NVIDIA GeForce 5xx Graphics in Lion [TEST]

[djdavedoc]

Ok and what do I need to do with it? Delete it from System, Library, Extensions?

 

[jdehnert]

I have an EVGA 580 working in my MacPro4,1, but I havent seen any info about getting the the card working during the boot process. I generally set my systems to boot verbosely so I can see whats happening burring the boot process.

Has anyone one cracked this issue yet?

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Thanks!
James "Zeke" Dehnert
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[HoochShepherd]

I have an EVGA 580 working in my MacPro4,1, but I havent seen any info about getting the the card working during the boot process. I generally set my systems to boot verbosely so I can see whats happening burring the boot process.

Has anyone one cracked this issue yet?

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Thanks!
James "Zeke" Dehnert
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You mean like the grey screen and the chameleon selection screen? There's a thread floating around, but it involves actually messing with firmware on your bios.

 

[jdehnert]

You mean like the grey screen and the chameleon selection screen? There's a thread floating around, but it involves actually messing with firmware on your bios.

Keep in mind that I'm on an actual MacPro, not a Hackintosh, so chameleon isn't installed on my system. If it will address this issue, and not create any others, I'll install it.

Basically, I just want to be able to monitor the boot process again. I don't even know if this is an issue for a Hackintosh, but with the MacPro I don't see anything from the boot chime until I get to the log in screen. I know in the video where some person shows first one 580, then two 580's running bridged, he has the same issue. If someone had found a solution to that, I'll be 100% functional.

 

[cavendishqi]

What's the current status for this thread?

My graphics card is:
nVidia Geforce 540M 1GB
10de:0df4

What should I do to feedback or test for this thread? thanks.

 

[aFlockOfMoosen]

What's the current status for this thread?

My graphics card is:
nVidia Geforce 540M 1GB
10de:0df4

What should I do to feedback or test for this thread? thanks.

there's no single answer... it's more of a troubleshooting thread. I read it from front to back, but i did eventually find my solution. it's a page or two back, if you wanna test it.

 

[HoochShepherd]

You mean like the grey screen and the chameleon selection screen? There's a thread floating around, but it involves actually messing with firmware on your bios.

Keep in mind that I'm on an actual MacPro, not a Hackintosh, so chameleon isn't installed on my system. If it will address this issue, and not create any others, I'll install it.

Basically, I just want to be able to monitor the boot process again. I don't even know if this is an issue for a Hackintosh, but with the MacPro I don't see anything from the boot chime until I get to the log in screen. I know in the video where some person shows first one 580, then two 580's running bridged, he has the same issue. If someone had found a solution to that, I'll be 100% functional.

Oh, yeah DO NOT use chim with an actual Mac... I'm 90% sure it will hose your install.

 

[lmt1979]

GTX 560 how I got it working

GTX 560 (non-Ti)
Boot from DVD
Use Multibeast to apply Easy Beast (changes ncpi=0x2000) and (darkwake=0),etc
Modified the NVDAGF100Hal.kext/Contents/Info.Plist to include my device id 0x1201 under
THIS SECTION
<key>IOPCIPrimaryMatch</key>
<string>
0x06c010de&amp;0xffe0ffff
0x0dc010de&amp;0xffc0ffff
0x0e2010de&amp;0xffe0ffff
0x0ee010de&amp;0xffe0ffff
0x0f0010de&amp;0xffc0ffff
0x104010de&amp;0xffc0ffff
0x124010de&amp;0xffc0ffff
0x120110de&amp;0xffc0ffff
</string>
The red is the GTX 560 (non-ti) device ID
Fixed Permissions, reboot


Use Kext Wizard or something similar to install it to System/Library/Extensions, fix permissions, reboot
Now, to get OpenCL working totally,
So, open up a hex editor of your liking and do this:
open /System/Library/Extensions/GeForceGLDriver.bundle/Contents/MacOS/libclh.dylib (as root or with sudo)
find: 8B 87 1C 0C 00 00 89 06 8B 87 20 0C 00 00 89 02
replace by: 31 C0 FF C0 FF C0 89 06 31 C0 89 02 90 90 90 90
save
reboot is not required, but recommended
(I repaired permissions again just for good measure)

 

[uenleeb]

Hello Hello,

I installed the 3 kext that are in the graphic bundle, however my 580 gtx (gigabyte 3gb version) is only getting 10.95 fps in cinebench and 588 in lux. Any suggestions? Also my mac profile is set to mac pro 5,1

 

[chlywly]

Finally managed to get an OSX-Lion install working on my system; The only problem is I'm only getting 27FPS with my GTX580,

I used multi-beast and it seemed to work with the Graphics-Card; but then using the GTX580+CUDA package, made it so there is a strange blue-screen on login and boot up and also the obvious FPS issues

So I tried a fresh-install.

I'm not getting over 37FPS with my GTX 580.. Seems extremely low