Working 9800 GTX Kexts

[ColinEC]

Hey guys,

I was browsing the "Graphics Card" section over at InsanelyMac to see if there were any new community-graphics card drviers, and I found a new thread that I thought was really cool:

http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showtopic=98666

This guy managed to get the GeForce 9800 GTX to work under Leopard.

I don't know if a GeForce 9800 GTX will even boot under a Mac Pro (or if it's even possible to install a 9800 into a Mac Pro), but it is a nice step into trying to get the 9XXX-series working

 

[Lord Blackadder]

I don't know if a GeForce 9800 GTX will even boot under a Mac Pro (or if it's even possible to install a 9800 into a Mac Pro), but it is a nice step into trying to get the 9XXX-series working

The 9800GTX uses the same GPU core as the 8800 I believe, so it should be possible to get it working in a Mac Pro.

 

[MacsRgr8]

Eh... but that's brilliant!

Waiting for more to do so.... and, I'll probably be doing that...

 

[knome]

So it only works under osx86? Damn... I installed a 9800 in my mac pro and it works under boot camp. It shows up in osx as a VGA compliant device.

 

[stainlessliquid]

Thats for a hackintosh, do the kexts for hacks work on real macs? If so then I dont know why people are buying (and waiting for) the overpriced mac 8800gt when they can just use a PC card with nvinject/natit/titan. Almost every PC card out there works with osx86.

 

[Pressure]

Thats for a hackintosh, do the kexts for hacks work on real macs? If so then I dont know why people are buying (and waiting for) the overpriced mac 8800gt when they can just use a PC card with nvinject/natit/titan. Almost every PC card out there works with osx86.

Indeed but real Macs need cards with an EFI rom. That's the problem.

However you can find PC Geforce 8800 GT with a 1mbit rom that can fit both BIOS and EFI.

 

[Lord Blackadder]

However you can find PC Geforce 8800 GT with a 1mbit rom that can fit both BIOS and EFI.

If you are skilled in surface mount soldering techniques, you can probably take any one of a variety of G92-based video cards, swap out the EEPROM chip with a higher capacity pin compatible model - then flash in the BIOS and EFI for a dual OS compatible card...