Jugz Posted November 14, 2011 Share Posted November 14, 2011 Hello InsanelyMac community, I am attempting to install Lion so that I may be able to get my 5650 card working. But, I cannot install Lion because of my graphics card! Screenie: The "ACPI_bla_bla_bla" is not the issue as I have gotten rid of this issue.. The issue is "Device in slot: :SLOT--1" which oddly enough repeats twice (and once it came up three times). Slot 1 is where graphics are or at least from what I have read up on. Other users of the 5650 card could install Lion, why can I not do the same? For the forum: Has anyone ever had this problem? Can I do something to get around this problem? Any suggestions/tips are greatly appreciated. -Jugz P.S. Things I have tried: 1. GraphicsEnabler=No -x -f -v cpus=1 AtiConfig=Null,Eulemur,Hoolock,Baboon and several combinations.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iFIRE Posted November 15, 2011 Share Posted November 15, 2011 Test this: 1 - Boot with -s flag (single user mode) remove the boot caches: sudo rm /System/Library/Caches/com.apple.kernelcaches/* 2 - Boot with -s flag (single user mode) mount -uw / rm -rf /System/Library/Extensions/NV* rm -rf /System/Library/Extensions/ATI* 3 - reboot -f -x Good Luck Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jugz Posted November 15, 2011 Author Share Posted November 15, 2011 Is this for a person with Lion already installed or just booting up from USB drive? Either way, I can only try from the USB at the moment and thank you for a speedy reply. EDIT: When I boot off USB, with -s, it goes goes through a few screens of text then comes single user mode; in any attempt to type in any text whatsoever, nothing. No text that I type appears. So, no luck with that fix. Anybody have another idea? Again, I do not have Lion installed yet, only Snow Leo 10.6.3. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FX. Sammy Posted November 22, 2011 Share Posted November 22, 2011 Hello Jagz, I also use a HP Pavilion DV6-6168TX and have a error massage : "Device in slot: :SLOT--1", but i still can finish the first step installation. the error massage meant that our RAM at the slot 1 (Upper Slot of RAM) can't pass the POST, but when i check on the System Profile from the Utility Menu the RAM is in OK status. And i were using the code: cpus=1 busratio=20 PCIRootUID=0 -v -f, then i can finish first step installation. But after reboot and boot using Lion HDD install i got blank screen only. Until now i just don't know what i must to do about that. Btw, maybe u can use code above mention. Thx, Sammy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jugz Posted December 2, 2011 Author Share Posted December 2, 2011 Sammy, I tried your boot flags with the exception of busratio=18 for me. Still nothing. Just stalls and hangs like every other time to install. For everyone now, If in fact it is a RAM error, should I remove one of my RAM cards? Would this stall be because I have one 2GB ram and another 4GB ram card? Thanks InsanelyMac community, -Jugz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jugz Posted December 11, 2011 Author Share Posted December 11, 2011 Sammy, I finally was able to install Lion with iAtkos L2. I used cpus=1 AtiConfig=Eulemur maxmem=2048 -v, and it booted in and I installed. I booted up from USB again, then selected OSXRepair as that was where I installed my Lion too, then used flags -v maxmem=2048 cpus=1 AtiConfig=Eulemur and then I get stuck on the attached pic, and it stalls out there. I know that it stalls, because when I hit my "Enter" key, it goes down the page until you cannot see anymore text. Does anyone have anymore advice? Again, I have successfully installed Lion, but it will not boot. It just hangs at: Device in slot: :SLOT--1 Thanks. -Jugz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
artur_pt Posted December 11, 2011 Share Posted December 11, 2011 hello try to boot -v GraphicsEnabler=No and see this http://olarila.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=18&t=736 good hack Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jugz Posted January 22, 2012 Author Share Posted January 22, 2012 Okay artur-pt, I deleted all graphics kexts in S/L/E and voilà, Lion desktop greets me. Now, I am onto Olaria the link you have posted. Here are the 4 kexts I need and I believe I have edited them correctly but just to make sure, could you look at them for me? Hello. My Device ID for ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5650M graphics is: 68C1 My Vendor ID is: 1002 I did not know if I needed my sub sys ID in there too… : 144A103C I edited the Info.plist in ATI5000Controller.kext, ATIX3000.kext, and ATISupport.kext under: IOKitPersonalities Controller (ATI5000) IOPCIMatch 0x68C11002 0x144A103C ATIRadeonX3000 (obvious) IOPCIMatch 0x68C11002 0x144A103C ATI Support (again, obvious) IOPCIMatch 0x00001002&0x0000FFFF */ADDED THIS:\* 0x68C11002 0x144A103C Does this look accurate? Correct? Please and thank you. Been trying to get my ATI to work for a while, and your tips have been very helpful. -Jugz EDITED KEXTS FOR 0x68C11002: JugzATIkexts.zip ****************EDIT******************* I went ahead and installed .kexts and added graphicsenabler=yes and aticonfig=hoolock to org.cham.plist..... DISASTROUS result. I googled the error and there is seriously NOTHING on this error. Here is some background: I have NO graphics .kexts at all in /S/L/E/ and then installed ATI5000, ATIX3000, ATISupport, and ATIFramebuffer using Kext Wizard. Just to make sure, I repaired permissions on my partition and then rebooted. I did -v so I could see what happened, and this is the result: Has anyone ever even seen this? What can I do to get my graphics card to work?! -Jugz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kizwan Posted January 23, 2012 Share Posted January 23, 2012 Do you have fakesmc.kext in /E/E or /S/L/E? This is likely because you have 32-bit fakesmc.kext & you try to boot in 64-bit mode. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jugz Posted January 24, 2012 Author Share Posted January 24, 2012 kizwan, I have FakeSMC.kext in /S/L/E/ and it is x64 bit. Should I try booting using arch=i386? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kizwan Posted January 24, 2012 Share Posted January 24, 2012 I'm sure your FakeSMC.kext is 32-bit. If not, you shouldn't get ACPI_SMC_PlatformPlugin error. You should be able to boot with arch=i386. If you want 64-bit fakesmc.kext, please click "Lion" link in my signature & go to 2nd post. Download my Extra file. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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