Nvidia driver on 10.4.8?

[unrealnet]

Hello. Today I installed OSX86 10.4.8 and i have a problem with my video card.

It is GeForce 6100 on-board. AsRock K8nf4g motherboard.

I tried to install the drivers which i can choose during the install, and also tried a Natit or what it is called, but either way it crashed during boot.

 

I have read through the forums that the card is not supported by either drivers, but there was a post (lost the link) that described how to enable the driver.

 

It said something to changing .kext files and putting a deviceid in it, but this sounds like chinese to me.

Could anyone possibly give mi a link or a step by step tutorial on how to install driver for my video card.

 

 

Thanks in advance.

Edited March 7, 2007 by unrealnet

[idividebyzero]

Boot into safe mode (type -x at the boot prompt).

 

Go to "About This Mac" from the apple menu. Then click "more info"

 

Click on the graphics item and write down the device ID (you only need the 4 numbers after the "0x" i.e. 0x0041). Thats how you get the deviceID

 

To fix Natit (not Titan just incase you are using it)

Open the OSX drive, go to System>library>extensions and find these 3 kexts:

GEFORCE.KEXT

NVDARESMAN.KEXT

NVDANV40Hal.kext

 

In each of those kexts you want to edit the info.plist inside, to do that right click them and select "show package contents" and copy the info.plist to your desktop. Open it with textedit and find the key "IOPCIMatch"

 

The string under IOPCIMatch needs to be changed, change the 0x000010de with your device ID and delete everything inside the string AFTER 10de. So it should be 0x004110de inside the string if your device ID was 0041.

 

Replace the info.plist's in their original kext (youll have to give your password)

 

Delete Extensions.mkext and Extensions.kextcache in the System folder

 

I cant remember if you have to fix permissions by doing it that way so you might as well do it anyways since it wont hurt anything and just takes a few seconds. Go to applications>utilities>disk utility, click on your OS X volume and click repair permissions. You can use terminal too but I find it easier to just to disk utility instead of copying and pasting.

 

restart, if it doesnt work then you may want to try installing a different version of Natit like Natit Universal which has a selfinstaller.

Edited March 7, 2007 by idividebyzero