Kalyway on MSI GX600P

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LAST UPDATE: 08dec, 5:30PM

 

Basically this is a topic by someone who's primary objective was to get xCode and the iPhone SDK running on his everyday linux-running notebook. Also he likes it quick and dirty (don't get sick thoughts now).

 

 

I managed to get OSX running on my MSI GX600P, with the help of the community.

It's running from an external hard drive (old IDE notebook drive) and was installed using Kalyway 10.5.2 from DVD and updated to 10.5.7 using a guide to run xCode and the iPhone SDK.

 

I want to share the path I walked for other people wanting to achieve the same, but first the conclusion so far:

Supported:

• Intel dualcore (without cpus=1 mod)
  
• Boot from USB harddrive
  
• USB ASUS WL-167g (Ralink RT73 chipset)
  
• USB keyboard (any I've tested)
  
• Built-in speakers
  

Untested:

• Onboard LAN
  

Unsupported:

• Nvidia Geforce 8600m GT (512mb DDR2) hardware acceleration
  
• Front mic & headphone jacks
  
• Intel (4965?) wireless adapter
  
• Built-in keyboard (possibly because it's internally ps2)
  

 

Updating:

For updating up to 10.5.6 I used an existing guide that exists for Kalyway, search these boards for that one. Basically it holds your hand through the seperate updates, but I think I saw a guide somewhere else describing a full combo update using the very same method (as shown below).

 

Getting to 10.5.7 was pretty much undocumented,

however repeating the steps for 10.5.6 worked.

 

When running non-vanilla, powermanagement will crash your system. I'm not a specialist so please forgive me if my explanation is wrong.

I used the

 

while sleep 1; do rm -rf /System/Library/Extensions/AppleIntelCPUPowerManagement.kext; done

trick, I've heard others did this with a kext. Personally I'm a little afraid of kexts as I've crashed 2 previous attempts at getting to 10.5.7 and wasn't capable of repairing the damage.

 

My primary goal was to get xCode and the iPhone SDK working, which requires 10.5.7. Thus I have no ambition to update to 10.5.8 (yet). I assume it simply requires the same trick, and otherwise it'll hopefully be documented using other distro's (iAtkos etc.).

 

 

Graphics:

Hardware graphics acceleration doesn't have a high priority for me. As my mindset is "don't fix something that isn't broken" I will probably not even attempt this, I need a working 10.5.7 for work ^^, and I'm sticking to linux as my main OS.

 

Networking:

Onboard LAN is untested.

 

Wireless (Intel Wireless) is not working.

I found an old Asus WL-167g (with the well-known RT73 chipset used by WEP crackers and such), so I was confident I was gonna find a driver that works.

Eventuall I found 2 drivers, one sits inside of a rapidshare-shared RAR posted on these boards. This one was highly unstable, but probably fixable.

 

The one I'm using now is STABLE and hasn't given hick-ups since it's on. I'm talking about the Asus drivers for WL-167g for 10.4 from their official website.

 

Input:

I lost keyboard & touchpad support around 10.5.5. I used a USB keyboard and mouse since then and haven't complained. I'm not fixing something that is working, and it works for me.