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“I can install iPC or ATKOS but when install finish, I only have 1024x768 screen resolution. is there any video driver/patch for Geforce 9800GT to work ? Aren't there are 9800 drivers on the iPC install disc? Did you try those?”

“You can try this: http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showtopic=19806 However, it's most likely that since your card is old, Apple may have finally phased out support for this card as they did to the 5x00 and some 6x00 GeForce cards. I'm…”

“You may want to consider another fresh install. Then install nvenabler and do nothing else for graphics. after reboot os x should detect your optimum resolution. I occasionally get static on boot or after waking the display from sleep but a…”

“hmmm i don't do a lot of this, but I got burning monkey solitaire in the macheist bundle and it goes full screen when you launch it. No problems there. Same thing with that Monkey Island game from the MH bundle. I don't seem to have any iss…”

“Nice. 4 cores is technically correct. Hardware-wise, hyperthreading doesn't count. Mine doesn't even read memory in system profiler. Says 6gb 1333 in about this mac, which is as high as this mobo supports last i checked. I did away with gra…”

“check out empire efi. you don't need a real mac with it. it's basically a boot 132 cd with some drivers added. I've never gotten it to boot into the retail installer with video on the 260 though, so you may have trouble there. I haven't tri…”

“Hmmm. My system profiler just says 2.69. Then again about this mac sees my ram and system profiler doesn't... I just don't like entering the info. I want it to be auto detected like it should be. I looked at the V8 but ended up going with a…”

“Nice. Mine thinks it's a Mac Mini though. I really like Empire EFI. I may have to try PC EFI though. I think I read somewhere in this thread that their bootloader made their sleep work. I just like that Empire EFI lets me install from the S…”

“X. So I got my x58/i7920/gtx260 up and running. Thing runs SUHWEET. I actually didn't use your guide. I went with Empire EFI and was able to get as close to retail as I could. The only thing I'm still having trouble with is sleep. I've chan…”

“Heya x986123. I sold my old rig and now i'm in the process of building one similar to what you've got going on here. I'm a little curious on your GPU in your sig where it says SLI dual GTX 260. Do you actually have two of them? If so just c…”

“I would suggest trying iboot. I haven't checked in the last few months but the last thing I read from prasys sounded like he wasn't going to continue with empire. I could be wrong though. Good luck!”

“Yeah I'd leave it at 60hz. I think it mentions it in the first post but there's a site called kexts.com or something like that where you can find a kext to get your internet working.not sure why it's giving you a kp unless you installed con…”

“Prasys, I've been using NVEnabler for awhile now and it seems to be working great. I disabled graphics enabler in my extras boot.plist and it is working better with nvenabler. Using graphicsenabler=y my hdmi input wouldn't work, but it does…”

“Ok Prasys, I'm working on that NVEnabler thing. Let me know if you still need that and my dsdt. I'm assuming I need to take out the graphicsenabler option in chameleon to use the enabler, correct? I don't have any other injectors or efi str…”

“I don't but I've been meaning to get my dsdt and video bios dump to Prasys to try and get it working using the boot disc. I looked into it awhile back but didn't get very far. I'll do that this weekend.”

“Sure i can do that. How do I dump my video bios?”

“Well i tried out the bootcamp utility on your blog, and it worked at partitioning my hard drive wonderfully. I then proceeded install win7 and now can't boot into OS X I tried the original Empire EFI disc to boot into my OS X partition, but…”

“That's awesome prasys, thanks! Just wanted to add that the version I used was the beta for the X58 chipset and not v. 1.08 which may have worked with my gtx 260 from the sound of it. I might download the new version tomorrow and try an inst…”

“I had great success with the hardware in my sig. Only thing was i had no video using the gtx260 so i had to put in my old 8800gs for the install and then swap in the gtx260 and follow PCwiz's guide to get it working. If we can find a way to…”

“I could freakin' KISS you. Works like a champ. No more cmos reset. THANK YOU. I've been beating my head against that one for the last 3 days.”

“Here ya go. I included the log too. You probably don't need it but i don't know how to find the problems without it. Thanks for taking a look. Feel like i'm hijacking your thread here.”

“yeah i just downloaded it. I'll give it a try. I've gotten the line edited, where i run into the problem is on recompiling it back to an .aml. Using iaslme it just gives me a log file. I'll give dsdtse a shot though. thanks”

“i don't think i've ever applied a dsdt mod... I tried it with force compile on the iPC install disc awhile back, but i never noticed if it worked. The only thing i need it for is to get my cmos to stop resetting, otherwise i wouldn't care a…”

“I'm sitting here wondering if it would fix my dsdt recompiling problem, cuz if all it does is the basic patch dsdt/iasl decompile/recompile, i'm screwed. I have to force compile and get an error and three warnings, then i edit it, and it wo…”

“So, I have now a working X1600Pro package (NatitX1600 doesn't work) and a working 10.5.8 Finder from an original installation. My only problem is that System Profiler shows no CPU information (SPPlatformReporter and SPiPlatfromReporter are …”

“No. My Ethernet shows up as en0 and my wireless is showing as en1, and Time Machine is working fine. The issue is with IONetworkingFamily.kext, and the fix supplied is a modified version from ToH that does the trick. Sweet. Thanks for the i…”

“hmm, well my ethernet is built in and works out of the box with no extra kexts installed. I don't have a wireless card. I just haven't been able to get TM to work. Hopefully ppf4 will fix the issue. I'll keep my fingers crossed. I read one …”

“ah ok. once ppf4 comes out i'm going to do a fresh install to see if it'll get time machine working. I'll try them then. Thanks Hara.”

“Yes i installed an earlier build of quicktime (still 7.5.5) and the mouse lag goes away. So if iPC included the earlier build of quicktime (but still iTunes 8.0.2) or the 10.5.5 graphics kexts, the problem would be solved.”

“No it is an issue when using the 10.5.6 graphics drivers in conjunction with quicktime 7.5.5 and or itunes. Rolling back to an earlier version of quicktime or rolling back to 10.5.5 graphics drivers fixes the problem.”

“Well the card works great except for the mouse lag when i'm running the latest itunes or quicktime. It's a fairly common bug with the 10.5.6 8xxx graphics drivers and latest versions of quicktime and itunes. From what i've read it only seem…”

“Using graphics strings via EFIStudio right now. I had the same problem using NVkush. I also tried NVDarwin default but didn't have CI/QE using it.”

“You can install with Pacifist as well. Thanks Hara, Pacifist worked like a charm. Never even crossed my mind to try it. I'd like to request that the final ppf include pre Quicktime 7.5.5/iTunes 8.0.2 (but later than itunes 8.0, i love geniu…”

“The old version of Silverlight did this to me, the new installer works just fine after installing the Voodoo 9.5.0 kernel, which shows my P4 as a Core Solo. Thanks for the reply. I actually am running the voodoo kernel and was trying to ins…”

“Ran into an odd snag trying to install Silverlight. The installer tells me it can't be installed on a PowerPC. On the off chance it was Microsoft's problem I tried it on my MBP, but it worked fine. Any idea why the silverlight installer see…”

“I solved my problem by using the XxX 10.5.6 release. i switched to this because it include the old acpi kext which apparently i needed so might want to give that a shot Thanks but I'm determined to figure this out because I know it works cu…”

“First off great release and I have had best success with your distro. I do though have one problem. I have now tried, with the same successful iPC DVD, to install on a new drive and I keep getting the same error. I have selected the same pa…”

“I'm liking this as I sold my old rig and am currently piecing together a new x58/i7 based one and I would like to get away from the "install from Leopard" approach. Not only does it require you to install 3 times to get permissions repair r…”

“Same here maya77. Boot stopped on "using 16384 buffer headers and 4096 cluster IO buffer headers". The next line should be ACPI? yep same here”

“nice. that's all i've been waiting for to give SL a try”