fermi/gtx 480/gtx 470

[Gidi]

Be careful when using intensive 3D on these cards. Fans don't raise up their spinning rate, making the card extremely hot. Mine was more than 100ºC when it began to make screen artifacts. Now I changed it back to 285.

 

Don't kill your GTX!!

[P4lp4t1n3]

Be careful when using intensive 3D on these cards. Fans don't raise up their spinning rate, making the card extremely hot. Mine was more than 100ºC when it began to make screen artifacts. Now I changed it back to 285.

 

Don't kill your GTX!!

 

Thanks for the advice.

I'm playing Starcraft II almost all evening and I don't want to kill my GTX 470.

I'll wait for a better driver support and for the moment I'll stick with my GT 220 for my Hackintosh until a better driver will be released.

[Tyranicus]

I have followed this guide to the letter 3 times now, each with the exact same result on my GTX 470. I get the black screen. The computer is still working. If I use the volume keys on the keyboard, I hear the noise, and I can see the screen from my MacBook Pro with the screen sharing function in OS X. Before installing the drivers, I am able to boot in safe mode. With the drivers installed, i get a black screen even in safe mode. Could anyone with more expertise than I offer some assistance?

[Diwad]

10.6.5 released. Any hope for fermi?:/ anyone tested it? Aquamac?

[tdtran1025]

I am writing this using the old NVidia G92. I am sorry to say this but most of working cards out there work because of the auspices from Apple, mostly from either the MacPro line.

Apple recently adopted ATI5xxx to their new lineup for MP and bypassed Nvidia for now. More eveidence, as in kexts for 6xxx, shows up in kexts found in 10.6.5. No one has been able to rewrite kexts for cards that Apple doesn't support yet.

It is always a wait-and-see approach as to what graphics card to buy. I still have a 3 or 4 cards from both camps that only run in Windows.

[loui]

This Sucks!!!

[jijiji]

just upgraded to 10.6.5 and lost graphic support... all i see is black and white blocks that blink indicating that i booted up to desktop but cannot see anything.

DO NOT UPDATE!

 

and please help~

[rabbit74]

just upgraded to 10.6.5 and lost graphic support... all i see is black and white blocks that blink indicating that i booted up to desktop but cannot see anything.

DO NOT UPDATE!

 

and please help~

 

You will need to go back and follow the steps from the first page again.

 

We should be getting a new driver from nVidia any minute now so things may change.

 

In 10.6.5 the only relevant changes I am seeing are in /S/L/Frameworks/OpenGL.Frameworks so it may only be necessary to take them back to the older ones we have been using.

 

rabbit.

[EGOvoruhk]

We should be getting a new driver from nVidia any minute now so things may change.

 

Source?

[Tyranicus]

Update. I managed to get it working. if anyone else has similar problems, I had good luck with this guide, with only a few slight modifications to the EFI string to make it work with a 470.

 

 

http://www.tonymacx86.com/viewtopic.php?f=...amp;hilit=fermi

[jijiji]

<br />You will need to go back and follow the steps from the first page again.<br /><br />We should be getting a new driver from nVidia any minute now so things may change.<br /><br />In 10.6.5 the only relevant changes I am seeing are in /S/L/Frameworks/OpenGL.Frameworks so it may only be necessary to take them back to the older ones we have been using.<br /><br />rabbit.<br />

<br /><br /><br />

 

argh I went into single user mode and cp over old OpenGL.Frameworks to /S/L/Frameworks/ but still end up with black and white screen... any other idea? I've also tried booting with -f without avail....

argh....

[Diwad]

Why do uou think nvidia will release new driver?

[rabbit74]

@Diwad

@EGOvoruhk

 

source: Pulled due to its demise

 

imminent driver release for Quadro 4000

 

I am fairly certain that there won't be an OSX driver released by nVidia for GTX-470/480 but with the release of the Quadro 4000 driver we may be able to make the 470/480 work better than they do now because the Quadro 4000 is based on the same chip and architecture.

 

rabbit

[Diwad]

There are already drivers for windows, so maybe soon we will see mac ones. When do you think they r gonna be released?

[Frank802]

Tyranicus, have you install 10.6.5??? if yes it works???

 

Thanks al lot!

[nefilim]

sounds unlikely

 

http://forum.netkas.org/index.php/topic,433.0.html

[i2k]

I know this thread covers the 470/480. From what I'm reading the 465 uses the same GF100 chip. Has anyone got a GX465 to work? (evga)

 

Thanks

[jijiji]

I'm really lost here... I updated to 10.6.5 and lost graphics on gtx 470, all I get is blocks of black and white when I boot. I can see my cursor just fine and I can actually shutdown and reboot by clicking where apple should be and where I think "shutdown" and "reboot" should be.

I've tried booting by holding shift and it actually boots fine to safe mode (but it looks like no qe/cl support - the top bar is solid instead of translucent)

I've tried reinstalling kexts, and have also tried booting after deleting the /S/L/Caches/com.apple.kext.caches but still boots to blocks of black and white.

 

Can anybody shed light on what is going on here and how I can fix it?

Thanks

[aqua-mac]

There is no support for the GTX480/470 in 10.6.5, as there is no NVDAGF100Hal.kext included. The one you have installed before is there but is mismatched to 10.6.5 kexts. To get your card working again, you will have to reinstall older kexts.

 

Look here:

 

LINK

 

This can be done from another working bootable copy of OS X.

[kozlek]

Thanks for sharing, aqua-mac, but rapidshare link is unavailable and another link downloading at 5kbps...

 

Who wants to avoid black and white blocks just delete GeForce.kext after installing aqua-mac's fermi fix, rebuild cashes and restart. You'll lost QE/CE but it will be native resolution that I think much better then black and white screen.

[jijiji]

Thank you aqua-mac!!

I booted up in safe mode and installed the fix and BOOM I'm back!

 

@mozodojo in my case I didn't have to delete GeForce.kext - just installed and rebooted. I still have QE/CI (but of course no opencl)

 

I've also uploaded aqua-mac's fix, here is extra link

aquamac's fix

 

*edit*

aquamac's fix (letitbit)

[kozlek]

Maybe I am using older fix package.

 

jijiji, could you please upload it on megafire or letitbit or dropbox? Never rapidshare gives me to download any file.

 

P.S. Oh, this is Safari downloading problem. I can download with opera at 300kbps

[kozlek]

still no luck with GTX 470 on 10.6.5 and aqua-mac's fix.

[namakemono]

Loosing my mind here...

Had Asus GTX 470 working nice but had to reinstall SL a couple of weeks ago, now I get a blank screen no matter what I do (just when sl gui is about to start)

 

Gigabyte EP45-DS3 F10a bios

Asus GTX 470 (10de/06cd)

 

Running SL 10.6.4

S/L/E : FakeSMC stuff

E/E : HDAEnabler, IOAHCIBlockStorageInjector, LegacyHDA, RealtekRTL81xx, SleepEnabler

Drivers from 1. post, NVDAGF100Hal.kext loads during boot

Chameleon-2.0-RC5-r629 as bootloader, get same bug with bootloader in Fermipackage.

GraphicsEnabler=Yes

PciRoot=0 (Also changed DSDT.aml value to 0)

Tried With 1, both in DSDT and com.apple.boot, same bug

 

 

Have been struggling with this on my spare time lately and of course googled around, I apologize if this has been explained earlier

What am I missing here ?

[Tyranicus]

Tyranicus, have you install 10.6.5??? if yes it works???

 

Thanks al lot!

 

I did install 10.6.5, which slightly broke the graphics settings. I had working OpenGL, etc, but it was stuck at 1024x768. However, reinstalling the drivers solved that problem. It's running just fine now.