Assored OS X problems: Video, Sound, etc..

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Hello guys, I originally posted this in the installation forum but I was tired and didn't notice this forum until after I had posted.

I was hoping maybe somebody could help me fine tune my OS X installation.

 

First off I'll tell you what I've got going on:

OS X distro is iATKOS 10.5.7.

CPU is a 2.8 GHz AMD Phenom II 940 X4 with SSE, SSE2, SSE3 and SSE4A.

Motherboard is an ASUS M4A78-E.

Memory is 8Gb 800 MHz DDR2.

Video card is an ATi Radeon 4870 HD (1GB GDDR5).

 

I do want to note that I have OS X installed by itself on a USB hard drive, which I didn't know you could do and I wasn't sure if it was a good idea but it seemed to be a safe bet given that OS X messed up my partitions (Which I recovered with trusty Linux) when I installed it on my internal hard disk.

 

Some other info: I installed the Voodoo 10.5.7 kernel since the installation notes for iATKOS said you'd need to use Voodoo if you use an AMD processor, I also didn't install any Intel/Nvidia/ATi specific drivers.

 

Now for my big list of issues that I'm hoping somebody can help me with.

 

OS X will only run in safe mode and legacy mode.

If I run it without the -legacy switch from the Charmeleon loader the kernel will go into a panic and crash about half way (I always use the -v verbose switch).

As far as I know -legacy tells OS X to only run in 32-bit mode, but I do know that 64-bit software runs for a fact since I have Vista x64 and Ubuntu Linux x86_64 installed.

Also as I noted earlier it will only run in safe mode, otherwise it reboots in the middle of booting up and I don't know why so I can't see if maybe its a problematic kext or something.

 

Next up in my list of problems is that I have no sound, even after kextload'ing VoodooHDA.kext.

If I try to kextload -t VoodooHDA.kext it says it loaded successfully but going into System Preferences and choosing VoodooHDA or Sound causes the kernel to panic and instantly reboot.

I also tried removing VoodooHDA and alas I still couldn't boot outside of safe mode.

My audio devices is a VIA VT1708S HD Onboard Audio and a Logitech 960 USB Audio Headset.

It'd be really nice if I could get audio to work on either one of those, if not both.

 

And last but not least I can't get any Radeon drivers to work.

I've tried several, including the ATI_HD included with iATKOS but every time OS X finishes booting the screen goes black any my monitor turns off along with a blinking light suggesting that it isn't receiving a signal.

I assume OS X finishes booting but I can't be sure since I can't see or hear anything.

The monitor is a 19" CRT hooked up to the video card via a DVI-to-VGA adapter (which I've heard causes issues with OS X???).

I was able to get back into OS X though by booting into Single-User safe mode and running "rm -rf ATI*.*" in the /System/Library/Extensions directory and Extensions.mtext in /System/Library, or in other words by deleting the ATi drivers.

 

Thanks for any help.