GUIDE: Install Asus S6 / S6F with retail Snow Leopard

[mianos]

Hey guys, wanted to give you a little, very rough guid/tutorial for installing snow leopard 10.6.2 retail with usb-stick method on the sweet Asus S6F notebook (should work for S6 too, i only own the S6)

 

UPDATES:

19.01.10:

- installed a mini pci-e card: Gigabyte GN-WL01GT (b/g) == WORKS OUT OF THE BOX!! [/indent]

20.01.10:

- updated VoodooBattery.kext and replaced VoodooPower with VoodooPowerMini.kext from SuperHai: http://www.superhai.com/darwin.html

- IMPORTANT: My Asus S6 comes with 512mb onboard soldered ram + 512mb @ DIMM1. Today i upgraded the DIMM1 to 1gb... after this sleep stoped working (blackscreen, doesn't turn off, fan still running). I will try another vendor

- Archive with needed files i will provide over mediafire: Snowleopard_Asus_S6_S6F.zip

10.02.10:

- IMPORTANT: My Asus S6 comes with 512mb onboard soldered ram + 512mb @ DIMM1. Today i upgraded the DIMM1 to 1gb... after this sleep stoped working (blackscreen, doesn't turn off, fan still running). PROBLEM is: You have to build a new DSDT.aml with DSDT Patcher GUI if you change RAM-Sizes hahah, didn't know that. if i have 1024mb RAM the file differs to the one i created with 1536mb RAM, the maximum upgrade that is possible to the asus!

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Whats working:?

- LAN out of the box

- WirelessLAN: installed a mini pci-e card: Gigabyte GN-WL01GT (b/g) == WORKS OUT OF THE BOX

- Audio: Speakers, built in mic works (didn't try headphones) WOW: for me its the first laptop since a long time where built-in-mic is working YES

- graphics gma950 (distorted colors: for example blue menu-highlights, FIX: choose a different color-profile)

- touchpad with twofinger scrolling & keyboard (both are needing the voodoo driver)

- battery (i'm not sure, but i think it only recognizes the battery if you boot without AC-adapter)

- sleep is working fine (install smart sleep, for me it did always a suspend to disk for default which takes much longer than suspend to ram, without smart sleep) IMPORTANT: My Asus S6 comes with 512mb onboard soldered ram + 512mb @ DIMM1. Today i upgraded the DIMM1 to 1gb... after this sleep stoped working (blackscreen, doesn't turn off, fan still running). I will try another vendor

- bluetooth is working out of the box (tried tethering an iPhone)

- USB works fine

- brightness control works with fn-key-shortcut

 

 

is not working

- original intel wirless-lan: nstalled a mini pci-e card: Gigabyte GN-WL01GT (b/g) == WORKS OUT OF THE BOX

- FN-Volume-Keys, i could cry (ironic )

 

 

i don't know

- VGA out?

- Firewire (its recognized at boot, should work

- SD-Card-Reader, don't have a cad

 

Requirements:

 

- Archive with needed files i will provide over mediafire: Snowleopard_Asus_S6_S6F.zip

- OSX running machine

- Snow Leopard DVD-Image

- stick with at least 8gig i think, i used a 16gig one

- Software from the tools-folder

- USB-Mouse&Keyboard for installation

 

Start diskutilty on your OSX running mac/hackintosh, plug in your USB-stick

partition it with one partition (GUID partition table), name the partition snowl-inst or something like that

open/mount your SnowLeopard-Install-Image

start CarbonCopyCloner from the tools folder

choose the mounted image as source, the snowl-inst stick as target, clone it

after this install chameleon-bootloader on the stick (check the readme in doc folder)

 

change partition numbers to your case:

 

cd in to the tools-folder>chameleon�€š>i386
sudo fdisk -f boot0 -u -y /dev/rdisk1
sudo dd if=boot1h of=/dev/rdisk1s2
sudo cp boot /Volumes/snowl-inst/

 

copy the Extra folder from the archive to the stick, probably you can put my fixed dsdt.aml to the sticks root-dir / too but you don't need to.

unmount the stick, and boot your laptop from the stick, you have to set in bios�€š

boot with -v option at bootloaders prompt

 

from this point you get through the normal os x-install-process (partition your disk with GUID-part-table, choose languages, printerdrivers, etc�€š)

after this reboot with still plugged in usb-stick (ignore an error message at setups end)

at bootloader prompt choose your new installation

boot with -v (verbose) option

if all goes fine, your fresh Snow Leopard install is up.

 

install the bootloader to your local drive:

cd in to the tools-folder>chameleon�€š>i386
sudo fdisk -f boot0 -u -y /dev/rdisk0
sudo dd if=boot1h of=/dev/rdisk0s2
sudo cp boot /

 

start DSDT Patcher GUI from the tools folder (OS: Darwin/OS X, DSDT-patcher-options: apply dsdt patch to: your local drive)

it should compile fine and you should see a dsdt.aml file in your root-dir /

copy the extra folder to your local disk to /

copy and replace com.apple.Boot.plist to /Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/

install VoodooPS2�€š (trackpad and ps2 driver) from the drivers-folder

copy VoodooHDA.kext from the drivers-folder to /System/Library/Extensions/

start and let Kext Utility from the tools-folder run (you always have to run it if something changes with your kexts, it builds the kext-cache for your system and the /Extra/Extensions folders

reboot (after this sound, touchpad and keyboard should work)

start system update, upgrade to 10.6.2

copy the files from GMA950-Asus-S6F to /System/Library/Extensions/ IMPORTANT: do this AFTER update to 10.6.2, cause the sleepenabler kext is for 10.6.2 and will result in a kernel panic on other kernels than 10.2.0 (uname -a)

run the kext utility again, reboot

you now should now have full graphics-support

go to systempreferences>monitor/display and set colors if they look strange/distorted

install smart sleep, its a plugin for system-preferences, set sleep mode to smart sleep, cause for me suspend to disk was default and it takes much longer then suspend to ram!

 

the asus s6f is a nice snow leopard hackintosh laptop, everything is working fine (except the intel wifi, but i will replace with a working one soon)

i hope this helps you.

cheers

 

RESULT:

if you change the wireless-card against a supported one, it's a perfect snow leopard laptop with good OS X performance, very fast sleep and everything is working, except the volume-keys (should be done by remaping)

[elvascon]

i couldnt download the file you mention, it seems mediafire blasted it...

any way we can get the file from other source?

[mianos]

hey,

i uploaded it again:

 

http://hotfile.com/dl/40917226/11d79ab/Sno...S6_S6F.zip.html

[elvascon]

Wow! thanks, i'm downloading it now, when i install it, i'll come back with the results!

[mianos]

no problem... it runs very fine.

only the battery life is generally very poor under windows/linux/osx

[0xymoron]

Hi Mianos,

 

I'm a bit late to ask for as my S6F was in a box after moving into another flat.

Now I took it out again as I recognized that some one found a way to get Snow Leopard running on it.

 

I was trying to download from the two sources you provided but still without success.

 

Could you pleeease upload the necessary Files again.

 

Thanks in advance

[choell]

Hello,

 

i also need these files for my asus s6f... can you please upload them again?

 

Chris

[mianos]

hey you lucky guys, i found the files on an old usb-stick

 

www.dievolksvertreter.de/downloads/Snowleopard-Asus-S6-S6F.zip

 

please mirror them....

[Babasha]

Looks like Snowleopard_Asus_S6_S6F.zip deleted from the all sources((( Does anybody have a copy?