markwil317 Posted June 29, 2010 Share Posted June 29, 2010 Just another noobie question. I have an almost full functional Hackintosh that after much work seems to be working quite well. There are however two things I wanted to discuss. I am using NVenabler which appears to have made my video cards acceleration work. My question is this do I use Nvenabler and a video card specific Kext for my 9800gt (nvidia) or just stick with Nvenabler?and not worry about it saying unknown video card. I appear to have full hardware accelaration DVD player and games such as world of warcraft are working perfectly! My other question is unfortunately the monitor will not wake from sleep but the computer itself does wake could this possibly be a result of the unknown video card? or perhaps a bios setting This is what I am getting from my system profiler by the way I am running iAtkos v7 with the voodoo 9.7 kernel Unknown nVidia card: Chipset Model: Unknown nVidia card Type: Display Bus: PCIe PCIe Lane Width: x16 VRAM (Total): 512 MB Vendor: NVIDIA (0x10de) Device ID: 0x0605 Revision ID: 0x00a2 Displays: HP w2207: Resolution: 1680 x 1050 @ 60 Hz Depth: 32-Bit Color Core Image: Hardware Accelerated Main Display: Yes Mirror: Off Online: Yes Quartz Extreme: Supported Rotation: Supported QuartzGL: Supported Television: Yes Display Connector: Status: No Display Connected Thanks in advance for any help would be greatly appreciated! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
muchlife Posted June 30, 2010 Share Posted June 30, 2010 what bootloader are you running? PC EFI? Chameleon? for 9800 GT using the Nvidia 9X series installer supplied to us by aqua-mac and, generating an EFI string to your com.apple.boot.plist file is the cleanest way of getting your card working. nvenabler, natit, etc should only be used if you cant get EFI strings working (least my opinion). Aqua-Mac installer - NVIDIA 9 Series Drivers http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=132089 if your not familiar with EFI strings yet, start reading, there are pages and pages and pages of info, guides, how to's on the forum EFI Strings i recommend reading up about your bootloader and com.apple.boot.plist file before you go playing with EFI strings. first time i did i gave myself a headache when it all could have been prevented had i had the patience to read another 15-20 minutes about how OSX handles booting with bootloaders and the boot.plist file can't help with your sleep issue, never cared for sleep function myself Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
markwil317 Posted June 30, 2010 Author Share Posted June 30, 2010 Thank you for the helpful advice I will read up some more and give it a try! what bootloader are you running? PC EFI? Chameleon? I am using the chameleon boot loader by the way that came with iAtkos distro for 9800 GT using the Nvidia 9X series installer supplied to us by aqua-mac and, generating an EFI string to your com.apple.boot.plist file is the cleanest way of getting your card working. nvenabler, natit, etc should only be used if you cant get EFI strings working (least my opinion). Aqua-Mac installer - NVIDIA 9 Series Drivers http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=132089 if your not familiar with EFI strings yet, start reading, there are pages and pages and pages of info, guides, how to's on the forum EFI Strings i recommend reading up about your bootloader and com.apple.boot.plist file before you go playing with EFI strings. first time i did i gave myself a headache when it all could have been prevented had i had the patience to read another 15-20 minutes about how OSX handles booting with bootloaders and the boot.plist file can't help with your sleep issue, never cared for sleep function myself Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iliveinabucket Posted October 21, 2010 Share Posted October 21, 2010 Hey I also have an Unknown Video Card, similar to the specs posted by the OP. I am running an ASUS G71GX-RX05 with Geforce GTX 260M and I'm wondering if anyone can help me get my card recognized, graphics drivers installed because I would like to run Steam on my Hackintosh. Thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gringo Vermelho Posted October 27, 2010 Share Posted October 27, 2010 It's just cosmetic. If the correct drivers are loaded for the card and hardware accelerated graphics are working, don't worry about what System Profiler says. How to get video card model displayed in System Profiler depends on which injection method you're using. If you're using GraphicsEnabler=y with Chameleon, you have to add your video card name and device ID to the video injection code and compile your own Chameleon. If you're using an injector.kext such as NVEnabler.kext I think you can add the cards model name somewhere in info.plist inside the injector. I don't think all injector.kexts allow this however. Google/Forum search to find out how. If you're using DSDT GFX0 injection, look at example code from other people to see how that works. If you're using "EFI" device-properties string in /Extra/com.apple.Boot.plist you need to redo your device properties string and add the model name. Again, google/forum search. All the information is here guys, just spend a little more time researching and you'll find it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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