Me and man_of_the_oak are updating the guide as soon as the DSDT fixes are done for 10.7 and 10.8.
You can try and install it the same way as 10.6 but i think its better to wait out for the DSDT, nothing much has changed in 10.8 imo.

Cheers

thanks for the news flip360!
i'm waiting for the dsdt in lion. At the moment i'm not working on osx86 but when i had 10.7.3 i was using man_of_the_oak's dsdt..
Fixes that are needed in my opinion:

• sleep (the computer can't wake up anything: hard disk, wifi, touchpad, keyboard, audio, usb)
  wifi (to me it wasn't very stable.. i had to install kexts, but the native support is the goal for the osx86!)

nothing else for now, thanks for your and man_of_the_oak's work, you rock!
check out my method for lion: here
p.s: scuse me for my english, i'm from italy

Hello again guys! I'm very happy that my work helped some of you and I would like to say sorry but I have to leave 'OSx86 scene' for some time... When I'm back, I will look into Mac OS X Lion, especially into the issues you've mentioned. Hopefully soon flip360 will be able to update the first page with some nice Lion tutorial ;)

Sorry again and see you soon! :)

How to make a dual boot if i already have Windows 7 instelled?

my guess is that you will either

a) have to find a way to make space for the OSX partition on the HDD with Win7 already installed or
b) do a backup and follow the tutorial for partitioning the HDD thus making space for both systems,

Cheers

Thank you, but now i have another problem, sound is not working and wifi too :-/

try and replace the kexts for AppleHDA in S/L/E with the ones from the tutorial and Atheros kext also for the WiFi.

I have missed 4. section with fixing DSDT file, i think the mistake was in there.
Now after removing Errors and Warnings by the tutorial i had 0 errors 184 warnings and 64 modifications instead of 2 240 and 64 approximately (dunno if it is ok or not). And after 5. step system cannot start with "PS2 mouse start" .... "Still waiting for root device"

Ps I have installed these kexts with KextWizard becouse when i opening Extensions folder i cannot see any file. although i'm total noob in OS X

anyone try 10.7.4?

Nothing for 10.7.4 on K50IN ?

Regards all.

Install full working :) , but the trackpad doesen't enabled :(

Great, mountain lion. Next month.
Thinking if multitouch can natively
work on Asus K40.

Any body perform update from 10.6.8 to lion?

@neonego :

yes, with mountain lion gm :) , do you have batterie info or not ?

I installed ML GM 10.8 and all is working good, i was waiting for man_of_the_oak to update the DSDT but i made some fixes on my own. I will post the fixed DSDT after some testing is done,

Cheers

HI flip360,

I have mountain lion with apple store , only battery acpi no work :s , I try voodoo battery to night and i report stat :) , wifi and ethernet work fine :)

Hi ad_47incv,

Battery works here with advancedbatterymanager and some DSDT editing, how did you fix the appstore?

Cheers

HI flip 360

with chameleon but no succes :s , ok a try advanced battery manager and i return

ML is a way faster then SL, nice OS.

Hey guys,

Long time. I haven't been making any update since 10.6.8 ... lol. Until a few days back I have been looking at the progresses that you guys have made over Lion and now Mountain Lion.

I'm actually planning to move-on to Mountain Lion on the same laptop. Also, it might be worth mentioning that I have upgraded the CPU to T9900 a long time ago, and it is working fine whether it is OSX86 or other OSes. So, those who want to know about that, I confirm it is working correctly, but you'll just get less battery life out of it (about 1h30mn).

Anyways, I'd like to ask, especially @flip360, what are the steps that you did to get it to install?
- Did you upgrade from Lion or Snow Leopard? I'm asking, because I have attempted an install from Snow Leopard, made a bootable USB which seems to be fine. But the problem is, I'm getting a strange AppleAHCIPort error, which generates a "link failed" error after some "The vtable '__ZTV13AppleAHCIPort' is malformed..." and some USB error "could not get chip to halt within 100 ms" which ultimately makes the installation process stuck completely.
- Could you share your current Extra folder?

Thanks man.

I have also noticed a very odd problem. Actually, this has happened long time ago, but happened very briefly to be noticed.

When I use the Snow Leopard now (recently did a fresh install), the access to the SATA drives seems to hang (Write / Read are both at 0 speed) while the HDD indicator is fully on and during that time, anything that requires disk access will hang until several seconds (like 15 seconds or more) has passed.
This had really been driving me nuts. Has anyone experienced this, and how did they fix it?

I have attempted to use these PATA related Kexts and switched the SATA to "Compatible" mode, but none of kexts worked; I always got a hanging system waiting for the root device. And even Windows 7 will not be able to boot either.
In the past years, I have read somewhere, that there is a strange bug in nForce which causes this same exact hang-up if the nVidia Graphics card is engaged and so is the AHCI. And I thought if I switched to "compatible" mode, it will be acting more towards classic IDE mode (which it really does), but then I can't get anything to work in this mode.

Hey there kokozedman :)

I was planning to update the guide for 10.8, anyway i found some dsdt fixes regarding the battery and the power tab in system profiler for simmilar asus notebook and they are working fine sofar :) Just hanging on and waiting for man_of_the_oak to check in. OUR notebooks turned out to be QUITE compatible :D Will post the updated extra folder for testing eventually.

I did a clean install with myHack and the GM.dmg of ML, didnt get the ACPI message at all, i used the dsdt and the Extra folder we have and just applied the battery fixes.
About "and some USB error "could not get chip to halt within 100 ms" i get that too, a reboot solves it usually :P

OT: I exchanged my DVD with a second HDD which is perfect for dual booting :D

Cheers

Thanks flip360 for your input.

I have managed to get the ML installed, but I had to take some kexts from the working 10.6.8 and put in the /Extra folder as a dropping replacement for making the Installation process complete. I was also able to boot the installed ML, but several things were not working.

Here is what I did:
- Used Chameleon 2.1 r2042; without this, I was getting a constant reboot right after loading all the kexsts on the USB key
- Used original kexts from 10.6.8 for: AppleAHCIPort.kext, IOAHCIFamily.kext, IOUSBFamily.kext, IOUSBMassStorageClass.kext and put then in /Extra (not /S/L/E). It is important not to replace the original files, because the installer does some kind of authentication test, and fails the Installation if you replace the original files. Having them in /Extra/KextStore serves the purpose of overriding the original ML kexsts correctly.
- Generated a very generic EFI string for the graphics, because after doing the steps above, I could see through the USB LED activity that the Installer were properly loaded, but I had Black Screen. So, I used OSX86 Tools to generate a GFX EFI string and put it in org.chameleon.Boot.plist as below. It really was just no paying attention to the real values or anything, just a generic one but enough to get a graphic back. Not QI/QE though, very choppy and slow graphic... hope we find a solution to this soon:
<key>device-properties</key>
<string>6802000001000000010000005c0200000d00000002 010c00d041030a000000000101060000100101060000007fff 04001e00000072006f006d002d007200650076006900730069 006f006e0000002c0000006e5669646961204765466f726365 20473130324d204f70656e474c20456e67696e65205b454649 5d22000000400030002c006400650076006900630065005f00 740079007000650000000b000000646973706c617910000000 4e005600430041005000000018000000040000000000010006 00000000000000000000000e0000006e0061006d0065000000 0b000000646973706c617914000000400030002c006e006100 6d0065000000120000004e5644412c446973706c61792d4110 0000006d006f00640065006c000000180000006e5669646961 204765466f72636520473130324d0e0000004e00560050004d 00000020000000010000000000000000000000000000000000 0000000000000000000014000000400031002c006e0061006d 0065000000120000004e5644412c446973706c61792d422000 0000400031002c0063006f006d00700061007400690062006c 00650000000e0000004e5644412c4e564d6163220000005600 520041004d002c0074006f00740061006c00730069007a0065 000000080000000000002020000000400030002c0063006f00 6d00700061007400690062006c00650000000e0000004e5644 412c4e564d616322000000400031002c006400650076006900 630065005f00740079007000650000000b000000646973706c 61791c0000006400650076006900630065005f007400790070 00650000000f0000004e5644412c506172656e74</string>

The result:
- Installation: success
- Boot and Shutdown: success

- Graphics: working, but very poor, no acceleration at all
- Sounds seemed to not work
- LAN: failure
- Wireless: I have removed my Wireless because I didn't like it, and it is causing a lot of hick-ups on Windows 7

If anyone knows any ways to fix any of these problems, please let me know.

Thanks.

No need of the EFI String. I actually had no "GraphicsEnabler" set to "Yes" in my Chameleon's plist, so it wasn't trying to enable anything. Quartz Extreme is now fully working, just like in the old days.

By the way, I had to use NullCpuPowerManagement, because I had a HPET problem. Let's hope to find a solution for that soon too.

I was just going to say that we have full GFX support by the means of the Chameleon Graphic Enabler and its plist :)

I dont use NullCpuPowerManagement, we have full speedstep working, do you use the dsdt from the tutorial? If not try and lookup AppleHPET.kext,

Cheers

I have been using the same DSDT that we used for Snow Leopard back in the days. I'll try to rebuild my DSDT again and see how it goes.

Does your Ethernet & Audio work? These are now the main thing I want to work. I tried EthernetBuiltIn to Yes on Chameleon plist, and also tried to port the kext from 10.6.8. In the System Profiler, I can see the Ethernet loaded-up (using the 10.6.8 kext), but it is not showing-up in the System Preferences.

Can anyone remind me, what to do when we get that Sound assertion error? I'm on Mountain Lion, but I'm also getting the same error on Snow Leopard.

Actually, my DSDT is different from the tutorials, as I never managed to get rid of all the warnings, even though the tutorial at some point mentions that there should be no more warning. I'm of the pendant type too, so, I have tried to be very thorough.

PROGRESS: LAN working back

What I did: Import some old 10.6.4 AppleRTL8169Ethernet.kext. This has been removed from newer Mac, including Lion (as some of the sayings around the Internet). So, I placed this under /Extra/KextStore, and used Kext Wizard. Then that's it, LAN was back.

Now to the Audio. I really need some help here guys, I'm just getting a Sound assertion failure. I'm not sure what to do.

Hey there kokzedman,

i was off for the weekend so i didnt get to read up on your progress.

I see you have the same LAN card and i forgot to write in the tutorial about the driver for our LAN card which is working properly: http://lnx2mac.blogspot.com/
My bad ;)
As for the audio thats a tough one to solve with a kext only, because actually it has two parts: one is the kext injector and the other one is a DSDT edit that fixes the audio being recognized by the injector. I am afraid you have the injector only (the assertion error points me there). Please try and edit the DSDT according to the tutorial (I had errors and warnings on mine but managed to get none) it will yield with a mighty fine file which you can use later for Lion and Mountain Lion and it is crucial for the system to work as intended :) Thanks to man_of_the_oak ofc :)

Cheers

Indeed, I have followed the tutorial from start to finish; I actually tried to do the DSDT modifications twice, but ended with the same DSDT with still about 180_ warnings. I realized, there is some differences between K50IN and X5DIN.

I managed to get the audio working, but I used a 10.6.2 AppleHDA.kext, which is also the same I use on my Snow Leopard installation. But as you can expect, I'm having the audio pop/click every few seconds.
Could you point-out how you guys fixed this popping sound?

And last, the Battery is not working.

Thats why everyone has to do their own DSDT, just to keep it specific to each HW configuration.
For the audio you will have to ask man_of_the_oak for the specific fixes to the DSDS he did. (you need the along with the audio enabler)
The battery has to be added to the DSDT for Lion and MLion to be properly recognized.

Cheers

Whoa, this is still up!
Hey!

My laptop is on his end of life, for a while i returned to Windows because of thermal problems, my cpu was always at 95ºc.. Changed the copper fins, changed CPU to a quad core, it's cool now :p .

Which version does everyone use by now?

Heya! :D

Its alive still, and latest version is ML 10.8.0

Cheers

Hi flip360

I'm using ML 10.8.0 for now but the old kexts for the sound , wireless or battery from 10.6 did not work for me ... could you please share us a kext that you are using with your 10.8 system.

Thank you :)

I'm just curious what is the new CPU specification? and where did you bought it? Including with the fin.

Soon you may need to include the tutorial to install ML at the first post! ;)

@flip360 how did you make the audio to be working? dsdt + kext? i managed to get audio working with some custom VoodooHDA kext that i found somewhere at the net but sometimes it gave me Panic. i"m using ML now.

At last i managed to use AppleHDA instead of VoodooHDA.
Just few edit in dsdt and also info file in the AppleHDA. i use the Applehda kext that included at the first post.

But still, i still have the kernel panic issue. any idea why?:-/

Hey guys,

I think i will release an updated /Extra with updated DSDT for Lion and Mountain Lion later :)
Sofar everything works here, and i used man_of_the_oak`s DSDT as a base.

Cheers

TQ! i'll be waiting for that. so far everything is working fine except i need to remove the appleacpibatterymanagement kext because that is the cause of kernel panic for my laptop. i don't use battery that much so it's fine for me. But still, i'll be waiting for any tweak or fix for that. :D Hey flip where did you buy the caddy to put the 2nd HDD to replace the ODD. may i know the website? :)

I got it off ebay, just search for a K50 caddy DVD drive replacement or something like that ;)

Cheers

Tq! gonna try look for it. just a quick question. if we upgrade our cpu, do we need to edit the dsdt?

Hmmm, maybe so, i have to check on that one but i dont think its gonna make much problems.
Did you upgrade it and if not what are your ideas about it?

Cheers

No not yet. still doing research on it. planning to upgrade to t990 if i'm not mistaken and also another choice is may be the quad core. but i'm not sure it going to work or not but i just read one of the above post the he use a quad core. just wondering what model. :D

did you try the Supplemental Update 1.0? is it safe to update?

OK.
First page updated with link to the modified DSDT along with Battery kext that goes in Extra\Extensions

Have fun :)

Hi all! I've two questions:
1-st: I bought second 2 GB DDR 2 800Mhz memory module and now i am with 4 gigs. But now i've got a problem with this becose when it load OS X 10.6 or 10.7 touchpad freezes randomly or cursor gone crazy. If i detach new memory module everything is fine.
2-nd: flip360 can you post the new methods for DSDT?
My notebook is ASUS K50IP.

Hey there, the front page is updated with a new DSDT for 10.8.x, try that one and report back,

Cheers

Hello flip360. I have a notebook AsusK70IO which have similar hardware to AsusK50IN. Now I'm having problems upgrading to 10.7.2 and 10.8. Currently my graphic card (NvidiaGT120M) works perfectly under 10.7 (maximum 10.7.1). When I upgrade it to 10.7.2 or higher (10.8 as well), the system fails to find output port for my graphic card. So there's no video output signal for my display and my VGA port as well. But with screen sharing, I can still see my desktop on a remote device. Someone say it's because my DSDT. Would you please help me with it?
Besides, my audio chip (Alc662) works only before 10.6.2. I tried many kexts, but none of them works. What was worse, a newer version AppleHDA.kext would cause my graphic card unrecognized (1024x768 only, and QE/CI fails).

Thank you for your reply.

Hello flip360 and everyone on this forum :)
just want to inform you, I already installed Mountain lion using myHack on my Asus K4OIN (almost had the same hardware specification as K50IN). the nVidia graphic was recognised perfectly but the sound, trackpad, Network devices and battery was not work. then installed some kexts. the wifi, battery, and sound is working with the external jack only (I'm not using the dsdt.aml yet), after got the sound working I tried to run some stability test (opening many tabs with safari, opening youtube, Facebook, other forums and running iTunes etc.) anyway, the result is I got kernel panic. don't know what the cause is, but I'm guessing maybe because the amount of Ram is full or because the battery kext (last kext I installed). anyone know's the solution for this problem? ;)

oh yeah, one last thing for flip360.. After the fresh install, I tried using the dsdt.aml for 10.8 (on the first page). when boot I got stuck at "PCI Configuration Begin", after using boot flag "npci=0x2000" I still got stuck somewhere before I can get to the Root or terminal to remove it. :)

sorry for the long comment, hope anyone knows how to solve my problem. thank you :)

Would you please tell me how you get your alc662 working under mountain lion? I tried many ways and fails. Now I can only use BlueTooth earphone for sound. Besides, my battery works only under 10.6.
Recently, I used iada64, ubuntu, dsdtEditor and iDsdt regenerated my dsdt with mcp79 audio and GT120M patch. I found dsdt really useful. You may try modify your own dsdt instead of downloading one. Dsdt is unique to every model of motherboard no matter how similar their hardware is. It means, you may download a dsdt from others whose laptop is k40in but never from someone whose laptop is k50in.