Deksan Posted September 20, 2008 Share Posted September 20, 2008 Hi, Yesterday I did a complete upgrade 10.5.2->10.5.5, which ended up messing my nvidia driver. At first the windowserver kept crashing or using 100% Cpu. I found out that it s an issue with the OpenGL.framework that seemed out of sync. To fix that I had to extract the 9f23 installer package and copy using scp/ssh from another computer the wrong file. Secondly after this being fixed i had my nvidia card recognized but I had QE / CI disabled. I tried using an EFI string or XDarwin injector but it didnt work. I then installed 9f9 installer package hoping that it was a driver issue, but still 9f9 + EFI String or 9f9 + NVinjector was a no go still no QE/CI. In the end I installed NVInstaller v.41 + Injector + EFI (The injector is the one built in in the nv41 package) and QE / CI came back enabled. I stopped messing around as I had lost a couple hours already. So here are a summup of things: 9f23 installer + EFI = 9f23 installer + EFI + Injector = No QE / CI but Card recognized. It also fix windowserver messed up. 9f9 installer + EFI = 9f9 + EFI + Injector = No QE / CI v.41installer + EFI + Injector = QE / CI I havent tried a xbench to compare performance from the previous version (though i think 10.5.2 driver = v.41 installer driver so wouldnt change much). Also if you want to find out which driver you are using here is a trick i found yesterday by messing around : in a terminal type kextstat | grep -i NV com.apple.NVDAResman (x.x.x) Behind NVDAResman you ll see a serie of 3 digit : - 5.2.6 = v.41 installer - 9f9 or 9f23 = 5.3.0 I m not sure if it s possible but it might worth a try if you dont care messing around your installation, it s to use the NVDA* from the package v.41 installer but the GeForce*.bundle from the 9f23 installer. I m not sure if it would work but the way i understand it is that the GeForce*.bundle are the actual driver, the NV* are the loaders. I hope it helps anyone in the same situation where I was. Good Luck PS : I have an Asus P5B with a Core2Duo / 4Go of Memory / 8600 GT - 256MB / SATA HDD. So far after a day of use 10.5.5 seems solid. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/127074-nvidia-1055/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
age_sabres18 Posted September 21, 2008 Share Posted September 21, 2008 in system profiler does it display the efi info or the injector info??? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/127074-nvidia-1055/#findComment-899448 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deksan Posted September 21, 2008 Author Share Posted September 21, 2008 Hi, The injectors info. Why ? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/127074-nvidia-1055/#findComment-899457 Share on other sites More sharing options...
aqua-mac Posted September 21, 2008 Share Posted September 21, 2008 Deksan, 10.5.5 does not work with injectors anymore, if you want to run the full version with the kexts, you will have to delete NVInject and use GFX Strings. Instructions Here. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/127074-nvidia-1055/#findComment-899545 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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