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| On Jun 11, 2012, at 3:21 PM, Steve Oakley wrote: > 3rd parties are flashing nVidia cards with mac firmware and they work except during boot up. Following the conversations up here, I was getting the (probably mistaken) impression that after pre-installing the drivers that the Windows cards worked out of box, except you didn't get to see the boot screen; the eBay custom-flashed cards added the boot display hack. > the effort for them to support 480 / 580 /680 is pretty minimal. they couldn't even go for a fews days of an engineer's time to tweak the firmware for boot up ? Given that third parties are flashing the cards, rather than offering an OS patch, I got the (again, perhaps mistaken) impression that "officially supporting" those cards required the third parties to update firmware to offer Mac versions, rather than rely completely on Apple. But I'm speculating based on what I'm skimming over on this list. Can those who are running "Windows" cards on their Macs give us some explicit details of exactly what they had to do, and what they have to do without (like temp sensing in the power management - something else that comes up with the eBay flashed cards)? Regardless, dismayed that Apple didn't at least add the Quadro 4000 to their Built To Order options. - Chris |
