KillerDr3w Posted March 19, 2009 Share Posted March 19, 2009 Hi Folks, I finally managed to get OS X 10.5.6 installed on an AMD Phemon II 940 based system. Its not great yet, but its a start At the moment I have these problems: * I have to boot with no graphics kext. (see question below) * The sound card is recognised in system profiler, but I can't select it in the control panel so I have no sound (I got it recognised by blanket installing all ACL888* kexts. I need to figure out which one it is. * My network card is recognised, but I can't enable it. * It also looks like I need a SATA driver, or the SATA HD icon fix as the hard drive icon is currently showing as an external drive. On the plus side, it boots, I can log in to the desktop and my on board (Realtek RTL8211B PHY) network card seems to work. 1) I have read from older posts that shared memory graphics cards, such as the integrated GeForce 8200 on my Abit motherboard isn't supported - can someone clarify that this is still the case? If it is I will pick up a GeForce 9800GTX+ next month 2) Are there any reports of Phemon II's working in multi-core mode? I currently have to boot with cpus=1 using the Voodoo 9.5.0 kernel. Are there any groups working on this? 3) How do I remove kexts so I can slowly go though the ACL888 kexts to see which one is driving my chipset? 4 Final Question :-) Do I have to worry about AMD binary patchers or anything? I don't really know what these are... Important Hardware: Abit A-N78HD Motherboard (ALC888 audio chipset, Realtek RTL8211B PHY network chipset, GeForce 8200 IGPU ) Abit AirPace PCI-E Wireless Card (Atheros AR5006EG or AR5007EG chipset) AMD Phenom II 940 BE Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Synaesthesia Posted March 19, 2009 Share Posted March 19, 2009 Yes you need to get a graphics card. To remove .kexts (kernel extensions) go to /System/Library/Extensions - there they are. If you delete or modify extensions, delete /System/Library/Extensions.mkext - this will cause the extensions cache to be rebuilt. About AMD patchers - yes, you sometimes need to use one, Marvin's AMD Utility http://www.google.co.za/search?hl=en&q...earch&meta= Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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