verendus Posted August 16, 2011 Share Posted August 16, 2011 I wanted to go ahead and give my near Vanilla EP45-DQ6 Hackintosh a version up using software update. Everything went like how it would on a real mac. FYI, I used Eliade's guide here to do a clean install. The only deviation from the guide was to use Chameleon 2 RC5 r1338. Using my own DSDT generated by DSDT auto patcher, I didn't need to patch anything. Even audio worked out of box. The only customization I've done was to enable graphics enabler and i386 kernel due to my aging 7600GT card. My 6870 should be here in a couple of days, and I am expecting my system to be a perfect OOB solution. If you had to patch AppleHDA or any GFX kexts, you will have to roll back right after update. Probably better to use a stand alone update, then install patches and kexts before rebooting. It's great to have a system running the latest OSX behaving just like my MBP and iMac at work. In all my years of running a mackintosh, this is the first I can say I've arrived at a true Vanilla system. :-) Hope others are having a similar success. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/265749-1071-via-software-update-worked/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
maxli Posted August 17, 2011 Share Posted August 17, 2011 Thanks for the info. After seeing your post, I also upgraded to 10.7.1 on my Lenovo SL300. Xbench runs fine now, 109.96. And all the 3rd party drivers still works fine wo reinstall. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/265749-1071-via-software-update-worked/#findComment-1735844 Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigpoppa206 Posted August 17, 2011 Share Posted August 17, 2011 I wanted to go ahead and give my near Vanilla EP45-DQ6 Hackintosh a version up using software update. Everything went like how it would on a real mac. FYI, I used Eliade's guide here to do a clean install. The only deviation from the guide was to use Chameleon 2 RC5 r1338. Using my own DSDT generated by DSDT auto patcher, I didn't need to patch anything. Even audio worked out of box. The only customization I've done was to enable graphics enabler and i386 kernel due to my aging 7600GT card. My 6870 should be here in a couple of days, and I am expecting my system to be a perfect OOB solution. If you had to patch AppleHDA or any GFX kexts, you will have to roll back right after update. Probably better to use a stand alone update, then install patches and kexts before rebooting. It's great to have a system running the latest OSX behaving just like my MBP and iMac at work. In all my years of running a mackintosh, this is the first I can say I've arrived at a true Vanilla system. :-) Hope others are having a similar success. You have the ALC889s audio like me, so you ahve all ports working including front audio? Also, what about sleep. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/265749-1071-via-software-update-worked/#findComment-1735847 Share on other sites More sharing options...
verendus Posted August 17, 2011 Author Share Posted August 17, 2011 I have the same 889A. My front ports are not working. I have digital in/out, line in/out, and microphone ports all working. I never paid much attention to the onboard sound as I use MOTU firewire external board for all my in/out for recording (much better sound too). Sleep/reboot/wake all worked fine out of box. Even auto sleep works. One secret I discovered about auto sleep is that any sata/ide peripherals must be apple recognizable devices. I lost sleep over 'auto sleep' and decided to investigate the matter. After clean install, started with bare minimum. MB, OS HD, mouse, keyboard. And started enabling one component at a time. Result? It was my DVD writer. When the computer is about to go to sleep, it communicates with CD/DVD Rom (light flash). At the time, I had a Samsung drive. After a bit of research, I discovered Mac Pro's had Sony DVD writers. I took a chance and ordered the unit (SONY OPTIARC) from new egg, and voila, auto sleep has been working ever since. If you don't want to go that route, you can download a free utility called please sleep. It works great and more customizable. There are a few times that computer will not go to sleep b/c of background processes. I've used the little utility to great success. Let me know if you can get your system to work. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/265749-1071-via-software-update-worked/#findComment-1735894 Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigpoppa206 Posted August 17, 2011 Share Posted August 17, 2011 Let me know if you can get your system to work. My system is rock solid and I don't use sleep anyway so not that big of a deal. I already have full audio working WITH front headphones too, but has to use an older patched version of AppleHDA.kext with LegacyHDA.kext in E/E. I use the GA-EP45C-UD3R board because at the time it was one of the few to also offer DDR3 ram slots right next to the DDR2 ones. I wished the board would screw up so that I could upgrade but it runs just fine. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/265749-1071-via-software-update-worked/#findComment-1735915 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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