Nice Low Cost Atom Based Hackintosh System : 10.5.6

[ScaredyCat]

Hi,

 

So I've put together a nice little hackintosh box that works well, I'm using it for iphone development but could easily be used as little low cost system - It's comparable to my Acer aspire 3690 WMLI laptop (which also runs OSX )

 

The motherboard is a Jetway JNC920-230-LF which has onboard Intel GMA950, full specs can be seen here:

 

http://linitx.com/viewproduct.php?prodid=12253&prp=915 ( http://tinyurl.com/cgjfea )

 

which is where the board came from, there's also a fairly complete system in the bundles section:

 

http://linitx.com/viewproduct.php?prodid=12385&prp=912 ( http://tinyurl.com/cvv363 )

 

basically a nice little box for just over 230 quid including dvd, hard drive and ram :)

 

Pretty much everything works out of the box but there were a couple of things I needed to do. First things first, make sure you turn on 'Legacy USB' support in the bios (under the Integrated peripherals bios page iirc) otherwise usb keyboards don't work at boot

 

 

Selected Audio as ALC662

Chipset ICHx

Kernel Voodoo 9.5.

Ethernet Realtek 1000 driver

 

Didn't need to apply any of the special patches really at all.

 

 

First of all although the audio chipset is the ALC662 the iDeneb 1.4 driver just wouldn't work at all, once I'd installed the AzaliaAudio.pkg the audio output was fine. The boot resolution seemed to be fixed at 1024x768 and since my monitor was 1280x1024 I tried SwitcherResX which didn't work. In the end I just edited the boot plist file

 

/Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/com.apple.Boot.plist

 

and added the key/value

 

<key>Graphics Mode</key>

<string>1280x1024x32</string>

 

 

 

Once that was done everything works nicely. (Xbench dump below for the curious)

 

Results	43.59	
System Info		
	Xbench Version		1.3
	System Version		10.5.6 (9G55)
	Physical RAM		1024 MB
	Model		MacPro3,1
	Drive Type		ST380815AS ST380815AS
CPU Test	28.41	
	GCD Loop	61.71	3.25 Mops/sec
	Floating Point Basic	18.51	439.91 Mflop/sec
	vecLib FFT	23.59	778.25 Mflop/sec
	Floating Point Library	35.48	6.18 Mops/sec
Thread Test	51.60	
	Computation	44.25	896.37 Kops/sec, 4 threads
	Lock Contention	61.88	2.66 Mlocks/sec, 4 threads
Memory Test	70.18	
	System	62.44	
		Allocate	70.74	259.79 Kalloc/sec
		Fill	84.94	4129.99 MB/sec
		Copy	45.18	933.17 MB/sec
	Stream	80.10	
		Copy	76.55	1581.02 MB/sec
		Scale	76.58	1582.12 MB/sec
		Add	86.63	1845.46 MB/sec
		Triad	81.47	1742.92 MB/sec
Quartz Graphics Test	75.53	
	Line	90.03	5.99 Klines/sec [50% alpha]
	Rectangle	68.35	20.40 Krects/sec [50% alpha]
	Circle	69.63	5.68 Kcircles/sec [50% alpha]
	Bezier	53.53	1.35 Kbeziers/sec [50% alpha]
	Text	134.76	8.43 Kchars/sec
OpenGL Graphics Test	83.00	
	Spinning Squares	83.00	105.29 frames/sec
User Interface Test	28.02	
	Elements	28.02	128.61 refresh/sec
Disk Test	51.15	
	Sequential	81.84	
		Uncached Write	45.10	27.69 MB/sec [4K blocks]
		Uncached Write	121.76	68.89 MB/sec [256K blocks]
		Uncached Read	86.71	25.38 MB/sec [4K blocks]
		Uncached Read	143.71	72.23 MB/sec [256K blocks]
	Random	37.20	
		Uncached Write	13.04	1.38 MB/sec [4K blocks]
		Uncached Write	73.57	23.55 MB/sec [256K blocks]
		Uncached Read	94.38	0.67 MB/sec [4K blocks]
		Uncached Read	149.64	27.77 MB/sec [256K blocks]