having a strange issue with my graphics card

[Darnei Tiger]

Hello all. after a month of attempting, i finally have snow leopard running on my amd machine. Everything is working great, except for my video card. i will attempt to explain the problem:

 

I have an 8600GTS, 256mb. When i boot into snow leopard, im stuck at 1024x768 with no QE/CI, and no option to change resolution. I have resolved the resolution issue by booting with "Graphics Mode"="1280x1024x32@60".

Every time i go into system profiler and look at my video card, it just says "GPU" with some generic things in there, but not many things listed. (such as pci e 1x, etc).

 

Now, through the advice of another person on this board, i removed my enabler kexts i had tried to copy from leopard (NVinject, NVdarwin, NVkush. none worked). and booted with "GraphicsEnabler"="Yes" along with my resolution flag. When i then go into system profiler, it shows me the correct information on my card, yet still no hardware acceleration. i try to use the command line instructions, i see it reads 256/256 as it should be enabled, but complete the rest of the instructions anyway:

 

You can enable Quartz Extreme without installing anything by typing commands in the Terminal.

Check if Quartz Extreme is enabled:

sudo -s

defaults read /Library/Preferences/com.apple.windowserver GLCompositor

If it is enabled, you should read:

{tileHeight = 256; tileWidth = 256; }

You can enable Quartz Extreme without installing anything by typing the following from the command line:

defaults write /Library/Preferences/com.apple.windowserver GLCompositor -dict tileHeight -int 256 tileWidth -int 256

Kill loginwindow (or restart) for changes to take effect:

kill `ps ax | grep loginwindow | grep -v grep | sed -e 's/[[:blank:]]*//' | sed -e 's/[[:blank:]].*//'`

 

Yet, when i reboot, i still get no acceleration.

 

I just seem to be at a dead end here, and snow runs like {censored} for me graphically without acceleration. I have even tried EFI strings in com.apple.boot.plist, yet i dont think the plist editing is working as everytime i try to set something in the plist, it never works or gets processed by the system. Does anybody have any ideas on how to get hardware acceleration running? Im sure its a simple fix, yet i have hunted these boards to no avail.

 

My system:

AMD64 4200+

3GB PNY DDR2 800 ram

ECS KA3-MVP motherboard

nVidia Geforce 8600GTS 256mb

Apple aluminum keyboard / mighty mouse

Chameleon v2.0 r640 RC2

[Darnei Tiger]

Nobody has any advice?

[Beerkex'd]

Try NVEnabler - visit the ProjectOSX forums to download it.

 

Don't forget to delete your existing injector/device properties string/GraphicsEnabler boot flag first.