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New in release:

• Automatic detection of pci root uid value(for GraphicsEnabler and ethernetbuiltin options) based on parsing DSDT.aml file (if you dont use custom DSDT.aml, you will need to use -pci1 flag in case you have uid=1) . If booter fails to detect it or you dont have _UID property in pci root(in dsdt) then UID=0 used by default, but, if you have UID=1 and booter fails to detect it, use -pci1 boot flag. Uid detection works really well in most cases.
• Added aserebln’s patch for better cpu type detection, for example I dont need to add SMcputype key anymore
• Better handling of pci slot names if nvidia card present

Zipped booter – link1 link2(mirror)

Sources

More information and installation instructions here.

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Remember this ?

Recently tested 191.00 drivers: hdmi audio finaly works, clocks throtling seems to work properly again, except when hdmi tv connected or movie played – always in 3d mode

Still screen glitches (horizontal stripes, as you can see on video from that post) when driver changes clocks of vga card, same glitches exist in snow leopard.

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Update : 190.62 drivers fixed noone of these issues

A little offtopic

I’m so tired of this shity nvidia drivers.

I have a laptop with nvidia card, g84 based, and I cant use any drivers newer than 182 series, because of three annoying bugs, which many users reported, but nvidia doesnt want to fix them.

here they are:

1) annoying screen flickering, you can see it in this short video:

2) gpu always uses highest clocks, sometime lowering for a second into low-3d clocks, never uses 2d clocks as it should, compare,  left – 190.38 drivers, right – 182.52 drivers

3) hdmi audio doesnt work, I can choose it in sound manager, I can see there it used, but no real sound output.

same attitude with all desktop drivers 185 186 190 and with mobile drivers 186.

Not going to buy anything nvidia anymore.

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As it was discovered, to use PC nvidia card in macpro with injector (e.g. ATY_Init), need to have “helper” nvidia efi card

it’s 7300gt for macpro1,1/2,1 or gt120 for 3,1/4,1 , also it can be 8800gt

helper card need to have not less than 4x pcie lines

Main card can have all 16 pcie lines

such configuration gives MacPro1,1/2,1 the fastest gpu for MacOS ever

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We found a bios for 4850 which allows to have dual-dvi on 4850 in leopard !

Dont worry, no need to flash anything, its all done soft way.

just try the updated aty-init – ATY_init zip

you will still need to use dvi2vga dongle if using only one dvi, but its easy to fix it by using patched motmot (from patched framebuffers in patched_files from irc)

good luck

also updated aty-init makes osx to think vga has 5.0 GT/s link speed, which is normal for pcie v2.0. (PCI cards in sys profiler)

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The Rominator just finished experiments with flashing pc gtx285 with mac’s rom.

good news – it works, link speed is 5 GT/s (pcie 2.0), unlike 2.5 GT/s on flashed 4870

bad news – you need some soldering, because size of mac rom is 156kb, but size of typical pc gtx285 rom chip -128kb, so need to replace it with 256k rom chip before flashing.

more info and screenshots here – at macrumors forum

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This updated drivers work better than the one from quadro4800 disk

the link to them – on evga site

pkg has internal check for computer model (macpro3,1 and macpro4,1)

but did it ever stop somebody ?

fixed pkg linl in comments

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Recently updated a bit aty_init, fixed few things on nvidia side:

- if video ram was detected as 0, kext will use vram size value from plist

- kext has few nvcaps hardcoded, for different geforce cards types, if you unhappy with it, just add own NVCAP to plist, kext will use it instead of hardcoded one

P.S. now gtx285 works fine on macpro

Link to kext – here

Sometimes kthe kext gets installed with wrong permissions(it will results in panic in nvdaresman), to fix it, boot single user mode and run this commands
mount -uw /
chown -R 0:0 /System/Library/Extensions/ATY_Init.kext
chmod -R 755 /System/Library/Extensions/ATY_Init.kext
reboot


for some reason, this doesnt work with macpro and 4890, so use exisiting solution.

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Tired of waiting for GTX285 mac edition to appear?

you can try it already on MacPro, you will need:

1) working efi nvidia card (7300gt/8800gt/gt120), ati might work too

2) some gtx 2xx card you wanna get working

3) install Injector pkg – link

4) do not reboot after previous step, and install drivers from quadro 4800 disk (you can find them in irc , irc.osx86.hu #gt200 channel, link in topic)

5) now reboot.

if you are lucky enough, you will get this, some minor glitches yet, like wrong ram size(working on it), but it works:

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Finaly its working, almost an year after first gt200 cards was released

All GeForce GTX 2xx cards works so far

Injector from previous posts should support and identify all gt200/gt200b cards, use it and drivers pkg from irc.osx86.hu #gt200 link in topic.

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