editing info.plist

[luobo]

Hi there,

 

For a very long time I try to make my hackintosh work (my wife is already very much upset about me spending such a long time turning to my computer.)

 

I am trying to make my Intel 865G video work properly, Kalyway 10.4.8, HP D530U.

I could already get a resolution of 1600x1200 by setting the boot parameters, but some things do not work, like VLC, DVD player, etc..

 

There have been so many hints for patching the AppleIntel830.kext. But in fact, all these activities were like fishing in muddy water. I did not really know what I did. An the only result was permanent rebooting and see that things do not work.

 

The first little success was to the use of "kextcache" to bring the kext into the cache for the next booting. After using this command I received an error-message (or warning).

 

I would like to know the meaning of the different lines inside the info.plist.

 

I learned a little by doing: a word inside peak-brackets "<" and ">" is the beginning of a function, the same word with a leading slash "/" is the termination of this function. But what kind of data is delivered to the driver? I think, once knowing the contents of the input will make me able to better handle the drivers, or even make them work satisfactory.

 

Some people reported the AppleIntel915.kext to patch and make it work with Intel 865G. And computers are so fussy to miff mistyping of a single charater.

 

Can you help t bring light into the darkness of 865g drivers for the mac Os?

 

Adding Feb.22: maybe there is a tutorial that describes exactly what I think of?

Also: I think of the idea that this thread could end in a tutorial for editing the info.plist to finally make users know what they do when patching this file, and not just copying some instructions ..

 

 

... still the same day: Feb.22:

Comparing all the "info.plist" from different kext, I found one detail:

 

One instruction for implementing the AppleIntel830.kext was: "Search the line showing IOPCImatch, below that in the next line enter the ID of your graphics device".

 

Since in my computer, as in many others the graphics device is a built-in device, and not accessed by PCI. So, I guess the "word" IOPCIMatch must be edited too, and changed into another expression.

 

Now, I must find out the correct expression in the line above the device-ID.

 

Are there any ideas for it?