A way to enable Quartz Extreme in 7600 GT (iPC 10.5.6)

[Jasonkruser]

Hi everybody,

 

I have a Nvidia GeForce 7600 GT from BFG and many of the Nvidia GFX installers and kexts(NVDarwin & NVInject etc etc) until i came across CoreVidia but the only problem is that when i boot into leopard normally, the transparency and the Quartz Extreme Eye candy doesn't show up until i click about this mac->system profiler(the bottom option). Is there a way to make the CoreVidia Kext load without me doing this? Btw: EFI strings fail to work

 

~jason

[iMickk]

Hi.

 

I have a nVidea 7600 GS. It's a pci-e card. It's the 512 MB version. I install snow with myhack.

What i have tryed?

Nvinject > Only resolution change

Graphics Enabler > Blue screen

Nvenabler > Blue screen

Efi strings > Blue screen

 

I can't change my resolution and i have'nt quart extreme and core image. How i can enable it.. Because i want use pages, iweb and pictureviewer.

 

What can i do?

 

Thanks, Mick

[hackmac1927]

Hi Guys,

 

I had the well known problem "Quartz Extreme could not be enabled"

 

Definition/Problem: I have a Nvidia 7600 GT installed, but after installing NVinject 0.2.1 I was able to adjust Screen resolution an activate OpenCL, but I was NOT able to activate QE.

 

I tried to activate it with QuartzSimple, but under "Tools" it was greyed - no way to activate.

 

Here is what worked:

 

1. In Finder simply delete System/Library/Extensions/nvinject.kext (nothing else!!!)

2. Download and run EFIStudio, Select correct display adapter, "Add device" and "write to com.apple.boot.plist"

3. Restart computer

4. After Restart: Transparency of the menu bar is a good indicator that everything works fine from now.

5. QE should be enabled with QuartzSimple (follow instructions)

 

Sound simple but was hard to find out for a noob like me... That's what I did after making lots of mistakes and reading tons of posts who described that problem, but didn't fix it.

 

I'm sure, there will be hundreds of other ways (?), but this was the only one that worked for ME.

 

My Configuration:

 

G31M-ES2L

iPC 10.5.6

NVIDIA 7600 GT external (internal VGA didn't work properly)

First installation was just with NVINJECT 0.2.1 - further installation according to wiki parameters

 

That's all folks.

[lacasuela]

hey thats exactly what im searching..

 

i have an iPc 10.5.6 installation with a NVIDIA 7600GT AGP

 

can you post your EFI string, com.apple.Boot.plist and which injectors (nvinject, Geforce...) do you have in the ../Extensions folder

 

almost we have more or less the same configuration but i can not have QE/CI working

 

thanks

[hackmac1927]

Graphics Enabler > Blue screen

Nvenabler > Blue screen

Efi strings > Blue screen

 

I can't change my resolution and i have'nt quart extreme and core image. How i can enable it.. Because i want use pages, iweb and pictureviewer.

 

What can i do?

 

Thanks, Mick

 

Mick,

 

QE: See my hints above... maybe a solution for your probs?

 

Blue screen: I had the same trouble earlier with my 9400 GT and NVinject 0.2.1. I turned hundreds of "screws"... but the only way to make that stuff working was... (don't laugh!!!): Use the other of the both connectors of your gcard with your first monitor! I'm not kidding.

 

Stephan

 

 

 

can you post your EFI string, com.apple.Boot.plist and which injectors (nvinject, Geforce...) do you have in the ../Extensions folder

 

 

lacasuela,

 

I could do that later that week, I'm on tour and have no access to the computer. But simply try what I did and you need no further information... just this: In the extensions folder are just the standard kexts - in the installation I just added nvinject 0.2.1 (that's what I removed later) - all the other gforce*.* and nv*.* stuff is still left in the folder.

 

So what you need is standard configuration and the two applications above (EFIstudio and QuartzSimple) - just follow the instructions.

 

BTW: With this workaround you also fix the problems with the DVD player, that obviously could not find any usable Video hardware... crazy, eh?

 

Stephan

[lacasuela]

Your nvidia is AGP or PCI / PCI-E ?

[hackmac1927]

Your nvidia is AGP or PCI / PCI-E ?

 

It's a PCI-E

[lacasuela]

Thats why. Manage the agp to work correctly its a different story.

[lacasuela]

well not with ipc 10,5,6 but with kalyway 10,5,2 and all my hardware works fine ! (almost)

 

i needed an IDE Drive to install kalyway otherwise it was not possible to detect any sata drive and 'out of the box' i have my graphic card:

 

7600GT AGP (recognized as PCI) working with full resolutions + QE supported and Rotation supported + Hardware Accelerated...

 

the only problem is the frame rate (which is very poor ) only 30klines/s

 

so when i try to enable OpenGL via the osx86tools from the iPC 10,5,6 all the graphics goes very slowly even if the System profile continued to show OpenGL supported + QE + Rotation ... bla bla bla

 

i pick from here this method to set my minimum video values

$ cd /System/Library/Frameworks/ApplicationServices.framework/Versions\

/A/Frameworks/CoreGraphics.framework/Versions/A/Resources

$ sudo pico Configuration.plist

 

i login in safe mode and disabled the OpenGl via Osx86 again, reboot and surprise xbench shows 200 Klines/s yes

 

and maybe there is somebody to tell me if,

there is a way to make a backup copy of my installation ?

 

 

thanks all

[lacasuela]

Mmm after reboot frames rate went down again.. Still trying..

[mikemore]

Really strange artefacts whit GeforceGo 7600, Violet and green lines on my monitor.

 

Hallo at all,

 

first of all, excuseme for my poor english, i'm writing in this forum because i have some graphical problems with Leopard (but also in Snow Leopard), and my Nvidia GeforceGo 7600 512 Mb.

 

I didn't do anything special, no driver changes, no new install, nothing, but now, whit NvinjectGo 0.20b 512 installed, my CI and my QE vanished, also i have very strange violet and green line on my monitor, i have tryed to reinstall anything but whitout succes.

 

If i delete the nvinject driver i have poor resolution, no QE and CI but no green and violet line on my monitor, i have also tryied NVenabler, NVkush and EFI Strings but can't solve this problem.

 

Anyone have a solution for this?

 

Thx at all.

 

Byez.

 

M'n'M

[Mogway]

Hey guys!

 

I have a Nvidia 7600GT AGP card with 512mb but i don't know how to get it running properly under leopard or even snow leopard.

NVinject doesn't seem to work. So what driver/kext should i use? and how get i running QE? :/

[Gringo Vermelho]

GraphicsEnabler=y in /Extra/org.chameleon.Boot.plist should do it.

 

7600 GT AGP will be slow for 3D games because OS X on Intel has no AGP support and so your card will work as a PCI card at 33MHz PCI transfer speeds. If you must play games on it you'll only get acceptable framerates at low resolutions like 640x480. It'll be fine for everyday desktop use though.

 

There is no 64-bit driver for 7xxx cards on 10.6.3 and up, you must run Snow Leopard in 32-bit kernel and drivers mode. I can no longer remember if there are any caveats w/ Leopard.

 

You might have to add your card's device ID to NVDANV40Hal.kext and NVResman.kext. There are plenty of older posts and tutorials around detailing how to do that, use the search to find them. Also google "Guide for all nvidia boards", it's an old thread over on the ProjectOSX forums that might be helpful.

 

As mentioned earlier in the thread, use the monitor output that's closest to the motherboard (when looking at the back of the case). Use it with a DVI/VGA adapter if you have to.