wow Posted December 13, 2006 Share Posted December 13, 2006 (edited) After a few crashes with different methods mostly autodetect and repair / edit afterwards, yet i gone try again. Because np_ was saying it must be possible on my card. Yet i try it agian with titan accelerated 1048 kext. But it could be, that i have to install again later after this 3th try also fails. Hopefully when i come back, someone have said then what i did wrong or pointed it the right direction. so i can use this knowledge for the the 4th try System = a Jas reseed 1047 sse2 with new beta9 kernel sse2 Jas combo update, so a new and needed 881 kernel. 6600GT agp version 128mb. What i have done so far is put all 14 files/dirs on my desktop checked my vendor id = 0x10de in about my mac device id = 0x00f1 revision id = 0x00a2 i opened this files on my desktop via right click "show package content" and opened them in textedit NVDAV40Hal.kext/Contents/Info.plist NVDAResman.kext/Contents/Info.plist GeForce.kext/Contents/Info.plist found in each of the 3 files <key>IOPCIMatch</key> <string>0x00c310de&0xffffffff</string> replaced them with <key>IOPCIMatch</key> <string>0x00f110de&</string> (i read somewhere the ;0xfffffff part wasnt needed anymore) Saved them Then i moved them to the system/library/extensions i must do a authenticate so i give my password and it moves them After that i must do in the console a sudo chmod -R root:wheel /System/Library/Extensions/* but after transmit it says: Welcome to Darwin! :~ wow$ sudo chmod -R root:wheel /System/Library/Extensions/* We trust you have received the usual lecture from the local System Administrator. It usually boils down to these three things: #1) Respect the privacy of others. #2) Think before you type. #3) With great power comes great responsibility. Password: chmod: Invalid file mode: root:wheel xxx-xxx-xxx-xxx:~ wow$ I gave it the same password as before, but it complains about invalid file mode????? (no idea what it means) Because that command was needed to set the proper permissions i will do a diskutil "repair permissions" instead and reboot and then pray a lot and see what happens Edited December 17, 2006 by wow Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/35743-13th-try-to-get-6600gt-working-with-ciqe-and-b9-need-a-little-help/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rammjet Posted December 13, 2006 Share Posted December 13, 2006 (edited) chown is used to assign ownership and group (ie root:wheel) - you used chmod chmod sets permissions for read, write and execute (ie 755). Edited December 13, 2006 by Rammjet Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/35743-13th-try-to-get-6600gt-working-with-ciqe-and-b9-need-a-little-help/#findComment-254378 Share on other sites More sharing options...
wow Posted December 13, 2006 Author Share Posted December 13, 2006 (edited) chown is used to assign ownership and group (ie root:wheel) - you used chmod chmod sets permissions for read, write and execute (ie 755). OK but i got this out of the titan readme file. What is the proper command then? sudo chown -R root:wheel /System/Library/Extensions/* ps the text also mentioned nothing about deleting system/library/extensions.kextcache and extensions.mkext, shouldnt that be done to before running that command? Edited December 13, 2006 by wow Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/35743-13th-try-to-get-6600gt-working-with-ciqe-and-b9-need-a-little-help/#findComment-254381 Share on other sites More sharing options...
jedipro Posted December 13, 2006 Share Posted December 13, 2006 i've 6600gt too....i used 10,4,8 kernel with sse2 beta 9 kernel and use natit autoinstaller Qe and CI enabled Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/35743-13th-try-to-get-6600gt-working-with-ciqe-and-b9-need-a-little-help/#findComment-254386 Share on other sites More sharing options...
wow Posted December 13, 2006 Author Share Posted December 13, 2006 i've 6600gt too....i used 10,4,8 kernel with sse2 beta 9 kernel and use natit autoinstaller Qe and CI enabled i tried that too, result black screen. tried vga, dvi, both nothing gave image on my lcd. But i noticed that most people who got their 6600Gt working, they had a pci and 256mb model, no agp 128mb Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/35743-13th-try-to-get-6600gt-working-with-ciqe-and-b9-need-a-little-help/#findComment-254392 Share on other sites More sharing options...
wow Posted December 13, 2006 Author Share Posted December 13, 2006 tried the chown command instead of chmod, didnt delete the 2 kext's and rebooted. After reboot nothing happened i looked at the copied kext's but they all had other values then i put in. And a lot more types then i saw the first tike like osx putted the old files back So i tried it again, copied the files after edting, checked them, no chown or chmod this time, but a diskrepair/repair permissions from osx itself and then a reboot and pray again Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/35743-13th-try-to-get-6600gt-working-with-ciqe-and-b9-need-a-little-help/#findComment-254412 Share on other sites More sharing options...
wow Posted December 13, 2006 Author Share Posted December 13, 2006 (edited) Hmm, no luck this time either. After rebooting it shows a message box saying the extensions titan.kext in sysme/libray/extensions was improperly installed and wont be used. It should be installed again, call you software helpdesk for advice. What have i done wrong here, i can use a little help here? ---- 10 minutes later, tried the chown command again and another disk/permissions repair afterwards, rebooted and got stuck in the grey apple screen. It wont start anymore, so it seems i may install for the 25th time I did everything the readme said, but i am beginning to think, it just isnt possible on this card. i dont mind installing evrytime but i would like some hope that at least it is possible. Edited December 13, 2006 by wow Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/35743-13th-try-to-get-6600gt-working-with-ciqe-and-b9-need-a-little-help/#findComment-254415 Share on other sites More sharing options...
pipko Posted December 13, 2006 Share Posted December 13, 2006 6600GT agp version 128mb no for my to CI/QE Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/35743-13th-try-to-get-6600gt-working-with-ciqe-and-b9-need-a-little-help/#findComment-254430 Share on other sites More sharing options...
x86SMD Posted December 13, 2006 Share Posted December 13, 2006 i have a 6600GT and its working with full QE & CI. All I had to do was: 1) install Jas 10.4.8 DVD. 2)Download Titan.kext 3) Put Titan kext in your: /System/Library/Extensions/ 4) Correct the file premissions: sudo chown -R root:wheel /System/Library/Extensions/titan.kext sudo chmod -R 755 /System/Library/Extensions/titan.kext 5) Remove the cached and packed extensions: sudo rm -f /System/Library/Extensions.mkext sudo rm -f /System/Library/Extensions.kextcache 6) Reboot. Your screen will go blank for about 5 seconds on startup but this is normal. Upon reboot you should have 100% working GPU (res change, QE, CI, etc) Cheers! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/35743-13th-try-to-get-6600gt-working-with-ciqe-and-b9-need-a-little-help/#findComment-254446 Share on other sites More sharing options...
wow Posted December 14, 2006 Author Share Posted December 14, 2006 Thanks i try that tonight after work, btw i saw that you didnt edit your NVDAV40Hal.kext/Contents/Info.plist, NVDAResman.kext ,Contents/Info.plist, GeForce.kext/Contents/Info.plist, with your correct hardware id? Is that true did it autodetect? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/35743-13th-try-to-get-6600gt-working-with-ciqe-and-b9-need-a-little-help/#findComment-254681 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eidola Posted December 14, 2006 Share Posted December 14, 2006 (edited) PNY 128mb 6600GT here as well. First thing I noticed... you are using 10.4.7? From what I understand QI/CE will only work with 10.4.8 and the 8.8.1 kernel... though I could be wrong. Personally, I installed the JaS 10.4.8 Reseed, then installed the November 4th release of Titan, made sure permissions were set correctly and I have CI/QE working. Basically my framebuffer offset had to be zero for the card to work. I did nothing else special other then create a special EDID for my SGI 1600SW monitor to ensure the correct timings were being used to drive my 1600x1024 native display. I suspect that some cards may have issues with their implementation of the GeForce chipset which may be preventing the card from being properly initialized. I did have the black screen problem initially as when I first downloaded Titan... I could only get the second releae as I missed downloading the first version by a day. Once I got ahold of the first version (thank you agian to the person who emailed that to me) I would get the black screen then after a few seconds the screen would flicker and I would get a blue screen then finally the desktop. The third release of Titan worked the same as the first version for me, with the added bonus of being able to set a custom EDID string. If you have the latest version of Titan (or Natit) you may want to try changing the Framebufer Offset parameter to 0x20000 as this has worked for some people. Best of luck getting your card working. Edited December 14, 2006 by Eidola Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/35743-13th-try-to-get-6600gt-working-with-ciqe-and-b9-need-a-little-help/#findComment-254690 Share on other sites More sharing options...
x86SMD Posted December 14, 2006 Share Posted December 14, 2006 Yes, it did auto detect. I didnt have to manually modify the kexts. The new titan drivers do require 10.4.8 or the new 8.8.1 kernel to work. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/35743-13th-try-to-get-6600gt-working-with-ciqe-and-b9-need-a-little-help/#findComment-254923 Share on other sites More sharing options...
wow Posted December 14, 2006 Author Share Posted December 14, 2006 (edited) x86smd, just to let you know, i tried your soltution but no luck, i did however swithed step 4 and 5. But one would say that that could not be the problem. btw i have no 1048 becuase there isnt a sse2 1048 yet, that why i have to use 1047 with the b9 kernel. Maybe when i had a sse3 cpu and jas1048 it would work but i cant test it. Will try it for the 7th time with edited versions of the kexts and your chmod and chown command fingers crossed. And another try failed edited <string>0x00c310de&0xffffffff</string> to <string>0x00f110de&0xffffffff</string> sudo chown -R root:wheel /System/Library/Extensions/titan.kext sudo chmod -R 755 /System/Library/Extensions/titan.kext deleting the two kext cache files and reboot i had for the first time no black screen, no wrong screen. But a very colorfull and unreadble screen. on both vga and dvi connector. The screen remembered me to an old c64 game called frogger, a frong that most cross the read without getting splashed by passing cars. I have the most compatible computer everything works out of the box, but the most incompatible vidcard... What shall i try next, the offset is also later on my todo list. Edited December 14, 2006 by wow Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/35743-13th-try-to-get-6600gt-working-with-ciqe-and-b9-need-a-little-help/#findComment-254994 Share on other sites More sharing options...
spuke Posted December 14, 2006 Share Posted December 14, 2006 Damn I'm in the same situation, guess I'm gonna try the above things and report also, though I don't want to screw my OSX installation and do another format, which I've already done a lot of times. Now with the SSE2 kernel for 10.4.8 it should be able to get QE CI running but I didn't managed it yet after many different things. I also have a 128MB, AGP, though its from MSI, ViVo edition, though the same device id 0x00f1 Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/35743-13th-try-to-get-6600gt-working-with-ciqe-and-b9-need-a-little-help/#findComment-255030 Share on other sites More sharing options...
spuke Posted December 14, 2006 Share Posted December 14, 2006 (edited) Just tried x86SMD's method but it just the same, only the titan kext is loaded but with no succes. I would want to look into the info.plist with nano but I get an empty file opening it with terminal, which I've been starting to have suddenly... Don't know what the problem is, but the file isn't empty. Damn this is frustrating . Edited December 14, 2006 by spuke Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/35743-13th-try-to-get-6600gt-working-with-ciqe-and-b9-need-a-little-help/#findComment-255037 Share on other sites More sharing options...
wow Posted December 14, 2006 Author Share Posted December 14, 2006 why not use textedit for this? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/35743-13th-try-to-get-6600gt-working-with-ciqe-and-b9-need-a-little-help/#findComment-255042 Share on other sites More sharing options...
spuke Posted December 14, 2006 Share Posted December 14, 2006 why not use textedit for this? Thanks, I'm still such a newbie and still learning a lot. Last time I tried to open something like this with Textedit it didn't want to but I think that was cause of the permissions . Trying right now. Btw is your card also being detected with 256MB VRAM? Well mine is and thats at first the only reason why QE CI would not work though that would be weird o.O. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/35743-13th-try-to-get-6600gt-working-with-ciqe-and-b9-need-a-little-help/#findComment-255043 Share on other sites More sharing options...
wow Posted December 14, 2006 Author Share Posted December 14, 2006 Yeah here too a 256 mb card, i even tried to install again with macvidia drivers that one regonize my vidcard and i get all resoltions, but no CI/QE. I hoped it would show an other hardware id so i can use that one. But the id was the same as the wrong guesed 256mb 6600gt card so no hope here also. ps use textedit on wauy i used or else it want work Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/35743-13th-try-to-get-6600gt-working-with-ciqe-and-b9-need-a-little-help/#findComment-255046 Share on other sites More sharing options...
spuke Posted December 14, 2006 Share Posted December 14, 2006 No results. Put the DevID in the Info.plist but now it says No Kext Loaded though everything is in place and right. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/35743-13th-try-to-get-6600gt-working-with-ciqe-and-b9-need-a-little-help/#findComment-255053 Share on other sites More sharing options...
spuke Posted December 15, 2006 Share Posted December 15, 2006 Anyone got anymore ideas? Can't the problem be that the card is being recognised as having 256MB VRAM instead of 128MB? Or it's just the fact that the 256MB version has the same DevID or something that I read? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/35743-13th-try-to-get-6600gt-working-with-ciqe-and-b9-need-a-little-help/#findComment-255526 Share on other sites More sharing options...
wow Posted December 16, 2006 Author Share Posted December 16, 2006 Next on the to do list, see how it works. ----------- Fully working : What I did: a. Starting from 10.4.7 b. Applied JaS 10.4.8 AMD SSE2 Combo which includes Semthex 8.8.1 Beta9 SSE2 Kernel c. Opened Apple Offical 10.4.8 Combo pkg with Pacifist & extracted following files Extensions => NVDA*.kext GeForce*.kext IONDRV*.kext Frameworks => OpenGL.Framework d. Replaced my existing files with above files. e. Copy Titan.kext f. Repair Permissions (diskutil repairPermissions /) g. updated prebindings (update_prebinding -root / -force) h. reboot Result Full QE/CI !! ------------------------------------- Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/35743-13th-try-to-get-6600gt-working-with-ciqe-and-b9-need-a-little-help/#findComment-256222 Share on other sites More sharing options...
wow Posted December 16, 2006 Author Share Posted December 16, 2006 Ofcourse the prebinding failed? wow$ update_prebinding -root / -force update_prebinding: error: can't create temp image update_prebinding: error 256 running update_prebinding_core Failed to clear translated caches; you may want to reboot. update_prebinding: error: can't create temp image update_prebinding: error 256 running update_prebinding_core ~ wow$ without it nothing changed, but after the chown and chmod from another topic the titan.kext got finally regonized. It show my card and supports ci/qe but everyting grafical crashes, for example the screensave is a black preview screen and crashes when going to full screen. Could be that prebinding thing that didnt work. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/35743-13th-try-to-get-6600gt-working-with-ciqe-and-b9-need-a-little-help/#findComment-256299 Share on other sites More sharing options...
wow Posted December 16, 2006 Author Share Posted December 16, 2006 (edited) Ofcourse the prebinding failed here, just my luck wow$ update_prebinding -root / -force update_prebinding: error: can't create temp image update_prebinding: error 256 running update_prebinding_core Failed to clear translated caches; you may want to reboot. update_prebinding: error: can't create temp image update_prebinding: error 256 running update_prebinding_core ~ wow$ without it nothing changed, but after the chown and chmod from the above topic the titan.kext got finally regonized. It show my card and supports ci/qe but everyting grafical crashes, for example the screensave is a black preview screen and crashes when going to full screen. Could be that prebinding thing that didnt work. Edited December 16, 2006 by wow Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/35743-13th-try-to-get-6600gt-working-with-ciqe-and-b9-need-a-little-help/#findComment-256300 Share on other sites More sharing options...
spuke Posted December 16, 2006 Share Posted December 16, 2006 (edited) Prebinding doesn't work for me either. Try again and see everything's right and it'll work . I just insert the prebinding, let it give an error and I rebooted. It worked. Without the titan.kext my screen also gave the same graphical crashes on the whole screen when like moving objects. After I got the Titan correctly set up everything does his job. Edited December 16, 2006 by spuke Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/35743-13th-try-to-get-6600gt-working-with-ciqe-and-b9-need-a-little-help/#findComment-256345 Share on other sites More sharing options...
wow Posted December 16, 2006 Author Share Posted December 16, 2006 Spuke: How did you move / copy opengl.framework? it took me 15 minutes !!! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/35743-13th-try-to-get-6600gt-working-with-ciqe-and-b9-need-a-little-help/#findComment-256370 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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