Install Mac OS X to Acer Aspire One A150 from version 10.5.2 – 10.5.5

[volsk]

Sleep & hibernation

 

 

I've got XxX 10.5.6 with ClamshellDisplay.kext running Smartsleep:

Sleep doesn't work.

Hibernation does work, sometimes. About 50% of the time it boots nicely out of the hibernationfile. The other 50% it just stops at Wake kernel! There doesn't seem to be anything that trickers one of two options.

 

With InsomniaX installed, hibernation enabled and insomnia disabled I get the same results.

 

What I want is that I close the lid the A150 sleeps or hibernations and that when I open the lid (and hit the powerbutton) I can continu where I left off.

 

I was wondering if there was some progress on this and what your configurations are.

[91ludesit]

I couldn't get either to work, both result in a kernel panic.

[Harlley Sathler]

Hi all!

 

Finally I've read all the topic!

 

 

I bought my AAO two weeks ago, with the purpose to run MacOS on it. (I'm a Mac user since 1999). I've tried the Boot-132+Retail Disc method, but have no success. Tried the Kalyway, but I believe that my image was broken, and now I'm downloading the xXx 10.5.6 image.

 

Anyone have a no US keyboard layout working propperly on Leo? Mine is a portuguese layout (with a Ç key), and through the whole topic I can't find much information on keyboard layouts...

 

Thank you all for the great amount of information here!

[harbot]

yeah i have been having the same issue when running off the battery but mine started after installing the Voodoo kernel...dont know if its that and it only happens sometimes...any help would be appreiated

 

Yup the issue with the Kernel panic shutdown is due to voodoo kernel not compatible with the ApplePowerManagement.bundle we are using, If you try to revert back to Vanilla kernel that issue will not encounter.

 

But voodoo is much farter kernel and supports CPUs=2, It will be up to the user which is more important to him to use with a sacrifice since we are just using hackintosh system.

 

Voodoo :

CPU = 2

no shutdown when Battery meter is activated

no battery meter, shutdown works well

 

Vanilla :

CPU = 1

battery meter work well

shutdown works well

 

We will just wait until this issue will be resolved by genuis out there - thanks again for the effort done -

[aao_pink]

... The problem I'm having is that I get a kernel panic at shutdown usually when I'm using the battery. The battery meter works fine. Sleep doesn't work though. I'm guessing this is a powermanagement kext issue but I'm not sure.

I've searched for answers to this problem but no luck.

Anyone else having this problem? The system boots up fine after the kernel panic. It's just annoying is all.

Guys on the aspireoneusers forum have pinned this down to the sound system:

If you run battery only, or power only with no battery inserted, the sound system will sleep,

and this causes the crash, vanilla or voodoo kernel.

 

Workaround: get a sound to play as a shutdown item.

There seem to be no reports of KP when on battery + mains, or for warm reboots.

[volsk]

Yup the issue with the Kernel panic shutdown is due to voodoo kernel not compatible with the ApplePowerManagement.bundle we are using, If you try to revert back to Vanilla kernel that issue will not encounter.

 

But voodoo is much farter kernel and supports CPUs=2, It will be up to the user which is more important to him to use with a sacrifice since we are just using hackintosh system.

I've followed the instructions on http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?sho...774&st=520#

and selected

- Power: ACPiBatteryManager by Chun Nan

 

I don't have any problems shutting down or rebooting using Voodoo.

 

If you want I can post the Kext

[Harlley Sathler]

Hey! Can you post the kext????

 

Thank you!

[tsukasa73]

I have been using the vanilla kernel from the start and I still have the kernel panic at shutdown only when on battery.

AAO_Pink I will try setting a sound as a shutdown item and see what happens. Did you mean that the sound system is in sleep mode at shutdown when on battery or the entire time, because I'm sure I've heard sounds when I've been using the battery.

I will let you know if I worked.

[eddypolak]

Hey guys, I got the dell 1390 and the install went well but only came across one problem. Has anyone ran into a situation where airport will not connect to a network that has a wpa or wep. It might be the card but it will connect fine to a network with no protection. Just curious if i was the only one having the problem

 

I had the same problem in that my Aspire One plus Dell 1390 would not connect to a WiFi network protected via a

64 bit wep passcode but unprotected was fine. What fixed it was setting a 128-bit code at the router and typing that (hex) code into the Mac dialogue. You must enter the tediously long hex string not the phrase you might have used to generate it in your router setup.

 

(Writing this on my Aspire One running OSx86 and connected wirelessly to my Belkin router)

[aao_pink]

I have been using the vanilla kernel from the start and I still have the kernel panic at shutdown only when on battery.

AAO_Pink I will try setting a sound as a shutdown item and see what happens. Did you mean that the sound system is in sleep mode at shutdown when on battery or the entire time, because I'm sure I've heard sounds when I've been using the battery.

Yes, sound system still works, it just sleeps after no sound for about 30 seconds.

I notice it's a little slow to wake up, like the first 2 seconds of sound missing from a movie.

I guess a proper fix would be for the HDA to either stop sound from sleeping, ever,

or ignore the fact it's asleep at shutdown.

 

FWIW I have Chun Nan's ACPIBattery, very good it is too, thanks Chun,

but it doesn't stop the KP on shutdown, battery only, for me if there's been no recent sound playing.

Now I'm ready to believe we could be suffering from chip version Nrs here too

[tsukasa73]

AAO_Pink

 

Any idea how to set a shutdown sound? I've looked around and I can't seem to find how to do it. I also checked aspireoneusers forums but couldn't find it there either. Apparently it's a little more involved than just assigning a sound byte like you would in Windoze. Could you send me a link to the forum you found it in?

[M33k3r]

I had the same problem in that my Aspire One plus Dell 1390 would not connect to a WiFi network protected via a

64 bit wep passcode but unprotected was fine. What fixed it was setting a 128-bit code at the router and typing that (hex) code into the Mac dialogue. You must enter the tediously long hex string not the phrase you might have used to generate it in your router setup.

 

(Writing this on my Aspire One running OSx86 and connected wirelessly to my Belkin router)

 

Mine wouldnt connect to a WPA but i switched to WEP and everything is fine now. I would rather run WPA though. If anyone hears of a solution to the problem plz post.

 

Thnx

[aao_pink]

You could do it the hard way mindful that Startup (Shutdown) Items are deprecated and will be discontinued Real Soon Now . Since the shell script can't play a sound on its own you have to cobble up an AppleScript to play the sound. Also these scripts run as root so you are stuck with root's sound settings...

 

Or you could do it the easy way, which I found right here on Insanelymac.

 

Let the sound sleep, then play a movie to time the wakeup of sound. I make it around 2.5 seconds. This is the minimum length of sound to play. The maximum sound length must be less than 10 seconds, or shutdown will timeout.

[volsk]

Hey! Can you post the kext????

 

Thank you!

http://www.mediafire.com/file/neewliwwjox/...anager.kext.zip

[Frank Rod]

I installed Leopard (10.5.5) on my aspire one, but i cant’t get the internal keyboard and mouse(touchpad) running on mac!

 

do you have any ideas/suggestions for me?

thnx in advance!

Frank

[SticMAC™]

There's a file in the Zip to help you fix the PS2 problem....

 

SticMAC

 

http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?vmwyyzdmh3y

 

I installed Leopard (10.5.5) on my aspire one, but i cant't get the internal keyboard and mouse(touchpad) running on mac!

 

do you have any ideas/suggestions for me?

thnx in advance!

Frank

[Frank Rod]

There's a file in the Zip to help you fix the PS2 problem....

 

SticMAC

 

http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?vmwyyzdmh3y

 

 

Thanks SticMAC, but do I need to add to kext helper b7 files: ApplePS2Controller.kext AND HDAEnabler.kext and after select your partition and then click on "Repair Disk Permissions" in the "First Aid" tab). and Restart. Or I just need to add the file ApplePS2Controller.kext and select your partition and then click on "Repair Disk Permissions" in the "First Aid" tab). and Restart.

Thank you very much!

Frank

[MacTech84]

Well its after MacWorld and I am done!

 

2 days of partying (MacWold Blast! & Cirque du Mac), {censored} loads of booths to visit. Hot girls everywhere, and I have the pics to show! (as well as email and phone numbers, sorry not giving those out) Met with, talked to, and got Steve Wozniak's autograph and email! Got to meet SinBad as well... YES he is a major MacGeek, and Free {censored} galore! Plus I got to show off my Hack-Intosh to a ton of people who admired it. I thought there would be a lot of animosity towards me, but if anything everyone was so curious. It was BaDAss! I hope others who attended had just as much fun, and here is to next year!

~Stephen

 

Update:

Doh almost forgot, PPF1 for the XxX 10.5.6 installer has been released on the "Green Demon" and will fix the several problems with updating to 10.5.6 such as the seatbelt.kext and the keyboard pref.pane.

[Telecart]

anyone can tell me which languages are in XxX 10.5.6?

[oldcivic]

Just wanted to say a big THANKS!! to all the people who have worked on OSX for Aspire. I installed it on mine last night and it friggin rocks.

 

I am wondering about the following:

 

1) Is anybody making any headway on being able to use the internal WiFi? I'm totally doing fine without it, just curious.

2) Is there any benefit to going to 10.5.6? Seems like everyone's having more headaches with it than it's worth.

 

I wish I could help out with upgrades & improvements, but with my limited coding experience &tc. well....

 

 

Take care!

[brgroup]

I am wondering about the following:

 

2) Is there any benefit to going to 10.5.6? Seems like everyone's having more headaches with it than it's worth.

 

 

Just find yourself a copy of the xXx 10.5.6 w/PPF1 that SBMAC mentioned above - Install using Pencils' tutorial on post #530 listed earlier in this topic..Install is now quite painless..Just rember the usual problems are still there: No sleep, external mic is iffy by most accounts, OEM wireless fix works but not optimal and card reader support is still very very beta..

[aao_pink]

I am wondering about the following:

 

1) Is anybody making any headway on being able to use the internal WiFi? I'm totally doing fine without it, just curious.

http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showtopic=138351 works for some people, not for others.

Some ppl have swapped out the card for a Dell 1390, again results are not consistent enough to say do it;

Some ppl are using Dell 1490 or Broadcomm94311 cards and none of them report failures.

 

2) Is there any benefit to going to 10.5.6? Seems like everyone's having more headaches with it than it's worth.

Just a personal observation, but I see those with most headaches are those with the orneriest jungle mix installs.

Vanilla installs may not do all the functions like speedstep, but they seem to have less hangs and crashes,

and 10.5.6 is worth it. Just my 2c.

[dead_evangel]

2) Is there any benefit to going to 10.5.6? Seems like everyone's having more headaches with it than it's worth.

 

Take care!

 

I'm happy with my 10.5.5 install so, it works just well, no kernel panics or bugs yet... if you don't need to update so don't do it... well that's my personal opinion... i don't want to update my install, for me it's not necesary... my apps work fine...

 

One question: anyone from mexico who had bought a dell 1390 wifi card?? anyone? i want to buy one from ebay... but i want to know if you know a good seller...

 

Hey btw don't you think tha it's necessary to update the first post adding the xXx tutorial made by aztek_knight??

[MartDawg23]

Hello all!

ive been reading through the website so much ive never needed to actually ask a question but ive finnaly ran into a problem..so here it is....

 

ive gotten everything to go smoothly until the part where osx is newly installed and i am supposed to edit the boot.plist (step 30 or so i think) however, the boot.plist is not existent. when i try to use the sudo command is says cammnd not available and when i actually go to search for the file, it is not there

 

Im assuming this is why i cant actually boot into the os unless i put the dvd in the drive to start the darwin bootloader.

 

im stuck, can anyone give me some advice?

[dsds]

Gentlemen,

 

I have AAO with Kalyway installed as described in the main topic, 10.5.2 -> 10.5.5, plus Voodoo kernel + InsomniaX (that actually is never started automatically regardless of its settings, so I have just disabled it) + all the power management kexts from the posts above.

 

Here's my status: I have no problems with shutting down both on AC adapter or on batteries, but I have NO powermeter. Actually, it appears for a pair seconds after the system start but then disappears. I can click on its place with the right button and see its context menu, but if I change something on menu -- even this 'empty place' disappears until restart. I have tried all the ACPI kexts and packages from all the pages in this topic -- no luck.

 

Also neither sleep nor hibernation is working, both on Vanilla and Voodoo. Computer is just turning off the screen and all the lights but power, and is waiting until I press power for 8 seconds. No kernel panic, no 'sleepimage garbage' message.

Smartsleep didn't worked at all -- it just has no effect.

 

My Dell 1390 wi-fi is working good, cardreader works only if the card was there while the boot, and also ethernet adapter is working only if is was connected on boot (anyone has this effect?).

 

My apple.com.Boot.plist settings are just 'cpus=2', on voodoo, -- according to Geekbench, it makes computer 1,5 times faster (like 950) than on cpus=1 on voodoo or vanilla (~650).

 

So, the question is if someone has an idea about the batterymeter -- what's wrong? And ethernet situation?

 

And, again, thanks to everybody in this topic (I've read all the 30 pages of it!), it's really great work and enthusiasts' collaboration experience. You guys are rock stars!