effgee Posted September 26, 2009 Share Posted September 26, 2009 Hello folks, I have managed to successfully install SL 10.6 on my Aspire 5920G. Heres the key points. Currently installed to a external USB disk. I have no idea if it works on the internal disk, but the disk is accessible including NTFS support when the install is finished. I used this to ease the installation process. PRE-INSTALL AUTOMATOR v1.1 http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=185823 It works well but the instructions are missing a few steps. 1. The target drive you are installing onto must be formatted GUID. 2. The target partition PRE-INSTALL AUTOMATOR v1.1 asks you to install to is always the partition with the data, not the EFI partition. It won't let you install to an EFI (obviously) but I scratched my head at it for a little while. 3. My cmos was resetting everytime I booted into OSX. 4. After patching for the CMOS fix using DSDTE, it crashed and I had to use this switch in Chameleon USBBusFix=Yes. I dont know why these are related but it must have something to do with rebuilding the DSDT. 5. Wireless and Ethernet do not work. The hacked Broadcom kext this card hangs on loading. It must be 32 bit and I am trying to run in 64. 6. Audio doesn't work and I'm not sure why. 7. I only had windows installed previously I managed to do all the steps required with the use of a VMWARE machine. Here is the output of my lspci. -------------------------------------------- 00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile PM965/GM965/GL960 Memory Controller Hub (rev 03) 00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile PM965/GM965/GL960 PCI Express Root Port (rev 03) 00:1a.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #4 (rev 04) 00:1a.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #5 (rev 04) 00:1a.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #2 (rev 04) 00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) HD Audio Controller (rev 04) 00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 1 (rev 04) 00:1c.3 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 4 (rev 04) 00:1c.5 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 6 (rev 04) 00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 04) 00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 04) 00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 04) 00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #1 (rev 04) 00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev f4) 00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801HEM (ICH8M) LPC Interface Controller (rev 04) 00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801HBM/HEM (ICH8M/ICH8M-E) IDE Controller (rev 04) 00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation 82801HBM/HEM (ICH8M/ICH8M-E) SATA AHCI Controller (rev 04) 00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) SMBus Controller (rev 04) 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation GeForce 9500M GS (rev a1) 06:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 3945ABG Network Connection (rev 02) 08:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetLink BCM5787M Gigabit Ethernet PCI Express (rev 02) 0a:09.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Ricoh Co Ltd R5C832 IEEE 1394 Controller (rev 05) 0a:09.1 SD Host controller: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C822 SD/SDIO/MMC/MS/MSPro Host Adapter (rev 22) 0a:09.2 System peripheral: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C843 MMC Host Controller (rev 12) 0a:09.3 System peripheral: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C592 Memory Stick Bus Host Adapter (rev 12) 0a:09.4 System peripheral: Ricoh Co Ltd xD-Picture Card Controller (rev 12) Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/189004-snow-leopard-106-retail-on-aspire-5920g-usable-no-network-or-audio/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mettiu Posted October 8, 2009 Share Posted October 8, 2009 Hi, I have an Acer Aspire 5720G: I have used the "TOTALLY VANILLA" method plus some kernels, and I have everything working (audio with speakers, headphones & mic via VoodooHDA, full GPU support via Chamaleon 2RC3) except wifi (waiting for project camphor..) and Webcam (which worked on Leo tho... so I will try to fix it). EDIT: Webcam is perfectly working with last release of Camtwist :) Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/189004-snow-leopard-106-retail-on-aspire-5920g-usable-no-network-or-audio/#findComment-1293512 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edkroket Posted November 23, 2009 Share Posted November 23, 2009 Hi, I have an Acer Aspire 5720G: I have used the "TOTALLY VANILLA" method plus some kernels, and I have everything working (audio with speakers, headphones & mic via VoodooHDA, full GPU support via Chamaleon 2RC3) except wifi (waiting for project camphor..) and Webcam (which worked on Leo tho... so I will try to fix it). EDIT: Webcam is perfectly working with last release of Camtwist Please post how you got the audio working? Ed Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/189004-snow-leopard-106-retail-on-aspire-5920g-usable-no-network-or-audio/#findComment-1340158 Share on other sites More sharing options...
iMoshi Posted November 23, 2009 Share Posted November 23, 2009 Please post how you got the audio working?Ed http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php...=0#entry1338719 Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/189004-snow-leopard-106-retail-on-aspire-5920g-usable-no-network-or-audio/#findComment-1340234 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edkroket Posted November 25, 2009 Share Posted November 25, 2009 http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php...=0#entry1338719 No that was not it. This was it My solution Ed Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/189004-snow-leopard-106-retail-on-aspire-5920g-usable-no-network-or-audio/#findComment-1342397 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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