Geforce Go 6600 on Clevo Centrino M38AW - Video Issues

[clevodude]

Firstly a big thanks to the hackers and coders out there who have made all this possible. I am no stranger to windows/linux/Osx but I am not a programer.

 

I have trawled through the forums and learnt alot and followed most of the advice I could find but keep ending up back at this point so thought I would post to see if anyone has a solution and so that others with the same hardware can see the current status...

 

I have a Clevo M38AW its a Centrino Laptop, 2Ghz Pentium M, 2GB Ram and a Geforce Go 6600 video card with 256MB of Vram. I have since the first developers release had good sucess at getting a basic OSX install up and running. Using the hacked Azelia driver I get sound and using the default JAS 10.4.8 install I get unaccelerated video at 1024x768x32. Of course the unaccelerated video makes it pretty useless for anything except poking about the internals of the system.

 

In my quest to get accelerated video I have tried the following:

 

All the different MacVidia drivers and they all do the same, kernel panic on Boot...

 

Titan and Natit both give me a black screen, OSX is still running underneath and I can hit the power button and then enter to shut down gracefully. I have tried all the available versions of both these drivers and they both do the same thing. Because I have the logs from the latest Natit install handy as I write this I will use them to illustrate.

 

Here is a clip from the System log showning the extensions loading, properly I think...

 

Jul 3 16:50:13 localhost kernel[0]: VGA: family specific matching fails

Jul 3 16:50:13 localhost kernel[0]: Matching service count = 1

Jul 3 16:50:13 localhost kernel[0]: Matching service count = 2

Jul 3 16:50:13 localhost kernel[0]: Matching service count = 2

Jul 3 16:50:13 localhost kernel[0]: Matching service count = 2

Jul 3 16:50:13 localhost kernel[0]: Matching service count = 2

Jul 3 16:50:13 localhost kernel[0]: Matching service count = 3

Jul 3 16:50:13 localhost kernel[0]: NVDANV40HAL loaded and registered.

Jul 3 16:50:13 localhost kernel[0]: VGA: family specific matching fails

Jul 3 16:50:13 localhost kernel[0]: VGA: family specific matching fails

Jul 3 16:50:13 localhost kernel[0]: VGA: family specific matching fails

Jul 3 16:50:13 localhost kernel[0]: Natit: Starting.

Jul 3 16:50:13 localhost kernel[0]: Natit: Setting @0,NVMT=<data not shown>

Jul 3 16:50:13 localhost kernel[0]: Natit: Setting device_type=NVDA,Parent

Jul 3 16:50:13 localhost kernel[0]: Natit: Setting @1,device_type=display

Jul 3 16:50:13 localhost kernel[0]: Natit: Setting @0,compatible=NVDA,NVMac

Jul 3 16:50:13 localhost kernel[0]: Natit: Setting @1,compatible=NVDA,NVMac

Jul 3 16:50:13 localhost kernel[0]: Natit: Setting @0,fboffset=0x00020000

Jul 3 16:50:13 localhost kernel[0]: Natit: Setting @1,name=NVDA,Display-B

Jul 3 16:50:13 localhost kernel[0]: Natit: Setting @0,name=NVDA,Display-A

Jul 3 16:50:13 localhost kernel[0]: Natit: Setting NVCAP=<data not shown>

Jul 3 16:50:13 localhost kernel[0]: Natit: Setting @0,device_type=display

Jul 3 16:50:13 localhost kernel[0]: Natit: Setting model=GeForce Go 6600

Jul 3 16:50:13 localhost /System/Library/CoreServices/loginwindow.app/Contents/MacOS/loginwindow: Login Window Application Started

 

And here is the part from Windowservers log.

 

Jul 03 16:50:13 [84] Server is starting up

Jul 03 16:50:15 [84] kCGErrorFailure: IOHIDSetCursorEnable returns -536870208

Jul 03 16:50:15 [84] CGXPerformInitialDisplayConfiguration

Jul 03 16:50:15 [84] Display 0x41dc9d01: VirtualDisplay Unit 1; Vendor 0x756e6b6e Model 0x76697274 S/N 0; online enabled built-in (0,0)[1024 x 768], base addr 0xb0024000

Jul 03 16:50:15 [84] Display 0x41dc9d00: VirtualDisplay Unit 0; Vendor 0x756e6b6e Model 0x76697274 S/N 0; offline enabled built-in (2048,0)[1 x 1], base addr 0xb0021000

 

Initially it was trying to run at a very high default resolution that I know my laptop cannot support and so I forced it to 1024x768x32 using the boot.plist (1280x800 would be the default res on this internal screen)

 

I have tried most of my testing with an external monitor attached and it does not wake up or show any signs of life. I have also tried putting the laptop to sleep to see whether it magically comes alive when it wakes and no luck there either.

 

So nothing exciting yet I am afraid, I would love any help. Thanks!