daveyz Posted March 13, 2008 Share Posted March 13, 2008 Hi all, I'm a bit of a noob but I've had a good search around and I can't find anybody experiencing the same problem as me with an Nvidia card. I'm running Zephyroth 10.5.2 (1st version) on my PC and everything is working (QE etc) apart from my menus. They're all blank! When I click on a menu item at the top of the screen, the shape of the menu drops down as either a slightly darker transparent block or a black block - but there's no menu items. If you then click to close the menu item you get a brief glimpse of the menu items before the menu closes. I'm stumped. A few people reported this problem on ATI cards but that was solved by a driver update. Doesn't really help me. If anybody has seen / solved this problem or if you have any ideas please could you let me know? Many thanks, Dave My system hardware is as follows: XFX GeForce 7600GS 256Mb AGP (02E110DE) Graphics Abit Rocketboy AV8 Motherboard Realtek 8169 Gigabit Network card AMD 64 X2 4600 Socket 939 CPU 2Gb Dual channel Memory 80Gb Maxtor SATA Hard disk Installation details as follows: Zephyroth 10.5.2 (1st edition) Extra options - TOH 9.2.0 kernel, AC97 drivers, VIA drivers, MBR Bootloader The Nvidia drivers on the DVD didn;t work for me - I'm using agp7600gs.zip provided by Krule here http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showtopic=80733 together with GeForceFXGLDriver.bundle, GeForceVADriver.bundle and GeForceGA.plugin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daveyz Posted March 13, 2008 Author Share Posted March 13, 2008 Reinstalled today from scratch. Exactly the same result Any help would be much appreciated! Thanks, Dave Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Goron Posted March 13, 2008 Share Posted March 13, 2008 Though i´m running 10.5.2 on a C2D i had the exact same problem with my 7600GT. The clue was to install the Graphics Update, which killed my ATI in another rig .... now everythings just fine Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daveyz Posted March 13, 2008 Author Share Posted March 13, 2008 Thanks for this Goron. Which graphics update did you run please? I've tried installing the latest 10.5.2 kexts but then the machine will not boot up and I have to go in as single user and delete them. Thanks, Dave Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aprodigy Posted March 13, 2008 Share Posted March 13, 2008 i got rid of this using an efi-string for my gfx-card instead of utilizing natit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daveyz Posted March 13, 2008 Author Share Posted March 13, 2008 Thanks Aprodigy, I don't think I am using natit at the moment. I definately have at some point but I don't think i had much joy with it. I've put the 0x02E110DE string in the kexts. Is that what you mean? Thanks D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aprodigy Posted March 13, 2008 Share Posted March 13, 2008 I've put the 0x02E110DE string in the kexts. Is that what you mean? no. check this http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?sho...c=88486&hl= thread for further information. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ianxxx Posted March 13, 2008 Share Posted March 13, 2008 Graphics update is on Zephs DVD if you don't want to re-install your whole system extract it with pacifist and install The problem you have is that you can't use latest kernel without graphics update. You either need new kernel and update or old kernel no update. You can get all you need from Zephs disk just use Pacifist Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daveyz Posted March 13, 2008 Author Share Posted March 13, 2008 Thanks aprodigy and lanxxx for your replies! aprodigy, I think I need to do some reading up on EFI! Looks a bit complicated first glance! lanxxx, is the graphics update you are talking about the one that you have the option of installing on installation? I tried installing NVinject and the other bit for 256Mb cards from there and it didn't seem to work - I just got the screen telling me to reset my computer. Many thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Goron Posted March 14, 2008 Share Posted March 14, 2008 I used this: http://wsidecar.apple.com/cgi-bin/nph-reg3...csUpdate1.0.dmg update, which is also delivered via su after upgrading to 10.5.2. Hope this helps ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daveyz Posted March 14, 2008 Author Share Posted March 14, 2008 Thanks Goron, I'll give that a go tonight! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daveyz Posted March 15, 2008 Author Share Posted March 15, 2008 Hi all, My menus are working! I can see them at last! Thanks to everybody for their input. I applied the update as Goron suggested, tweaked the files that needed tweaking, installed NVinject and hey presto! Only thing I have noticed is that it says PCI against Bus in System profiler. Is this a performance affecting thing (only running at 33MHz) or just the wrong info being displayed please? Certainly seems fast enough. So once again thank you all for helping me! Thanks Daveyz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sebasb Posted March 23, 2008 Share Posted March 23, 2008 Hello, I'm having the same problem with the menus but I don't know which files to patch from Leopard Graphics Update, can you give me a hint or a link to find the files I need to patch manually? (I'm using an AMD computer and a 7600GS PCI Express card) Thanks Seba Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
s3n4te Posted April 8, 2008 Share Posted April 8, 2008 I would like to know as well, I'm having this problem Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
s3n4te Posted April 8, 2008 Share Posted April 8, 2008 bump Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
s8tan Posted September 29, 2008 Share Posted September 29, 2008 Hey guys does anyone know if this will for the 9800GTX? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shthap3ns Posted November 25, 2008 Share Posted November 25, 2008 Hey guys does anyone know if this will for the 9800GTX? I'd like to know this too...getting the same problem with my eVGA 9800GTX+... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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