Hackintosh 10.5.5 Retail Rig - Starting at $305

[suklee]

Question: I am ready to reinstall Leopard retail on my EP35-DS3L (rev 1.0).

Does anyone have a good link for a current / up-to-date guide?

Thanks!

 

[mosslack]

For anyone interested, here are some pictures of my 3 monitor setup.

http://tinyurl.com/l23ey2

Let me know what you think.

 

[Gymnae]

Nice work moslack, I like the chaos around it. Feels like a working place not some artsy fartsy sytlish place.

I read a little bit into installing SL tonight - it appears on the one hand straight forward, but getting a perfect DSDT file is a problem, you need to have access to windows to really patch it right. Then there is the bootload quirk and my graphics adapter isn't fully supported yet....oh well. I think I gonna give it a shot on my real mac first and let the scene move on a bit. In two or three weeks solid guides will have been realized and new DSDT patching methods will be on their way. But so far, it seems to be less painful than tiger to leopard.
Anybody working on SL already?
As soon as I get my DSDT done, I'm willing to share it. I will build one with Ethernet and Sound functionality for the DS3L.

 

[renderingrocks]

Originally posted by: mosslack
For anyone interested, here are some pictures of my 3 monitor setup.

http://tinyurl.com/l23ey2

Let me know what you think.

nice workmanship! Love the desk, looks like mine! Mosslacks mission control!

 

[renderingrocks]

Originally posted by: Kaido

Originally posted by: renderingrocks
Well, my new rig has issues. It's the 9400GT. When chameleon is in the 5 second boot delay, I noticed it states nvida 14MB. The openGL tests ok, frame rates near 400, but it has no card ID,. I used the custom setting on osx86 toolbox. The trouble is kernel panics while watching webkinz youtube videos and sleep causes KP's. Has anyone had success with a 9400? Im searching around for others solutions. I popped in a 7200GS and it's fine now, but I would like to get this going. BTW, this is a kaidos guide install. I probably just need a 9400 driver, right?

At boot time, it shows how much VESA RAM the card has - most have like, less than 20 megs or something. It's just for like a basic 800x600 mode until you install the driver.

Others have used the 9400 with good success, odd that you're having trouble. Did you use the driver in Uinstaller? If it's not there, just create a Custom NVIDIA entry (scroll down in the Uinstaller video card list & it walks you through it when you click Install). Is it a fanless 9400? Can you test it on Windows to see if it's a stable card?

Its not fanless, here is a link. http://www.newegg.com/Product/...x?Item=N82E16814130471

I did a fresh OS install by the guide, used the custom nvidia. I did run it in XP and seemed fine. If the 7200GS would dual monitor, I wouldnt mess with this card, but it only gives me trouble when tell it to sleep. It's strange the open GL viewer can't ID it. It's possible the panics are a result from memory, when booting up, sometimes it hangs on the first boot screen and I never see the memory count. I'm running mem test all night.

 

[idlehands]

SO yah, being a linux/z-series guy I saw that there was an option for a case sensitive file system, on install. of course i went with that. Now a month later, I'm installing adobe and oh look at that, not supported.

Looks like i get to do a reinstall. Fooey; should have setup time machine. woops.

side note; anyone know of a good usb cam/mic setup that is hackintosh compatible with the ud3p?

 

[keeza70]

G'day all,

I want to share my first hackintosh experience with you all. I apologise if I should really start a new thread rather than post here so here goes:

Firstly a sincere thankyou to Kaido/Weaksauce for posting the original UD3P 10.5.6 guides, without it the process would have probably been impossible for me. Secondly thankyou to to all the other regular posters in this thread who have helped other newbies and have willingly shared information (you know who you are).

I have some small issues with my install that appear to be common issues - I'm open to leaving my install as is if its not worth the risk to fix. I've already re-installed over 6 times! Now I have a "practice" partition with OSX on it.

I have audio working (i think), manual sleep works, shutdown restart works.

Sleep - to get this working in 10.5.8 this is what I did:
Deleted AppleIntelCPUPM kext and rebooted.
Re-installed AICPUPM kext along with Disabler and Sleepenabler kext.

Manual sleep works, auto sleep I'm still working on.

Firstly I have the common USB device not unmounting before sleep. Is there a fix for this?
Secondly, is there a fix for auto sleep for the UD3P?

I have the following kexts installed via the install package in S/L/E:
Applesymbiosefi
HDAEnabler
LegacyHDAController
LegacyHDAPlatformDriver
RealtekR1000

I added the following kexts post install:
ALCInject (audio)
AppleHDA (audio - To fix sound I installed 889A kexts (ALCInject and AppleHDA).)
OpenHaltRestart (required for Quad processors)
SymbiosResolver (system profiler)

Also, can I ask:

By installing the disabler kext (to get sleep working) do I have any power management running? If not what would be the best solution, removing disabler or installing voodoopower?

Regarding sleep, when initiating manual sleep with no USB drive in my front USB port sleep is instantaneous. With a USB drive inserted the mobo sleeps straight away but the graphics card takes about 20 seconds longer to sleep. Any known reason for this?

I also want to make a custom disk with all kexts and updates on it if required in the future, any suggestions on how to do this? I've read that image files run faster than dmg files??

I'm happy to do my own research but if someone can point me in the right direction.....

Sorry to ask newbie questions, I've done some hard yards (and quite enjoyed it) but now need some help.


For any interested I built my PC into a G5 case, if you are planning to do the same I'm happy to share some tips. PM me

 

[keeza70]

Adding to previous post:
Bios = F8
UD3P revision 1.1

 

[Zaap]

Originally posted by: mosslack
For anyone interested, here are some pictures of my 3 monitor setup.

http://tinyurl.com/l23ey2

Let me know what you think.

Great setup, mosslack!

 

[mosslack]

Originally posted by: Zaap

Originally posted by: mosslack
For anyone interested, here are some pictures of my 3 monitor setup.

http://tinyurl.com/l23ey2

Let me know what you think.

Great setup, mosslack!

Thanks, I think I have figured out how to get all 3 displays up and running now. I was playing around in my test partition, BIOS set to PEG2, and found this on the HQ-A files page:

Enabler_for_Nvidia_and_multiple_ATI_cards.pkg

Ran that and now all 3 monitors work with the correct resolution, etc. Now all I need to do is get my main partition back up. I was messing around with it before hand and I think I screwed something up. It won't boot now. Gonna try reinstalling Chameleon to see if that helps.

Edit: Oops! Not so fast. Only way it boots now is with the Boot 132 CD. Chameleon will not boot either partition. I think I may need to start with a clean slate and see what happens.

 

[renderingrocks]

If anyone is curious, I think I solved my kernel panic issue. I was blaming the 9400GT because the open GL extensions viewer couldn't ID the render engine. However it tested at 500 fps on most standards and I had no video issues. Through the process of elimination, the culprit turned out to be the Asus wl-167 usb 802.11g adapter. I plugged this machine into the ethernet port, and the kids have been running it through the paces without a hitch. I also searched apples discussions and found macs using this device had panics. My 6 yr old was reluctant to test because she said the kernel panics scare her and might give her nightmares! Sounds like a future hacker!

 

[renderingrocks]

Originally posted by: mosslack

Originally posted by: Zaap

Originally posted by: mosslack
For anyone interested, here are some pictures of my 3 monitor setup.

http://tinyurl.com/l23ey2

Let me know what you think.

Great setup, mosslack!

Thanks, I think I have figured out how to get all 3 displays up and running now. I was playing around in my test partition, BIOS set to PEG2, and found this on the HQ-A files page:

Enabler_for_Nvidia_and_multiple_ATI_cards.pkg

Ran that and now all 3 monitors work with the correct resolution, etc. Now all I need to do is get my main partition back up. I was messing around with it before hand and I think I screwed something up. It won't boot now. Gonna try reinstalling Chameleon to see if that helps.

Edit: Oops! Not so fast. Only way it boots now is with the Boot 132 CD. Chameleon will not boot either partition. I think I may need to start with a clean slate and see what happens.

Are you running 10.5.8? I have read various forums that this boot problem is a product of the update

 

[mosslack]

Yep, 10.5.8. I'm currently trying to get audio working as I have all the displays working now. Once I get it figured out I plan to reinstall the main partition. So far so good.

 

[renderingrocks]

Originally posted by: mosslack
Yep, 10.5.8. I'm currently trying to get audio working as I have all the displays working now. Once I get it figured out I plan to reinstall the main partition. So far so good.

Do the french drivers work anymore?

 

[Jack Flash]

Well, I just gave up on multi-booting off of one partition.

Main problem seems to be the kernel panic I get every time I reboot a fresh, Vanilla 10.5.7 updated install after installing Chameleon 2 RC2.

Why does that happen?

 

[mohkahn]

Originally posted by: Kaido
So, my buddy upgraded to Snow Leopard from Leopard on his hack. Just FYI, it CAN be done. He's using a USB stick and is familiar with all of the aftermarket kexts he installed, so he was careful to get 64-bit versions for Snow and replace everything properly.

If I ever get around to releasing a Snow Guide (don't I still need to post a 10.5.6 guide? lol), I can say with almost 100% certainty that it will be a 'clean install' guide. Doing the background for updating from Leopard is just going to be waaaaaay too much hassle for me to write up. So yah, just FYI - I won't be doing an "upgrade" guide, just a clean install guide when/if I do, but yes, it IS possible if you know what you're doing!

Vow.. kool to know it's going to be possible to run snow leopard. And yes take your time mate, even though we are always impatient to see your point perfect guides.

@mosslack... Vow... kool job with the monitors.. you need a bigger desk mate.. And in future, I hope you will at least not reject one of those post office woman, they can be great for releasing all that tensions that we build up by putting 3 monitors with 1 pc together.

 

[Gymnae]

Just to let you know, I installed Snow Leopard and didn't have any problems with it. So far I have no internal sound working, but I lived with my USB solution until now.. Make sure you install PC_EFI V10 at least over Chameleon and deinstall a lot of the previously used kexts. The amount of Kexts needed minimzes compared to 10.5
I had to work a bit to get my 4850 up and running, but with some 10.5 32Bit Kext magic it workd. 64bit Kernel is not needed anyway so far...

 

[mosslack]

Originally posted by: renderingrocks

Originally posted by: mosslack
Yep, 10.5.8. I'm currently trying to get audio working as I have all the displays working now. Once I get it figured out I plan to reinstall the main partition. So far so good.

Do the french drivers work anymore?

They probably do, but I had my partition so messed up trying to get the video working that I messed up the audio somehow. I have a fresh install of 10.5.7 at the moment. Going to get everything working as it should and then go for 10.5.8.

Edit: So far it's no go for the onboard audio in 10.5.8. I've tried reinstalling the kext as well as the french Darwin injector, but no joy. I believe I had to remove a kext or two prior to using the french injector, but I can't remember which one(s). Until I remember that I am without sound.

 

[mosslack]

Originally posted by: mohkahn

@mosslack... Vow... kool job with the monitors.. you need a bigger desk mate.. And in future, I hope you will at least not reject one of those post office woman, they can be great for releasing all that tensions that we build up by putting 3 monitors with 1 pc together.

Ha ha, you are right there. Had to take another break with them after work this afternoon. Had a new one come along this time around, fun, fun, fun! :Q

 

[Jack Flash]

Woot! Got 10.5.7 installed on the same drive with Vista using Chameleon 2 RC2. Didn't even use Kaido's (awesome) UInstaller package; Even generated my own EFI string for my GTX 260 instead of using netkas' enabled. Now where's my cookie?

 

[KeypoX]

Originally posted by: Gymnae
Just to let you know, I installed Snow Leopard and didn't have any problems with it. So far I have no internal sound working, but I lived with my USB solution until now.. Make sure you install PC_EFI V10 at least over Chameleon and deinstall a lot of the previously used kexts. The amount of Kexts needed minimzes compared to 10.5
I had to work a bit to get my 4850 up and running, but with some 10.5 32Bit Kext magic it workd. 64bit Kernel is not needed anyway so far...

did you have to repartition to install? I cannot get it to install on an existing partition.

So I can't really install i guess, because even if i partition my drive i still have to install leo first, then i can't partition a drive in use. And I dont have DL disk or >4GB usb drive... woe is me

 

[mosslack]

Finally! I'm beginning to think my particular UD3P is from a galaxy far, far away. I remembered the last time that I had installed VoodooHDA.kext prior to using those french injectors so I tried that. Installed VoodooHDA and it worked, trashed it and installed the 889a injector. Restart, no sound device. Shutdown and then started back up and now I have sound. If the multi-monitors work I will have this one tamed, at least until something new comes along.

Edit: Success! I've updated the system to 10.5.8, all 3 monitors work and at the proper resolutions, and sound is working via the 889a injector. mohkahn was right, I'm too old for this crap! It's only 12:30 AM and I'm calling it a night! :shocked:

 

[Gymnae]

Originally posted by: KeypoX


did you have to repartition to install? I cannot get it to install on an existing partition.

So I can't really install i guess, because even if i partition my drive i still have to install leo first, then i can't partition a drive in use. And I dont have DL disk or >4GB usb drive... woe is me

That is tough then...
I have SL on a external USB disk and hooked that up to my MacBook. I attached the SATA hd from my hack to the MacBook via a SATA<->USB Adapter and installed from the MacBook. I kept all my Settings, files etc. It's basically the same system as before, but just in 10.6
After the Install I had to mingle with the kexts and particuallary the ATI drivers.
I think you can't go around either getting a external Disk or big USB Key. The are not that expensive anymore and handy to have in any case.

 

[renderingrocks]

Originally posted by: mosslack
Finally! I'm beginning to think my particular UD3P is from a galaxy far, far away. I remembered the last time that I had installed VoodooHDA.kext prior to using those french injectors so I tried that. Installed VoodooHDA and it worked, trashed it and installed the 889a injector. Restart, no sound device. Shutdown and then started back up and now I have sound. If the multi-monitors work I will have this one tamed, at least until something new comes along.

Edit: Success! I've updated the system to 10.5.8, all 3 monitors work and at the proper resolutions, and sound is working via the 889a injector. mohkahn was right, I'm too old for this crap! It's only 12:30 AM and I'm calling it a night! :shocked:

Nice job mosslack! Let me recap, did you update to 10.5.8, run the unistaller, then voodooHDA, remove voodooHDA, add 889a injector, 2 restarts and all ok? Did you try sleep? KAido posted a sleep patch on page 152 of this thread.


Is Kaido building a 10.5.8 guide, or moving on to 10.6?
anyone have a camera in that bat cave?

 

[mosslack]

Originally posted by: renderingrocks
Nice job mosslack! Let me recap, did you update to 10.5.8, run the unistaller, then voodooHDA, remove voodooHDA, add 889a injector, 2 restarts and all ok? Did you try sleep? KAido posted a sleep patch on page 152 of this thread.

Is Kaido building a 10.5.8 guide, or moving on to 10.6?
anyone have a camera in that bat cave?

That was pretty much it, and I don't use sleep so I never tried it. Now my problem is I can't find a copy of Multiscape. It is supposed to work wonders for spanning a single wide wallpaper across multiple monitors in OS X.

I think Kaido is still weighing the options for the next guide choice. He does a lot of twittering so you might check out what he says there.

Found this while looking for other things:

http://lifehacker.com/5347089/the-plywood-and-pipe-desk

Anyone ever build a desk like this?