“The Russian hacker known as Netkas has hinted that he?s cracked Nvidia?s Fermi ROM, the firmware underlying its most powerful cards, which are currently Windows-only.
In a post titled ?On the mac?s fermi ROM,? Netkas posted a winking smiley face ? a hint that he?s cracked the drivers for Nvdia?s most powerful line of graphics cards.”
I have a new quadro 4000 for mac, I can get you the firmware or bios from the card. Would that help?
Specifically, would that make a gtx 580/590 work on OSX fully featured?
I feel like the hardware had all this potential but under OSX the weakest link is video card support
netkas… i’m waiting you to buy a gtx 570 (i know i’m not the only one:P) !! make us happy please! i think you’re the answer! π
bye and keep the great work did so far!
I think Netkas works at Fermi Mac BIOS, which can make retail PC Fermi cards to work at MacPro, it’s nice, but won’t help any Hackintosh users with their GTX 5XX cards. Also Fermi not only 5XX cards, it’s also a big family of 4XX cards, that works at Hackintoshes perfectly today.
5XX users should wait for a new MacBooks in march and hope, that Apple will use any 500M series cards in it, and if not, maybe just updates drivers in 10.6.8 (upcoming 10.6.7 comes without new drivers) or nVidia updates drivers for their Quadro Mac card.
ehm .. and why wouldn’t a “retail pc 5xx” card that works in a mac work in a hackintosh? I mean .. real mac needs drivers just as well right? Problem here is that the current drivers have issues with gf110 chip…
Real Mac also requires compatible Mac BIOS code, on Hackintosh you use Chamellion or other injecting method, but on real Mac these operations must be completed in BIOS and card must work just after system turned on.
???? What do you mean?
Ρ Π΄Π΅?
=D
What? what? WHAT??? Please tell me this includes GTX 580 support?
where?
New code coming up whit 10.6.7 update?
Can I buy a 560? π
In new 10.6.7 seed i see
Focus Areas
– Mac App Store
–Β AirPort
– Bonjour
– SMB
– Graphics Drivers
So do Graphics Drivers offer 5xx support?
i think you could have posted a little more info,
NERD!
+1!
more infox plx!
well, i guess no news is good news π
Don’t make me regret buying a 6870. :/
So can anyone deny/confirm the GeForce.kext is now finally updated for the 110 Architecture in the GTX 5xx Series in OS X 10.6.7? Pretty please?
such a cryptic wink
Netkas is up to something..I can smell it! π
I think you smell my fart… sorry…
Is the NVCAP still version 5 like in the GT120?
You tease! π
Well we’ill find out soon.
Well this is what I found somewhere else:
“The Russian hacker known as Netkas has hinted that he?s cracked Nvidia?s Fermi ROM, the firmware underlying its most powerful cards, which are currently Windows-only.
In a post titled ?On the mac?s fermi ROM,? Netkas posted a winking smiley face ? a hint that he?s cracked the drivers for Nvdia?s most powerful line of graphics cards.”
Original Post: http://www.cultofmac.com/tag/graphics-cards
It’s been 5 daysβ¦
Anything you want to tell us Netkas?
uhhhh waiting π
c’mon – we will love you for good news π
… now 7 days without any update. What a tease. Anything you would like to share at this point!? π
Will be Netkas the savior of Fermi users? I keep dream about a simple solution, a Netkas solution =)
…..and?
please work with 460 too, please work with 460 too, please work with 460 too?
π
Nothing yet?
5xx support… pleeeease
netkas man… that is 2 months too early π
Yeah,
I am sure Netkas has seen something new about graphics drivers in the latest Beta4 of 10.6.7
so… nothing yet? π
Eagerly waiting for support for my Palit 2GB GTX 560 Ti !!!
Just RMA,d my Gigabyte GTS 450… just cant take that fuckin freeze anymore…
Gonna grab me a Gigabyte Ati Radeon 5770…
for everyone who wonders it means netkas has the rom from fermi and awaits apple for release of newer kexts or nvidia more like nvidia
I have a new quadro 4000 for mac, I can get you the firmware or bios from the card. Would that help?
Specifically, would that make a gtx 580/590 work on OSX fully featured?
I feel like the hardware had all this potential but under OSX the weakest link is video card support
THX
Jay
Also,
I am also open to getting 6000 series uber card working if need anything from those cards I’ll send the files to you
Jay
netkas… i’m waiting you to buy a gtx 570 (i know i’m not the only one:P) !! make us happy please! i think you’re the answer! π
bye and keep the great work did so far!
suelte viejo
what’s the hold-up?
I think Netkas works at Fermi Mac BIOS, which can make retail PC Fermi cards to work at MacPro, it’s nice, but won’t help any Hackintosh users with their GTX 5XX cards. Also Fermi not only 5XX cards, it’s also a big family of 4XX cards, that works at Hackintoshes perfectly today.
5XX users should wait for a new MacBooks in march and hope, that Apple will use any 500M series cards in it, and if not, maybe just updates drivers in 10.6.8 (upcoming 10.6.7 comes without new drivers) or nVidia updates drivers for their Quadro Mac card.
ehm .. and why wouldn’t a “retail pc 5xx” card that works in a mac work in a hackintosh? I mean .. real mac needs drivers just as well right? Problem here is that the current drivers have issues with gf110 chip…
Real Mac also requires compatible Mac BIOS code, on Hackintosh you use Chamellion or other injecting method, but on real Mac these operations must be completed in BIOS and card must work just after system turned on.
ummm… what’s with the broken image?
http://forum.netkas.org/index.php/topic,763.0.html