Nvidia QE + CI The Definitive Guide

[mac2pc]

hi all

i have used natit with fx5200 and it 's ok but with some new display

i u use old display u have black screen at winlogin for exampel samsun syncmaster with fx5200 is ok

 

if only u put other display and reboot u have black screen or 90° rotated mouse pointer with black screen

the problem is not the display is supporting the resolution or not but the model that is supported by osx

some time by deleting the folder display under system/library can resolve the problem

but not for all model of display

[danyl]

I tried this with my integrated AGP graphics card ("NVIDIA GeForce4 Ti 4200 with AGP8X", device ID: 0x0281) and it sort-of-works. With the AGP memory size set at 64Mb or higher, QE is enabled but not CI; that is, it says so in the System Profiler, and the Flurry screensaver runs at the speed its supposed to.

 

However, there are wierd graphical artifacts all over the place, and the machine hangs within a few minutes. So yeah. It sort-of-works.

 

For the sake of usability, I'm leaving it turned off, but if someone's got advice on how to fix the crashing issue, I'd be EXTREMELY grateful.

 

Edit (4/24/07):

Got QE working, thanks to Natit. Brilliant, absolutely brilliant. This card's too old for CI. See this thread for details if you're curious.

[Szak1]

Doesn't work...

Bootup process hangs after loginwindow.app starts and forcedth initialises..

 

By the way, do I do things well?

By "adding dev ID" I added my dev. id (0x00C1110DE) BEFORE all the others (right after the <string> tag), separating them with a space..

 

I have an Inno3D PCI-Express Gefroce6800 128MB.. Can't get it working, tried lot of things

 

PS Now I have a system which hangs.. How do I restore it (ie remove NV40 drivers or stuff like that?) I wouldn't like to reinstall

[Guest Ramm]

Just use Natit.

[jan_187]

I installed using JaS.Mac.OS.X.10.4.8.AMD.Intel.SSE2.SSE3.PPF.1.Defiant.diskutil.biker880.ich7-R.patch.Integrated.iso

 

I enabled the Nvidia Natit tickbox in the install. I have a SSE3 cpu, 512MB RAM and a fx5200. When booting, it comes to blue screen and then does nothing. When I use -x, I get into OSX, can set resolution just fine, but no QE/CI supported.

 

Would the tip in the first post fix stuff for me?

 

The last message I see in /var/log/system.log when not doing -x is that it's trying to start memberd. If I use -x it does that too, but continues.

[Guest Ramm]

QE/CI is never supported in Safe Mode.

[jan_187]

Sorry, I didn't describe my question clearly.

 

I am aware that safe mode won't have QE/CI. My question should have been: When I don't use -x, it hangs on blue screen. Will this fix that?

 

I'm trying to give this a go, but I'm unsure as where to add the dev id exactly and how to type it exactly. I opened Info.plist in nano, know how to use nano and have my dev id noted down, but I just don't know where and what to type exactly.

 

Hmmm my dev id is already under <key>IOPCIMatch</key> and it has the proper rights etc. Does anyone know how the hanging on blue screen could be fixed?

[Guest Ramm]

Have you tried just installing the natit package from DVD?

[jan_187]

Have you tried just installing the natit package from DVD?

 

If I'm not mistaken that is what is installed when ticking that box during installation. I have a Geforce.kext, natit.kext and some more in my Extensions folder. Booting with -v is no good, cause it hangs on the blue screen, which comes after the texts flying by.

[Guest Ramm]

Can you happen to catch the last thing the "flying text" says?

[jan_187]

Argh, I must correct myself, it's Titan.kext, not Nitat.

 

I will try to get the log of the boot process for you.

[Guest Ramm]

Ohhh.

 

Titan.

 

 

Use Natit instead.

[jan_187]

Okay, stupid question probably, but do you know where I can find the files needed for Nitat? Is there an installer?

 

Here is the output with -x:

 

May  3 00:42:16 localhost kernel[0]: hi mem tramps at 0xffe00000
May  3 00:42:17 localhost kernel[0]: PAE enabled
May  3 00:42:17 localhost kernel[0]: enabling INTEL features
May  3 00:42:17 localhost kernel[0]: standard timeslicing quantum is 10000 us
May  3 00:42:17 localhost kernel[0]: vm_page_bootstrap: 122594 free pages
May  3 00:42:17 localhost kernel[0]: mig_table_max_displ = 71
May  3 00:42:17 localhost kernel[0]: Enabling XMM register save/restore and SSE/SSE2 opcodes
May  3 00:42:17 localhost kernel[0]: Skipping duplicate extension "com.apple.driver.AppleRTL8139Ethernet" with older/same  version (1.2.0 -> 1.2.0).
May  3 00:42:17 localhost kernel[0]: ACPI CA 20051117 [debug level=0 layer=0]
May  3 00:42:17 localhost kernel[0]: AppleIntelCPUPowerManagement: ready
May  3 00:42:17 localhost kernel[0]: AppleACPICPU: ProcessorApicId=1 LocalApicId=0 Enabled
May  3 00:42:17 localhost kernel[0]: AppleACPICPU: ProcessorApicId=2 LocalApicId=129 Disabled
May  3 00:42:17 localhost kernel[0]: AppleACPICPU: ProcessorApicId=3 LocalApicId=130 Disabled
May  3 00:42:17 localhost kernel[0]: AppleACPICPU: ProcessorApicId=4 LocalApicId=131 Disabled
May  3 00:42:17 localhost kernel[0]: PASSED! ...maximum protection of commpage set ALL
May  3 00:42:17 localhost kernel[0]: Copyright (c) 1982, 1986, 1989, 1991, 1993
May  3 00:42:17 localhost kernel[0]: The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
May  3 00:42:17 localhost kernel[0]: using 2621 buffer headers and 2621 cluster IO buffer headers
May  3 00:42:17 localhost kernel[0]: IOAPIC: Version 0x20 Vectors 0:23
May  3 00:42:17 localhost kernel[0]: ACPI: System State [S0 S3 S4 S5] (S3)
May  3 00:42:17 localhost kernel[0]: Security auditing service present
May  3 00:42:17 localhost kernel[0]: BSM auditing present
May  3 00:42:17 localhost kernel[0]: disabled
May  3 00:42:17 localhost kernel[0]: From path: "uuid", 
May  3 00:42:17 localhost kernel[0]: Waiting for boot volume with UUID 6EAD5AA1-F945-3EA2-A3F6-25A12C6C64CF
May  3 00:42:17 localhost kernel[0]: Waiting on <dict ID="0"><key>IOProviderClass</key><string ID="1">IOResources</string><key>IOResourceMatch</key><string ID="2">boot-uuid-media</string></dict>
May  3 00:42:17 localhost kernel[0]: USB caused wake event (EHCI)
May  3 00:42:17 localhost kernel[0]: 25708086
May  3 00:42:17 localhost kernel[0]: CHIPSET INFOS: bus 0, dev 0, func 0, reg 0, resv 0
May  3 00:42:17 localhost kernel[0]: AGP: Found Intel 82865 host to AGP bridgeAppleIntelPIIXPATA: 80-conductor cable not detected on secondary channel
May  3 00:42:17 localhost kernel[0]: WARNING: ATA Drive claims FLUSH CACHE EXT feature support but does not claim Extended LBA feature support
May  3 00:42:17 localhost kernel[0]: Got boot device = IOService:/AppleACPIPlatformExpert/PCI0@0/AppleACPIPCI/IDE0@1F,1/AppleIntelPIIXATARoot/CHN0@0/AppleIntelPIIXPATA/ATADeviceNub@1/IOATABlockStorageDriver/IOATABlockStorageDevice/IOBlockStorageDriver/MAXTOR 6L060J3 Media/IOFDiskPartitionScheme/Untitled 1@1
May  3 00:42:17 localhost kernel[0]: BSD root: disk0s1, major 14, minor 1
May  3 00:42:17 localhost kernel[0]: jnl: replay_journal: from: 413696 to: 5925376 (joffset 0xca000)
May  3 00:42:17 localhost kernel[0]: Jettisoning kernel linker.
May  3 00:42:17 localhost kernel[0]: Resetting IOCatalogue.
May  3 00:42:17 localhost kernel[0]: Matching service count = 2
May  3 00:42:17 localhost kernel[0]: NVDANV30HAL loaded and registered.
May  3 00:42:17 localhost kernel[0]: NVDA::probe(display)
May  3 00:42:17 localhost kernel[0]: Titan: By omni, built November 4, 2006
May  3 00:42:17 localhost kernel[0]: Titan: Testing for NVidia card...
May  3 00:42:17 localhost kernel[0]: Titan: Found NVIDIA GeForce FX 5200
May  3 00:42:17 localhost kernel[0]: Titan: All set, cross your fingers!
May  3 00:42:17 localhost kernel[0]: NVDA::start(display) <1>
May  3 00:42:17 localhost kernel[0]: NVDA::start(display) <1> failed
May  3 00:42:16 localhost mDNSResponder-108.2 (Aug 25 2006 14: 50:48)[41]: starting
May  3 00:42:16 localhost memberd[48]: memberd starting up
May  3 00:42:18 localhost lookupd[54]: lookupd (version 369.6) starting - Thu May  3 00:42:18 2007
May  3 00:42:20 localhost diskarbitrationd[47]: disk0s1	hfs	  6EAD5AA1-F945-3EA2-A3F6-25A12C6C64CF osx1					/
May  3 00:42:21 localhost DirectoryService[55]: Launched version 2.1 (v353.5)
May  3 00:42:24 localhost mDNSResponder: Couldn't read user-specified Computer Name; using default “Macintosh-000000000000” instead
May  3 00:42:24 localhost mDNSResponder: Couldn't read user-specified local hostname; using default “Macintosh-000000000000.local” instead
May  3 00:42:25 localhost kernel[0]: com_apple_driver_RTL8139: Ethernet address 00:13:8f:d1:b9:92
May  3 00:42:25 localhost configd[45]: No AirPort Driver found.
May  3 00:42:25 localhost launchd: Server 3543 in bootstrap 1103 uid 0: "/usr/sbin/lookupd"[54]: exited abnormally: Hangup
May  3 00:42:25 localhost diskarbitrationd[47]: disk1s1	ntfs	 00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000 WinXP				   /Volumes/WinXP
May  3 00:42:25 localhost mDNSResponder: Adding browse domain local.
May  3 00:42:26 localhost diskarbitrationd[47]: disk1s2	ntfs	 00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000 Rest					/Volumes/Rest
May  3 00:42:27 eriks-computer configd[45]: setting hostname to "eriks-computer.local"
May  3 00:42:30 eriks-computer lookupd[82]: lookupd (version 369.6) starting - Thu May  3 00:42:30 2007
May  3 00:42:32 eriks-computer launchd: Server 4e13 in bootstrap 1103 uid 0: "/usr/sbin/lookupd"[82]: exited abnormally: Hangup
May  3 00:42:32 eriks-computer configd[45]: executing /System/Library/SystemConfiguration/Kicker.bundle/Contents/Resources/enable-network
May  3 00:42:32 eriks-computer configd[45]: posting notification com.apple.system.config.network_change
May  3 00:42:32 eriks-computer lookupd[84]: lookupd (version 369.6) starting - Thu May  3 00:42:32 2007
May  3 00:42:35 eriks-computer configd[45]:   target=enable-network: disabled
May  3 00:42:37 eriks-computer /System/Library/CoreServices/loginwindow.app/Contents/MacOS/loginwindow: Login Window Application Started
May  3 00:42:42 eriks-computer diskarbitrationd[47]: disk0s2	hfs	  6992DD63-B44A-3937-9715-6A2B0BA0BB66 osx2					/Volumes/osx2
May  3 00:42:47 eriks-computer loginwindow[111]: Login Window Started Security Agent
May  3 00:42:56 eriks-computer diskarbitrationd[47]: disk0s3	msdos	00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000 MACTROEP				/Volumes/MACTROEP
May  3 00:43:04 eriks-computer /System/Library/Frameworks/ApplicationServices.framework/Frameworks/ATS.framework/Support/ATSServer: (-3230) Cannot use ATS Persistent Store - switching to old FODB cache code

 

This is without -x:

May  3 00:40:43 localhost kernel[0]: hi mem tramps at 0xffe00000
May  3 00:40:43 localhost kernel[0]: PAE enabled
May  3 00:40:43 localhost kernel[0]: enabling INTEL features
May  3 00:40:43 localhost kernel[0]: standard timeslicing quantum is 10000 us
May  3 00:40:43 localhost kernel[0]: vm_page_bootstrap: 122594 free pages
May  3 00:40:43 localhost kernel[0]: mig_table_max_displ = 71
May  3 00:40:43 localhost kernel[0]: Enabling XMM register save/restore and SSE/SSE2 opcodes
May  3 00:40:43 localhost kernel[0]: Skipping duplicate extension "com.apple.driver.AppleRTL8139Ethernet" with older/same  version (1.2.0 -> 1.2.0).
May  3 00:40:43 localhost kernel[0]: ACPI CA 20051117 [debug level=0 layer=0]
May  3 00:40:43 localhost kernel[0]: AppleIntelCPUPowerManagement: ready
May  3 00:40:43 localhost kernel[0]: AppleACPICPU: ProcessorApicId=1 LocalApicId=0 Enabled
May  3 00:40:43 localhost kernel[0]: AppleACPICPU: ProcessorApicId=2 LocalApicId=129 Disabled
May  3 00:40:43 localhost kernel[0]: AppleACPICPU: ProcessorApicId=3 LocalApicId=130 Disabled
May  3 00:40:43 localhost kernel[0]: AppleACPICPU: ProcessorApicId=4 LocalApicId=131 Disabled
May  3 00:40:43 localhost kernel[0]: PASSED! ...maximum protection of commpage set ALL
May  3 00:40:43 localhost kernel[0]: Copyright (c) 1982, 1986, 1989, 1991, 1993
May  3 00:40:43 localhost kernel[0]: The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
May  3 00:40:43 localhost kernel[0]: using 2621 buffer headers and 2621 cluster IO buffer headers
May  3 00:40:43 localhost kernel[0]: IOAPIC: Version 0x20 Vectors 0:23
May  3 00:40:43 localhost kernel[0]: ACPI: System State [S0 S3 S4 S5] (S3)
May  3 00:40:43 localhost kernel[0]: Security auditing service present
May  3 00:40:43 localhost kernel[0]: BSM auditing present
May  3 00:40:43 localhost kernel[0]: disabled
May  3 00:40:43 localhost kernel[0]: From path: "uuid", 
May  3 00:40:43 localhost kernel[0]: Waiting for boot volume with UUID 6EAD5AA1-F945-3EA2-A3F6-25A12C6C64CF
May  3 00:40:43 localhost kernel[0]: Waiting on <dict ID="0"><key>IOProviderClass</key><string ID="1">IOResources</string><key>IOResourceMatch</key><string ID="2">boot-uuid-media</string></dict>
May  3 00:40:43 localhost kernel[0]: USB caused wake event (EHCI)
May  3 00:40:43 localhost kernel[0]: 25708086
May  3 00:40:43 localhost kernel[0]: CHIPSET INFOS: bus 0, dev 0, func 0, reg 0, resv 0
May  3 00:40:43 localhost kernel[0]: AGP: Found Intel 82865 host to AGP bridgeAppleIntelPIIXPATA: 80-conductor cable not detected on secondary channel
May  3 00:40:43 localhost kernel[0]: WARNING: ATA Drive claims FLUSH CACHE EXT feature support but does not claim Extended LBA feature support
May  3 00:40:43 localhost kernel[0]: Got boot device = IOService:/AppleACPIPlatformExpert/PCI0@0/AppleACPIPCI/IDE0@1F,1/AppleIntelPIIXATARoot/CHN0@0/AppleIntelPIIXPATA/ATADeviceNub@1/IOATABlockStorageDriver/IOATABlockStorageDevice/IOBlockStorageDriver/MAXTOR 6L060J3 Media/IOFDiskPartitionScheme/Untitled 1@1
May  3 00:40:43 localhost kernel[0]: BSD root: disk1s1, major 14, minor 4
May  3 00:40:43 localhost kernel[0]: Jettisoning kernel linker.
May  3 00:40:43 localhost kernel[0]: Resetting IOCatalogue.
May  3 00:40:43 localhost kernel[0]: Matching service count = 2
May  3 00:40:43 localhost kernel[0]: Matching service count = 3
May  3 00:40:43 localhost kernel[0]: Matching service count = 3
May  3 00:40:43 localhost kernel[0]: Matching service count = 3
May  3 00:40:43 localhost kernel[0]: Matching service count = 3
May  3 00:40:43 localhost kernel[0]: Matching service count = 5
May  3 00:40:43 localhost kernel[0]: NVDANV30HAL loaded and registered.
May  3 00:40:43 localhost kernel[0]: NVDA::probe(display)
May  3 00:40:43 localhost kernel[0]: Titan: By omni, built November 4, 2006
May  3 00:40:43 localhost kernel[0]: Titan: Testing for NVidia card...
May  3 00:40:43 localhost kernel[0]: Titan: Found NVIDIA GeForce FX 5200
May  3 00:40:43 localhost kernel[0]: Titan: All set, cross your fingers!
May  3 00:40:43 localhost kernel[0]: NVDA::start(display) <1>
May  3 00:40:43 localhost kernel[0]: NVDA::start(display) <1> failed
May  3 00:40:43 localhost kernel[0]: AGP: Found an AGP 3.0 compliant device.
May  3 00:40:43 localhost kernel[0]: AGP: MCHCFG before disable 0000
May  3 00:40:43 localhost kernel[0]: AGP: Aperture Addr f0000000, Aperture Size 08000000
May  3 00:40:43 localhost kernel[0]: physPage = 000056f0, gartPhys = 056f0000
May  3 00:40:43 localhost kernel[0]: AGP: AGPCTRL 00000080, ATTBASE 056f0000, GARTPHYS 056f0000
May  3 00:40:43 localhost kernel[0]: sysB = f0000000, sysL = 08000000
May  3 00:40:43 localhost kernel[0]: AGP: Setting AGP v3 mode 8
May  3 00:40:43 localhost kernel[0]: AGP: AGPCMD in bridge = 00000b12, in agp device = 1f00e312
May  3 00:40:43 localhost mDNSResponder-108.2 (Aug 25 2006 14: 50:48)[46]: starting
May  3 00:40:43 localhost memberd[53]: memberd starting up

[Guest Ramm]

On the install DVD, under /System/Installation/Packages, there is a package called natit.nvidia.support.pkg. Install it. Read this first:

 

http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showtopic=50040

[jan_187]

Not on the DVD I have. It has NvidiaNV40.pkg.

 

I found natit.nvidia.support.pkg using google at http://qeneurope.free.fr/mac/Natit.Nvidia.Support.pkg . Gonna try that now.

[Guest Ramm]

Yeah it's the same thing. If it ends up screwing up I can send you the one straight from my DVD.

[jan_187]

Hehe, I accidentally moved a kext with ACPI in the name and moved it back. I chowned it back to root:wheel too (I think), but I guess I have done something wrong, cause now it's booting with kernel panic about ACPI. I tried booting with -s, but it panics before giving me input. So I'm gonna do re-install and try that natit pkg

[Guest Ramm]

Enh, just do what you have to .

[jan_187]

You are my hero!

 

 

All I did was install the DVD (JaS.Mac.OS.X.10.4.8.AMD.Intel.SSE2.SSE3.PPF.1.Defiant.diskutil.biker880.ich7-R.patch.Integrated.iso) and choose the 10.4.4 login window, nothing else. After it was installed, I booted and installed the natit.nvidia.support.pkg and rebooted. That's it! So installing the Nvidia package that is on this DVD (Titan) did NOT work well for my FX5200. Titan did work for another PC with a 7600GT. Nitat DOES work for my FX5200.

 

Now I can set resos, QE/CI are supported and I can play OpenGL games Like UrbanTerror (quake3 engine).

[gilouglouglou]

jan_187 just 10.4.4 login window, nothing else?? I have a kernel panic... :censored2: Have you check the intel/amd kext?

 

Escuse me for my english

[jan_187]

Oh yes, excuse me. Of course the intel patch too.

[Zorro56]

Excuse me but I'm looking for natit.nvidia.support.pkg, the website used previously is dead and I can't find this file in my DVDs (uphuck 1.3 and jas 10.4.8). Help me please.

[MaDxCrEaM]

Hi, newbie to OSx86. I trying to get my video card working right using this method. I have an Geforce 6200 OC (256MB) card. Do I enter the dev id like so? <dev id>0x0221</dev id> towards the beginning of the file where the keys and strings are? Thanks for any help with this.

[fwappy]

I did this way after I installed 10.4.8 and it worked. I have an old GeForce 4200 so I don't think CI is supported, but after adding my dev ID to those files I now have QE support. Now I can use cover flow in iTunes and Toast will finally launch. Sweet! Thanks for the tip.