[Mini Guide] SL working on Gigabyte G41M-ES2L

[ridgeline]

I simply use the software update through mac os x. I never download and install separately. You can if you want but that is just me. You can go ahead and run the post installer as it will not be undone by the update not to mention it will install chameleon and allow you to boot without the thumb drive or boot disk. The only thing that will break after the update is the audio, in which case you can search through here and download the applehda 10.6.2 installer or check ridgel1ne.com on the downloads page for it. Once again leave the post installer posted there alone as it is specific to my system. The page is kinda a mess right now an I will be fixing it later on this week.

 

 

On a side note to everyone I am working on a solution for some of us as Hawaii50 pointed out that autosleep was broken due to sata DVD drives. I can confirm this. I recently switched from a IDE DVD to a new ASUS Sata yesterday and lost auto sleep. Please post what your DVD make and connection is so I can work on this and also so we can let others know what not to buy in the event i can not find a solution.

Cybercap I now see your frustrations with this and of course pleasesleep would be a good alternative I would just rather have it work.

[seleven]

Go to www.ridgel1ne.com and check the downloads page there is a installer for the 10.6.2 AppleHDA this will get your sound back. Pay no attention to the post installer on there I just got the site up today and the installer on there is beta and only for my exact configuration.

Just a side note ridgeline, I'm running a very slightly modified dsdt from the original post on this thread, and my sound works under 10.6.3 with the stock driver in 32bit (I tried 64bit after I got the 9400GT and sound went away). The only thing wrong with sound output is that it doesn't show up in the system profiler.

[hawaii50]

Just a side note ridgeline, I'm running a very slightly modified dsdt from the original post on this thread, and my sound works under 10.6.3 with the stock driver in 32bit (I tried 64bit after I got the 9400GT and sound went away). The only thing wrong with sound output is that it doesn't show up in the system profiler.

 

seleven:

 

How did you get the 9400 to work? I have a PNY 9400 that I could only get to work by editing the DSDT. I tried an 8400 and a 9500 that just worked with Ridgeline's DSDT and NVenabler=yes.

 

h50

[ridgeline]

I was told with my new dsdt that someone tried that audio worked under 10.6.3 but volume was locked however the legacy hda was in the extras folder on your system are you running legacyhda or are you only using the native files also can you email me your dsdt I would really like to compare. I like running as close to vanilla as possible and if that means going 32 bit it may be worth it.

[seleven]

How did you get the 9400 to work? I have a PNY 9400 that I could only get to work by editing the DSDT. I tried an 8400 and a 9500 that just worked with Ridgeline's DSDT and NVenabler=yes.

Much googling and an EFI string in the boot.plist file. :-)

 

The OS sees it as a GT 120, which from what I can find, is essentially the same card, just built on the newer silicon.

 

Here is the relevant part of my plist (mind the word wrap, that string part is one line, no line breaks):

 

<key>GraphicsEnabler</key>
	<string>y</string>
	<key>device-properties</key>
	<string>6a02000001000000010000005e0200000d00000002010c00d041030a010000000101060000010101060000007fff04000e000000
4e00560050004d0000002000000001000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000220000005600520041004d002c
0074006f00740061006c00730069007a006500000008000000000000201c0000006400650076006900630065005f0074007900700065000
0000f0000004e5644412c506172656e740e0000006e0061006d00650000000b000000646973706c617922000000400030002c0064006500
76006900630065005f00740079007000650000000b000000646973706c617922000000400031002c006400650076006900630065005f007
40079007000650000000b000000646973706c6179100000006d006f00640065006c000000190000006e5669646961204765466f72636520
47542031323020000000400031002c0063006f006d00700061007400690062006c00650000000e0000004e5644412c4e564d61631400000
0400030002c006e0061006d0065000000120000004e5644412c446973706c61792d4114000000400031002c006e0061006d006500000012
0000004e5644412c446973706c61792d4220000000400030002c0063006f006d00700061007400690062006c00650000000e0000004e5644
412c4e564d6163100000004e00560043004100500000001800000004000000000003000c00000000000007000000001e00000072006f006d
002d007200650076006900730069006f006e0000002d0000006e5669646961204765466f72636520475420313230204f70656e474c20456e6
7696e65205b4546495d</string>
</dict>
</plist>

 

 

I was told with my new dsdt that someone tried that audio worked under 10.6.3 but volume was locked however the legacy hda was in the extras folder on your system are you running legacyhda or are you only using the native files also can you email me your dsdt I would really like to compare. I like running as close to vanilla as possible and if that means going 32 bit it may be worth it.

My volume isn't locked at all, I'm able to adjust it just fine.

 

No, I'm not using any audio extensions beyond vanilla.

 

I would be glad to email it to you, however, I can't seem to find an address anywhere, and the email/pm part of the board doesn't do attachments, so here it is zipped up.

dsdt.aml.zip

[ridgeline]

Okay I tried your config with no additional kexts but no luck for me. I tried a lot of things what does your system profiler show for audio. And does it show anything under system preferences/audio

Thanks and what are you using power management for speed step and sleep

[ridgeline]

Well after a weekend of working on this or at least a full day I have tried just about ever dsdt fix I could imagine to get the dvd break on sleep to work, I am stumped I understand that certain setting have to be achieved and I feel that with my Asus drive unless you can rewrite firmware it is not going to auto sleep with out assistance. I will be selling a new Asus drive shortly for $20 shipped if anyone is interested. If you are still having sleep issues and I have provided you with a corrected dsdt than more than likely the Sata DVD drive is your issue. A simple way to test this is to unplug the sata drive and boot up and see if the system will auto sleep. This is not something board related which is where the dsdt works. This is a device issue. I will be going back to IDE until my new Sony drive arrives as this drive is inexpensive and reported by trustable sources to work great and will allow autosleep.

 

CyberCap I would be willing to bet money this is where your issue lies. I know you are using pleasesleep which I am currently running I will get there permission and then most likely include it in the next installer slated for the end of the coming week. It is a great program and overrides the dvd drive issue. I think that this is just one of the few quirks on getting Mac OS X on a PC that can drive you a little insane.

 

H50 the dsdt patched mentioned by Master Chief will not work as our boards are kinda strange about the AHCI settings as we are kinda on our own, since we have no AHCI setting meaning our drives have different arguments and requests through the dsdt files. and simply changing the name from IDE to SATA on the dsdt really does nothing. Also on the subject you mentioned you have one drive that still enables auto sleep and one that doesn't can you post up the screen shot of the highlighted drive under the system profiler? I have a theory on the setting that needs to be changed however this would have to be at the firmware level.

Thanks,

[hawaii50]

H50 the dsdt patched mentioned by Master Chief will not work as our boards are kinda strange about the AHCI settings as we are kinda on our own, since we have no AHCI setting meaning our drives have different arguments and requests through the dsdt files. and simply changing the name from IDE to SATA on the dsdt really does nothing. Also on the subject you mentioned you have one drive that still enables auto sleep and one that doesn't can you post up the screen shot of the highlighted drive under the system profiler? I have a theory on the setting that needs to be changed however this would have to be at the firmware level.

Thanks,

 

Ridgeline:

 

Here's a screenshot of the Philips/Lite On drive and the Sony Optiarc drive. These are the two I have that work. Do you want to see screenshots of the ones that don't work?

[seleven]

Okay I tried your config with no additional kexts but no luck for me. I tried a lot of things what does your system profiler show for audio. And does it show anything under system preferences/audio

Thanks and what are you using power management for speed step and sleep

System profiler shows that I don't have any built in audio. I wonder if it's a BIOS setting, I'll have to look at my settings next time I reboot.

 

System prefs show HD Audio Output under the Output section and sounds effects.

 

Power management/sleep.. I've got a copy of the sleepenabler.kext in ./Extras. Sleep doesn't work correctly at the moment (I can sleep the machine, but the video doesn't come back up, or it didn't with the 7600 I was running, I've not tried it since moving to the 9400.)

 

Speedstep, I believe, is native and does work, or seemed to per the pstate extension and monitoring app that you posted up a few pages back.

 

Regardless, I am looking forward to your next installer.

[ridgeline]

If you could that would be great

 

System profiler shows that I don't have any built in audio. I wonder if it's a BIOS setting, I'll have to look at my settings next time I reboot.

 

System prefs show HD Audio Output under the Output section and sounds effects.

 

Power management/sleep.. I've got a copy of the sleepenabler.kext in ./Extras. Sleep doesn't work correctly at the moment (I can sleep the machine, but the video doesn't come back up, or it didn't with the 7600 I was running, I've not tried it since moving to the 9400.)

 

Speedstep, I believe, is native and does work, or seemed to per the pstate extension and monitoring app that you posted up a few pages back.

 

Regardless, I am looking forward to your next installer.

Are you running your audio through the integrated sound or hdmi off the card?

[cybercap]

I'm going to open my case to add a new (bigger) sata hd in the forthcoming days, i can try to unplug the sata dvd to test auto sleep

[hawaii50]

Ridgeline:

 

Here are two more DVD drives. First one is an LG, the second is an ASUS. Both will prevent sleep unless there is a DVD in the drive.

 

h50

[hawaii50]

Ridgeline:

 

Do you have a preference for a SATA DVD drive over a PATA one? I was considering buying a PATA DVD drive in order to free up a SATA port. Do you think that is a bad idea?

 

h50

[cybercap]

Hi guys

 

just have another little problem:

 

i'm trying to copy 500gb from one USB NTFS harddrive to another USB MAC OSX formatted harddrive or from an internal Mac OSX HD to a USB NTFS haddrive.

I'm using NTFS mounter 0.4 which works easily for mounting R/W partitions , because I tried NTFS-3G, Mac Fuse stuff and that wouldn't work.

 

from usb ntfs to usb osx max speed i get is 10mb/sec which is verrrrry slow

from usb ntfs to internal sata osx i get max 15mb/sec

 

I was able to get about 25-30mb/sec under windows which is about the max USB2 transfer speed

 

Is the OSX slow speed under SL linked to the ntfs mounting and is there anyway to improve that ?

 

thanks

[ridgeline]

Ridgeline:

 

Do you have a preference for a SATA DVD drive over a PATA one? I was considering buying a PATA DVD drive in order to free up a SATA port. Do you think that is a bad idea?

 

h50

 

 

No real preference faster transfer speeds and easier to find for cheaper pricing on sata. I can say that the pata takes away the DVD breaking sleep. So other than that no real benefit.

[angben]

hi ridgel1ne... the version 2.2 of the installer only contains dsdt for e7300...

[hawaii50]

No real preference faster transfer speeds and easier to find for cheaper pricing on sata. I can say that the pata takes away the DVD breaking sleep. So other than that no real benefit.

 

Not all PATA DVD drives solve the sleep problem. I had a couple that didn't. I think there are only a few drives that work. I have two SATA drives that do and two that don't work.

 

I think PleaseSleep is a good solution if you already have a DVD that does not work natively. If you are buying parts, then it makes sense to buy one that works without PleaseSleep.

 

It kind of makes sense. One of the reasons OSX is so stable is that Apple can tailor it to work with the hardware they build into their machines. If we want the benefits of OSX we need to have hardware that comes as close as possible to what Apple builds into their machines. I don't know who manufactures the DVD drives in real macs, but I would be willing to bet its NOT Samsung, LG, or ASUS.

 

OSX seems to be just as particular with graphics cards. NVIDIA's 8400 and 9500 series work very well without anything extra.

 

A perfect "Ridgeline Mac" can be built with the following parts:

 

Motherboard: G41M-ES2L v1.0 or v1.1 with F7 BIOS

Processor: Any that are listed in Ridgeline's installer (Makes speedstepping work)

Graphics: NVIDIA 8400 or 9500 (QE and CI enabled with graphics enabler from Ridgeline's installer)

SATA DVD Drive: Sony Optiarc or Lite-On (Don't need PleaseSleep to enable sleep with these drives)

PATA DVD Drive: Ridgeline has one that works. PATA may be preferable if you want to keep a SATA port free)

 

The right hardware and Ridgeline's installer makes a kickass Hacintosh for Snow Leopard.

 

 

h50

[seleven]

Re: optical drives and sleep issues:

 

I would imagine that one could look at the various Mac repair shops online, find the Apple branded drives and figure out which drives were used.

 

OWC lists the Pioneer DVR-218LBK (AKA PIODVR218LBK) and Samsung SH-S223B (AKA SAMS223QBEBSL) as compatible with the Mac Pro, while some googling results in a Hitachi-LG (H&L) GS21N being used in the Mac Books.

 

Just have to look a bit. Historically, Apple has primary used Pioneer as the OEM for their optical drives. I would imagine that if all else fails, one of these would be a 'safe' buy. Now that my curiosity is perked, I'll try to get the optical drive models from some real Apple machines next time I'm out and near one.

[ridgeline]

hi ridgel1ne... the version 2.2 of the installer only contains dsdt for e7300...

As mentioned in my other posts the installer there is not the final release but a beta for my setup. I will update and add to it soon and then post a final link

[ridgeline]

H50 and seleven,

You both make great points. I have used a variety of Pata drives with Hacs over the years and never had a problem but I could have just been lucky. I currently have 2 floating around one was purchased as an external dvd burner for a ibook I used to have it is a pioneer drive but works great and as mentioned pioneer seemed to be the drive of choice. I also have a Teac drive that worked well as far as being compatible is concerned.

 

seleven after looking at your dsdt native/vanilla speedstep is not controlling it do you have nullpowercpu kext installed in either of the extensions locations?

 

I will post a new installer by this coming Friday and I know some of you have been to my page thanks for that I hope to continue to add to it. but the installer only has the generic dsdt and my e7300 dsdt. It also contains a modified spot for these and audio sections in the dsdt as well as a new legacyhda file. I am not sure if your exisiting dsdt I have compiled will work with the new HDA as I have not tested it that way. I am busy with family stuff at the moment but I will update this once I have every dsdt modified for the new fixes. These are minor improvements but are worth it.

[angben]

thanks ridgeline you are the best

[seleven]

seleven after looking at your dsdt native/vanilla speedstep is not controlling it do you have nullpowercpu kext installed in either of the extensions locations?

I do.

 

*google*

 

Doh, never mind me, I forgot about that extension and slightly misunderstood what it did. Yep, no native speedstep for me at the moment, but provided due to the magic that is nullpowercpu.

[gthompson]

Hey, I'm back again

 

Ridgeline, I used your HDA installer and rebooted, audio still doesn't work. However, my 7600 GS card is working fine, and is recognized (NVenabler kext). although the card is working and looking great, I don't seem to have quartz extreme enabled. Every time I try to open iMovie, it tells me it can only run on a quartz extreme card. Any suggestions or help would be great.

[ridgeline]

Hey, I'm back again

 

Ridgeline, I used your HDA installer and rebooted, audio still doesn't work. However, my 7600 GS card is working fine, and is recognized (NVenabler kext). although the card is working and looking great, I don't seem to have quartz extreme enabled. Every time I try to open iMovie, it tells me it can only run on a quartz extreme card. Any suggestions or help would be great.

 

Did you try running voodoohda or anything like that? also as before my recommendation is to step up to a 8400GS or higher I paid like $20 shipped for mine on ebay. If you are running the NVenabler you need to open up the boot.com.plist in your /extras folder and change the Graphics Enabler line from yes to no. and reboot.

[gthompson]

Tried VoodooHDA kext, didn't work. I just installed it from your installer and rebooted. Was I supposed to do anything else? I also just purchased a 8400 GS off ebay for $24 new. Good estimate.