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[FakeSteez]

Kind of a dumb question, but I used multibeast, which installs Chameleon RC4 by default. But when I boot up Lizard, I just get a red dot saying "Chameleon?" Also, will this work for the 9400GT?

[oldnapalm]

FakeSteez, on Sep 10 2010, 01:20 AM, said:

Kind of a dumb question, but I used multibeast, which installs Chameleon RC4 by default. But when I boot up Lizard, I just get a red dot saying "Chameleon?" Also, will this work for the 9400GT?

That's because Lizard checks Chameleon's version, and I think the one installed by MultiBeast is modified, but it should work, yes.

[night_knight28]

hi all,

i have the a problem with my graphic card. or i think its the refresh rate. i have a resolution of 1440x900 (internal lcd) but its not showing me a smooth transition. so that must be the refresh rate, right? the system profiler shows only a total of 32MB VRAM but it supposed to be a 256MB. here's what it says:

Display:

Type:                   GPU
Bus:                     PCIe
PCIe Lane Width:   x16
VRAM(Total):        32 MB
Vendor:                NVIDIA (ox10de)
Device ID:            0x0426
Revision ID:          0x00a1

   Display:
   Resolution:      1440x900
   Pixel Depth:     32-bit Color (ARGB8888)
   Main Display:   Yes
   Mirror:            Off
   Online:           Yes

My graphic card is NVidia 8400M GT.

By the way, on your post, one of the choices to have this nvidia kext is to have the Chameleon bootloader right? I happen to have an Ubuntu 10.04 and GRUB2 as my bootloader. Does installing this Chameleon affect my GRUB2 bootloader?

Please help me with this, cause its the last kext I've been searching for days now. I've tried NVInject and didn't work out. I also tried updating my kernel from Darwin 10.6.2 to 10.6.4 (coz' the nvdia graphic driver update require the 10.6.4 kernel) but it only messed up my system and I have to reinstall everything from the scratch.

by the way, my graphic card is not listed in the list of supported cards in osx86tool in gfx strings.

[oldnapalm]

You can install Chameleon, but don't install it to MBR, just copy the boot file to the root of Mac OS partition and add this to /etc/grub.d/40_custom

menuentry "Mac OS X Chameleon" {
insmod hfsplus
set root=(hd0,X)
multiboot /boot
}

Although I'm not sure if GraphicsEnabler supports your video card.

[night_knight28]

oldnapalm, on Sep 18 2010, 12:36 AM, said:

You can install Chameleon, but don't install it to MBR, just copy the boot file to the root of Mac OS partition and add this to /etc/grub.d/40_custom

menuentry "Mac OS X Chameleon" {
insmod hfsplus
set root=(hd0,X)
multiboot /boot
}

Although I'm not sure if GraphicsEnabler supports your video card.

thanks for your quick reply sir. i did a little study on this Chameleon bootloader. and I think this might be a good boot loader to change my GRUB2. since it has a GUI as a bootloader. Now my concern is if I install it as my new bootloader, can it detect my win7 and my ubuntu? I'm going to try your advice and hope for a change in OSX transitions. I'm really amazed on this Chameleon since it uses icons as my list of OS unlike GRUB2 that only shows names of the OS.

[gurde]

I have 8400M GS 128MB. Running on SL 10.6.4
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: nVidia Corporation G86 [GeForce 8400M GS] [10de:0427] (rev a1)
kernel[0]: NVDANV50HAL loaded and registered.

Now, using Chameleon and GraphicsEnabler=Yes video card works fine. But shutdown doesn't work. This is my only problem. If I remove the GraphicsEnabler and I don't have any hardware acceleration shutdown works as it should. I'm guessing something is wrong with the driver or graphicsenabler?

I would really like to get a fix for this and I would really appreciate it.

[oldnapalm]

Do you use a shutdown fix or it works OOB when nVidia drivers are not loaded?

You can try NVEnabler to check if the problem is caused by GraphicsEnabler injection.

[gurde]

I don't use any shutdown fix, I tried them too, but still not working.
If I don't use any graphics injector and I shutdown works OOB.

Maybe there is a problem with my DSDT? I attached the one I modified.

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[oldnapalm]

Have you tried NVEnabler to check if it also breaks shutdown?

I see you modified the _PTS method in DSDT, it's a shutdown fix. Do you need this patch if graphics drivers are not enabled?

[gurde]

With patched or not patched DSDT and NVEnabler shutdown doesn't work.
Now I removed any graphics enabler/injector and used the patched dsdt and can't make it shut down.
I have to check each fix individually to see which causes the problem without graphics enabled.
What else could be?
The other problem I found with NVEnabler is that it doesn't detect external display, only if booted with it connected and can mirror, while GraphicsEnabler detects my external display and can't mirror.
Could this be a problem that I'm running SL in 64 bit mode? The kexts I used are all 64 bit compatible.

[kmikase]

Hi,

I know that has been talked in another topic but i can't find it anymore.
My Geforce 9500 MGT works fine but since 10.6.3 i've lost my output (hdmi and vga).
I'd like to know if there are possibilities to setup the pin or irq's in order to make them working again ?
Right now when i try to plug my hdmi screen, SL freezes.

Thanks in advance

[Jadar]

What about a Geforce GT 240? Will this work on it? I have on ATI Card but want to switch to nVidia. I've found this card, but have no idea if it will work with this method. It's in the Chameleon nVidia card trunk, I looked it up, but I dont know if that means it'll work. I haven't bought anything yet so I'm still looking for options, but I am leaning toward this one. Any advice appreciated.

-Computer Geek

[oldnapalm]

gurde, on Oct 1 2010, 08:21 PM, said:

With patched or not patched DSDT and NVEnabler shutdown doesn't work.
Now I removed any graphics enabler/injector and used the patched dsdt and can't make it shut down.
I have to check each fix individually to see which causes the problem without graphics enabled.
What else could be?
The other problem I found with NVEnabler is that it doesn't detect external display, only if booted with it connected and can mirror, while GraphicsEnabler detects my external display and can't mirror.
Could this be a problem that I'm running SL in 64 bit mode? The kexts I used are all 64 bit compatible.

Maybe the problem is the shutdown patch in DSDT that you don't need (in method _PTS).

Looks like GraphicsEnabler is a better choice in your case. I don't know about mirror mode, my laptop has Intel X3100 video and mirror also doesn't work.

kmikase, on Oct 4 2010, 06:47 AM, said:

Hi,

I know that has been talked in another topic but i can't find it anymore.
My Geforce 9500 MGT works fine but since 10.6.3 i've lost my output (hdmi and vga).
I'd like to know if there are possibilities to setup the pin or irq's in order to make them working again ?
Right now when i try to plug my hdmi screen, SL freezes.

Thanks in advance

I never used a video card with HDMI output, but I read that there's a problem with HDMI in nVidia drivers 10.6.3 and 10.6.4. Search for "nvidia hdmi" in the forum.

Computer Geek, on Oct 6 2010, 01:33 PM, said:

What about a Geforce GT 240? Will this work on it? I have on ATI Card but want to switch to nVidia. I've found this card, but have no idea if it will work with this method. It's in the Chameleon nVidia card trunk, I looked it up, but I dont know if that means it'll work. I haven't bought anything yet so I'm still looking for options, but I am leaning toward this one. Any advice appreciated.

-Computer Geek

Have not tested myself, but some people report it's working.

http://www.insanelym...howtopic=198324

[Jadar]

oldnapalm, on Oct 6 2010, 12:36 PM, said:

Have not tested myself, but some people report it's working.

http://www.insanelym...howtopic=198324

I guess my general question is if QE/CI works with this method.

[oldnapalm]

Computer Geek, on Oct 6 2010, 03:58 PM, said:

I guess my general question is if QE/CI works with this method.

By "this method" you mean GraphicsEnabler? This topic also mentions other methods.

Looks like people are using custom EFI strings, so I guess GraphicsEnabler is not working well for this card.

http://www.insanelym...howtopic=225948

[Jadar]

well, yes, GraphicsEnabler. but doesn't that inject EFI strings?

[oldnapalm]

Computer Geek, on Oct 6 2010, 05:15 PM, said:

well, yes, GraphicsEnabler. but doesn't that inject EFI strings?

It injects properties in the device tree, based on hardware detection. It may not work 100% for all cards.

In the topic about GT 240 (link in my previous post) they are using a manually edited EFI string, not the automatically generated by Chameleon.

[Jadar]

Does it explain how to make a custom EFI string?

[oldnapalm]

Computer Geek, on Oct 6 2010, 06:02 PM, said:

Does it explain how to make a custom EFI string?

Check post #2 by WallyFTW.

Plucka confirms it works (post #7).

[Jadar]

oldnapalm, on Oct 6 2010, 05:04 PM, said:

Check post #2 by WallyFTW.

Plucka confirms it works (post #7).

Hmm... Very interesting, Thank You! I will keep this in mind when purchasing!