Awesome. Thanks for the info sk1nhdd33t

Will patch up accordingly and let everyone know how it goes (if anyone cares).

Well I've hit the wall...again. I've been trying to update to 10.6.2 and it kernel panics almost immediately. I've lost sound and when I remove sleepenable.kext for some reason I lose my ethernet connnection as well.

I'm not too sure where I went wrong but it's 1:30am and I need to work in the morning. Dammit.

I removed sleepenabler.kext, rebuilt the kext cache, downloaded and installed the 10.6.2, added in the new sleepenabler.kext and then rebuilt the cache.

I use the V1 motherboard, your signature appears to be V2 so wonder if that is anything to do with it?

Black screen and VGA
 

I have the same problem as you. I cloned my flawless system but the newer setup has only a VGA monitor (1280x1024). Here are my observations:

If I use the original DVI/HDMI/VGA (1920x1080) monitor using DVI or HDMI connectors, it works fine.

If I use the VGA monitor, I get the funny black screen.
If I hit the power button for a very short period, I see the login screen for a fraction of a second and then the machine goes to sleep.

If I hit the power button or any keyboard key or click on the mouse, the machine wakes up and I get the beautiful login screen and things work.

Idle sleep does not seem to work. The displays shuts off but the machine keeps on running. At least the fans were running.

If I force the system to sleep via the menu or the power button, the system DOES go to sleep like it should and wakes up as it should.

Switching to the DVI monitor fixes the login and sleep problems.

I have this wild conjecture that when I use the VGA only monitor, the display system is actually trying to use the DVI port and fails. Hitting the power button may cause it use the VGA port. But this may be my conjecture at 2:27 AM.

Thanks so much, i guess my fault was the boot order because that was the only difference. Whatsoever, now it works like charm! Thanks again.

Not too sure either. When I look at the KP screen I see that it is the sleepenabler that is causing the problem. I think that part of the problem was that I tried to load the new sleepenabler kext before doing the upgrade so that I hopefully wouldn't lose ethernet. I must be doing something incorrectly because it's my understanding that sleepenable has nothing to do with ethernet. Gosh this is as bad as when I would spend hours trying to configure early linux distros.

My next step is to download the 10.6.2 combo file and do an offline installation. I'll see if that works.

If anyone is looking for the offline files they can be found here.

Another Lurker my upgrade 10.6.2 experiences and method=fail
 

I have a 10.6 system following this guide. I never used sleep enabler though.

Some people might be interested in the way I test updates now. I use carbon copy to clone my current drive (i was made following this guide). Just reinstall chameleon bootloader ( here ). That will give you a perfect copy of your system that is bootable. boot into the new system from bios. try your upgrade configuration. If and when it doesnt work. go to carbon copier again clone your working drive again, this time it wont take very long to clone your drive since it compares files before it moves them. it is awsome.

I am trying to update this system too and I am having trouble. I have gotten 10.6.2 to work.

Update
add new sleepenabler (i didnt have old one)
delete extentions.mkext
rebuild as advise earlier in thread.

got it to boot buuuuuuut

its weird. it doesnt sleep like my current system does. ethernet issues. etc...

i'll keep a look out and I can try a few tweak everyday till i get it. with this carbon copy work flow it is easy to test out changes. good luck. look forward to other results.

How!? How does one rebuild the kext cache?

A great suggestion. I've been doing the same thing but have been using Disk Utility. I ran into a problem where it didn't image properly. Do you have Carbon copy on a bootable USB or disk?

Try using http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/ind...owtopic=140647

Does somebody have problems while using an usb keyboard and mouse?

I'm not sure how to describe the behaviour, but it's fairly annoying me. If I type fast or using any kind of multiple-key-shortcut serveral keystrokes get lost. It's not repeatable by typing the same, but it's defently not the users fault ;)
Same story while using the mouse. From time to time a click event gets lost.

I've searched the forums and some people had the same problems but no one since snow leopard. According to some solution tips i've disabled usb legacy in the bios, without any change. (changed USB ports as well)

Not sure if it's a problem of my machine or settings...

thank you in advance!

I have two almost identical 500 gig WD hard drives. So I use Carbon Copy Cloner to copy my stable system onto the other 500 gig wd hard drive. Like I said before you have to add a boot loader again for your new clone to work. I should try out my 32 gig usb drive see if I can make that a bootable clone too.

great writeup
 

thanks.
I have updated to 10.6.2 like in a previous post.

By the way, I am using a rev 2.0 mobo, 4g mem, msi 9400 gt graphics card http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16814127398, another pci nic http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16833166017



In case some are using case sensitive partition, dsdt.aml should be DSDT.sml. That is, it is CASE SENSITIVE.
Otherwise, sound would not work and others may not.

Are there still issues using 4 gigs of RAM?

ie. when I was doing my 10.5.6 build using this mobo, folks generally recommended sticking with only 2G of memory.. folks with 4G had stability issues... at least that's what my fuzzy mind seems to remember from ~8 months ago when I last did this.

(getting ready to try again, using these very nice instructions for Snow Leopard)

im running 4 gigs of ram, and ive yet to run into problems.

I was going to build a computer for my friends the same as mine which is based off this only its rev. 2 board with a realtek network card.

But i can no longer get this board without ordering it from some online place ive never ordered from (im in australia btw). However i was thinking the g41mt-es2l has realtek network and sound but ddr3 memory. Has anyone used this board or knows if it might have any issues, it seems pretty much identical other then slightly updated with better video which wont be used anyway, it even still uses ich7 i believe.

I am following this guide with no success. I get to the main wallpaper screen with the colorful spinner, but after about 5-10 seconds the spinner freezes and nothing after that. I have KPs are anything, so I am unsure what could be the cause of this. I am using GraphicsEnabler=y because I am using an Asus EN9400GT video card and have no additional cards or anything installed. Only odd thing is as the setup is loading (during the Chameleon screen after using -v) it reporst my video card as nVidia unknown 512MB. Could this be the issue? I wouldnt think so but I really dont know. Any help is appreciated...

I have the Asus EN9400GT card and also get the message it's not recognised, however it works perfectly well.

You don't state what you have done and where the problem occurs, is this during boot, install or after installation.

The more information you provide, the more chance there is of diagnosing the problem.

I re-imaged my disc and gave it another shot and it works. rwillett, you have the same card? do you know how to get sound over hdmi? or if it is possible? i am using hdmi to connect to my flat screen and woiuld love to get sound working over it so i can get rid of these speakers, if possible...

Success SL 10.6.1 on G31M-ES2L GPT and MBR
 

Hi Guys,

I just wanna report & share that I had successfully installed above said. :D

Intel E7300 Core 2 Duo + G31M-ES2L + 3Gb DDR2 800 + 9400GT 512Mb
(using patched OSInstall.mpkg + ES2L Kit in Sandisk Cruzer 8Gb & Pendrive 8Gb USB stick)^_^

I have 3 Hdd's.
Hd0 500Gb = Vista, XP, Leopard 10.5.8 Vanilla + NTFS3G
Hd1 320Gb = Leopard 10.5.8 Vanilla (2), 10.6.1 Vanilla + NTFS3G, and
Hd2 160Gb = Snow Leopard 10.6.1 Vanilla (2) + FATs

SL 10.6.1 on GUID partition on Hd2
SL 10.6.1 on MBR partition on Hd1

Deleted Sleep Enabler.kext & installed UD3Pv3 package.
Barfff... barfff... !! yes, updated to 10.6.2 with UD3Pv3 package - but audio not working, - and tried most of Voodoo.kext, Apple HDA's + Realtek ALC883.mpkg - it makes good graphics but No Audio.:(

I'm staying with 10.6.1 now to test if theres any inconsistency issues.

Good so far.:D
Many thanks to all the members around the globe.

Ooops, one more thing ...... the above success are also applied to my 2nd PC C2Q6600 / 9400GT / 2 Gb DDR2 / Asus P5KPL-AM - - - - >> TQ

Sorry no, don;'t use HDMI so can't help.

Rob.

I dont think video cards output sound through their hdmi. I have a 9800gt and I used both hdmi and vga. I didn't have any sound, just get a headphone out to rca from radio shack.

Also, I followed this guide and I have noticed my usb speeds being slow. According to this . It takes about 42 secounds to transfer 1 gig of information to a usb drive (connected directly to my board). Any Ideas?

You;re confusing USB speeds with disk speeds. USB might be 480mbps (it isn't really), your disks can't output data at those speeds.

A chain is only as strong as it's weakest link, you could have 800mbps Firewire but no disk can work at those speeds.

Oddly enough I'm transferring 69.93GB off a Mac Mini disk to a larger disk via a USB 2.0 connection as we speak.

It has 66GB to go and is estimated to take two hours. Lets assume it does it in two hours, that works out at 550MB per minute which equals 9Mb per second. Which is about right for a 2.5" laptop disk. I could have USB 3.0 but it still wouldn't be quicker.

I have no issues with 9Mb/second, a faster disk would help but for you to get to 1GB in 17 seconds you can't do it off a single disk. Perhaps a disk array with stuff in parallel would help :)

Thanks for explaining that to me. I'm setting up a media center and I decided to use a 30gb usb stick as a go between from WD TV and computer. Great explanation of how it really works.

Thanks rwillett

Any one using the old school PATA (IDE?) HD's I have a few I tried to throw in my machine I got one recognized but it hasnt been recognized again. not really sure what the deal is just wondering. ive toyed with the bios too but again im not sure what I can do, the bios doesn't seam to recognize them. I might need pin covers for the drive. I thought the bios chose which drive was being used so i threw the master slave covers out... Hope I don't need em. Also here are my kexts if anyone sees any tweaks I could make let me know
Sn0ws-iMac:~ sn0w$ kextstat
Index Refs Address Size Wired Name (Version) <Linked Against>
1 57 0 0 0 com.apple.kpi.bsd (10.0.0)
2 4 0 0 0 com.apple.kpi.dsep (10.0.0)
3 78 0 0 0 com.apple.kpi.iokit (10.0.0)
4 84 0 0 0 com.apple.kpi.libkern (10.0.0)
5 63 0 0 0 com.apple.kpi.mach (10.0.0)
6 24 0 0 0 com.apple.kpi.private (10.0.0)
7 39 0 0 0 com.apple.kpi.unsupported (10.0.0)
8 0 0 0 0 com.apple.kernel.6.0 (7.9.9)
9 0 0 0 0 com.apple.kernel.bsd (7.9.9)
10 1 0 0 0 com.apple.kernel.iokit (7.9.9)
11 2 0 0 0 com.apple.kernel.libkern (7.9.9)
12 1 0 0 0 com.apple.kernel.mach (7.9.9)
13 8 0x54f19000 0x4000 0x3000 com.apple.iokit.IOACPIFamily (1.3.0) <7 6 4 3>
14 14 0x5510b000 0x11000 0x10000 com.apple.iokit.IOPCIFamily (2.6) <7 5 4 3>
15 1 0x551ab000 0x41000 0x40000 com.apple.driver.AppleACPIPlatform (1.3) <14 13 7 6 5 4 3>
16 0 0x4ecdd000 0x2000 0x1000 com.psystar.driver.OpenHaltRestart (1.0.3) <4 3>
17 0 0x54d1d000 0x2000 0x1000 org.tgwbd.driver.NullCPUPowerManagement (1.0.0d2) <7 4 3>
18 0 0x54d29000 0x2000 0x1000 net.osrom.kext.Disabler (1.0.1) <4 3>
19 0 0x54f5c000 0x2000 0x1000 com.superhai.driver.PlatformUUID (1.0.0) <4 3>
20 0 0x55208000 0x18000 0x17000 com.apple.driver.AppleIntelCPUPowerManagement (90.0.0) <7 6 5 4 3 1>
21 5 0x55232000 0x18000 0x17000 com.apple.iokit.IOStorageFamily (1.6) <7 6 5 4 3 1>
22 0 0x5518a000 0x11000 0x10000 com.apple.driver.DiskImages (281) <21 7 6 5 4 3 1>
23 0 0x552aa000 0x8000 0x7000 com.apple.nke.applicationfirewall (2.0.11) <7 6 5 4 3 1>
24 2 0x5512c000 0x3000 0x2000 com.apple.kext.AppleMatch (1.0.0d1) <4 1>
25 0 0x55185000 0x5000 0x4000 com.apple.security.quarantine (0) <24 7 6 5 4 2 1>
26 0 0x552a0000 0x8000 0x7000 com.apple.security.sandbox (0) <24 7 6 5 4 2 1>
27 0 0x551a5000 0x3000 0x2000 com.apple.security.TMSafetyNet (6) <7 6 5 4 2 1>
28 0 0x5519b000 0x3000 0x2000 com.apple.driver.AppleAPIC (1.4) <4 3>
29 0 0x552b2000 0x4000 0x3000 com.apple.driver.AppleSMBIOS (1.4) <7 4 3>
30 3 0x553c5000 0x3b000 0x3a000 com.apple.iokit.IOHIDFamily (1.6.0) <7 6 5 4 3 1>
31 0 0x5522b000 0x4000 0x3000 com.apple.driver.AppleACPIButtons (1.3) <30 15 13 7 6 5 4 3 1>
32 0 0x55220000 0x5000 0x4000 com.apple.driver.AppleRTC (9.9) <13 5 4 3 1>
33 0 0x55225000 0x4000 0x3000 org.netkas.fakesmc (2) <13 7 4 3>
34 1 0x551a8000 0x3000 0x2000 com.apple.driver.AppleEFIRuntime (1.3.0) <7 5 4 3>
35 12 0x5afc4000 0x2f000 0x2e000 com.apple.iokit.IOUSBFamily (3.7.8) <7 5 4 3 1>
36 0 0x5af89000 0x10000 0xf000 com.apple.driver.AppleUSBUHCI (3.7.5) <35 14 7 5 4 3 1>
37 2 0x5b16e000 0x43000 0x42000 com.apple.iokit.IOFireWireFamily (4.1.7) <5 4 3 1>
38 0 0x5af99000 0x26000 0x25000 com.apple.driver.AppleFWOHCI (4.3.4) <37 14 7 6 5 4 3 1>
39 0 0x5af69000 0x14000 0x13000 com.apple.driver.AppleUSBEHCI (3.7.5) <35 14 7 5 4 3 1>
40 0 0x55395000 0x6000 0x5000 com.apple.driver.AppleEFINVRAM (1.3.0) <34 7 5 4 3>
41 2 0x5b12f000 0xd000 0xc000 com.apple.iokit.IOATAFamily (2.5.0) <5 4 3 1>
42 0 0x5af7d000 0x9000 0x8000 com.apple.driver.AppleIntelPIIXATA (2.5.0) <41 14 5 4 3>
43 1 0x55229000 0x2000 0x1000 com.apple.iokit.IOUSBUserClient (3.7.5) <35 5 4 3 1>
44 0 0x5b151000 0xf000 0xe000 com.apple.driver.AppleUSBHub (3.7.8) <35 5 4 3 1>
46 0 0x5b160000 0x6000 0x5000 com.apple.AppleFSCompression.AppleFSCompressionTyp eZlib (1.0.0d1) <6 4 3 2 1>
47 0 0x5b28a000 0x5000 0x4000 com.apple.BootCache (31) <7 6 5 4 3 1>
48 0 0x5b2bf000 0xe000 0xd000 com.apple.iokit.IOATABlockStorage (2.5.0) <41 21 5 4 3 1>
49 0 0x5539b000 0x3000 0x2000 com.apple.driver.XsanFilter (402.1) <21 5 4 3 1>
50 1 0x5b2b3000 0x4000 0x3000 com.apple.driver.AppleUSBComposite (3.7.5) <35 4 3 1>
51 2 0x5b397000 0x1a000 0x19000 com.apple.iokit.IOSCSIArchitectureModelFamily (2.5.0) <5 4 3 1>
52 0 0x5b37a000 0xb000 0xa000 com.apple.iokit.IOUSBMassStorageClass (2.5.0) <51 35 21 5 4 3 1>
53 0 0x5b3fd000 0x18000 0x17000 com.apple.iokit.IOSCSIBlockCommandsDevice (2.5.0) <51 21 5 4 3 1>
55 0 0x5b3e3000 0x6000 0x5000 com.apple.iokit.IOUSBHIDDriver (3.7.5) <35 30 5 4 3 1>
56 0 0x5b593000 0xa000 0x9000 com.apple.filesystems.autofs (2.1.0) <7 6 5 4 3 1>
57 1 0x5b585000 0xb000 0xa000 com.apple.driver.IOPlatformPluginFamily (3.4.0a20) <6 5 4 3>
58 2 0x5b59d000 0xa000 0x9000 com.apple.driver.AppleSMC (3.0.1d2) <13 7 5 4 3>
59 0 0x5b603000 0xf000 0xe000 com.apple.driver.ACPI_SMC_PlatformPlugin (3.4.0a20) <58 57 14 13 7 6 5 4 3>
60 2 0x5b84c000 0x9000 0x8000 com.apple.iokit.IOSerialFamily (10.0.2) <7 6 5 4 3 1>
61 1 0x5b861000 0x9000 0x8000 com.apple.driver.Apple16X50Serial (3.0) <60 14 5 4 3>
62 0 0x5b29d000 0x2000 0x1000 com.apple.driver.Apple16X50ACPI (3.0) <61 13 4 3>
63 1 0x5b541000 0x4000 0x3000 com.apple.kext.OSvKernDSPLib (1.3) <5 4>
64 2 0x5b81d000 0x17000 0x16000 com.apple.iokit.IOAudioFamily (1.7.0fc16) <63 5 4 3 1>
65 0 0x5b98e000 0x34000 0x33000 com.apple.driver.AppleUSBAudio (2.6.4b15) <64 35 5 4 3>
68 7 0x5b8d7000 0x2c000 0x2b000 com.apple.iokit.AppleProfileFamily (40) <14 7 6 5 4 3 1>
70 3 0x5b963000 0x16000 0x15000 com.apple.iokit.IONetworkingFamily (1.8) <7 6 5 4 3 1>
71 0 0x5b979000 0x9000 0x8000 com.apple.iokit.IOFireWireIP (2.0.3) <70 37 5 4 3 1>
72 0 0x5b982000 0x6000 0x5000 com.apple.driver.AppleRTL8169Ethernet (1.1) <70 14 5 4 3 1>
73 0 0x5b9fd000 0xb000 0xa000 com.apple.driver.AppleUSBEthernet (2.0.9) <70 35 7 5 4 3 1>
74 4 0x5ba08000 0x1e000 0x1d000 com.apple.iokit.IOGraphicsFamily (2.0) <14 7 5 4 3>
75 2 0x5b9e6000 0xe000 0xd000 com.apple.iokit.IONDRVSupport (2.0) <74 14 7 5 4 3>
76 2 0x5c6a0000 0x294000 0x293000 com.apple.NVDAResman (6.0.0) <75 74 14 5 4 3 1>
77 0 0x5cdfd000 0x473000 0x472000 com.apple.nvidia.nv50hal (6.0.0) <76 4 3>
78 0 0x55100000 0x4000 0x3000 com.apple.driver.AudioIPCDriver (1.1.0) <64 5 4 3 1>
80 0 0x5bc73000 0xa7000 0xa6000 com.apple.GeForce (6.0.0) <76 75 74 14 7 6 5 4 3 1>
81 0 0x5b988000 0x6000 0x5000 com.apple.Dont_Steal_Mac_OS_X (7.0.0) <58 7 4 3 1>
82 0 0x5b9f4000 0x7000 0x6000 com.apple.driver.AppleIntelPenrynProfile (17) <68 6 4 3>
83 0 0x5b612000 0x5000 0x4000 com.apple.driver.AppleUpstreamUserClient (3.0.5) <74 14 13 7 5 4 3 1>
84 0 0x5ba74000 0x9000 0x8000 com.apple.iokit.IOBluetoothSerialManager (2.2f18) <60 7 5 4 3 1>
86 0 0x5ba5e000 0xb000 0xa000 com.apple.iokit.IOSurface (73.0) <7 5 4 3 1>
87 0 0x5b394000 0x3000 0x2000 com.evosx86.driver.lspcidrv (1.0) <4 3>
88 0 0x5b549000 0x3000 0x2000 com.apple.driver.AppleProfileCallstackAction (20) <68 5 4 3 1>
89 0 0x5b55e000 0x3000 0x2000 com.apple.driver.AppleProfileKEventAction (10) <68 4 3 1>
90 0 0x5b535000 0x3000 0x2000 com.apple.driver.AppleProfileRegisterStateAction (10) <68 4 3 1>
91 0 0x5b565000 0x3000 0x2000 com.apple.driver.AppleProfileThreadInfoAction (14) <68 6 4 3 1>
92 0 0x5b56d000 0x3000 0x2000 com.apple.driver.AppleProfileTimestampAction (10) <68 5 4 3 1>
93 0 0x5b57d000 0x3000 0x2000 com.apple.driver.AppleProfileReadCounterAction (17) <68 6 4 3>
94 0 0x5bd1a000 0xd4000 0xd3000 com.vmware.kext.vmx86 (3.0.0) <11 5 4 3 1>
95 0 0x5bbc6000 0xc000 0xb000 com.vmware.kext.vmci (3.0.0) <5 4 3 1>
96 0 0x5bbd2000 0x6000 0x5000 com.vmware.kext.vmioplug (3.0.0) <35 30 5 4 3 1>
97 0 0x5bc2d000 0xa000 0x9000 com.vmware.kext.vmnet (3.0.0) <5 4 3 1>
99 0 0x54df1000 0x3000 0x2000 com.bresink.driver.BRESINKx86Monitoring (5.0) <12 11 10>
100 3 0x5be08000 0x21000 0x20000 org.virtualbox.kext.VBoxDrv (3.0.8) <7 5 4 3 1>
101 0 0x54ddc000 0x7000 0x6000 org.virtualbox.kext.VBoxUSB (3.0.8) <100 43 35 7 5 4 3 1>
102 0 0x54dc1000 0x4000 0x3000 org.virtualbox.kext.VBoxNetFlt (3.0.8) <100 7 5 4 3 1>
103 0 0x54da7000 0x3000 0x2000 org.virtualbox.kext.VBoxNetAdp (3.0.8) <100 5 4 1>
104 0 0x54db9000 0x5000 0x4000 com.apple.driver.AppleHWSensor (1.9.2d0) <5 4 3>
105 0 0x5b3dc000 0x3000 0x2000 com.apple.driver.AppleUSBMergeNub (3.7.5) <50 35 4 3 1>
Sn0ws-iMac:~ sn0w$

Thanks again

I tried to do this yesterday and never got it to work. The BIOS recognised the disks (as it should) but SL failed to see them. I suspect a new Kext is needed but I put mine in a Firewire enclosure and it worked fine.

I had one working, I'll let you know if I can get it working again. I switched a few kexts around I have to figure out what was working. I

Regarding IDE drives.
My backup clone is on a IDE drive and boots fine, also the dvd drive I sometimes connect is IDE.
I don't use any special kexts. It's just a hassle to get the little jumpers right on the drives, the master/slave thing. And then the connector on the IDE cable matters too, middle or end. One time I couldn't get it to work no matter what I did, but then I discovered that a cable had got lose at the molex connector, so no power...

" I thought the bios chose which drive was being used so i threw the master slave covers out"

I assume you mean jumpers? To some extent you're right, but you really do need them. Unless you do cable select, which can be a bit flaky and then where on the cable they are matters more, and you need the right sort of cable for it.

IDE drives also work fine for me here.

As above, make sure you have it cabled up right.

That means master *should* be on the end of the IDE cable (and make sure it's the correct sort, should be an 80 not 40 wire one for HDs), the slave nearer the mobo. Also be sure to set master/slave jumpers correctly.

Hi, I am working on my second hackintosh (last one was like a year ago, and the whole ideneb thing was allot easier for me :p)

Anyway I have a G31M-ES2L with a 2.33ghz c2d, 4gb of ram, ati 4550 card.

I was able to make it through 90% of the instructions in the OP, when I got to the part about finding "_WAK" and coping DTDG I did not understand what it wanted me to do.


- on your keyboard press "command F (Find)" and look for "_WAK", right above it copy paste "DTGP" located on your dsdtfix file
- again "command F (Find)" and enter RTC, look for "0x04" below RTC and changed them to "0x02" - this fix is for CMOS Reset
- command F (Find) and enter Azalia, go to dsdtfix file and copy paste "HDEF" to your dsl replacing azalia.. again check my included dsl for reference - this is for ALC883 Audio
- when done and sure everything is correct, hit save or (command S) to save your dsdt.dsl
- to compile it to .aml, drag and drop it (dsdt.dsl) to iAslMe, you'll get 1 warning (PARM under IGD0) but hopefully you have 0 error
- look for Sessions folder and copy dsdt.aml to /Extra of your Snow Leopard

What DTGP is it talking about? In the authors file it has those letters mixed in with a whole bunch of other stuff 2 lines above _WAK.

I also did the search for RTC on my file, and I did not see a 0x04, I even tried a search for 0x04, with no results.

I tried doing pfix with the authors .aml file, yet all i get is premission denied on ever line (no I don't have a pass or anything that would limit it).

Can some explain to me how I am doing this wrong? I would really like to get this thing to work.

Ok, I've followed the guide, but am a bit shaky on a few points. I went thru all this with 10.5.6 8 months ago and had it working, but then went a different direction since then, and am just now coming back to the ox86 world, so I'm a little rusty. Please forgive these being basic questions...

I've done the SL install and booted to my SATA drive with success. I have audio and ethernet working.

Question #1: I have an E5200 2.5GHz dual core proc. I'm unclear which smbios I should choose (the iMac I think). I copied the iMac 9,1 folder over from the USB and set SMMAximalclock to 2500, but About this Mac reports 2.57GHz .. is that ok?

Question #2: several places in the guide it mentions that "QE/CI is already activated".. how does one tell under SL?... when I did this with 10.5.6, I _think_ (fuzzy memory) it would tell you under About this Mac/More Info/ Graphics.. but I don't see any indication here (9500 GT).. NOR (as a sanity check) on my MacBook (with 9400M)
EDIT: add, I found this youtube video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EB6CNs-Zvkw which clearly shows what I would have expected to see.. BUT as I said, even on my 2009 MacBook I don't see that ?!?!?

Question #3: when I was doing this with 10.5.6, the 8400 card I had then was somewhat unsupported (my EFI strings were never the same)... and changing resolution had the potential to render the system useless... is it safe to change resolutions nowadays?

Giving back #1:. I saw several questions about temperature monitoring (and I really wish iStat would work), but "Temperature Monitor" will work (the full version installs an extra driver that does the trick). Cpu Info didn't seem to provide that info for me (recommended elsewhere)
EDIT: has anyone tried FakeSMC? http://netkas.org/?p=338 .. comments suggest varied levels of success.

All in all, this was a MUCH smoother process than when I was cramming 10.5.6 onto this mobo. Many thanks for the guide !!!

I had digital audio working under 10.5.6 (see link in my sig), altho I was using coax, not optical. I now have 2 G31Ms in the house.. and the gigabyte adapter stayed with the other mobo which is doing duty as HTPC and all-around web/mail server. I have another similar adapter that I picked up out of a junk pile at work which I will get around to trying over the holidays and will post the results.

Just to add to the notes...

The sleepenabler file at netkas.org doesn't seem to be there after the server crash. I got it from http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/ind...owtopic=196466

In Terminal I cd'd to /Extra/Extensions and did a sudo rm -r -f on SleepEnabler and ran the kext update tool.

In System Update, I did not find a way to install without a reboot??? so I installed and rebooted (reboot to Desktop, and About this Mac reports 10.6.2)

I copied the new sleepenabler into E/E and ran kext util.

But no sound... I went in to the Sound panel and re-selected Internal speakers (I have speakers connected to the green jack on the back) and all is well.

Then applied the 3 new Java/iTunes/something-else updates and rebooted again.

This time however I got a KP, it looks like with (the ISleepEnabler

So I rebooted to the USB installer stick and ran Terminal (from the Utilities menu) removed SleepEnabler and Extensions.mkext (no sudo needed, guess the installer disc runs as root) and then restarted.

I had no sound and no sound options.. so I ran the kext util again... and rebooted again.

So I'm at 10.6.2 with sound, but I guess no sleep for now.

EDIT: I installed fakeSMC 2.5 and re-installed the new sleepenabler. Then ran kext util and rebooted. iStat widget (and iStat menus) now reports temperatures. Sleep is instantaneous and more importantly seems to work too :) (altho I have all the key info not found junk in dmesg)

I'm still confused by this comment:

According to Apple: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1582 Implying that QE/CI is automatic with 10.6, and is not communicated to the user like it was under 10.5.

Under 10.5 installs, yeah, this was one of the 1st things I'd check after install :) (I never got the 8400 I was using to be very stable)

EDIT: I do see other threads where ppl talk about it not being active.. what are the easiest things to check (since it doesn't seem to be listed under System Profiler anymore)

To check to see if QE/CI is working, Open your dashboard and add a widget. If you get the bubble effect when it is added, then QE/CI is active.

I got big ripples on a pond, so I guess its working :)

thanks!

problem
 

excellent guide followed it
Problem im having now is i can't boot from the HD. It works fine if i boot from usb and point to towards the HD. But when i try to boot just HD it says boo0: GPT boot0: testing boot0:testing boot0: error
I did my reading and everyone says reinstall chameleon. I have done that two diff ways now. The manual way via cmd line, and also using the old RC2 pkg installer and replacing boot with the RC4 version. Trying both those ways resulted in no change, i still get the boot0 error. I would love any insight into this error.
I did just try fdisk -e /dev/rdisk0 and set the part active. That also didn't change anything and i got same result of boot0 error.
I would appreciate any help
Thanks!

hi guys

First of all , excellent guide (Y)
It´s my first post and first OSx86 projekt
everything works fine on my G31M.ES2L but sound dont work.

i am a bit confused on this step , taken from first page

i cant find "RTC with 0x04 & Azalia" in my dsdt.dsl file.
but why ?
what i do wrong ?
please help me :-!

for RTC search for "PNP0B00" instead, you'll end up with this below, change 0x04 to 0x02.

for Azalia search AZAL or "0x001B0000", change it to hdef by copy pasting the code on the other txt file. Dont forget to add alc883 kext and recreate your mkext after. HTH

FWIW, I get these Xbench results with an E5200 and a single 2G stick of RAM

Overall 144.03
CPU 177.30
Thread 205.34
Memory 161.36
Quartz 225.68
OpenGL 90.05
User Interface 286.73
Disk 77.70

Looking at Mac Mini results as a comparison (figured I'd check against the 2.53 versions), the place where I see wacked better results is on memory and/or disk test.. any idea how folks get those #'s, and/or if they translate into real-usage improvement, or just nicer scores?

no upgrade yet
 

I was wondering if some one who did a successful upgrade could give me they're kextstat from terminal. I want to compare my kexts with yours. And remind me or show me which ones were changed before and after thanks!

thanks sk1nhd33t for the help .
i create a new dsdt.dsl to make it right. (with DSDT Patcher)
in the file there is still no entry like

i found the same entry like in the .txt

but this is the part i have to replace ???
looks like the replacing part is in the new dsdt.dsl before i edit it ???
i have "LEGACYALC883.kext" in my extras/extensions folder.
any idea ?

Here's my info, but someone else will have to comment as to what changed. I went from 10.6.0 directly to 10.6.2 (combo). Outside whatever the upgrade may have changed on it own, I then added the (new) sleepenabler and fakesmc2.5. HTH.

Temperatures. I have installed FakeSMC2.5 and have *3* temp utils now... each reporting DIFFERENT temps (in F) :)

iStat Pro: 94 101
iStat Menus: 93 100
Temperature Monitor: 102 109

On the plus side, they show a consistent difference (btw the 2 cores) of 7F... and at least all 3 are in the same magnitude of reading..

any thought on why none of them agree? :)

Bonjour working
 

options for fan speed? (sys_fan)
 

I'm still a bit skeptical about my core temps... each util reports a different value, and they _never_ seem to change...

That aside, I'm wondering what are the options for the case fans connected to the 3-pin "sys_fan" connector on this mobo (over near the USB connectors)... it seems like the fan is always on... is there a way to make its speed more variable?

Thanks Zim2dive

so i'm running what appears to be a stable 10.6.2. Some how my install never had a sleep enabler to get rid of. I usually install the bare minimum kexts and see if I can run it as vanilla as possible. I did however read carefully Netkas (http://netkas.org/?p=315) how to.

"How to update – it’s easy.
Use any disabler for AppleIntelCPUPowerManagement.kext, for example – NullCPUPM.kext, install it to Extra mkext and reboot, of course if you made AppleIntelCPUPM to speedstep your cpu, you can skip this step.
Make backup of your kexts, you might need some.
Remove SleepEnabler.kext if you use it, this is very important step, old sleepenabler + new kernel = panic.
Hit the update button, if you need to edit some kexts AFTER update and BEFORE reboot – download and install update from apple site.
After reboot – re-add your device-ids to kexts where you need it and enjoy."

I used http://files.netkas.org/10.6.2/NullC...ement.kext.zip. going through proper install protocol. I delete my extentions.mkext and rebuild it with Kext Utility.

I did also add the sleep enabler too cause I heard your cpu can run hotter w/o it.

The first boot up of 10.6.2 was weird. I had a delayed fad from blue to my normal desktop. This seamed to happen the first couple of reboots. Also I had an issue where my usb mouse and keyboard need to be unplugged and plugged back in, in order to be recognized (had this prob w/ 10.6 too but not as often).

Every thing seams to be smoother after a few reboots, weird!

Thanks to everyone for the help

Thank you so much for this, im also new and have just got me leopard working and now learning how to get snow leopard! everything is working but that last part. but ill get it working. Once again great write up and thanks...

UPDATE: Got my sound working, all i did was just copy over your file, and its work. i know this is not the best way but i have sound! Problem fixed, reinstall and did not click on the SleepEnabler when installing, then updated and i need to install the update, i have downloaded the file could anyone please give me some info on how to install this?

I tried doing pfix with the authors .aml file, yet all i get is premission denied on ever line (no I don't have a pass or anything that would limit it).

you need to runn that as sudo(admin), so open terminal, type "sudo and then drag the program into terminal, and then enter, next it will ask for you password type it in and away it will go. I hope this helps in someway....

Thanks for the guide, I Got 10.6.2 working great so far, but I was wondering if anyone could reffer me to a good guide for enabling native speed stepping.