As for the last part, I did find and downloaded the Macvidia 1.0.81 package, then took it apart (sho package contents), incompressed another package inside it, found the two files you’re instructing us to use and went on as per instructions. The first time around, it didn’t work, but I suspect I had mistyped some command. The second time, it worked like a dream and allowed me to set the resolution to 1280X960. I have not tried the 1600X1200 setting, because I’m scared (… (-: ) and because I think it would be an overkill for this monitor. 1290X960 seems a bit on the too-high side, but it the best possible for me.

Also, I think Leopard would be a gross overkill - even some Apple hardware struggles with. And I remember an old friedn who kept using Windoze 3.11 even after XP had been launched, saying that he was not prepared to do MS’s debugging for them. (-:

As a conclusion, being able to use the Dell machine with OS X, cancels the dilemma as to whether my next Apple purchase should be a MacBook or an iMac: iMac it is, with as many goodies as financially wise.

So, thanks a lot again and keep up the good work.

Best

So far as I know, the hardware is CAPABLE of running Leopard. Whether or not it will run efficiently is another question. I wouldn’t run Leopard with anything under 1Gb of memory, so you might want too bump that up. Performance will of course be lost in the video department though, I don’t believe Leopard natively supports the card and you’ll either have to do some major hacking of kexts or be subject to VESA. These laptop formfactors are considered highly obselete, I wouldn’t expect any major gains or innovation for them by the driver authors in the future. Sorry.

Have followed these articals in the past and they have been worth there weight in gold. Has there been any more luck with 3D support for our old graphics card ? have been checking the forums and everyone else has newer laptops so no-ones really interested in making drivers for our laptop .
The only other question i have is that of Leopard , can it be intalled on our machines? . I have a Packard bell K series laptop which has basicly the same spec as the c840 except for 512 memory and a 2.8gig p4 processor , do you know if theres a chance i could install it ?

Thanks

I’m glad this series helped you in your quest to get this working and thank you for your kind words. I have added the links to the wiki @ the osx86project, but I didn’t see a need or method to post them to the wiki as a whole.

I do prefer to spell out the commands so that people can become more familiar with the MACH subsystem as a whole. It an indirect form of education I guess, .

You can, however, view these guides in the HOWTO section of the OSx86Scene @ http://www.osx86scene.com along with many other beneficial guides. The OSx86Scene isn’t as political as some of the other online communities and it’s information stays fresh/current. A vast majority of individuals that have been put off by the other communities have joined this community, which also happened to merge with MacVidia a few months ago.

As for the French keyboard layout, I don’t know if I can be of help on that one, but I will check around and see if I find anything. Cheers.

I D/L the 1.0.81 package and I installed it from Mac OS X. Upon reboot, I got the error message saying that we need to reboot the system (grey screen with the 4 languages messages - power button logo in the background).

I booted with the -v -s options. I mounted the drive (as you instructed us in part 2 or 3). Then I followed your instructions. I kept both NVidia.kext and NVdriver.kext (Step 5). I moved 2 other NV* directory (called NVidiaG… and NVidiaGL…) to the “backup” directory.

For the rest I followed all your instructions up to step 13.

NOTE : I didn’t had “IONDRVSupport.kext”… Since, I hadn’t it, I did not bothered about this.

The only thing I still need to test and Validate it’s 3D support. I would like to install my Blizzard Games on that Laptop (StarCraft, WarCraft III and World Of WarCraft).

=== PRESONAL NOTE FOR J. Longoria ===

Your tutorial are very clear. I must admit that I’m familiar with Unix and Linux. I often used shorter commands to achive the same results. I really appreciate that you took the time to put all these instructions together. I think you should add this directly to the OSx86 Project WiKi. So anyone would be able to add stuff or clarify things. Like my MacVidia 1.0.81 “patch”.

And I need one more thing, but it is more “personal”, I need to map Keys to get an effective French Canadian Keyboard layout, for the moment some keys/characters are not working at all. I need to use the US keyboard layout and I don’t like that, because most of my writing is done in French. It’s probably easy to to… I’ll look into that… For now, I got to work!

Here is how I made the MacVidia 1.0.81 package worked!!!

1. D/L the package from one of these location.
http://rapidshare.com/files/55901229/Ma … g.zip.html
http://www.tsone.info/MacVidia_1.0.81.pkg.zip

2. Run the Installer in MacOS (extract the ZIP, then run the .pkg)

3. Reboot. You should “crash” at this point.

4. Boot with F8 and -v -s options. Then the “/sbin/fsck -fy” and “/sbin/mount -uw /”.

5. Follow the instructions presented in this guide.

NOTE: I moved the both NVidiaGA.plugin and NVidiaGLDriver.bundle from the Extensions dir. I don’t know if it’s affecting the system, but I can set the resolution to 1400×1050.

NOTE2: Is 3D accelaration is supported???

Thanks for the guide, I already made it this far, but now I seem to be stuck on the MacVidia drivers. The official website looks to be down, can someone show me a link where I can download the 1.0.7 driver package?!

On the other side, I think I have found the 1.0.81 package, but will this work with the MX440 card?

Thanks