Thanks so much for this guide. I followed it pretty much exactly, and now I've got SL running at 10.6.4 almost perfectly. I do have a few issues remaining, though, and I was wondering if anyone here could help me out (a few hours of googling didn't really come up with any solutions.)
1.) When I try to install the Voodoo prefpane, it tells me that it "Can't get registry-entry path." As far as I know, the VoodooHDA.kext is installed properly into General/Extensions, so I'm not sure what else I should be doing. I had the issue briefly while I was still at 10.6.0, but somehow got it to work then—not having so much luck now. Any ideas?
2.) Every once in a while the netbook will freeze coming out of sleep. This seems to mostly happen when it's been sleeping for a while, so my guess would be that it happens when the computer itself goes to sleep, not just the display. I could probably get around this by setting the computer to never sleep if necessary, but I'd prefer not to do that for obvious reasons.
On this point, samtheman said earlier:
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Originally Posted by samtheman
Your guide works like a charm thank you. It is pretty straight forward than some other methods I had tried before.
The temperatures for CPU were pretty high, hence the fan noise. To fix that, I also used NullCPUPowerManagement.kext as well. But that stuffed up deep sleep so I had to use the sleepenabler.kext too. They seemed to complement each other just fine. At some stage I chucked in the Voodoopowermini.kext but that spoiled the harmony a bit so I gave that a miss.
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This looks like it might solve my problem and be able to lower the fanspeed at the same time, but I've also seen (in this thread, and elsewhere) multiple people saying not to install the sleepenabler.kext on SL, so I thought I would ask about it.
3.) Sometimes OS X will boot and I won't be able to use the mouse or keyboard at all. This hasn't happened in a while though, and the last time it did was while I was still in the initial install phase, so maybe I inadvertently fixed it since then.
4.) The trackpad is a little fidgety, and in general is much too fast to assume I'm dragging, rather than scrolling. Also, it doesn't seem to respond to the Trackpad item in System Preferences at all. This isn't too big an issue, but I thought I'd go ahead and ask if anyone knows how to improve the trackpad.
One other thing: for those who are having issues with the RaLink driver (it won't recognize your device, etc.), I finally solved my problem by downloading the driver for RT2870, instead of RT2860, which is compatible with 10.6. It's certainly an ugly driver, and I'm having trouble connecting it to WEP2 encoded routers, but at least I finally got wireless working—and without having to void my warranty too!
One other suggestion about the guide: for people like me who are really new to this, your language in the kext and dsdt section was a little confusing. It might be better to say that we should "place" the kexts into the general/extension folder, and then afterwards to "install" them by running UpdateExtra—that way we won't be googling around trying to find out how to install kexts, and then reading stuff that tells us to use terminal commands to install them into System/Library/Extensions, and then being confused when they don't work, and so forth. I don't know who would make that mistake, but it seems plausible to me...
Similarly with the dsdt section, if you said to "place" it into the general folder, and then to "install" it by rebooting, I think that might allay some confusion.
Thanks again to will1384 and the others here who have been providing help in this forum, it's much appreciated!