[Guide] Vanilla Retail 10.6.x with Chameleon v2 for Gigabyte GA-EP45-DS3L

[jj69]

Hello all,

I just wanted to report a succesfull install.

 

Mobo : EP45-DS3

Gfx card : 9500 GT

I had a bit of trouble with the audio part (had to patch the DSDT.dsl file manually) but it's now OK.

GFX patch is included into the DSDT.aml.

 

Both integrated network interface work at 1000Mb/s. Some strange behaviours with Bonjour (not sure if it comes from the NAS or from the Hack) even though I applied the AppleScript solution described in this thread.

 

No more audio glitches : I changed iMac8,1 to MacPro1,1 in smb kext

 

System Info doesn't report QE/CI/CL, although all seems to be activated.

I might have some work left on NVCAP because the one I extracted from the gfx card rom makes the system believe my DVI connected 24" lcd is a HDTV and my VGA connected HDTV is a VGA monitor (restraining resolution to 1280x768 instead of 1360x768)

 

I'll also have to investigate PATA support.

 

Everything considered, its quite a neat system.

 

Thanks again for this great howto.

[woodbox]

Hi All,

 

I very successfully installed SL on My Gigabyte EP35-DS3R using this guide and the install is rock solid.

 

Everything works fine except for the automatic sleep although I can successfully switch to sleep manually. Did anyone already succeed in going to sleep automatically

 

A strange effect that I also observe it that: my usb keyboard seems to be still supplied by the usb port when I shutdown my PC with SL. What I can observe it that the 'numlock' diode switches on each time I press any of the keyboard key and then switches off right after.

 

If I power down the PC using windows, I don't observe that behaviour?

 

Any clue to explain this?

 

Thanks to all for your great help !

[titan4]

A strange effect that I also observe it that: my usb keyboard seems to be still supplied by the usb port when I shutdown my PC with SL. What I can observe it that the 'numlock' diode switches on each time I press any of the keyboard key and then switches off right after.

 

If I power down the PC using windows, I don't observe that behaviour?

 

I have that when shutdowning from windows too. It is normal behavior of newer boards. I can't tell if it does to me when shutting down from SL since I have apple keyboard now and that one does not have any diodes.

 

And I don't know about automatic sleep, because I never left my kitty for such long time but I will try at home and tell you.

[justmetoo]

Chameleon v2 RC3 r658

 

Having some problems with the terminal command, copied here:

 

cd /Users/tom/Downloads/Support\ Files\ for\ Blackosx\ SL\ Install\ v1.7/Chameleon\ RC3\ boot\ file

tommies-imac:Chameleon RC3 boot file tom$ cp -f boot /Volumes/Cham/

cp: directory /Volumes/Cham does not exist

tommies-imac:Chameleon RC3 boot file tom$

 

Bolded line is ???

 

Any Advice?

[keypox]

Chameleon v2 RC3 r658

 

Having some problems with the terminal command, copied here:

 

cd /Users/tom/Downloads/Support\ Files\ for\ Blackosx\ SL\ Install\ v1.7/Chameleon\ RC3\ boot\ file

tommies-imac:Chameleon RC3 boot file tom$ cp -f boot /Volumes/Cham/

cp: directory /Volumes/Cham does not exist

tommies-imac:Chameleon RC3 boot file tom$

 

Bolded line is ???

 

Any Advice?

 

Bold line is case sensistive and "Cham" must be the name of your partition you want to come the boot file too. IF you named it something else, like I, then change Cham to whatever you named.

[titan4]

Chameleon v2 RC3 r658

 

Having some problems with the terminal command, copied here:

 

cd /Users/tom/Downloads/Support\ Files\ for\ Blackosx\ SL\ Install\ v1.7/Chameleon\ RC3\ boot\ file

tommies-imac:Chameleon RC3 boot file tom$ cp -f boot /Volumes/Cham/

cp: directory /Volumes/Cham does not exist

tommies-imac:Chameleon RC3 boot file tom$

 

Bolded line is ???

 

Any Advice?

 

If you called your parition with chameleon differently you must change that cp -f /Volumes/Cham command to cp-f /Volumes/Whatever_Your_Chameleon_Partition_Is_Called

 

You can check the name in Disk Utility

[keypox]

btw success on p35-ds3l rev 2.0 have sleep, qe/ci, opencl, in 32 bit 64 should have it all too tested all but sleep in 64....

 

nice work black!

[hetman]

Chameleon v2 RC3 r658

 

Having some problems with the terminal command, copied here:

 

cd /Users/tom/Downloads/Support\ Files\ for\ Blackosx\ SL\ Install\ v1.7/Chameleon\ RC3\ boot\ file

tommies-imac:Chameleon RC3 boot file tom$ cp -f boot /Volumes/Cham/

cp: directory /Volumes/Cham does not exist

tommies-imac:Chameleon RC3 boot file tom$

 

Bolded line is ???

 

Any Advice?

 

type

ls /Volumes

tells us the output

[EnzoFX]

I also don't have sleep on idle working, in 10.5.8 but that prob won't change in 10.6

Have you looked at this: http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=171929

 

Hi All,

 

I very successfully installed SL on My Gigabyte EP35-DS3R using this guide and the install is rock solid.

 

Everything works fine except for the automatic sleep although I can successfully switch to sleep manually. Did anyone already succeed in going to sleep automatically

 

A strange effect that I also observe it that: my usb keyboard seems to be still supplied by the usb port when I shutdown my PC with SL. What I can observe it that the 'numlock' diode switches on each time I press any of the keyboard key and then switches off right after.

 

If I power down the PC using windows, I don't observe that behaviour?

 

Any clue to explain this?

 

Thanks to all for your great help !

 

If I add the SMUUID to the shared SMBIOS.plist that will be used by both 10.5 and 10.6 via cham2 RC3, would it affect Leopard? Hoping it won't.

[titan4]

I tested it and autosleep does not work for me as well. I looked in a thread EnzoFX posted and I have Samsung DVD-Drive so maybe that is the issue for me.

 

If I add the SMUUID to the shared SMBIOS.plist that will be used by both 10.5 and 10.6 via cham2 RC3, would it affect Leopard? Hoping it won't.

 

If you will use fakesmc with 10.5 i guess it will. But I don't think that can cause any issues.

[Professor]

Hey :-)

 

I have already reported that I had success with Blockosxs install method and DSDT guide

 

The only thing remaining is shutdown/restart. I have of course OpenHaltRestart.kext installed, but it seems to have no influence on the shutdown/restart behavior. I still have to restart shutdown manually.

 

Is there something I missed? Anybody else with problems on shutdown/restart?

[justmetoo]

Up and running 10.6.1, except for sleep.

 

The Cham update I posted earlier I fixed by using a terminal command to unhide all hidden files then I simply dragged the Chameleon boot file to trash and installed Blackosx's install package boot file. Works great!

 

The reason for the error was indeed a different file name for Chameleon. My file is named "Chameleon", thanks to all who correctly pointed out the reason I couldn't get RC3 Boot to load.

[titan4]

Hey :-)

 

I have already reported that I had success with Blockosxs install method and DSDT guide

 

The only thing remaining is shutdown/restart. I have of course OpenHaltRestart.kext installed, but it seems to have no influence on the shutdown/restart behavior. I still have to restart shutdown manually.

 

Is there something I missed? Anybody else with problems on shutdown/restart?

 

Have you checked if you have com.psystar.driver.OpenHaltRestart in sudo kextstat.

 

I had issues with shutdown/restart only in dark ages of tweaking when I had something stuck (safari/time machine/whatever) and I had to restart. It stopped on blue screen with that loading wheel thingie.

 

Up and running 10.6.1, except for sleep.

 

The Cham update I posted earlier I fixed by using a terminal command to unhide all hidden files then I simply dragged the Chameleon boot file to trash and installed Blackosx's install package boot file. Works great!

 

The reason for the error was indeed a different file name for Chameleon. My file is named "Chameleon", thanks to all who correctly pointed out the reason I couldn't get RC3 Boot to load.

 

Good work on making it work ! Regarding sleep, have you tried Start up automatically after a power failure in Energy Saver settings ?

[snifferpro]

Snow Leopard installed and appears to be working correctly.

 

However, I get the following errors at boot with Chameleon

 

See attached image.

 

Also, I'm getting other errors which can briefly be seen if I boot

in verbose mode. Is there a way to print a log file of the errors

encountered during Snow Leopard startup?

 

Thanks

[EnzoFX]

Just installed 10.6 on a separate drive via the usb method. Everything is working so far...

 

I haven't installed Chameleon 2 rc3 on this drive, used the usb drive for a couple reboots, but so far tested sleep, sleep on idle, it all works.

 

Just applied your Bonjour fix. Is the RT1000.kext working in Snow? Why go with the method listed in the guide? Is it overall better?

 

The animations are smoother, but one! The one where you click on an app on the dock, which is in another space, the animation shows the window sliding from one side, so to move to that space, but the window movement is pretty laggy, any one else experience this?

 

Also, is the AppleUserClient/whatever kext no longer causing lag? I think I've noticed an odd jump every now and then, and it bothers me haha What about a disabler to disable that in Snow too?

Edit: Got the modified SleepEnabler.kext from Snow (from infinitemac), that also disabler that damn appleupstreamuserclient kext.

[Professor]

Have you checked if you have com.psystar.driver.OpenHaltRestart in sudo kextstat.

 

I had issues with shutdown/restart only in dark ages of tweaking when I had something stuck (safari/time machine/whatever) and I had to restart. It stopped on blue screen with that loading wheel thingie.

 

No, I haven't got the psystar driver in the kextstat list :-(. So I guess it's not loading, and thus shutdown restart ar not working?

[bigpoppa206]

I had issues with shutdown/restart only in dark ages of tweaking when I had something stuck (safari/time machine/whatever) and I had to restart. It stopped on blue screen with that loading wheel thingie.

 

No, I haven't got the psystar driver in the kextstat list :-(. So I guess it's not loading, and thus shutdown restart ar not working?

Did you use the Kext Utility from the very first post to rebuild your mkext files in S/L/E and E/E? I used to have kexts that would not load unless I did this. I think it also repairs permissions too.

[TEPP]

Hi all,

 

Sorry English is not my native language.

 

I have installed SL successfully with this Blackosx's Guide by CD Boot, Sleep/Restart/Shutdown everything is work very well like a Rock Solid with my own DSDT.aml that was done by this guide also.

And now being I try to install 10.5.8 again with a little different on separate harddisk even I have done as the other guide but without use DSDT.aml so now my objective is using KEXT file as least as possible and also reason why I go back to 10.5.8 I want to improve my DSDT.aml on there, everything go well only something as following:

 

My Question:

 

1.Installing Chameleon, Update the Chameleon 2 RC2(640) to RC3(658)

 

after install with cham 2 RC2 and then I go on with Terminal:

My installation is on /dev/disk0s2 named "MacOSX-L"

 

method 1

cd /Volumes/i386 (by drag)

sudo fdisk -f boot0 -u -y /dev/rdisk0

sudo dd if=boot1h of=/dev/rdisk0s2

sudo cp boot /

 

Method 2

cd (then a space) then drag the ‘Chameleon RC3 boot file’ folder to the Terminal

cp -f boot /Volumes/MacOSX-L/ Note: there is a space after boot and before the /

 

 

I did both method I still not did know what I have to do but It can boot and I observe it was shown on top of monitor at the left side hand while booting "RC 658".

 

Ok, When I install 10.6 as Blackosx's guide I used method 2 to patron name "Cham" as his instruction.

 

But now my Installation 10.5.8 on only 1 harddisk (disk0s2).

 

What should I do along method 1 or 2?

 

2. After I installed chameleon rc3, why the "boot" file was shown in "MacOSX-L" folder here I attached it.

 

Something wrong or not?

 

Thank you very much for any reply.

[Professor]

Did you use the Kext Utility from the very first post to rebuild your mkext files in S/L/E and E/E? I used to have kexts that would not load unless I did this. I think it also repairs permissions too.

 

Yes I did that. Still no fun in loading OpenHaltRestart.kext

[voodoo1234]

Thanks for this great Guide blackosx

 

Somehow i have a little problem: I used your guide installing Leopard 10.5.8 on my EP-45-DS3LR, works perfect. I used this guide now to install Snow Leopard. I used EFI partition for Extra, dsdt etc. Now whenever i boot snow mounts my efi partition How i can fix this?

[Professor]

Did you use the Kext Utility from the very first post to rebuild your mkext files in S/L/E and E/E? I used to have kexts that would not load unless I did this. I think it also repairs permissions too.

 

Ok. I found an OpenHaltRestart.kext-version (1.0.3) which is "for snow 64". This version in fact did load and is listed in kextstat. But - restart/shutdown still won't work :-(

 

Update: I tested this, and it turns out, that shutdown/restart is in fact working, but it takes some time until the machine gets fully shutdown/restarted. I would say about 20 secs or something. Which is quite long.

[Litvan]

Thank you, blackosx, for three great guides!

 

I have successfully used the one for 10.5.8 and have it running with DSTD.

 

I have a question: can I install the snow leo on the partition on the same hd where I already have a 10.5.7 system running with a Chameleon bootloader on an EFI partition?

 

Thanks!

[sickofit]

hi.

 

your guide worked out for me with snow. but i've got cmos reset and cant fix it.

 

this is how my dsdt looked like:

 

Device (RTC)

{

Name (_HID, EisaId ("PNP0B00"))

Name (ATT0, ResourceTemplate ()

{

IO (Decode16,

0x0070, // Range Minimum

0x0070, // Range Maximum

0x00, // Alignment

0x04, // Length

)

})

Name (ATT1, ResourceTemplate ()

{

IO (Decode16,

0x0070, // Range Minimum

0x0070, // Range Maximum

0x00, // Alignment

0x04, // Length

)

})

Method (_CRS, 0, NotSerialized)

{

If (LGreaterEqual (OSFX, 0x03))

{

If (HPTF)

{

Return (ATT1)

}

Else

{

Return (ATT0)

}

}

Else

{

Return (ATT0)

}

}

}

 

and i changed it to:

 

Device (RTC)

{

Name (_HID, EisaId ("PNP0B00"))

Name (ATT0, ResourceTemplate ()

{

IO (Decode16,

0x0070, // Range Minimum

0x0070, // Range Maximum

0x00, // Alignment

0x02, // Length

)

})

Name (ATT1, ResourceTemplate ()

{

IO (Decode16,

0x0070, // Range Minimum

0x0070, // Range Maximum

0x00, // Alignment

0x02, // Length

)

})

Method (_CRS, 0, NotSerialized)

{

If (LGreaterEqual (OSFX, 0x03))

{

If (HPTF)

{

Return (ATT1)

}

Else

{

Return (ATT0)

}

}

Else

{

Return (ATT0)

}

}

}

 

it seems different from this in your guide. but i thought my changings would work out. it doesnt.

 

i hope you can give me some good advice.

[titan4]

it seems different from this in your guide. but i thought my changings would work out. it doesnt.

 

i hope you can give me some good advice.

 

Try changing only the first value. You are not supposed to change the second one.

 

Ok. I found an OpenHaltRestart.kext-version (1.0.3) which is "for snow 64". This version in fact did load and is listed in kextstat. But - restart/shutdown still won't work :-(

 

Update: I tested this, and it turns out, that shutdown/restart is in fact working, but it takes some time until the machine gets fully shutdown/restarted. I would say about 20 secs or something. Which is quite long.

 

That's strange. My install restarts/shutdowns in a matter of seconds. I am using OpenHaltRestart from blackosx's support files and it is compatible with 64-bit.

 

 

As for all of you trying to have both L and SL installed. What I think is it is generally better to have seperate bootloader for each system. I know that there are folders in Cham RC3 to have different kexts for each version, but I don't know how they work and neither me or blackosx don't know (because of lack of research) how to make them work, so if somebody manages to make it work just tell the others. In that case it won't be problem to have both versions on one HDD.

[uketommyv]

Hello there,

 

I need help real bad. i dont know whats going on. I cant boot to the cd. when my pc tries to boot the cd, it restarts i tried doing the image on the hdd and when it boots i get black screen after the apple logo. the first time i tried, it went to the installation and while it was installing it crashed. if anybody has any suggestions. im all ears. here is my setup:

 

ga ep 45ds3l (f10 bios)

intel quad core at 2.66ghz

nvidia gtx 285

4gb ram

 

I had leopard working before but im still a newb when it comes to this. please if anybody has any suggestions, ill try them.

 

thanks in advance