New/Virgin DSDT causes system halt (KP) and can't boot.

[duey101]

I prefer to try and figure things out for myself but this has me totally stumped.  If I try to use a DSDT file in Chameleon I get a KP/system halt and can't boot up my otherwise working Mav's install (except SD Card reader/WiFI - Ordered supported WiFi card).  But a few things need tweaking so I wanted to use a DSDT option and besides that I just want to learn how to use it for future reference and my own education.  I already spent a week learning what/how to use DSDT but now when I try, no go.  This is what I did...

 

Open DSDT Editor
Extract DSDT

Clicked complie

Installed DGTP patch
Fixed errors (DGTP/Expecting "("/_REG/_T_0)

Compiled again (without any errors) one warning)--->   9451    Warning - Not all control paths return a value (COKE) 

Method (COKE, 0, NotSerialized)  

(After 3.5 hours I gave up on trying to figure this warning out)

 

Saved as DSDT.aml (no errors)

Copied DSDT.aml to Extra folder

In Chameleon Wizard checked box dsdt.aml and set path /Extra/DSDT.aml

Clicked save

Used DPCIManager to repair permissions, rebuld kernel cache

Reboot...

 

Crash/Kernel Panic/System halt...

 

 

I searched the forums for this issue (First use of DSDT causes crash/kernel panic) but didn't find an answer.  I followed instructions exactly and tried over and over again but the same thing happens.  If I go to my Win7 boot (dual boot setup) and delete DSDT.aml from the Extra folder (MacDrive) and restore the backup org.chameleon.Boot.plist to it's pre-DSDT form and reboot all is fine.  What am I missing?  The DSDT is error free and the only patch I used was for DGTP (to fix some errors).  After 15 or so attempts I haven't figured it out yet.  Any ideas?

[iFIRE]

and why only DGTP '? and no DGTP, HPET, IRQs, SMBUS, HDEF, LPC, RTC, EHCI, HID  to CID, etc......

[RehabMan]

Usually this is caused by saving a text file to /Extra/dsdt.aml. /Extra/dsdt.aml must be an ACPI Machine Language Binary. If you write 'cat /Extra/dsdt.aml|head' in Terminal and see readable text, you saved the file incorrectly.

[duey101]

Well iFire, remember way, way, way, back... how many years?     When you knew nothing about DSDT's KP's, Binaries, and XCode?    Well... that is where I am right now, but I'm reading, learning, trying, succeeding.  I am grateful someone like you and RHM took the time to look and help, thanks.  I only discovered Hackintosh a month ago.

 

I just DL'd RehabMan's DSDT patches (he suggested) and MaciASL and I am patching my DSDT now.  Found a bunch of errors DSDT Editor missed... thanks for your post and advice RHM, helped with this error, had many.

# rehabman:
# _PLD is supposed to return a variable length Package of Buffers

into_all all code_regex (Name\s*\(_PLD,\s*)Buffer(\s\(0x10\)[^\)]*) replaceall_matched
begin
%1Package() { Buffer%2}
end;

RIght now I'm patching and will try again and report back.  Thank you iFire and RHM for your help and suggestions.  I'll get this all figured out, I enjoy learning, and having a dual boot Mac/PC is something I am really enjoying, just need to learn more.  I spent weeks just getting it to install correctly but now it works, except for a few little things.  My goal is to learn as much as I can so when I get new machines I know what to do.

All patched, no errors, just this warning.  I have been trying to figure it out since yesterday...

 

10266, 1088, Not all control paths return a value (COKE)

 

            })
            Method (COKE, 0, NotSerialized)
            {

 

I'll try the newly compiled DSDT tomorrow and report back.

[RehabMan]

...

All patched, no errors, just this warning.  I have been trying to figure it out since yesterday...

 

10266, 1088, Not all control paths return a value (COKE)

 

            })

            Method (COKE, 0, NotSerialized)

            {

 

I'll try the newly compiled DSDT tomorrow and report back.

That question is answered by me elsewhere...

[duey101]

Okay I am happy to report success, thank you.  I think it was the DSDT Editor as in MaciASL there were several errors that were not detected in DSDT.  I patched the DSDT with all the things you suggested iFire, looks like it works!

I gained...
Working WiFi Atheros 9285 (with no kext)
Realtek Lan (with no kext)
Character viewer in the taskbar
Other things I probably have no idea of as yet.

However when I booted I got to that common system halt IOBluetooth error and black screen...

**** [iOBluetoothHCIController][searchForTransportEventTimeOutHandler] -- Missing Bluetooth Controller Transport!

rebooted, then got another system halt at stoppage NTFS volume name Drive D, version 3.1....

Mar  8 17:47:07 Dueys-Mac-Pro kernel[0]: NTFS driver 3.11 [Flags: R/W].
Mar  8 17:47:08 Dueys-Mac-Pro kernel[0]: NTFS volume name Drive C, version 3.1.
Mar  8 17:47:08 Dueys-Mac-Pro.local ReportCrash[119]: Metadata.framework [Error]: couldn't get the client port

Had to reboot a couple of times but it works.  If it hangs up I just have to reboot a couple of times, no other errors halt the system.
From reading threads I think this has to do with graphics.  One thing I noticed on boot is that in the boot log (reported in DPCIManager)
it says...

ERROR: dcbtable_version is 0x10
ERROR: nVidia ROM Patching Failed!
Toshiba GeForce GT 540M 1024MB NVc1 [10de:0df4]-[1179:fc31] :: PciRoot(0x0)/Pci(0x1,0x0)/Pci(0x0,0x0) device number: 1

and in the system -v boot log I see GeForce Sensors waiting to start... a couple of different times during the boot up process.
In the system report from my Win7 and AIDA 64 EE reports my nVidia GT 540M as a 2 GB card...

NVIDIA GeForce GT 540M  (2 GB)
Graphics Processor Properties:
Video Adapter                                     nVIDIA GeForce GT 540M (Toshiba)
GPU Code Name                                     GF108M  (PCI Express 2.0 x16 10DE / 0DF4, Rev A1)
GPU Clock (Geometric Domain)                      50 MHz
GPU Clock (Shader Domain)                         101 MHz
Memory Clock                                      135 MHz

But... System report in Mavericks reports it as a 1 GB card...

Toshiba GeForce GT 540M:

  Chipset Model:    Toshiba GeForce GT 540M
  Type:    GPU
  Bus:    PCIe
  Slot:    Slot-1
  PCIe Lane Width:    x16
  VRAM (Total):    1024 MB
  Vendor:    NVIDIA (0x10de)
  Device ID:    0x0df4
  Revision ID:    0x00a1
  ROM Revision:    0x00

This is causing me a problem I think, just to let you know the whole reason I tried this Hackintosh thing was so I could dual boot
and use Adobe Premiere Pro CC and the Mercury Playback Engine technology for video editing in Mac.  I started another thread about this
because I really need some advice on this as I have tried to figure this one out for a while now.

Again, thank you for your help and suggestions.  Overall I noticed a perfomance improvement from before the DSDT was loaded

 

Now that I have a working DSDT I have more things to study/try/fail/adjust/try/fail/adjust/try/succeed.
 

WindowServerError.txt

DPCIManager_boot.txt

system_boot.txt

[duey101]

Thanks RHM, I figured it out for myself...

            Method (COKE, 0, NotSerialized)
            {
                Name (T_0, Zero)
                Store (ToInteger (PJID), T_0)
                If (LEqual (T_0, 0xBE))
                {
                    If (LEqual (^GFX0.DVID, 0x0126))
                    {
                        Return (BE01)
                    }

                    If (LEqual (^GFX0.DVID, 0x0116))
                    {
                        Return (BE00)
                    }
                }
                Else
                {
                    If (LEqual (T_0, 0xC2))
                    {
                        If (LEqual (^GFX0.DVID, 0x0126)) {}
                        If (LEqual (^GFX0.DVID, 0x0116)) {}
                    }
                    Else
                    {
                        If (LEqual (T_0, 0xC4))
                        {
                            If (LEqual (^GFX0.DVID, 0x0126)) {}
                            If (LEqual (^GFX0.DVID, 0x0116)) {}
                        }
                        Else
                        {
                            If (LEqual (T_0, 0xC5))
                            {
                                If (LEqual (^GFX0.DVID, 0x0126)) {}
                                If (LEqual (^GFX0.DVID, 0x0116)) {}
                            }
                            Else
                            {
                                If (LEqual (T_0, 0xC6))
                                {
                                    If (LEqual (^GFX0.DVID, 0x0126)) {}
                                    If (LEqual (^GFX0.DVID, 0x0116)) {}
                                }
                                Else
                                {
                                    If (LEqual (T_0, 0xC8))
                                    {
                                        If (LEqual (^GFX0.DVID, 0x0126)) {}
                                        If (LEqual (^GFX0.DVID, 0x0116)) {}
                                    }
                                    Else
                                    {
                                        If (LEqual (T_0, 0xC9))
                                        {
                                            If (LEqual (^GFX0.DVID, 0x0126)) {}
                                            If (LEqual (^GFX0.DVID, 0x0116)) {}
                                        }
                                        Else
                                        {
                                        }
                                    }
                                }
                            }
                        }
                    }
                }
                                        Return (Zero)  <--- Needed to add this
            }
        }
    }

Everything is going well so far.  Just have my one real problem the rest is minor.  But I guess the Optimus won't work in OS X.  So that shoots that down.  I'll have to do without it.