amd 785g chipset works with osx86?

[cj95]

GIGABYTE GA-MA785GM-US2H AM3/AM2+/AM2 AMD 785G HDMI Micro ATX AMD Motherboard

 

 

also gonna get p2 945 x4

 

will it work, if so what distro?

[Mollusk]

GIGABYTE GA-MA785GM-US2H AM3/AM2+/AM2 AMD 785G HDMI Micro ATX AMD Motherboard

 

 

also gonna get p2 945 x4

 

will it work, if so what distro?

 

 

I would like to know this as well. I just bought this board. I think I'm gonna try ideneb Leopard 10.5.7 and see if I can't get it to work. If anyone gets this board to work please post a list of packages to install and what distribution was used. Thanks

[JeanG]

Hello,

same question for me .... i will try ideneb lite edition when i'll receive my mother board

JG

[loftkilla]

GIGABYTE GA-MA785GM-US2H AM3/AM2+/AM2 AMD 785G HDMI Micro ATX AMD Motherboard

 

 

also gonna get p2 945 x4

 

will it work, if so what distro?

 

ihave

Phenom2 x3 720 BE

Gigabyte 785G 1600ddr3(but I think I can firmware update to utilize my Kingston hyperX 1800 MHz ram.)

seagate sata 3gps

 

I have sucessfully installed a triple boot setup with Win7 custum distro, ideneb1.6 lite, and ubuntu 9.10.

I just haven't gotten everything working yet. It was crashing at first and gave a kernel panic message, but since seems stable. The CPU is reading as 4.3ghz, which is impossible, and won't read the ram any faster than1333.

My first goal is getting the igfx cracking.

 

I'll add more as it comes.

 

It is most def possible, though. I think I should try the voodoo core, maybe. Any advice out there?

[JeanG]

hello Loftkilla,

could you explain how you manage to make it work ? I try ideneb lite 1.6 but it stop at the beginning . I try busratio = 17 but it give nothing. Have you change the bios on the motherboard ?

JeanG

[orc900]

Hi people.

I have this motherboard and I am running Leopard 10.5.7. I used iAKTOS 7. I have sound and video 1440x900 with additional kext (dont have additional videocard). The network card is working fine (if boot without connection it wont get online anymore untill I reboot). Reply to this if you what details about what I did...

 

Regards

[JeanG]

Hi ,

How do you manage to install Iaktos ? do you use special command at the begining or just start the install without nothing ? (ex : busratio ...)

Thanks for answer

[Grope For Luna]

I have a MA785GMT-UD2H with a XII-550 (unlocked to 4 cores) running iAtkos 7. RAM is being read as 667mhz (1333) and cpu as 3.72ghz which is correct. There's no working video driver with hardware acceleration (for the integrated HD4200 or my 5770) but I can get 1680x1050 by editing the boot.plist. I needed no special commands for busratio or the like (I believe the chameleon bootloader/ voodoo kernel precludes the need for such command line options). I can't see my SATA drives when running in AHCI mode but IDE mode works fine (ntfs driver is flaky).

 

I am getting lousy slowed down, stuttering audio however. At first I installed the voodoo audio but that never worked and would cause kernel panic when opening the sound control panel. The only package I've found to function at all is one from 2008 with alcinject/applehdaudio. It could be a kernel issue.

 

orc900, what audio driver are you using? Do you have multichannel output?

[f00fSteR]

Has anyone tried snow leopard with this install and gotten results? I would like to know is everything is working vanilla ?

 

Well it is AMD it cant be completely Vanilla... ehh

[sirbow2]

AMD anthlon II 3.0GHz dual core

mobo= ga-ma785gm-us2h

BIOS Version: F11(latest)

500gb sata 7200 hard drive

bluray drive

integrated graphics

 

i got these specs but when i try to boot the install dvd of ideneb 1.6 lite i get a kernel panic this is using the default kernel of the ideneb dvd which is voodoo i believe. do i have to use on of the AnV, Toh, or Qoopz kernels that is included on the dvd to get it to boot? the only difference is i have a anthlon 2 instead of a phenom.

 

edit: i saw this in the osx86 wiki HCL (hardware compatibility list) for my mobo

the dvd and the final installation will not boot if the boot flag busratio=15 is not put in use the dsdt patcher gui and make sure that chameleon rc5 debugs the dsdt

this is why it probably doesn't work, i should have paid more attention...

[voiceover]

Hey guys,

 

 

 

my first post-yay!

 

Alright. I have:

 

AMD Phenom II x4 955 clocked at 3.2 GHz (original clock rate)

 

gigabyte ga-ma785gmt-ud2h

 

with

 

4 GB DDR3 1066 OCZ ram

 

and

 

500 GB Western Digital drive

 

ATA floppy drive

 

Creative PCI (128)/ensonique sound card (PCI slot #1)

 

 

 

 

 

First, I know this thread is in Leopard, but I never tried getting leopard on this config-skipped straight to snow leopard, mainly because voiceover is much improved in that release so I can use it much more

 

efficiently.

 

Anyway. I got snow leopard to work.

 

Used Snowleo's distro-surprisingly it's only 2.8 GB but don't be fooled. Research it if you are so enclined. In Snowleo's dvd, checked:

 

Chemeleon 10.6EFI rc4

 

AMD Patch

 

PJC XNU kernel (note: This kernel isn't really compatible, I think the AMD patch also replaces a kernel? not sure)

 

FakeSMC

 

Platform UUID (this isn't really needed, just in case)

 

Apple driver for the rt8169

 

legacy apple pxiata , sata seems to work in IDE/ahci mode, it shows up as "unknown Sata controler" in System profiler.

 

 

 

After installation, I recommend that you grab blackknight's AMD kernel, as this seems to run the CPU a bit cooler and also allows for you to update to 10.6.3 using a 10.3.0 darwin kernel. It's somewhere around somewhere, I know Blackknight is actively working on his kernel. Note: It's only for phenom users, for non-phenom users, I don't know which kernel you'd need since your CPU is different. the XNU kernel might work for you.

 

 

 

As for booting from the DVD. I didn't have to, but I know that there is a kernel panic when doing so. The reason I didn't boot from DVD is because I installed to my external HDD from inside my Snowleopard hackbook. I suppose I got lucky with that. Thanks to the poster who suggested the busratio trick-I know it has something to do with the bus speed because Blackknight's kernel uses a patched FSB detection.

 

 

 

Hope that helps someone out. Oh, one more thing. alc889A audio and the PCI card.

 

For the Ensonique PCI card, I used the vmware audio drivers I found somewhere here on the forums. They work, but after about an hour sound really fades out. If you know of a better driver for that, lem know?

 

The alc889a doesn't work. In fact, I tried installing voodohda and the jacks are listed but as someone said, you get a major kernel panic when switching to it. Darwin is a wimp! So I'm not sure if any kexts for it exist but it would be nice to get it working. Right now I'm using an external "c-media USB headphone set" card, picked up for about $15 from my local computer store, and it works fine accept for the microphone which makes some screetchy noise. Curiously, I can use the microphone slot on the Ensonique card to have it work-that is, the microphone doesn't "fade-out" as the sound does.

 

 

 

All the best,

 

Tomi

[AxxaVerKa]

Look like 785G can work with OSX, I wonder why not mine?

 

I'm using iAtkos v7, burned at 2x. Switched BIOS from RAID to AHCI, and popped in the DVD. Got to the Darwin boot page, good. Booted in verbose. It rebooted as it was reading the kernel. I tried again, with cpus=1. No luck, and it actually rebooted faster. I'm going to try busratio=17 next, but what could be the issue here? DVD has no problem installing on my Intel-based laptop.

 

Whether the CPU was overclocked or not, it made no difference. It would still restart.

 

Specs: Phenom II X4 955BE @ 3840MHz (Fully stable though)

MSI 785G-E53

2x2GB DDR3 1600

ATI X1900XT

3xSamsung 160GB HDDs

[x3rmlygood]

Try using iDeneb v1.6. You should have some progress with that. Make sure you boot with -x -f -v

 

And set your BIOS to defualt

[Use Your Illusion]

Hey guys,

 

 

 

my first post-yay!

 

Alright. I have:

 

AMD Phenom II x4 955 clocked at 3.2 GHz (original clock rate)

 

gigabyte ga-ma785gmt-ud2h

 

with

 

4 GB DDR3 1066 OCZ ram

 

and

 

500 GB Western Digital drive

 

ATA floppy drive

 

Creative PCI (128)/ensonique sound card (PCI slot #1)

 

 

 

 

 

First, I know this thread is in Leopard, but I never tried getting leopard on this config-skipped straight to snow leopard, mainly because voiceover is much improved in that release so I can use it much more

 

efficiently.

 

Anyway. I got snow leopard to work.

 

Used Snowleo's distro-surprisingly it's only 2.8 GB but don't be fooled. Research it if you are so enclined. In Snowleo's dvd, checked:

 

Chemeleon 10.6EFI rc4

 

AMD Patch

 

PJC XNU kernel (note: This kernel isn't really compatible, I think the AMD patch also replaces a kernel? not sure)

 

FakeSMC

 

Platform UUID (this isn't really needed, just in case)

 

Apple driver for the rt8169

 

legacy apple pxiata , sata seems to work in IDE/ahci mode, it shows up as "unknown Sata controler" in System profiler.

 

 

 

After installation, I recommend that you grab blackknight's AMD kernel, as this seems to run the CPU a bit cooler and also allows for you to update to 10.6.3 using a 10.3.0 darwin kernel. It's somewhere around somewhere, I know Blackknight is actively working on his kernel. Note: It's only for phenom users, for non-phenom users, I don't know which kernel you'd need since your CPU is different. the XNU kernel might work for you.

 

 

 

As for booting from the DVD. I didn't have to, but I know that there is a kernel panic when doing so. The reason I didn't boot from DVD is because I installed to my external HDD from inside my Snowleopard hackbook. I suppose I got lucky with that. Thanks to the poster who suggested the busratio trick-I know it has something to do with the bus speed because Blackknight's kernel uses a patched FSB detection.

 

Okay, I have the same Distro and tried the same steps with no luck, but I'll get back to that.

 

I got the DVD to boot by changing SATA ports until the DVD Drive was on a Master and HDD was on a Slave of some sort. I used "busratio=17 -v" parameters for installation boot.

 

Installed fine, booting is the issue.

 

GA-785GT-UD3H

Phenom II X4 965 @stock

onboard GPU (ATI 4200)

 

Snowleo 10.6.2 (distro you had)

 

First boot (with cpus=1 busratio=17 -v -x -f):

 

I still get this:

panic(cpu 0 caller 0x2a6ac2): Kernel trap at 0x00296416, type 14=page fault, registers:
CRO: 0x8001003b... more lines like this
Error code: 0x00000000

Debugger called: <panic>
Backtrace (CPU 0), Frame : Return Address (4 potential args on stack)
0x4d223c58 : 0x2.... more unintelligible lines. About 10
[indent]Kernel Extension in backtrace (with dependancies):
[b]com.apple.iokit.IOUSBFamily[/b](3.7.8)@0x4d595000->0x4d5c3fff

[/indent]BSD process name corresponding to current thread: kernel_task

Mac OS Version:
Not yet set

Kernel Version:
Darwin Kernel Version 10.0.0: Fri Jul 31...; root:xnu-1456.1.25~1/RELEASE_I386
System Model name: MacPro2,1

Now, the only real thing I can make of that is the bolded line: com.apple.iokit.IOUSBFamily(3.7.8), so I assume that it's having an issue with USB hardware, but I don't remember installing the USBFamily patch during the install. Is that worth a shot?

 

Cheers.

[JeanG]

Hello,

I finaly make it works ! after a lot of install and re install ...

The only things that i can't do is changing resolution with the ATI 4200 integrated ... any idea to make it works ?

 

I use Iatkos V7 and choose :

-Chamelon v2

-DSDT

-Decrypters=> Appledecrypt

-VGA Drivers ATI HD

-Kernel => 9.7.0 kernel Voodoo

-Acpi => APIC Driver

-Disabler

-OHR

-Remove TyMCE

-Sound => Azalia

-Post install actions

[Use Your Illusion]

Hello,

I finaly make it works ! after a lot of install and re install ...

The only things that i can't do is changing resolution with the ATI 4200 integrated ... any idea to make it works ?

 

I use Iatkos V7 and choose :

-Chamelon v2

-DSDT

-Decrypters=> Appledecrypt

-VGA Drivers ATI HD

-Kernel => 9.7.0 kernel Voodoo

-Acpi => APIC Driver

-Disabler

-OHR

-Remove TyMCE

-Sound => Azalia

-Post install actions

 

Thanks, but it's a shame that's only 10.5.7

[enochpc]

So I have an interesting dilemma. I installed Hazard Snow 10.6.2 On this board using a external USB enclosure. I got most the kinks worked out, updated to 10.6.4, and finally got ready for dual boot. Plug the hard drive into a sata port, set mobo to boot to that disk, and I get waiting for root device. The funny thing is, if I boot into USB, I can see all my SATA discs and access them so I have SATA functionality, it just fails at boot. In fact posting this from my USB install right now. Any suggestions?

[Use Your Illusion]

So I have an interesting dilemma. I installed Hazard Snow 10.6.2 On this board using a external USB enclosure. I got most the kinks worked out, updated to 10.6.4, and finally got ready for dual boot. Plug the hard drive into a sata port, set mobo to boot to that disk, and I get waiting for root device. The funny thing is, if I boot into USB, I can see all my SATA discs and access them so I have SATA functionality, it just fails at boot. In fact posting this from my USB install right now. Any suggestions?

Did you try different sata ports? Make sure that your DVD drive is on the slave Sata channel to the HDD.

[enochpc]

I currently have 4 drives in this machine (five when I add the OSX hard disk)

1 Terabyte media disk (Samsung) SATA

500 gb Windows 7 (Samsung) SATA

Optiplex DVD RW SATA

Optiplex DVD RW IDE

(and the 100gb Western Digital OSX SATA)

 

I will post what each one is on after I reboot (Master slave etc). I have roughly 80 gb of unpartioned space on the Windows 7 disc, would it just be easier to Carbon Copy Cloner my OSX install to that space?

[enochpc]

So, I now have Dual boot working, I can boot to Snow Leopard and Windows 7 from Chameleon. But I can only see my Snow Leopard disc (the Maxtor) and my 1 terabyte drive from OS X, which is making it hard to reconfigure Chameleon since I am not sure what disc my Windows disc is and would like it to be the default (since my wife sometimes uses this pc) I think I may need another kext, being that it appears only two of my six SATA ports and none of my IDE ports work. I will keep looking and keep everyone posted.

[HN]

Hi people.

I have this motherboard and I am running Leopard 10.5.7. I used iAKTOS 7. I have sound and video 1440x900 with additional kext (dont have additional videocard). The network card is working fine (if boot without connection it wont get online anymore untill I reboot). Reply to this if you what details about what I did...

 

Regards

 

How did you change the video setting? Do you still have the kext for this video card? Much help would be appreciated.

 

Thanks

[Sourabh_290292]

Hello,

I finaly make it works ! after a lot of install and re install ...

The only things that i can't do is changing resolution with the ATI 4200 integrated ... any idea to make it works ?

 

I use Iatkos V7 and choose :

-Chamelon v2

-DSDT

-Decrypters=> Appledecrypt

-VGA Drivers ATI HD

-Kernel => 9.7.0 kernel Voodoo

-Acpi => APIC Driver

-Disabler

-OHR

-Remove TyMCE

-Sound => Azalia

-Post install actions

which boot flag did u use at first . I tried -v but gives a kernal panic.

 

 

MY SPECIFICATIONS ARE

 

Asus M4A785T-M mobo

AMD Phenom IIx2 550

SATA HDD

SATA DVD

2GB RAM

 

 

 

please help me out....

[mtb_kng]

Doing the same as Tomi did on the last page.

 

Specs:

AMD Athlon II 240

2gb DDR3 1333Mhz

Asus M4A785TD-V Evo

HD 4200 Onboard

Samsung Sata DVD-RW (Dual Layer)

Western Digital Caviar Green 500gb Sata (32mb cache)

 

It's installing at the moment, I'll keep everyone up to date here when/if it's working.

[mtb_kng]

Doing the same as Tomi did on the last page.

 

Specs:

AMD Athlon II 240

2gb DDR3 1333Mhz

Asus M4A785TD-V Evo

HD 4200 Onboard

Samsung Sata DVD-RW (Dual Layer)

Western Digital Caviar Green 500gb Sata (32mb cache)

 

It's installing at the moment, I'll keep everyone up to date here when/if it's working.

 

Working, used exactly what Tomi did, but used the chocolate kernal. Didn't use Radeon HD kext, that wouldn't work for me. I used the ATi_int one (something like that lol) also, to update to 10.6.4, what you have to do is:

 

cynargo

 

Download 10.6.4 Combo Update from Apple Website.

Install it, but don't reboot your PC yet.

Download kernel this kernel: http://nawcom.com/osx86/files/10.6/Kernels...-10.4.0.pkg.zip and install it using it's installer. Now reboot and if it boots fine go to http://nawcom.com/osx86/cpuids/ and download "MacOSXUpd.10.6.4.cpuid.txt" and "Maxxuss_Patcher_GUI.zip". Then drag the cpuid file over Maxxuss_Patcher_GUI app and wait until it finishes, literally, drag the text file over it. Then reboot again.

That's all

 

Only thing left for me is to get it working at a native resolution of 1280x1024

 

Also, for the 785g chipset, use the "Azaila" driver, that works fine (This is for audio)

 

EDIT: Got 1280x1024 resolution working. When you turn on your Hackintosh, and you get the "Press any key to boot menu", I don't know exactly what it says but basically, as the scroll bar goes down, hit a key once Then press down once and when hovering over "Boot", type "Graphics Mode"="1280x1024x32@85" then hit return or enter. You can change the resolution to whatever you like, the @85 means my refresh rate is 85hz, most people's are lower. Then, if that works and you boot up into 1280x1024 or the resolution you specified, go to Your Harddrive/Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/com.apple.Boot.plist and open with text editor. Then add this code:

<key>Graphics Mode</key>
<string>1280x1024x32@85</string>

 

If you need to get it back into format/shape, use the tab key, not the space key to move it.

[orc900]

Hi, I have stereo for sure. 5.1 I can not test as I dont have a proper file. And the dvd player didnt ever worked.

This is the file: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=81TEG1BH

 

HN and any interested. I have a modified kext (1440x900 and it seems to adapt also for other monitors I tested last month with different native resolution).

This is the video kext file, including the original and modified version:

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=4FYVS7NA