Asus P5N7A-VM

[GuyToronto]

without sleep, i bet.

I've never had Sleep or Shutdown work successfully. I don't need it to Sleep, and Shutdown isn't a big issue.

 

i'm finally happy with a 10.5.6 setup

 

dgsga dsdt from #579 and frodos hda kexts from post #364, appleintelcpupowermanagement.kext removed (voodopower installed instead) and appledecrypt in extra.

 

nothing else, full sound, shutdown reboot. finally im there

I wanted to go to 10.5.8 to have the latest Safari.

[anitanium]

FWIW, if you have a pci card, or usb legacy, sleep has problems

[lout]

big problem!!! Last day and night i try try try but no success i folow the guide everything looks ok after i put prepare hd in to pc (black esata) (bios set ahci usb legacy off) osx start ok i setup bluetooth keyboard and mouse still ok aftr that restart and system not boot again panic kernel thnx for any help ps : i use last version of bios (P5N7A-VM-0514.ROM)

[Lokoh]

Good news for this mobo and Snow Leopard 10A380! Works a treat in 64-bit mode with only 4 added kexts, 64-bit version of AppleDecrypt, and above ALC1200.kext. Also need to fix info.plist of IOAHCIFamily.kext (orange icon fix) and a 64-bit version of OpenHaltRestart.kext.

Hi dgsga!

 

Yesterday I tried to install on one of my hard drive:

*Snow Leopard latest release (10A432)

*Chamaleon 2 RC2 with latest PC_EFI V10.2

*AppleDecrypt, ALC1200 and IOAHCIFamily kexts and DSDT.aml you uploaded on that reply.

 

When I try to start the system, Kernel Panic comes. Something related with the CPU, I think. So... what I'm doing wrong? :S

 

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By the way, for the rest of people, I have to say that 10.5.8 have no problem with sleep in comparation with 10.5.6.

I have install on my working system chamaleon 1 + 10.5.8 and it works perfect as was with 10.5.6. BUT, If i put chamaleon 2, them my system doesn't sleep, so this may be the problem you are getting. Hope this help for you!

[lout]

plz can some one here who have working instalation tell me how to do i try 1000x from guide no sucsses.

plz tel me what file i must delete a what file i have to add what bios version i have to use and where i have to put my sata hdd to sata connector 1, 2,3,4,5 or 6 i like to have vanilla 10.5.8 dont care about sleep thnx m

[Lokoh]

plz can some one here who have working instalation tell me how to do i try 1000x from guide no sucsses.

plz tel me what file i must delete a what file i have to add what bios version i have to use and where i have to put my sata hdd to sata connector 1, 2,3,4,5 or 6 i like to have vanilla 10.5.8 dont care about sleep thnx m

My config:

1) I connect an external hdd through usb to a Macbook, and Install Mac OS X 10.5.6.

2) I install disabler.kext, appledecrypt.kext, applehda.kext and smbiosresolver.kext uploaded before on that topic with Universal OS X Installer.

3) I put in the root of that hard drive the file dsdt.aml by dgsga.

4) I connect that HDD to SATA 1 on my P5N7A. BIOS configuration is "default", HDDs in AHCI and USB emulation disabled, no O/C. My BIOS I think it's 407.

5) I just start computer and here we go. When you have your 10.5.6 installation OK, then you can upload to 10.5.8 through software update. Maybe you'll have to reinstall some kexts after that, but nothing to worry a lot.

 

Hope it helps!

[FrodoKenny]

New LegacyAppleHDA kext for 10.5.8. Should also work for 10.5.7 and 10.5.6. Replaces previous two legacy audio kexts (LegacyAppleHDAController and LegacyApplePlatformDriver). Rest is as described here.

 

Still can't get it to work from /Extra though, so place it in /System/Library/Extensions.

 

ps. This one has 5.1 analog line-outs + digital and auto headphone switch with the first line-out. Edit the Info.plist for different combo's (they're commented).

LegacyAppleHDA.kext.zip

[lout]

My config:

1) I connect an external hdd through usb to a Macbook, and Install Mac OS X 10.5.6.

2) I install disabler.kext, appledecrypt.kext, applehda.kext and smbiosresolver.kext uploaded before on that topic with Universal OS X Installer.

3) I put in the root of that hard drive the file dsdt.aml by dgsga.

4) I connect that HDD to SATA 1 on my P5N7A. BIOS configuration is "default", HDDs in AHCI and USB emulation disabled, no O/C. My BIOS I think it's 407.

5) I just start computer and here we go. When you have your 10.5.6 installation OK, then you can upload to 10.5.8 through software update. Maybe you'll have to reinstall some kexts after that, but nothing to worry a lot.

 

Hope it helps!

Thnx

[phoey12]

Is anyone having problems with PCI Cards being picked up?

 

Everything is working fine for the board (sound, graphics) except the PCI wireless card. I have three PCI wireless cards and all three haven't been "switched on" or show life (no lights on them whatsoever) let alone being detected as an airport card.

 

The last card i pulled out of another hackintosh and know for sure this card should work in leopard (broadcom 4306) but just seems it cannot be detected. Ive used the leopard broadcom drivers featured in a topic on insanelymac but hasn't resolved the problem.

 

i ran lspci in OSX86Tools and detected the PCI card, i just can't seem to get it running. Im running 514 Bios, with dggaga latest DSDT.

 

Another note is everything in LSPCI shows as unknown nvidia device like PCI bridge, USB, SATA controller. Is that correct? This is a standard vanilla install using universal installer , chameleon EFI 1.02, essentials kext and the two audio drivers. Everything else works perfect except the damn PCI card!!

 

Im thinking along the lines that the PCI bridge drivers haven't been installed properly.

 

any thoughts lads?

 

joe

[General_Cartman]

Upgraded to 10.5.8 using software update. Only had to re-apply the AppleHDA.kext. Sleep still working here. BTW, has anybody managed to get Snow Leopard working on this board?

[FrodoKenny]

Is anyone having problems with PCI Cards being picked up?

 

I have a PCI broadcom WLAN card installed. Detected as a third party airport and working perfectly...

So it should be possible. Have you checked under Linux or Windows it's not a hardware problem?

[cleric.retribution]

Just to toss another working method here:

 

I attached disk via SATA to another hack of mine, and installed with iATKOS_v7 to the new disk.

I then copied DSDT.aml from 2/16 Diabolik to the newly installed system.

 

Finally, I put the disk into my home theater PC with this board, and it booted right up, w/ no issues.

 

c2d 2.66Ghz, 4GB RAM.

Fully accelerated HDMI video @ 1920x1200, w/ overclock as suggested in this thread. (no xbench yet)

Sound output via S/PDIF optical cable to my receiver w/ no issues - AC3, DD, etc.

Sleep / Shutdown / Restart working without issues (because CPU Power Management kext is blacklisted right now?)

 

Thx a ton to the guys on this board who brought this motherboard to my attention - it's perfect for a HTPC!

 

Signal64 / Diabolik - any updates on Audio over HDMI? Can I help at all?

[eject]

ok,

 

this i think will be my last update on this board wich i now own 3 times.

 

i wrote recently that i got everything working with frodos kexts (sorry the last one 10.5.8 didn't work out for me but i only use 10.5.7 because of sleep issues with 10.5.8 kernel) and dsgsa dsdt from #579 , i thought everything was working, all line outs, reboot, shutdown, sleep, graphics.

 

that wasn't quiet right, it has a graphics issue wich i found out as i applied it to my other board on my LCD where i did a color calibration sometime earlier, the graphic injection provided by the dsgsa dsdt couldn't change the color sheme, it just stays the same, way to overcolored and to dark. so there i was, diaboliks edited dsdt for up to 4 cpu cores (DIY or by anitanium) could do graphics right but won't give full sound. frodo kennys wich won't let my Hac sleep and dsgsa wich won't do the graphics right.

 

i decompiled both, and in a quick and dirty job i replaced the whole method 

Method (_DSM, 4, NotSerialized)

from the dsgsa dsdt with the method found in diaboliks dsdt in this place. compiled it again, put it in extra, and voila. now absolutly everything is working like it should.

 

 

 

there are maybe other ways to get everything woking with this board, but this way did work out for me on all three boards wth 3 diffeent cpus, two of the 2 core and one 4 core, there is nothing cpu specific in the dsdt. so i choose to provide all things i need for getting it right in this post (beside the dsdt wich is copied together out of two provided in this thread already (thanks for the infomation from frodokenny about wich sections do what)) all files are present in this information rich but scatterd thread. just install the dcrypt in extra/extensions and the rest of the kexts in s/l/e, no need to delete appleintelcpu or upstream or a disabler. and you are done. 

 

i really like to thank all people hee fo providing files and information

 

p5n7a_eject.zip

[Hugo_bee]

Hi dgsga!

 

Yesterday I tried to install on one of my hard drive:

*Snow Leopard latest release (10A432)

*Chamaleon 2 RC2 with latest PC_EFI V10.2

*AppleDecrypt, ALC1200 and IOAHCIFamily kexts and DSDT.aml you uploaded on that reply.

 

When I try to start the system, Kernel Panic comes. Something related with the CPU, I think. So... what I'm doing wrong? :S

 

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By the way, for the rest of people, I have to say that 10.5.8 have no problem with sleep in comparation with 10.5.6.

I have install on my working system chamaleon 1 + 10.5.8 and it works perfect as was with 10.5.6. BUT, If i put chamaleon 2, them my system doesn't sleep, so this may be the problem you are getting. Hope this help for you!

 

 

please I like to read for ever and ever this topic.. so due to very hard policy of this forum i'ts better to NOT talk about snow.

 

for the sleep problem in cham v2, the only way (I suppose) is to use the couple iousbfamily+voodoousbehci and a good dsdt mod

i suggest the spanish dsdt editor that suggest how to fix it. I have 10.5.6.. i'm afraid to upgrade.. but asap I'll do. sure

 

cordially

ugo

[phoey12]

I have a PCI broadcom WLAN card installed. Detected as a third party airport and working perfectly...

So it should be possible. Have you checked under Linux or Windows it's not a hardware problem?

 

Hmm cheers, i was thinking the same. I tested the wifi card in windows 7 to make sure it wasn't hardware related fault, and worked perfectly there. Im thinking its because the chipset hasn't installed properly.

 

My system:

Chameleon-2.0-RC2-r640

Mac mini retail disc (10.5.6)

Combo update to 10.5.8

Broadcom 4306 wifi network card installed to PCI bridge

 

everything else works fine except this wifi card (possibly all PCI cards though however haven't got one to hand to test)

 

Heres what lspci says:

 

00:00.0 Host bridge [0600]: nVidia Corporation Unknown device [10de:0a80] (rev b1)
00:00.1 RAM memory [0500]: nVidia Corporation Unknown device [10de:0a88] (rev b1)
00:03.0 ISA bridge [0601]: nVidia Corporation Unknown device [10de:0aac] (rev b2)
00:03.1 RAM memory [0500]: nVidia Corporation Unknown device [10de:0aa4] (rev b1)
00:03.2 SMBus [0c05]: nVidia Corporation Unknown device [10de:0aa2] (rev b1)
00:03.3 RAM memory [0500]: nVidia Corporation Unknown device [10de:0a89] (rev b1)
00:03.4 RAM memory [0500]: nVidia Corporation Unknown device [10de:0a98] (rev b1)
00:03.5 Co-processor [0b40]: nVidia Corporation Unknown device [10de:0aa3] (rev b1)
00:04.0 USB Controller [0c03]: nVidia Corporation Unknown device [10de:0aa5] (rev b1)
00:04.1 USB Controller [0c03]: nVidia Corporation Unknown device [10de:0aa6] (rev b1)
00:06.0 USB Controller [0c03]: nVidia Corporation Unknown device [10de:0aa7] (rev b1)
00:06.1 USB Controller [0c03]: nVidia Corporation Unknown device [10de:0aa9] (rev b1)
00:08.0 Audio device [0403]: nVidia Corporation Unknown device [10de:0ac0] (rev b1)
00:09.0 PCI bridge [0604]: nVidia Corporation Unknown device [10de:0aab] (rev b1)
00:0a.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: nVidia Corporation MCP79 Ethernet [10de:0ab0] (rev b1)
00:0b.0 SATA controller [0106]: nVidia Corporation Unknown device [10de:0ab8] (rev b1)
00:0c.0 PCI bridge [0604]: nVidia Corporation Unknown device [10de:0ac4] (rev b1)
00:10.0 PCI bridge [0604]: nVidia Corporation Unknown device [10de:0aa0] (rev b1)
00:15.0 PCI bridge [0604]: nVidia Corporation Unknown device [10de:0ac6] (rev b1)
00:16.0 PCI bridge [0604]: nVidia Corporation Unknown device [10de:0ac7] (rev b1)
01:05.0 Network controller [0280]: Broadcom Corporation BCM4306 802.11b/g Wireless LAN Controller [14e4:4320] (rev 02)
03:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: nVidia Corporation Unknown device [10de:086c] (rev b1)
05:00.0 IDE interface [0101]: JMicron Technologies, Inc. JMB368 IDE controller [197b:2368]

 

Looking at everyone else's lspci , this isn't ideal ...

 

Any kext or pointers ive missed could you please point me in the right direction Cheers

[Hugo_bee]

ehm.. wow.

i didn't a mistake.. but .. from TODAY the forum removed the block .. now we can talk about SNOW.. yuppie

[Rebelatheart]

Just to toss another working method here:

 

I attached disk via SATA to another hack of mine, and installed with iATKOS_v7 to the new disk.

I then copied DSDT.aml from 2/16 Diabolik to the newly installed system.

 

Finally, I put the disk into my home theater PC with this board, and it booted right up, w/ no issues.

 

c2d 2.66Ghz, 4GB RAM.

Fully accelerated HDMI video @ 1920x1200, w/ overclock as suggested in this thread. (no xbench yet)

Sound output via S/PDIF optical cable to my receiver w/ no issues - AC3, DD, etc.

Sleep / Shutdown / Restart working without issues (because CPU Power Management kext is blacklisted right now?)

 

Thx a ton to the guys on this board who brought this motherboard to my attention - it's perfect for a HTPC!

 

Signal64 / Diabolik - any updates on Audio over HDMI? Can I help at all?

 

 

Do you mind posting your iatkos settings,(graphics, kernel, everything) and any bios settings that needed to be changed from default. Gotta work on my build 2moro, and the more options the better. Thanks.

[eject]

ok,

 

this, i think, will be my last update on this board

wrong again

 

ahaha.

this setup also works with snow leo.

snow leo won't boot in x64 (screen goes of after loading nvresman50 kext or something like that) and with fakesmc it will randomly KP in x32.

but with netkas dsmos it boots x32 flawless and o KP for about an hour mildly use.

im posting to report that the frodo kennys 3 kext audio solution in combination with my patchwork dsdt (or dsgsas) delivers full sound.

a normal mac would also only boot up with x32.

the tasks in the activity monitor are shown as 64bit anyway.

 

seems like this board is just a great and easy deal

 

board sleepsand wakes, won't reboot though

[theoldrat]

New Updated DSDT :

 

HPET Fixed, So you can have AppleIntelCPUPowerManagement.kext installed w/o a Disabler.

 

GPU Injection, No need to have NVKush (or any other gpu injector) installed.

 

All thanks go to Signal64 for all the help.

 

The 2 core version .aml : DSDT.aml.zip

 

The .dsl if you want to edit for 4 core detection : dsdt.dsl.zip

 

-D-

[Hugo_bee]

New LegacyAppleHDA kext for 10.5.8. Should also work for 10.5.7 and 10.5.6. Replaces previous two legacy audio kexts (LegacyAppleHDAController and LegacyApplePlatformDriver). Rest is as described here.

 

Still can't get it to work from /Extra though, so place it in /System/Library/Extensions.

 

ps. This one has 5.1 analog line-outs + digital and auto headphone switch with the first line-out. Edit the Info.plist for different combo's (they're commented).

 

hy frodo

i've update to 10.5.8 finally. all is fine.. no need to use disabler o dsmos.. or appledecrypt .. thanks to netkas fakesmc.kext.

 

i'm using the last dsdt which has video injection inside. until last 10.5.6 i used an audio injection and the two audio legacy.. no hdaenabler)

 

I removed those 2 legacy and put yours in Extra/Extension folder, but no audio.. no device. then.. what shall i put with your legacy.. and where?

 

shall I use the original 10.5.8 applehda? shall I move your legacy in S/L/E ?

 

thanks in advance..

 

ugo

[anitanium]

So I managed to get 10.6 running on my P5N7A

no KP for 6 hours

seems pretty stable to me

it says that "64 bit kernel and extensions" indicates No

but when I look at extensions and activity monitor they show as 64-bit...

 

but for some reason, I can't remap my modifier keys.

even if I switch command/control it still doesn't take effect....

[Cave Man]

So I managed to get 10.6 running on my P5N7A

That's great news. Do you plan to share the installation details with us.

 

Also, are you getting Quicktime X hardware acceleration with the 9300?

[eject]

That's great news. Do you plan to share the installation details with us.

 

simply do the same as you would installing leopard (atleast thats what i did) mount SL dvd, start UInstallter, install to a guid partition.

 

now the slightly different parts, install chameleon 2 RC1 (not rc2) to that partion. download netkas 10.1 pcefi file (from netkas.org) open terminal, log in with sudo -s, type cp, drag and drop downloaded boot file in terminal and then drag and drop the partition where you installed SL on the terminal, hit enter. put a dstdt in extra and dsmos from netkas in extra extensions. donwload kextutility. copy it out of the dmg to where you want. drop the s/l/e extension folder from fresh nstalled snow leo on the kextutility app. wait for finishing. then drop the extra extensions folder on the app. now boot again from harddrive where you installed chameleon rc1 and choose the snow leo partition, type -x32 and snow leo will boot up, you can add this -x32 to a boot plist (as a kernel string) and store it in extra.

 

if you are usng dsgsas or my last dsdt you can install frodo kennys three audio kexts (the two legacy ones and the applehda) from within snow leo by drag and dropping them on kextutility. or some reasons you don't succeed in SL with the old chmod/chown/touch thing; restart

 

Also, are you getting Quicktime X hardware acceleration with the 9300?

how do i check this? just by cpu load? not very accurate and could have other reasons also.

[anitanium]

basically, install same as leopard

i roughly followed this guide

http://www.projectosx.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=464

 

 

 

1. use existing mac, install from 10.6 image to GUID partition

2. install PC_EFI V9 with snow 'boot' file (apparently V9 is more stable than V10.x)

3. install four(4) 64bit kexts: dsmos, openhaltrestart, nullCPUPowerManagement, PlatformUUID

4. use leopard dsdt.aml (worked for me, I patched a new version after install)

5. restart in single user mode (-s)

6. type in code (you might 'overwrite' to the next line, but it will still work)

mount -uw /
kextcache -v 1 -t -l -m /System/Library/Caches/com.apple.kext.caches/Startup/Extensions.mkext /System/Library/Extensions 

7. reboot with -x64 flag and watch the pretty startup (hopefully), if not, use -x32 flag

 

going to electro's site from infinitemac

http://cid-8b65993ef55cf014.skydrive.live....x/.Public/OSx86

8. use DSDTGUI to get a new dsdt

9. install AppleHDA_432 to get sound working

 

this is off memory, and i had to redo a lot of the installations because of some EFI startup issues and with 64bit not being properly enabled before (which I think i fixed now)

 

as for video acceleration, i really don't know how to test it, but I did play a 1080p mp4 and it was tons smoother than with leopard. whether it is because of the openCL or 64bit or both I can't be sure. I noticed that kernel cpu% was hovering around 3% when playing

 

 

i still have that keyboard quirk though...

[ben10]

So got 10.5.6 running.

 

Started from a legit Mac Pro, hooked up hard drive, installed fine.

Then installed boot combo (chameleon 2.0rc1 and 1.0 boot file or whatever)

Then installed my old DSDT (generated in my leo install, not from other source)

booted without a single flag just -v and it worked fine, but no gfx acceleration and no sound yet. I can get gfx to work with nvdarwin when i boot -x32, but with 64 bit kernel none of the old kexts work. I guess thats to be expected.

So right now I am going to try the old audio kexts with a -x32, and if its good then i have a full working 10.5.6. Its funny, so far 64 bit kernel is more stable (I have gotten a couple kps on 32 bit), but i cant figure out how to get gfx and sound on 64 bit kernel.