Mifter Posted April 13, 2010 Share Posted April 13, 2010 Hey everyone, I was looking over the specs of the new MacBook Pros, and I was interested to see the new graphics cards included in the higher end models. Here is the text directly from Apple's website (Scroll down to the bottom of the page to see it http://www.apple.com/macbookpro/specs.html ) Graphics - Intel HD Graphics and NVIDIA GeForce GT 330M with automatic graphics switching And, with the problems with trying to get intel graphics chipsets to work with Hackintosh's, I was wondering if anyone knew if it would be possible to rip the drivers for the newer intel graphics chips (As Apple has re-embraced Intel Graphics) and use them with older intel graphics chipsets Best, ~Mifter Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nofearl Posted April 13, 2010 Share Posted April 13, 2010 http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1026 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
atlee Posted April 13, 2010 Share Posted April 13, 2010 Hey everyone, I was looking over the specs of the new MacBook Pros, and I was interested to see the new graphics cards included in the higher end models. Here is the text directly from Apple's website (Scroll down to the bottom of the page to see it http://www.apple.com/macbookpro/specs.html ) Graphics - Intel HD Graphics and NVIDIA GeForce GT 330M with automatic graphics switching And, with the problems with trying to get intel graphics chipsets to work with Hackintosh's, I was wondering if anyone knew if it would be possible to rip the drivers for the newer intel graphics chips (As Apple has re-embraced Intel Graphics) and use them with older intel graphics chipsets Best, ~Mifter That would be the DH55 and DH57 Intel chipset boards that have built in Intel HD graphics. So i'm sure editing the new version of the Intel driver will work with older intel HD cards. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joneslee85 Posted April 13, 2010 Share Posted April 13, 2010 If the Intel HD chipset is the same on other brands laptop, then it should work. That would be the DH55 and DH57 Intel chipset boards that have built in Intel HD graphics. So i'm sure editing the new version of the Intel driver will work with older intel HD cards. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zarac Posted April 14, 2010 Share Posted April 14, 2010 http://netkas.org/?p=411 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mitch_de Posted April 14, 2010 Share Posted April 14, 2010 i looked in the .pgk. Lots= most of the system extensions , beside GPU!, got updated ( like HDA, SATA, LAN, WLAN, CPU powermanagement,... - near every hardware driver) 500MB + (unkompressed) update of System Extensions ! Does that mean some optimisation for i3/i5/i7 CPUs in that, beside GPU updates or more an adding new mainboard chipset subtypes to the drivers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
riws Posted April 14, 2010 Share Posted April 14, 2010 Works fine on a Hack. It contains newer Drivers for legacy Intel GPU. Darwin Kernel Version 10.3.1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mitch_de Posted April 14, 2010 Share Posted April 14, 2010 Works fine on a Hack. It contains newer Drivers for legacy Intel GPU. Darwin Kernel Version 10.3.1 So you have installed the complete .pkg (with new kernel, new Audio, lan, gpu, sata, WLAN drivers) ? Or odid you used an mix (reisntalled patched// older exentsions for Audio, Lan,....) ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
riws Posted April 14, 2010 Share Posted April 14, 2010 So you have installed the complete .pkg (with new kernel, new Audio, lan, gpu, sata, WLAN drivers) ?Or odid you used an mix (reisntalled patched// older exentsions for Audio, Lan,....) ? Installed everything with help of Pacifist, patched GMA 950 drivers with my GMA ID and it worked. System Version: Mac OS X 10.6.3 (10D2094) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AppleIIGuy Posted April 14, 2010 Share Posted April 14, 2010 The Geforce 330m is a custom chip so it might not be of any use to people with nvidia chipsets. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mitch_de Posted April 15, 2010 Share Posted April 15, 2010 Yupp - but with in that update is much more udpated than the gpu drivers ! kernel and much other drivers also . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tinush Posted April 15, 2010 Share Posted April 15, 2010 Installed everything with help of Pacifist, patched GMA 950 drivers with my GMA ID and it worked. System Version: Mac OS X 10.6.3 (10D2094) hello ricom2ger, can you post the edited files you are using for your wind Thnx T Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
riws Posted April 15, 2010 Share Posted April 15, 2010 hello ricom2ger, can you post the edited files you are using for your wind Thnx T There are some reports, that this Update brakes Webkit FrameWork, backup from 10.6.3 fixes that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tinush Posted April 15, 2010 Share Posted April 15, 2010 There are some reports, that this Update brakes Webkit FrameWork, backup from 10.6.3 fixes that. Works. Thanks ricom2ger T Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
facelessone Posted April 15, 2010 Share Posted April 15, 2010 Will we be able to use Intel (M)HD4500(X) now? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pappilio2 Posted April 15, 2010 Share Posted April 15, 2010 Hello, I have read now much about the drivers for the GMA950, but since I have installed Snow Leopard, my graphic card works not anymore like it had in 10.5.7. I have tried many things, install new kexts, i tried to modify my dsdt (I'm not sure if I have a good one..), I have added the 1280x1024 solution to my string, but I can not even watch a youtube movie in fullscreen like I could in Leopard. There are some changes in the informations. In Os 10.5.7, i had: Intel GMA 950: Chipset Model: GMA 950 Type: Display Bus: Built-In VRAM (Total): 64 MB of Shared System Memory Vendor: Intel (0x8086) Device ID: 0x27a2 Revision ID: 0x0003 ROM Revision: OpenGL Engine activated via EFI String Displays: Display: Resolution: 1280 x 800 Depth: 32-Bit Color Core Image: Hardware Accelerated Main Display: Yes Mirror: Off Online: Yes Quartz Extreme: Supported Built-In: Yes Display Connector: Status: No Display Connected And since I have Snow Leopard 10.6.3. (I also tried 10.6. and 10.6.2), there are less information about my card: Mobile GMA950: Chipset Model: Mobile GMA950 Type: GPU Bus: Built-In VRAM (Total): 64 MB of Shared System Memory Vendor: Intel (0x8086) Device ID: 0x27a2 Revision ID: 0x0003 Kernel Extension Info: No Kext Loaded Displays: Display: Resolution: 1280 x 800 Pixel Depth: 32-Bit Color (ARGB8888) Main Display: Yes Mirror: Off Online: Yes I hope my post is not too annoying, because I know there are many threads that talk about this, but I would be really happy if somebody could help me? Thanks in advance Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bboyg Posted April 16, 2010 Share Posted April 16, 2010 Yes, don`t worry, in 10.6 all the information in System Profiler is less than 10.5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jiten Posted April 17, 2010 Share Posted April 17, 2010 Hello,I have read now much about the drivers for the GMA950, but since I have installed Snow Leopard, my graphic card works not anymore like it had in 10.5.7. I have tried many things, install new kexts, i tried to modify my dsdt (I'm not sure if I have a good one..), I have added the 1280x1024 solution to my string, but I can not even watch a youtube movie in fullscreen like I could in Leopard. There are some changes in the informations. In Os 10.5.7, i had: Intel GMA 950: Chipset Model: GMA 950 Type: Display Bus: Built-In VRAM (Total): 64 MB of Shared System Memory Vendor: Intel (0x8086) Device ID: 0x27a2 Revision ID: 0x0003 ROM Revision: OpenGL Engine activated via EFI String Displays: Display: Resolution: 1280 x 800 Depth: 32-Bit Color Core Image: Hardware Accelerated Main Display: Yes Mirror: Off Online: Yes Quartz Extreme: Supported Built-In: Yes Display Connector: Status: No Display Connected And since I have Snow Leopard 10.6.3. (I also tried 10.6. and 10.6.2), there are less information about my card: Mobile GMA950: Chipset Model: Mobile GMA950 Type: GPU Bus: Built-In VRAM (Total): 64 MB of Shared System Memory Vendor: Intel (0x8086) Device ID: 0x27a2 Revision ID: 0x0003 Kernel Extension Info: No Kext Loaded Displays: Display: Resolution: 1280 x 800 Pixel Depth: 32-Bit Color (ARGB8888) Main Display: Yes Mirror: Off Online: Yes I hope my post is not too annoying, because I know there are many threads that talk about this, but I would be really happy if somebody could help me? Thanks in advance You are not getting Hardware Acceleration because No Kext is Loaded. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pappilio2 Posted April 17, 2010 Share Posted April 17, 2010 You are not getting Hardware Acceleration because No Kext is Loaded. Hmm yes you are right, it seems that there is no acceleration, therefore my graphics speed are very low, but how can I solve that problem then? I have tried to install the kexts "IntelGMA950" or "integrated framebuffer" or "natit" with OSX86Tools, but nothing changed... I also can't change graphics resolutions in Snow Leopard, in Leopard everythink worked fine... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bboyg Posted April 17, 2010 Share Posted April 17, 2010 So use Leopard. I can`t see a reason to update, if you have working system Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mifter Posted April 18, 2010 Author Share Posted April 18, 2010 Out of curiosity does this mean that it now may be possible to use the previously incompatible Intel GMA 4500 (aka Intel Express Series 4) graphics with Snow Leopard and get a working graphics experience instead of the default? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bboyg Posted April 18, 2010 Share Posted April 18, 2010 Yes, but for now we can`t get some one who knows a lot about code or developing, to import the GMA4500 device id in the new kext. The X3100 kext was patched, but only for supporting the native resolution. Now we need hardware acceleration, because the IntelHD chip i more like the 4500 than x3100. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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