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GTX480 running OSX in 1st Gen & Nehalem Pro !!!

paintmav said:
Thanks for that info Rominator, I guess all I'm trying to do right now is get it to boot on the Mac side even if its just from the Apple 8800gt(can't get past the blue screen) without disconnecting power for now until there is more concrete evidence that the GTX460 is up and running.
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I recently got a gtx 460 and put it in my macPro 2008 (3.1). My main goal was to use it with Octane Render in win 7 64 bit bootcamp. Everything worked well, until I applied the Snow Leopard graphics patch. When the pro rebooted, it would not get passed the blue screen.

I took the card out and tried to restore from time machine, but something must have been corrupted. Long story short, I ended up doing a clean install with snow leopard and patching up to 10.6.4. I have not applied the graphics patch. Right now I am waiting for a usb hd so I can make a bootable hd clone of my clean install. I will then reinsert the GTX 460 and give it another go.

1. paintmav - do you have yours up and running?
2. Does anyone know of the reason why everything went to crap only when I performed the graphics update with the card slotted (It worked fine up to that point)? Do I remove the card every time I apply a Snow Leopard patch?

Thanks for any insights,

/Christian
MacPro 2008(3.1) | 14GB RAM | 8800GT & GTX 460 | OSX 10.6.4 & Windows 7 64 bit
 
10.6.5 has caused my GTX 480 to stop driving my ACD 23 under the netkas injector and June GF100 kext release. Anyone else got this problem? I think the problem is 10.6.5, but cannot be completely sure due to my incessant fiddling with my config - I might have broken something elsewhere I guess......
 
10THzMac said:
10.6.5 has caused my GTX 480 to stop driving my ACD 23 under the netkas injector and June GF100 kext release. Anyone else got this problem? I think the problem is 10.6.5, but cannot be completely sure due to my incessant fiddling with my config - I might have broken something elsewhere I guess......
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I just updated to 10.6.5 and installed the following patch, all seems to be working like before. Unfortunately I'm still having vsync issues (screen tearing) like I did with 10.6.4.

EDIT: Had no sound, had to revert AppleHDA.kext to one from 10.6.2 as described here.
EDIT2: Still having wake-from-sleep issues where the display won't turn on.
 
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I gave up on this for a while, but I recently saw nvidia post a new driver, and people saying that the latest snow leopard and Lion has native 4XX support.

Anyone running GTX 460 in their macPro with latest snow leopard or Lion?

Thanks,
/Christian
 
Up for an exhumation !!!

cakesson said:
I gave up on this for a while, but I recently saw nvidia post a new driver, and people saying that the latest snow leopard and Lion has native 4XX support.

Anyone running GTX 460 in their macPro with latest snow leopard or Lion?

Thanks,
/Christian
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The way it works is, if you install the last Nvidia update for 10.6.8 Quadro, and then install ATY_Init, you will suddenly have MAGIC at your fingertips.

Most Nvidia cards will work...they just won't show you the boot screens.

In Lion, you still need a helper card.

For the most part, the 4xx cards are better supported then the 5xx cards.

And if you want OpenCl, you need to do some patching.

Details at Netkas.org.
 
I am running a MacPro4,1 with 12GB Ram, 2,66ghz W3520 Xeon Single-QuadCore and a EVGA GTX 285 for Mac...

Now i just ordered myself a GDDR5 1024MB GT440 card and trying to get it working. However, so far no luck at all.

GTX285 is on slot 1, slot 2 is GT440.

the card won't even activate at all, no 2D, nothing.

I tried things like natit, nvenabler, nvinject, but nothing seems to work, except it's doing kernel panics ;)

So, how shall i do this? you guys mention ATY_init ? what's that for? where can i get the latest version for it?

I'm running lion 10.7.1 btw... and using latest cuda drivers from nvidia. fermi drives are oob from apple (they come with lion now)

how does a helper card work? Maybe I need to switch around my cards? from slot 1 to 2 and vice versa?

byebye
Florian
 
florianuhlemann said:
So, how shall i do this? you guys mention ATY_init ? what's that for? where can i get the latest version for it?
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This was the key! I got it working, now just patched the GeForceGL for OpenCL and added my device ID to the power management kext. Looking good. OpenGL is working, Cuda is working. THANK YOU netkas ;)

Although I still get an OpenCL error when using Luxmark with GPUs.

OpenCL ERROR: clBuildProgram(-11)

trying to figure out what that is. ;)

Florian
 
yes, i have tried the patch and it does make opencl work, i just get the luxmark error because it's not capable of handling SM2.1... there is a patch to make it 2.0 but then it would change the version for my gtx285 as well, which is only SM1.3 i think. and that certainly breaks opencl for that one. tried it already.

Maybe there's going to be added support for 2.1 soon, that's my only hope to getting a fully functional GT440 / GTX285 combo ;)
 
.... and what now...? RESYMUMEY ANYBODY

Can anybody please get some things straight for me!

Hey Rom if you're still somewhere around man, do something cause this is really confusing. We need a conclusion here!


Questions!

1.) Did you manage to get the GTX470/GTX480 or which ever one of those you where having fun with, to run inside a genuine MacPro Tower?

2.) What's this thing about having two cards inside and that having an effect on making the other one wakeup how does that roll??
( one makes the boot screen and the other gets to be woken up afterwards how does it go step by step)

Finally!!!!
Flashing? Rom File? DOS Booting USB Stick?
3.) Did you, or you not have preformed the flashing in your GTXes??

4.)Isn't there a EFI conflict, because any one of You guys haven't bean clear on that matter!!!( the whole third slot thing wow! )

5.) What about the chip size that I'd read about somewhere around?
Dose the new rom file fit inside? (without the soldering :eek:)

6.)Can You preform the flashing on the Apple machine ?
(usb boot stick, nvflash) Crating a guide would be appreciated!

7.)Where the ******* is the rom file from the Quadro4000 I just cant find it and it's supposed to be out there! (netkas)

or ar all those thigs you've all being talking about only post flashing issues

There are Flashed GTXs 470's and 480's on the market, some one had to make it happen and still there's no sign of how its preformed it in the web.... so WTF?

Cheers!
 
Here is what I did,
Mac Pro 2008 3.1 OS X Lion 10.7.3
ECS GTX 460 Dual DVi, Mini HDMI

Install latest mac drivers from Nvidia website - will overwrite the native ones that come with 10.7.3
macosx-270.00.00f01-driver
If you have problems you can back out of it after restart - read the documentation that come with the drivers!
If all good......
Install latest Cuda drivers for Mac
Install Cuda-Z to see if its working
Install this driver bundle below using Kext Helper
http://www.osx86.net/view/2408-geforcegldriver.bundle_for_nvidia_4.1.29.html
Fix extension permissions with Kext Utility and reboot.
No boot screen but wait for login screen and your good to go.
Worked for me anyhow.
Open GL, Cl, Cuda et al, can run Luxmark,Cinebench,Open GL, Unigine benches at 15fps-68fps full settings
Good Luck
 
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cakesson said:
I gave up on this for a while, but I recently saw nvidia post a new driver, and people saying that the latest snow leopard and Lion has native 4XX support.

Anyone running GTX 460 in their macPro with latest snow leopard or Lion?

Thanks,
/Christian
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Read my post above to see how I got it working
 
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