291 replies to this topic

[ugokind]

Ok but.
I read the changelog of 10.8.3
so I think it's not really necessary to have an upgrade If you have an hardware like ours.

this is because I chosed to not upgrade the os. But if I wish to do.. I know how.. thanks you

[DJCannonball]

First of all, thank you so much fo putting this much effort in trying to get everyhardwarepart working in our G73SW laps.

i've had several installs like  10.8.2 (Myhack) and  iAtkos 10.8.2 ML2
the first one installs fine, but after reboot there is no audio and no hmdi output
the seccond one (iAtkos) sometimes KP at booting the dvd..  if it doesn't happen to KP.. the install finnishes, but after reboot  wifi+audio is working  but i have to boot from cd  because the installed bootloader gives an error boot0: test  boot0: error.

i have read every single post in this toppic, but to be honnest  i completely lost track. what dsdt, ssdt, several kexkts should i use?  what is the best way to start from scratch? (step by step-guide)

any help would be appriciated.
thanx in advance!

[LatinMcG]

4k sectors will give error on boot.. hdd has advanced format. use boot1h modded for this.

[DJCannonball]

Thanx LatinMcG..    where do i get a booth1h   and if i get it..  where do i put it? (excuse me for my ignorance)

[ellnic]

Follow this guide: http://www.macbreake...-error.html?m=1

Put the extracted file on a key drive then boot from whatever media you used to install ML and follow instructions.

MAKE SURE you have the correct identifiers or you could lose your partitions/data. If in doubt, backup before hand or make sure there is no important data on your drive.

[DJCannonball]

Thanx ellnic..  i took a shortcut. changed to a drive which reads and writes files in 512 byte sectors.

i followed this guide for 10.8.3 install:
http://olarila.com/f...php?f=27&t=3101

i further followed the steps from your post #192

installs just fine.i further followed the steps from your post #192
after reboot when i add kexts to s/l/e with kexts wizzard, it gives KP at next reboot.

what am i missing?

[DJCannonball]

Jeff,  in your very first post in this toppic you state 'Choose your install methods.  There's plenty out on this site.'
there is  indeed.  i used this one from olarila : OS_X_10.8.3_Mountain_Lion_bootable_USB_for_Intel_PCs
after registering the kexts from your 10dec.zip with kext wizzard   it gives kernal panic

I think it does matter what install you use?

[ellnic]

How did you install the kexts? Did you use something like kext wizard? Did you repairpermissions afterwards?

Boot with -v at chameleon screen (verbose mode) and tell us what the panic is related to. It does not matter what install method you use. The OS is the same. Olarila works fine because I use that myself. Olarila's USB image is a vanilla (unaltered) install so the panic must be related to something else.

EDIT: Sorry, just seen that you used kext wizard so ignore that bit.

[DJCannonball]

i've had some trouble with kextwizard,  the first time i used it.. it did it's job fine, but after a reboot i didn't get to choose a destination drive (only 'option 1'  and 'option 2' ) so i used another tool  something like Kext-helper.

i rebooted with option -v  verbose mode.  there was some powermanagement kext what caused the kernalpanic.
i didn't have the patience to post the error on this board and wait for a solution and tried another install.


i had another go with the 'my hack' install   http://myhack.sojugarden.com/guide/
and i found out that i could inject a custom 'extra' folder at the end of the install.

so i put all of jeff's files from 10 dec  (all the kext and latest dsdt.aml etc) into that folder and finished the install.
i booted once more via the myhack usbstick, choose my osx partition to boot.

once booted, i ran the myhack utility to install the included bootloader.

now it (multi)boots all by it's self

what's working:
* Nvidia GTX460m  with OpenCL/CUDA
* Audio
* Battery icon in taskbar
* USB 3.0 (i had to shutdown and pull the powercord once to get this working)
* Wifi
* Ethernet
* volume keys (fn + vol-up and vol-down)
* HMDI out (dual screen)
* Bluetooth

What's not working:
* Sleep (when i try to put it to sleep   the screen goes blank  and never wakes up again)
* Backlit keyboard
* SD cardreader

i have to tell,  i bought my G73SW 2 years ago  and installed osx 10.6 on it,  but i never got this far  almost everything works

thanks to you guys!

but still i would like to troubleshoot  sleep and backlit-keyboard, i'm gonna research further tonite

[manmal]

hi, i upgraded to 10.8.3 and at the beginning all was fine (including sleep, and so on). Then after a few weeks now i have my system that go to sleep just once, and then no more! It happened also with 10.8.1, 10.8.2 and now with 10.8.3 ! It happened in 2 systems installed from scratch. I can't really understand why it happens after a while. Is there something that "autoupdates"? in SLE dir (some kexts) ? Really strange...

[ellnic]

Unfortunatelty you will need to wait for the official Nvidia 10.8.3 kexts to fix this. Do not reapply the 10.8.2 ones - I have found they do not work for 10.8.3 (hangs at boot).

[ellnic]

Nvidia have released 10.8.3 Drivers for OS X. Go to: http://www.nvidia.co...f03-driver.html

Now for some reason Nvidia have chosen to have a dual display driver setup in their latest release. It is VERY important that you do not entirely replace the kexts with the ones they provide or it won't work. At least it didn't for me. I also could not get their new pref pane to work - I welcome suggestions to get it working. With Nvidia's new kexts, you will notice that 8 of the kexts have Web on the end of the file name - do NOT rename these. They sit along side the OS X ones. The goal is to be able to switch between them on a real Mac. When a real Mac uses the pref pane, it writes "nvda_drv=1" to the NVRAM and loads the Nvidia drivers instead. In this respect, the pref pane will never work - but we can manually mimic this by using the same boot flag in Chameleon.

Reasons why you would want to do this: Freezing Open CL (Does your screensaver come on in 10.8.3 and take the OS down?), No sleep (or wake), No backlit keys

To install:

1. Extract kexts from "WebDriver-313.01.01f03.pkg" using unpkg
2. Install all 9 Kexts using Kext helper and BACKUP REPLACED KEXTS- it will only replace 1 Kext - NVDAStartup.kext (this is normal as the names are now different) Keep the replaced Kext safe for a moment
3. Repair permissions
4. Reboot (if screen resolution is not right, reboot again)
5. Add nvda_drv=1 to boot flags, update chameleon to latest version
6. Reapply Perl Script (should say 1 substitution)
7. If you have CUDA, update to latest version
8. Reboot

If this fails then swap the NVDAStartup.kext back and remove the boot flag, delete the Kexts ending in Web, and repair permissions / reboot.

Hope this helps