Nvidia 8400GS: The final answer?

[viperswipe]

Hola!

I have XFX Nvidia GeForce 8400GS 512 MB graphic card. I installed 10.5.7 (iAKTOS) and all is working fine. But, I noticed I don't get the QE/CI support. Naturally, I've searching weeks and weeks and weeks! But, being a newbie, I could not understand some advanced methods.

I know many other Mac n00bs have similar problems, and looking for an easy method (or a well explained method) to get QE/CI working on OSX.

Can anybody please...?

I've tried:

NVkush

NVinject

Zephry's Universal Installer

OSX86 EFI string patching

PCWiz auto DSDT

 

Well, I am ready to do by advanced method, if well explained.

This is what I've found out about my card:

 

 

The correct NVCAP for the XFX 8400GS PCI-e is

0x04, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x01, 0x00, 
0x0A, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x07, 
0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00

 

This is something like DSDT information:

 

CODE
           Device (PEG1)
           {
               Name (_ADR, 0x00010000)
               Method (_PRW, 0, NotSerialized)
               {
                   Return (Package (0x02)
                   {
                       0x0B, 
                       0x04
                   })
               }

               Device (GFX1)
               {
                   Name (_ADR, Zero)
                   Name (_SUN, 0x0B)
                   Method (_PRW, 0, NotSerialized)
                   {
                       Return (Package (0x02)
                       {
                           0x0B, 
                           0x04
                       })
                   }

                   Method (_DSM, 4, NotSerialized)
                   {
                       Store (Package (0x18)
                           {
                               "@0,compatible", 
                               Buffer (0x0B)
                               {
                                   "NVDA,NVMac"
                               }, 

                               "@0,device_type", 
                               Buffer (0x08)
                               {
                                   "display"
                               }, 

                               "@0,fboffset", 
                               Buffer (0x04)
                               {
                                   0x00, 0x00, 0x02, 0x00
                               }, 

                               "@0,name", 
                               Buffer (0x0F)
                               {
                                   "NVDA,Display-A"
                               }, 

                               "@1,compatible", 
                               Buffer (0x0B)
                               {
                                   "NVDA,NVMac"
                               }, 

                               "@1,device_type", 
                               Buffer (0x08)
                               {
                                   "display"
                               }, 

                               "@1,name", 
                               Buffer (0x0F)
                               {
                                   "NVDA,Display-B"
                               }, 

                               "NVCAP", 
                               Buffer (0x14)
                               {
                                   /* 0000 */    0x04, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x01, 0x00, 
                                   /* 0008 */    0x0A, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x07, 
                                   /* 0010 */    0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00
                               }, 

                               "device_type", 
                               Buffer (0x0C)
                               {
                                   "NVDA,Parent"
                               }, 

                               "VRAM,totalsize", 
                               Buffer (0x08)
                               {
                                   /* 0000 */    0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x20, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x20
                               }, 

                               "model", 
                               Buffer (0x00)
                               {
                                   "NVIDIA Geforce 8400GS"
                               }, 

                               "rom-revision", 
                               Buffer (0x06)
                               {
                                   "nVidia GeForce 8400 GS OpenGL Engine"
                               }
                           }, Local0)
                       DTGP (Arg0, Arg1, Arg2, Arg3, RefOf (Local0))
                       Return (Local0)
                   }
               }
           }

 

Just an afterthought, Mac is great, but if I don't get that f.....g QE/CI support, I'd rather stay with Windows 7!

 

EDIT: Reinstalling. I'll try <key>GraphicsEnabler</key>

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[Teeno]

Hi mate,

 

I'm in the same situation, I got iAtkos s3 installed (10.6.3) (updated to 10.6.4)...

using an Asus EN8400GS (silent). I too can not get QE CI to work.

 

If you goto About this mac, more info. under graphics card, you might find it lists PCI card something...

but there will be no GeForce 8400 etc.

 

I've seen a video on youtube of a guy with this same card (not sure if ours are exactly the same),

so it can be done. I just installed iatkos today so im very very new. will let u know if i figure it out.

 

pls let me know if you find a solution. im trying to install logic pro and this requires QE CI.

[XLR]

I've installed this card on different computers and it works great with Graphics Enabler only.

If it doesn't works for you, then you have some mess in your system or some other drivers installed.