. . attached to which IDE port?

Another issue: I realized only today (since I tried it today for the first time) that the network sharing is not working.
Whenever I try to access some other computer via smb, afs or anything else the finder crashes.

I guess I still need to replace some kext.... umffff....

Solutions are always appreciated!

shoarthing, which kexts did you copy from tiger to make digital output shows up?

Reptar, so you enabled AHCI in the bios?

Does anyone have working natit dual mon for Nvidia 6600 GT? The one that BrazilMAC included is acting weird on my other monitor. Every first boot, it seems like the card was overclock and it causes my screen to blink. But after I turn off and turn the monitor on again, the problem disappears.

. . AppleHDA.kext from 10.4.10 [having run the 883 04b mpkg in Tiger].

Hmm, that's weird, I just copied the AppleHDA.kext from tiger but it doesn't work. (I ran the 04b mpkg a while ago on my Tiger). Is there any other files I need to delete or copied?

Or is it possible to run the mpkg on tiger and point to Leopard for install?

Hi All,

I just ran into a problem and was wondering if others are experimenting it:

I have a DVD Drive plugged into the IDE port. There are certain times where if a dvd is in the drive and you try to eject it, it wont do it. From that point on, the hard disk LED wont stop blinking, you will have to manually restart and if you check your system.log, you will see a "IOATAController Device blocking bus". This message will be there to no end, and the hard disk activity wont stop until you restart. See a shot of the log below.

Please note that Leopard works fine, you can browse, open apps no problem,but sometimes apps will freeze if you try for example, to use to browse to a folder on the HD from the application. It is just annoying the hell out of me

brazil, by eject you mean ejecting through osx or through the button on the drive?

IIRC ejecting through osx is the only way. I'm at work but i'll try it when i got home.

I just remembered, I didn't remove the kext cache after installing HDA. Gonna try it later.

SquidCombo,

Yes I am using AHCI. I also tried IDE Standard and Enhanced, but no effect on my shutdown problem. As long as AppleHDA is loaded for audio, I cannot shutdown. If I use AppleAzaila, I have no issues with shutdown.
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BTW, any other P5W DH owners having the same problem with AppleHDA or is it just me. The reason I ask is that if it is just me, then something else is wrong with my config and I need to keep looking beyond the obvious.

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BrasilMac

If you are using AHCI, you might want to check that ALPE is not enabled in the bios. That was an issue I had with stalls and freezes. Turning it off, made all the difference for me.

Hmm, I have AppleHDA and I'm using IDE enhanced and I don't have shutdown problem. What's your bios version? Would AHCI gives significant performance improvement?

my Bios is 1901. AHCI gives somewhat better performance on benchmarks. In the real world I'm not sure. I'd be willing to turn it off and use IDE if it fixed my shutdown problems, but in my trials it didn't.

What are enhanced settings Pata or Sata or Pata+sata?

I've tried the natit version that worked on my tiger and I still having that monitor blinking problem. I think the reason for the blinking is the running hertz that natit/my graphic card outputted. It's possibly higher and it causes my monitor to blink. Does anyone know any settings for the boot?
I only use Enhanced Settings for SATA only and my bios is the same as yours. I switched to AHCI now and it's running just fine. Reptar, can you post me your audio kexts?

SquidCombo,

I was able to "fix" my shutdown problem when using AppleHDA. seems the wi-fi card was preventing shutdown. I think this card is seen as USB. at any rate if I deactivate the wi-fi card in Network Pref Pane, and have AppleHDA load,I get shutdown with no problem now. wi-fi was not really used anyway since I'm on GigaE wired lan.


Are you using wi-fi? do I need to keep digging to find the root cause?

I have ALPE disabled, and I still get the problem when ejecting the DVD from within OSX.

To reproduce the problem:

I do a couple of ejects. then run Final Cut (or Logic, dreamweaver) and try to eject. Then it wont do, disk activity will start and the system logs is filled with the ATA device message and from now on, only a manual restart will do. System still works, but HD LED light will be light up indicating activity

. . see this splendid resource for new P5WDH/Leo audio & networking kexts.

Please leave the author a thankyou if they work for you.

(edit) . . these kexts much improve the sound-qualityon this P5WDH over my previous copied-over AppleHDA from 10.4.10; sadly Time Machine still doesn't work for me, & with the same 'the backup volume could not be found' error. Using ToH w/ default kernel.

Hi Reptar,

I'm not using wifi, and I'm gonna try that sound kexts shoarthing posted.

Were you guys able to run ichat and calculator? It crashes everytime I try to run them.

SquidCombo

Thanks for the info. I'm pretty sure there is some sort of conflict between the Realtek 8187 wifi drivers and AppleHDA that was causing my shutdown issues. Anyway I'll just disable wifi.

As for iChat and Calculator, I have no issues running them. Both work fine for me.

I updated my AppleHDa.kext and IONetworkingFamily.kext using shoarthing's referenced link. all works, but I see neither an improvement in performance or a detriment. I'll let them run, but I'm not sure what problem they were intended to fix. I had no issue with Time Machine before or after installing these new kexts. BTW, Apple claims your Time Machine storage drive has to be formatted using GUID and won't work reliablly otherwise. This may be part of the reason people are seeing issues.

Hahahahaha, so stupid, I looked at console and turns out I was trying to run ichat and calculator app from my tiger partition. Stupid spotlight, the top hit was the files on tiger instead of leopard. Problem solved. I'll try the audio and Brazil's CD problem in a bit.

Edit: I tried McKill's audio kext and still only regular output shows up, no digital, no mic, etc. I guess it's the bios settings then. Did you guys front audio panel as AC97 or HD Audio?

Brazil, I don't seem to have that problem. My DVD Drive is on Secondary IDE and I can do eject without any errors.

hi, shoarthing,

taruga's HDA patcher 1.16 is really working fine on my system. works like it was in tiger (internal speakers, headphones, line out, digital out, internal mic & line in). i don't think it's the one causing time machine not to work. i think the default IONetworkingFamily.kext is the one that needs to be fixed. when i followed your link above (http://mckill.ca/), it just confirms my thoughts. i remember that prior to having successfully done a backup & restore by using time machine, i actually did install and run maya 2008. fyi, in order to get maya to run, you have to fix your existing IONetworkingFamily.kext, only when you are on a hackintosh. i think 'real mac' users don't have this problem. btw, i've fixed my IONetworkingFamily.kext by following this thread: http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showtopic=25133. i did the manual install of the 'IONetwrkFmlyDRMFix' app file that can also be found on that forum, including the instruction.

yesterday, i re-installed Leo and time machine did work until i did that thing above... but this time without installing maya.
time machine actually works on any partition map schemes (mbr or guid), internal or external hard drives. i successfully tried it on an external firewire hard drive (WD mybook pro edition II) and on internal sata, 2nd partition.

i'm now dual-booting between leo & tiger on a single internal sata hard drive split into 2 partitions. installed tiger first on 2nd partition then leo on 1st partition. works perfectly as i expected!

i must say that i'm done with this one. i now have a fairly working hackintosh system!

Update:

time machine also backups the tiger volume along with the leo volume. does it mean we can use time machine to do a restore of a tiger volume? it's getting pretty exciting now!

giandal,

did you mean finder quits, when you try to access other computer (like windows system) through smb?
well, i've been using smb to connect to a shared windows folders over the LAN and works without a problem. one thing i noticed, though...Leo no longer creating an alias or shortcut on my desktop for the shared resources on other system, not like it was in tiger. you can find it now on the left side of the finder window just under your volumes, instead.

did you happen to check this?

I really meant that the spinning beach ball appears and I have to force quit it.
Nothing under the volumes appeared...

it also happened to me even in tiger until i manually entered a dedicated IP address
for each other computers on my network that i want to connect with.

it works for me this way and it seems that leo sees those computers even without having to try to smb them.

The issue with the DVD drive eject and ATA blcking device message has been solved. It seems odd, but replacing AppleHDA solved the problem. My system was actually using AppleAzalia.kext Removing that and replacing the AppleHDA solved the issue.

Really odd...

I was playing around with my kexts the other day and now the audio is working fine, except for one thing. I can't change volume when I'm on digital output. Is that the normal behavior? I noticed I have AppleOnboardAudio.kext. Should I remove that too?

Hi to all, and thanks for this wonderful and interesting thread!

I have installed ToH RC2 Leo release without problems and fixed sound with Taruga's ALC882 kext. Everything is working fine including Time machine with the exception of RTL8187 WiFi. I have installed the drivers from Realtek and I am able to detect several routers (including mine-USR9108). However, I have not been able to connect to the router even after trying the different security options (or without security). Can anyone explain me how to make it work (I have tried also the IONetworkingFamily.kext from "mckill.ca").

I have a minor additional problem. I have an Ellipse 1500 UPS connected via USB to the computer; it is recognized by Leopard but there is no "reading" of the percentage of battery charge. I am quite sure that after a fresh install of Leo it was working, but it is not working any longer. Any ideas (it works flawlessly in Windows Vista, so it is not a hardware malfunction).

Thanks a lot in advance.
Sietepicos

Hi

Could someone share their audio kext with me
I don't want to have to install Tiger just to get a patched audio kext

Thanks

Also - what commands do I need to usse in terminal to repair permissions?

Lemming77, use the audio kext from McKill. They work just fine. To repair permissions:

diskutil repairpermissions /

SquidCombo,

I'm pretty sure that is normal behavior for digital output. If you output a digital stream from windows, it works that way too. I have Home Theater PC with Fiber optic out to Preamp/Processor and windows can't change the volume of the output.


Sietpicos,



WiFi is broken under Leo. There are several threads on this. The 8187 can't get an IP address, and so it self-assigns which means it drops the connection. Have to wait for RealTek to update drivers.

BTW, are you running AppleHDA.kext with your WiFi enabled. If you are, do you have any problems with shutdown?

Got my sound working by using the McKill audio kext - but now network isn't working

Any ideas on how to fix it?

Thanks

Just checked on Apple Support forum and yeah, it seems that no volume control is the default behavior.
Lemming, I thought I had that problem after installing the network kext but after a few minutes it's working just fine.

If it still doesn't work for you, you could grab the network kext from BrazilMac's patch. Let me know if you can't find it. I can upload the kext for you.

SquidCombo - Thanks for the reply

I get the network problem even without installing the new network kext.
I have 2 channel working on a fresh installation, but as soon as I install the two audio kexts, the network stops working.

Maybe I have to change somwthing in the bios?

Anyone have any ideas?

Thanks

@Reptar
Thanks for your reply. I asked about WiFi as several people with Asus MoBo claim that it is working (even with p5W DH Deluxe).
BTW, I did not experience problems any shutdown problems with AppleHDA and WiFi while I had WiFi "activated".
Best regards
Sietepicos

Hi,

I have P5w dh with sata drive and raid. I have one partition on ide port which recognize sata port. My problem is TOH leopard doesn't recognize SATA drive at installation and after. All work fine but not SATA nor RAID.
Anybody have a solution?
thank you.

Laurent

. . the Intel 'firmware RAID' definitely won't work; the 'steelvine' SATA-splitter used on the P5WDH as the 'EZ-Backup' thingie *should* work, performance from the jmicron controller's SATA/PATA/'eSATA' is iffy.

It isn't entirely clear which ports you have your devices on: if you keep 'em on the Intel ICH7R's 3 SATA ports [plus one more if you disable the 'EZ-Backup' device] & one PATA port it all should work easy-peasy . . so long as you set SATA in the BIOS to AHCI mode.

Mail can not send with some of my pop accounts on leopard anymore (maybe i never could before but i didn't realized that - anyway it works still fine in tiger)

I remember there was a bug with the network and itunes registration on tiger (problem was the ranking of en0 etc names of the different physically available network interfaces) - maybe it's the same problem now with mail - i forgot how exactly i fixed that on tiger but it's written somewhere here on the forums. unfortunately i am off some days now and have no time to try to fix it now.
maybe this idea helps someone who has similar problems.

does the EZ-Backup thing actually do anything?? Even in windows? I connected a perfectly good SATA drive to it once and it just gave me bios errors at boot, and it didn't even show up in windows. I just wanted to use it for more SATA ports...

You can change one of those EZ-Backup SATA RAID ports into a regular SATA port.
Just take the two EZ-Backup jumpers off the motherboard (refer to the manual for location), then boot into the BIOS, go to "Advanced" choose "DH Feature Page" and set "EZ Backup RAID mode change" to enabled

Now save settings and exit

Upon reboot, you'll get a message saying that the mode has been changed

Now SATA port 1 of your EZ-Backup ports is now a regular SATA port.
The other one is disabled

I have a hard disk running on mine and it works fine

Enjoy

. . same here - has worked transparently as the 4th ICH7 for some while: thanks for the clear post.

Shoarthing,

Does Leopard utilize the entire 4GB of your RAM?

. . yes: memory remap enabled & I can see & use 4GB.

BTW (heh) as a wholly unexpected bonus: the wireless k/b works fine as a remote for Front Row, which worked outta the box . . . .

Could someone outline exactly what they did to get this board to work with EFI + Vanilla kernel? I have been trying for over a week with no success getting the Vanilla kernel up and running. EFI fine, but no kernel. What exactly did you do? Also what BIOS version are you using in case that has something to do with it...

. . BIOS 2403b (this is the first well-sorted 45nm firmware): used the Retail-Image-via-Pacifist-from-Tiger technique, to an HDD prepped with the PC_EFI v5.1 bootloader.

Updated to 10.5.1 [also using Pacifist from Tiger] before messing with the kexts.

Added: dsmos.kext; ALCInject.kext [from this superb P5WDH resource]; SiliconImage3132.kext; & NVInject

Removed: AppleIntelCPUPowerManagement.kext

Replaced: AppleSMBIOS.kext [from the PC_EFI v5.1 package], AppleHDA.kext; IONetworkingFamily.kext [both from the above source] - I had in fact patched this in a previous Leo install with the 'UUID/Time Machine' fix.

. . first boot was into full audio, video, bluetooth, & networking functionality, with the external eSATA drive selected for - & immediately working with - Time Machine.

What is "SiliconImage3132.kext"?

I'm running the EFI bootloader with the ToH Kernel. I have the dsmos.kext and installed the AppleSMBIOS.kext from the PC_EFI. Will it work to download and run the 10.5.1 combo updater? I had a Kernel Panic when i used the vanilla Kernel form the original 10.5 Install DVD (the one in the root folder of the dvd) and fixed my Leo from tiger by copying the ToH Kernel on it.

. . for a PCIe eSATA card (see signature)

. . you *should* be able to sort the kernel panic with a vanilla kernel by fiddling with the BIOS. Could you boot with the -legacy flag?

What is the -legacy flag? My bios is the newest non beta - anything well known special to set up in the bios?

. . disable the 'Max CPUID value limit' setting, enable the 'Execute disable' function, vitualisation & ACPI v2. I disable speedstep. Different BIOS revisions have different amounts of tweakage - 2403b is pretty good.

OK i try that now (also new bios) - thanks

. . o, forgot: -legacy [after F8] forces 32-bit . . it is useful to see where the hassle is; but a page-fault panic in this situation is usually due to BIOS settings.

wow - worked

I only changed all bios settings like you said and stayed on newest bios. Still shows only 3.12 GB Ram instead of 4GB but it shows P5W DH Deluxe now.

I've read some people were able to modify something to get "Mac Pro" written... does someone know how this works?

. enable 'memory remapping' [you must have ACPI 2 enabled as well] - then you'll get all your RAM in OSX.

PC_EFI v5.1 [plus its new SMBIOS] show your hack as a 'Mac Pro' with a serial number.

thanks! works all except the ram speed now. The faked serial is not a real Mac Pro serial - i checked that with http://www.chipmunk.nl/klantenservice/applemodel.html