@valv

As many of u was waiting for this, let me introduce a new friend to your HDD on its way to vanilla. I call it AnVAL. Big thanks to Andy and the VoodooTeam for the hard work. AnVal needs YOU to succeed. Your support is welcome: Testing:…

“Thank u uman for this link, it is really helpful for patching the Framebuffer kext; but when it comes to keeping the system totally vanilla, do u know how to load the patched kext (from /E/E maybe) without altering the original one ? btw: s…”

“last days I was playin' with dsdt adding pnlf device and I ended up with the Backlight kext getting loaded fine, I can even use Fn+scroll & Fn+pause to make the sun shine, but it seems there's no values to switch to/from. To be clear, on IO…”

“did u tried booting with ForceFSB (in boot.plist) ? which value did u give it ? what about 5.1.2 ?”

“anybody else did try the pre-release ? I 'd really appreciate your feedback before committing. Thanks @diskeeper, You need to get rc5 on your own sorry! but I don't know what kexts you would need. Do some research/tests. And let me know whe…”

“so what I would do is: - copy those to a safe place - proceed with the rc5 installer - copy/replace those kexts with the ones just added by installer - rebuild caches/mkexts - replace DSDT if any - see if Themes were added or do it manually…”

“you most probably missed some kext work (probably on extra) related to ACPI. are you using fakesmc, nullcpupm...?”

“not sure if u did it right though you can try to install rc5 with this Unofficial Installer. Then, and if everything worked fine. You can replace the boot file with mine.”

“ok, keep in mind that upgrading to rc5 (anval is rc5 based) you can not simply update (by replacing the "boot" file only).”

“can u tell me which version did work for you ? btw, don't u need to add those flags to boot: arch=i386 -force64 -v and probably this also cpus=”

“what options did u use (boot flags, com.apple.boot.plist...)?”

“well, kernel panics are most probable (at boot time). Try to boot again. If still kp'ing, u can try booting with -f flag.”

“Ok, add to com.apple.boot.plist and see if it boots. If not, please do try 5.1.2 and tell me if it worked for u.”

“First of all, I 'd like to thank u all for having taken time to test my releases, even if it is not giving the results we' d like to see (yet!). I count on your friendliness to help me by testing things further. So here is the next one:”

“usb stick is a plausible answer for this I'd say”

“never thought about the hotkey thingy. still, doable. but for now, am adding a key for it (boot.plist) and it is going to be disabled by default. btw, why would u want an boot pre-selector. And most importantly how”

“ok! as of my friend Azi, this seems to happen because of the kernel_patcher (in case an already patched one is in use). Am going to remediate to this asap by defaulting kernel_patcher to disabled (as of Azi's suggestion). Sorry! see ya late…”

“if u downloaded 5.1.3 before this post, please replaced with the new one "5.1.3 fixed"”

“Always nice to test new things, I'd love to test out new versions in the future:) Thanks, I'll keep you informed”

“am sorry about sound. regarding the kernel I just realize the hassle, as other testers never complained about. The boot-loader is also acting strangely Just to let u know, p-states were not enabled. I just dumped the possible values to see …”

“I must confess, I have no idea about the sound issue. we'll see if it got fixed with the version I pm'ed you. If you have any questions/requests, I'd be glad to help”

“I see, your cpu is an amd phenom. Nice to find guyz like you I say this because I need some beta-testers for the next release (amd aware partly / phenom aware fully(probably):)) So if interested, I can give you a link for testing. btw, capb…”

“Can you get an bdmesg ? It'd be helpful for seeing what's wrong if you also post your capb & smbios.plist”

“Latest doesn't work on my netbook (Intel Atom N280 cpu). It just reboots... well, I did something since 5.0.6 that broke atoms support. could you provide me with a sysctl -a | grep cpu dump from linux (if possible) ?”

“@yehia Amer, thank you for considering my proposition. and good job pcj, still, I wonder which differences are between my code and this one”

“thanks for this, but as I have no IR keyboard I thought I can ask u if it would be possible to mod this one to make a remote control work. how to? in my dsdt I already have a device named cir0 (this should maybe be renamed to something else…”

“And for an earlier version that doesn't make my sound thx! Can u tell which one was that ?”

“gimme a bdmesg, plz”

“nope; but what about 5.1.2 ?”

“so how r u starting your osx ?”

“so, rc5 is working for you ?”

“Use a value like 200”

“Updated to 5.1.4 Try it and gimme feedback”

“no boot-loader's gui ?”

“5.1.1 is now available (on first post)”

“@Andy, try this one:”

“Updated to 5.0.9 Happy new year everybody”