Prawker Posted August 27, 2007 Share Posted August 27, 2007 (edited) Hello All, I've made for you a universal installer for all GeForce cards* The package installs a copy of all the GeForce, NV, and Titan kexts. All of them include all of the most common Device ID's. So if you're having trouble changing your resolution, or you want to get Core Image and Quartz Extreme working, this package might do the trick for you! Please keep in mind that I have not tested this on every single GeForce card. But it SHOULD work on most modern cards, which include cards in the 5xxx through 7xxx range. If you have anything older, then this may or may not work. And if you have an 8xxx card, this will NOT work. Also, this may or may not work if your card has 512MB of RAM. You display might work the first time you reboot, but not the second time. If you have a 512 card, and want to try this out then be my guest :glare: If you use this package, please report any success or failure so I can update this thread and get a list of supported/unsupported cards going. This is the first time I've ever made a package and released it, so I cannot guarantee that this will work on your system, and/or that it will install correctly on your system. I've installed this on two different computers so far and it worked like a charm on both. So if you think you are tech savy, be sure to keep an eye on the installer log and let me know of any bugs you spot. Download the package here Working Cards: 7600 GT PCI-E 7300 LE PCI-E 5500 7950GT (Sometimes hangs at black screen, but a reboot will fix that.) 6800XT Go53xx *All modern GeForce cards, I.E. 5 series through 7 series. 8 Series cards are not supported. Mirrors: http://www.a4o.nl/dump/GeForce.pkg.zip http://www.bearpc.info/GeForce.pkg.zip Edited October 24, 2007 by Prawker Added mirrors Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sensimeon Posted August 28, 2007 Share Posted August 28, 2007 trying it on my fxf7950gt 512 meg, ill let yo know Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
max33 Posted August 28, 2007 Share Posted August 28, 2007 Works for me... MSI 7600 GT PCI-E... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sensimeon Posted August 28, 2007 Share Posted August 28, 2007 omg i love you so much. flashed my rom a few times, tried some ktexts found your installer and my 512 is fully supported. before it recgonized my card name as nivida not generic, but ill change that manually using aquamac method. gigabyte 965-ds3p wd 500gig fxf gforce 7950gt dual core 6400 @2.13 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darth Toplicius Posted August 28, 2007 Share Posted August 28, 2007 Works for me...MSI 7600 GT PCI-E... Same here, Gigabyte 7600 GT PCI-E... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sensimeon Posted August 28, 2007 Share Posted August 28, 2007 omg i love you so much. flashed my rom a few times, tried some ktexts found your installer and my 512 is fully supported. before it recgonized my card name as nivida not generic, but ill change that manually using aquamac method. gigabyte 965-ds3p wd 500gig fxf gforce 7950gt dual core 6400 @2.13 Grrrr! Woke up this morning after thinking i had fixed it, but i reboot to black screen after rebooting the second time. any suggestions Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Prawker Posted August 28, 2007 Author Share Posted August 28, 2007 Hmm, not to sure this will work on 512MB cards then...i find it strange that it worked on your first reboot though... Well if you can get into single user mode (-s) or if you can access your drive from windows with MacDrive, then copy the backup files (/GeForceBackups) to your extensions folder and repair permissions, that should get your install booting again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sensimeon Posted August 28, 2007 Share Posted August 28, 2007 yah i just booted into vista and deleted system/library/extensions/nvdaresman and reboot and im back to 1024x768 and my card is recgonized as generic 512 meg card... im going to try the natit .01 and .02 then titan then i have no idea... shouldnt i be able to open the gforce package and just add my device id/number because the universal just loads them all at once when i hit -v on boot i can see the it say "okay cross your fingers" and some of them it says fail so i know the universal is loading too many and maybe after 2 -3 restarts it looses the info? ive noticed it works for exactly 2-3 reboots then i get a black screen... ill let you guys know if anything comes up, but please, if you know which ktext works do let me know! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Prawker Posted August 28, 2007 Author Share Posted August 28, 2007 try adding your devID to the NV40 kext and see if that works Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ridgeline Posted August 29, 2007 Share Posted August 29, 2007 Well, all I can say is this driver package is great for me. I am using it on a GeForce Go 7200 on a DV6200CTO Lappy. It is about time I am able to get the video working properly. Current res. 1270x800 Thank you Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jhnez Posted August 29, 2007 Share Posted August 29, 2007 when do you tink 8x00 wil be available? i like osx but i would realy like to use my both monitors on my geforce 8800gts Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mluu510 Posted August 29, 2007 Share Posted August 29, 2007 i hope someone would make this compatible with geforce 8 cards. thanks in advance. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Prawker Posted August 29, 2007 Author Share Posted August 29, 2007 I choose not to install the nv40 option with jas 10.4.8 as I would get the black screen after install and grey apple spinning logo. Now that I have flashed my rom and my card is recgonized as 512, should i go back and perhaps install the nv40ktext and do the steps you stated above. Or should i edit the gforce ktext which seems to be in the s/l/e folder... here's my display info if anyone is feeling so kindly to mod their nv40 and email to me... Type: Display Bus: PCIe VRAM (Total): 512 MB Vendor: NVIDIA (0x10de) Device ID: 0x0295 Revision ID: 0x00a1 Displays: Display: Resolution: 1280 x 1024 Depth: 32-bit Color Core Image: Not Supported Main Display: Yes Mirror: Off Online: Yes Quartz Extreme: Not Supported oh, and at this point, installing mac on this ds3p is just like installin windows on my compaq This package installs the nv40 kext. Just put your DevID in there and give it a shot. Let me know if you think of anything else Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sensimeon Posted August 29, 2007 Share Posted August 29, 2007 This package installs the nv40 kext. Just put your DevID in there and give it a shot. Let me know if you think of anything else ahh nice prawker. let me make sure im doing these steps right.. installed the driver, restarted and woo woo it works. now to add my id.. i find my way to systems/library/extensions/nvdanv40hal.kext--->show contents now in Contents i copy info.plist to the desktop and open with text edit im pretty sure i put it: <key>NVidiaRM</key> <dict> <key>CFBundleIdentifier</key> <string>com.apple.nvidia.nv40hal</string> <key>IOClass</key> <string>NVDANV40HAL</string> <key>IOMatchCategory</key> <string>IOService</string> <key>IOPCIMatch</key> <string>0x004010de&0xfff0ffff 0x00f010de&0xfff0ffff 0x022010de&0xfff0ffff 0x014010de&0xfff0ffff 0x016010de&0xfff0ffff 0x009010de&0xfff0ffff 0x01d010de&0xfff0ffff 0x039010de&0xfff0ffff 0x029010de&0xfff0ffff 0x02e010de&0xfff0ffff 0x032610de&0xfff0ffff 0x016710de&0xfff0ffff 0x016110de&0xfff0ffff 0x039110de&0xfff0ffff 0x032210de&0xfff0fff 0x032210de 0x039210de 0x004110de 0x039110de 0x016710de 0x00c310de 0x01df10de 0x004510de 0x00F610de 0x032610de 0x02e010de 0x014010de 0x02e110de 0x004010de&0xfff0ffff 0x00f010de&0xfff0ffff 0x022010de&0xfff0ffff 0x014010de&0xfff0ffff 0x016010de&0xfff0ffff 0x009010de&0xfff0ffff 0x01d010de&0xfff0ffff 0x039010de&0xfff0ffff 0x029010de&0xfff0ffff</string> <key>IOProbeScore</key> <integer>60000</integer> <key>IOProviderClass</key> <string>IOPCIDevice</string> </dict> my two questions are these: how do i write out vendor + device id? (v)0x10de + (d)0x0295=0x029510de And, should i take out all those other ids since they are no longer needed? im pretty sure it is as i see "0x029010de" and that means it just needs to replaced? ugh, i feel so newb. this is the last step and i'll have my mac working perfectly. get ready for a "how to make a frankie on a ds3p board" ps. whats your xbench score? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Prawker Posted August 30, 2007 Author Share Posted August 30, 2007 <key>NVidiaRM</key> <dict> <key>CFBundleIdentifier</key> <string>com.apple.nvidia.nv40hal</string> <key>IOClass</key> <string>NVDANV40HAL</string> <key>IOMatchCategory</key> <string>IOService</string> <key>IOPCIMatch</key> <string>0x004010de&0xfff0ffff 0x00f010de&0xfff0ffff 0x022010de&0xfff0ffff 0x014010de&0xfff0ffff 0x016010de&0xfff0ffff 0x009010de&0xfff0ffff 0x01d010de&0xfff0ffff 0x039010de&0xfff0ffff 0x029010de&0xfff0ffff 0x02e010de&0xfff0ffff 0x032610de&0xfff0ffff 0x016710de&0xfff0ffff 0x016110de&0xfff0ffff 0x039110de&0xfff0ffff 0x032210de&0xfff0fff 0x032210de 0x039210de 0x004110de 0x039110de 0x016710de 0x00c310de 0x01df10de 0x004510de 0x00F610de 0x032610de 0x02e010de 0x014010de 0x02e110de 0x004010de&0xfff0ffff 0x00f010de&0xfff0ffff 0x022010de&0xfff0ffff 0x014010de&0xfff0ffff 0x016010de&0xfff0ffff 0x009010de&0xfff0ffff 0x01d010de&0xfff0ffff 0x039010de&0xfff0ffff 0x029010de&0xfff0ffff 0x029510de</string> <key>IOProbeScore</key> <integer>60000</integer> <key>IOProviderClPS xbenass</key> <string>IOPCIDevice</string> </dict> ^^^ That should do it. Just paste it over the current contents of info.plist and save. PS, xbench score is 86.38... nothing special Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wangii Posted August 30, 2007 Share Posted August 30, 2007 It works great on my 7300le PCIe. Thanks a lot! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
djnevs Posted August 31, 2007 Share Posted August 31, 2007 I am trying to install this package for my FX GO5350.. But the installer says: You cannot continue. There is nothing to install. Help? edit: Some info about my card: Unknown Mobile Card!: Chipset Model: Unknown Mobile Card! Type: Display Bus: PCI VRAM (Total): 128 MB Vendor: NVIDIA (0x10de) Device ID: 0x032c Revision ID: 0x00a1 Kernel Extension Info: No Kext Loaded Displays: Display: Resolution: 1024 x 768 Depth: 32-bit Color Core Image: Not Supported Main Display: Yes Mirror: Off Online: Yes Quartz Extreme: Not Supported Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sensimeon Posted September 1, 2007 Share Posted September 1, 2007 ahhh ha! So far so good really... Since im booting between hard drives and vista/osx just by using bios boot options, i sometimes get a black screen on the first boot if i switch between the two. but after that it fires up and everything seems to hold steady... If you come across any fixes before me for the 512cards do let me know. Thanks again! If anyone has a nvidia fxf7950gt, hit me up and ill send you the edited version for it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Prawker Posted September 1, 2007 Author Share Posted September 1, 2007 ahhh ha! So far so good really... Since im booting between hard drives and vista/osx just by using bios boot options, i sometimes get a black screen on the first boot if i switch between the two. but after that it fires up and everything seems to hold steady... If you come across any fixes before me for the 512cards do let me know. Thanks again! If anyone has a nvidia fxf7950gt, hit me up and ill send you the edited version for it. I kinda have the same problem, only its my my video card. but when ever i'm in windows and i REBOOT into OS X it kernel panics, so instead of hitting restart in windows, I have to shut the PC down first, then turn it back on and boot into OS X, no clue why, but its no big deal Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
my1stmacisaHACK Posted September 1, 2007 Share Posted September 1, 2007 will it work for 5200 cards Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Prawker Posted September 1, 2007 Author Share Posted September 1, 2007 will it work for 5200 cards Try it and let us know Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
my1stmacisaHACK Posted September 1, 2007 Share Posted September 1, 2007 awss kk ill try.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thaddeus Posted September 2, 2007 Share Posted September 2, 2007 It didn't work for my XFX Nvidia 7600GT PCI-E. I had to reboot manually, and after I got all the white text that appears while the system loads, I get a part which says: NVDA::start(display) <1> NVDA::start(display) <1> failed Sep 2 20:37:18 kextd-parent[24]: IOKitWaitQuiet () timed out Sep 2 20:37:20 localhost mDNSResponder-108 (Dec 25 2005 11: 57:53)[36]: starting Sep 2 20:37:22 localhost DirectoryService[51]: Launched version 2.1 (v352.1) Sep 2 20:37:25 localhost /System/Library/CoreServices/loginwindow.app/Contents/MacOS/loginwindow: Login Window Application Started and here is where it hangs and won't do anything else. What should I do? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JDGBOLT Posted September 4, 2007 Share Posted September 4, 2007 sensimeon: How do you reflash the video card and everything, since I have a bfg 7950 gt oc 512mb card(I think, it's 512M), but osx only sees 256 mb of it. Just started this, so not too sure how to get the nvidia card fully working under osx86. Do you have to reflash the card as something, and also what changes did you do to that list file. Thanks, JDGBOLT Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lifeisoverrated Posted September 6, 2007 Share Posted September 6, 2007 Hello! I just tried the universale geforce driver on my geforce go 7950 gtx and it didn't work. It hangs at a light blue screen between the grey apple loading screen and the finder. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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