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@stefauresi : try this bootflag in chameleon :

 

“Graphics Mode”=”1920x1200x32@60Hz”

 

including the ""

 

hi,

my screen is on 1280x800

i boot with “Graphics Mode”=”1280x800x32@60Hz” and same result, the screen flickers (hatch)

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I'll try to explain in some more detail:

 

First try to get as much as info on your hardware: type of audio chip, motherbord, lan, wifi, etc.

 

Try to find a DSDT file made for your laptop, this will make it run extra stable and utilizes more hardware.

 

  1. Use [url="http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/"]#####[/url] to install a fresh retail copy of snow leopard (also use the [url="http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/"]#####[/url] DVD for first boot into snow leopard)
  2. Apply the 10.6.6 combo update from apple.com
  3. Start [url="http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/"]#####[/url], apply [url="http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/"]#####[/url] OR userDSDT option (if last one place the dsdt.alm on desktop) + system utilities
  4. select drivers that you need for your audio/lan/PS2 keyboard and trackpad/wifi
  5. select the programs: ShowAllFiles and kexthelper.
  6. Apply [url="http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/"]#####[/url].
  7. Run program ShowAllFiles --> click SHOW
  8. Copy Olda's boot file (Post#8)
  9. Goto the root of you harddrive, delete the current boot file, paste in Olda's bootfile
  10. Run program ShowAllFiles --> click HIDE
  11. Copy Olda's rom file, paste it in the root/Extra/ directory (Post#7)
  12. Open the com.apple.Boot.plist currently located in the Extra/ directory (not Olda's plist) with textedit
  13. Compare your plist with that from olda's. You'll notice Olda's file contains 2 rows containing useAtiROM and Yes, copy these 2 lines into your plist file (make sure it does nog messes up the structure)
  14. Save the plist file.
  15. Reboot.

 

After following this guide, I'm still currently unable to boot osx into my g73. Anyone with better luck? Idk if i added the two rows from Olda's file correctly, but I pasted them at the end of the boot list without messing the structure of the file itself. Instead of getting a kernel panic, I get a black screen now, the apple loading screen will come up, and after a min or two the screen goes black. I guess that is an improvement in comparison to getting stuck at the loading screen. I booted with verbose and it hangs after DSMOS arrives..but I do not what else I could be missing here.

 

I would be more than happy to post some logs, if someone can walk me through it. Do i just boot with -v and take a screen shot when it stops loading? Thanks for your time once again.

 

PS: As far as I know, there are no user dsts for the g73.

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Hi,

I put

<key>Graphics Mode</key>

<string>1280x800x32</string>

in com.apple.Boot.plist and it changes nothing.

where does the problem ?

 

edit : Yeah is good , with kext LION 10.7 and chameleon hd5000.

Graphics = ok

sound = ok

wifi = nok (intel 5100 agn) you have a solution for me ?

ethernet = ok

 

installation for GX640 (i5 450M / ati 5850 mobility)

 

1- install mac os 10,6,3 with atkos s3 v2 (or retail version with [url=&quot;http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/&quot;]#####[/url])

2- install update 10,6,6 no reboot

3- remplace kext 10,6,6 by 10,7 in S/L/E

4- install chameleon hd5000

5- [url=&quot;http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/&quot;]#####[/url] 3,3 , install voodoohda (last version),Lnx2Mac's Installer and system utilities (delete appleHDA in S/L/E)

6- edit com.apple.Boot.plist in root/extra :

<key>Kernel</key>

<string>mach_kernel</string>

<key>Kernel Flags</key>

<string>maxmem=4096</string>

<key>GraphicsEnabler</key>

<string>Yes</string>

<key>Graphics Mode</key>

<string>1280x800x32</string> (your screen resolution)

7- reboot

GX640

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After following this guide, I'm still currently unable to boot osx into my g73. Anyone with better luck? Idk if i added the two rows from Olda's file correctly, but I pasted them at the end of the boot list without messing the structure of the file itself. Instead of getting a kernel panic, I get a black screen now, the apple loading screen will come up, and after a min or two the screen goes black. I guess that is an improvement in comparison to getting stuck at the loading screen. I booted with verbose and it hangs after DSMOS arrives..but I do not what else I could be missing here.

 

I would be more than happy to post some logs, if someone can walk me through it. Do i just boot with -v and take a screen shot when it stops loading? Thanks for your time once again.

 

PS: As far as I know, there are no user dsts for the g73.

 

Can you boot into safe mode(-x) or single user mode(-s)?

 

I have my G73JH working almost perfectly with this method. Full resolution, QE/CI, etc... I just overwrote the existing contents of my Extra folder with Olda's files, then removed the "maxmem." Here's what my Boot.plist looks like

 

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">

<plist version="1.0">

<dict>

<key>GraphicsEnabler</key>

<string>Yes</string>

<key>Kernel</key>

<string>mach_kernel</string>

<key>UseAtiROM</key>

<string>Yes</string>

</dict>

</plist>

 

The only problem I had was an hour of wasted time when I made the mistake of copying the boot file first, then it was overwritten. I guess that's what I get for not following the directions.

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Hi,

This method seems to work well for the GX660, only that display doesn't repost on wake from sleep - I have to hibernate to get the screen back. This seems to be only for the internal display, the HDMI port reposts OK, so does the VGA port (but only mirrors whatever is seen on HDMI). Is this the same behaviour others are seeing?

Cheers

Steve

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Hi,

I put

<key>Graphics Mode</key>

<string>1280x800x32</string>

in com.apple.Boot.plist and it changes nothing.

where does the problem ?

 

edit : Yeah is good , with kext LION 10.7 and chameleon hd5000.

Graphics = ok

sound = ok

wifi = nok (intel 5100 agn) you have a solution for me ?

ethernet = ok

 

installation for GX640 (i5 450M / ati 5850 mobility)

 

1- install mac os 10,6,3 with atkos s3 v2 (or retail version with [url=&quot;http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/&quot;]#####[/url])

2- install update 10,6,6 no reboot

3- remplace kext 10,6,6 by 10,7 in S/L/E

4- install chameleon hd5000

5- [url=&quot;http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/&quot;]#####[/url] 3,3 , install voodoohda (last version),Lnx2Mac's Installer and system utilities (delete appleHDA in S/L/E)

6- edit com.apple.Boot.plist in root/extra :

<key>Kernel</key>

<string>mach_kernel</string>

<key>Kernel Flags</key>

<string>maxmem=4096</string>

<key>GraphicsEnabler</key>

<string>Yes</string>

<key>Graphics Mode</key>

<string>1280x800x32</string> (your screen resolution)

7- reboot

GX640

 

/how do you even get iatkos to boot? All I get is a reboot loop when I try to start the instal dvd...

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i have confirmed that this method does not work for MSI GX660R-060US.

 

everything works well till the reboot, but after I select my Mac OS X partition on Chameleon,

 

the circular loading bar spins forever without any progress. (at least for 2 hours, as far as i know.)

 

i tried applying [url=&quot;http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/&quot;]#####[/url], i get a GSOD saying press and hold the power button for a few seconds and restart the machine.

 

any other MSI GX660R-060 US out there? can anyone please suggest what i should do to get this fixed?

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ok after tons of hours of work and 20+ installations, i finally got this working.

 

what you need to do is install Windows, use GPU Z to extract your gfx bios.

 

do not use the enclosed 1002_68a0.rom. once you extract your gfx bios using GPU Z, rename it to 1002_68a0.rom and use it instead.

 

keyboard, mouse and wifi are not working currently, so still a long way to go. :D thanks a lot!

 

i have confirmed that this method does not work for MSI GX660R-060US.

 

everything works well till the reboot, but after I select my Mac OS X partition on Chameleon,

 

the circular loading bar spins forever without any progress. (at least for 2 hours, as far as i know.)

 

i tried applying [url=&quot;http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/&quot;]#####[/url], i get a GSOD saying press and hold the power button for a few seconds and restart the machine.

 

any other MSI GX660R-060 US out there? can anyone please suggest what i should do to get this fixed?

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I realized the framerate was pretty low.. when i press F11, the winows-flinging animation is pretty choppy.

 

And when I move around my mouse, the mouse cursor trajectory is choppy as well.

 

Could this be because of using Chameleon Bootloader provided by [url=&quot;http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/&quot;]#####[/url]?

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hey guys, i want to ask, i manage to get QE/CIwork perfectly, but when i tried cinebench r11.5 openGL test i only get 22 fps, but when i run the cinebench r11.5 on windows 7(same mobility 5870) i got a perfect 42 fps, help anyone, i hate low performance, because i'm a designer i don't want a low gpu performance on hackintosh anyone please help

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Hi neodomi

GX660R (i7 6GB ram)

Lots works, but not everything.

DSDT edit to use native Apple power management (best smbios seems to be imac 11,3 Cinebench 3.21/25.71 [3/42 on Win7] Geekbench 7043) with AppleLPC in ioreg temp down from 70C to 50C!

Edited plist of ALC8xxHDA to get "microphone in" working audio out works (hp detection) - I haven't sorted out HDMI audio yet. reggie_se script is needed to turn on EAPD in audio codec as it fails to power up from sleep.

Speaking of sleep it works but fails to repost the video, so I have to use hibernate to wake up screen (no problem with monitor attached to HDMI port however).

Camera works, SD slot doesn't.

2 hours from a battery charge, screen dims on battery and I'm not sure where the register is to control this.

Trackpad working with Slice's AppleACPIPS2Nub (can turn trackpad clicking off thank goodness) and VoodooPS2 prefpane allows for circular scrolling.

Bluetooth works, wifi card swapped for Atheros 802.11n.

Hot keys work except brightness and Turbo/Eco buttons. Bluray and ethernet OK.

Graphics works with modified boot and GraphicsEnabler=y but 1002_68a0.rom is not needed

Hope this helps

Cheers

Steve

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Hi neodomi

GX660R (i7 6GB ram)

Lots works, but not everything.

DSDT edit to use native Apple power management (best smbios seems to be imac 11,3 Cinebench 3.21/25.71 [3/42 on Win7] Geekbench 7043) with AppleLPC in ioreg temp down from 70C to 50C!

Edited plist of ALC8xxHDA to get "microphone in" working audio out works (hp detection) - I haven't sorted out HDMI audio yet. reggie_se script is needed to turn on EAPD in audio codec as it fails to power up from sleep.

Speaking of sleep it works but fails to repost the video, so I have to use hibernate to wake up screen (no problem with monitor attached to HDMI port however).

Camera works, SD slot doesn't.

2 hours from a battery charge, screen dims on battery and I'm not sure where the register is to control this.

Trackpad working with Slice's AppleACPIPS2Nub (can turn trackpad clicking off thank goodness) and VoodooPS2 prefpane allows for circular scrolling.

Bluetooth works, wifi card swapped for Atheros 802.11n.

Hot keys work except brightness and Turbo/Eco buttons. Bluray and ethernet OK.

Graphics works with modified boot and GraphicsEnabler=y but 1002_68a0.rom is not needed

Hope this helps

Cheers

Steve

 

Can you please elaborate a little more on how to drop CPU temperature?

 

so I modified my DSDT using the following tutorial: http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=168014

 

Basically added DTGP and added the method invoking DTGP in "LPCB" section with one of the device ID listed in AppleLPC.kext/contents/info.plist.

 

However, AppleLPC.kext still doesn't load after placing the compiled DSDT.aml to the root directory.

 

How did you get around this problem?

 

MSI GX660R-060US users: You also need to install ATY_INIT.kext in order to avoid kernel panic from ATIRadeonX3000.kext

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Can you please elaborate a little more on how to drop CPU temperature?

 

so I modified my DSDT using the following tutorial: http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=168014

 

Basically added DTGP and added the method invoking DTGP in "LPCB" section with one of the device ID listed in AppleLPC.kext/contents/info.plist.

 

However, AppleLPC.kext still doesn't load after placing the compiled DSDT.aml to the root directory.

 

How did you get around this problem?

 

MSI GX660R-060US users: You also need to install ATY_INIT.kext in order to avoid kernel panic from ATIRadeonX3000.kext

 

http://www.projectosx.com/forum/index.php?...entry2532

 

now my AppleLPC.kext loads flawlessly. ;)

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neodomi,

Sorry for such slow posting a reply but I crashed my harddrive messing around with the different framebuffers.

Once you have an install with vesa graphics, copy my Extra folder and boot file to the root directory. i then use [url=&quot;http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/&quot;]#####[/url] to repair permissions and rebuild caches.

I use a modified applehda + reggie_se and sleepwatcher to provide microphone in but otherwise voodoohda works (install via [url=&quot;http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/&quot;]#####[/url]).

I use generic brightness kext written by ivik (hooks apple acpi to hardware registers in bios).

I use an applet to enable circular scrolling on boot (doesn't stick in system preferences).

Using hibernatemode 3 (I think this is default) allows for sleep to work (hibernatemode 1 works but screen fails to reinit).

I use an applescript for automatic sleep (search for rip3 in insanelymac I think).

So apart from display issue everything is working great and deep sleep mode isn't so bad.

Cheers

Steve

 

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Hello everyone,

 

I'm having trouble booting up my Acer 8942g with an ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5850 and a Core i5. I've been trying over and over with minor adjustments the procedure presented in this thread. This is how I went about doing it:

 

1] Use the newest [url=&quot;http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/&quot;]#####[/url] 2.7 to boot, then install 10.6.3 retail.

2] Applied 10.6.7 (not mentioned in this thread yet) update. Without a restart, installed [url=&quot;http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/&quot;]#####[/url].

3] Copy Olda's boot file, merged boot plist. Created my own ati rom using a bios bin file found on techpowerup.com for my card. (GPU-Z isn't able to extract my bios).

4] Used [url=&quot;http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/&quot;]#####[/url] again to fix permissions and regenerate cache.

5] Restart.

 

After restart, whatever I do, I always get stuck on a black screen after everything seems to be loaded. Using verbose boot, everything seems fine, until the screen just goes black. To be honest, according to disc activity that goes on after this and the reactions to my keyboard, I believe the system actually continues to start up, but doesn't display anything but a black screen.

 

I tried using Graphics Mode=1920x1080x32, which causes the text in the verbose boot to actually be shown fine in this resolution, but I still end up in the black screen.

 

Any ideas? Could I maybe be missing a special monitor kext? (I am of course talking about the notebook monitor, not any attached external one.)

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HDMI port works very well, but I can't get the VGA port to work on MSI GX660R-060US. :/ is there anyway to make it work? Seems like NVidia graphic cards have something like NVInject.kext... I have a presentation coming up in a few weeks.

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Install lion kexts (ati5000Controller, ATIFramebuffer and ATISupport) with kexthelper. You have to reboot with GraphicsEnabler=n to avoid a KP.

Just playing with this at present so I do not know any tweaks/limitations yet.

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Hi guys, as you can see on the picture, my mobility radeon is fully supported in 10.6.6(QE/CI).

1. Install 10.6.6 - do not reboot

2. Install chameleon bootlooder

3. Replace the boot file

4. Create the Extra folder

5. Use ati rom into the Extra folder

6. Use com.apple.Boot.plist into the Extra folder

Restart the computer and your graphics acceleration should be working.

 

Ati framebuffer in boot file was changed to Nomascus - fb for mobility cards.

hey olda i want to ask, why i get very low score on OSX for example i only got 199, 168.5 on graphics test on Xbench, and when i run cinebench i got 20 fps(osx) but i get a good framerate on windows(45 fps), please help me sir

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I think you will find this is dependent on the mac graphics drivers and pretty much in line with the findings on a genuine mac - snow leopard vs win7 under bootcamp.

Changing your smbios settings makes a difference - i get the best performance with imac 11,3 spoofing (26 fps cinebench)

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Hi,

I put

<key>Graphics Mode</key>

<string>1280x800x32</string>

in com.apple.Boot.plist and it changes nothing.

where does the problem ?

 

edit : Yeah is good , with kext LION 10.7 and chameleon hd5000.

Graphics = ok

sound = ok

wifi = nok (intel 5100 agn) you have a solution for me ?

ethernet = ok

 

installation for GX640 (i5 450M / ati 5850 mobility)

 

1- install mac os 10,6,3 with atkos s3 v2 (or retail version with [url=&quot;http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/&quot;]#####[/url])

2- install update 10,6,6 no reboot

3- remplace kext 10,6,6 by 10,7 in S/L/E

4- install chameleon hd5000

5- [url=&quot;http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/&quot;]#####[/url] 3,3 , install voodoohda (last version),Lnx2Mac's Installer and system utilities (delete appleHDA in S/L/E)

6- edit com.apple.Boot.plist in root/extra :

<key>Kernel</key>

<string>mach_kernel</string>

<key>Kernel Flags</key>

<string>maxmem=4096</string>

<key>GraphicsEnabler</key>

<string>Yes</string>

<key>Graphics Mode</key>

<string>1280x800x32</string> (your screen resolution)

7- reboot

GX640

 

Thank you so much for this. I have been at this for a few days and finally came across your post. I felt like anything I tried ended in kernel panics.

 

I now have a 90 percent working hackintosh with a i5-450M 2.4GHz and a fully functional ati mobility 5850. All I have left now is sleep, power management, and to buy a new wifi adapter or swap out my intel 5100agn. I am currently using a linksys wrt54g with DD-WRT firmware as an adapter.

 

The only change in your directions for me was installing with [url=&quot;http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/&quot;]#####[/url] and a retail 10.6.0 DVD.

Thank you again stefauresi!

-me

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