ASRock x58 Extreme DSDT & optimizing.

[joeboxer]

sleep still no?

[clavieramolette]

Hi vultu, thanks for your reply, i would love to know how can i patch my DSDT ?

Could you tell us how ?

Thank you so much


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[vultu]

Originally Posted by clavieramolette Hi vultu, thanks for your reply, i would love to know how can i patch my DSDT ?

Hi Clavier,

Im sorry but I dont speak english well enough to teach someone.

I could try to give you some tips where you need to put the code, but before that you need to have access to your DSDT.

You can get your DSDT with the program DSDTSE (http://www.osx86.es/Archivos/DSDTSE.zip) choose the option Extract DSDT and save the file in some folder.

You need this program iASL (I attached to this msg) to compile the DSDT.DSL file.

Sintax to Compile
(open the terminal and go to folder that you save the iASL file)

./iasl -f /path_to_file/filename.dsl

I attached too a .TXT file with customizations that I use, others customizations you will find in DSDTSE program (DSDT hacks) below are the most important:

02. HPET FIX
03. RTC FIX
04. CPUS=1 fix

Start with this after you have a DSDT working if you want you could try other things, but I prefer change the minimum in my original DSDT.

[Stephen.Eidson]

It's late and I'm about to crash, but I just had to share that I finally got audio to work.

I took Joeboxer's advice and used VoodooHDA from Multibeast. The newest experimental version (0.2.61) worked for me, but it doesn't look like optical out is activated.

Have any of the other solutions (AppleHDA, DSDT, etc) made the optical out (toslink) work for anyone?

[adriangb]

Originally Posted by Stephen.Eidson It's late and I'm about to crash, but I just had to share that I finally got audio to work. I took Joeboxer's advice and used VoodooHDA from Multibeast. The newest experimental version (0.2.61) worked for me, but it doesn't look like optical out is activated. Have any of the other solutions (AppleHDA, DSDT, etc) made the optical out (toslink) work for anyone?

With DSDT+LegacyHDA I get Digital Out in sys. pref., but unfortunately I can't test it with anything, but I suppose it works all right.

[Stephen.Eidson]

Originally Posted by adriangb With DSDT+LegacyHDA I get Digital Out in sys. pref., but unfortunately I can't test it with anything, but I suppose it works all right.

Thanks for the reply! Also, thank you very much for typing up your DSDT guide. I just gave it another read through and everything makes sense with it. Hopefully, I'll get a chance to give it a shot tomorrow. I was finally able to update my BIOS to 2.5 (if you remember, the instant flash utility wasn't working back in the spring), so I'm excited to move forward.

In the guide, though, you don't mention LegacyHDA at all. I've downloaded your modified version from page 3 of this thread and plan to use it with my reinstall. When would you suggest is the best time to copy LegacyHDA over? Just before multibeast, so the caches get rebuilt with it? Also, LegacyHDA goes in /E/E, right? Do I also have to delete all audio codecs from /S/L/E?

With your rig now, sleep is your only obstacle, right? Have you been able to upgrade to 10.6.4 without hiccups? Also, have you enabled QuartzGL?

Have you (or anyone else, for that matter) been able to OC with speed-stepping engaged? I'd read that can cause stability issues.

Sorry for all the questions, and thanks again for all the help!

and, just for the record, my rig is as follows:

ASRock X58 Extreme
i7 920
ZALMAN CNPS9900ALED Heatsink
6GB OCZ Gold (3 x 2GB) DDR3 1600
150 GB WD Raptor X 10,000 RPM hdd (for osx)
4 TB Scratch (2x2TB Hitachi hdds in RAID 0)
Antec Quattro 850w PSU
BFG GeForce 8800 GTS 640 MB

[adriangb]

Originally Posted by Stephen.Eidson Thanks for the reply! Also, thank you very much for typing up your DSDT guide. I just gave it another read through and everything makes sense with it. Hopefully, I'll get a chance to give it a shot tomorrow. I was finally able to update my BIOS to 2.5 (if you remember, the instant flash utility wasn't working back in the spring), so I'm excited to move forward. In the guide, though, you don't mention LegacyHDA at all. I've downloaded your modified version from page 3 of this thread and plan to use it with my reinstall. When would you suggest is the best time to copy LegacyHDA over? Just before multibeast, so the caches get rebuilt with it? Also, LegacyHDA goes in /E/E, right? Do I also have to delete all audio codecs from /S/L/E? With your rig now, sleep is your only obstacle, right? Have you been able to upgrade to 10.6.4 without hiccups? Also, have you enabled QuartzGL? Have you (or anyone else, for that matter) been able to OC with speed-stepping engaged? I'd read that can cause stability issues. Sorry for all the questions, and thanks again for all the help! and, just for the record, my rig is as follows:

LegacyHDA does go in /E/E, and no, you don't need to delete any codecs in /S/L/E. I would use multibeast (why not just do it manually? you only need a few kexts anyways... and you'll have to edit .plist manually anyhow)
Yup! Evereything else works. I upgraded to 10.6.4 without issues.
I've heard that QuartzGL (=Quartz 2D Extreme) is pretty much useless, since all it does is take a little bit of load off the CPU, at the cost of some artifacts. Since I have an i7 I don't think a little bit of 2D rendering will affect performance much . I'll look into this thou.

I have tried overclocking with speedstep, and it works (somewhat). The big problem is (I think) that, altho the multipliers are changed ok (ie. with 200 bclk speedstep 1= 200*16, 2=200*17 (maybe 16.5 or something), 10=22*200=4.4GHz=KP ). So the problem is two things:

1. The voltage isn't changed from stock (so it'll be trying to run 4GHz or whatever your *22 speestep is with voltage designed for 2.8GHz). The only way to fix this would be to manually edit the FID & VID values in DSDT, but I'm afraid to do so since ONE wrong number can mean a nice fryed silicone smell.
2. You can't have anything over 180 bclk, or you will need extreme voltages & cooling to get over bclk*22 (@180 bclk that's 4GHz).

Apart from this, I have to mention that I don't overclock because of my RAM and cooling: I have some OCZ Gold dual channel ddr3, and -even thou ASRock released a fix for the 6GB kit, it apparently doesn't work with my 4GB one, so my RAM still get's error's in memtest and stuff, which means an unstable OC. Also, I have an Artic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro r2, but one of the F*&%#@G cheap plastic pins broke while reinstalling it once, so now I'm stuck with the stock intel cooler . Work's fine for default clock, but I've ruled out OC with it, especially now that it's summer down here .

[Stephen.Eidson]

Gotcha on the overclocking.

I finally got around to giving the guide a shot today but didn't even get into OSX installation. KP'ed while trying to boot the SL dvd. >_< Were you able to just use the iBoot Supported bootcd, or did you have to change it before burning?

[adriangb]

I kind of got lost in there, maybe you should be clearer.
What I understood was the following:
You COULD install OS X.
You CAN'T boot it to extract the DSDT.
You AREN'T sure how to out CPU info from IST into the DSDT, using Ubuntu.

If this is the case, I have to point something out to you first: the point of booting os x with iBoot or EmpireEFI is to have a "clean" DSDT (as in BIOS default) to start editing. And to be able to install kexts and stuff.
Do you have and i7 920? If so, I can just pass on a DSDT that I made for another ASRock x58... user, from which I removed all my system specific info except for CPU PM.
I'll attach it but BEWARE: USE IT ONLY WITH AN i7 920. IT COULD HARM YOUR RIG IF USED WITH ANOTHER CPU.
FakeSMC.kext & SMCITEController.kext go in /S/L/E/ and the rest go in /E/E/. Remember to run kext util to rebuild caches when done. The DSDT goes in /E/E/ (or anywhere you specify in your com.apple.boot.plist. Do make sure you have this one right, otherwise nothing will work. I'll attach mine for your reference.
Also note that if you move chaemaleon to USB or something, you will have to edit com.apple... with things like hd(0,2) to hd(0,1), etc. Google this.
Cheers, Adrian.

[Stephen.Eidson]

Okay, things are really moving now!

Yes, I do have an i7 920.

Using the DSDT and the kexts you posted with Chameleon 2 RC5_pre8, I can boot just fine. And, I'm now 5 degrees cooler at idle and an astounding 20 degrees cooler at full processor usage!

So, now I'm fully updated to 10.6.4 with working audio. For some reason, though, the input/output devices listed under Sound in System Preferences are all in German:


In System Profiler, they have English names:


Any idea on how to get rid of the German?