CULV light laptop with nVidia graphics: Asus UL30-VT

[Simon42]

Awesome! How did you do it? Is your ul30vt special in any way? What did you use to get nVidia graphics? So what works and what doesn't?

[MaSt3rGrIfF]

Hey guys, my ul30vt automagically uses the nvidia g210m when it goes into snow leopard. i got correct res with qe/ci woohooo!!

 

WOOHOO!! This is the news I've been waiting for! How'd you do it? Please, please, please post a how-to if you made the magic happen.

[nagapelangi]

after some research i think i know what happened.

go into your bios and set the hard disk to compatible mode.

boot into snow leopard, it will automagically uses the nvidia gpu.

 

im not sure why does this happens. try it out guys and ley me your results ASAP.

[iismail]

after some research i think i know what happened.

go into your bios and set the hard disk to compatible mode.

boot into snow leopard, it will automagically uses the nvidia gpu.

 

im not sure why does this happens. try it out guys and ley me your results ASAP.

 

That is a good news.

Can you share the Nvidia driver (g210m) that you use?

 

Idris

[MaSt3rGrIfF]

Alright. I successfully installed Snow Leopard using a flash drive with the myhack method. I cant seem to get chameleon rc4 to work off the hdd though, it just sits at a blinking line screen and never boots. I can only boot off the chameleon on the flash drive. With the hdd in compatibility I only get the nvidia card in about this mac, but under standard both the nvidia and the intel cards show up, but the video ram is only available for the intel card. Does anyone know any reasons why chameleon wouldn't be working?

[iismail]

Hello,

 

I am newbie & I have been trying to boot into the NVidia and but no luck.

When I select "Compatible" mode from the bios, the system boots fine and I can

see the kernel messages but the GUI is not coming up, just black screen.

But if i select "Enhanced" mode from the bios, then it boots with the built-in card "GMA 4500".

 

I am suspecting that my bios version is old: UL30VTas.204

 

Also, I install SL by following myHack guide.

Do i need to install NVidia driver, if so where can I get it?

 

Thanks

[MaSt3rGrIfF]

Hello,

 

I am newbie & I have been trying to boot into the NVidia and but no luck.

When I select "Compatible" mode from the bios, the system boots fine and I can

see the kernel messages but the GUI is not coming up, just black screen.

But if i select "Enhanced" mode from the bios, then it boots with the built-in card "GMA 4500".

 

I am suspecting that my bios version is old: UL30VTas.204

 

Also, I install SL by following myHack guide.

Do i need to install NVidia driver, if so where can I get it?

 

Thanks

 

 

Did you get chameleon working fine? I used the same settings in myhack as you and I have bios 207, the newest one.

[iismail]

Did you get chameleon working fine? I used the same settings in myhack as you and I have bios 207, the newest one.

 

No chameleon is not booting from the hard-drive, only from USB.

I will reflash the bios with the latest 207 and see if that helps.

 

Do you have the UL30VT-A1 or UL30VT-X1?

Mine is the -X1.

[MaSt3rGrIfF]

I have the A1, but as far as I know the only differences are in the wifi card, battery and color so everything else should be the same and not really effect anything. Are you running it as GUID or MBR? I've been trying to dual boot mine with Windows 7 on there as well on MBR.

[iismail]

I have the A1, but as far as I know the only differences are in the wifi card, battery and color so everything else should be the same and not really effect anything. Are you running it as GUID or MBR? I've been trying to dual boot mine with Windows 7 on there as well on MBR.

 

I am running MBR and I am planning to install Win-7 too but I will wait until i resolve the NVidia driver.

[MaSt3rGrIfF]

I am running MBR and I am planning to install Win-7 too but I will wait until i resolve the NVidia driver.

 

Alright cool. I've been reading some posts and it looks like there's some progress in this thread for the 210m. More toward the middle posts. I just want to figure out exactly why chameleon isn't booting off the harddisk.

[iismail]

Alright cool. I've been reading some posts and it looks like there's some progress in this thread for the 210m. More toward the middle posts. I just want to figure out exactly why chameleon isn't booting off the harddisk.

 

I added the following string into <device-properties> at "com.apple.Boot.plist" in order to turn on QC/CI

6e0200000100000001000000620200000d00000002010c00d041030a000000000101060
000010101060000007fff04000e0000004e00560050004d0000002000000001000000000000000000
000000000000000000000000000000000000220000005600520041004d002c0074006f00740061006
c00730069007a006500000008000000000000401c0000006400650076006900630065005f00740079
007000650000000f0000004e5644412c506172656e740e0000006e0061006d00650000000b0000006
46973706c617922000000400030002c006400650076006900630065005f0074007900700065000000
0b000000646973706c617922000000400031002c006400650076006900630065005f0074007900700
0650000000b000000646973706c6179100000006d006f00640065006c0000001b0000006e56696469
61204765466f72636520393830306d20475320000000400031002c0063006f006d007000610074006
90062006c00650000000e0000004e5644412c4e564d616314000000400030002c006e0061006d0065
000000120000004e5644412c446973706c61792d4114000000400031002c006e0061006d006500000
0120000004e5644412c446973706c61792d4220000000400030002c0063006f006d00700061007400
690062006c00650000000e0000004e5644412c4e564d6163100000004e00560043004100500000001
800000004000000000003000c00000000000007000000001e00000072006f006d002d007200650076
006900730069006f006e0000002f0000006e5669646961204765466f72636520393830306d2047532
04f70656e474c20456e67696e65205b4546495d

and at "About This Mac" I am getting the video card as GeForce 9800m GS OpenGL with total VRAM=1024 MB.

 

But when I play small resolution video (480p) QuickTime is using the CPU resource instead of the GPU.

I am getting 40% CPU usage.

 

What am I doing wrong?

 

Thanks

[MaSt3rGrIfF]

So, in compatible mode in the 208 bios, I re-installed Windows 7 and the nvidia card comes up by default like it does in os x, but I can't seem to get the graphics drivers to load. They say they install, but in hardware manager it says the driver is corrupted. I'm going to keep trying, but it's looking like dual-booting is going to be questionable under purely compatible mode.

[iismail]

Alright. I successfully installed Snow Leopard using a flash drive with the myhack method. I cant seem to get chameleon rc4 to work off the hdd though, it just sits at a blinking line screen and never boots. I can only boot off the chameleon on the flash drive. With the hdd in compatibility I only get the nvidia card in about this mac, but under standard both the nvidia and the intel cards show up, but the video ram is only available for the intel card. Does anyone know any reasons why chameleon wouldn't be working?

 

I manage to boot NVidia with the correct resolution (1360x768) but don't know how to turn on QE/CI.

Could you someone tell me how to enable Quartz as I am newbie and new to Mac OSX.

 

Thanks

[voxelized]

So, in compatible mode in the 208 bios, I re-installed Windows 7 and the nvidia card comes up by default like it does in os x, but I can't seem to get the graphics drivers to load. They say they install, but in hardware manager it says the driver is corrupted. I'm going to keep trying, but it's looking like dual-booting is going to be questionable under purely compatible mode.

 

On my desktop hackintosh... Nvidia cards are a breeze to set up - just use GraphicsEnabler and a EFI string (I see somebody above has created one). However, I'm not sure generating a correct EFI would that easy for this card.

[MaSt3rGrIfF]

This thread looks like it could be of some help to us in our quest for g210m support.

[Hoodad]

EDIT #1: iATKOS v7 works with "-v cpus=1" since this laptop uses the GS45 chipset. I could not get iDeneb to boot up after the install. ACPI issues (oh so common 16384 blah blah message).

 

EDIT #2: Since this laptop has "two" video cards and no way to switch using the BIOS.... getting the GT220M to work will be un-typical. The LCD display is connected to the X4500 graphics card by default.

 

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Empire EFI w/ retail SL disc doesn't work (will try legacy EFI version later)

iPC - nope

iATKOS - nope

iDeneb - yup! (installing now)

 

I can imagine this laptop being a little finicky. I attempted to boot using a portable HD with a working iDeneb install (for another laptop) in safe mode and it halted.

 

I definitely want SL in this laptop - but will try Leopard first.

 

Exactly how did you manage to boot from usb? Did you prepare with disk utility from another mac or did you do it with a external dvd?

 

Or have did anyone here do it?

 

Cause I'm having problem preparing (or with the laptop to boot from usb) my usb-harddrive.

Things I have tried:

*Disk utility inside 10.5.8

-Mac os Extended with GUID and MBR... Nothing seems to please my laptop..

[MaSt3rGrIfF]

Exactly how did you manage to boot from usb? Did you prepare with disk utility from another mac or did you do it with a external dvd?

 

Or have did anyone here do it?

 

Cause I'm having problem preparing (or with the laptop to boot from usb) my usb-harddrive.

Things I have tried:

*Disk utility inside 10.5.8

-Mac os Extended with GUID and MBR... Nothing seems to please my laptop..

 

I prepared my 8 GB usb stick using the myhack installer, preparing it on my hackintoshed 1005HA netbook. Because of the recent refresh of the macbook pros yesterday, there might be some new progress being made on hardware level support for the x4500 IGP, so keep an eye on that.