0,compatible</key>
		<string>NVDA,NVMac</string>
		<key>@0,device_type</key>
		<string>display</string>
		<key>@0,name</key>
		<string>NVDA,Display-A</string>
		<key>@1,compatible</key>
		<string>NVDA,NVMac</string>
		<key>@1,device_type</key>
		<string>display</string>
		<key>@1,name</key>
		<string>NVDA,Display-B</string>
		<key>NVCAP</key>
		<data>
		BAAAAAAAAwAMAAAAAAAABwAAAAA=
		</data>
		<key>NVPM</key>
		<data>
		AQAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA==
		</data>
		<key>VRAM,totalsize</key>
		<string>0x10000000</string>
		<key>device_type</key>
		<string>NVDA,Parent</string>
		<key>model</key>
		<string>nVidia GeForce 7600 GT</string>
		<key>name</key>
		<string>display</string>
		<key>rom-revision</key>
		<string>nVidia GeForce 7600 GT OpenGL Engine [EFI]</string>
	</dict>
</dict>
</plist></pre>

Any hints on what to do with this, or which injector(s) shouldwork?