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Forum: Snow Leopard 10.6 06-20-2010, 07:28 AM
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Posted By infiniteThanks
Audio Pain, 10.6.4 etc.

I could not get audio to work after moving to 10.6.3 no matter how hard I tried. So i did something drastic:
Got a USB stereo adapter. You may pick any of the ones available; I picked the one that...
Forum: Snow Leopard 10.6 01-18-2010, 09:35 PM
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Posted By infiniteThanks
Audio problem fix ... repost

iztec, jetpr : I made every mistake as far as audio is concerned but now it is all good. Here is some stuff:
(a) Use the the DSDT update posted by brfransen,
(b) Update the extensions.mkext...
Forum: Snow Leopard 10.6 12-02-2009, 11:27 AM
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Posted By infiniteThanks
Black screen and VGA

I have the same problem as you. I cloned my flawless system but the newer setup has only a VGA monitor (1280x1024). Here are my observations:

If I use the original DVI/HDMI/VGA (1920x1080)...
Forum: Snow Leopard 10.6 11-14-2009, 08:47 AM
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Posted By infiniteThanks
Try system preferences->network

I had a similar problem: I built another hackintosh in about 20 minutes today and I had already done a linux dd of my drive to a new drive. So booting was easy but system profiler did not show the...
Forum: Snow Leopard 10.6 11-12-2009, 11:41 PM
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Posted By infiniteThanks
Suggestions for Ethernet on rev2.0, display issues

The person with the best answer to the question (brfransen)


I would suggest not fighting the battle but winning the war.

Display: I had a similar problem with display when I used aVGA monitor...
Forum: Snow Leopard 10.6 11-12-2009, 11:26 PM
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Posted By infiniteThanks
Use the latest UBUNTU (9.10) to multi-boot

The latest version of ubuntu will not only mult-boot but also detect the different OS installs for you :) I have a posting about it earlier.

You have to change the grub.cfg for hackintosh as I...
Forum: Snow Leopard 10.6 11-12-2009, 07:32 PM
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Posted By infiniteThanks
Maybe you can try -v in Kernel Flags in /Extra/com.apple.boot.plist

I had a similar problem (not the same). My mistake was the I had the fake buffer kext also loaded.
Maybe you can try putting in the -v (verbose) flag in the /Extra/com.apple.boot.plist and see...
Forum: Snow Leopard 10.6 11-12-2009, 07:16 AM
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Posted By infiniteThanks
Netkas has a way to upgrade to 10.6.2

Go to netkas.org and download the latest SleepEnabler.kext.
1. Boot from the USB Installer and go to the install drive and remove /Extra/CustomExtensions/SleepEnabler.kext

2. Rebuild...
Forum: Snow Leopard 10.6 11-12-2009, 07:02 AM
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Posted By infiniteThanks
Ethernet working.

1. Try to run lspci in the command line. It should show all the devices. If it does not show the ethernet device, you may have a bad chip or your BIOS setting may be wrong.
OX86Tools has lspci....
Forum: Snow Leopard 10.6 11-12-2009, 06:52 AM
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Posted By infiniteThanks
32-bit kernel

In /Extra/com.apple.boot.plist add
<key>Kernel Flags</key>
<string>arch=i386</string>

It is in the OP instructions.
Forum: Snow Leopard 10.6 11-10-2009, 10:54 PM
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Posted By infiniteThanks
Dude, use Linux to part the drives.

Make sure the drive is GUID.
Download any of the latest Linux Live CDs (Ubuntu, Red Hat /Fedora, etc.). Torrent downloads are also available. Burn the iso to a cd. Boot to the live CD.

Use that...
Forum: Snow Leopard 10.6 11-10-2009, 04:04 AM
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Posted By infiniteThanks
Making Audio work.

Sound was tricky for me. I finally got it by
(a) making sure I rebuilt the /Extra/Extensions.mkext after having added the sound kext to the CustomeExtensions folder.

(b) Making sure that the...
Forum: Snow Leopard 10.6 11-08-2009, 09:31 PM
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Posted By infiniteThanks
E5200 is plenty enough.

Hi latinoguy,
Some thoughts:
E5200 is good enough. I built a full system on the ES2l with no issues. I moved to a Q9550 because I was doing heavy image processing.

DSDT : One problem could be...
Forum: Snow Leopard 10.6 11-08-2009, 07:15 AM
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Posted By infiniteThanks
Got Ubuntu 9.10 and ES2L hackintosh running fine now !!!

I could not get Chameleon to launch OSX so I decided to use grub to launch OSX. Ubuntu 9.10 has moved to Grub 2, different from legacy grub. Ubuntu will detect OSX HFS+ boot partitions and create...
Forum: Snow Leopard 10.6 11-08-2009, 02:59 AM
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Posted By infiniteThanks
Everything working, now trying to add Ubuntu 9.10

I followed the guide and my system has been up and running for many days now. Many thanks to people on this forum. I even upgraded the system from a lowly E5200 to a Q9550. I guess I want to do...
Forum: Snow Leopard 10.6 11-02-2009, 07:52 AM
Replies: 762
Views: 1,540,664
Posted By infiniteThanks
Audio problems I faced and fixed

iztec, jetpr : I made every mistake as far as audio is concerned but now it is all good. Here is some stuff:
(a) Use the the DSDT update posted by brfransen,
(b) Update the extensions.mkext...
Forum: Snow Leopard 10.6 10-19-2009, 07:52 AM
Replies: 762
Views: 1,540,664
Posted By infiniteThanks
brfransen: It WORKED !!! I went to Disk Utility...

brfransen: It WORKED !!! I went to Disk Utility and used it to repair permissions and SMB share now works. Thank you !

simsim: Thank you!! The warnings generated by the command line confused...
Forum: Snow Leopard 10.6 10-18-2009, 09:00 PM
Replies: 762
Views: 1,540,664
Posted By infiniteThanks
Found why audio selections did not show up

Many thanks to OP for the really hard work. Everything worked except Sound and Samba shares. I had problems with the audio like some of the others. Forgive me if I missed any similar solution...
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