SL 10A432 Installed, Running.. Few issues though
For the most part, the SL install went awesome. I followed the guide in this forum by sk1nhd33t, and things were smooth. There's only a few things that are causing some issues for me right now: No Audio (ALC889A) UPDATE: Fixed with 64bit…
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For the most part, the SL install went awesome. I followed the guide in this forum by sk1nhd33t, and things were smooth.
There's only a few things that are causing some issues for me right now:
- No Audio (ALC889A) UPDATE: Fixed with 64bit version of VoodooHDA.kext
- Everytime I reboot, my BIOS says it's corrupted due to a checksum issue, and asks me to restore from the last known good setting -- is this an issue with my DSDT file? UPDATE: Fixed with http://netkas.org/?p=114 ↗ and iASLMe.app
- My SATA drives aren't being detected unless I use ACHI mode
- Ethernet works (8111B), however there seems to be an issue with Bonjour as I'm not seeing the other Bonjour shares in the office, but I do see computers with SMB turned on
- Sleep does't work, though, I haven't tried anything to fix this yet since it's not of high importance to me
A rundown of my system:
- Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-X48-DS4
- Processor: Intel C2Q 2.66GHz (Being detected as 2.7GHz)
- Memory: 16GB 800MHz DDR2, fully detected, working 100%
- 2 TB SATA Drives, Need to use ACHI Mode
- Audio: Realtek ALC889A - Working fully
- Video Card: Nvidia 8800GT 512MB - Working fully
- Ethernet: Realtek 8111B, working with the exception of Bonjour
Any help anyone could offer would be great!
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Follow-up dispatches by @shnhrrsn
VoodooHDA.kext worked great! thanks! I'll try SleepEnabler/NullCPUPowerManagement now, can I put that in E/E or does it have to go in S/L/E?
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3 technical responses curated from 7 original dispatches
For audio you can try the DSDT fix (didn't work for me … even using someone else's DSDT file) or you can install VoodooHDA.kext in S/L/E ... I have sound using that kext in both 32 and 64 bit … no distortion issues, mute works.
For sleep try ... SleepEnabler + NullCPUPower Management ... they are both needed. My sleeps and awakes OK but will not sleep automatically.
Sorry to butt in, but there is a lot of talk about installing kexts to /S/L/E or /E/E. I always thought it was best to put any non-standard (i.e. installed by the installer) kexts in /E/E. Is that not necessarily the convention anymore? I guess it's really a matter of how safe I want to be against updates breaking my install in that respect, but are there any kexts that really should go in /S/L/E instead of /E/E?
Try E/E first but some (like Voodoo) only work from S/L/E.
I color code all my custom kexts and make a backup that way when I update I can easily put back those that I need ... or still work.
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| Username | Dossier Contribution | Dispatches | Active Window |
|---|---|---|---|
| @DocShadow | Core Contributor | 3 | 2009-08-22 → 2009-08-23 |
| @shnhrrsn | Primary Author | 2 | 2009-08-22 |
| @SilverZero | Contributor | 2 | 2009-08-23 |