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Need EFI String for NVIDIA GeForce 7300 LE w/256MB VRAM

I'm trying to enable 3D graphics acceleration with my Snow Leopard 10.6.7 install, but I've tried to find an EFI string and I can't do it. OSX86 Tools and EFIString applications don't work on Snow Leopard (at least not in 10.6.7), so…

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@Mulder Published 2011-12-05
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@Mulder

I'm trying to enable 3D graphics acceleration with my Snow Leopard 10.6.7 install, but I've tried to find an EFI string and I can't do it. OSX86 Tools and EFIString applications don't work on Snow Leopard (at least not in 10.6.7), so they're useless, and even the gfxutil Terminal foo doesn't work.

So does anybody have a viable means of generating an EFI string for this card or can tell me how to do it myself (and has tested it on 10.6.7 to be sure it works)?

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