Hey i just installed osx 10.6 (yes plain 10.6 to afraid to update it more) on my
GA-MA770_UD3
AMD Phenom x4 3.0 ghz
4GB Corsair 1066
ATI 4870x2
ACL888 onboard sound
Creative labs SB X-Fi pci card

Got internet working. Currently on it. Got it partitioned with win7 perfectly.

Last issues are sound and Video. I been searching for 4870x2 driver but all the ones i see say there for 10.6.7. An i have yet to find a working sound driver for ACL888 or the creative labs SB X-Fi card. I have VoodooHDA.kext with HDAenabler.kext.
And for my video card i got ATI4800controller.kext, EVOenabler.kext and HDradeon.kext(not sure if its needed).

Please any help would be great!

Yeah, I have it working. I installed 10.6.8 from scratch and used the latest Chameleon RC5 build and netkas's 10.6.8 QE/CI patch for exotic cards. If you use both of those, you do not need ATY_init.kext nor do you need GraphicsEnabler=y in your com.apple.Boot.plist. Oh, and you need to use "npci=0x2000" without quotes in your kernel flags in com.apple.Boot.plist, otherwise you may get stuck at Scanning PCI devices begin bug. Other than that, you should be good.

Mke sure you get rid of any graphics enablers and any non-stock 10.6.8 ATI kexts before installing 10.6.8 and then apply the QE/CI patch for exotics from netkas.org.

Also, there will never be a driver for your Soundblaster X-FI PCI card. There have been people who have the PCIe versions working (except for XtremeAudio) and even an Auzentech X-Fi Forte PCIe, but PCI will never be supported. You should be able to get VoodooHDA working for your ALC888 though using this site: http://www.projectosx.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=355.

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allright. Do you think the 10.6.8 way will work on 10.6 or will i have to update? Is there a good tutorial for updating AMD from 10.6.0 to 10.6.8?

And thanks alot.

Well, that method I suggested is based on the latest ATI kexts that are based off of Lion and have built in device detection, so I don't know if it will work with anything previous to 10.6.8 (I haven't tried myself). If you get the 10.6.8 combo update from Apple's website, you can install that on 10.6.0 and shouldn't have a problem.

Have you done any DSDT edits? If not, there are a few that are necessities for AMD Gigabyte boards. There is a CMOS fix, I think a USB fix or something like that, a Power button fix, etc. I did mine so long ago that I can't remember which ones I did.

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no never touched dsdt (not even sure what dsdt does). Pretty new to all this AMD stuff. My last 2 builds where intel and they where a breeze. Honestly that voodooHDA is confusing. I thought all i had to do was throw the kext in with kext utility but obvisouly not since sound isnt working. About to try to read the link thats on the page of the link that you sent.

So any prereqs before installing a combo update?

Any good dsdt tutorials or anything of that nature that you would recommend?

Yeah, DSDT is your best friend. You'll definitely want to get well educated on it if you want your system to work properly (or at least as close as possible). The VoodooHDA is not too bad once you do some reading on that link. It will have everything you need to get it working (though you may have to read through the entire thread).

In regards to the combo update, if you have NullCPUPowermanagement.kext, fakesmc.kext, and the latest legacy 10.6.8 kernel, you should be good to go. Also make sure that those kexts are in your /Extra/Extensions/ folder. If you don't have an Extra folder or don't know what it is, you should really do some more research on the chameleon boot loader. If you have those kexts and have downloaded the latest legacy 10.6.8 kernel (you'll want to install this before installing the combo update), then you should be ok.

To patch your DSDT, google DSDTSE and download it. It has tons of built in fixes you can try. Most of them tell you what you need to look for in your own DSDT and how to patch them. Some won't work for your board or aren't needed. You'll just have to do some research on the different fixes that it has as you come to them.

Also, I would highly recommend finding on of the distributions like Hazard's or iAtkos S3 V2 which include many of the kexts you need as well as bootloaders, though there are probably more that have more updated stuff. I'm not an expert on the different distributions though since I've only used iAtkos S3 V2 (10.6.3) and updated it.

Good luck.

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Looks like i have a lonnnnnng day ahead of me tomorrow. Thanks alot.