GTS 250 10.7.3

[quizz]

hello,

has anyone managed to do this CG shot in 10.7.3?

 

Currently I am on snow, no problem thanks to this tutorial and GFX Strings http://aquamac.probo...ck1&thread=509 #.

 

When I pass in 10.7, no worries either.

 

This is compounded when I do the update to 10.7.3. Just before arriving on the desktop, the screen turns off.

 

If anyone has a solution,'m interested.

 

Thank you.

bye

[Funkoyote]

nVidia has released a new driver_pack (Retail_270.00.00f01)

All nVidia models works in Lion without any injector/strings...

Download it from the official website.

[quizz]

thank you, but to install this driver, you must already be running 10.7.3.

But I can not access the desktop on 10.7.3

[XLR]

Try connecting your display to a different output of your card. Sometimes the DVI doesn't works but VGA does, or the other way.

[TH3L4UGH1NGM4N]

To add to what XLR suggested you could remote VNC into that comp if you have another machine or smartphone lying around that could get you to at least install the drivers despite not being able to reach the desktop in your current state.

[saravanadel]

I am also facing the same problem .

 

The error I am getting is:

 

Apr 14 16:20:29 his-Mac-Pro kernel[0]: NVDA,Display-A: Not usable

Apr 14 16:20:29 his-Mac-Pro kernel[0]: NVDA,Display-B: Not usable

 

and my screen is blank. I tried searching some forums and my assumption is the display is not working but the system works fine (I could see system.log).

 

Below I have put forth some of the steps I tried to get it running.

 

1. First I compared my 10.7 kexts with 10.7.3. kexts (Seems some new graphic kext is added)

Command : diff /System/Library/Extensions/ /Volumes/Disk0s3\ 2/System/Library/Extensions/|grep "Only"

Names: AppleIntelHD3000Graphics.kext and some more ....

So I tried removing it but same issue.

 

2. Tried enabling GraphicsEnables to YES, in /E/apple.boot.plist. But same issue

 

3. Tried installing NVEnabler but still same issue.

 

Lastly,

One of the forums in tonymac0x86, a user said gfx strings are not loaded by 10.7.3. I think this could be the issue.

 

Working on this, If it works anyone, please update me .

 

 

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Kernel.log

 

 

Apr 14 16:20:20 his-Mac-Pro kernel[0]: ** AppleSMBusPCI::start failed to get acpi path for provider

Apr 14 16:20:21 his-Mac-Pro kernel[0]: Previous Shutdown Cause: 3

Apr 14 16:20:21 his-Mac-Pro kernel[0]: Unable to detect alps

Apr 14 16:20:22 his-Mac-Pro kernel[0]: ApplePS2Touchpad: Synaptics capabilities query result 0xff, 0xff, 0xff.

Apr 14 16:20:26 his-Mac-Pro kernel[0]: ACPI_SMC_PlatformPlugin::start - waitForService(resourceMatching(AppleIntelCPUPowerManagement) timed out

Apr 14 16:20:27 his-Mac-Pro kernel[0]: NVDANV50HAL loaded and registered.

Apr 14 16:20:27 his-Mac-Pro kernel[0]: DSMOS has arrived

Apr 14 16:20:29 his-Mac-Pro kernel[0]: NTFS driver 3.10 [Flags: R/W].

Apr 14 16:20:29 his-Mac-Pro kernel[0]: NTFS volume name , version 3.1.

Apr 14 16:20:29: --- last message repeated 1 time ---

Apr 14 16:20:29 his-Mac-Pro kernel[0]: NVDA,Display-A: Not usable

Apr 14 16:20:29 his-Mac-Pro kernel[0]: NVDA,Display-B: Not usable

Apr 14 16:20:29 his-Mac-Pro kernel[0]: NTFS volume name , version 3.1.

Apr 14 16:20:29 his-Mac-Pro kernel[0]: virtual bool IOHIDEventSystemUserClient::initWithTask(task*, void*, UInt32): Client task not privileged to open IOHIDSystem for mapping memory (e00002c1)

 

One more thing to add,

 

You can log into the system in single user mode (When booting -s flag to install driver or whatever)

 

Or use 3rd party boot loader like rboot recovery to quickly get a shell.

[rlf]

2. Tried enabling GraphicsEnables to YES, in /E/apple.boot.plist. But same issue

 

1. If you truly have "apple.boot.plist" (which I assume is shorthand for com.apple.Boot.plist), then you don't have a very recent version of Chameleon installed. Recent versions of Chameleon now use a file called /Extra/org.chameleon.Boot.plist. A more recent version of Chameleon may work when you turn on GraphicsEnabler=Yes.

 

2. You probably can get to the Desktop with VESA graphics if you remove the existing 10.7.3 GeForce* and NVDA* kexts via single user mode. Then when you get to the Desktop (poor resolution, no acceleration), you can then run the installer for the new Nvidia drivers. After a reboot, hopefully all will be well.

[saravanadel]

Thnks. Works.

 

This is what I did,

1. I removed my Geforece and Nvidia kext from 10.7.3

ls |grep "NV"|sudo xargs -I {} cp -R {} /BK_Video_Kext/

ls |grep "Ge"|sudo xargs -I {} cp -R {} /BK_Video_Kext/

 

2.I booted and it started in VESA.

 

3. Then copied my old Lion 10.7 (Appstore insall) kext's to this installation and it worked.

(Same commands to copy the kext from old lion to the new one)

 

PM me if you need those kext.

 

One more problem I have is, My extension.mkext in /Extra/Extensions does not load at all. I discovered this today. Any suggestions ?

Both in 10.7 and 10.7.3

 

_______My apple.boot.plist_______

 

 

<dict>

<key>Kernel</key>

<string>mach_kernel</string>

<key>Kernel Flags</key>

<string>arch=i386</string>

<key>Timeout</key>

<string>2</string>

<key>Legacy Logo</key>

<string>Yes</string>

<key>UseKernelCache</key>

<string>Yes</string>

<key>device-properties</key>

<string>0c0400....</string>

</dict>

 

One more thing, If I give -f flag it loads all the kext from extra/extensions too.

[saravanadel]

I tried you first method and it did not work.

 

This is what I did,

Installed chimera 1.8 .

Added GraphicsEnabler in chameleon plist.

Rebooted but the error was 'Still waiting for root device. '

 

One question,I have two partition one with 10.7 and another with 10.7.3.

I have installed chimera in my root partition (10.7). Should I install it in another partition too ? Could this be a problem ?

 

 

---------Log---------

 

Apr 15 11:27:54 localhost kernel[0]: AppleIntelCPUPowerManagement: Turbo Ratios 1112

Apr 15 11:27:54 localhost kernel[0]: AppleIntelCPUPowerManagement: (built 18:56:38 Jan 12 2012) initialization complete

Apr 15 11:27:54 localhost kernel[0]: PCI configuration changed (bridge=3 device=0 cardbus=0)

Apr 15 11:27:54 localhost kernel[0]: [ PCI configuration end, bridges 9 devices 21 ]

Apr 15 11:27:54 localhost kernel[0]: mbinit: done [64 MB total pool size, (42/21) split]

Apr 15 11:27:54 localhost kernel[0]: Pthread support ABORTS when sync kernel primitives misused

Apr 15 11:27:54 localhost kernel[0]: USBF: 0.808 AppleUSBUHCI[0x45f5000]::start unable to initialize UIM

Apr 15 11:27:54 localhost kernel[0]: com.apple.AppleFSCompressionTypeZlib kmod startFireWire runtime power conservation disabled. (2)

Apr 15 11:27:54 localhost kernel[0]: com.apple.AppleFSCompressionTypeDataless kmod start

Apr 15 11:27:54 localhost kernel[0]: com.apple.AppleFSCompressionTypeZlib load succeeded

Apr 15 11:27:54 localhost kernel[0]: com.apple.AppleFSCompressionTypeDataless load succeeded

Apr 15 11:27:54 localhost kernel[0]: AppleIntelCPUPowerManagementClient: ready

Apr 15 11:27:54 localhost kernel[0]: FireWire (OHCI) VendorID 197b ID 2380 PCI now active, GUID 0010dc0001942325; max speed s400.

 

Apr 15 11:27:54 localhost kernel[0]: rooting via boot-uuid from /chosen: 48422C46-1C52-3BC1-A281-5E9981A98B78

Apr 15 11:27:54 localhost kernel[0]: From path: "uuid", Waiting on <dict ID="0"><key>IOProviderClass</key><string ID="1">IOResources</string><key>IOResourceMatch</key><string ID="2">boot-uuid-media</string></dict>

Apr 15 11:27:54 localhost kernel[0]: Got boot device = IOService:/AppleACPIPlatformExpert/PCI0@0/AppleACPIPCI/SATA@1F,2/AppleAHCI/PRT5@5/IOAHCIDevice@0/AppleAHCIDiskDriver/IOAHCIBlockStorageDevice/IOBlockStorageDriver/ST3500418AS Media/IOGUIDPartitionScheme/Untitled@5

Apr 15 11:27:54 localhost kernel[0]: BSD root: disk1s5, major 14, minor 10

Apr 15 11:27:54 localhost kernel[0]: BootCache: cache size (1079246848 bytes) too large for physical memory (2151677952 bytes), capping at 1075838976 bytes

[rlf]

You should install Chimera/Chameleon on each OSX partition. A bootloader has 3 main files. boot0 goes into the first sector of the hard drive. boot1h goes into the 1st sector of the individual partition. boot goes into the root directory of each partition. You need boot1h installed in the partition so that the BIOS knows how to read the partition.

[saravanadel]

Thnks, and why does it not load kext from /Extra. I cross checked with kextstat.

[quizz]

ok, I come here to tell you that my 250 gts works perfectly on 10.7.4.

No kext, just GraphicsEnabler = yes in my com.apple.Boot.plist file Extra.

 

<? xml version = "1.0" encoding = "UTF-8"?>

<! DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "- / / Apple / / DTD PLIST 1.0 / / EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">

<plist version="1.0">

<dict>

<key> Graphics Mode </ key>

<string> 1440x900x32 </ string>

<key> GraphicsEnabler </ key>

<string> Yes </ string>

<key> Instant Menu </ key>

<string> Yes </ string>

<key> Kernel </ key>

<string> mach_kernel </ string>

<key> Legacy Logo </ key>

<string> Yes </ string>

<key> SystemType </ key>

<string> 3 </ string>

<key> Theme </ key>

<string> default </ string>

<key> busratio </ key>

<string> 34 </ string>

</ dict>

</ plist>

 

Thank you very much