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MNagler
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It´s me again...

I was able to install this onto my Sony Vaio VPCCW2S1E wich has a GT330m in it. After I made a reboot, i didn't get any signal at my Monitor. So I tried to use my external one, wich worked...

But now i have got this stupid problem, I can't switch to the build in one. Could anybody tell me, how to do?

 

Thanks in advantage...

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hello,

 

I am desperately trying to install my eVGA NVIDIA 210 512MB DDR3 ... -_-

I spent all day looking in this forum and google and trying .. But no result I am still at 1024x768...

 

Except for problem display, all works perfectly ! but in 1024...... :(((

 

my config :

 

mb : GA-G41M-ES2L rev.1

ram : 2 go

cpu : dual core 2 - 2.93

...

Os : SnowLeo (+lastest update)

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I have some questions regarding how Kakewalk plays with the Nvidia GTX 285...

 

I installed with the Gigabyte USB method v1.6 beta, Snow Leopard 10.6.2

everything working great, but my graphics cards benchmarks are very low (about half what they should be)

I tried the Enabler_for_Nvidia_and_multiple_ATI_cards from netkas (luckily on a cloned partition) and it doesn't increase the performance and causes the system to hang on waking from sleep.

 

Questions:

1) how does GigabyteUSB recognise my GTX 285 (EVGA 1GB)? - it does very well, by the way (dual display OK too)

2) is there a better driver to use?

3) will rerunning the new installer - Kakewalk help?

4) I read that you need to have 2 graphics cards, I have taken my other card out because I didn't need it, is that OK?

 

 

refs: my specs are about half what is seen on this page http://netkas.org/?p=105

the card seems fine, specs in windows are fine.

The GTX 285 is installed in the first PCI-E 2.0 slot as listed in the GA-X58A-UD7 manual, I tried it in slot 3 also, no change.

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I just built my new hackintosh and wanted to make it close to silent. I got a fanless geforce gt210 and THINK I got it to work as it I now can change the resolution and in system prefs, it shows up as an unknown NVidia card with 512mb ram. The only problem is, I do not see anything about qe/ci. Is there any way to enable that option? I also have tried some video playback and it is kind of choppy full screen, but plays well in a small window. Will qe/ci help this out? I also cannot use iworks because it says there is not enough VRAM. How could I not have enough if my card is 512mb?

 

 

 

Mobo: g41m-es2l

 

CPU: e6300 2.8ghz

 

Memory: 2gb DDR2

 

Sound: Soundblaster LIVE

 

Video: GT210 512mb

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rogabean
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Guod (and anyone else still having issues):

 

You won't see QE/CI information in Profiler.

 

You will know it's working by the obvious things: translucent bar up top, RSS screensaver available to you, ripples adding dashboard widgets.

 

Did you create your own EFI string using OSx86Tools? I highly recommend this method. Also did you get your own NVCAP values. Do NOT use any of them listed in the tool. Also when creating your own EFI string make sure you select Custom. You will be naming your card so that's up to you.

 

As far as choppy video, well there are other factors here at work like your system's ram, CPU. So I can not say what your problem is specifically without more information, but I can tell you that properly creating your own EFI string and making damn sure that GraphicsEnabler is NOT in your com.apple.Boot.plist is very important. If that line is in there your EFI string will not work and the card may be detected as a generic 512MB nVidia card, but only kinda working. This card hates that option from all of my testing. Also I recommend that you are running 10.6.2 as all of my tests with 10.6 and 10.6.1 produced questionable results at best.

 

Also just a note for people who have PM'ed me. Please keep it on this thread so that others may benefit from the conversation.

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Alessandro17
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guod & caseyj

 

Did you read the former pages in this threat? take a look at rogabean's postings!

QE + CI is working, but no information in system-profiler

 

No, they didn't. They started new topics and I moved them here. But I suppose you are right, I am too soft and I should simply delete topics which don't follow the guidelines: Search before posting! Read the blessed stickies!

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Hi everyone, I just managed to get 10.6 installed, but then I got blackscreen when installing, and I think it's related to my graphic card (GTX280). Is there a way to fix it ? If I'm right, maybe I would be able to install in vesa mode, then using netkas injector bringing my card working, but to be honest I'm not sure how to do this, so any help would be much appreciated :)

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No, they didn't. They started new topics and I moved them here. But I suppose you are right, I am too soft and I should simply delete topics which don't follow the guidelines: Search before posting! Read the blessed stickies!

 

[offtopic]

No you are doing right. Better to move them here where they can get help. Otherwise they will just post over and over.

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anyone get the gt210 512mb card to work with qe/ci? i cannot do it. i have 10.6.2 and tried graphicsenabler=y, but nothing seeems to enable it

 

Have you read through the two pages prior about how to create an EFI string and NOT use GraphicsEnabler=y as I have found that com.apple.Boot.plist option to NOT work for this card? With a proper EFI string generated from custom nvidia in osx86tools and your own NVCAP values taken from card's ROM file QE/CI work great on this card.

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Guod (and anyone else still having issues):

 

You won't see QE/CI information in Profiler.

 

You will know it's working by the obvious things: translucent bar up top, RSS screensaver available to you, ripples adding dashboard widgets.

 

Did you create your own EFI string using OSx86Tools? I highly recommend this method. Also did you get your own NVCAP values. Do NOT use any of them listed in the tool. Also when creating your own EFI string make sure you select Custom. You will be naming your card so that's up to you.

 

As far as choppy video, well there are other factors here at work like your system's ram, CPU. So I can not say what your problem is specifically without more information, but I can tell you that properly creating your own EFI string and making damn sure that GraphicsEnabler is NOT in your com.apple.Boot.plist is very important. If that line is in there your EFI string will not work and the card may be detected as a generic 512MB nVidia card, but only kinda working. This card hates that option from all of my testing. Also I recommend that you are running 10.6.2 as all of my tests with 10.6 and 10.6.1 produced questionable results at best.

 

Also just a note for people who have PM'ed me. Please keep it on this thread so that others may benefit from the conversation.

 

i had no idea my thread was moved here. thanks for the info. ill make the custom efi when i get back and post results

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Can someone give me somewhat step by step guide to get my GTX 260m working on my Hackintosh. I got it to get a 1680x1050 resolution which is my native resolution. The thing is though Chipset Model is Unknown and all the way at the top says Unknown as well. Vendor ID is NVIDIA and Device ID is 0x0618.

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well osx86tools did not seem to input my strings and stuff to the boot.plist so would I just edit it manually?

 

Currently the plist looks like this 

<?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>Kernel</key>
<string>mach_kernel</string>
<key>Kernel Flags</key>
<string></string>
<key>Timeout</key>
<string>5</string>
</dict>
</plist>

would I change it to look like this?

<?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>Kernel</key>
<string>mach_kernel</string>
<key>Kernel Flags</key>
<string></string>
<key>PciRoot(0x1)/Pci(0x1,0x0)/Pci(0x0,0x0)</key>
<dict>
	<key>@0,compatible</key>
	<string>NVDA,NVMac</string>
	<key>@0,device_type</key>
	<string>display</string>
	<key>@0,name</key>
	<string>NVDA,Display-A</string>
	<key>@1,compatible</key>
	<string>NVDA,NVMac</string>
	<key>@1,device_type</key>
	<string>display</string>
	<key>@1,name</key>
	<string>NVDA,Display-B</string>
	<key>NVCAP</key>
	<data>
	BAAAAAAAAwAIAAAAAAAABwAAAAA=
	</data>
	<key>NVPM</key>
	<data>
	AQAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA==
	</data>
	<key>VRAM,totalsize</key>
	<string>0x20000000</string>
	<key>device_type</key>
	<string>NVDA,Parent</string>
	<key>model</key>
	<string>nVidia Geforce GT 210</string>
	<key>name</key>
	<string>display</string>
	<key>rom-revision</key>
	<string>nVidia Geforce GT 210 OpenGL Engine [EFI]</string>
</dict>
<key>Timeout</key>
<string>5</string>
</dict>
</plist>

and as far as the code, where do it put the info from the ROM file? 0400000000000300080000000000000700000000

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banini_jeque
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EVGA GeForce 210 - I tried to make this a separate thread, but the mods moved it here. It's basically what I posted before, but maybe a little more straightforward.[Edit]

 

Frys has these for $35 after $15 mail in rebate.

 

It doesn't seem to work with GraphicsEnabler.

 

I used osx86tools to make a custom EFI string, with 

BAAAAAAAAwAQAAAAAAAABwAAAAA=

as the NVCAP, and while in 32 bit mode, ATY_init.

 

This got me QE/CI, and dual monitor support, although the VGA only works right if the DVI is also connected, so the NVCAP may not be exactly right.

 

Oddly, when I switched to 64bit, ATY_init didn't load, but I still had QE/CI for a few boots. Eventually it broke. So then I exported the efi string in xml format, and just copied the extra keys from the nvidia section of ATY_init's info.plist file into my efi string xml, imported it back into osx86tools to turn it into an efi string again. Seems to work pretty well now.

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Guod:

 

when you created a custom efi string in osx86tools... it goes like this:

 

select custom from the list of graphics cards... type a name for the card.... select your ram amount... for NVCAP select custom and paste in the values you got from NVCAP using your rom file... this will generate a plist and some hex code below.. the hex code is what we want.

 

this long hex code goes into your com.apple.Boot.plist file as such:

 

<key>device-properties</key>

<stringHEX CODE HERE</string

 

make sure the GraphicsEnabler is not in this file.

 

Does that clear it up?

 

The only reason we would ever need be concerned with the plist it generated is if you needed to use more than EFI string like I did.

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mondial
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well osx86tools did not seem to input my strings and stuff to the boot.plist so would I just edit it manually?

....

and as far as the code, where do it put the info from the ROM file? 0400000000000300080000000000000700000000

 

 

 

the com.apple.Boot.plist would look like this

(I filled up my string with zeros - you have to create your own one !!!! ):

 

 

 

<?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>Kernel</key>

<string>mach_kernel</string>

<key>Kernel Flags</key>

<string>arch=x86_64</string>

<key>device-properties</key>

<string>7202000001000000010000006602...00000000000000000000000000000000000000

00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000

00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000

00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000

00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000

00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000

00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000

00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000

000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000f0000000000000000

00000000....4e5644412c506172656e74</string>

</dict>

</plist>

 

 

 

--and don't forget : You have to update to the last Version 1.0.150 of osx86tools' gfx string creator

 

best regards mondi

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thanks for all the help guys. I think i am getting close. I took out nvinject, nvenabler, and natit.kext from the extenuation folder, repaired permissions, edited the plist file, repair permissions and rebooted. I get to a blue screen with no cursor or boot. Then nothing happens. I can still boot into safe mode without a problem. Do I need to use this efi string in conjunction with a kext? I thought the efi string was the driver. Here is a look at my plist file..what did I do wrong? 

<?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>Kernel</key>
   <string>mach_kernel</string>
   <key>Kernel Flags</key>
   <string>arch=x86_64</string>
   <key>Timeout</key>
   <string>5</string>
   <key>device-properties</key>
   <string>740200000100000001000000680200000d00000002010c00d041030a010000000101060000010
101060000007fff04001e00000072006f006d002d007200650076006900730069006f006e0000002d
0000006e5669646961204765466f72636520323130204754204f70656e474c20456e67696e65205b4
546495d22000000400030002c006400650076006900630065005f00740079007000650000000b0000
00646973706c6179100000004e005600430041005000000022000000d38d34d34d34d34d34d37d34d
3cd34d34d34d34d34d34d3bd34d34d34d340e0000006e0061006d00650000000b000000646973706c
617914000000400030002c006e0061006d0065000000120000004e5644412c446973706c61792d411
00000006d006f00640065006c000000190000006e5669646961204765466f72636520323130204754
0e0000004e00560050004d00000020000000010000000000000000000000000000000000000000000
0000000000014000000400031002c006e0061006d0065000000120000004e5644412c446973706c61
792d4220000000400031002c0063006f006d00700061007400690062006c00650000000e0000004e5
644412c4e564d6163220000005600520041004d002c0074006f00740061006c00730069007a006500
0000080000000000002020000000400030002c0063006f006d00700061007400690062006c0065000
0000e0000004e5644412c4e564d616322000000400031002c006400650076006900630065005f0074
0079007000650000000b000000646973706c61791c0000006400650076006900630065005f0074007
9007000650000000f0000004e5644412c506172656e74</string>
</dict>
</plist>

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I get a blue screen like that if I try to only use the VGA out. If your monitor is VGA, hook it up to the DVI port with an adapter.

 

Your boot.plist looks right to me.

 

I can use the VGA if I also use DVI, so dual screens work, but VGA by itself was a no go for me. Something must be up with the NVCAP I think, even though I'm almost certain that the one I'm using is the correct one for this card.

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I get a blue screen like that if I try to only use the VGA out. If your monitor is VGA, hook it up to the DVI port with an adapter.

 

Your boot.plist looks right to me.

 

I can use the VGA if I also use DVI, so dual screens work, but VGA by itself was a no go for me. Something must be up with the NVCAP I think, even though I'm almost certain that the one I'm using is the correct one for this card.

 

IT WORKED! thanks for all of the help guys. I think im starting to get all this plist stuff and understand how it all works..thanks again for all your help.

 

now I can play HD video, use Iwork and itunes does not have any mouse lag.

 

thanks!

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