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[xtremegamer]

NVIDIA RELEASES 19.5.8f03 for 285 but should also bring performance from 10.6.3 back to 10.6.4
Works also on lower cards like 8800GT.

http://www.nvidia.co...f03-driver.html

From German post:
http://www.fscklog.c...en-htc-etc.html

[seminole]

xtremegamer, on Jun 27 2010, 11:58 AM, said:

NVIDIA RELEASES 19.5.8f03 for 285 but should also bring performance from 10.6.3 back to 10.6.4
Works also on lower cards like 8800GT.

http://www.nvidia.co...f03-driver.html

From German post:
http://www.fscklog.c...en-htc-etc.html

Nvdia driver installer don't work whit geforce 9800 gt:

Unsupported system this computer will not support GeForce or Quadro Mac OS.x edition cards.

My VGA is correctly recognized in system profile in PCI device is fully working

Solution?
Other install solution?

tnx

[seminole]

solved... i'm a stupid man, the installer work only if u have mac pro 3.1 or 4.1

I have change my sytem type in smbios.plist and installer work fine.

[schustah]

seminole, on Jun 27 2010, 09:44 PM, said:

solved... i'm a stupid man, the installer work only if u have mac pro 3.1 or 4.1

I have change my sytem type in smbios.plist and installer work fine.

Ive change my smbios.plist to 4.1, then 3.1 but always the same Result : Unsupported system this computer will not support GeForce or Quadro Mac OS.x edition cards. ???????

Ideas ????

[tle88]

Pacifist  seems to work.

Tuure

[kalel83]

Besides pacifist, there are two ways to modify the installer to work without checking if you have a 285 (the drivers are universal). I used the second way to install on my GTS 250.


#1

Daioptych said:

To remove platform dependency from the package:
1. Install XCode if you haven't yet(from Mac OS X Install disc).
2. Run /Developer/Applications/Utilities/PackageMaker.app
3. Drag the package with drivers on the package maker dock icon.
4. Remove the system check procedure from requirements:(see attachment img)
5. Build&Run

This works on Mac OS Install dvd's in a similar way as well(if you have a non-retail restore dvd). The package name would be OSInstall.mpkg in /System/Installation/Packages/ on the dvd.

#2

Anonymous said:

19.5.8f03 can be installed on any system if you edit setup checking algorithm. Simply locate "distribution.dist" inside driver package, then delete part of program with "unsupported_title" and "unsupported_message" strings, save and install.

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[Mac_Dude]

Working for my 7300 GS

extracted with Pacifist , copied to my S/E/E  on test partition.

Bootet into test partition - No QE/CI first time
Run pfix
rebootet and yeah - works just fine


Have Vanilla SL 10.6.4

regards

[lenti]

Where do i find smbios.plist ? :s i can't find mine :S

[Mac_Dude]

extract with Pacifist , so you dont need to change smbios.plist.

just copy the kexts to S/E/E and run pfix ( clear cache / set permission) and reboot

regards

[nfshp253]

Will this work with the new GeForce GTS 360M?

[xforce]

NVIDIA Driver Installer 19.5.8f03 with hardware check removed:



http://filebeam.com/...c28a5a3236b7a81
was going to upload this for people a while ago but spaced it.

Alternatively you can (and what I did originally) view contents of the original package and install each package (theres 3 of them) individually since the hardware check is only on the parent installer but you will need to repair permissions after.

[mitch_de]

Be carefull !
My 8800GTX lost (before working) GPU powermanagement. GPU now runs always at max speed.
Went back to 10.6.4 orig. and AGPM works again.

[mikeetastic]

mitch_de, on Jun 30 2010, 12:09 AM, said:

Be carefull !
My 8800GTX lost (before working) GPU powermanagement. GPU now runs always at max speed.
Went back to 10.6.4 orig. and AGPM works again.

how would one test if powermanagement is not working (system in my sig)? im also using the current version.

Thanks for the reply

[Common Sense]

Mac_Dude, on Jun 29 2010, 08:35 AM, said:

Working for my 7300 GS

extracted with Pacifist , copied to my S/E/E  on test partition.

Bootet into test partition - No QE/CI first time
Run pfix
rebootet and yeah - works just fine


Have Vanilla SL 10.6.4

regards

Do you run 64 bit kernel with these drivers? Have you previously had KP in 64 bit mode using earlier drivers?

[Zandig]

Common Sense, on Jun 30 2010, 07:20 AM, said:

Do you run 64 bit kernel with these drivers? Have you previously had KP in 64 bit mode using earlier drivers?

Yeah, I'd like to know too. I want my 64-bit kernel back

[mitch_de]

mikeetastic, on Jun 30 2010, 07:06 AM, said:

how would one test if powermanagement is not working (system in my sig)? im also using the current version.

Thanks for the reply

You can use NVCLOCK info tool (together with an .kext for kernel mem access)
run as superuser sudo nvclock -i and you get the GPU/SHADER/VRAM Mht in which the card is running (at time you run nvclock).
http://www.projectos...?showtopic=1246

[og-phantom]

In smbios.plist it needs to be MacPro3,1 or MacPro4,1 not 3.1 or 4.1

[mikeetastic]

mitch_de, on Jun 30 2010, 08:23 AM, said:

You can use NVCLOCK info tool (together with an .kext for kernel mem access)
run as superuser sudo nvclock -i and you get the GPU/SHADER/VRAM Mht in which the card is running (at time you run nvclock).
http://www.projectos...?showtopic=1246

Thank You for the response.

this is what i got on my GTS 250, how would i know if it's running full?

-- General info --
Card:		 Unknown Nvidia card
Architecture:	 G92 A2
PCI id:	 0x615
GPU clock:	 702.000 MHz
Bustype:	 PCI-Express

-- Shader info --
Clock: 1728.000 MHz
Stream units: 128 (11111111b)
ROP units: 16 (1111b)
-- Memory info --
Amount:	 512 MB
Type:		 256 bit DDR3
Clock:		 999.000 MHz

-- PCI-Express info --
Current Rate:	 16X
Maximum rate:	 16X

-- Sensor info --
Sensor: GPU Internal Sensor
GPU temperature: -376C

-- VideoBios information --
Version: 62.92.84.00.06
Signon message: NVIDIA GeForce GTS 250 VGA BIOS 
Performance level 0: gpu 300MHz/shader 600MHz/memory 100MHz/0.95V/100%
Performance level 1: gpu 700MHz/shader 1728MHz/memory 1000MHz/1.05V/100%
VID mask: 3
Voltage level 0: 0.95V, VID: 0
Voltage level 1: 1.00V, VID: 2
Voltage level 2: 1.05V, VID: 3

[will1384]

xforce, on Jun 29 2010, 03:52 AM, said:

Alternatively you can (and what I did originally) view contents of the original package and install each package (theres 3 of them) individually since the hardware check is only on the parent installer but you will need to repair permissions after.

Yea that's how I installed them, hoping for an HDMI fix, but it did nothing
but kill Adobe Flash on Firefox and Chrome, stuff like YouTube would just
show a black screen, oddly Safari still played them, I restored the old KEXTs
from a backup, and Adobe Flash worked again

[mitch_de]

Nvclock output:
You see that it runs at high(700) MHz, not in 2D / idle mode 300 MHz gpu).