@airwalk he was talking about a post i made about your dsdt. i noticed when i prepare my own dsdt i have 2 RTC length lines in 2 sections but yours has one RTC length section under one CMS thing. i'm curious about why that is. if i'm not making any sense let me know and i'll paste the code.

@ banini_jeque & slayer:

Well, I just switched my 2nd HDD from sata 1 to like 4 and it showed up in os x just fine. weird.

@msinfo_us and fq360, I would also like to see if native pm works with the newer bios version and the 6 core chip. I've switched to an ASUS P6T WS for now, but my EVGA E767 still hasn't sold on craigslist. It might also be interesting to compare a raw dsdt dump with a 6 core cpu vs one from 4 core cpu on the same board and bios version and see if anything is different that might be causing the issue. Then perhaps the dsdt could be modded to make native pm work on the 4 core as well using a newer bios version, but I have my doubts.

I have two nvidia 9800 GTX+ which are CUDA compliant but on the nvidia site there is no mention of the drivers supporting them. I'll try it any report back.

Thanks

Has anyone gotten cpu temps under os x?

Hi Guys!
Im running Vanilla 10.6.6 thanks to your epic guide but there are a few problems, so I'll start with a spec-out:

i7-980X
EVGA E760 X58 (BIOS 77 - Latest - Supports up to 16 Core CPUs)
2x ATI HD5870's XFire
Corsair Dominator GT (3x2GB)
2x Vertex 2 120GB
Samsung SpinPoint F1 1TB

So the problems began upon the update from 10.6.3 to 10.6.6 via the combo updater:

10.6.3 booted perfectly in 64-bit mode, where as now with 10.6.6 installed I HAVE to go in via safe mode otherwise I get a light blue screen.

Spotlight has randomly stopped working (may just be as I am in safe mode)

Native Power Management will not seem to work with my CPU - I have patched my DSDT with what I believe is all the patches needed for this to work except for SpeedStep and P+C States - I don't think this is required for NPM?

iAtkos S3 V2 works perfectly in 64-bit mode so I am at a loss as to what could be causing my problem.

Okay so main things I want to get working:

64-bit NON-Safe mode
NPM
SpeedStep + Sleep would be great too although there is a severe lack of 980X DSDT's patched for this CPU around.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!
Thanks!
Myles

UPDATE:
Just did some tinkering and aparrently my kernel AND extensions are running in 64-bit mode!
I ran GeekBench and got a pitiful score for the spec: 13676 in 64-bit mode and 12500 in 32-bit mode

In system profiler it shows all 6 cores and 6GB RAM however :/

Is there something wrong for me to get such a low score?

Couple questions:
1. Are you running Chameleon RC5? What version? Do you have CStates enabled and PStates disabled? Do you use DropSSDT=yes and your own SSDT's or DropSSDT=No?
2. What MAC model are you using? You might want to try few diff matching your system or create your own model to match exactly with your HW (I am using 11,1 and it had major impact on my geekbench. With i920 I get 14780 ... so you should certainly see more on your system. PS NPM enables turbo so this could also impact your score.

I have no experience with iAtkos S3 V2 and used vanila DVD to install, so may be who does have knowledge can comment.

Hi msinfo,
1) (a) Yeah Chameleon RC5 via the installer rev 693
(b) CStates are enabled and PStates are as default (I assume this means disabled)
(c) I don't use either so I'm imagining DropSSDT=No is default
2) (a) I'm using a MacBook Pro6,1 - 2.66GHz (Mid 2010)
(b) To create the actual SL install though I just use iAtkos on the target machine
(c) I'm using iMac11,1 as well and have tried Mac Pro 4,1 neither with an advantage over the other
(d) NPM most definitely isn't working on my machine as I get KP's as soon as I drop NullCPUPowerManagement.kext so my guess is that this is irrelevant to my score?

It's not the score I'm worried about though it's the lack of being able to boot without safe mode enabled, At the moment I can boot perfectly in safe mode with 64-bit extensions and kernel but flat-out refuses to boot without -x enabled, It stops just on a light blue screen - in verbose mode it is the point where it says something about CPUPowerManagement...

@Mutant, I want to know more about your kernel panic when you drop NullCPUPM, specifically if it's a type 13. If you could post a pic of it that would be great. I think everyone else is mostly using DropSSDT=Yes. Also I don't think most people on this thread are using any distros like iAtkos. I have a suspicion that caused your video issue when you went to 10.6.6, but I don't know, so my suspicion probably isn't worth much.

Hi banini, Just as a side note I'm not using the ATI GPUs to set it up for simplicity's sake, I'm using an old 7800 GTX that I found lying around (I've seen NV works much better with OSX than ATI)

I'll screenshot the KP once I'm at home (away for a few days atm)

Am I right in assuming that the SSDT tables interact with the BIOS to set voltages etc?

Myles

hi all well i recently updated my bios to new evga 78 version, i have my own dsdt and ssdt extracted through win 7

all works well apart from apple intel cpu management, keep getting kernel panics withoul nullcpu

seems like im stuck without speedstep/native etc.. and cant revert back to version 44 cause of hexacore support, if anyone wants to look over my dsdt and ssdt for a resolution i can post them up for you