the best would be an unpatched osx installed with just the drivers and latest kernel but you need a working osx to make it. I would install my distro with nothing but chipset selected then reboot and install network adapter driver go to realteks site for this. Then use the latest voodoo kernel rc1 and update to 10.5.5 from apples download site just get the 10.5.4 to 10.5.5 update. The driver for your alc888 on my disc should provided you select the right version 3ports etc (this depends on your board) but just download the latest available but make sure you click customize during install to select which version you have. There also drivers about for the 9 series of nvidia cards believe they were added to 10.5.6 update as these are in the next macs (correct me if im wrong).

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