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[driftwood]

gandem, on 26 March 2013 - 06:57 PM, said:

I'm running F13 on my ud5 with GTX 580.  Have not upgraded to 10.8.3 yet.  What boot loader are you using? If you're using Chameleon, make sure it's a newer version if you're using graphics enabler=yes.  I inject via DSDT.  I had a similar problem with the 580 going to black when I first installed it.  My solution was to update graphics section of dsdt to include "NVDA,Parent".  There is a good guide for dsdt injection and this video card here.

http://rampagedev.wo...rd-into-a-dsdt/


I use d00d's dsdt for native power management here.

http://www.insanelym...-modifications/

Excellent - Ill take a look at this. In answer to your question I used the last option in Hackinstaller - the Chimera boot loader (as it states better support of the Nvidia 5xxx cards).


The weird thing is I can install with the 580 no probs but was going to black on boot up. I actually got round the '1st boot up after install' by dropping in an old radeon gfx, booting with -v GraphicsEnabler=No. Ran Hackinstaller going thru steps 3 to 5 inc the dsdt. Plist edited the boot with GraphicsEnabler=Yes. Shutdown. Swapped out the Radeon with the GTX 580 and rebooted on the drive. Everything's fine apart from when I shutdown the computer never actually switches off after killing the drives. I have to press down the power button for a few seconds.Which kext will fix this? (Ive installed the kexts EXACTLY as Digital Dreamer's Mountain Lion kext pack hack installer into /Extra - with the only kext going into S/L/E is AppleHDA.kext)

Thanks for the help.

Digital Dreamer's vanilla dsdt patch - what exactly does it patch? Also whats the benefits of Firmware F13?

[gandem]

driftwood, on 27 March 2013 - 10:34 AM, said:

Excellent - Ill take a look at this. In answer to your question I used the last option in Hackinstaller - the Chimera boot loader (as it states better support of the Nvidia 5xxx cards).


The weird thing is I can install with the 580 no probs but was going to black on boot up. I actually got round the '1st boot up after install' by dropping in an old radeon gfx, booting with -v GraphicsEnabler=No. Ran Hackinstaller going thru steps 3 to 5 inc the dsdt. Plist edited the boot with GraphicsEnabler=Yes. Shutdown. Swapped out the Radeon with the GTX 580 and rebooted on the drive. Everything's fine apart from when I shutdown the computer never actually switches off after killing the drives. I have to press down the power button for a few seconds.Which kext will fix this? (Ive installed the kexts EXACTLY as Digital Dreamer's Mountain Lion kext pack hack installer into /Extra - with the only kext going into S/L/E is AppleHDA.kext)

Thanks for the help.

Digital Dreamer's vanilla dsdt patch - what exactly does it patch? Also whats the benefits of Firmware F13?

I haven't had much luck with kexts going in /Extra.  I have everything going in to S/L/E.

Haven't seen much of a difference in F13, and haven't had any problems with F12 or F13.

Again, might want to download d00d's dsdt and give that run, fixed many of my demons for this board.

[d70]

How do I go about updating Chameleon used by this script? It looks like the update feature fails because the server is either offline or inaccessible. I'm still on r1995 and would like to go to the latest. TIA.

[AndreaM]

AndreaM, on 26 December 2012 - 02:52 PM, said:

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Only a last trouble to make it perfect: at shutdown the Pc remain ON, does not power off completely. I need to hold the power button for 4 sec.
Someone has seen and resolved this issue ?
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I've resolved shutdown hangup looking at: ######  

• If you use FakeSMC plugins, and get a kernel panic after reboot. Boot into safe mode by typing -x at the boot screen. Then navigate to /System/Library/Extensions/FakeSMC.kext/Contents/Plugins/ and delete OEMsmbios.kext. Then reboot.

I've deleted OEMsmbios.kext inside FakeSMC in script kext repository, because rebuilding kext and boot cache via DD script was reinstalled every time.
Now 10.8.3 work like a charm!

[everdone]

To add a new bootloader version to Hackinstaller: Download the Binary of the new version of Chameleon you desire (the one with i386 folder), Open 'Hackinstaller', open '-extra' folder, open 'bootloaders' folder. Inside 'bootloaders' create a new folder and name it your new version of Chameleon. Inside that folder place a copy of the 'i386' folder from the download.

Now run Hackinstaller and select the bootloader option. You will have among the bootloaders available a choice for the one you just added.

[colddiver]

Hello all,

Well... I have spent a significant amount of time trying to troubleshoot my setup (I'm using Cruisar's DSDT with only FakeSMC, IONetworking and AppleRTC kexts). My rig has been upgraded over the years to a GTX670 superclocked (4GB) and a Core i7 990X (6 cores). As mentioned in a previous post, my system started misbehaving a couple of weeks ago (it used to work perfectly). Here are the issues:

• The option to "Restart after power failure" in Energy System Prefs is gone. Without it, sleep does not work (computer restarts instead of waking up from sleep)
  
• Overall performance was getting slower than it should (Aperture took a long time to process RAW images, compiling stuff with XCode was longer than usual, etc.).

Not being certain if the issues were caused by a recent upgrade to 10.8.3 or to a newer Chimera, I took the following steps to troubleshoot my rig:

• Reinstalled 10.8.1 from the ESD on a spare drive
  
• Rebooted using my original dsdt smbios and org.chameleon.boot.plist
  
• RESULT: "restart after power failure" option still gone - sleep still broken although overall performance seems better
  
• Upgraded to 10.8.2 using Combo updater, installed nvidia drivers (which were known to work better for the GTX670), rebooted
  
• RESULT: no improvements
  
• Downloaded a fresh copy of Cruisar's DSDT and installed in my /Extra folder & rebooted
  
• RESULT: no improvements
  
• Switched bootloader to Chameleon (latest version available from SVN), rebooted
  
• Reboot failed
  
• Switched back to Chameleon but used the version that comes with a freshly downloaded version of MAJ's script (instead of the latest version from SVN), rebooted
  
• RESULT: rebooted fine but no improvements (restart after power failure still gone, sleep not working)

I am running out of things to try... Anybody has any ideas?

Here are some relevant config info:

• SMBIOS is using MacPro5,1 (will try 4,1 shortly)
  
• boot.plist has no kernel flags set but has options turned on to generate P and C states

Colddiver

[colddiver]

Changing MacPro5,1 to 4,1 made no difference whatsoever...

[colddiver]

Made some progress... Looks like my issues are entirely dsdt-related. I started from a fresh DSDT, applied the native power management stuff from dOOd's thread and I was able to restore sleep. Interestingly enough, I wasn't able to restore the Orange Icon fix in the new DSDT. The "restart after power failure" option never came back but sleep works OK nevertheless. I will try again from Cruisar's original dsdt (I had it modified over the years looks like some of my edits started causing some issues).

Compairing dOOd's dsdt with Cruisar's is quite revealing. I'm not sure which one is best but they are significantly different (lots of devices not having the same names, etc.). I was hoping to do an hybrid dsdt by combining the best of dOOd's and Cruisar but this turned out to be much more complex than anticipated (too many differences between the two).

Colddiver

[iceage2609]

I am thinking of buying an SSD drive for my Hackintosh.
Is there an extra option i have to do during the script steps to enable trim ?
Anyone that did the procedure ?
I guess that most of the drives are combatible without issues for tha hackintosh machines.
Thanks


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[VirusX]

Hi iceage2609,

I briefly described here how I switched to a SSD. I also bought a new SATA controller for our old UD5 board to get better speeds.

cheers