jamdox Posted August 31, 2012 Share Posted August 31, 2012 I just installed the 12.1.0 kernel on page 1. The system seems to work, but there were window server crashes on my GA-D525TUD... I'll start a separate help thread, but I wanted to let folks know. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
meklort Posted August 31, 2012 Share Posted August 31, 2012 Attached file may or may not work, and it probably will cause xnu not to boot properly. I've updated it to handle universal binaries properly as well now. EDIT: forum doesn't want to let me attach the file so... xnu_patcher EDIT2: And since I'm extra lazy.... (this one really can break things, esp since there is no flag to disable it...) KernelPatcher.dylib 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theconnactic Posted August 31, 2012 Share Posted August 31, 2012 I'm afraid i'm in the mood of breaking things: downloaded both of them! Thank you, meklort! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fanvsvic07 Posted August 31, 2012 Share Posted August 31, 2012 hello , is this support for intel atom n2600 processor? coz i got an asus eeepc x101ch netbook..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theconnactic Posted August 31, 2012 Share Posted August 31, 2012 Isn't it 32-bit only, fanvsvic07, the N260? If it's the case, and i think it is, you're out of luck for now, i suppose: Mountain Lion is 64-bit only, so it requires a 64-bit CPU. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
splonk Posted August 31, 2012 Share Posted August 31, 2012 Meklort's patcher worked fine for me. 10.8.2 up and running. A few new kexts, including IO80211, so time to fix my Airport again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
buoo Posted August 31, 2012 Author Share Posted August 31, 2012 Meklort's patcher worked fine for me. 10.8.2 up and running. A few new kexts, including IO80211, so time to fix my Airport again. Did you put KernelPatcher.dylib in /Extra/Modules and Patchkernel=y only? how to use the xnu_ patcher please? ..could you also attach the patched kernel? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
splonk Posted August 31, 2012 Share Posted August 31, 2012 I just patched the kernel using the xnu patcher. Just chmod +x for good measure and run it in a Terminal window as superuser pointing at the mach_kernel you want to patch. It creates a patched copy and leaves the original intact. Didn't use the dylib. Getting a few KPs, though and nvenabler cannot probe my ION graphics, although I did get QE/CI on a few boots. I'll probably wait until the final 10.8.2 release comes out before playing further. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
buoo Posted August 31, 2012 Author Share Posted August 31, 2012 I just patched the kernel using the xnu patcher. Just chmod +x for good measure and run it in a Terminal window as superuser pointing at the mach_kernel you want to patch. It creates a patched copy and leaves the original intact. Didn't use the dylib. Getting a few KPs, though and nvenabler cannot probe my ION graphics, although I did get QE/CI on a few boots. I'll probably wait until the final 10.8.2 release comes out before playing further. Any problem using and rebuilding the kernel cache? About the ION2 graphics I'm not able to enable the QE/CI, every time I get black screen. I had to install a HD5450 :\ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
splonk Posted September 1, 2012 Share Posted September 1, 2012 I have a separate partition with 10.6.8 on it. I just used Kext Wizard to rebuild the caches from there. That seems to be a must for the slightest change to any of the kexts with 10.8.2 as even booting with -f just ends with nvenabler conking out or a KP. For the ion graphics, (I have ION2) i just added 0x0a6410de&0xffe0ffff to the Info.plist in NVDANV50Hal.kext and added nvenabler to give it a nudge. That seemed to do the trick. Others have just used the pre-GM kexts as those seem to work out of the box. Part of the problem seems to be Chameleon and its Graphics Enabler. If you use Clover, the graphics work out of the box. I just found the boot process with Clover clunky and slow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
buoo Posted September 1, 2012 Author Share Posted September 1, 2012 Use kext wizard to rebuild the kernel cache from the Mountain Lion desktop, then reboot and let me know if you are able to boot without kernel panic. If you get a kp show me a picture please oh, please send me NVDANV50Hal.kext and NVenabler you are using, just for anther test ... thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theconnactic Posted September 1, 2012 Share Posted September 1, 2012 (edited) I recently got an info (by can't guarantee its accuracy) that ION2 atom systems, unlike ION ones, cannot achieve QE/CI, since ION2 simply writes to the frame buffer of the integrated GMA3150, and this card (unfortunately, used by most of the newer netbooks, including mine) isn't supported yet. So i think you're out of luck, unless you can deactivate intel GMA in your BIOS. You can try also to connect an additional monitor to your VGA output: maybe this output is directly controlled by your ION2 and then your problem is solved, yet in an unpractical way. Forget what i just said: splonk just reported success in enabling QE/CI in the post immediately before my own, lol! So there's hope in the end. Edited September 1, 2012 by theconnactic Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
buoo Posted September 1, 2012 Author Share Posted September 1, 2012 Any testers here? mach_kernel 10.8.2 (xnu_patcher).zip 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theconnactic Posted September 1, 2012 Share Posted September 1, 2012 Is the official 10.8.2 already released in the App Store, buoo? Because if it is, it doesn't appear for me... again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
buoo Posted September 1, 2012 Author Share Posted September 1, 2012 This one is the 10.8.2 beta kernel patched with the xnu_patcher. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theconnactic Posted September 1, 2012 Share Posted September 1, 2012 Oh, it's beta! Okay! I'll pass it for now, thank you! This beta update is being reported as very troublesome. Thank you, anyway, for patching the kernel for it and shared it with us! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
splonk Posted September 1, 2012 Share Posted September 1, 2012 I recently got an info (by can't guarantee its accuracy) that ION2 atom systems, unlike ION ones, cannot achieve QE/CI, since ION2 simply writes to the frame buffer of the integrated GMA3150, and this card (unfortunately, used by most of the newer netbooks, including mine) isn't supported yet. So i think you're out of luck, unless you can deactivate intel GMA in your BIOS. You can try also to connect an additional monitor to your VGA output: maybe this output is directly controlled by your ION2 and then your problem is solved, yet in an unpractical way. Forget what i just said: splonk just reported success in enabling QE/CI in the post immediately before my own, lol! So there's hope in the end. I don't think the GMA3150 is ION2, but the successor to the much loathed GMA950. ION2 is based on the GT218, so similar to the 9400M in performance except that you are limited to x1 PCIe thanks to Intel. Use kext wizard to rebuild the kernel cache from the Mountain Lion desktop, then reboot and let me know if you are able to boot without kernel panic. If you get a kp show me a picture please oh, please send me NVDANV50Hal.kext and NVenabler you are using, just for anther test ... thanks I was able to boot without KPs until I started editing some kexts to try to get Airport to work again. Here are the files you wanted: Kexts.zip System back up again, and QE/CI shown. Not sure if the translucent menubar is visible in the screenshot. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theconnactic Posted September 1, 2012 Share Posted September 1, 2012 Correct me if i'm wrong, but ION graphics are from nVidia, aren't them? However, and i'll ask you to correct me if i'm missing something, when used together with Atom N450 CPUs, the ION2 is set up from factory (and most times this setting can't be altered in the BIOS) to write its output to the frame buffer of the integrated graphics of the N450, that's it, the Intel GMA3150. Because of this, the fact it writes to the integrated graphic card, because this is the still unsupported GMA3150, because you normally can't disable the integrated graphics in the BIOS and, to add more trouble to the mix, because of the fact that, for QE/CI to work on a given OsX system, all the graphics installed must be supportive of it, the result is that is very hard, to say the least, to get Quartz Extreme on the newer ION2/N450 netbooks. Or, at least, this is what it was explained to me. Your netbook, maybe, is of a totally different kind, i suppose. But i simply could be wrong altogether. You tell me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
splonk Posted September 1, 2012 Share Posted September 1, 2012 Mine is not a netbook, but a nettop and has a dual core Atom D510 cpu. I understand that N450 based netbooks came mostly with integrated Intel graphics - typically the GMA3150, which, as you say, is not supported at all under OSX so all you get is framebuffer support common to all gpus. The ION2 gpu (GT218) hangs off the PCIe bus and is not integrated as such, since Intel would only allow its own integrated gpu. That was nVidia's way around Intel's restrictions, but it resulted in x1 PCIe as a trade off. Performance overall is slightly better in theory than ION, but some things work better with ION rather than ION2. I think some wires are getting crossed since I do not know of a system with both GMA3150 and ION2. Certainly, there is no mention of GMA3150 in my bios. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theconnactic Posted September 1, 2012 Share Posted September 1, 2012 Performance-wise, how is this Atom dual core running OsX? Is it comparable to older Core2 Duos? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
splonk Posted September 1, 2012 Share Posted September 1, 2012 It feels about as fast as my Revo, which has an Intel 330 dual core Atom inside. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theconnactic Posted September 19, 2012 Share Posted September 19, 2012 Splonk and buoo, how are you guys? I'm afraid i didn't understand the steps to patch the kernel correctly. Specially the chmod +x step I will be something like this: chmod +x then: sudo ? Thank you in advance for answering, i'm really lost this time/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theconnactic Posted September 20, 2012 Share Posted September 20, 2012 I figured it out myself, 10.8.2 up and higher. Thank you guys anyway! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
meklort Posted September 20, 2012 Share Posted September 20, 2012 sudo <path of the patcher> <path of the target kernel>? You really shouldn't use sudo, it's a security risk. There is *no* reason for the patcher to need super user permissions, so don't give it to the patcher. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theconnactic Posted September 20, 2012 Share Posted September 20, 2012 I did it worse, meklort: i used sudo su. LOL! I'll keep your advice in mind from now on. Thank you very much! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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