PNY Nvidia Geforce 9400 gt .kext? Help Pleez!

Hey folks - I registered here just to ask you all for help with this.

I used Kalaway OSX 10.5.2 to install Leopard.

Everything works fine except for the video card (well, the sound is choppy, but I'll cross that bridge when I get to it).

And so here we go.

Is there ANYTHING that can be done to get this working? I found some POSSIBLE solutions out there, but OSX 10.5.5 is needed at minimum...

I tried NVINJECT, but to no avail.

Here's what I'm working with:

MSI DKA 790GX Motherboard
AMD Athlon 64 X2 6000+ CPU
4 Gigs of ram
The PNY Nvidia Geforce 9400 GT with 1 gig of VRAM.
And 3 hard drives, but that's not necessary to know, I guess...

So yeah, I am begging the Hackintosh community to help me on this one.

Thanks!

Also - I can't seem to update - even when I run that script in the terminal to LET the update install. I install the update (downloaded by itself), stop the script, and then I edit that file where you change the "Don't steal Mac OS" (or whatever that says).
When it boots up after that, the screen goes black for about 1/2 second, and then keeps rebooting.

Damn. What a mess. I've installed kalyway over 12 times so far. Please help this to be my last!!!!
:)

Hi there,
If you need to update your system and since things still not work well then you could try Ideneb Lite 1.6 10.5.8. I have an AMD x2 3800+ and SB600 chipsets, NV 8400 GS and everything works fine.
About your video card, there is also an option of using NVDarwin. For my video card I did not load any driver but use graphic injection, ATY_init that you could also try out.
Regards,

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Originally Posted by ratvn

Hi there,
If you need to update your system and since things still not work well then you could try Ideneb Lite 1.6 10.5.8. I have an AMD x2 3800+ and SB600 chipsets, NV 8400 GS and everything works fine.
About your video card, there is also an option of using NVDarwin. For my video card I did not load any driver but use graphic injection, ATY_init that you could also try out.
Regards,

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Hey Ratvn. Thanks - I'm gonna give Ideneb Lite a whirl. I will let all know!

Yes, I would love to hear how it is going for you. Good luck,

Just a quick side note in case you can not make it to the installation screen, boot with options: -x -v busratio=20 cpus=1 and limit your system memory ram to less than 4Gb.

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Originally Posted by ratvn

Just a quick side note in case you can not make it to the installation screen, boot with options: -x -v busratio=20 cpus=1 and limit your system memory ram to less than 4Gb.

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Thanks. Only problem is I ran out of blank dvd's!

As soon as I do this, I will post. :)

Thanks again. :beer:

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Originally Posted by ratvn

Hi there,
If you need to update your system and since things still not work well then you could try Ideneb Lite 1.6 10.5.8. I have an AMD x2 3800+ and SB600 chipsets, NV 8400 GS and everything works fine.
About your video card, there is also an option of using NVDarwin. For my video card I did not load any driver but use graphic injection, ATY_init that you could also try out.
Regards,

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Ok, ratvn, I burned the disc and installed it. The installation itself went very smooth.

But every time I try to boot, I get Chamelion, which takes me to the apple load screen.

Nothing happens the second it gets there - no hard disk activity - nothing.

Perhaps I should use a different kernel?

Hi,
What kernel did you install? AMD CPU can not work with the vanilla so don't even bother to select during installation. The best bet in that package is voodoo/qoop (if I spell it correctly!!!, second one down in the list I think) as it is fixed for AMD. When using -v (for verbose) boot options, is everything appear loading OK. What chipset do you have and I suppose use load the driver for it? Also use -x for safe mode, and -f to see if it can rebuild the cache. So boot with -x -v -f (and busratio, cpus if needed to) until you make it to the welcome screen.
Once you get it up and running then there is a better kernel that you can download swap in.
Let me know.
Regards,

Ratvn - I got it!!!

Dual monitors and all at 1920x1080!

I did have to install another program, however, and that was the one that I needed at least 10.5.5 for.

This program worked like a charm!

It's called NVIDIA 9000 Series Driver v2.

Now the ONLY thing that is missing is sound. It's not even being detected, so I'm going to do some work upon it.

Thanks again! +rep for you for suggesting Idebeb!