jamesklyne Posted April 9, 2011 Share Posted April 9, 2011 I finally managed to get 10.6.3 snow leopard to install and boot on my Acer 15.6 (walmart) laptop. I tried about 100 times before somewhat success. specs/info CPU: Core i3 370M, busratio=18 USB: all ports work HDD: 320gb SD Reader: works Graphics: Intel HD (so stuck at 1024x768 until there's a kext for it, if ever) Wifi: Atheros 9287 not working yet Wired: Broadcom BCM57780 not working yet Battery: works fine Keyboard: works Touchpad: works Shutdown/Restart: fine Sleep: freezes screen on but power button brings it back So for now I have a proof of concept brick as research to solve these if I can. It's a start though! Readout of Hardware Info: 8086:3b56 Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset High Definition Audio 8086:0046 Intel Corporation Core Processor Integrated Graphics Controller 8086:2448 Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge 8086:3b09 Intel Corporation Mobile 5 Series Chipset LPC Interface Controller 8086:3b34 Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset USB2 Enhanced Host Controller 8086:3b3c Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset USB2 Enhanced Host Controller 8086:3b42 Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset PCI Express Root Port 1 14e4:1692 Broadcom Corporation NetLink BCM57780 Gigabit Ethernet PCIe 8086:3b44 Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset PCI Express Root Port 2 168c:002e Atheros Communications... AR9287 Wireless Network Adapter 8086:3b32 Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset Thermal Subsystem 8086:3b30 Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset SMBus Controller 8086:3b29 Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset 4 port SATA AHCI Controller 8086:3b64 Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset HECI Controller 8086:0044 Intel Corporation Core Processor DRAM Controller 8086:2d01 Intel Corporation Core Processor QuickPath Architecture System Address Decoder 8086:2d13 Intel Corporation Core Processor Reserved 8086:2d12 Intel Corporation Core Processor Reserved 8086:2d11 Intel Corporation Core Processor QPI Physical 0 8086:2d10 Intel Corporation Core Processor QPI Link 0 8086:2c62 Intel Corporation Core Processor QuickPath Architecture Generic Non-core Reg Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/254457-osx-sl-1063-on-my-acer-aspire-5742-core-i3/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
kyteflyer Posted May 25, 2011 Share Posted May 25, 2011 What distro/method did you use? I'm looking at hackintoshing my Acer as well, and only have some exp in doing it to an Asus netbook. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/254457-osx-sl-1063-on-my-acer-aspire-5742-core-i3/#findComment-1688628 Share on other sites More sharing options...
dellseppes Posted August 15, 2011 Share Posted August 15, 2011 I have an acer aspire 5742-6674 i3 380M, intel HD graphics. Very similar specs to what you have. Have any of you guys had more success with this? I've done one hackintosh, mostly a vanilla deal using [url="http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/"]#####[/url] on a Gigabyte mobo, with Snow leopard 10.6.3. For the acer, I tried some of the Lion usb installs and didn't get anyway. Thanks for you help! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/254457-osx-sl-1063-on-my-acer-aspire-5742-core-i3/#findComment-1735116 Share on other sites More sharing options...
bryan51 Posted September 6, 2011 Share Posted September 6, 2011 I have the Aspire 5742-6488 I got 10.6.3 installed and sound worked right out of the box. Theres a kext out for the Lan now ... BCM57780 I have this weird problem though that when using GPT on the hard drive setup I cannot boot from the hard drive with chameleon or chimera installed . Keep getting this boot error message But I can boot the OS from [url="http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/"]#####[/url] ok??? I decided to try MBR and Chameleon came up correctly but by now I gave up and went back to Win7 for now. Video was just VGA Wifi not detected Webcam detected but not working I tried to update to 10.6.6/8 but on boot up it just hangs on the spinner. I had also tried to boot in x64 and while it did start the only thing working was the mouse. Looks like more development needed for these laptops Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/254457-osx-sl-1063-on-my-acer-aspire-5742-core-i3/#findComment-1744982 Share on other sites More sharing options...
bryan51 Posted September 18, 2011 Share Posted September 18, 2011 Pretty much got SL sorted out now.. Not sure at which update but by 10.6.6 There are new Intel HD files that cause problems. There are 5 of them: AppleIntelHDGraphics*.kext/plugin/bundle. Remove them and SL boots up now using vanilla kernel Have to see if this works for 10.6.8 too .... So I got my Broadcom Lan working with BCM57780 kexts. Webcam works Audio is working via Voodoo .. though i've seen some ACL272 kexts that I may try Graphics are VGA which actually isn't too bad on the lappy for basic stuff. I'd perfer wifi working over higher screen resolution too ... My Broadcom wifi: PCI\VEN_14E4&DEV_1692&SUBSYS_04871025&REV_01 Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/254457-osx-sl-1063-on-my-acer-aspire-5742-core-i3/#findComment-1749754 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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