macvidia possible refresh "out of sync" fix,

[manw]

ok, since i am a novice with these things, i'll explain first how i got to this "fix", that however resolved my "signal out of range" problem.

 

The only drivers that worked with my GF Fx5200 were the NVDriver package v0.1 . Of course, being a novice i wanted to try as many things possible, and so i ended up installing the latest version of Macvidia. After that, the OS X would not boot. Not with the -x switch, not with -f "graphics mode"=......., not a thing. Tried every possible guide that i could find, to no avail.

As a one last solution, i got the idea of installing MacDrive under the Windows XP, and browse the OS X drive (easier for me, since i don't know many terminal commands as to get around easily). There, i found the file "uninst.sh", from my previous installation of NVDriver package. I printed it, and booted OS X with the -s switch (single user mode), and entered all the commands listed in there manually.

 

Here are those commands, for those having the same problem i had :

 

 

mount -uw /

sudo rm -R -f /System/Library/Extensions/NV*

sudo rm -R -f /System/Library/Extensions/GeForce*

sudo cp -R /NVDriver.bkp/kext/* /System/Library/Extensions/

sudo chown -R root:wheel /System/Library/Extensions/NV*

sudo chmod -R 755 /System/Library/Extensions/NV*

sudo chown -R root:wheel /System/Library/Extensions/Ge*

sudo chmod -R 755 /System/Library/Extensions/Ge*

sudo rm /System/Library/Extensions.kextcache

sudo rm /System/Library/Extensions.mkext

sudo kextcache -k /System/Library/Extensions/

 

 

Unfortunately, you have to enter each command line "by hand", or at least this is the method i used. I took out the useless "echo" lines. pretty sure i should have deleted the "sudo" parts too, but i typed them as they are here, and it did the trick for me.

Remember, this is just for those that installed the Macvidia drivers after the NVDriver package.

Hope this helps.