NV 8400 GS 0x0422 Desktop *FULLY WORKING* QE/QGL/CI

[_Andy_]

Hello

 

i have 10.6.3 up and running. i have a nvdia 8400gs with 256 vram.

At m 19" monitor i have a resolution 1280x1024 with no problems. All fine.

 

If i connect to my 40" Monitor with 1920x1080 with analog vga output or DVI (it doesn´t matter)

Snow Leopard starts but i get no screen.

 

I tried macos86tools to customize my own driver but with the same results.

 

I have 2 questions.

 

1) What causes this problem and is there a solution?

2) Can you suggest a new graphic card which realy works?

 

Thank you.

[play736]

I am at such a loss don't know where to begin or what I'm doing wrong. If someone can make suggestions I would greatly appreciate it. I couldn't get the on board working so I purchased PCI-E video card. If it's easier to get the onboard working I don't mind just want higher resolutions. I would rather install kext for video card that can do QE/CI. I'm trying to get video out through DVI.

 

I have an Acer Aspire X1301-U1302

 

AMD Athlon II X2 215 2.7GHz

Integrated NVIDIA GeForce 9200 Graphics

NVIDIA GeForce 9200 Chipset

 

Should I uncheck something or check something I've missed?

Should I try a different kernel?

 

Installed iDeneb v1.6 10.5.8 and chose

iDeneb Main System

Chameleon v2

9.8.0 Kernel Qoopz

AppleDecrypt

ACPI Fix

Disabler

DSDT Patcher

TimeMachine Fix

OpenHaltRestart Fix

ApplePS/2 Old

AboutThisMac Fix

SystemProfiler Fix

IOUSBFamily Fix

VoodooUSBEHCI

VoodooHDA

AHCI SATA/IDE

Cleanup

 

It's a 9200 chipset board but not sure why it shows 8200.[/size]

 

 

UPDATE: So I've manged to get it this far with the onboard IGP. On the box and Windows 7 it shows up as 9200 but OS X says it's a 8200. How can I get resolutions higher than 1024x768?

 

[Hitch.]

Thanks, very good guidebook!

[strobo]

@TheLetterZ

 

Hi,

 

have you found a solution yet or have you bought a new/ other graphics card?

 

I cannot get quartz extreme working for my card, too. Allthough I can use full resolution and graphics look nice!

8400 GS:

 Chipset Model:	8400 GS
 Type:	GPU
 Bus:	PCIe
 PCIe Lane Width:	x16
 VRAM (Total):	512 MB
 Vendor:	NVIDIA (0x10de)
 Device ID:	0x06e4
 Revision ID:	0x00a1
 ROM Revision:	8400 GS OpenGL Engine [EFI]
 Displays:
SyncMaster:
 Resolution:	1680 x 1050 @ 60 Hz
 Pixel Depth:	32-Bit Color (ARGB8888)
 Main Display:	Yes
 Mirror:	Off
 Online:	Yes
 Rotation:	Supported
 Television:	Yes
Display Connector:
 Status:	No Display Connected

 

EDIT: I just saw on that site that Snow Leopard generates the wrong output file. Is there any way to fix this?

what do you exactly mean with that?

 

Best Regards!

 

 

How do I get full 8400GS support on Snow Leopard 10.6.2?

I have tried for hours and hours and while my monitor (24") is native 1920x1200, I can never bump it higher than 1600x1200.

 

I have modified (I have skilled Unix knowledge) /Extra/com.apple.Boot.plist so it contains these lines:

 

 

The EFI string is generated from these instructions but still System Profiler show my graphics card as:

 

 

EDIT: I just saw on that site that Snow Leopard generates the wrong output file. Is there any way to fix this?

 

I have tried all kinds of variants; tried EFI Studio 1.1, OSX86Tools (which apparently do not work on Snow Leopard 10.6.2, even though the Wiki is full of people with 8400GS cards wich used it to generate the EFI string for 10.6.2), tried the NVKush/NVInject kexts, the new EFI boot loader 10.5 where one is just supposed to enter graphicsenable=y and the instructions here - but that just gave me a black screen --- I have tried just about everything I can think of and nothing works for me so far.

 

Is there any way to get this card working on a fresh install (not upgrade) of 10.6.2 or do I need a new card?

[Rico Jiang]

I report about success with with nVidia GeForce 8400GS graphics card on Snow Leopard

 

Card: Club 3D nVidia GeForce 8400GS

Memory: 256MB GDDR2 64BIT

Connections: CRT+HDMI+DVI 450/800

Model ID: CGNX-GS846LCI

 

I tried EFI string, which worked really fine with DVI but I had black screen with VGA connection.

So I tried the NVEnabler 64bit, version 0.1b, which worked really well with VGA too.

 

Download: NVEnabler_64.kext.zip

 

Hi holyfield, my card is nVidia GeForce 8400GS too, its memory is 128MB. I downloaded the kext you modified and no lucky, reboot to black screen, I connected extend VGA monitor, both screen keep black.

 

need your help, best regards!

[Thacker]

Hi guys, I have everything working with the second kext from the archive in this post: http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php...p;#entry1132644

 

The only thing I miss is the s-video out!

 

I'm running 10.5.8 with GeForce 8400 GS 512mb.

 

Thanks' in advance!

[midonev]

Hello guys

 

I am newbie for the mac world. I have Video card Nvidia 8400 GS 512 MB VRAM

My hackintosh is Snow Leopard 10.6.2 by hazard.

Where I can find driver for my video?

 

Can you help me please...

 

for now my system profiler detect my video card with this parameters. See attached picture for details.

[LfcMac09]

Thanks Thacker finally got my Gainward 8400 GS 512mb working fully running Snow 10.6.4, cleared all unnecessary ktexts & reset the extension cache, used option 1 ktext from the zip file provided in the link & installed using Ktext helper b7

[Logicpro9_user]

1.) Remove all Natit and NVinject kexts.

 

2.) Connect 2 monitors, 1 DVI (Secondary) and 1 VGA (Primary).

 

3.) Download and install NVIDIA 10.5.2 kexts and OpenGL from:

 

http://scottdangel.com/blog/?p=18

 

3.) Edit NVCAPs to display:

 

<04000000 00000100 02000000 00000000 00000000>

 

4.) Reboot and you should be getting something very similar:

 

Graphics by NVIDIA:

 

Chipset Model: Graphics by NVIDIA

Type: Display

Bus: PCIe

PCIe Lane Width: x16

VRAM (Total): 256 MB

Vendor: NVIDIA (0x10de)

Device ID: 0x0422

Revision ID: 0x00a1

ROM Revision: NVinject 0.2.1

Displays:

C383FA:

Resolution: 832 x 624 @ 75 Hz

Depth: 32-bit Color

Core Image: Hardware Accelerated

Main Display: Yes

Mirror: Off

Online: Yes

Quartz Extreme: Supported

QuartzGL: Supported

Rotation: Supported

Compaq WF1907:

Resolution: 1440 x 900 @ 60 Hz

Depth: 32-bit Color

Core Image: Hardware Accelerated

Mirror: Off

Online: Yes

Quartz Extreme: Supported

QuartzGL: Supported

Rotation: Supported

 

5.) Thats it there are no more steps unless you want to swap displays and such...

 

Hi there,

 

Your NVCAP worked on my XFX 8400GS or but I dont get..

 

Core Image: Hardware Accelerated

Quartz Extreme: Supported

QuartzGL: Supported

 

in my About this mac (Graphics section) should I get this? This is what I get just now. Something is right I dont think.

 

Anyone shine a light on this subject?

 

NVIDIA Geforce 8400GS:

 Chipset Model:	NVIDIA Geforce 8400GS
 Type:	GPU
 Bus:	PCIe
 Slot:	PCIE  X16 SLOT
 PCIe Lane Width:	x16
 VRAM (Total):	512 MB
 Vendor:	NVIDIA  (0x10de)
 Device ID:	0x06e4
 Revision ID:	0x00a1
 ROM  Revision:	nVidia GeForce 8400 GS OpenGL Engine
 Displays:
Display  Connector:
 Status:	No Display Connected
Acer AL2216W:
 Resolution:	1680  x 1050 @ 60 Hz
 Pixel Depth:	32-Bit Color (ARGB8888)
 Main  Display:	Yes
 Mirror:	Off
 Online:	Yes
 Rotation:	Supported

[magnetique]

Hello,

 

I just would like let you know that I'm having exactly the same card,

 

it is a Asus Geforce 8400GS with 256mb ram Device ID: 0x0422 VGA/DVI

 

and after a many unsuccessful attempts and many hours/days spent in enabling graphic acceleration in leo snow 10.6,

I just realized that I'm trying to enable something already enabled

 

My fault was that I thought that when the QE/QGL/CI is enabled, the bottom dock will be zoomable when the mouse is over

 

So I was trying all the tricks&hints with injections, EFI stings, enablers, kext edits in 10.6.3, then in 10.6.6 and still nothing, the dock was not giving me any zoom

 

Then I just got an idea: how I can test the graphic acceleration in other way? So I googled something and try the chess game -> it was working so 1:0 for fully enabled graphic, then I've tried screensaver -> it worked too 2:0, at the end I've tried some game from the net and it worked too!

 

So all the time the graphic was fully enabled!

 

My config?

10.6.6 with Chameleon RC2 + GraphicsEnabler=Yes nothing more!

 

Hope this will help.

[camoguy]

Hello,

 

I just would like let you know that I'm having exactly the same card,

 

it is a Asus Geforce 8400GS with 256mb ram Device ID: 0x0422 VGA/DVI

 

and after a many unsuccessful attempts and many hours/days spent in enabling graphic acceleration in leo snow 10.6,

I just realized that I'm trying to enable something already enabled

 

My fault was that I thought that when the QE/QGL/CI is enabled, the bottom dock will be zoomable when the mouse is over

 

So I was trying all the tricks&hints with injections, EFI stings, enablers, kext edits in 10.6.3, then in 10.6.6 and still nothing, the dock was not giving me any zoom

 

Then I just got an idea: how I can test the graphic acceleration in other way? So I googled something and try the chess game -> it was working so 1:0 for fully enabled graphic, then I've tried screensaver -> it worked too 2:0, at the end I've tried some game from the net and it worked too!

 

So all the time the graphic was fully enabled!

 

My config?

10.6.6 with Chameleon RC2 + GraphicsEnabler=Yes nothing more!

 

Hope this will help.

 

I right click on the desktop, change backgrounds, and if below Random order there is a Translucent check box, we're up and running.

 

Yeah got to love that huge hassle of being a noob lol