Version 4.1:

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Your one stop shop to get Semthex 10.4.8 working properly on an ASRock 775Dual-VSTA.

Run this on the first boot of OS X, do not shut down the computer without applying the Apple USB patch (which is included in this installer) or it will not boot again. But, take note, on the first boot you will have NO USB and NO network. I'd say burn this onto a CD-RW, or if you are dual booting you can grab it off another partition.

Working SATA
Working USB
Audio: 5.1 on AppleHDA
Working Network
Natit with dual monitor support optional.

Changes in 4.1:

* Support for Case Sensitive volumes.

Known Issues:

* Sound isn't working. I couldn't pin people down on whether it was working or not for a while. It works for me, but it sounds like it isn't working for everybody. I'll try to get on that.

Stephen

Nice one , thestevo

Hi thestevo, I have the same board as you, and I have the mic working. I have two channels output also (all using the back connnectors).
All of this using the AppleHDA.kext that provided skippyretard in post http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?sho...2859&st=160

What's exactly for the "colonels system..."?

mismamente,

I saw that you got yours working on the AppleHDA topic. Could you post exactly what you did to get it working? I tried the installers and got errors. I assume you were doing it manually. I would have, but I just haven't had time yet this holiday season. If I get AppleHDA working on my system I'll incorporate it into the installer.

Colonels system profiler patch is a patch released by the user Colonel to make the system information work correctly in the system profiler. Usually when you enter the system profiler the first window that it has up says something to the effect of 'error getting this information,' this fixes that. Granted a trivial annoyance, but it is a simple fix, so I thought I would just include that and fix it at the same time.

I've played with including Natit as an option during the install.

Yes, no?

Stephen

Hello, atteched is the alc888 I have installed without problems. I renamed the AppleAzalia also. The kernel I'm using is the semtex kernel from de Jas 10.4.8 reseed, and the sound and the mic works fine.
I wish I can have 5.1 audio output, but we must wait for skippyretard to make a full working alc888.

Ok, I found out today that all 1.0 versions were just a nice thought and really nothing more than a zip file full of patches.

Version 2.0 has been tested, by me personally. I had to do a reinstall anyway so I thought, lets see if it works. Well needless to say it was full of bugs, but not now everything is working and I didn't fix anything outside of the script.

Thank you mismamente for your kext. Skippyretard has just come out with a new installer, we'll see if it works for me. If it does, I'll incorporate the installer. If it doesn't then I'll use your kext. One way or another, when I get that working I'll have the next version be 3.0 I'll include the option to install Natit from the script. New one probably coming out tomorrow morning.

If you want anything included, you must ask for it and provide a kext or link to installer.

Okey dokey. Its 12:18, so I guess I made my prediction pretty well.

v3.0: Audio is now fixed with AppleHDA and Natit is an option during the install.

I don't plan on changing this unless somebody wants something added, or I hear there is a bug.

Also, just FYI, if you already have a kext in place, this script deals with that. You can run this on a partially working install to get it up to snuff.

Stephen

in order to use this script, what version of the installation should i use? i try the jas one, but i get the no smoking sign above the apple. Thanks in advance.

hi there
nice work on this.
what will happen if I install this now, after using my osx install for about a month?
will it fix my sata issues? (meaning sata drives not being recognized at all)


thanks,
Nik

oh also, the download doesn't seem to work ..
could someone who already has it mirror it for me?

Try going to this page and click the green arrow after the page loads fully (still takes a lot of time to start the download): http://www.mediamax.com/thestevo

I just installed this
and after I did a reboot, the system hangs with a "forbidden" sign over the top of the apple logo on the boot screen.
I tried booting with -x, -v, -f and -s options in different combinations
nothing works
so I'm not able to boot at all.

any suggestions on how to fix it (maybe using the install dvd to boot?)
thanks,
Nik

Glitchman: You need the JaS 10.4.8 SSE3 Only DVD Reseed. If you use this disc, you should be able to install to a PATA drive. If your having this issue after you install upon the first reboot, please look at the wiki article for this motherboard.

Nikje: You can use this on an installation that is currently working and it should update all kexts just fine. I apologize for the hosting, but this file too large to post as an attachment.

What was the setup on your system? Did you install this on your system that you already had running? Secondly, when you say 'different combinations' does that mean you've tried booting with just -f as a kernel option? This seems to be a common problem with this board that it needs -f after repairing permissions for the first time. I'm not sure if thats what causes it, but for me that's when it seems to appear. I always add -f to my boot.plist

hi
I did install on my system tha already worked, yeah
but it had some glitches, so I thought this might work.
I'm not able to boot AT ALL
not even into single user mode
and yes I tried just -f as a boot option, still hangs on me.

do you know what it is that makes a "forbidden" icon appear over the grey apple logo when booting?

ive just thought of something
maybe I wasn't supposed to use the install.command?

I got some errors while it was patching..

The "forbidden" icon appears when the system can not find an hard drive controller that use for booting the computer, in this case. If you were to boot into verbose mode, you would most likely see it waiting saying, "Still waiting for root device" I believe.

What errors did you get?

i remember only one error
namely, that the system could not find the natit.kext files in /system/library/extensions or something

anyway, that's exactly the error I get when I boot into -v mode:
still waiting for root device.

any suggestions?

Did you install Natit?

Do you have this on a Dual boot with XP, or any way to look at the drive?

i just installed using the install command..
it didn't ask me for natit.

so im assuming it went ahead and tried to install it, seeing I got those errors and all

eh
and yea I could boot windows vista, but windows wont let me look at apple journaled drives..

also, last time I got that still waiting for root device error, I only had to type -x or -f and my system would boot fine. but now, it wont boot at all, not even into safe mode.

I think the only real way for me to look at my drive is to boot from the install dvd, launch terminal, mount the drive and browse?

have you got any idea what I could do to make it work, then?

Where did you unzip and run this at?

i unzipped and runned it at a FAT partitioned drive..
folder would be something like /mac/downloads/firefox/775dual-vsta/install.command

im currently browsing my drive from the install dvd
any suggestions on things I could try?

maybe if I uninstall everything your command installs manually, it will at least boot?

Ok, good news and bad news.

Good news is that I know what happened.

Bad news is that you just helped me find another bug in my code. As I've said this is my first installer, so... I don't have a wealth of experience to draw on. The code works - Currently - so that it looks for the files to be unzipped to the desktop. So, since they weren't there it removed the old versions, and didn't find any new versions to replace it with. I'll fix this as soon as I'm done writing this post. But, here is what you need to do...

Copy ViaRhine, AppleHDA, and AppleVIAATA from where you unzipped them to you /system/library/extensions/ folder. Once that is done, your system will work properly again. Right now it has no drivers whatsoever for you VIA hard drive controllers.

You should be able to copy by using the terminal off of the install disc. So the command would be something like:



The other option would be to install MacDrive on your Vista installation and you would be able to do it with a GUI. Personally, if I do a dual boot with a system, I like to have MacDrive on the windows install just because of convenience.

I apologize for this, but I'll have it fixed in a minute. I guess somethings you just don't catch yourself.

Thanks,
Stephen

thanks a lot!
Im gonna try it now using macdrive, and hoping it works, Im just glad I was able to help you code a bug out..
nice work on this anyway.

Ill let you know if everything works.

thanks again,
nik

macdrive doesnt work on vista =P
so now Im gonna try using the install dvd
the only problem is, the files I need are on a different physical drive then the one they need to be copied to...
could you tell me how to mount a FAT drive in the install dvd's terminal?
and how to copy from drive to drive?

im kind of a terminal newbie..

thanks

find X and Y by using



You should see your partition and it will list it (ex. disk1s1)

if I try to mount it, it gives me an
"unknown special file or file system /dev/disk1s2"
error..

is the system on the install dvd perhaps non-fat compatible?

Sorry, I wasn't thinking straight.

To mount a FAT32 partition you need to use mount_msdos not mount

My bad

okay.. after figuring out how to use mount_msdos, it gives me an error: "msdos file system is not available"
.. could I load it manually?

Load what manually?

the msdos.fs filesystem support?

mount your HFS+ driver first then try

Alrighty,

Version 4.0 is out. It fixes the problem that nikje and I are dealing with here. It will ask you where you unzipped your files to - and if it can't find them it won't delete or change your current ones. In other words, it won't mess with anything until it knows it can do it right. Yeah, I know this should have been done sooner, but I neither had the knowledge nor the time to find how to do it. Finding info on bash commands is easy, but finding things like -e (that would be an argument, not option) for the if command is a little time consuming when you don't know what exactly to put into the search engine.

Anywho, I also removed the AppleAzaliaAudio.kext from the package; since it wasn't being used. I ran the script through using a different location than the desktop, so all should be good.

Stephen

that doesnt work.. somehow there are no kexts on the install dvd whatsoever
i think I should just reinstall mac os x.

thanks for your help anyhow.

I will report if your package does the trick after a reinstall and immediately applying the package..

thanks for your help

Sorry, nikje,

I must admit, I've never actually had to use mount_msdos, I only know the theory behind it. Perhaps somebody as knowledgeable as Rammjet would be able to save the day here. Again, I apologize for this situation, but I do believe this latest version should be the ticket. It has no hardcoded locations whatsoever. It will prompt you for where you unzipped the folder and then it will check for each and every file before it makes changes to your system. Please be sure and post your results, it would be a peace of mind to know that it works.

Be sure to get the latest version before you use again!

Stephen

Running Terminal on the install DVD, you do not need to mount any disks. If they are mountable, they are already mounted. But since the install DVD is the root directory, all mounted partitions are under the "Volumes" directory.

/Volumes/(name-of-OSX-partition)
/Volumes/(name of-FAT32-partition) <== might be called "Untitled" if you didn't name it.

Diskutil list will tell you the name right after the type "DOS_FAT_32". Mine is named "WINXP"



cp /Volumes/(name-of-FAT32-partition/(filename) /Volumes/(name-of-OSX-partition)/(filename)

Sudo is not needed when working from Terminal on the install DVD or from single-user mode (F8 followed by -s)

that doesnt work either, rammjet.
I have the jas 10.4.8 reseed dvd and it's not mounting fat32 filesystems
not at all

so I just installed the whole system
and now it's working just fine.
Im about to install the patch stephen made

I will let you know if it works.

Ok, file is back up. Sorry, mediamax was being really slow and wouldn't let me change my files. Right now its hosted on filelodge, which requires that you click one link then sit through like a ten second advertisement. If anybody has a better suggestion for a file host, I'm all ears. I wish it was small enough to attach to the post...

Stephen

how come i cannot download the file from filelodge?

I just tried it, works fine for me.

it doesnt seem to be working... im using firefox. is that why?

I'm using firefox also, that wasn't the problem.

But now nothing on that site will load at all. This is strange, every place I've tried to host this today has gone down. But, apparently mediamax is back up...

So I'll put it back up on mediamax and leave both links, see if one works for you.

Stephen

hey stevo, try www.yousendit.com. That is a good reliable hosting site and i have never had a problem with it. I really need this file heh i just installed OSX and it is sitting on now and i dont want to reboot it without running this patch.

Ok, I created an account, where is the option to host? All I see is the option to send large email attachments.

you can use it to send a large attachment and just post the link here... upload the file and copy the link. if you want me to take care of it, you can email me the file and ill do it for you.

FileCrunch mirror added. I'll get this darn thing hosted somehow.

My apologies, I didn't fully understand how that worked. I thought it sent the file as an attachment to the email address instead of sending a link.

YouSendIt Mirror added.

hi

I reinstalled mac os x
your patch works fine for everything except sound
luckily, I have a sound patch made especially for me by someone

but maybe you should look into that for future releases?

thanks for everything and if you need more info just ask.

Yes, I would love to look into that.

Could you please tell me exactly how it wasn't working?

(e.g. Icon but no sound, no icon, error messages, etc...)

Thanks,

Stephen

Hi, i'm french and don't speak very well english
I have the ASRock 775 DUAL VSTA, tried everything to get my PNY 7300 GS working
but no results, always black screens (sleep), my BIOS is 2.20 ...
Any idea ?