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Looking at these nvidia osx drivers with fermi support we can find out device-id of all possible nvidia fermi-based cards

so it is:

0×06C0-0×06DF – gf100 cards

rest is unknown family
0×0DC0 – 0×0DFF
0×0E20 – 0×0E3F – GF104 (gtx460 – 0×0E22)
0×0EE0 – 0×0EFF
0×0F00 – 0×0F3F

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Latest osx drivers nvidia posted on their site brings nvidia Fermi support (gtx465/470/480)

you will need the drivers and some enabler, you can grab one from insanelymac
more at that insanelylink.

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Remember the bug ?

it’s still present in Geforce 257.XX drivers.

I tried to write about it on their official forum – nothing.

Shame on nvidia.

BTW, A new Opera with vp8/webm video support – http://labs.opera.com/news/2010/05/19/

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No Fermi (gtx480 gtx470) support and no Evergreen (ATI 5xxx) support.

Also, looks like support for hdmi/DP audio on nvidia cards (transitional, via realtek chip on mobo) is coming.(it’s just new SPAudioReporter reporting hdmi audio in System profiler)

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Just in case you wondering what is it ?

should be more powerfull than current 9600m gt.

geforce 320m (in 13″ mbps) is half of 330m, it has 24 shader units.

And we will get support for core i3/i5 built-in gpu

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Somebody(a Macpro owner with pc gtx260) said rapidshare links to Enabler_for_Nvidia_and_multiple_ATI_cards.pkg were dead.

So now this pkg is located on our file server – Enabler_for_Nvidia_and_multiple_ATI_cards.pkg.zip

Update

CPU-X is on that server now too – cpu-x.zip

post in comments what else RS link from my blog is dead, I will try to host it on files.netkas.org

Also added page with listing of all files on server, it’s here.

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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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