voxxdigital Posted August 1, 2007 Share Posted August 1, 2007 Here's what I just posted in AGPGart's forum. I just got AGPGart working on my Asus/Intel motherboard, please check the original threat. I thank there to the user Zizou for his compilation. http://x86dev.org/forums/index.php?topic=288.msg2300#msg2300 ok, installed, verbose says bridge and device have been detected, and all is good. boots up normally, about this mac says AGP too Qe/Ci Supported, 128mb apeture too.. that's all good I guess, it's just that there's no speed improvement.. btw, compiled version added. Zizou, You rock! Working 100% for me! My hardware is Asus P5PE-VM - Intel northbridge 865G southbridge ICH5 Nvidia 5200FX 256MB AGP working 100% with Natit 1.0 drivers Here's what I saw in verbose boot: Found Intel 82865 host to AGP bridgeFound Intel 82875P host to AGP bridgeAGP: Starting AGPAGP: Fond an AGP 3.0 compliant bridge. AGP: Found an AGP 3.0 compliant device. AGP: Setting AGP v3 mode 8 AGP: AGP command in bridge = 00000b12 AGP: AGP command in agp device = 1f00e312 How I installed it: - I logged in as root. - Unzipped and copied your AGPGart.kext to ./System/Extensions/ - Opened the terminal - I typed chown -R root:wheel /System/Library/Extensions/AGPGart.kext chmod -R 755 /System/Library/Extensions/AGPGart.kext (you must type [sudo ] before these lines if you not log in as root, but I didn't try that.) - I trashed the files ./System/Library/Extensions.kextcache ./System/Library/Extensions.mkext - I opened Disk Utility and repaired permissions - I set verbose boot flag in ./Library/Preferences/System Configuration/com.apple.boot.plist just for precaution and eventual crash diagnosis, but this is not needed - I took a deep breath and rebooted - I saw the above verbose lines and typed exit (not needed if you don't select verbose boot) - Everything worked fine. I must confess, I had no performance change, it was everything working (fast) before with Natit drivers, but it now shows as AGP. I wonder if this will make any difference for some graphics applications (would I have the expected 3D acceleration in Parallels Desktop 3 running WinXP?) AGPGart_INTEL.kext.zip Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/58678-agpgart-working-on-intel-chipset/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
cyclonefr Posted August 1, 2007 Share Posted August 1, 2007 it only shows AGP = simple text = no improvment = useless = know for years Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/58678-agpgart-working-on-intel-chipset/#findComment-418643 Share on other sites More sharing options...
voxxdigital Posted August 1, 2007 Author Share Posted August 1, 2007 Well it was working as fast as on Windows already for me. I posted that because it may do some difference in some specific app. Note that it shows in verbose boot as well. It might be working already in my machine, just not showing properly. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/58678-agpgart-working-on-intel-chipset/#findComment-418650 Share on other sites More sharing options...
tomnic Posted September 12, 2007 Share Posted September 12, 2007 Let's test... with the classic AGPGart light i get this in the dmesg... AGP: Found an AGP 3.0 compliant bridge. AGP: Setting AGP v3 mode 8 AGP: AGPCMD in bridge = 00000b12, in agp device = 1f00e312 And this is the XBench 1.3 result... Results 55.00 System Info Xbench Version 1.3 System Version 10.4.8 (8L2127) Physical RAM 1024 MB Model ADP2,1 Drive Type Maxtor 6B160P0 Quartz Graphics Test 54.16 Line 56.69 3.77 Klines/sec [50% alpha] Rectangle 44.86 13.39 Krects/sec [50% alpha] Circle 44.33 3.61 Kcircles/sec [50% alpha] Bezier 70.71 1.78 Kbeziers/sec [50% alpha] Text 63.74 3.99 Kchars/sec OpenGL Graphics Test 91.71 Spinning Squares 91.71 116.34 frames/sec User Interface Test 39.71 Elements 39.71 182.27 refresh/sec Pretty slow for a 6600GT 128 Mb... Let's see... These are the results with the modified kext: Found Intel 82865 host to AGP bridge Found Intel 82875P host to AGP bridge AGP: Starting AGP AGP: Found an AGP 3.0 compliant bridge. AGP: Found an AGP 3.0 compliant device. AGP: Setting AGP v3 mode 8 AGP: AGP command in bridge = 00000b12 AGP: AGP command in agp device = 1f00e312 And the Xbench results: Results 80.65 System Info Xbench Version 1.3 System Version 10.4.8 (8L2127) Physical RAM 1024 MB Model ADP2,1 Drive Type Maxtor 6B160P0 Quartz Graphics Test 76.00 Line 71.91 4.79 Klines/sec [50% alpha] Rectangle 57.93 17.30 Krects/sec [50% alpha] Circle 56.38 4.60 Kcircles/sec [50% alpha] Bezier 84.05 2.12 Kbeziers/sec [50% alpha] Text 200.44 12.54 Kchars/sec OpenGL Graphics Test 118.62 Spinning Squares 118.62 150.47 frames/sec User Interface Test 64.07 Elements 64.07 294.04 refresh/sec There is a nice improvement... let's see if UT2004 runs faster... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/58678-agpgart-working-on-intel-chipset/#findComment-446363 Share on other sites More sharing options...
tomnic Posted September 12, 2007 Share Posted September 12, 2007 UT2004 a little faster... Google Earth stutters much less then before... I think this is the right way to move to... but I can't figure out how u can obtain such an high xbench result with a GeForce FX 5200 which is WAY FAR slower than my 6600GT... maybe a kernel problem, or do u use a particular natit???? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/58678-agpgart-working-on-intel-chipset/#findComment-446374 Share on other sites More sharing options...
voxxdigital Posted September 12, 2007 Author Share Posted September 12, 2007 UT2004 a little faster... Google Earth stutters much less then before... I think this is the right way to move to... but I can't figure out how u can obtain such an high xbench result with a GeForce FX 5200 which is WAY FAR slower than my 6600GT... maybe a kernel problem, or do u use a particular natit???? I'm using Natit 1.0 and the AGPGart I got from Zizou. I and Emersonfx checked extensively the IO registry of my computer and there is no reason to tell that it's not working for me. I posted this to the AGPGart forum: Well I did have the same result in Xbench, as I told before. In my opinion the system was just misreading the bus. The fact is that it was very fast for me already with Natit. It looked faster than with the native drivers on Windows I'd dare to say. I'm not a hacker nor developer, but emersonfx is - and he I exchanged a lot of emails about this matter, I sent him dozens of screenshots og IORegistry Explorer showing details about my system and we both concluded that for all matters it seemed that using the AGPGart "for Intel" everything was working indeed as it should. -it shows as AGP -IORegistry Explorer shows shows in every aspect what it was expected to show with a supported system, I and emersonfx reviewed dozens of reports -both outputs (VGA and DVI) are recognized -my monitor brand and model is recognized -all supported resolutions are recognized -it's fast, it's rendering everything it should be supposed to render, including DVD playback, QE, CI, OpenGL, etc. It's actually more than twice as fast as my Mac mini which have a built-in ATI Radeon 9200 (Xbench). -it has no screen artifacts whatsoever -I can calibrate the monitor with the ColorSync calibrator -it shows messages recognizing the AGP bus appearantly correctly in verbose mode I see no reason to say it's not working, at least so far. Can u disable one core and do the same benchmarks? I suspect that the second core is doing the trick for u, accelerating the graphics performance... There's no way this is happening. I 've seen this computer running without acceleration and the difference is brutal. And I've double-checked the IORegistry. Anyway I did the xbench test four times (two with two cores, two with one core) and there was virtually no difference. You know that these tests never give the same results twice, maybe due to the OS's background processes. One of the two-core result is actually slower than the one-core results, another is faster. So you take the average. I'm posting the results to the forum. One Core test 1 Results 95.44 System Info Xbench Version 1.3 System Version 10.4.10 (8R2232) Physical RAM 1536 MB Model ACPI Drive Type SAMSUNG SP0842N Quartz Graphics Test 79.75 Line 64.86 4.32 Klines/sec [50% alpha] Rectangle 64.96 19.39 Krects/sec [50% alpha] Circle 62.92 5.13 Kcircles/sec [50% alpha] Bezier 86.15 2.17 Kbeziers/sec [50% alpha] Text 228.18 14.27 Kchars/sec OpenGL Graphics Test 86.37 Spinning Squares 86.37 109.57 frames/sec User Interface Test 136.68 Elements 136.68 627.30 refresh/sec Two cores test 1 Results 91.53 System Info Xbench Version 1.3 System Version 10.4.10 (8R2232) Physical RAM 1536 MB Model ACPI Drive Type SAMSUNG SP0842N Quartz Graphics Test 75.47 Line 79.42 5.29 Klines/sec [50% alpha] Rectangle 66.66 19.90 Krects/sec [50% alpha] Circle 64.89 5.29 Kcircles/sec [50% alpha] Bezier 88.57 2.23 Kbeziers/sec [50% alpha] Text 83.61 5.23 Kchars/sec OpenGL Graphics Test 95.82 Spinning Squares 95.82 121.55 frames/sec User Interface Test 110.05 Elements 110.05 505.06 refresh/sec One core test 2 Results 93.49 System Info Xbench Version 1.3 System Version 10.4.10 (8R2232) Physical RAM 1536 MB Model ACPI Drive Type SAMSUNG SP0842N Quartz Graphics Test 79.25 Line 63.90 4.25 Klines/sec [50% alpha] Rectangle 64.72 19.32 Krects/sec [50% alpha] Circle 62.91 5.13 Kcircles/sec [50% alpha] Bezier 85.69 2.16 Kbeziers/sec [50% alpha] Text 225.88 14.13 Kchars/sec OpenGL Graphics Test 85.81 Spinning Squares 85.81 108.85 frames/sec User Interface Test 127.96 Elements 127.96 587.26 refresh/sec Two cores test 2 Results 98.97 System Info Xbench Version 1.3 System Version 10.4.10 (8R2232) Physical RAM 1536 MB Model ACPI Drive Type SAMSUNG SP0842N Quartz Graphics Test 84.98 Line 79.23 5.27 Klines/sec [50% alpha] Rectangle 66.74 19.93 Krects/sec [50% alpha] Circle 64.70 5.27 Kcircles/sec [50% alpha] Bezier 88.19 2.22 Kbeziers/sec [50% alpha] Text 225.49 14.11 Kchars/sec OpenGL Graphics Test 95.62 Spinning Squares 95.62 121.31 frames/sec User Interface Test 123.63 Elements 123.63 567.39 refresh/sec voxxdigital_s_ioregistry.txt AGPGart___INTEL.kext.zip Natit_1.0.pkg___USE_THIS_ONE_FOR_NVIDIA.zip Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/58678-agpgart-working-on-intel-chipset/#findComment-446408 Share on other sites More sharing options...
tomnic Posted September 12, 2007 Share Posted September 12, 2007 No way, even with Natit 1.0 you posted... something still brakes graphics performance, which, at least, gained a nice boost... AGP Aperture set to 128 mb... Having the same chipset as yours I should tear your score apart with a 6600GT... can we compare our ioregister dumps? Which is the command to obtain the log you've just posted? Could it be the kernel? Do you remember having the same graphics performance with 10.4.8??? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/58678-agpgart-working-on-intel-chipset/#findComment-446417 Share on other sites More sharing options...
voxxdigital Posted September 12, 2007 Author Share Posted September 12, 2007 That's ioreg -l (the "-l" is a small "L", not a capital "i") And I got the same performance with JaS 10.4.8, JaS 10.4.9 and now with Koolkal 10.4.10. Remember, it was fast already with Natit only, I believe it was just misreading the bus before I installed this AGPGart. When I installed the standard AGPGart nothing changed, not even the bus name. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/58678-agpgart-working-on-intel-chipset/#findComment-446423 Share on other sites More sharing options...
tomnic Posted September 12, 2007 Share Posted September 12, 2007 And I got the same performance with JaS 10.4.8, JaS 10.4.9 and now with Koolkal 10.4.10. Remember, it was fast already with Natit only That's weird... so it depends only on the VGA... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/58678-agpgart-working-on-intel-chipset/#findComment-446459 Share on other sites More sharing options...
GraphMaN Posted October 1, 2007 Share Posted October 1, 2007 New Apple LOGIC 8 needs to see QE\CI to install (also needs 10.4.9). I just want L8 to install, do not care if graphics are actually any better or worse. Going to try AGPGart on my ATI 9800 Pro 128 w/ uphuck 1.0.9 1.4i r3. Thanks for your directions and info guys, esp. voxxdigital Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/58678-agpgart-working-on-intel-chipset/#findComment-460403 Share on other sites More sharing options...
netkas Posted November 14, 2007 Share Posted November 14, 2007 hmm.. nice news I had agp system before, and had same problem. btw, anyone tested it with leo ? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/58678-agpgart-working-on-intel-chipset/#findComment-505978 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hyper X Posted December 27, 2007 Share Posted December 27, 2007 This worked on an Intel D875PBZ Mobo with an Nvidia FX5200 128meg Sweex in it... using NVinject 0.1.7. No performance gain at all though! All other drivers lead to a black screen Running EFI 8.0 Leopard 10.5.1 from Flat Install Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/58678-agpgart-working-on-intel-chipset/#findComment-553372 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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