gfxCardStatus Graphics card switcher for IntelHDGraphics

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Hello guys From the name of all you and me (the people trying to run their GMA4500 and IntelHD cards with QE/CI support) I wrote a mail to the owner of gfxCardStatus tool (the tool that can switch the intel and nvidia cards in the new MBPs). I asked him to help us with editing his tool, to load the IntelHD card by default ( if you don`t know, this is the main issue for now to keep trying to patch the IntelHD kexts - the nVidia card is loading by default!!! ).

Here is the answer to my mail:

 

Hi Georgi,

I'm really sorry - I wouldn't know the first thing about where to start modding a kext. To be honest with you, the original version of the switching code wasn't written by me (you'll see this if you look at the copyright info at the top of the switching code). I just modified it fairly heavily to fit within the context of my application and fixed a couple errors. I understand what it does, but not entirely how it does it. Please feel free to have a look at the source code (http://github.com/codykrieger/gfxCardStatus) and take away from it what you like - the interesting bits are in switcher.h/m.

On another note, I really like what you guys are doing - I was a big Hackintosh fan for quite a while (used to run one myself :), but I kind of got out of the scene when I got a MacBook Pro. Keep up the good work.

Best regards,
Cody

 

So if someone of you can do something about editing the code or get a better idea, be welcome