Hackintosh 10.5.5 Retail Rig - Starting at $305

[Kaido]

Originally posted by: scootermaster
Just poking my head in here to say...new thread!

Cool when are you releasing it?

 

[scootermaster]

Originally posted by: Kaido

Originally posted by: scootermaster
Just poking my head in here to say...new thread!

Cool when are you releasing it?

I tried that once! People got angry! Blood in the streets!

But really...I did my first kexting the other day! Even patched the extensions.mkext thing to remove somethign that was supposed to fix mouse lag. Of course, it didn't, really, but now I'm wondering if it really is my 8600GT or if it's my actual Logitech MX Laser and LT's weird radio interface. I'm tempted to get one of those $5 BT dongles. But, you know, they're SO BURIED IN THIS HUGE UNWIEDLY THREAD I DON'T KNOW IF I COULD EVER FIND 'EM!

Or, you know, I could just look....

 

[Kaido]

Originally posted by: scootermaster
I tried that once! People got angry! Blood in the streets!

But really...I did my first kexting the other day! Even patched the extensions.mkext thing to remove somethign that was supposed to fix mouse lag. Of course, it didn't, really, but now I'm wondering if it really is my 8600GT or if it's my actual Logitech MX Laser and LT's weird radio interface. I'm tempted to get one of those $5 BT dongles. But, you know, they're SO BURIED IN THIS HUGE UNWIEDLY THREAD I DON'T KNOW IF I COULD EVER FIND 'EM!

Hmm, someone should compile all this good info in, like, a wiki or something...

Or, you know, I could just look....

Yeah, cuz the search function here on AT works soooo well

 

[mosslack]

@ KeypoX: I will be working on it this weekend, gonna try the ACPI patcher now that you said you got it to work. Really the only thing I care about which doesn't work was/is bonjour, but it will work in 32 bit mode using the R1000.kext. The DSDT that I found claims to have a patched ethernet, but it didn't say it was the onboard ethernet. I also found a fix for bonjour in both 32 & 64 bit, but have not tried it yet. As for sleep, I don't know if it works or not, never tried it. Don't use it so why bother!

 

[mosslack]

Originally posted by: Kaido

Originally posted by: DougoMan
So is there a super-compatible i7 board on the horizon?

The Gigabyte GA-EX58-UD5 is pretty dang good, from what I've read. There's a number of guides & installers floating around, although I don't think there's a boot disc for it yet.

I believe this or a similar board will be my next Hack. I have a little new money to play with so maybe it's time to go for it! :thumbsup:

Also, caught your little demo on engadget, nice. I suppose now that you've made the majors you will forget about us peons. As for the way you pronounced things, I thought you were right on. Always a bunch of critics no matter how you say things. :roll:

 

[scootermaster]

Originally posted by: Kaido

Originally posted by: scootermaster
I tried that once! People got angry! Blood in the streets!

But really...I did my first kexting the other day! Even patched the extensions.mkext thing to remove somethign that was supposed to fix mouse lag. Of course, it didn't, really, but now I'm wondering if it really is my 8600GT or if it's my actual Logitech MX Laser and LT's weird radio interface. I'm tempted to get one of those $5 BT dongles. But, you know, they're SO BURIED IN THIS HUGE UNWIEDLY THREAD I DON'T KNOW IF I COULD EVER FIND 'EM!

Hmm, someone should compile all this good info in, like, a wiki or something...

Or, you know, I could just look....

Yeah, cuz the search function here on AT works soooo well

Cereally! If only I could find a wiki that listed, like, cheap BT dongles from Dealxtreme or whatever that are fully plug and plug compatible under hack? Who might have such a thing?

Linkage?

(No really...which one did you get? If I remember correctly there was a $2 one that didn't work or something....)

 

[KeypoX]

Originally posted by: mosslack
@ KeypoX: I will be working on it this weekend, gonna try the ACPI patcher now that you said you got it to work. Really the only thing I care about which doesn't work was/is bonjour, but it will work in 32 bit mode using the R1000.kext. The DSDT that I found claims to have a patched ethernet, but it didn't say it was the onboard ethernet. I also found a fix for bonjour in both 32 & 64 bit, but have not tried it yet. As for sleep, I don't know if it works or not, never tried it. Don't use it so why bother!

Man for me a computer without sleep is worthless. lol

But the ACPI patch works, just follow all the directions... I think everything works. I still need to apply a couple fixes. Like usb fix. Not sure if we can follow blackosx on that though...

lemme know how it goes. Its actually pretty easy. Though I restored the snow image to a install partition (10gb) and installed from that. Its pretty much the same way as usb.

 

[mosslack]

Originally posted by: KeypoX

Originally posted by: mosslack
@ KeypoX: I will be working on it this weekend, gonna try the ACPI patcher now that you said you got it to work. Really the only thing I care about which doesn't work was/is bonjour, but it will work in 32 bit mode using the R1000.kext. The DSDT that I found claims to have a patched ethernet, but it didn't say it was the onboard ethernet. I also found a fix for bonjour in both 32 & 64 bit, but have not tried it yet. As for sleep, I don't know if it works or not, never tried it. Don't use it so why bother!

Man for me a computer without sleep is worthless. lol

But the ACPI patch works, just follow all the directions... I think everything works. I still need to apply a couple fixes. Like usb fix. Not sure if we can follow blackosx on that though...

lemme know how it goes. Its actually pretty easy. Though I restored the snow image to a install partition (10gb) and installed from that. Its pretty much the same way as usb.

Sleep is just too much trouble for me, if I'm not going to be using the computer the rest of the day I shut it all down, if I will be using it later I shut off the monitor, simple as that. But to each his own...

I have successfully compiled a DSDT.AML for my GA-P35-DS3L rev 2 (F9 BIOS) and I must say the procedure was fairly painless. But really other than my video card now being identified in System Profiler correctly I can see no other changes. My audio still works, and ethernet works, but no bonjour. Don't get me wrong, I am happy to have a matched DSDT for my own system now, but I was hoping that it would fix the bonjour problem. It looks as though I will have to apply the fix for this after all. So should this same file work equally as well in Leopard? I haven't tried that yet, but I plan to. BTW, what is the problem with USB?

 

[KeypoX]

Did you follow the black osx guide for dsdt and snow leopard? It talks about the issue with usb and sleep... so it shouldn't effect you lol.

But usb devices get removed at sleep. They have a fix though, i just havent applied it yet. It shouldwork on leopard too. Blackosx has similar guide for leopard.
Here is his link, he also has links to other 2 guides, dsdt, and leopard retail

http://www.insanelymac.com/for...x.php?showtopic=180954

 

[mosslack]

Guess that's why I didn't notice it. BTW, I forgot the CMOS reset bug fix and had to go back and edit for that. Working fine now, Have you fixed your bonjour or did yours work okay as it was? I found the fix in a UD3R guide and it's supposed to work but I have not tried it yet. I was reading a post by a girl on the LEM iMac list and she says she is having problems with her USB HD. I guess if actual Macs are having problems we shouldn't feel too bad! :laugh:

 

[KeypoX]

lol i havent tried that fix yet. That guide is wrote for ich 10 while we run 9. So the part about fixing the usb, i dont think will work for us. But i havent tried. Lemme know if you get it to work. Its really annoying and sometimes i have to reboot (usb mouse doesnt work after sleep sometimes)

 

[mosslack]

Okay I can verify that the bonjour fix does work on my GA-P35-DS3L v2 system. It was a bit confusing (at least for me), but I managed to get all the pieces in place and it does work. I'm currently running in SL 64 bit mode, but it is supposed to work in 32 bit mode as well. Details can be found in this post:

http://tinyurl.com/mklwuz

 

[KeypoX]

nice job. But I cannot figure out the usb fix. Lemme know if you try that.

 

[mosslack]

Hmmm, well I always heard "if it ain't broke, don't fix it", so I didn't. After several preliminary tests, I don't seem to suffer from any problems after sleep. Mind you I didn't do any extensive tests, just setting the pref to 1 min and then waiting for about 5 minutes after the system went to sleep before waking. USB HD's that were present before sleep were present after waking and accessible also. I may do a more extensive test but that is what I have to report so far. HTH

 

[DougoMan]

Another non-SL question here: Has anyone successfully integrated a firewire card with the D3SL? I have tried 3 separate cards, and all of them lead to my firewire sound card cutting out every few seconds.

 

[Kaido]

Originally posted by: DougoMan
Another non-SL question here: Has anyone successfully integrated a firewire card with the D3SL? I have tried 3 separate cards, and all of them lead to my firewire sound card cutting out every few seconds.

I had an Adaptec model iirc, and it worked fine.

 

[KeypoX]

Originally posted by: mosslack
Hmmm, well I always heard "if it ain't broke, don't fix it", so I didn't. After several preliminary tests, I don't seem to suffer from any problems after sleep. Mind you I didn't do any extensive tests, just setting the pref to 1 min and then waiting for about 5 minutes after the system went to sleep before waking. USB HD's that were present before sleep were present after waking and accessible also. I may do a more extensive test but that is what I have to report so far. HTH

Hmm once i boot back in i will see something.

But you should have the same issue unless you patched one of the last steps in blackosx guide? I coudlnt figure it out lol

The problem is our usb devices are not seen as usb devices. Goto about this mac and check your usb devices to see what i mean. They are seen as uhci or something like that.

Maybe you patched it though... i couldnt figure it out

 

[mosslack]

It's been sleeping on and off all evening with the USB HD hooked up and never once have I had any problems accessing it after waking. No problem with mouse either. I don't remember any mention of USB when I was doing the Patcher, so I doubt I did anything special. I'll let you know if I do run into anything though.

 

[mosslack]

A funny thing happened this morning when I was trying to figure out why my 10.5.8 install stopped booting again without the need for the boot 132 CD. I won't bore you with the details of what I did to cause this, but as an experiment I decided to boot up the UD3P with the HD that I had used on the DS3L to get 10.6 running on. I had made a backup of that drive and booted from the USB HD the backup was on. I noticed my center monitor suddenly came to life with the background image for 10.6. My DS3L was also running at the time so I switched the source on that monitor to see what it had on it. There appeared a 3rd display from the UD3P! I could not believe my eyes so I quickly shut down the DS3L to be positive that all 3 displays were coming from the UD3P running a backup of a 10.6 HD from the DS3L! It's kind of funny as I have been reading on Insanely and other places all the hoops people are having to jump through to get 2 video cards working in 10.6 and here all I did was boot up a HD from another system. Strange...

 

[renderingrocks]

Originally posted by: mosslack
A funny thing happened this morning when I was trying to figure out why my 10.5.8 install stopped booting again without the need for the boot 132 CD. I won't bore you with the details of what I did to cause this, but as an experiment I decided to boot up the UD3P with the HD that I had used on the DS3L to get 10.6 running on. I had made a backup of that drive and booted from the USB HD the backup was on. I noticed my center monitor suddenly came to life with the background image for 10.6. My DS3L was also running at the time so I switched the source on that monitor to see what it had on it. There appeared a 3rd display from the UD3P! I could not believe my eyes so I quickly shut down the DS3L to be positive that all 3 displays were coming from the UD3P running a backup of a 10.6 HD from the DS3L! It's kind of funny as I have been reading on Insanely and other places all the hoops people are having to jump through to get 2 video cards working in 10.6 and here all I did was boot up a HD from another system. Strange...

I think you have a leopard ghost in that house. Recall the 10.5.8 mystery audio fix. Install the kexts, it worked. Remove them, and it still worked! Sounds like your ready for a hackintosh edition of ghost hunters.

 

[mosslack]

Well, I don't know about ghosts, but I do know that I successfully cloned the backup to a HD installed in the UD3P and it's still working. I cobbled this DS3L install together from bits and pieces I found here and there so it would be impossible to duplicate. But I can take a look at the various pieces to maybe piece together why it is working. I also want to try a DSDT actually made for this system as the one from the Lifehacker guide does not reproduce these results. I also need to find out what's in the SMBIOS and BOOT Plist files along with any kext located in the Extra/Extentions folder. Another thing I found out is you cannot simply restart the system as it will give the YOU NEED TO RESTART message if you do this. You must do a cold boot to have it work this way. I hope to figure this all out and report back.

 

[mosslack]

I made a text file of all the pertinent info concerning my latest discovery if anyone is interested. This includes a copy of my boot.plist and smbios.plist as well as a list of the kext I have in my extra/extensions folder. I even put a copy of the dsdt.dsl file in along with whatever else I felt might be responsible for this accident.. It would be nice if one of the experts on this forum could take a look at it and maybe tell me why this is working, plus what I need to do now to get my sound working. The DS3L uses an ALC888 chip and the UD3P has an ALC889a. The file has been compressed (262k) and is located on the HQ-A files page, http://groups.google.com/group/hq-a/files with the name of accident.zip.

Edit: It's looking like this might be related to the boot method used. I determined pretty quickly that the DSDT file has nothing to do with it as I tried the DSDT from the LifeHacker install as well as a DSDT I created myself for the UD3P using the ACPI Patcher program. All work just the same, just a different video card is listed in the System Profiler for each one.

I also tried moving files used in booting the working install over the the LifeHacker install and did not get the 3 displays there. But I believe that Stellarola's LifeHacker install is booted with the Chameleon V2 rc1 plus PC EFI v10 method, while I used the Chameleon V2 rc3 method to boot my DS3L. Can anyone tell me if this is the case or not? It's the only difference I can really see at the moment.

 

[Josh64FX]

Is GIGABYTE GA-EP45-UD3P this a good motherboard for Snow Leopard Hackintosh ? Also does the onboard ethernet and sound work on it?

 

[idlehands]

Originally posted by: Kaido
Here's a more concise Snow Leo guide for the UD3P:

http://lifehacker.com/5360150/...pc-no-hacking-required

This is a good holdover until the devs wrap things up and I do a full-on, finished guide

Wish that listed the quirks; I'd jump in with the sound dongle if firewire/networking/usb etc were all good

 

[metzler555]

Can someone give me newegg link to a dvd optical drive that works with OS X? I have one that won't burn in Disk Utility, and recently it stopped working... I was looking for one that will work near 100% with my UD3P hackintosh on 10.5.7.. Thanks!