Well NullCPUPM disables AppleIntelCPUPM. AppleIntelCPUPM is required for a lot of ACPI functions for example it makes Intel Speedstep to work and it sets the necessary ioreg entrys for Sleep to work. The problem for Hackintosh users is that their PCs ACPI interface is not compatible with AppleIntelCPUPM driver, even on Intel based Hackintosh setups - not working AppleIntelCPUPM does not even make your CPU getting a little hotter, is also has caused kind of other trouble (for example system crashing during system upgrade). Enaugh reasons for disabling it, in this case your CPU will work at full load all time. On Intel based setups there is the possibility to make Speedstep working by modifing the ACPI instruction sets (in case the DSDT table), but this is ofcourse not sort of an option for us AMD users.
1. What Kernel are you using?! All Legacy Kernel have an integrated Disabler function, so as you are on AMD there is no need for loading NullCPUPM.kext.
(Only when using old 10.0.0 Kernel patched by modbin) So first step: Remove NullCPUPM.kext.
2. The "
ACPI-SMC-Platform Plugin:Start-Waitforservice(resource Matching(AppleIntelcpu Power Mangement) Time out " message does just prove that PM disabling is working well on your system. This is not an error at all.
There must be an other reason for the GUI not loading sometimes.
3. There is kind of 3rd party Powermanagment driver written by superhai, that is also avaible for AMD, but not working very well with Snow Leopard(,yet - and I don't think there will be adequate rewrite in the close future, same sit. as with Voodoo XNU).
http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/ind...owtopic=143898
4. You can savely delete AppleIntelCPUPM.kext - but this does not change anything, as it doesn't get loaded, when using Legacy Kernel. And it will be reinstalled with any new system update - so what?
5. My experience is that a clean (=minimal patching) & selfmade (=done without Distros, prepared installer and stuff like that) installation feels always much smarter and causes nearly no problems... But your choice.
