j8048188 Posted September 9, 2009 Share Posted September 9, 2009 Hello, has anyone successfully insalled snow on their 6920G? specs as follows: T5900 Core 2 duo 4gb ram NVIDIA GeForce 9500M GS graphics card (512mb dedicated) I am planning on using the tutorial that appeared on Lifehacker, only installing it on an external HD. Do the processes in the tutorial work? is there an easier way? I have the retail Snow disk. Thanks for everyone's help in advance, J Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/185179-snow-leopard-on-acer-aspire-6920/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neodymium Posted September 9, 2009 Share Posted September 9, 2009 Hello,has anyone successfully insalled snow on their 6920G? specs as follows: T5900 Core 2 duo 4gb ram NVIDIA GeForce 9500M GS graphics card (512mb dedicated) I am planning on using the tutorial that appeared on Lifehacker, only installing it on an external HD. Do the processes in the tutorial work? is there an easier way? I have the retail Snow disk. Thanks for everyone's help in advance, J Hi I found that the easiest way to get Snow working on Acer is to install the extras to EFI partition. I had to do a lot of digging for it, but finally figured it out. Do you have an existing DSDT for your Notebook? It might be even easier if you do. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/185179-snow-leopard-on-acer-aspire-6920/#findComment-1258237 Share on other sites More sharing options...
loverules Posted September 19, 2009 Share Posted September 19, 2009 Hi I found that the easiest way to get Snow working on Acer is to install the extras to EFI partition. I had to do a lot of digging for it, but finally figured it out. Do you have an existing DSDT for your Notebook? It might be even easier if you do. I followed the guide with a retail vanilla SL DVD. The Guide: http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=184367 Follow the instructions. Hint: Please Take chamaleon hameleon 2 rc 3 which also supports SL. Use the 32-bit-version of com.apple.boot.plist as all kext-drivers are supported. For the ps2-keyboard copy the kext from the dmg-file on the pre-install-cd into /extra/extensions For ethernet take AttansiL1eEternet.kext, use kext Helper b7 to install. Find the EFI-String for the 9500M GS graphic-card via google and put it into the com.apple.Boot.plist. Details about EFI-strings are here in the forum. Wireless Lan is not supported yet. The last missing point is the sound. My question is: Did you also manage the sound HDA ? And if, how I tried everything out, but it didnt succeed yet. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/185179-snow-leopard-on-acer-aspire-6920/#findComment-1273211 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Albertino Posted September 22, 2009 Share Posted September 22, 2009 I followed the guide with a retail vanilla SL DVD. The Guide: http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=184367 Follow the instructions. Hint: Please Take chamaleon hameleon 2 rc 3 which also supports SL. Use the 32-bit-version of com.apple.boot.plist as all kext-drivers are supported. For the ps2-keyboard copy the kext from the dmg-file on the pre-install-cd into /extra/extensions For ethernet take AttansiL1eEternet.kext, use kext Helper b7 to install. Find the EFI-String for the 9500M GS graphic-card via google and put it into the com.apple.Boot.plist. Details about EFI-strings are here in the forum. Wireless Lan is not supported yet. The last missing point is the sound. My question is: Did you also manage the sound HDA ? And if, how I tried everything out, but it didnt succeed yet. Please can you post all kext and dsdt file, regarding the audio you can try to use the guide: http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=161773 Probably will works on snow. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/185179-snow-leopard-on-acer-aspire-6920/#findComment-1277107 Share on other sites More sharing options...
ysomagic Posted September 28, 2009 Share Posted September 28, 2009 I followed the guide with a retail vanilla SL DVD. The Guide: http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=184367 Follow the instructions. Hint: Please Take chamaleon hameleon 2 rc 3 which also supports SL. Use the 32-bit-version of com.apple.boot.plist as all kext-drivers are supported. For the ps2-keyboard copy the kext from the dmg-file on the pre-install-cd into /extra/extensions For ethernet take AttansiL1eEternet.kext, use kext Helper b7 to install. Find the EFI-String for the 9500M GS graphic-card via google and put it into the com.apple.Boot.plist. Details about EFI-strings are here in the forum. Wireless Lan is not supported yet. The last missing point is the sound. My question is: Did you also manage the sound HDA ? And if, how I tried everything out, but it didnt succeed yet. Hi instead of u I have only sound working... But in fact I installed snow leo on a MBR part by using a custom OSInstall.mpkg. I also installed chameleon 2RC3 and install only fakesmc.kext with osx86tool all those installs were made from leo 10.5.8. The most important problem is when running SL I try to clear caches reapir permission ... with osx86tool it sais that there is no /S/L/E. Hope to find a solution soon Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/185179-snow-leopard-on-acer-aspire-6920/#findComment-1282905 Share on other sites More sharing options...
loverules Posted September 28, 2009 Share Posted September 28, 2009 Hi instead of u I have only sound working... But in fact I installed snow leo on a MBR part by using a custom OSInstall.mpkg. I also installed chameleon 2RC3 and install only fakesmc.kext with osx86tool all those installs were made from leo 10.5.8. The most important problem is when running SL I try to clear caches reapir permission ... with osx86tool it sais that there is no /S/L/E. Hope to find a solution soon Well, if you use the GUID-partition like the guide described there wont be that problem repair permission, as you use the separate chameleon partition on it. I suggest you install it like that the guide told you. unfortunately you have to partionate the disk ... but what the heck. hope you find a good solution soon. For who it concerns, below I have put an efi-string for 9500m gs: 9500mgs.rar Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/185179-snow-leopard-on-acer-aspire-6920/#findComment-1283681 Share on other sites More sharing options...
ysomagic Posted September 29, 2009 Share Posted September 29, 2009 I finally resolved my problem about repair permission. The solution is to reinstall the bsd.pkg. But now I have another problem to resolve; some of my kext are not loaded at boot and also desabler.kext doesn't work correctly... About the sound I deleted some "problematic kexts" Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/185179-snow-leopard-on-acer-aspire-6920/#findComment-1284366 Share on other sites More sharing options...
tihomir Posted September 29, 2009 Share Posted September 29, 2009 Hi, everybody I have the same laptop (ACER 6920 ) My question is in Snow Leopard (10.6.1 ) is everything working well ? Ethernet? Audio? Video? Wireless ( I have added BCM94321 - its recognized OOB in Leopard) Right now I have fully working 10.5.8 But I want to upgrade with the Snow Thanks guys Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/185179-snow-leopard-on-acer-aspire-6920/#findComment-1284534 Share on other sites More sharing options...
loverules Posted September 30, 2009 Share Posted September 30, 2009 I finally resolved my problem about repair permission. The solution is to reinstall the bsd.pkg. But now I have another problem to resolve; some of my kext are not loaded at boot and also desabler.kext doesn't work correctly... About the sound I deleted some "problematic kexts" I have finally got sound, but do you also have got microphone? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/185179-snow-leopard-on-acer-aspire-6920/#findComment-1285693 Share on other sites More sharing options...
ysomagic Posted September 30, 2009 Share Posted September 30, 2009 I have finally got sound, but do you also have got microphone? I can't help for micro... but even in 10.5.8 micro doesn't work... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/185179-snow-leopard-on-acer-aspire-6920/#findComment-1285720 Share on other sites More sharing options...
tihomir Posted September 30, 2009 Share Posted September 30, 2009 I got internal mic with my 10.5.8 following this guide: http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=161773 Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/185179-snow-leopard-on-acer-aspire-6920/#findComment-1285833 Share on other sites More sharing options...
loverules Posted October 1, 2009 Share Posted October 1, 2009 I can't help for micro... but even in 10.5.8 micro doesn't work... Well, external mic is working now, just need to find the internal mic. ... Hi, everybody I have the same laptop (ACER 6920 ) My question is in Snow Leopard (10.6.1 ) is everything working well ? Ethernet? Audio? Video? Wireless ( I have added BCM94321 - its recognized OOB in Leopard) Right now I have fully working 10.5.8 But I want to upgrade with the Snow Thanks guys Except the wireless lan and the internal mic everything is working so far ... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/185179-snow-leopard-on-acer-aspire-6920/#findComment-1287066 Share on other sites More sharing options...
maciekish Posted October 2, 2009 Share Posted October 2, 2009 Hi, i also have QI/CE and network now but still no sound. Can you please post how you managed to make it work in SL? Thanks Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/185179-snow-leopard-on-acer-aspire-6920/#findComment-1287549 Share on other sites More sharing options...
maciekish Posted October 5, 2009 Share Posted October 5, 2009 For sound follow this guide: http://www.infinitemac.com/f57/guide-4-n00...fted-for-t4183/ And how did you get QI/CE working? I tired the 10.5 sound method but it didnt work for me. Any ideas? For QI/CE i used the above 9500mgs.rar and inserted it into my boot.plist, restarted and wiola.. I have full HD on the build in screen and another full HD 22" Viewsonic both working perfectly Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/185179-snow-leopard-on-acer-aspire-6920/#findComment-1290275 Share on other sites More sharing options...
loverules Posted October 5, 2009 Share Posted October 5, 2009 I tired the 10.5 sound method but it didnt work for me. Any ideas? For QI/CE i used the above 9500mgs.rar and inserted it into my boot.plist, restarted and wiola.. I have full HD on the build in screen and another full HD 22" Viewsonic both working perfectly good to know, that I have not discovered it yet, you are a real master. About the sound: did you also read the post at 09-30-2009, 08:51 AM? There is also a lot of information about this topic in that forum. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/185179-snow-leopard-on-acer-aspire-6920/#findComment-1290581 Share on other sites More sharing options...
gazzacbr Posted October 13, 2009 Share Posted October 13, 2009 i have leopard running fine on my 6920g, using dell 1490 for wifi. it is running on mbr and i use boot manager to boot with several windows. can i do some sort of upgrade or should i clean install on new partition? does this mean i only have to buy a snow retail disc, for everything to work (after some help from above posts)? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/185179-snow-leopard-on-acer-aspire-6920/#findComment-1297047 Share on other sites More sharing options...
j8048188 Posted November 7, 2009 Author Share Posted November 7, 2009 I followed the guide with a retail vanilla SL DVD. The Guide: http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=184367 Follow the instructions. Hint: Please Take chamaleon hameleon 2 rc 3 which also supports SL. Use the 32-bit-version of com.apple.boot.plist as all kext-drivers are supported. For the ps2-keyboard copy the kext from the dmg-file on the pre-install-cd into /extra/extensions For ethernet take AttansiL1eEternet.kext, use kext Helper b7 to install. Find the EFI-String for the 9500M GS graphic-card via google and put it into the com.apple.Boot.plist. Details about EFI-strings are here in the forum. Wireless Lan is not supported yet. The installer fails on me. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/185179-snow-leopard-on-acer-aspire-6920/#findComment-1322347 Share on other sites More sharing options...
j8048188 Posted November 10, 2009 Author Share Posted November 10, 2009 The installer fails on me. I continued with the process anyway, installing Chameleon rc3 with the pkg i got here. Everything works except sound, wifi, and tap-to-click. I'll now start working on sound. EDIT: I got sound working, now trying to get Ethernet working. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/185179-snow-leopard-on-acer-aspire-6920/#findComment-1325877 Share on other sites More sharing options...
tihomir Posted November 13, 2009 Share Posted November 13, 2009 Can anyone post a Guide with a few steps "How to install Snow Leopard on ACER 6920" ? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/185179-snow-leopard-on-acer-aspire-6920/#findComment-1330145 Share on other sites More sharing options...
j8048188 Posted November 16, 2009 Author Share Posted November 16, 2009 Can anyone post a Guide with a few steps "How to install Snow Leopard on ACER 6920" ? There is a good guide (the one i ended up using) on a different site. I cannot link you there. search google for [GUIDE] 4 n00bs with laptops! (-Specially crafted for Acer Gemstone 6935G-) and you will find it. You have to generate your own dsdt.aml file, though. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/185179-snow-leopard-on-acer-aspire-6920/#findComment-1332814 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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