About This Mac & AppleSMBIOS in Snow Leopard - Page 2

grumptink · #11 10-29-2009, 10:02 PM

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Originally Posted by thorazine74

Try editing smbios.plist with your cpu's values.

Yes, but as I said before, it's only a cosmetic fix

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Originally Posted by Imkantus

Well the source code is avaible - so what's missing is someone to port it.

Well I can tell you right now, myself attempting that would be like putting wheels on a tomato. Time consuming, and completely pointless.

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Originally Posted by Imkantus

Having 64-Bit Kernel & Extensions isn't that much important as 64-Bit application still work cause the 32-Bit Kernel uses virtual address space.

I know, I'm just fussy

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Originally Posted by Imkantus

@thorazine74
You're sure that just setting the values via smbios.plist fixes the "About this Mac" crash, alltough other smbios value injects he has tied didn't?

I'm sure it's something to do with how each method injects the info, I just don't know how.

thorazine74 · #12 10-30-2009, 02:14 PM

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Originally Posted by grumptink

Yes, but as I said before, it's only a cosmetic fix

Well I can tell you right now, myself attempting that would be like putting wheels on a tomato. Time consuming, and completely pointless.
I know, I'm just fussy

I'm sure it's something to do with how each method injects the info, I just don't know how.

What do you mean only chosmetic? SMBIOS.plist just injects the values so System Profiler displays them, some of them are only of chosmetic value (i.e. RAM speed or Manufacturer or Serial Number) but others like Mac Model seems to be very important because OS X read those valuse and acts different depending what Mac Model you have. Its a good practice to have real data from a Mac Model close to your system specs, though I'm not sure which variables are really necessary apart from Mac Model...
It serves the same purpose as kext-based SMBIOS injectors, though it may not inject the same values as others like Andy's patched one, though arguably most of the values are useless. And it should work in 32 & 64 bits.
If you have a properly filled SMBIOS table About This Mac or System Profiler should not crash. What CPU do you have? I think you may have to edit the CPU and bus speeds in smbios.plist, I'm not sure because I never have to, I think its autodetected but maybe in your case it didnt work?
If you use smbios.plist injecting you probably should use vanilla unpatched AppleSMBIOS.kext and have no other SMBIOS injector kext installed.

Imkantus · #13 10-31-2009, 01:21 AM

Maybe it helps to use all the values SMBIOSEFI injects via smbios.plist? (Including modell, serial number and all the stuff)

Ofcourse just an idea...

grumptink · #14 11-04-2009, 01:56 AM

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Originally Posted by thorazine74

What do you mean only chosmetic? SMBIOS.plist just injects the values so System Profiler displays them, some of them are only of chosmetic value (i.e. RAM speed or Manufacturer or Serial Number) but others like Mac Model seems to be very important because OS X read those valuse and acts different depending what Mac Model you have. Its a good practice to have real data from a Mac Model close to your system specs, though I'm not sure which variables are really necessary apart from Mac Model...
It serves the same purpose as kext-based SMBIOS injectors, though it may not inject the same values as others like Andy's patched one, though arguably most of the values are useless. And it should work in 32 & 64 bits.
If you have a properly filled SMBIOS table About This Mac or System Profiler should not crash. What CPU do you have? I think you may have to edit the CPU and bus speeds in smbios.plist, I'm not sure because I never have to, I think its autodetected but maybe in your case it didnt work?
If you use smbios.plist injecting you probably should use vanilla unpatched AppleSMBIOS.kext and have no other SMBIOS injector kext installed.

Sorry guys, been away for a couple of days.

I don't know how it differs from other AppleSMBIOS injectors, but as for using a SMBIOS.plist, and it only fixing the System Profiler cosmetically, I was referring to a post I'd read on Prasys's blog, here.

In regards to "About This Mac" crashing, I've tried using a properly filled in SMBIOS.plist, with no other injectors present, and the only difference in the information displayed is what I expect, serial number, Boot ROM version. I've even edited my SMBIOS.plist to match the injector's values on the off chance it might work, but nothing.

When using EFI 10.5, which features a CPU auto detect, it picks up my CPU as a C2D 3.0 GHz, which is wrong, but it's the same as I got before the auto detect patch and also the same as when I boot without using any form of SMBIOS injector regardless of the bootloader being used. With AppleSMBIOSEFI.kext and Netkas's AppleSMBIOS.kext it reports it as a C2D 2.13 GHz, which is correct, and "About This Mac" doesn't crash.

grumptink · #15 11-04-2009, 01:57 AM

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Originally Posted by Imkantus

Maybe it helps to use all the values SMBIOSEFI injects via smbios.plist? (Including modell, serial number and all the stuff)

Ofcourse just an idea...

Tried using all the available values, and also with just main ones, model number, CPU & Bus speed etc.

meattattat · #16 11-04-2009, 04:57 AM

about this mac crashes too

mingzhi · #17 11-11-2009, 05:55 AM

oh yeah! Finally fixed about this mac problem using AppleSMBIOSEFI.kext. Greet done Chun-Nan and thanks Imkantus.

meattattat · #18 11-11-2009, 07:06 AM

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Originally Posted by mingzhi

oh yeah! Finally fixed about this mac problem using AppleSMBIOSEFI.kext. Greet done Chun-Nan and thanks Imkantus.

is that a 32-bit or a 64-bit kext?