Asus G53JW: Working! was: Horrible screeching sound

[jmo]

It seems that the horrible "screeching" was actually feedback. I googled a bit for VoodooHDA feedback, which basically led to a bunch of information.

 

What I ended up with:

 

VoodooHDA.kext.2.7.2-10.6 - modify Info.plist with the following:

 

<key>iGain</key>

<string>0</string>

<key>iMix</key>

<string>80</string>

<key>Mic</key>

<string>0</string>

 

As far as wifi, I was able to get something basic going. I can connect to unsecured networks, but no WPA. I ordered a AR5B93, which works out of the box (I'm using the AR5B93 now).

 

AR5B95 (VID 0x168C, PID 0x002B) half mini PCI-E

/System/Library/Extensions/IO80211Family.kext/Contents/PlugIns/AirPortAtheros21.kext/Contents - add the following:

 

<string>pci168c,2b</string>

<string>pci168c,002b</string>

 

And I was able to go back to mach_kernel!

 

Kernel flags (mach_kernel) -

 

<string>busratio=13 cpus=8 -v</string>

 

Between kext installs/edit, I ended up having to use the following utility:

 

http://www.kexts.com/view/129-kext_u..._(update).html

 

Also, when something went wrong, I would boot into single user mode:

 

-v cpus=8 busratio=13 arch=i386

 

And on every boot (while making changes) would use `-f` to force the caches to refresh.

 

So far so good! Basic wifi, sound, 1920x1080!

[jmo]

I tried my install again - this time with 10.6.6 and it's respective legacy kernel.

 

Booting with `busration=13 cpus=8 -force64 -v` did it. Everything is working great now.

[jmo]

It seems that the horrible "screeching" was actually feedback. I googled a bit for VoodooHDA feedback, which basically led to a bunch of information.

 

What I ended up with:

 

VoodooHDA.kext.2.7.2-10.6 - modify Info.plist with the following:

 

<key>iGain</key>

<string>0</string>

<key>iMix</key>

<string>80</string>

<key>Mic</key>

<string>0</string>

 

As far as wifi, I was able to get something basic going. I can connect to unsecured networks, but no WPA. I've got an AR5B93 coming in the mail soon, so hopefully that will do WPA.

 

/System/Library/Extensions/IO80211Family.kext/Contents/PlugIns/AirPortAtheros21.kext/Contents - add the following:

 

<string>pci168c,2b</string>

<string>pci168c,002b</string>

 

And I was able to go back to mach_kernel!

 

Kernel flags (mach_kernel) -

 

<string>busratio=13 cpus=8 -v</string>

 

Between kext installs/edit, I ended up having to use the following utility:

 

http://www.kexts.com/view/129-kext_utility...d_(update).html

 

Also, when something went wrong, I would boot into single user mode:

 

-v cpus=8 busratio=13 arch=i386

 

And on every boot (while making changes) would use `-f` to force the caches to refresh.

 

So far so good! Basic wifi, sound, 1920x1080!