Upcoming Intel X58 Mobos & Core i7 CPUs

[walterav]

Could this really be why the Airport card isn't being picked up?

 

@walterav out of interest does your airport card show up on a kalyway install (if you have one)?

 

@ digital_dreamer and wolfienuke and others who've had the board for a while - have any of you had any issues with airport cards/wireless using retail/efi install and/or kalyway?

 

@mattrb - what have you tried (if anything) to get the card running? I really want to try and get this working

 

did you patch dsdt.aml, btw remove it, than see if the lan works...

 

Don't know about the kalyway 10.5.2 not gonna trie it... started with kalyway 10.5.1 a year ago, had it running for 2/3weeks till i discoverd the retail vanilla method, after that never gone back. But if you are running a 1052 kalyway, your also able to make a perfect retail leopard install on a other harddisk from within running kalyway...

 

Can you just post the whole installation method you used, from scratch and all the terminal commands. How did you make your retail vanilla installation? How did you do te EFI partition, did you do it manually or by script?

From diskutil to All the terminal steps,

>>>>>>>>>>>"and all the files you added and patched"<<<<<<<<<<<<

I can tell ya its not more than... 30 lines , which can be copied past. and not more than 3 files need to be added to boot succesful with a retail install except for lan audio and video, sleep etc. Just to make sure not more patched files are added than necessary.

 

WiFi is in the pci slot, ''2 CASE slots away from the videocard, which is in the upper 16x express slot". Don't own the board so had to ask someone to look at it. BTW the graphics card uses a single case slot. hope it helps...

 

btw running 10.5.5 and 10.5.5 kernel ofcourse

[Mercury92]

So i had success installing iAtkos 5i on Core i7 with toh. Kernel. Vannilla isnt working. What abot Voodoo does it work? I tried XxX Leo4All and iPCx86 beta, it even doesnt start to boot into install. System just reboots :S

[Craig4]

So i had success installing iAtkos 5i on Core i7 with toh. Kernel. Vannilla isnt working. What abot Voodoo does it work? I tried XxX Leo4All and iPCx86 beta, it even doesnt start to boot into install. System just reboots :S

 

Yeah Vanilla will not with the i7 it seems. You can use voodoo, but you will need to add a bootflag of "busratio=20" if you have the 920. I would use osx86 tools to install the voodoo kernel and system.kext

[mattrb]

Is anyone testing out the

 

ACPI Patcher for BIOS and AML, CPU Cores, HPET, RTC, TM, GFX

 

 

http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showtopic=142434

 

Does this work on i7?

[wolfienuke]

Is anyone testing out the

 

ACPI Patcher for BIOS and AML, CPU Cores, HPET, RTC, TM, GFX

http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showtopic=142434

 

Does this work on i7?

Why use a PC application when this can be done with the dsdtpatcher command line tool in mac os x?

 

The other DSDT Patcher patch DSDT and only generate DSDT.aml.

This one patch BIOS and can generate DSDT.aml if you don't want to flash.

Moreover, you can use it on any PC, since you don't need anything from the PC you want to patch.

However, it has less compatibility since most notebooks have Phoenix BIOSes or InsydeH2O.

In 0.2 you will be able to generate only fixed DSDT.aml from extracted DSDT.aml but not from BIOS file.

 

But if you patch you're BIOS, you don't need to care about DSDT.aml later.

It will be capable to provide HDEF audio too and more compilation fixes with autofix in version 0.2

 

I really don't like the idea of using a non-official bios on a new motherboard like this, but feel free to do so yourself if you are braver than me. Just make sure you have a backup of your bios (or download the official version from gigabyte).

[vintageawv]

UPDATE: 1/17/2008

• Tutorial has been updated for 10.5.6
  
• Standalone kext package and Boot-132 installer package now includes the Voodoo-based 9.6.0 kernel.
  

 

DigitalDreamer,

 

Using the EFI Partition method, would I just replace the current voodoo kernal 9.5 with 9.6 and re run wolf's script?

[Mercury92]

So I put iAtkos 5i again. But this time used Voodoo kernel. I have some questions.

1.) Last time I used iAtkos 5i TOH kernel. Then i updated to 10.5.6 but my USB didnt stopped working. (iPod). Mouse and keyboard were working. How to fix that?

2.) So I installed Voodoo kernel. I booted up with busratio=20. How to make it automatically, not to type everytime to boot into Mac? I cant find apple.com.Boot.plist file ...

3.) And mac shows up that I have only 7 cores. Is it ok?

 

Thanks,

Mercury

[Craig4]

Alrighty well yesterday I finally made some progress and got my video working with HA, CI, and QE so every things seems to be working now. There are a few more things I would like to get done to say that it is closer to perfect since it will most likely never be perfect.

 

First of all I used wolfies script and didn't get a splash screen, so I was wondering if it was taken out or what might be happening with that. Also when booting since I don't have a splash screen I see all of what is going on and am seeing a lot of fail to loads and other things that don't seem to be good. Is there a place that these things are logged so I can post them here?

 

The last thing is when I plug in an external they will not show up unless I reset with them plugged in. Is this due to the new seatbelt.kext? does anyone have a link to the 10.5.5 if you think this is my problem. other then that it seems like everything is good as of now, besides COD4 multiplayer only working, don't know if anyone would have a solution for that.

 

thanks everyone for the help.

 

Craig

[JaE-V]

Kalyway 10.5.2 works perfectly fine on my build. Its featuring the x58 tri sli board from EVGA. I will use the retail guide v4.4 for my main install. Will report back.

[jplee4907]

Kalyway 10.5.2 works perfectly fine on my build. Its featuring the x58 tri sli board from EVGA. I will use the retail guide v4.4 for my main install. Will report back.

 

 

Good to see it. I just got my second X58 board from EVGA too. I installed iATKOS 10.5.5 w/ 9.2.0 TOH kernel. I couldn't install voodoo or anything better than 9.2.0. It seems to me the installation went thru OK except sound. Since it has the same ALC889a chip, I tried DD's kext, APPLEHDA & HDAenabler, but it's not working yet. Hey, I'm a noobo, I'm trying to learn. Also, the deep sleep got me into rebooting again. I want to try 10.5.6 distro like IPC.

 

I have a GA EX58-UD5, which is very good mobo, but somehow this board gives me 'Verifyig DMI pool...' hang trouble when set as AHCI mode, it was on and off. I just couldn't figure out yet. But EVGA's AHCI mode doesn't give me any trouble which is good.

 

I could be a good testing...

 

Thanks guys...

[Craig4]

Good to see it. I just got my second X58 board from EVGA too. I installed iATKOS 10.5.5 w/ 9.2.0 TOH kernel. I couldn't install voodoo or anything better than 9.2.0. It seems to me the installation went thru OK except sound. Since it has the same ALC889a chip, I tried DD's kext, APPLEHDA & HDAenabler, but it's not working yet. Hey, I'm a noobo, I'm trying to learn. Also, the deep sleep got me into rebooting again. I want to try 10.5.6 distro like IPC.

 

I have a GA EX58-UD5, which is very good mobo, but somehow this board gives me 'Verifyig DMI pool...' hang trouble when set as AHCI mode, it was on and off. I just couldn't figure out yet. But EVGA's AHCI mode doesn't give me any trouble which is good.

 

I could be a good testing...

 

Thanks guys...

 

what did you use to try installing the AppleHDA & HDAEnabler? Also why weren't you able to install voodoo, was it not an option or could you not get it to work? if you couldn't get it to work you might have to type busratio=20, let me know.

[digital_dreamer]

DigitalDreamer,

 

Using the EFI Partition method, would I just replace the current voodoo kernal 9.5 with 9.6 and re run wolf's script?

 

That'll work fine. Make sure you use the accompanying System.kext (tied to the 9.6 kernel).

 

 

So I put iAtkos 5i again. But this time used Voodoo kernel. I have some questions.

1.) Last time I used iAtkos 5i TOH kernel. Then i updated to 10.5.6 but my USB didnt stopped working. (iPod). Mouse and keyboard were working. How to fix that?

2.) So I installed Voodoo kernel. I booted up with busratio=20. How to make it automatically, not to type everytime to boot into Mac? I cant find apple.com.Boot.plist file ...

3.) And mac shows up that I have only 7 cores. Is it ok?

 

Thanks,

Mercury

 

I'm sure the kernel from your iAtkos install was replaced with the Apple-supplied 9.6 version, so may have a mis-matched kernel/System.kext issue affecting USB hot-plugging.

The 7 core display is just a reporting issue - all 8 cores are fully functional.

 

Alrighty well yesterday I finally made some progress and got my video working with HA, CI, and QE so every things seems to be working now. There are a few more things I would like to get done to say that it is closer to perfect since it will most likely never be perfect.

 

First of all I used wolfies script and didn't get a splash screen, so I was wondering if it was taken out or what might be happening with that. Also when booting since I don't have a splash screen I see all of what is going on and am seeing a lot of fail to loads and other things that don't seem to be good. Is there a place that these things are logged so I can post them here?

 

The last thing is when I plug in an external they will not show up unless I reset with them plugged in. Is this due to the new seatbelt.kext? does anyone have a link to the 10.5.5 if you think this is my problem. other then that it seems like everything is good as of now, besides COD4 multiplayer only working, don't know if anyone would have a solution for that.

 

thanks everyone for the help.

 

Craig

 

A "perfect" install is the holy grail of a Hackintosh. Worth pursuing up to a point.

If there is a -v flag in the boot.plish, you will get the visible boot verbiage. On the other hand, the splash screen doesn't offer anything of value. Open Console and view your system.log for the same boot log.

USB/FireWire devices not mounting unless at boot time is usually an indication of a mismatched kernel/System.kext. OS X 10.5.5 running the Voodoo kernel/System.kext had this same issue. This has been fixed in the Voodoo-based 9.6 version.

 

Kalyway 10.5.2 works perfectly fine on my build. Its featuring the x58 tri sli board from EVGA. I will use the retail guide v4.4 for my main install. Will report back.

 

So, you are up and running, eh? EVGA? Nice board from what I've seen. Of course, this would be for later, but I enjoyed looking through this thread: EVGA X58 Overclocking Guide.

Does it have the core activation issue that ASUS has?

I have a hard time getting technical information on EVGA's boards. Their website has nothing! The only info I have (from peering at the WIN drivers) is that the X58 board has the Realtek chips for LAN (8169, 8168, or 8101E?) and audio (HDAHP880?). What info do you have? Does the info show up in the Profiler?

 

Glad you're up and running after all that.

 

regards,

MAJ

[Craig4]

A "perfect" install is the holy grail of a Hackintosh. Worth pursuing up to a point.

If there is a -v flag in the boot.plish, you will get the visible boot verbiage. On the other hand, the splash screen doesn't offer anything of value. Open Console and view your system.log for the same boot log.

USB/FireWire devices not mounting unless at boot time is usually an indication of a mismatched kernel/System.kext. OS X 10.5.5 running the Voodoo kernel/System.kext had this same issue. This has been fixed in the Voodoo-based 9.6 version.

 

sorry you kind of lost me on the first part, what do you mean by visible boot verbiage? Are you saying if I don't want to see all that text I can take the -v out and I won't see it. Also any idea why I don't have the splash screen, it would just be a nice little addition.

 

For the Voodoo, I will go try that out right now and let you know if that fixed my issue. I must have the old one that was with wolfies script.

 

thanks again, you and wolfie have been a lot of help with me getting this system up and running, and the reason I switched out my intel board.

 

edit: hey quick question I tried searching for the 9.6 kernel but wasn't able to find anything. Is it actually by voodoo, or is it the 9.6 based off voodoo? If you have a link let me know.

 

alright went into system log and here is one of the codes:

Jan 21 21:12:36 Craigs-Maci7 kernel[0]: Sound assertion "0 != result" failed in "/SourceCache/AppleHDA/AppleHDA-162.1.37/AppleHDA/AppleHDADriver.cpp" at line 2742 goto handler

[jplee4907]

what did you use to try installing the AppleHDA & HDAEnabler? Also why weren't you able to install voodoo, was it not an option or could you not get it to work? if you couldn't get it to work you might have to type busratio=20, let me know.

 

 

I used kexthelper but it didn't even install After manually done thru Terminal for two kexts, I see them in the s/l/e and under the audio of System Profiler, it appears intel High Ddefinition audio but it's not working. I tried to go thru System Preferences' Sound to enable the Line-out speakers, but it didn't work. But I think there must be way to install these audio kexts. I will be trying.

 

Actually, on the voodoo kernels, I just chose from the customization from iATKOS 10.5.5 which didn't install. I guess I don't know how to changes busratio=20 yet. Yes, it reminds me in the beginning when we had x58 board back in a month ago. I guess I will be looking up the way to do it again. huh...

 

It's so tough....But I hope I can learn to tweak the wolfie's EFI install mixing some kext files or to try DD's way with retail.

[Craig4]

I used kexthelper but it didn't even install After manually done thru Terminal for two kexts, I see them in the s/l/e and under the audio of System Profiler, it appears intel High Ddefinition audio but it's not working. I tried to go thru System Preferences' Sound to enable the Line-out speakers, but it didn't work. But I think there must be way to install these audio kexts. I will be trying.

 

Actually, on the voodoo kernels, I just chose from the customization from iATKOS 10.5.5 which didn't install. I guess I don't know how to changes busratio=20 yet. Yes, it reminds me in the beginning when we had x58 board back in a month ago. I guess I will be looking up the way to do it again. huh...

 

It's so tough....But I hope I can learn to tweak the wolfie's EFI install mixing some kext files or to try DD's way with retail.

 

when you reset your computer press f8 and when you get to the screen to select the drive the iatkos is on just type busratio=20 and you should be fine. Let me know.

 

also for sound I have to pick internal speakers, i dont know if that is an option for you.

[JaE-V]

Good to see it. I just got my second X58 board from EVGA too. I installed iATKOS 10.5.5 w/ 9.2.0 TOH kernel. I couldn't install voodoo or anything better than 9.2.0. It seems to me the installation went thru OK except sound. Since it has the same ALC889a chip, I tried DD's kext, APPLEHDA & HDAenabler, but it's not working yet. Hey, I'm a noobo, I'm trying to learn. Also, the deep sleep got me into rebooting again. I want to try 10.5.6 distro like IPC.

 

I have a GA EX58-UD5, which is very good mobo, but somehow this board gives me 'Verifyig DMI pool...' hang trouble when set as AHCI mode, it was on and off. I just couldn't figure out yet. But EVGA's AHCI mode doesn't give me any trouble which is good.

 

I could be a good testing...

 

Thanks guys...

 

Yea i'm up and running with iatkos as well. been trying them all out. When you select the voodoo kernel you have to bootflag busratio=20. And i use an usb audio adapter for sound

[Craig4]

Hey for anyone trying to run to a tv I found this thread and found out why I am having problems getting a good resolution:

 

http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?m...19&tstart=0

 

looks as if Overscan was removed on accident when updating to 10.5.6

 

is there anyway someone on here would know how to replace that with some kind of file in a bootloader or am I just going to have to wait on apple to fix this?

[T-Rave]

Looks like most everyone is having good luck with the UD5 board. I happen to have the ud3r and can't get past a little ways into the install. I looked at some of the "customize" ktext that people have success with on the ud5 but can't seem to get any further then a little blue line. I have the iATKOS 10.5.5 and each time it just hangs after install is pressed. Any help would be great on what I should try next. I do have a retail disc and may try kalyway 10.5.2

[googlesmith]

Hey

 

My brother and me are trying to get osx working on the GA-EX58-DS4.

 

So far we've gotten kalyway 10.5.2 to work, but since we have the ATI 3650 we need atleast 10.5.3 to get a usable build.

 

We'll be trying iAtkos 5i later today, but we read that someone had a problem with it. Maybe we'll end up using the ToH kernel.

 

How about voodoo, from what i understand we'll be needing voodoo 2.0 (9.6) to get the i7 working like it should, where can we download this from? Found it: http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?sho...p;#entry1049827

 

If anyone has any other pointers to help us out we'd appreciate it.

 

Cheers.

 

PS: We're not total noobs, personally i'm running vanilla 10.5.5 on my own computer.

[Craig4]

Looks like most everyone is having good luck with the UD5 board. I happen to have the ud3r and can't get past a little ways into the install. I looked at some of the "customize" ktext that people have success with on the ud5 but can't seem to get any further then a little blue line. I have the iATKOS 10.5.5 and each time it just hangs after install is pressed. Any help would be great on what I should try next. I do have a retail disc and may try kalyway 10.5.2

 

I would def try going with kalyway because I never was able to get iatkos to run on my computer. If you can get that to run and have two hdds I can help you to get a vanilla install.

[JaE-V]

Hey guys, i'm fully up and running with the 9.6.0 kernel with 10.5.6. But only a few things are giving me issues.

 

My machine in the system profiler is detected as a macbook pro, i hate that...if anyone can help me out with that i'd appreciate it.

Then, it only shows one of my cores in the system profiler correctly. Its says "number of processors: 1, number of cores: 4". All of my cores are turned on in my bios with HT enabled of course. However i just ran geekbench and it said "number of processors: 0, active cores: 8. I'm completely lost, activity monitor is showing one core active. Also what does the busratio=20 do? Its in my boot.plist, just dont quite understand it. Memory is detected as ddr2. Could all of these issues be related to the smbios? Geekbench score was still at a thousand.

 

So, you are up and running, eh? EVGA? Nice board from what I've seen. Of course, this would be for later, but I enjoyed looking through this thread: EVGA X58 Overclocking Guide.

Does it have the core activation issue that ASUS has?

I have a hard time getting technical information on EVGA's boards. Their website has nothing! The only info I have (from peering at the WIN drivers) is that the X58 board has the Realtek chips for LAN (8169, 8168, or 8101E?) and audio (HDAHP880?). What info do you have? Does the info show up in the Profiler?

 

Glad you're up and running after all that.

 

regards,

MAJ

 

Yea, it has a ton of overclocking features, i basically just turned on the dummy OC switch and it automatically clocked the processor at 3.2 which is what i wanted, my temps are about 27 idle and right at 39 under load with the coolermaster, its an awesome fan. I'm not sure on the LAN, but i know its either 8169 or 8168, worked OTB. Audio is the 889 i believe, havent played with it yet because i use an adapter.

[Craig4]

Hey guys, i'm fully up and running with the 9.6.0 kernel with 10.5.6. But only a few things are giving me issues.

 

My machine in the system profiler is detected as a macbook pro, i hate that...if anyone can help me out with that i'd appreciate it.

Then, it only shows one of my cores in the system profiler correctly. Its says "number of processors: 1, number of cores: 4". All of my cores are turned on in my bios with HT enabled of course. However i just ran geekbench and it said "number of processors: 0, active cores: 8. I'm completely lost, activity monitor is showing one core active. Also what does the busratio=20 do? Its in my boot.plist, just dont quite understand it. Memory is detected as ddr2. Could all of these issues be related to the smbios? Geekbench score was still at a thousand.

Yea, it has a ton of overclocking features, i basically just turned on the dummy OC switch and it automatically clocked the processor at 3.2 which is what i wanted, my temps are about 27 idle and right at 39 under load with the coolermaster, its an awesome fan. I'm not sure on the LAN, but i know its either 8169 or 8168, worked OTB. Audio is the 889 i believe, havent played with it yet because i use an adapter.

 

If geekbench is showing 8 cores then you should be fine. Busratio=20 is for the i7 920 to run the voodoo kernel, it is needed to boot. I am guessing the smbios is the reason you are seeing the computer as a mcbook pro.

 

Your geekbench seems pretty low if it is only in the thousands. Mine is 10,250 or so when oc'd to 3ghz and using 64bit

 

edit: to anyone that understands this here is the code I got when trying to run the single player of cod4, the multiplayer works tho..

Exception Type:  EXC_BAD_ACCESS (SIGBUS)
Exception Codes: KERN_PROTECTION_FAILURE at 0x0000000000000001
Crashed Thread:  0

Thread 0 Crashed:
0   ???						   	0x0001e4a1 0 + 124065
1   ???						   	0x01e32929 0 + 31664425
2   dyld							  0x8fe11966 ImageLoaderMachO::doModInitFunctions(ImageLoader::LinkContext const&) + 246
3   dyld							  0x8fe0d983 ImageLoader::recursiveInitialization(ImageLoader::LinkContext const&, unsigned int) + 307
4   dyld							  0x8fe0da69 ImageLoader::runInitializers(ImageLoader::LinkContext const&) + 57
5   dyld							  0x8fe03df2 dyld::initializeMainExecutable() + 130
6   dyld							  0x8fe0720d dyld::_main(mach_header const*, unsigned long, int, char const**, char const**, char const**) + 2173
7   dyld							  0x8fe01872 dyldbootstrap::start(mach_header const*, int, char const**, long) + 818
8   dyld							  0x8fe01037 _dyld_start + 39 (dyldStartup.s:112)

Thread 0 crashed with X86 Thread State (32-bit):
 eax: 0x0001e4a1  ebx: 0x01e3311a  ecx: 0x00000000  edx: 0x0001e39f
 edi: 0x00000001  esi: 0x000013f4  ebp: 0xbffff268  esp: 0xbffff23c
  ss: 0x0000001f  efl: 0x00010246  eip: 0x0001e4a1   cs: 0x00000017
  ds: 0x0000001f   es: 0x0000001f   fs: 0x00000000   gs: 0x00000037
 cr2: 0x00000001

Binary Images:
0x8fe00000 - 0x8fe298a3  dyld 0.0 (???) <d1092af4e89e77aa121dd5fb0c855cd9> /usr/lib/dyld

[OUTSIDE]

I can't do nothing with the DFI LP UT X58-T3eH8!!!

[mattrb]

I can't do nothing with the DFI LP UT X58-T3eH8!!!

 

Try another distribution....

 

Try Retail Install Method, using kexts from the i7 community. It should work fine buddy. Take a deep breath, a few days of calm. You should figure it out by then. When you do tell us your results.

[jplee4907]

Hey guys, i'm fully up and running with the 9.6.0 kernel with 10.5.6. But only a few things are giving me issues.

 

My machine in the system profiler is detected as a macbook pro, i hate that...if anyone can help me out with that i'd appreciate it.

Then, it only shows one of my cores in the system profiler correctly. Its says "number of processors: 1, number of cores: 4". All of my cores are turned on in my bios with HT enabled of course. However i just ran geekbench and it said "number of processors: 0, active cores: 8. I'm completely lost, activity monitor is showing one core active. Also what does the busratio=20 do? Its in my boot.plist, just dont quite understand it. Memory is detected as ddr2. Could all of these issues be related to the smbios? Geekbench score was still at a thousand.

Yea, it has a ton of overclocking features, i basically just turned on the dummy OC switch and it automatically clocked the processor at 3.2 which is what i wanted, my temps are about 27 idle and right at 39 under load with the coolermaster, its an awesome fan. I'm not sure on the LAN, but i know its either 8169 or 8168, worked OTB. Audio is the 889 i believe, havent played with it yet because i use an adapter.

 

 

Conglaturation and good news for me!

Could you give us more detail of how you installed? Currently I'm using iATKOS 10.5.5 with 9.5.0 fassle kernel. But the system starts really slow. I was wondering you were able to install 10.5.6 with 9.6.0 kernel, it must be voodoo kernel, right? Then, how your system starts without without bootflag "busratio=20'...when you have time, let us know.

 

I think the lan is RealTek 8111C, the sound is ATL889a for EVGA X58. The temp is really good. I have a stock cooler, my idle temp is 47-51, that I think really high. I'm waiting my Xigmatek cooler now.

 

Thanks