Comments on: Creating EFI String for Asus 8400GS Silent

By: Sal

Sal — Sun, 20 Nov 2011 17:54:30 +0000

Didn’t work, here’s what I got: invalid property list xml inputfile ‘graphics.plist’!

By: burtonium

burtonium — Sat, 26 Mar 2011 22:37:02 +0000

@LSP add this line to you com.apple.Boot.plist in /Extra

Graphics Mode
1280x1024x32@75

This is for 1280×1024 but you can add your own resolution. I don’t know if you can add more than one resolution
I hope it helps.

By: burtonium

burtonium — Fri, 25 Mar 2011 11:12:34 +0000

I did all this, created my EFI string and enabling it in com.apple……plist in /Extra. I have asus en8400gs 1gb. I had to change the ram part. I’ve putted 4 instead of 2 after 0x. In hw properties, now i see 1024mb of video ram, before it was only 32mb. Also i see my castom name for graphics card, but unfortunately when i run Front Row i still got blank screen.
read /Library/Preferences/com.apple.windowserver GLCompositor returns The domain/default pair of (com.apple.windowserver, GLCompositor) does not exist. Does anyone have any clue how to force my GPU to do qe/ci/opengl???

By: finster

finster — Tue, 15 Feb 2011 21:00:01 +0000

Is this using VGA or DVI? I had problems with the VGA connector, so bought a DVI-VGA adapter and used the DVI port instead. Hope that helps.

By: LSP

LSP — Tue, 15 Feb 2011 15:44:58 +0000

Thks I now appear to have acceleration and I can open Photo Booth but I have only 1024×768 in System Preferences so I am unable to change resolution
Mac OSX 10.6.6
Gigabyte GA-G41M-ES2L
Asus 8400GS Silent
Intel Core Duo 3.0 GHz
Barracuda 500GB
Corsair 2 Gig DDR2 800

Any ideas on how get full resolution?
Also cannot get sound working on this board using Realtek 888b

By: tanmaniac

tanmaniac — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 13:46:56 +0000

Yeah, I know. But it is possible to create a graphics.plist file for ATI, right? If so, how would you go about writing one?
Thanks.

By: finster

finster — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 06:12:11 +0000

Sorry tanmaniac, if you’re not using the same graphics card that I am, you won’t be able to use the graphics.plist file that I listed above.

By: tanmaniac

tanmaniac — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 01:57:49 +0000

Okay, I’m a complete newbie at this and I desperately need help. I’ve gotten the device path:

DevicePath = PciRoot(0×0)/Pci(0×3,0×0)/Pci(0×0,0×0)/Pci(0×8,0×0)/Pci(0×0,0×0)

but now what do I do? When it says to replace all of the information in the graphics.plist file, what information do I need to put?

These are my system specs:
Core i7 920 @ 3.2 GHz
6GB OCZ XMP DDR3 1600 MHz RAM, triple channel
MSI X58 Pro mobo
Sapphire Radeon HD 4850X2 2GB
Running Windows 7 x64 and Mac OS X 10.6.3 now, but Quartz Extreme doesn’t work at all, so I’m installing to a new HDD.

By: geekanddestroy

geekanddestroy — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 12:47:12 +0000

Hiya,

All up and running now. Did a complete reinstall from scratch and upgraded to 10.6.2 relatively painlessly. I built my entire system based on your guide, so thanks for that. And the Geekbench score I got for it is almost twice that of my similarly speced MacBook.

G&D

By: finster

finster — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 20:07:04 +0000

G&D,

I’ve not gotten around to creating a DSDT file for mine yet, I’m just using the EFI string in /Extra/com.apple.Boot.plist posted above.

Have you got the same card?