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PCI-E Nvidia 6600, 7300, 7900 not work in Lion with DSDT (stuck at gray screen)

PCI-E Nvidia 6600, 7300, 7900 not work in Lion with DSDT (stuck at gray screen) Does anyone have any experience? I tried to use the 10.6 ones, but it end up saying "The following symbols are unresolved for..." _Biosreadbytes.. Boots but no…

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@kocoman Published 2011-04-29
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Lion to Catalina (10.7–10.15)
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11,881 historical reads · 1 curated field notes (from 3 dispatches) · 2011-04-29 – 2011-05-03
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@kocoman (2)@Gary_G

PCI-E Nvidia 6600, 7300, 7900 not work in Lion with DSDT (stuck at gray screen)

Does anyone have any experience?

I tried to use the 10.6 ones, but it end up saying "The following symbols are unresolved for..." _Biosreadbytes..
Boots but no QI/QE. I tested with photo booth, but no video can be seen when I plug in camera

I did try NVEnabler64, with 6600 and 7900 = gray screen, with 7300 it panics.. (same thing as DSDT method)

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1 technical responses curated from 3 original dispatches

Field Note #1 @Gary_G 2011-05-02

To get QE/CI and OpenGL enabled use NVEnabler64.kext but in 32 bit mode.
Thus, use Boot flag, arch=i386

Works for me on GeForce 7600 GT 256.

Sources & Contributor Provenance (2 credited usernames · Thread #7144)
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@kocomanPrimary Author22011-04-29 → 2011-05-03
@Gary_GContributor12011-05-02