Recognize all my devices (VGA, AUDIO, WIRELESS) in the most vanilla possible way...ideas?

[ila81]

OK..Here I am so far

 

I have installed a retail copy of Leopard 10.5.6 using boot-132 method. Once that was done, I installed Chameleon RC1 using the EFI HFS extensions and I copied over some of the KEXTs from the initrd image on the CD I use for booting the retail DVD..but now?

 

I manage to create a patch DSDT on my Windows laptop and have it loaded by the bootloader: I can see the audio device now being recognized and showing all the available channels in the 'About this system' panel and the VGA showing on the 'PCI Cards' panel.

 

Still..

 

- No audio (the device does not show up at all in the Sound preference panel)

- Just VESA video output: 1024x768 no QE,no CI video..dual DVI work but in mirror mode and no way to change this

- The RALINK Wireless manager does not see the usb device either..

 

How would I go about making HD Audio, VGA and wireless working, without touching the OS installation? That is, by having it all on the hidden EFI partition?

 

Here is my system:

MB: Gigabyte ga-965p-ds3r

CPU: Intel Core 2 Duo

RAM: 4GB OCZ

AUDIO: integrated chipset (alc888)

NET: integrated gigabit ethernet marvell 88E8056 (would be nice to have it working, not essential though)

WIFI 1: usb stick Linksys WUSB54GC

WIFI 2: Netgear WG311v2 (listed as a marvell 88w8335)

VGA: Ati Radeon HD2600 Pro 256MB (powercolor)

HDD: 200GB sata on JMicron connector

DVD: Sony Optiarc on IDE connector

 

Any idea?

 

Thank you for your help in advance: you guys are great! Until Apple would finally decide to let people install MacOS on their pc freely, you are the one who gives us freedom

 

Ila

[ila81]

Ok, let me re-phrase the question which can now be split into 2 parts:

 

1) for the video, audio and wifi should and could I have used EFI strings? DSDT patch? What would you advice? Why?

 

2) let's say, instead (and like I have done for the moment), that I have installed the Radeon drivers and the wifi drivers (working on getting audio working) and that the drivers were obviously put into my /System/Library/Extensions: how can I copy those into my EFI partition so that, should an apple update screw/change them or should I re-install the system they would still work? is this possible?

 

Ila