tomauty Posted February 2, 2008 Share Posted February 2, 2008 I have searched endlessly to find ways to get the XFX 6800XT to work on 10.5.1 with Quartz enabled, and after days of tweaking and downloading, I've finally got it and I hope everyone I've seen having trouble (Jordn) sees this guide and gets it working. This guide has ONLY been tested on the XFX 6800XT DevID 0x00C3 and I do not recommend doing it on any other card! BE SURE TO MAKE BACKUPS OF ALL NVIDIA RELATED DRIVERS: NVDANV30HAL.KEXT NVDANV40HAL.KEXT GEFORCE.KEXT NVDARESMAN.KEXT I RECOMMEND PRINTING THIS GUIDE AS YOU WILL BE IN SINGLE USER MODE FOR A FAIR AMOUNT OF IT. BY PERFORMING THE ACTIONS I RECOMMEND IN THIS GUIDE YOU RELEASE ME FROM ALL LIABILITY OF DAMAGE CAUSED BY THE GUIDE (It should be totally safe if you make backups) First I booted into Single User mode, navigated to the System/Library/Extensions folder and entered the following: /sbin/mount -uw / rm -rf NV* rm -rf GeForce* then rebooted. Make sure you also don't have any NVinject or Natit drivers in your extension folders. We need to start fresh. Now you should be back in leopard but at 1024x768. If not, restore what you deleted from your backups and ask me for help. So you're here again? Good. Now I'm going to have you download this driver installer. Once it's done installing, you will have to reboot and you will most likely get the "You must restart your computer" error. If you do you're just where I was. Reboot and boot into single user mode. Now that you're in single user mode we'll need to edit some kexts. First we'll edit GeForce.kext: /sbin/mount -uw / cd /System/Library/Extensions/GeForce.kext/Contents nano Info.plist Now where you see <key>IOPCIMatch</key> <string>most likely a huge amount of crazy numbers</string> replace it with key>IOPCIMatch</key> <string>0x00c310de</string> Then ctrl-X and save it. Next we do the same thing with NVDANV30Hal.kext except just add that string to the beginning of the long list of them in IOPCIMatch. Do the same with NVDANV40Hal.kext and NVDAResman and save them all. Reboot with reboot -l and you should come back with a transparent top panel and some nice looking animations! Keep in mind if you did NOT make backups I am not responsible for the outcome of this guide for you did not follow it completely. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tomauty Posted February 2, 2008 Author Share Posted February 2, 2008 If anyone can leave some feedback that would be nice. I want to make sure this is all correct. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pedro ! Posted February 5, 2008 Share Posted February 5, 2008 If anyone can leave some feedback that would be nice. I want to make sure this is all correct. Many thanks, I update by NVInstallerV.31.pkg !!! http://scottdangel.com/files/NVInstallerV.31.pkg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A_S_R Posted March 31, 2008 Share Posted March 31, 2008 doesn't work!!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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