Toshiba Satellite P850 (3D version) - no optimus

[davidhs]

Hi, I have a laptop with the current specs:

 

Satellite P850-1007X

(PSPKBL-03200X)

• PROCESSOR

  Intel® Core™ i7-3610QM processor (6M Cache, up to 3.3GHz) with Intel® Turbo Boost Technology

• OPERATING SYSTEM

  Windows® 7 Home Premium 64-bit (now upgraded to Windows 8.1 64-bit)

• MEMORY

  8192MB DDR3 1600MHz SDRAM

• DISPLAY SIZE

  15.6" WXGA HD Clear SuperView Glasses Free 3D display with LED Backlight TFT Display (1920 x 1080)

• GRAPHICS

  NVIDIA® GeForce® GT640M with 3D Play Technology

• HARD DISK DRIVE

  1TB (SATA) with shock absorbers

• OPTICAL DRIVE

  BD-ROM Drive with LabelFlash Technology

• INTERFACES

  2xUSB 3.0(Sleep & Charge), 2xUSB 3.0

• SOUND SYSTEM

  2x Harman Kardon® stereo speakers, 16-bit Stereo with SRS® Premium Sound 3D™

• CAMERA

  Built-in HD Web Camera with Face Tracking Feature

• BATTERY

  6-Cell Lithium Ion

• WARRANTY

  1-year carry-in Regional Limited Warranty (parts & labor), 1-year battery (carry-in)

• WEIGHT

  Starting from 2.9kg

• COLOUR

  Metallic Aluminium Silver

My laptop doesn't support Optimus, I only see the Nvidia Graphic Card in Device Manager in Windows, but I have Hackintosh installed (by removing Nvidia kexts).

Right now i am not able to run hackintosh with QE/CI is there any solutions on this? Thanks.

[vusun123]

Keep the Nvidia kexts so that you can try ( but I doubted it, Apple recently has been killing Mobility Nvidia Graphics, 10.9.2 is your friend here. And I got info that Yosemite Public Beta brings Mobility Nvidia support back )

[davidhs]

Keep the Nvidia kexts so that you can try ( but I doubted it, Apple recently has been killing Mobility Nvidia Graphics, 10.9.2 is your friend here. And I got info that Yosemite Public Beta brings Mobility Nvidia support back )

 

Thanks for your reply vusun123. But can you give some more information about "Yosemite Public Beta that brings the Mobility Nvidia support back"? e.g. the news site perhaps?

[vusun123]

I got a friend who got a ASUS K43SJ with Nvidia Geforce GT520M, it works on 10.9.1 and below, updating to 10.9.2 and above and he got a black screen. But as for Yosemite, he also reported that it works without any issues

[davidhs]

I got a friend who got a ASUS K43SJ with Nvidia Geforce GT520M, it works on 10.9.1 and below, updating to 10.9.2 and above and he got a black screen. But as for Yosemite, he also reported that it works without any issues

Well, according to http://www.driverscape.com/manufacturers/asus/laptops-desktops/k43sj/3503, the laptop doesn't seem to use Optimus technology, but the laptop's graphic card is a Fermi series graphic card. In my case, which my graphic card is a Kepler one, doesn't seem to work with 10.9 (using Niresh distribution). But maybe I will try to install 10.10 Beta to see if the drivers work for Kepler mobile graphics.

[davidhs]

I have tried to download and install the OSX 10.10 Public Beta 1 using MacPwn method, and my nvidia graphic card still doesn't work on the OSX...

 

Btw, is there any relation to being the VGA BIOS not loaded on OSX?

 

P.S. : I installed the OSX on a USB hard drive, and tried to run on my PC, and the graphic card worked (using GraphicsEnabler, my graphics card is ASUS GTX560 (non-TI version)), but when I boot into my laptop, it stuck at "NVDAGK100Hal Loaded"

[vusun123]

I have tried to download and install the OSX 10.10 Public Beta 1 using MacPwn method, and my nvidia graphic card still doesn't work on the OSX...

 

Btw, is there any relation to being the VGA BIOS not loaded on OSX?

 

P.S. : I installed the OSX on a USB hard drive, and tried to run on my PC, and the graphic card worked (using GraphicsEnabler, my graphics card is ASUS GTX560 (non-TI version)), but when I boot into my laptop, it stuck at "NVDAGK100Hal Loaded"

Nah, I don't recommend those method. Always use the clean vanilla method. Your GTX 560 is fine ( I have a friend who has GTX 580, it works in 10.9.4 and 10.10 )

As for your laptop, try using Clover, not injecting Nvidia, see if it works ( you might want to add dart=0 to the bootflag, otherwise disable VT-d in your bios )