Asus G51JX (G60JX) - All working 10.6.4 except card reader / sleep / hdmi audio

[Akujin]

So the laptop is ASUS G Series G51JX-X1 NoteBook Intel Core i7 720QM(1.60GHz) 15.6" 4GB Memory DDR3 1066 500GB HDD 7200rpm DVD Super Multi NVIDIA GeForce GTS 360M.

 

And yes I did actually buy it from Newegg.

 

When I first got it I never thought I'd be running OS X on it so at first I just used the default hard drive in there with windows. Once I started experimenting with installing OS X on this laptop I realized quickly that mechanical hard drives will suck and so I got a 60GB SSD from Newegg for about a hundred bucks. This also gave me the flexibility of not having to figure out how to use an MBR partition or try to duel boot. I formatted the SSD as a GPT partition and gave it one big large volume on the whole thing. I then added 4GB more of RAM just because it was so cheap.

 

You should boot from CD which has burned on it a compatible boot loader that has the initial drivers that the installer needs. Since the installed is really a Live CD it needs drivers. The boot loader I used was the the Empire EFI boot disk. Since then Prasys has released a new boot disk called ModCD. It might be better. I don't know.

 

I used an untouched 10.6.3 disc on a USB thumbdrive to do the actual install which the boot loader automatically detected as if it was the actual CD and then let me select it for the actual boot. However on the first install you won't be able to make the USB thumb drive unless you have an OS X machine somewhere already from which you can format a thumbdrive using an OS X install disc ISO. In this case you should burn the OS X disk to a DVD.

 

Once past the installation process you will still need to use the boot disk with the drivers on it until you create your own drivers folder in the installation's main partition. Chameleon, the boot loader on which Empire EFI is based on, looks for /Extra/ folder for extra stuff to load during boot. If we used an untouched disc to the do the install it does not exist yet.

 

So we create the Extra folder and in there an Extensions folder.

in terminal we need to:

cd /
sudo chown root Extra
cd /Extra
sudo chown root Extensions

 

Once that is done go to this drivers download page and get everything you need for networking.

 

Put the networking kext files into your /Extra/Extensions/ and then in terminal

cd /Extra/Extensions/
sudo chown root *.kext

 

Now restart.

 

Now that you have networking go you need to install 10.6.4 and MacBook Pro Software Update 1.3.

 

The MacBook Pro Software Update 1.3 contains our Nvidia drivers.

 

We need to configure our boot loader to allow the Nvidia drivers to work after a restart.

 

To do this create a text file /Extra/com.apple.Boot.plist and use this code for it:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
<key>Kernel</key>
<string>mach_kernel</string>
<key>Timeout</key>
<string>5</string>
<key>Kernel Flags</key>
<string>arch=i386</string>
<key>Graphics Mode</key>
<string>1920x1080x32</string>
<key>GraphicsEnabler</key>
<string>y</string>
<key>PciRoot</key>
<string>0</string>
</dict>
</plist>

 

Don't forget to go into terminal and

cd /Extra/
sudo chown root com.apple.Boot.plist

 

After installation and restart of these two packages you can install the rest of the drivers from the drivers download page.

 

Hopefully this is your end result.

[Akujin]

Hey guys I just wanted to give a little update.

 

I realized that after upgrade the bios to 208 the dsdt file now works with 10.6.7 so I upgraded all the way to 10.6.7 and now can use Xcode 4 and VMWare Fusion with Windows 7 SP1 running in the background.