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I have Kalyway 10.5.2 on my system and have installed NVInstaller .41 and everything went fine (meaning nothing bad happened :D) but I still can only access 1024x768 instead on my monitors native resolution of 1280x1024. Any suggestions, I have backups so it doesn't matter if it blows my install.

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Hynesy

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Hynesy
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My mother board is a gigabyte GA-P35-DS3-L, which is vanilla kernel compatible. On an old video card I had no problems with the resolution.

 

Also, no I haven't insalled the graphic update, should I?

sciencefictionado
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My mother board is a gigabyte GA-P35-DS3-L, which is vanilla kernel compatible. On an old video card I had no problems with the resolution.

 

Also, no I haven't insalled the graphic update, should I?

 

I have an 8600gt and GA-M57SLI s4

I used punk92's installer and its included nvinject. I also removed all device Id's from NVinject.kext, and Geforce.kext and NVDARenderman.kext, and added my cards device ID. Check all three of those kexts, i'm not sure if i modified all 3 or just 2.

Hynesy
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Thanks for the help sciencefiction, but I am about to ask a noob question :cards:, how do I remove/change the device Id's for those .kext and where can I find my device Id's?

cheers

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Thanks for the help sciencefiction, but I am about to ask a noob question ;) , how do I remove/change the device Id's for those .kext and where can I find my device Id's?

cheers

 

OK

1.In Windows right click your My Computer and select properties.

2.Move to the Hardware Tab, and select Device Manager.

3.expand the Display Adapter section, and double click NVIDIA 8600GTS (or what ever it says therein)

4.Move over to the Details tab in this new window, and

5.Where it says "DEV_04##&SUBSYS," 04## is your Device ID (on mine it is 0402)

6.Get Kext Helper http://www.cheetha.net/Kext_Helper/Software.html and save it to where you can get to it from OSX

7.Get Punk92's installer http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?sho...mp;#entry633024

and save it to where you can get to it from OSX

8.Start OSX, in safe mode (using -x at the boot promt, hit f8 to get there) only if you havent deleted all of the NV and Geforce Kexts yet (under System/Library/Extensions/), and have already setup a user acount (if you havent set up an account you need to find a way to get rid of those kexts, I used MacDisk in WindowsXP) You could also use another mac to do this.

9.Install Kext helper anywhere, i put it on my desktop for easy access.

10.Run Punk92's installer, and choose the Custom install option, then select the appropriate NVInject which is based on how much Video ram your card has. I selected 256MB.

11.DONT RESTART YET! Go to System/Library/Extensions/ and drag Geforce.kext and NVDAResman.kext to your desktop.

12.Right click on Geforce.kext and select "show package contents"

13.Inside you will find Info.plist, double click this and where it has alot of numbers like this- "0x040210de" replace the numbers after "0x" but before "10de" with you your 4 number Device ID. Delete all of the other enteries of numbers between <string> and </string> and Save and Close the document. Also remove any characters not included in "0x0###10de".

14.Repeat Steps 12-13 for NVDARenderman.kext

15.Drag both .kexts onto Kext Helper b7.

16.Type in your password, and click easy install.

17.Restart and let me know what happens.

 

PS. This is what my Geforce.kext/info.plist looks like:

 

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">

<plist version="1.0">

<dict>

<key>CFBundleDevelopmentRegion</key>

<string>English</string>

<key>CFBundleExecutable</key>

<string>GeForce</string>

<key>CFBundleGetInfoString</key>

<string>GeForce 1.5.22.1 (16.7.5b2)</string>

<key>CFBundleIdentifier</key>

<string>com.apple.GeForce</string>

<key>CFBundleInfoDictionaryVersion</key>

<string>6.0</string>

<key>CFBundleName</key>

<string>NVIDIA GeForce Kernel Extension</string>

<key>CFBundlePackageType</key>

<string>KEXT</string>

<key>CFBundleShortVersionString</key>

<string>1.5.22</string>

<key>CFBundleSignature</key>

<string>????</string>

<key>CFBundleVersion</key>

<string>5.2.2</string>

<key>IOKitPersonalities</key>

<dict>

<key>GeForce</key>

<dict>

<key>CFBundleIdentifier</key>

<string>com.apple.GeForce</string>

<key>IOCFPlugInTypes</key>

<dict>

<key>ACCF0000-0000-0000-0000-000a2789904e</key>

<string>GeForceGA.plugin</string>

</dict>

<key>IOClass</key>

<string>NVKernel</string>

<key>IOMatchCategory</key>

<string>IOAccelerator</string>

<key>IOPCIMatch</key>

<string>0x040210de</string>

<key>IOProbeScore</key>

<integer>100</integer>

<key>IOProviderClass</key>

<string>IOPCIDevice</string>

<key>IOSourceVersion</key>

<string>1.5.22.1</string>

</dict>

</dict>

<key>OSBundleLibraries</key>

<dict>

<key>com.apple.NVDAResman</key>

<string>1.2.0</string>

<key>com.apple.iokit.IOGraphicsFamily</key>

<string>1.0.0b1</string>

<key>com.apple.iokit.IONDRVSupport</key>

<string>1.0.0b1</string>

<key>com.apple.iokit.IOPCIFamily</key>

<string>1.0.0b1</string>

<key>com.apple.kernel.iokit</key>

<string>1.0.0b1</string>

<key>com.apple.kpi.bsd</key>

<string>8.0.0</string>

<key>com.apple.kpi.iokit</key>

<string>8.0.0</string>

<key>com.apple.kpi.libkern</key>

<string>8.0.0</string>

<key>com.apple.kpi.mach</key>

<string>8.0.0</string>

</dict>

</dict>

</plist>

sciencefictionado
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Thanks for the fantastic help sciencefiction. Worked 100%, now I have a nice 1280x1024 display ;)

 

 

:D glad i could help, i just figured this out yesterday and it had taken me 2 weeks to accomplish. The hard part was ofcourse finding the right tools, punk92's installer seems to have something special about it. I'm very glad I could shorten the trial and error time for you.

Cheers!

 

PS. what was your 8600gts device ID?

PPS. You have more than 1280X1024, you have full quartz extreme and core image functionallity. I could have shown you how to get 1280X1024 without gpu support, but you would not have access to very many applications.

To confirm that all is working well, go to the apple system profiler and check to see if your card is being fully recognized.

PPPS. Is your internet working, do you use wireless? If so, what is the model of your wireless card?

Hynesy
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First PS "<string>0x000010de&0x0000ffff</string>".. Hmm its different to yours, but everything works well.

 

"Graphics by NVIDIA:

 

Chipset Model: Graphics by NVIDIA

Type: Display

Bus: PCIe

PCIe Lane Width: x16

VRAM (Total): 256 MB

Vendor: NVIDIA (0x10de)

Device ID: 0x0400

Revision ID: 0x00a1

ROM Revision: NVinject 0.2.1

Displays:

Acer AL1714:

Resolution: 1280 x 1024 @ 75 Hz

Depth: 32-bit Color

Core Image: Hardware Accelerated

Main Display: Yes

Mirror: Off

Online: Yes

Quartz Extreme: Supported

Rotation: Supported

Display Connector:

Status: No display connected"

 

As you can see everything is working great, including quartz and the amount of RAM is read correct too.

 

As for wireless, I have a Netgear WG311v3 which I don't use in Windows or OS X, but even so i don't think there are any drivers.

cheers

sciencefictionado
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No, sorry, NVinject is only for nvidia cards. Go check out this link

http://wiki.osx86project.org/wiki/index.php/HCL_10.5.1#ATI

It says your Radeon 9800 will not work. That is not good news, as this list is quite comprehensive.

There are 2 things you can do:

1.Use 10.4.8 because it is reported to work under that version- http://wiki.osx86project.org/wiki/index.php/HCL_10.4.8#ATi_2

2.Get another card that is on the 10.5.1 or 10.5.2 HCL list. Make sure its one that works out of the box or with little hassle.

 

 

Hynesy... You WIFI card is reported to work, go here http://wiki.osx86project.org/wiki/index.ph...10.5.2#Wireless

Also, did you mean to type 0x000010de or 0x040010de? I noticed an extra zero in there. Regardless, if it is working, dont change a thing... If it aint broke don't fix it.

Hynesy
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I just copied and pasted what was in the info.plist. I didn't know there was a driver :blink:, but thats fantastic. Thanks again sciencefiction. You've been an awesome help. If only there was a sound blaster driver :blink:.

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accorkie
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tried the instructions and now my video card is recognized but i still dont have multiple options for resolution

 

Chipset Model: Graphics by NVIDIA

Type: Display

Bus: PCIe

PCIe Lane Width: x16

VRAM (Total): 256 MB

Vendor: NVIDIA (0x10de)

Device ID: 0x0402

Revision ID: 0x00a1

ROM Revision: NVinject 0.2.0

Displays:

Display:

Resolution: 1024 x 768

Depth: 32-bit Color

Core Image: Software

Main Display: Yes

Mirror: Off

Online: Yes

Quartz Extreme: Not Supported

Display Connector:

serjoint
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Hi,

I have followed your instruction and was able to install my graphics (8600M GT 256 mb) but as all other installers(like NVinstaller v.41) it ruins reboot/shutdown. Tried ToH kernel 9.2.0 ,

My specs:

Dell Inspiron 1520

2gb ram

Intel core 2 duo 7300 2 GHz

Nvidia GeForce 8600M GT (dev id: 0407, vendor id: 10de)

Do you have any idea how can I fix this issue? (probably tried all the stuff on the forum)

P.S Thank you for your great work

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sciencefictionado
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tried the instructions and now my video card is recognized but i still dont have multiple options for resolutionChipset Model: Graphics by NVIDIA Type: Display Bus: PCIe PCIe Lane Width: x16 VRAM (Total): 256 MB Vendor: NVIDIA (0x10de) Device ID: 0x0402 Revision ID: 0x00a1 ROM Revision: NVinject 0.2.0 Displays:Display: Resolution: 1024 x 768 Depth: 32-bit Color Core Image: Software Main Display: Yes Mirror: Off Online: Yes Quartz Extreme: Not SupportedDisplay Connector:
Are you sure you selected an NVINJECT version under the "custom" install option in punk92's installer?I had this problem once too, and it was because I had forgotten to select custom install and the 256mb nvinject.
Hi,I have followed your instruction and was able to install my graphics (8600M GT 256 mb) but as all other installers(like NVinstaller v.41) it ruins reboot/shutdown. Tried ToH kernel 9.2.0 ,My specs:Dell Inspiron 1520 2gb ramIntel core 2 duo 7300 2 GHz Nvidia GeForce 8600M GT (dev id: 0407, vendor id: 10de)Do you have any idea how can I fix this issue? (probably tried all the stuff on the forum)P.S Thank you for your great work
I have never had this issue, sorry... well once, recently when I left leopard on all night it wouldnt reboot, but never again. The only thing I can suggest is that you disable all of the power management features of the OS and your BIOS. Also, you may want to try rolling your drivers back to the vanilla 10.5.1 versions, and then simply applying the leo graphics update, as that seemsto have worked for Chrismo and it should fix your shutdown issue if it is only caused by nvinject. Luckily, I am having some issues with an opengl error and I wanted to try rolling back to an old opengl.framework, and in my search i found this handy graphics roll-back installer, which you will need to go Chrismo's route. http://www.hurrikenux.com/Testing/Unoffici...Rollback1.2.zip
sciencefictionado
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Hi,

I have followed your instruction and was able to install my graphics (8600M GT 256 mb) but as all other installers(like NVinstaller v.41) it ruins reboot/shutdown. Tried ToH kernel 9.2.0 ,

My specs:

Dell Inspiron 1520

2gb ram

Intel core 2 duo 7300 2 GHz

Nvidia GeForce 8600M GT (dev id: 0407, vendor id: 10de)

Do you have any idea how can I fix this issue? (probably tried all the stuff on the forum)

P.S Thank you for your great work

 

this may fix your problem. go to the osx86 HCL page here http://wiki.osx86project.org/wiki/index.ph...10.5.2#nVidia_2

and scroll down to the 8600M GS there you will find the drivers you need for QE/CI but it also says that this card cannot do more than 1024x768 in 10.5.2

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