Any improvements on my install of OSX 10.5.8 on an AMD AM2 system?

[THeX]

Hi Guys,

 

I'm new to the Hackintosh scene, and after many hours of attempts, retries, reinstalls, reformats. I've finally made progress with my AMD AM2 Hackintosh! Currently I'm in the early stages of a working dual boot XP SP3 and Mac OSX 10.5.8 system.

 

I'm just wondering if I've done things the optimal way... or if I could maybe add some improvements to my current install and make it better. So far performance is great!

 

Hardware

ASUS M2N-SLI Deluxe 1405 BIOS

AMD AM2 x2 3800+

2Gb DDR 667MHz Ram

Leadtek 256Mb 7600GT (Used EFI Strings, QE/CI fully supported)

320Gb Seagate 7200.10 16mb (SATA)

Benq DW1650 DVDRW (IDE)

I'm using a Logitech USB Mouse and Keyboard set as I had problems with a PS/2 keyboard and USB mouse config. No matter how many attempts I couldn't get PS/2 and USB mouse to work properly.

 

To start, I just popped in the install DVD, and it worked without any special flags. I did however experiment with the flags and I suggest -v is used if you're having problems.

 

I used iPC 10.5.6 to install and selected the following options from the "customise" part of the OSX iPC installation

Installation Options

9.5.0 Voodoo Kernel

No Graphics drivers (I used EFI studio to add the EFI strings)

Chipset Drivers - AppleNForceATA nForce drivers

Audio Drivers - AD1988B

No Ethernet drivers

Fixes and Patches - Seatbelt kext 10.5.5, UUID Error Fix

I also installed the supplied applications as well.

 

Post Installation Drivers

After successful installation of iPC 10.5.6 I installed the following in Leopard.

nForce Lan - 0.62.13n

Added EFI strings using EFI studio for my 7600GT.

 

Updating to 10.5.8

Went to the Apple website and downloaded the 10.5.8 combo update.

 

After googling various forums, I used netkas blog guide to update to 10.5.8

1. I installed x2 kexts : Disabler.kext and dsmos.kext from the above link.

2. Rebooted

3. Backed up my mach_kernel to mach_kernel_backup

4. Backed up my System/Library/Extensions folder

5. Installed 10.5.8 combo update and restarted when it finished.

6. At restart, I specified some flags, I wanted to boot with my voodoo kernel so I specified the following:

mach_kernel_backup -x -v

7. Installed in safe mode Andy's 9.6.0 kernel based on Voodoo after reading this thread over at InsanelyMac.

8. Rebooted and I just had to reinstall the AD1988B sound kext.

 

So far:

- QE/CI fully supported

- Sound, Network all ok

- Can mount/unmount drives ok, not sure if I need to change the seatbelt.kext?

- Shutdown and restart works ok.

 

Haven't tested:

- Sleep, wake from sleep

 

Any suggestions to improve my Leopard install to make it any better?