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stanza33
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@ Stanza33:

 

Could you please post your hex string along with which distro you are using? Does your Asus 9400 GT have VGA/HDMI/DVI?

 

ok heres what I have as my com.apple.boot.plist file

 

 

<?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>Kernel</key>
<string>bt(0,0)/mach_kernel.voodoo</string>
<key>Kernel Flags</key>
<string>busratio=20 rd=disk0s2</string>
<key>device-properties</key>
<string>4c0200000100000001000000400200000d00000002010c00d041030a00000000010106000003
101060000007fff04000e0000004e00560050004d000000200000000100000000000000000000000
000000000000000000000000000000220000005600520041004d002c0074006f00740061006c0073
069007a006500000008000000000000201c0000006400650076006900630065005f0074007900700
650000000f0000004e5644412c506172656e740e0000006e0061006d00650000000b000000646973
06c617922000000400030002c006400650076006900630065005f00740079007000650000000b000
00646973706c617922000000400031002c006400650076006900630065005f007400790070006500
0000b000000646973706c6179100000006d006f00640065006c0000000a000000393430304754200
0000400031002c0063006f006d00700061007400690062006c00650000000e0000004e5644412c4e
64d616314000000400030002c006e0061006d0065000000120000004e5644412c446973706c61792
4114000000400031002c006e0061006d0065000000120000004e5644412c446973706c61792d4220
00000400030002c0063006f006d00700061007400690062006c00650000000e0000004e5644412c4
564d6163100000004e00560043004100500000001800000004000000000003000400000000000007
00000001e00000072006f006d002d007200650076006900730069006f006e0000001e00000039343
304754204f70656e474c20456e67696e65205b4546495d</string>
</dict>
</plist>

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maruchan
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Thanks, Stanza :blink: I'll try this out and cross my fingers that it works. Which distro are you currently using? I've been using XxX, which I love, but I'm thinking about trying iPC and seeing if that makes a difference with this graphics card.

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Thanks, Stanza :blink: I'll try this out and cross my fingers that it works. Which distro are you currently using? I've been using XxX, which I love, but I'm thinking about trying iPC and seeing if that makes a difference with this graphics card.

 

no distro as such, using roughly whats been talked about in this thread

 

Asus P6T install

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Hi you guys,

I've been trying to post this for days, but it keeps getting erase (?) from the forum, so, for those who need a new approach on nvidia, here it goes: There's a new Nvidia driver around

 

CoreVidia.kext is a graphics injector for Mac OSX Intel Based. It works on NVIDIA 6,7,8,9 and Quadro Series.

Core Vidia Injector 1.0 is the next generation of NVdarwin, developed by XDarwin/Ruben Carneiro.

 

CoreVidia 1.0

CoreVidia, Copyright © 2009 Ruben Carneiro

Features:

Reduced boot time

Support for Quadro Series 9

Small raise in the amount of FPS - tested in GLView

 

The hardware id's will be updated on each new version of Core Vidia Injector

To install, you just have to choose the amount of RAM for your graphics card.

Download: http://www.mediafire.com/?gzmioimfie0

 

(Translated from the original portuguese OSX forum - http://osx86tuga.co.cc/index.php?showtopic...entry218)

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I tried an earlier post suggesting to choose Nvinject at ideneb install and after that everything worked, started with correct resolution and with QE/CI support.

Ran X-Bench and got these results:

 

Quartz Graphics Test 236.21

Line 181.65 12.09 Klines/sec [50% alpha]

Rectangle 244.24 72.92 Krects/sec [50% alpha]

Circle 199.42 16.26 Kcircles/sec [50% alpha]

Bezier 192.04 4.84 Kbeziers/sec [50% alpha]

Text 742.48 46.45 Kchars/sec

 

OpenGL Graphics Test 172.40

Spinning Squares 172.40 218.70 frames/sec

 

 

My card is a Gainward 9400GT 512mb, system info says its 1gb, but well well.

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thannnkkkkk yoouuuuuu sooooo muuuuchhhh!!

work on my 10.5.6 vanilla

my graphic card is manli geforce 9400GT 512MB

http://www.bhinneka.com/products/sku00508144.aspx

 

here are my test:

 

Graphics by NVIDIA:

 

Chipset Model: Graphics by NVIDIA

Type: Display

Bus: PCIe

PCIe Lane Width: x16

VRAM (Total): 512 MB

Vendor: NVIDIA (0x10de)

Device ID: 0x0641

Revision ID: 0x00a1

ROM Revision: NVinject 0.2.1

Displays:

SAMTRON:

Resolution: 1280 x 1024 @ 60 Hz

Depth: 32-bit Color

Core Image: Hardware Accelerated

Main Display: Yes

Mirror: Off

Online: Yes

Quartz Extreme: Supported

Rotation: Supported

Display Connector:

Status: No display connected

 

Xbench:

Quartz Graphics Test 276.18

Line 211.35 14.07 Klines/sec [50% alpha]

Rectangle 296.33 88.47 Krects/sec [50% alpha]

Circle 243.95 19.89 Kcircles/sec [50% alpha]

Bezier 227.40 5.74 Kbeziers/sec [50% alpha]

Text 666.09 41.67 Kchars/sec

 

OpenGL Graphics Test 204.36

Spinning Squares 204.36 259.25 frames/sec

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maruchan
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Well, I have to report that Stanza's EFI string didn't work :[ I think this is because his PCIe bus is in a different position (mine was something like (2, 0) if I remember right) and CoreVidia does the same thing any of the other injectors do. I'm so, so frustrated at this point, especially because I know other people have got the same card working--in fact, I bought this card BECAUSE I saw other people getting it to work. Sigh.

 

The only things I can think of are either:

 

1.) An NVCAP issue. This seems like a possibility, but others have reported VGA/DVI working with no further messing around and I've tried many, many different NVCAPs. I'm using DVI and have no way of testing the VGA port at the moment.

 

2.) It's a problem with my mo/bo. This is because I'm using the 4coredual-sata2, which a number of people seem to have success with, but the PCIe slot on it is only 4x. I never thought that was a big deal, but in the HCL someone mentioned that a certain nVidia card wouldn't work on my board specifically because of the 4x slot. Maybe it's not just limited to that specific card... :/ I have seen other people with the same board post that they have working PCIe cards though they tend to either be ATI or older nVidia (7300/7900).

 

3.) Perhaps a monitor EDID issue? I don't think so, though, as it's not as though the monitor gets no signal, and it works fine when I don't muck about with the display drivers.

 

If ANYONE has any suggestions, I'd love to hear. Another distro perhaps? XxX supports everything my computer has, this graphics card is the last piece of the puzzle and I really wish I could get it going... :[

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Well, I have to report that Stanza's EFI string didn't work :[ I think this is because his PCIe bus is in a different position (mine was something like (2, 0) if I remember right) and CoreVidia does the same thing any of the other injectors do. I'm so, so frustrated at this point, especially because I know other people have got the same card working--in fact, I bought this card BECAUSE I saw other people getting it to work. Sigh.

 

<snip>

 

If ANYONE has any suggestions, I'd love to hear. Another distro perhaps? XxX supports everything my computer has, this graphics card is the last piece of the puzzle and I really wish I could get it going... :[

 

ok try and make your own string maruchan

 

Here's how I did it...... note I have made several different ones.....but only two so far have worked for my particular setup.

 

That is... with my card I have three outputs DVI HDMI and normal VGA

 

using OSX86Tools I did the following

 

Choose Add EFI string boot flags button

 

In top left select the little screen icon (GFX Strings)

 

Choose Custom Geforce last one at bottom

Give it a name.....I wrote 9400GT

 

pick amount of memory (I chose 512meg)

 

now comes the tricky part

 

In my 1st use I chose DVI / VGA option.......this made the card work on the DVI port and I had to use a DVI > VGA converter for my screen (Sun GMD5410) I have two of these luckily. so I can report what actually happens on each output.

 

I wanted to use the 3rd output (normal VGA) as I only have on DVI > VGA converter .... which is being used on my MacMini.

 

so then I made another Hex code choosing the VGA / DVI option....

but I noticed the Hex string was very similar except for a few places where there was a 2 instead of a 1

Connected both monitors to the DVI (with adapter) and the VGA

 

didn't work....no screens..... both went black once it finally boots up

 

then I tried the DVI / DVI option

 

connected both screens and went again.

 

This time both screens fire up and you get an extended desktop. Standard display on DVI port....more desktop space on the VGA output :-)

BONUS but not what I wanted either.

 

Then I disconnected the DVI connected screen and booted again with just once screen on the VGA port.

 

Perfect !!!

 

So maybe you need to play with the output options and try a few more times. Reinstall the hex code until you get it going.

 

 

here is the differences for mine

 

DVI / VGA

4c0200000100000001000000400200000d00000002010c00d041030a000000000101060000030101
60000007fff04000e0000004e00560050004d0000002000000001000000000000000000000000000
00000000000000000000000000220000005600520041004d002c0074006f00740061006c00730069
07a006500000008000000000000201c0000006400650076006900630065005f00740079007000650
00000f0000004e5644412c506172656e740e0000006e0061006d00650000000b000000646973706c
17922000000400030002c006400650076006900630065005f00740079007000650000000b0000006
6973706c617922000000400031002c006400650076006900630065005f0074007900700065000000
b000000646973706c6179100000006d006f00640065006c0000000a0000003934303047542000000
400031002c0063006f006d00700061007400690062006c00650000000e0000004e5644412c4e564d
16314000000400030002c006e0061006d0065000000120000004e5644412c446973706c61792d411
000000400031002c006e0061006d0065000000120000004e5644412c446973706c61792d42200000
0400030002c0063006f006d00700061007400690062006c00650000000e0000004e5644412c4e564
6163100000004e005600430041005000000018000000040000000000030004000000000000070000
0001e00000072006f006d002d007200650076006900730069006f006e0000001e000000393430304
54204f70656e474c20456e67696e65205b4546495d

<?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(0x0)/Pci(0x3,0x0)/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>
	BAAAAAAAAwAEAAAAAAAABwAAAAA=
	</data>
	<key>NVPM</key>
	<data>
	AQAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA==
	</data>
	<key>VRAM,totalsize</key>
	<string>0x20000000</string>
	<key>device_type</key>
	<string>NVDA,Parent</string>
	<key>model</key>
	<string>9400GT</string>
	<key>name</key>
	<string>display</string>
	<key>rom-revision</key>
	<string>9400GT OpenGL Engine [EFI]</string>
</dict>
</dict>
</plist>

 

VGA / DVI

4c0200000100000001000000400200000d00000002010c00d041030a000000000101060000030101
60000007fff04000e0000004e00560050004d0000002000000001000000000000000000000000000
00000000000000000000000000220000005600520041004d002c0074006f00740061006c00730069
07a006500000008000000000000201c0000006400650076006900630065005f00740079007000650
00000f0000004e5644412c506172656e740e0000006e0061006d00650000000b000000646973706c
17922000000400030002c006400650076006900630065005f00740079007000650000000b0000006
6973706c617922000000400031002c006400650076006900630065005f0074007900700065000000
b000000646973706c6179100000006d006f00640065006c0000000a0000003934303047542000000
400031002c0063006f006d00700061007400690062006c00650000000e0000004e5644412c4e564d
16314000000400030002c006e0061006d0065000000120000004e5644412c446973706c61792d411
000000400031002c006e0061006d0065000000120000004e5644412c446973706c61792d42200000
0400030002c0063006f006d00700061007400690062006c00650000000e0000004e5644412c4e564
6163100000004e005600430041005000000018000000040000000000010006000000000000000000
0001e00000072006f006d002d007200650076006900730069006f006e0000001e000000393430304
54204f70656e474c20456e67696e65205b4546495d

<?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(0x0)/Pci(0x3,0x0)/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>
	BAAAAAAAAQAGAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA=
	</data>
	<key>NVPM</key>
	<data>
	AQAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA==
	</data>
	<key>VRAM,totalsize</key>
	<string>0x20000000</string>
	<key>device_type</key>
	<string>NVDA,Parent</string>
	<key>model</key>
	<string>9400GT</string>
	<key>name</key>
	<string>display</string>
	<key>rom-revision</key>
	<string>9400GT OpenGL Engine [EFI]</string>
</dict>
</dict>
</plist>

 

DVI / DVI

4c0200000100000001000000400200000d00000002010c00d041030a000000000101060000030101
60000007fff04000e0000004e00560050004d0000002000000001000000000000000000000000000
00000000000000000000000000220000005600520041004d002c0074006f00740061006c00730069
07a006500000008000000000000201c0000006400650076006900630065005f00740079007000650
00000f0000004e5644412c506172656e740e0000006e0061006d00650000000b000000646973706c
17922000000400030002c006400650076006900630065005f00740079007000650000000b0000006
6973706c617922000000400031002c006400650076006900630065005f0074007900700065000000
b000000646973706c6179100000006d006f00640065006c0000000a0000003934303047542000000
400031002c0063006f006d00700061007400690062006c00650000000e0000004e5644412c4e564d
16314000000400030002c006e0061006d0065000000120000004e5644412c446973706c61792d411
000000400031002c006e0061006d0065000000120000004e5644412c446973706c61792d42200000
0400030002c0063006f006d00700061007400690062006c00650000000e0000004e5644412c4e564
6163100000004e00560043004100500000001800000004000000000003000c000000000000070000
0001e00000072006f006d002d007200650076006900730069006f006e0000001e000000393430304
54204f70656e474c20456e67696e65205b4546495d

<?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(0x0)/Pci(0x3,0x0)/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>0x20000000</string>
	<key>device_type</key>
	<string>NVDA,Parent</string>
	<key>model</key>
	<string>9400GT</string>
	<key>name</key>
	<string>display</string>
	<key>rom-revision</key>
	<string>9400GT OpenGL Engine [EFI]</string>
</dict>
</dict>
</plist>

 

The Hex string outputs are very similar in parts... but slightly or completely different in other areas naturally.

 

Stanza

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Thank you for all of your help Stanza-- I've tried different NVCAP settings with the EFI string--DVI/DVI, VGA-DVI-I, DVI/VGA, as well as the NVCAP I get from NVCAP Maker... frustrated about the lack of DVI output, I went out and picked up a VGA cable, only to find that the two scenarios I described persist even over VGA. This rules out my monitor's EDID, as I not only generated an override for it, but VGA doesn't even use EDID (from what I've read.) To my surprise, the VGA output on my 9400 GT is very crisp and (to my eyes) looks the same as my DVI port; my previous card was an AGP Radeon x850 PRO and the VGA output was terrible. I never ran OSX86 on it, so I can't speak about whether or not it worked, but I would be content if I even got VGA working and forgot about DVI completely (I'm only running one 22" 1680x1050 monitor and don't plan to do anything like a dual monitor setup, TV-out, etc)

 

If I remove NVDAResman.kext, I'll get past the black screen and system profiler will show my card's 512mb and recognize it, but there will be no resolution switching and no CI/QE, so it's rather pointless. Does anyone have suggestions as to what could cause a frozen bootup or black screen on BOTH VGA and DVI?

 

I'm going to try doing a fresh install of iPC instead of XxX and see if changing the distro elicits any different behavior. I got in contact with the user who posted the ASUS 9400 GT working in the 10.5.6 HCL list, and he says he's used them in a few machines and they all work wonderfully. That, coupled with Stanza and some others who have posted this card works fine is keeping me going... but because my 8400GS did the same thing, I'm beginning to wonder if it's an incompatibility with my motherboard's 4x PCIe slot (ASRock 4CoreDual-SATA2, it's a 16x fitting though it runs at 4x electrically), though without any drivers or without NVDAResman, the DVI/VGA works fine, so it's not as if OSX can't use it whatsoever.

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The drivers from the first post work great for me on my EVGA NVIDIA GeForce 9400 gt. Thanks so much macnutty. I just kexthelpered em and then rebooted and now I have QE/CI. If it makes a difference, I boot with -f so that might help. My only issue is that in system profiler, the card is stated as having 512mb of VRAM although it actually has 1024mb (1gig). This is a very minor issue for me but if it was fixed that would be even better. Once again thank you so much.

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Thank you for all of your help Stanza-- I've tried different NVCAP settings with the EFI string--DVI/DVI, VGA-DVI-I, DVI/VGA, as well as the NVCAP I get from NVCAP Maker... frustrated about the lack of DVI output, I went out and picked up a VGA cable, only to find that the two scenarios I described persist even over VGA. This rules out my monitor's EDID, as I not only generated an override for it, but VGA doesn't even use EDID (from what I've read.) To my surprise, the VGA output on my 9400 GT is very crisp and (to my eyes) looks the same as my DVI port; my previous card was an AGP Radeon x850 PRO and the VGA output was terrible. I never ran OSX86 on it, so I can't speak about whether or not it worked, but I would be content if I even got VGA working and forgot about DVI completely (I'm only running one 22" 1680x1050 monitor and don't plan to do anything like a dual monitor setup, TV-out, etc)

 

Did you buy a cheapy VGA cable or a good one?

 

Get yourself a GOOD vga cable.......beg borrow steal on from a friend etc.... Look for a nice thick one with the Cylindrical lumps (what ever they are called) in the cable (either or both ends)

 

Some of those cheapy ones do not conform to the standards and only send the singnal thru, (albeit fuzzy) the better ones identify the monitor properly.

 

I have about 20 VGA cables here, some off KVM switchboxes etc and cheapy bought at markets ones. But 3 good ones that came with Big Brand name monitors.....

 

The 3 good ones never cause a problem. the cheapy ones cause random / differing problems

 

I will try to swap my good cable for a cheap one when I get home and see if that causes mine to fail also.

 

As I know even with real MAC's if there is no video signal......they tend not to boot. Hmm

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I download the driver in this post, and install it to my Hackintosh. My Hackintosh has Gigabyte E45T-UD3R + Q8200 + 4G DDR3 1333 RAM + Gigabyte GV-N94T-512H (nVidia Geforce 9400 GT 512 MB VRAM).

 

But sometime it make crash in my Hackintosh. I read the /var/log/system.log, has this log entry:

 

Apr 8 17:09:02 Hackintosh kernel[0]: NVDA(OpenGL): Channel exception! status = 0xffff info32 = 0xd = GR: SW Notify Error

Apr 8 17:09:02 Hackintosh kernel[0]: 0000000c

Apr 8 17:09:02 Hackintosh kernel[0]: 00200000 00005039 00000474 00000000

Apr 8 17:09:02 Hackintosh kernel[0]: 0000047c 00000100 00000000 00000003

Apr 8 17:09:02 Hackintosh kernel[0]: 00000000 00000000 00000043

 

Anyone have any idea for this problem??

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Did you buy a cheapy VGA cable or a good one?

 

Get yourself a GOOD vga cable.......beg borrow steal on from a friend etc.... Look for a nice thick one with the Cylindrical lumps (what ever they are called) in the cable (either or both ends)

 

Both cables I'm using (DVI and VGA) are the ones that came with my Samsung SyncMaster 220WM. I don't know why I said I picked it up; what I meant was that I finally found where I placed it :P They seem to be decent quality cables, but I'm not sure... I'll take a closer look at them when I get home from work. I'm still confused as to why certain drivers result in a black screen, and other methods result in just a quick black flash and a frozen image of whatever's on screen at that moment. I initially thought that the black screen meant the OS was still loading, but couldn't detect a monitor on whatever port it's connected to, whereas the quick flash meant the OS had locked up, but I'm pretty sure it's just freezing. Hmm... will play with more EFI strings this evening... I'm beginning to think I should just spend the $50 on a new ASUS or Gigabyte mo/bo. :D

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Both cables I'm using (DVI and VGA) are the ones that came with my Samsung SyncMaster 220WM. I don't know why I said I picked it up; what I meant was that I finally found where I placed it :D They seem to be decent quality cables, but I'm not sure... I'll take a closer look at them when I get home from work. I'm still confused as to why certain drivers result in a black screen, and other methods result in just a quick black flash and a frozen image of whatever's on screen at that moment. I initially thought that the black screen meant the OS was still loading, but couldn't detect a monitor on whatever port it's connected to, whereas the quick flash meant the OS had locked up, but I'm pretty sure it's just freezing. Hmm... will play with more EFI strings this evening... I'm beginning to think I should just spend the $50 on a new ASUS or Gigabyte mo/bo. :(

 

hmmm, just looking back on your last few posts......

 

Ok the drivers I am using are the plain vanilla 10.5.6 ones ... that is I installed 10.5.0......ran the 10.5.6 updater and am using just those.

 

Not sure if it would help or not to email you the appropriate kext files or not. or if it will break your install?

If you are using a disribution install and not the 123boot / EFI partition / Vanilla install etc

 

Could be where it's breaking down......that is older driver (kexts) in whatever distro you are using....vs the plain vanilla ones in the default 10.5.6 ??? :rolleyes:

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I've got my 9400 GT fully working with CI/QE now thanks to tips from Fireofanor, Taz, and most importantly Aqua-Mac who's created an installer with the latest Apple nVidia driver release that updates drivers for the new cards/GPUs. That is the key.

 

Short guide on how I did it:

 

1) Download and install Aqua-Mac's nVidia driver installer. Don't think you need to remove exisiting nVidia kexts. Don't reboot yet, though installer will ask you to.

2) Remove NVinject,kext and NVkush.kext if you have them installed.

 

3) Create EFI/GFX string in com.apple.Boot.plist as suggested in previous posts. I find the easiest way to do this is via OSX86Tools.

a. Use Add EFI Strings/Boot Flag on main menu. Select GFX strings option.

b. Scroll to bottom of list, select Custom nVidia GeForce.

c. For name model enter "NVIDIA GeForce 9400 GT".

d. Select the amount of memory on your card.

e. Select the display output that matches your card. For my PNY Verto, it's dual DVI-I ports.

f. The plist info and hex string for your card will pop up. Select and copy the hex string for safety, but use the "Import String to Boot Editor" option. Click Apply Change on the next screen that pops up, no need to add other flags or strings.

4) Use repair disk permissions and clear kext cache on OSX86Tools main menu or do this any way you like.

 

5) Check the /Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/com.apple.Boot.plist file for safety sake using terminal and nano or vi just to make sure the string was inserted properly. If not, use the version you copied to the clipboard and add the "device-properties" key and value manually. (Sudo to edit file.)

 

6) Reboot and enjoy the results! No mods to driver kexts with device ids or anything else is required.

 

My SP output now:

NVIDIA GeForce 9400GT:

 

Chipset Model: NVIDIA GeForce 9400GT

Type: Display

Bus: PCIe

PCIe Lane Width: x16

VRAM (Total): 512 MB

Vendor: NVIDIA (0x10de)

Device ID: 0x042c

Revision ID: 0x00a1

ROM Revision: NVIDIA GeForce 9400GT OpenGL Engine [EFI]

Displays:

VA1930wm:

Resolution: 1440 x 900 @ 60 Hz

Depth: 32-bit Color

Core Image: Hardware Accelerated

Main Display: Yes

Mirror: Off

Online: Yes

Quartz Extreme: Supported

QuartzGL: Supported

Rotation: Supported

Display Connector:

Status: No display connected

 

 

I follow your step but when I "Import String to Boot Editor" option. Click Apply Change on the next screen that pops up, no need to add other flags or strings. I get an error message AppleScript error /bin/sh: Application/OSx86: no such file or directory. I also try manually copy paste reboot nothing change. do I have to change dev&ven #

 

Here is my card spec. Asus nVidia GeForce 9400GT Dev_0641 Ven_10de

 

Anyhelp would be great for newbie.

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I follow your step but when I "Import String to Boot Editor" option. Click Apply Change on the next screen that pops up, no need to add other flags or strings. I get an error message AppleScript error /bin/sh: Application/OSx86: no such file or directory. I also try manually copy paste reboot nothing change. do I have to change dev&ven #

 

Here is my card spec. Asus nVidia GeForce 9400GT Dev_0641 Ven_10de

 

Anyhelp would be great for newbie.

 

The only thing I could think of would be to try putting the OSX86 Tools app in a path with no spaces in the directory names. Maybe like the root of your drive. I don't know if the application is parsing it correctly otherwise.

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Today me buying ASUS nVidia Geforce 9400GT 512 MB, SO … this vga card is very compatible with hackintosh, hemm … , just install nvinject.kext or nvdarwin.kext, and …. it's work on my machine. hehehe :) ….. , Look this screenshot. :) Don't use vga port, look this picture.

 

Download kext

 

geforce7400gt.jpg

opengl_extensions.jpg

opengl_test.jpg

port.jpg

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I am getting about half the speed of others on this forum although everything seems to work. I am running 10.5.6 with Chameleon 2.0 RC1, for more detail please see my sig.

 

I installed the driver package from the first post but I am not sure that was the best option after completely reading this thread. From what I understand 10.5.6 now supports the 9000 series natively. Is this correct? If so how can I remove the old drivers and roll back? I have a fresh install of 10.5.6 on a seperate disk, can I pull the kexts from there? If so which ones?

 

Thank you.

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Hey! thx. for the advice I redo the installation for my card and still getting the same error.

So I manually try again to add to bootplist and it this time it work I now have full screen 1400x900 with/Qz support.

 

again thx. for your help

 

The only thing I could think of would be to try putting the OSX86 Tools app in a path with no spaces in the directory names. Maybe like the root of your drive. I don't know if the application is parsing it correctly otherwise.
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could you tell me how you got QE working plz

 

 

And when i get back from my grandmoters in 2 hours i will work on the kext's for you and i will send them to you to try

 

 

the download link is not working, could someone please email it to me or host again thanks!

amanellis@gmail.com

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I'm planning to buy an ASUS GeForce 9400GT low profile card for an old Dell GX280 I'm currently using with OSX (Tiger) on.

 

I haven't yet decided if I'm getting the 512Mb or the 1Gb model.

512Mb model: http://i44.tinypic.com/sb33mc.jpg

1Gb model: http://i41.tinypic.com/2921e8l.jpg

 

That depends mostly on which one is more compatible with OSX. I'm also not sure wether Low Profile cards of the GeForce 9400GT differ from the regular ones in terms of hardware.

 

Anyone with a low profile ASUS Geforce 9400GT card here who's had good results on Leopard (or Tiger)?

 

Would you recommend it?

 

If I go for the 1GB model? Will it cause trouble on OSX?

 

Thanks in advance

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