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I have a brand-new Dell Inspirion 660 running Lion at 10.7.4.
The new models ship with an NVIDIA GT 640, which supposedly is based on the new Kepler chips. The same technology (apparently) as pushed out with the upcoming 10.7.5 (and Macbook Pro Retinas).
I figured, since the Dell Inspirion is a popular desktop that seems to work rather well as a Hackintosh, a lot of people will soon start browsing for help regarding the GT 640 graphics card (there is literally nothing online right now).
Here's what works:
- Ethernet worked out of the box, disk, usb, etc. all seems fine
- Audio: Tried installing a VoodooHDA driver (first through Multibeast) that worked right away
- That same VoodooHDA later on (couple of reboots later) was responsible for kernel panics, so I removed the KEXT in single user mode and it worked again (no sound though)
- With Graphics Mode = 1920x1080 (for that monitor I use) it brings up nice high-res
- It's of course not accelerated
Here's what puzzles me:
- I tried GraphicsEnabler with latest tonymacx86 Chameleon/Chimera. It recognizes the card and prints nice information in System Information. But there is only ONE resolution available (whichever I pick through Graphics Mode setting) and it says VRAM is basically 1MB or something ... or 64MB ... but not 1GB as supposed to.
- I then tried installing the latest netkas pkg (he built one based on the MB Retina drivers / 10.7.5 beta update) to get the latest NVIDIA drivers working.
- A reboot results in Kernel Panic, tried a few variations, same result.
- Fix for Kernel Panic: Remove NVDAResMan.kext - boots fine afterwards.
The device ID / Vendor ID for the GT 640 is:
10de:0fc0 (rev a1)
It's supposedly based on the GK107 chip.
And this is where I stand, I can't, for the hell of it, get acceleration working (no translucent dock etc.).
Any advice? I understand that most likely the latest forum developments will help sooner or later, but haven't seen anyone mentioning the GT 640 whereas everyone else with a Kepler card had success!
I was referring to these threads:
viewtopic.php?f=15&t=63823
http://forum.netkas.org/index.php/topic,2727.0.html
I didn't want to add more noise to the threads before getting basic advice/ideas out of the way here. I will post success or hints at the other thread once you guys can help me figure out something new.
Thanks so much.
Edit1: I also tried the latest versions of CUBA and another NVIDIA driver set I found on nvidia.com .... both to no avail
The new models ship with an NVIDIA GT 640, which supposedly is based on the new Kepler chips. The same technology (apparently) as pushed out with the upcoming 10.7.5 (and Macbook Pro Retinas).
I figured, since the Dell Inspirion is a popular desktop that seems to work rather well as a Hackintosh, a lot of people will soon start browsing for help regarding the GT 640 graphics card (there is literally nothing online right now).
Here's what works:
- Ethernet worked out of the box, disk, usb, etc. all seems fine
- Audio: Tried installing a VoodooHDA driver (first through Multibeast) that worked right away
- That same VoodooHDA later on (couple of reboots later) was responsible for kernel panics, so I removed the KEXT in single user mode and it worked again (no sound though)
- With Graphics Mode = 1920x1080 (for that monitor I use) it brings up nice high-res
- It's of course not accelerated
Here's what puzzles me:
- I tried GraphicsEnabler with latest tonymacx86 Chameleon/Chimera. It recognizes the card and prints nice information in System Information. But there is only ONE resolution available (whichever I pick through Graphics Mode setting) and it says VRAM is basically 1MB or something ... or 64MB ... but not 1GB as supposed to.
- I then tried installing the latest netkas pkg (he built one based on the MB Retina drivers / 10.7.5 beta update) to get the latest NVIDIA drivers working.
- A reboot results in Kernel Panic, tried a few variations, same result.
- Fix for Kernel Panic: Remove NVDAResMan.kext - boots fine afterwards.
The device ID / Vendor ID for the GT 640 is:
10de:0fc0 (rev a1)
It's supposedly based on the GK107 chip.
And this is where I stand, I can't, for the hell of it, get acceleration working (no translucent dock etc.).
Any advice? I understand that most likely the latest forum developments will help sooner or later, but haven't seen anyone mentioning the GT 640 whereas everyone else with a Kepler card had success!
I was referring to these threads:
viewtopic.php?f=15&t=63823
http://forum.netkas.org/index.php/topic,2727.0.html
I didn't want to add more noise to the threads before getting basic advice/ideas out of the way here. I will post success or hints at the other thread once you guys can help me figure out something new.
Thanks so much.
Edit1: I also tried the latest versions of CUBA and another NVIDIA driver set I found on nvidia.com .... both to no avail