So close! Please help complete 10.5.8 install!

[someone29926]

Hi everyone,

 

Great board. Have been learning frantically over the past few weeks trying to get dual-boot OSX86 stable with my current setup.

With the help of all of the previous posts, I believe I am 95% there, and am hoping a post more customized to my specific issue

will help with the last 5%. Without further ado, my current setup:

 

Mobo: ASUS P5N-T Deluxe (nForce 780i) (I know...)

CPU: Q6600

GFX: BFG 8800GTX OC

DVD: SATA Lite-on

 

And some history:

 

Installed using iPC 10.5.6. Besides a fair share of error messages, particularly around AppleNForceATA (I will come back to this

point later), everything actually worked fine using Voodoo kernel 9.5.0. Shutdown/Restart/and even sleep! At this point,

I had not touched DSDT or EFI strings, etc. but did install Chameleon 2.0 RC2. Vanilla kernel was an almost instant panic and

never actually booted succesfully.

 

Upgraded to 10.5.8 using iDeneb. That broke sleep, which is when I began experimenting with different kexts, DSDT, etc. to get it back.

I patched the TMR/RTC/HPET in my DSDT which didn't change a whole lot when booting using Voodoo (still panics on AICPUPM..is this normal??)

I did notice however, after moving the AICPUPM from 'Extensions Disabled' to S/L/E, that vanilla would now boot, but ONLY WHEN cpus=1.

Also, AICPUPM initializes correctly and everything, I can even see it loaded using kextstat. However, and disappointingly, sleep didn't

work with vanilla either.

 

Some of the things i've tried...

 

Voodoo/ Vanilla

Disabler/No Disabler

VoodooPower / No VoodoPower

Deleting AICPUPM entirely

Multiple versions floating around the net of "SleepEnabler.kext"

 

and I've tried these in basically every variation, although willing to revisit if someone is convinced that one of these

should have worked.

 

The only changes I believe I have made from what would have been installed using iPC 10.5.6 and then iDeneb 10.5.8

are the faster-booting IOATAFamily.kext and again the replacement of 10.5.6 AICPUPM with that of 10.5.8 to avoid the

version mis-match error when booting vanilla. Also, the DSDT patch and Chameleon RC2 mentioned earlier.

 

Basically, just looking for a way to get sleep working with either vanilla or voodoo, not really important to me which one

currently. However, if I was to use vanilla, I would like to have all 4 cores working.

 

Can anyone help me with this?? I would like to contribute to the community by working on fixing some of the issues with

ApplenForceATA (I have driver-writing experience on non-Mac platforms, and have already started reading up on IOKit) However,

I would really like a stable development system that I can sleep when need be.

 

In the absense of solutions to this specific issue, was hoping that people might be able to clarify some points for me

and then I could dig further from there.

 

1. Is it possible to run vanilla kernel on nForce 780i with all cores? (without cpus=1)

2. Is Voodoo kernel compatible with AICPUPM at all? Why would it work with vanilla but not with Voodoo (KP every time)?

3. Have heard many different things about how to use SleepEnabler...delete AICPUPM, leave AICPUPM with Disabler, etc.

Does anyone have some relevant experience with a setup similar to mine?

4. Read somewhere that fixing C-States through DSDT can help with sleep in 10.5.8. I do get the error "_CST evaluation

failed" when booting vanilla (but not Voodoo). I have read the posts on fixing these errors and some people have even posted

DSDT examples for the Q6600, however I have tried patching these together and can not get them working.

Does anyone have a complete example for this processor?

 

Thanks!