Leo4All on Asus c90s

[Frankenstan]

After many tries with many different 'distros', I managed to install Leo4All v2 on my C90s.

 

Here are a few specs :

Chipset : Intel® 945 G Chipset + ICH7

Proc : Intel Core 2 duo

Graphic Card : NVIDIA Geforce 8600M GT

Sound Card : Realtek

DVD Burner : Mat{censored}a DVD-RAM UJ-850S

Wi-fi : Atheros AR5008

 

For those who have the same laptop, here is how I managed to install Leo4All V2. You will also need a copy of Leo4All V3, although this might not be a necessity, as you will see below, but as this is how I got things working, I've included it.

 

In Customize Install I chose :

 

- Vanilla Kernel 9.2.0

- 3rd Party Drivers/Chipset Drivers/Via and SB Chipset Driver

- 3rd Party Drivers/Audio Drivers /Azalia Audio

- 3rd Party Drivers/Graphics Drivers/NVIDIA Drivers/NVIDIA 10.5.2 Kexts

(Note : ONLY install these Kexts for now)

- Network Drivers/SKGE Drivers

 

Straight after installation, boot back into the Leo4All DVD and repair permissions. Do NOT skip this.

 

You should now be able to boot into OS X, but with low resolution only. So here is what you do :

In the Applications folder there is a nifty app called InVisibles 1.5 engl. Start it and click on visible.

Insert Leo4All V3, all the installation packages should be visible.

Install System/Installation/Packages/NVidia/0.1.3/NVinject-512.pkg

(Note : 0.20 and 0.2.1 also work, but this is the one I chose the first time I got the installation right.)

 

Now this gave me full resolution BUT .... suddenly I had lost my keyboard and touchpad, bummer.

 

Luckily I found the solution here : http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?sho...mp;#entry689578

 

Download the PS2Controller.zip file and place ACPIPS2Nub.kext, AppleACPIPS2Nub.kext, ApplePS2Controller.kext in /System/Library/Extensions, keep the original kexts file just in case.

Now repair Extensions with the other nifty app provided with Leo4All aptly called Extensions-Repair. Do NOT skip this.

 

Voila, you should have your keyboard and touchpad back, and a working OS X installation.

 

By "working", I mean it is the bare minimum to comfortably use it.

So far this is what I have found that works :

-Full resolution graphics

-Internal Speakers (Sound is very low)

-USB

-Wifi (Straight out of the box, I tip my hat to the osX86 comunity, even Ubuntu does not do this.)

-Firewire (Not tested but detected)

-Bluetooth (Not tested but detected)

 

Not working :

-Microphone and headset jacks. (This is a bit of a bummer as I use Skype a lot, but no biggy. I found a workaround using a USB Mike and headset, however this uses up my last USB port.)

-Battery indicator

-Webcam

-Card reader

-S Video

-Express card

-VGA port

-LAN

-Modem

-HDMI

 

Some apps do not work :

-Toast (But Firestarter works)

-VLC (PLaying AVIs in Niceplayer or Quicktime give varying results but nearly always involves a long time for the files to load.)

 

About the Leo4All V3 video drivers, I have not tried reinstalling using the Leo4All V2 drivers which did not work the first time around. However, it may be I did not repair permissions at the correct moment. Try it first with the V2 drivers first if you want to avoid the hassle of downloading two versions of Leo4All, and if it does not work, use the drivers in V3.

 

Also, Leo4All V3 does not seem to work for this laptop as the computer hangs at startup after instalation, which is why I went back to Leo4All V2.

 

I hope this will saves a lot of time and headache pills to those wanting to install osX86 on their c90s. If the instructions are not clear or detailed enough, please ask. I am not a techie and this is my first osX86 installation but I will do my best.

If someone has installed osX86 on their c90s with better results or knows a solution for the mike and headphone problem, the apps not working etc... , PLEASE, stand up and be counted!

 

As a sidenote, I have three partitions, one with XP, the main osX partition and another small partition with osX that I keep as a sandbox to test the installation. Hosing this installation is a bummer, however, as it is the main bootloader, having been installed last, and I can only get the computer to boot up after having installed osX on this partition completely again, so for now I don't play around with it too much.

 

Lastly, thank you to all you osX86 developers, and to Eddie11c especially. Great job guys, keep it up.