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help on how to make my nvidia 8600gs card work


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hey guys,

 

i have an hp dv9700 customized bought online and it has an nvidia 8600gs 512mb card in it.

 

i've managed to install and update to 10.6.8 using: [url="http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/"]#####[/url] + [url="http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/"]#####[/url]

but when i restarted everythings gone like my keyboard, ethernet, trackpad, and resolution is standard.

 

i installed some kexts and i have a working: keyboard, ethernet, trackpad. i still dont have sounds though, i have an ALC268, if someone knows how to make it work pls do help but i think this is for another thread.

 

anyhow... so after reboot my video card is in standard and on system profile it says 3mb vram LOL.

 

i have'nt tried any method how to make this work but ive read a lot already and its too technical and too much info and too many methods that i dont know what and where to start with.

if someone could teach me step by step and the why's i should do it so i know what im doing.

 

pls guys help me... i know a lot of you are busy and tired of noobs like me but i would really appreciate it a lot.

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did you try one of the nvidia options during installation of [url="http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/"]#####[/url]? Im pretty sure it should work with such a common gpu like 8600gs

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first of all that was 1 of the things im wondering about bec. when i install [url="http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/"]#####[/url] and look at the graphics categories, i notice there is only 1 family of cards which is ATI and thats it... no Nvidia whatsoever.

 

anyhow...

i already successfully made my own DSDT and it works... :D

still thank you Mr. Mikoman for allocating sometime to answer.

 

everything works now but there are some issues that im fixing like the error about hibernation and that i should use "ForceWake=yes"? this happens during the boot time. do you have any clue about this?

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