MichaelLynch90 Posted December 31, 2011 Share Posted December 31, 2011 I'm running using iAtkos s3 v2 (I know, bad, once I am able to get it up and running I will purchase a valid licence) on Gigabyte GA-G41M-ES2L and have everything up and running out of the box other than graphics. I am able to see all resolutions, however my graphics card is shown as unknown nVidia card wether booting in 32 or 64 bit. Correct vRam is displayed. All resilutions available an dworks with VGA and HDMI (not tried DVI)! Chipset Model: Unknown nVidia card Type: GPU Bus: PCIe Slot: Slot-1 PCIe Lane Width: x16 VRAM (Total): 512 MB Vendor: NVIDIA (0x10de) Device ID: 0x0a65 Revision ID: 0x00a2 ROM Revision: 113-B7710C-176 EFI Driver Version: 01.00.318 Displays: Display Connector: Status: No Display Connected L7AK2A: Resolution: 1280 x 1024 @ 75 Hz Pixel Depth: 32-Bit Color (ARGB8888) Main Display: Yes Mirror: Off Online: Yes I have tried Chameleon and Chimera bootloaders and 'GraphicsEnabler=Yes' as well as EFI Strings (Used EFI Studio 1.1 GeForce 9800 string and simply changed the NVCAP. I have tried NVEnabler, I have tried editing NvREesman and NVDANV50 both default and with NVCAp change (which resulte din Kernel Panic). I was advise dto purhcae this catd as it would be very simple to use and subsequently told that GraphicsEnabler would suffice however this is not so. Any idea how I can fix this? Does iAtkos run using vanilla nVidia Kexts? If not, where can I download them? I am running 10.6.4 and cannot update to 10.6.8 so therefore the nVidia graphics update will not be able to run on my machine and extracting and installing these directly using KextHelper reuslts in a kernel panic. At my wits end here. I thought this would be simple with this card. If i can't get it to work then I fear I';; have to buy a new card that should work OOTB however I'm very wary now and my student budget is very low! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
XLR Posted January 1, 2012 Share Posted January 1, 2012 Remove third party graphics kexts, use latest chameleon with graphicsenabler, install nvidia drivers http://www.nvidia.com/object/quadro-macosx-256.02.25f01-driver.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gringo Vermelho Posted January 1, 2012 Share Posted January 1, 2012 I am able to see all resolutions, however my graphics card is shown as unknown nVidia card wether booting in 32 or 64 bit. Correct vRam is displayed. All resilutions available an dworks with VGA and HDMI (not tried DVI)! "unknown nvidia card" doesn't mean anything. In Chameleon, the model name of your video card is injected based on a hard coded list with device IDs matched to card names: http://forge.voodoop...ibsaio/nvidia.c But you can have perfectly working accelerated graphics with all features enabled with GraphicsEnabler=y even if your card is not on that list. You could even modify the code yourself, add your cards device ID to the list but have the model name come up as "Huge Graphics Card" if you wish. It's purely cosmetic. If your video card is not working right, System Profiler showing it as "unknown nvidia card" has nothing to do with it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MichaelLynch90 Posted January 1, 2012 Author Share Posted January 1, 2012 Remove third party graphics kexts, use latest chameleon with graphicsenabler, install nvidia drivers http://www.nvidia.co...f01-driver.html Thanks for the replies. I'll try this solution which of course means updating to 10.6.8... Currently using 10.6.4 as .5 was giving me kernel panics even in safe boot. I'll let you know how it goes... I guess ill need to change my customac to identify as a mac pro 3.1 also .. Or use Tonymac installer.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MichaelLynch90 Posted January 1, 2012 Author Share Posted January 1, 2012 Okay Ive followed your instructions to remove 3rd party and add GraphicsEnabler... however Ive hit a problem. Graphics card is no longer detected whatsoever... Display: Type: GPU Bus: PCIe PCIe Lane Width: x16 VRAM (Total): 3 MB Vendor: NVIDIA (0x10de) Device ID: 0x0a65 Revision ID: 0x00a2 Displays: Display: Resolution: 1024 x 768 Pixel Depth: 32-Bit Color (ARGB8888) Main Display: Yes Mirror: Off Online: Yes Lost all res other than 1024 x 768... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gringo Vermelho Posted January 1, 2012 Share Posted January 1, 2012 Try adding key PciRoot with a string value of 1 to your org.chameleon.Boot.plist. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MichaelLynch90 Posted January 1, 2012 Author Share Posted January 1, 2012 Nothing unfortunately In fact now I cant even force resolution with graphics mode.. CHameleon states "Cant find Graphics' when I try to do so. Its recognised as 14MB Vesa 3.0 in bootloader :s Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MichaelLynch90 Posted January 1, 2012 Author Share Posted January 1, 2012 Should I just buy 8600? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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