Chad Arthur2 Posted April 1, 2006 Share Posted April 1, 2006 Hey all, My problem is simple ( I hope). I've got my Geforce 6200 Running well, no drivers really, but fullscreen video works well in Mplayer, and now I want to fire up Final Cut. Only problem is....final cut wont start unless my video card is detected as an AGP card. Well it is an AGP card...but system profiler is reporting it as a PCI. So how do I get it to report the right bus type. I would have tried using the AppleI386pci.kext and adding my device id's etc. But I cant find that kext file. If anyone can help me...or if you can please send me the kext file...I would greatly appreciate it. I'm running 10.4.4 -Chad Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/13681-help-with-nvidia-agp/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
CoolBits Posted April 1, 2006 Share Posted April 1, 2006 you will not have any bennefit with loading i386.kext and agp cos there are no nvidia drivers with acceleration working at the moment... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/13681-help-with-nvidia-agp/#findComment-87025 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chad Arthur2 Posted April 1, 2006 Author Share Posted April 1, 2006 Yeah, I know I wont get any acceleration, but do I need that to do some quick editing in final cut? I downloded some other freeware editing software and it works fine! Just wanted to try my luck at final cut....and It won't open unless it reads my vid card as an AGP card. -Chad PS. What is a good ATI card to buy....just to get some CI and QE support...AGP too. The cheapest possible..dont need any fancy 3d accel. no gaming, just to get that stuff running, and to work in final cut. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/13681-help-with-nvidia-agp/#findComment-87039 Share on other sites More sharing options...
CoolBits Posted April 1, 2006 Share Posted April 1, 2006 final cut relies on the GPU that is on your graphics card which doesnt work without drivers...AGP or not most of G5 macs which have agp cards show up like pci... there is nothing much you can do with nvidia, unless you buy ati for now or wait a few weeks maybe for the driver to show up.. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/13681-help-with-nvidia-agp/#findComment-87042 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chad Arthur2 Posted April 1, 2006 Author Share Posted April 1, 2006 Okay, I understand that it will be slow, but I just want to fire it up to see what it looks like, I have no intention of replacing it with my current windows video editing suites. Take a look at this post, this guys has it opening with his Nvidia card, no QE/CI, but at least it's opening. I need to make my computer aware of the fact that my card is an AGP card. http://forum.osx86project.org/index.php?sh...75&hl=Final+Cut -Chad Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/13681-help-with-nvidia-agp/#findComment-87052 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chad Arthur2 Posted April 1, 2006 Author Share Posted April 1, 2006 Great!! I got my hands on the kext, put in my device id, and voila!! My card BUS type is AGP!! Final Cut opens up and stuff, and you can get a sense of the application right away. But playback is the only thing that is slow. Due to the lack of QE/CI (whichever one is more important for this type of stuff). So, I guess I just have to wait on _np to release new drivers with everything supported. I'm counting on him!! Everything else is working flawlessly, once this is set up...I'll be using this box as my main OS. Thanks for the help Coolbits -Chad. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/13681-help-with-nvidia-agp/#findComment-87096 Share on other sites More sharing options...
jrrjrr Posted April 1, 2006 Share Posted April 1, 2006 These were the instructions I used: Add your "CPU to AGP Bus ID" into the info.plist inside of AppleI386PCI.kext Example: <key>AppleI386AGP</key> <dict> <key>CFBundleIdentifier</key> <string>com.apple.driver.AppleI386PCI</string> <key>IOAGPFlags</key> <integer>65537</integer> <key>IOClass</key> <string>AppleI386AGP</string> <key>IONameMatch</key> <array> <string>pci8086,2571</string> <--------add here </array> (My "Processor to AGP Controller" - "Virtual PCI to AGP Bridge" is 8086,3581) Restore permissions: sudo chmod -R 755 /System/Library/Extensions/AppleI386PCI.kext sudo chown -R root:wheel /System/Library/Extensions/AppleI386PCI.Kext Restore cache: sudo kextcache -k /System/Library/Extensions Load extension: sudo kextload /System/Library/Extensions/AppleI386PCI.kext Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/13681-help-with-nvidia-agp/#findComment-87097 Share on other sites More sharing options...
CoolBits Posted April 1, 2006 Share Posted April 1, 2006 Yeah cool but stil final cut 5 is PPC only... ver 5.1 which came out these days is unibin... Dont expect too much running throug rosseta now Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/13681-help-with-nvidia-agp/#findComment-87105 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chad Arthur2 Posted April 1, 2006 Author Share Posted April 1, 2006 Noone was talking about actually using Final Cut for something. It's just the novelty of having it open and running. I'm getting my copy of 5.1 now anyway. -Chad Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/13681-help-with-nvidia-agp/#findComment-87112 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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