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OSX SL 10.6.3 on my Acer Aspire 5742 core i3


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I finally managed to get 10.6.3 snow leopard to install and boot on my Acer 15.6 (walmart) laptop.

 

I tried about 100 times before somewhat success.

 

specs/info

 

CPU: Core i3 370M, busratio=18

USB: all ports work

HDD: 320gb

SD Reader: works

Graphics: Intel HD (so stuck at 1024x768 until there's a kext for it, if ever)

Wifi: Atheros 9287 not working yet

Wired: Broadcom BCM57780 not working yet

Battery: works fine

Keyboard: works

Touchpad: works

Shutdown/Restart: fine

Sleep: freezes screen on but power button brings it back

 

So for now I have a proof of concept brick as research to solve these if I can. It's a start though!

 

Readout of Hardware Info:

 

8086:3b56 Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset High Definition Audio

8086:0046 Intel Corporation Core Processor Integrated Graphics Controller

8086:2448 Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge

8086:3b09 Intel Corporation Mobile 5 Series Chipset LPC Interface Controller

8086:3b34 Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset USB2 Enhanced Host Controller

8086:3b3c Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset USB2 Enhanced Host Controller

8086:3b42 Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset PCI Express Root Port 1

14e4:1692 Broadcom Corporation NetLink BCM57780 Gigabit Ethernet PCIe

8086:3b44 Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset PCI Express Root Port 2

168c:002e Atheros Communications... AR9287 Wireless Network Adapter

8086:3b32 Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset Thermal Subsystem

8086:3b30 Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset SMBus Controller

8086:3b29 Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset 4 port SATA AHCI Controller

8086:3b64 Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset HECI Controller

8086:0044 Intel Corporation Core Processor DRAM Controller

8086:2d01 Intel Corporation Core Processor QuickPath Architecture System Address Decoder

8086:2d13 Intel Corporation Core Processor Reserved

8086:2d12 Intel Corporation Core Processor Reserved

8086:2d11 Intel Corporation Core Processor QPI Physical 0

8086:2d10 Intel Corporation Core Processor QPI Link 0

8086:2c62 Intel Corporation Core Processor QuickPath Architecture Generic Non-core Reg

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I have an acer aspire 5742-6674 i3 380M, intel HD graphics. Very similar specs to what you have. Have any of you guys had more success with this? I've done one hackintosh, mostly a vanilla deal using [url="http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/"]#####[/url] on a Gigabyte mobo, with Snow leopard 10.6.3.

 

For the acer, I tried some of the Lion usb installs and didn't get anyway.

 

Thanks for you help!

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I have the Aspire 5742-6488

I got 10.6.3 installed and sound worked right out of the box.

Theres a kext out for the Lan now ... BCM57780

 

I have this weird problem though that when using GPT on the hard drive setup I cannot boot from the hard drive with chameleon or chimera installed . Keep getting this boot error message But I can boot the OS from [url="http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/"]#####[/url] ok???

I decided to try MBR and Chameleon came up correctly but by now I gave up and went back to Win7 for now.

Video was just VGA

Wifi not detected

Webcam detected but not working

I tried to update to 10.6.6/8 but on boot up it just hangs on the spinner.

 

I had also tried to boot in x64 and while it did start the only thing working was the mouse.

 

Looks like more development needed for these laptops

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Pretty much got SL sorted out now..

Not sure at which update but by 10.6.6

There are new Intel HD files that cause problems.

There are 5 of them:

AppleIntelHDGraphics*.kext/plugin/bundle.

 

Remove them and SL boots up now using vanilla kernel

Have to see if this works for 10.6.8 too ....

 

So I got my Broadcom Lan working with BCM57780 kexts.

Webcam works

Audio is working via Voodoo .. though i've seen some ACL272 kexts that I may try

Graphics are VGA which actually isn't too bad on the lappy for basic stuff.

I'd perfer wifi working over higher screen resolution too ...

My Broadcom wifi: PCI\VEN_14E4&DEV_1692&SUBSYS_04871025&REV_01

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