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the_gael
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Just thought I would share this with you all in case it helps anyone else.

Although I have used Macs and OS X since it appeared I was totally unaware of how to use the Sounds Preferences to select output devices.

 

Like many others I struggled to get audio working correctly on my GA-P35-DS4 - I applied the Patched AppleHDA.kext and had output from my speakers plugged into the back of my machine but had no sound on the headphones plugged into the front audio. I tried various solutions but nothing doing!

 

Just now by accident I selected the headphones line in Sound preferences while listening to music via iTunes - I was stunned to hear the output coming from my headphones attached to the front connector which I thought did not work!

 

Now that I have figured it out it seems obvious that's how to select which output device to use - but trust me it was not obvious before. I had always selected Internal Speakers as the speakers were connected to the internal built in sound chip! I suppose that if the Headphones line had been called auxilliary or additional panel I may have selected it before.

 

So now I have my speakers plugged into the rear of my Hackintosh and my headset plugged into the front connector (using AZALIA plug) and simply use Preferences>Sound>Output and highlight whichever output I want - Built-in Speaker or Built-in Headphone

 

Everything works! :-) This moment of realisation :P is shared with you all in case anyone else has missed how to make speakers and headphones work!

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Da Grez
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Right, I have held off installing 10.5.3 Wanted to wait for you guys to iron out the problems as I now rely on my leopard install for my business.

 

I decided to have a go today but I want to check I have the correct running order-(First off, I installed from V8 and everything has worked smoothly since then)

 

1) back up my system disk

2) Unplug my drive and connect it to my macbook

3) Install 10.5.3 to my Hack disk

4) run the post patch to my hack disk

5) reconnect the hack disk to my hack system

6) boot and run the efi studio to get my gfx card working

 

Is that the lot?

 

I have downloaded the efistudio.zip from the links posted but stuffit claims it is incompatible, I have also tried to get xp to open it and it says its corrupt. Any idea's?

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LS8
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1) back up my system disk

2) Unplug my drive and connect it to my macbook

3) Install 10.5.3 to my Hack disk

4) run the post patch to my hack disk

5) reconnect the hack disk to my hack system

6) boot and run the efi studio to get my gfx card working

 

Correct. Don't forget to apply the pre-patch before installing Leopard. EFIStudio unzips fine with the Leopard's built-in Archive utility. I naver had any problem with it.

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Correct. Don't forget to apply the pre-patch before installing Leopard. EFIStudio unzips fine with the Leopard's built-in Archive utility. I naver had any problem with it.

 

Ls8,

 

Do i need to reinstall OS X or can i install .3 over the top (what I was planning to do)

 

Cheers

 

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Archive: EFIStudio.zip

End-of-central-directory signature not found. Either this file is not

a zipfile, or it constitutes one disk of a multi-part archive. In the

latter case the central directory and zipfile comment will be found on

the last disk(s) of this archive.

unzip: cannot find zipfile directory in one of EFIStudio.zip or

EFIStudio.zip.zip, and cannot find EFIStudio.zip.ZIP, period.

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LS8
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Yes, you can just upgrade to 10.5.3. You don't need to apple the pre-patch in this case. Rename /vanilla (if exists) to /vanilla-orig before running post-patch.

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Archive: EFIStudio.zip

End-of-central-directory signature not found. Either this file is not

a zipfile, or it constitutes one disk of a multi-part archive. In the

latter case the central directory and zipfile comment will be found on

the last disk(s) of this archive.

unzip: cannot find zipfile directory in one of EFIStudio.zip or

EFIStudio.zip.zip, and cannot find EFIStudio.zip.ZIP, period.

 

I am still getting this zip error when trying to open efistudio. Any ideas?

 

LS8, thanks for the continues support BTW :-D

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hackeron
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After running the post-patch.sh script on 10.5.3, on reboot I get:

 

 Failed to load extension com.apple.driver.AppleAHCIPort
13AppleAHCI Port is not compatible with its superclass, 10IOAHCIPort superclass changed?
Couldn't alloc class "AppleAHCI"
Still waiting for root device
Still waiting for root device
...

 

Any ideas?

 

EDIT: booted install cd and downgraded back to vanilla, now bootable again.

 

EDIT2: I've manually copied the kexts provided by the pack, keeping the vanilla jmicron and it boots fine. It seems jmicron is required? (Bios settings are F11 revision, SATA set to AHCI native mode but tried both IDE and AHCI)

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LS8
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Da Grez: I have no idea, please try downloading the EFIStudio on another computer, copy it to a USB memory or CD.

 

hackeron: JMicronATA is not required. I am not using it. How did you install? From original Leopard DVD, or from a hacked one (iAtkos, Kalyway etc.?)

 

P35DS4:~ admin$ ls -l /System/Library/Extensions/JMicronATA.kext
ls: /System/Library/Extensions/JMicronATA.kext: No such file or directory

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Da Grez: I have no idea, please try downloading the EFIStudio on another computer, copy it to a USB memory or CD.

 

hackeron: JMicronATA is not required. I am not using it. How did you install? From original Leopard DVD, or from a hacked one (iAtkos, Kalyway etc.?)

 

P35DS4:~ admin$ ls -l /System/Library/Extensions/JMicronATA.kext
ls: /System/Library/Extensions/JMicronATA.kext: No such file or directory

 

I don't know what to tell you, maybe it's because my bios revision is F11? -- Have you tried without jmicron with bios revision F11?

 

I'm having 2 issues at the moment other than this jmicron dependency:

 

1) My system clock is running very slow, every few hours runs around 5-10 minutes behind and I have to to into time/date and change it back to the current time.

 

2) I get occasional crackly sound from both onboard sound card and USB external sound card, I think it may be related to the first problem if FSB is not detected correctly.

 

Or maybe this is unrelated to the F11 bios revision but rather related to the fact I am on a Q9300 processor? -- didn't have these problems with my previous Q6600 or on 10.5.2 :D -- Maybe i'll downgrade.

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Hello.

 

I am trying to install Kalway 10.5.2 on P35-DS4, but I am stuck on the black screen after apple boot screen. Booting -v doesn't show anything important.

 

Configuration:

P35-DS4 F12

Q6600

2X2 GB RAM

3870 X2

ICH9R in RAID(because first 2 drives are my vista raid0 field and third disk is reserved for leopard)

 

Install options:

Natit for 3xxx series, whitescreen fix, sleep kernel, alc889a, realtek1000 nothing more important.

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LS8
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...maybe it's because my bios revision is F11? ...
Maybe. Please browse this thread, people report various problems with BIOS > F8. BIOS version F7 or F8 is considered most stable for OSx86.
...I am trying to install Kalway 10.5.2 on P35-DS4...
Sorry, you're in a wrong thread. We discuss installation from original unpached Leoprad DVD here.
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hackeron
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Maybe. Please browse this thread, people report various problems with BIOS > F8. BIOS version F7 or F8 is considered most stable for OSx86.
Well, downgraded to F8 and my USB jitter problem is still there :angel: -- Will report on the clock problem, but this problem started after upgrading from 10.5.2 to 10.5.3 so it doesn't seem to be bios related either.

 

EDIT: Yep, can confirm downgrading to F8 did not fix the slow clock problem - in fact there are no visible changes.I really don't understand what is causing it, the time is correct in bios and it shows correctly if I boot into windows - why does it run slow ever since upgrading from 10.5.2 to 10.5.3 - what the hell changed? :blink:

 

Any ideas?

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Well, downgraded to F8 and my USB jitter problem is still there :) -- Will report on the clock problem, but this problem started after upgrading from 10.5.2 to 10.5.3 so it doesn't seem to be bios related either.

 

EDIT: Yep, can confirm downgrading to F8 did not fix the slow clock problem - in fact there are no visible changes.I really don't understand what is causing it, the time is correct in bios and it shows correctly if I boot into windows - why does it run slow ever since upgrading from 10.5.2 to 10.5.3 - what the hell changed? :)

 

Any ideas?

 

maybe new mb battery> or set sytemclock to automatic

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maybe new mb battery> or set sytemclock to automatic

 

The bios time is correct! -

  1. If I turn off PC over night, in the morning the time in bios is correct
  2. If I leave the PC in bios over night, the time is correct in the morning.
  3. If I boot into windows and leave it overnight the time is correct in the morning.
  4. If I boot in to Leopard 10.5.2 and leave it overnight the time is correct in the morning
  5. HOWEVER if I boot into 10.5.3 and leave it overnight the time is up to an hour behind in the morning.

What do you mean set systemclock to automatic? -- I've set bios to failsafe settings (just changed SATA to AHCI) and I tried with and without "automatically time&date automatically" in OSX time/date settings.

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Note: The on-board LAN adapter works OOTB but AFP is not supported. If you need LAN browsing, iTunes library sharing etc., you need the R1000 driver. This driver is not compatible with EFI strings - the Ethernet string (aka TM fix) cannot be used with this driver, you need to use patched IONetworkingFamily.kext instead. Alternativelly, you can use some natively supported LAN adapters, such as Realtek 8169.

 

First of all, thank you for your work.

As my disk drive is about to die I have to make a backup of my system. After that I will reinstall the backup on a new drive and by doing so, I would also like to do a few optimizations by using efi strings.

In order to be able to do that, I would like to ask a few questions concerning your install pack.

 

At the moment I am running 10.5.2 and EFI 8 but I am using drivers for onboard sound (ALCinjexct, Apple HDA), onboard LAN (RaltekR1000) and Geforce8800 GTS 320MB G80 (NVinject 0.1.3).

 

In your pack I only see the complete hex-strings for 8800GTS320MB + Sound + TM fix.

I would like to establish LAN connection with an other (Windows) PC so I guess I should only add hex-strings for onboard sound and my graphic card to the com.apple.Boot.plist and for LAN I should use the RealtekR1000.kext together with a patched IONetworkingFamily.kext for Time Machine, right?

 

But what would be the hex-string that I need to insert for 8800GTS320MB (G80) + Sound? In EfiStudio I only see my graphic card model but not the specific driver for Sound.

 

 

 

 

I Hope my question does not sound to dumb.

 

Greetings

herb

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...In EfiStudio I only see my graphic card model but not the specific driver for Sound...
EFIStudio has options for audio and ethernet. These options work for GA-P35-DS4 boards (Ethernet, AZAL). You can use HDEF option if you use HDAEnabler, the sound then appears in system profiler. You don't need any aditional drivers, just install LS8v11, then generate EFI strings and reboot.
Anyone running with a Q9300 CPU and having sound and clock/time/RTC problems, I found a solution! - details here: http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showtopic=112531
Cool, thank you!
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EFIStudio has options for audio and ethernet. These options work for GA-P35-DS4 boards (Ethernet, AZAL). You can use HDEF option if you use HDAEnabler, the sound then appears in system profiler. You don't need any aditional drivers, just install LS8v11, then generate EFI strings and reboot.

 

Can I delete the kexts I already installed (ALCinjexct, Apple HDA and NVinject 0.1.3) when adding the efi-strings (Geforce G80, AZAL and HDEF Option) to the com.apple.Boot.plist and only keep the RealtekR100.kext and the patched IONetworkingFamily.kext in the extensions-folder (as I need LAN-connectivity with other PCs I think I should not add Ethernet to the plist, too), is that correct?

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Can I delete the kexts I already installed (ALCinjexct, Apple HDA and NVinject 0.1.3) when adding the efi-strings (AZAL and HDEF Option) to the com.apple.Boot.plist and only keep the RealtekR100.kext in the extensions-folder (as I need LAN-connectivity with other PCs I think I should not add Ethernet to the plist, too), is that correct?

 

Yes, you can delete those kexts, you also need to

sudo touch /System/Library/Extensions

 

In EFIStudio choose AZAL or (not AND) HDEF.

 

You can keep RealtekR1000.kext, don't create EFI string for ethernet then. You have to use patched IONetworkingFamily.kext if you need TimeMachine with RealtekR1000.kext.

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Thank you, I was indeed missing HDAEnabler.kext.

But for some unknown reason there still was no sound after adding HDEF to the com.apple.boot.plist. So I deleted it from the plist, (re)installed AppleHDA.kext and also kept HDAEnabler in the Extensions-folder.

Now sound works and is also visible in System Profiler.

 

Would there have been any additional value if I had keep the HDEF entry from Efistudio in the plist?

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I have installed Leopard from external drive as per Ls8 guide.

When booted, it showed apple logo and a black/white stop sign.

My SATA Drives are set to IDE mode in BIOS, so I installed JMicronATA_64bit (JMicronATA.kext & IOATAFamily.kext).

With JMicronATA_64bit installed didn't get black/white stop sign during boot, but could not get my screen to work.

Assuming that my video card (ATI Saphire 3870) can't start from stock apple drivers I installed Natit 3870 (Natit.kext) from LTL v3 guide.

After that system booted properly.

Then generated and installed EFI strings for my video card (ATI 3800 selection), ethernet and audio using EFI Studio.

Restarted from external HD, removed Natit 3870 (Natit.kext) and booted main drive.

While booting, it showed apple logo and I got the same messy screen as before installing Natit 3870.

Installed Natit 3870 (Natit.kext) again from external drive.

Then main drive booted properly.

Here is what I found:

Audio and Ethernet (TEG-PCITXR) work properly.

USB devices work properly.

Time machine doesn't work - "The backup volume could not be found" message.

Sleep, restart, shutdown not working (reboot & shutdown fix not installed yet)

 

I don,t understand why ATI3870 EFI Strings are not working.

Can anybody help?

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