Problems with BFG GeForce 7300GT 512MB AGP

fairlyodd · #1 07-17-2009, 10:26 PM

I downloaded NVinject 0.1.5 for Tiger 10.4.x and made sure I had all of the requisite kexts before installing. I made sure all permissions were set correctly, rebooted with -F and once it reached the gray screen it locked up. I rebooted again with -V to check out the problem and I could see several problems related to NVinject but did not know how to capture the error log to display it here. I will have to Google it to find out how to capture and save the log file so I can present it for evaluation.
If anyone can help me out how to do this I would be more than grateful.

This is what my card output looks like in profiler. It is not a PCI card nor does it have 256 MB of ram. I am not sure what I did, but once I removed the NVinject kext it booted normally. Now I read some where that you have to place your device ID into the nVidia kexts in system library extensions, but I am not sure which ones they are. I am also told I can not flash the bios on this card because it is not a PCIe card. I want to get QE/CI to work on this card if I can.

Type: VGA-Compatible Controller
Bus: PCI
VRAM (Total): 256 MB
Vendor: nVIDIA (0x10de)
Device ID: 0x02e2
Revision ID: 0x00a2
Kernel Extension Info: No Kext Loaded
Displays:
Display:
Resolution: 1024 x 768
Depth: 32-bit Color
Core Image: Not Supported
Main Display: Yes
Mirror: Off
Online: Yes
Quartz Extreme: Not Supported

fairlyodd · #2 07-17-2009, 11:45 PM

Is it possible to inject the newer nVidia kexts from 10.4.8 to my older version of 10.4.6 and replace them ?

I am curious to see if this may help me get this video card working properly and possibly get my Radeon X1650 working as well. I have a working backup of my image on another drive and would like to try it..I was hoping that maybe the older kexts in 4.6 were causing the issue with NVinject.

fairlyodd · #3 07-18-2009, 11:15 PM

Well lo and behold..I actually got the bloody thing working.

Replaced the older kexts from 10.4.6 with the newer ones from 10.4.8 and reinstalled NVinject and bingo, QE/CI, and rotation. No tearing, smooth as silk. Guess it does help to do your own research.

fairlyodd · #4 07-19-2009, 02:24 AM

I followed the instructions for installing updated kexts for my Radeon X1650 and loaded modbin's X1650 package...repaired permissions and rebooted. I now have full resolution capabilities, but no QE or CI

Anyone get this working on a Radeon X1650 512MB AGP card? Is there a way to enable QE and CI ???

Thanks

Type: VGA-Compatible Controller
Bus: PCI
VRAM (Total): 256 MB
Vendor: ATI (0x1002)
Device ID: 0x71c1
Revision ID: 0x009e
Displays:
CTX S700:
Resolution: 1280 x 1024 @ 75 Hz
Depth: 32-bit Color
Core Image: Not Supported
Main Display: Yes
Mirror: Off
Online: Yes
Quartz Extreme: Not Supported

fairlyodd · #5 07-19-2009, 02:42 PM

Come on guys I really need some help with this one...I can't even watch dvd's without QE/CI. Any hints would be very helpful....

fairlyodd · #6 07-19-2009, 11:15 PM

I read on the net that using DCPI will let me know what my device ID and vendor ID would be so I can patch the info.plist in the ATI kext. I used Linux PCI ID Repository to find out the correct way it is supposed to be listed in my kext.

Not really sure which one I am supposed to patch, but I am guessing it will be one of the three I added earlier. If anyone has a clue as to which one it may be feel free to give me a hint.
Thanks