futurebear Posted June 17, 2010 Share Posted June 17, 2010 Ok, so I have been on every possible forum, and done everything I possibly could do. Spent about five days figuring this thing out. Now I must ask for help. I have successfully installed 10.6.3 and 10.6.4 on my PC. I can get everything working except my video card. It is an Nvidia GTX 260 with 1792MB of ram. NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260: Chipset Model: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 Type: GPU Bus: PCIe PCIe Lane Width: x16 VRAM (Total): 1792 MB Vendor: NVIDIA (0x10de) Device ID: 0x05ea Revision ID: 0x00a1 ROM Revision: netkas.org Displays: Display: Resolution: 1024 x 768 Pixel Depth: 32-Bit Color (ARGB8888) Main Display: Yes Mirror: Off Online: Yes Display Connector: After a really long time, I have gotten it to detect like this. It just won't let me change the resolution, or enable qe/ci. The above is after I installed the netkas nvidia enabler as you can see, and the nvidia 285/quadro drivers as I followed instructions on netkas, and several other websites. I believe I have tried it a number of ways. I have also tried the nvenabler off of kexts.com and other websites, leaving it at default, and putting in my device id in it, I have tried natit, nvinject, and two others I can't remember the name of (however the two suck from what I read on 90% of forums so I only tried those briefly). I have tried the chameleon (graphics enabled = yes) from [url="http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/"]#####[/url] with many different configurations. I have also tried using the myHack software. Graphics enabled = yes does not work at all, unless I use [url="http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/"]#####[/url] and use the [url="http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/"]#####[/url] for unsupported cpu, and impliment the 10.3.1 for the i7 fix. It will detect the correct ram this way, but will not detect the name of the video card. No matter what I have done, and trust me, I have reinstalled, and tried almost every which a way I can think of, it won't let me change the resolution or enable qe/ci. From what I have read, if it detects the correct video card information using an injector, it should automatically enable everything. Please let me know if you have any more suggestions for me. I would be grateful if I could get some help, either on this forum, or through ichat / msn / yahoo. I have looked everywhere, and done everything I could find. . I am stuck. One last thing. I tried to do efi, but for some reason all the guides I found make you have leopard, which i don't have. If anyone could point me into a dumbed down efi guide so I can plug it into my plist, I could try that. i tried one. . . but it didn't work, gave me the restart screen. (Quick edit after reading it over. Yes, I made sure that I did not have the Graphics Enabler Yes and the injectors on at the same time. 95% of the time I reinstalled after each attempt just so I could hone the steps on what works and what doesn't for quicker reinstall.) Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/221553-help-with-gtx-260/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
futurebear Posted June 18, 2010 Author Share Posted June 18, 2010 Ok, so been playing a little more. With GraphicsEnabled I get a AppleIntelCpuPowerManagement error. Without GraphicsEnabled I can boot and everything but gaphics work. . odd. That is with Chameleon. Tried NullCPUPowermanagement, got further along, but still gave me an error with somehting to do with appleintelcpupowermanagement. Edit Fixed the appleintelcpupowermanagement. I have it booting with dsdt and succesfully detecting my video card. Still no qe/ci with graphics enabler or netkas nvidia injector with nvidia 285 driver. Thanks for anyone that has read this. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/221553-help-with-gtx-260/#findComment-1492314 Share on other sites More sharing options...
robo1 Posted October 25, 2010 Share Posted October 25, 2010 Hello, I am stuck with the same problem. None of the suggested solutions in different forums work. It seems that this card is an OEM version for HP. Is yours an HP version too? Regards Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/221553-help-with-gtx-260/#findComment-1569767 Share on other sites More sharing options...
futurebear Posted October 27, 2010 Author Share Posted October 27, 2010 Mine is an OEM dell. I gave up. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/221553-help-with-gtx-260/#findComment-1571010 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gringo Vermelho Posted October 27, 2010 Share Posted October 27, 2010 Try setting PCIRoot=1 in /Extra/com.apple.Boot.plist (refer to the Chameleon docs @ the VoodooProjects forum). If the drivers don't know about your card, you have to add its device ID manually - even when using GraphicsEnabler=y or other injection method. Google 'guide for all nvidia boards' to learn how. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/221553-help-with-gtx-260/#findComment-1571336 Share on other sites More sharing options...
FakeSteez Posted October 31, 2010 Share Posted October 31, 2010 Try setting PCIRoot=1 in /Extra/com.apple.Boot.plist (refer to the Chameleon docs @ the VoodooProjects forum). If the drivers don't know about your card, you have to add its device ID manually - even when using GraphicsEnabler=y or other injection method. Google 'guide for all nvidia boards' to learn how. And if that gives makes you unable to boot, remove it and put: <key>PCIRootUID</key> <string>1</string> REMEMBER TO CAPITALIZE! It won't work if you dont. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/221553-help-with-gtx-260/#findComment-1573741 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gringo Vermelho Posted November 2, 2010 Share Posted November 2, 2010 Hold on.. PCIRoot= was introduced during the Chameleon 2.0 RC4 development cycle: http://forum.voodooprojects.org/index.php/...11.html#msg4311 "futurebear" is using Chameleon (see post #2) and should therefore try PCIRoot= as I suggested. PCIRootUID= was only used with AsereBLN's defunct (and now obsoleted by Chameleon 2.0 RC5) Chameleon variant. http://www.efixusers.com/showthread.php?t=644 If you're using Netkas' PCEFI v10.5, you set the PCI root by adding -pci1 to kernel flags: http://netkas.org/?p=271 All three bootloaders default to PCI root UID 0. Some (all?) can auto-detect if you're using a DSDT.aml with the PCI Root properly set according to ACPI specs. futurebear: It's GraphicsEnabler, not GraphicsEnabled. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/221553-help-with-gtx-260/#findComment-1574743 Share on other sites More sharing options...
robo1 Posted November 15, 2010 Share Posted November 15, 2010 Hi, solved the problem with an similar GTX-260 card (HP OEM). You need to enter the correct device ID into two kexts. Full guide is available here: http://www.tonymacx86.com/viewtopic.php?f=...99&start=22 Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/221553-help-with-gtx-260/#findComment-1583837 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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