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Kakewalk: Minimal effort install (EP45, EX58, P55, G41)

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The ones I linked worked for me. I'm running 10.6.2, so I have used latest sleep enabler. Don't use this one if you are running 10.6.1 or other.

nullcpupowermanagement.kext

sleep enabler

 

And check all boxes in Energy Settings in Preferences:

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Hi Daryl

Please supply the Creation dates of the Nullcpu and sleep enabler as i have tried various combinations and cannot get my setup to sleep

Thanks in advance

Ray

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itsdonny
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I have a GA-X58A-UD5 and I used Kakewalk for a GA-X58A-UD7 since at this time there wasn't a kakewalk hack for my motherboard. I've upgraded to 10.6.2 but still in system preferences under sound there are no output audio devices. Can someone please tell me what to do or where I can get the right kext for my motherboard? Many Thanks! Don

 

Also thanks to the programmer! Donation is on it's way.

 

Don

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I have a GA-X58A-UD5 and I used Kakewalk for a GA-X58A-UD7 since at this time there wasn't a kakewalk hack for my motherboard. I've upgraded to 10.6.2 but still in system preferences under sound there are no output audio devices. Can someone please tell me what to do or where I can get the right kext for my motherboard? Many Thanks! Don

Also thanks to the programmer! Donation is on it's way.

Don

 

Have you tried installing VooDooHDA.kext?

If I would be you I'ld give it a try.

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I apologize if this has been answered before, I did search but found nothing. I used Kakewalk to load SL on a GA EP45 UD3P. Everything went fine except that I did not have a USB keyboard. I also run Win7 on a different hard drive. I installed SL with the Win7 drive unplugged. Everything went fine except for the no usb keyboard problem. I just shut down SL at that point and unplugged that drive. I've since modified Win7 to be AHCI compliant via the registry and installed the Intel drivers. At that point I figured it was safe to plug the SL drive back in to the system. When I went to boot to the SL drive I just selected it via the BIOS. However it hangs at the 'verifying DMI' message. And when I try to boot off the Kakewalk CD I get this message "Image checksum error, sorry..." Why, all of a sudden, can I not boot from the CD?

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d.t.heck
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I just wanted to post my experience doing this amazing Kakewalk...

MoBo Gigabyte EX85-UD3R

i7 920

Gigabyte GeForce 9800XT 512MB

Corsair XMS DDR3-1600

 

Did the USB Install. Prepared an USB drive on a Mac Book.

 

Have to say I'm a Mac User since the early 90s...

...and except I had to build the computer myself...

there was no difference to other Mac installs

The "Mac" bootet up without having anything adjusted on the MoBo. So I had to restart to get to the Bios. Which was the hardest thing to do on this whole process (for a Mac User...)

A few adjustments on the BIOS (like written in the guide) and voila!

Ethernet, Sound, FW my Pro Tools HD2 Accel and my Canopus DV video converter is working like they should. No Problems so far.

The only thing I'm not sure about is the hard drive performance, compared to a real MacPro.

Does anybody has a similar experience? It seems it's the same like on my G5. Not too bad, but not as stunning as on a MacPro.

 

Another thing that didn't work was a Sonnet FW800 card (just gave it one try and it might be a problem in combination with the PT HD cards)

 

Great work mrjanek and all the others

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The only thing I'm not sure about is the hard drive performance, compared to a real MacPro.

Does anybody has a similar experience? It seems it's the same like on my G5. Not too bad, but not as stunning as on a MacPro.

 

Hi heck,

I have not detected a slow disk performance (yet).

Have you run Geekbench in your hackintosh? And in your MacPro?

Which figures have you got?

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I apologize if this has been answered before, I did search but found nothing. I used Kakewalk to load SL on a GA EP45 UD3P. Everything went fine except that I did not have a USB keyboard. I also run Win7 on a different hard drive. I installed SL with the Win7 drive unplugged. Everything went fine except for the no usb keyboard problem. I just shut down SL at that point and unplugged that drive. I've since modified Win7 to be AHCI compliant via the registry and installed the Intel drivers. At that point I figured it was safe to plug the SL drive back in to the system. When I went to boot to the SL drive I just selected it via the BIOS. However it hangs at the 'verifying DMI' message. And when I try to boot off the Kakewalk CD I get this message "Image checksum error, sorry..." Why, all of a sudden, can I not boot from the CD?

 

I got home and figured out the problem. Now I'll share so that others may benefit. :)

 

When I was messing around with the SL hard drive, I moved the CD/DVD drive (which is SATA) to the Gigabyte controller. I kind of had a hunch that might be the problem and it was. When I moved the CD/DVD drive back to one of the 6 SATA connectors controlled by the ICH10R controller everything worked fine. I am posting this from Safari within SL!

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Hi heck,

I have not detected a slow disk performance (yet).

Have you run Geekbench in your hackintosh? And in your MacPro?

Which figures have you got?

 

Hi Pepechuelo,

 

It's not really slow, but just not amazing...

 

tried XBench. Will try Geekbench soon and post it...

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Hey guys, I need some expert help here. Here's the setup I got

 

GA-G41M-ES2L F6

Core2Duo E6550

9400 GT

500 GB SATA

 

I've been using any possible bootdisk to get snow leopard to install properly. Unfortunately, no matter what disc I use, whether be kakewalk or Darwin, I either get a Panic mode from boot menu or I do get to Snow Leopard installation screen. BUT after reaching about 41% - 46%, my installation would halt and give me a Error (!) stating something went wrong with my installation and asks me to restart my installation. This is story for the past two days of doing this. Please keep in mind, I've been using the Boot CD method and have no tried the USB method. Can anyone enlighten me as to what I'm doing wrong?

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PoloBear
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@cMm

NO, just check the first page of this thread, only these Mainboards are supported

@Gmink

Only graphic cards with driver support, so every card released from apple will work, and every card with support from PC_Efi, nvenabler, or else, check http://wiki.osx86project.org/wiki/index.ph...#Graphics_Cards,

and all the new Ati 5-Series -----> no support yet, no drivers even in 10.6.3....

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I finally got it working. It was indeed just my dual graphics cards that did it, but after some tinkering I even got that working, so now I have 4 monitors up and running :D One can never have too much screen-realestate.

 

But alas, I still have a problem. I have just discovered that OSX apparently only sees one of the 4(8) cores on the i7.

It is recognized as a Quad-core Intel Xeon, but in the activity monitor there is only one graph and not 4 (or should there be 8?).

 

Does anyone know how to fix this?

 

Many thanks in advance.

 

EDIT:

 

Spec:

Gigabyte X58A-UD7

Intel Core i7 920

2 x ASUS 9800GT

12 GB Kingston 1333

Intel X25M 80GB

WD 640GB

 

EDIT2:

Well it seems that I am a tool. Simply stupid. I just had to click the damn graph to show graphs for all eight cores.

But it is only showing use on 4 of them, but then again, it does only have 4 cores so its not that big a deal, but if someone knows that it should be using all 8 graphs, then please share.

 

Other than that, I have nothing to "complain" about :rolleyes:

 

Many thanks for making this available.

 

EDIT3:

And I have now truly learned to research something more in depth before posting random stupidity on internet forums. There is absolutely nothing wrong with my OSX install. It is totally capable of using all of the eight virtual cores on the i7

It is just the software I was using to test (MacOSaiX) is only capable of using the four physical cores.

I will now remain silent in shame. Thanks for your time :D

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kekosino
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First off, thanks so much mrjanek!!!

 

Just a quick post to report on yet another success, here are my specs (might be interesting for others on a very tight budget):

 

GA EP43-UD3L

Pentium Dual Core E5400

2GB DDR2 OCZ RAM

Old 80GB IDE (PATA) HD

Asus Geforce 8400 GS.

 

Everything, and I mean everything seems to work out of the box so far, although I don't use sleep so haven't tested that.

 

Updated to 10.6.1 first and then to 10.6.2, no issues.

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germanicus
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pci firewire card not work, why ?

gigabyte ep45-ud3lr, install SL with Kakewalk usb ...

sorry my english :)

 

check out the chipset manufacturer of the card. if it’s via, forget it and buy a new one. best is nec.

 

I will now remain silent in shame. Thanks for your time :D

best posting ever ;-) you made my day...

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GMink
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@cMm

NO, just check the first page of this thread, only these Mainboards are supported

@Gmink

Only graphic cards with driver support, so every card released from apple will work, and every card with support from PC_Efi, nvenabler, or else, check http://wiki.osx86project.org/wiki/index.ph...#Graphics_Cards,

and all the new Ati 5-Series -----> no support yet, no drivers even in 10.6.3....

 

Thanks that's what I expected.

 

I'll go with the HD4870 for now :)

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I've been using any possible bootdisk to get snow leopard to install properly. Unfortunately, no matter what disc I use, whether be kakewalk or Darwin, I either get a Panic mode from boot menu or I do get to Snow Leopard installation screen. BUT after reaching about 41% - 46%, my installation would halt and give me a Error (!) stating something went wrong with my installation and asks me to restart my installation. This is story for the past two days of doing this. Please keep in mind, I've been using the Boot CD method and have no tried the USB method. Can anyone enlighten me as to what I'm doing wrong?

 

I had the same problem when I was starting out. It didn't happen on my first install because I was so excited and was goofing with the mouse the whole time it was installing. But it did happen on my second install a few hours later after I did something I didn't know how to recover from at the time and had to reinstall. What I found was that the installer turns off the display after 15 minutes or so as a power-saving feature. This was causing my computer to freeze. If I just moved the mouse occasionally to keep from power-saving all was good.

 

Not certain if this is the problem you are having, but it sounded familiar. Good luck!

 

BTW- I use a USB stick with an image of SL on it. The install takes under 15 minutes with this method IIRC.

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What did you do to get the two cards and 4 displays running?

 

Just followed the guide here:

 

http://aquamac.proboards.com/index.cgi?boa...=569&page=1

 

And as you can read in my post in the same thread (the very last as of this writing), I simply made the changes to /Extras/com.apple.Boot.plist as well as the one mentioned in the guide.

 

germanicus:

Heh, well I'm glad you had fun watching me dig myself out of that one :D

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xmachine
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1st post on this forum here :-)

 

Just wondering. Is it easy to run bootcamp with a kakewalk system? Or will I have to do any tweaking to get it to run.

 

Thanks!

 

@cMm

NO, just check the first page of this thread, only these Mainboards are supported

@Gmink

Only graphic cards with driver support, so every card released from apple will work, and every card with support from PC_Efi, nvenabler, or else, check http://wiki.osx86project.org/wiki/index.ph...#Graphics_Cards,

and all the new Ati 5-Series -----> no support yet, no drivers even in 10.6.3....

 

I have the exact same card as you Polobear. Did you have any issues getting it to work?

 

Thanks!

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