gotmilk70 Posted July 12, 2011 Share Posted July 12, 2011 Hello everyone, Just thought I would share my experience with getting Mac OS X Snow Leopard 10.6.8 on my laptop. First, let me give the specs of the Sammy: Intel Core i5-460M Arrandale CPU with Hypertreading Technology and Turbo Boost 4 GB DDR-III PC-1333 RAM (2 x 2GB Sticks) Intel Integrated HD Graphics (5700 Series I think.) nVidia Geforce 310M with 512MB Dedicated Video RAM Powered by nVidia Optimus Technology 640GB Samsung HM641JI SATA 5400RPM Hard Drive 8x DVD+-RW Slimline Samsung TS-U633F Drive Intel High Definition Audio (Unable to determine the Codec used, Would like to use AppleHDA, but can't at the moment) Intel Centrino Advanced-N + WiMAX 6250 Wireless a/b/g/n PCI-Express Card Samsung SCB-0380M Webcam Elan-Synaptics Multi-Touch Touchpad Marvell Yukon 88E8059 PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet Since I have unable to find a way to get the built in wireless or ethernet cards to work under Snow Leopard, I have purchased a Netgear WG111V3 Wireless-G USB 2.0 Adapter to connect to the net. I will eventually swap my Intel Centrino Wireless PCI card with a Dell Wireless one so I can get native Wireless. Onto the Juicy part, The install: The normal [url="http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/"]#####[/url]/[url="http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/"]#####[/url] method that is popular did not work. I managed to get it to install, and boot for the first time. After updating to 10.6.8 however, the unit does not boot. Here is the method that I used to get me where I am today: I basically Installed 10.6.3 using the [url="http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/"]#####[/url], then Retail Snow Leopard Retail DVD. I used the -v -x busratio=19 maxmem=4096 flags. Booted right up into the install screen. I formated the hard drive in 2 partitions, so I can use the second one for Time Machine. Installed Mac OS X 10.6.3 with minimal options and then restarted when finished. I again booted with [url="http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/"]#####[/url], from the hard drive using the same flags. Once on the desktop, Installed the 10.6.8 combo update. When that finished, I ran [url="http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/"]#####[/url]. I Chose the UserDSDT install (I generated one using DSDTSE and applied some patches) and some other choices. I chose VoodooHDA, Voodoo PS2, Chameleon instead of Chimera (Chimera does not play well with my laptop), MacBookPro 6,1 smbios.plist, and all of the OSX86 software. Installed all of that, then put in Nawcom's 10.8.0 Legacy kernel. I also went ahead and added my device id's into the AppleIntelHDGraphics series kexts and injected the EFI into my Apple.com.boot.plist, (thanks to Manor for that tip) And then ran Kext helper to repair permissions. I then crossed my fingers, and rebooted. At this point, I was able to boot Snow Lepoard via Chameleon using only -v flags. It booted with no QE/CI, nor any resolution past 1024x768x32. :/ However, the machine did pickup my Intel HD Graphics via EFI. There was a Background noise coming from the mic, due to VoodooHDA set mic gain to 90%. A quick fix to the VoodooHDA Info.Plist <igain> from 90 to 0 then repair permissions/restart fixed that problem. I installed Voodoo Battery, to get the battery meter working properly and that is fine. This is as far as I got. I plan on getting the Dell Mini PCI Card to have native wireless and keeping the WG111V3 as a backup in case. I also plan on getting a Rocketfish RF-MRBTAD Bluetooth USB adapter to enable native Bluetooth. I Like that one because it's cheap on amazon, and I am currently using it on my Desktop Hackintosh. So Basically this is what I have working/not working: Power Management: ? Don't know how to test if it is working properly. Any insight? Sleep: Not working. Any advice? Ethernet: Not working. Any Advice? Wireless: Working, Can't use Intel 6250, Using the NETGEAR WG111V3 which works after installing NETGEAR Driver. Video: Not Working, detects Built In Intel HD GPU, but not for the Geforce 310M. No QE/CI or Custom Res. Advice? Audio: Working, with VoodooHDA and patch for iGain. Trackpad: Not working, Tried different VoodooPS2 files, nothing works. Using Logitech USB Mouse. Any Advice? Battery: Working, Battery Meter visible via Voodoo Battery. Webcam: Not Working, Any Advice? USB: Working, Via DSDT. DVD Drive: Working, and proper Burn support OOB. Any help on getting any of the sections working would be extremely awesome. (And welcome!) If you have any questions for me or if you need my DSDT, boot.plist or anything, just let me know. Just thought I share this with the community, because getting Snow Leopard on my Sammy would not be possible without your help! Thank you in advance! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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