Vieux Lyon Posted November 1, 2006 Share Posted November 1, 2006 Hello: After days and days of research, I was able to have a fully functional OS X installation on my Intel D102GGC2 Motherboard. Here are some tips and conclusions for those how want to give it a try. This is not a detailed "how-to" for newbies, just some recommendations and tricks, specially for making the HDD controller work at a decent speed and for enabling the audio: I've tried 5 different distributions. If you want to have a 90% functional system (I could not achieve 100%) I recommend installing "Myzar 10.4.5". When installing, select the 10.4.5 Update. In order to be able to boot the CD, you need to completely disable USB on the BIOS. If you want you can later remove the two IOUSB*.kext extensions and switch it back on. You won't be able to use USB on OS X but yes on Windows. The onboard ethernet card works correctly with Myzar 10.4.5 but not with newer JaS installations. I did not tried a SATA disc, just an old IDE one. To give your system a HUGE performance boost, just overwrite the IOATAFamily extension with the one on JaS 10.4.6 Installation CD (inside the Essentials.pkg file; extract with Pacifist). To enable the sound, just replace the the ID's in AppleAzaliaAudio.kext (0x10ec0883 and 0x437b1002, search though the forum for detailed explanations). In order for the extension to work correctly, you need to edit the IOAudioFamily extension and remove the USB dependency line. Hope this helps and saves you from hours and hours of research. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Innocent Devil Posted March 1, 2007 Share Posted March 1, 2007 but my mouse is USB so i can leave that any solutions for the USB problem ? i tried Jas 10.4.7 DVD Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vieux Lyon Posted March 5, 2007 Author Share Posted March 5, 2007 No idea...I'm using PS2 mouse. Try buying an adapter. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DRKRONNIN Posted March 7, 2007 Share Posted March 7, 2007 I had similar results with my D102GGC2 Mobo with the 10.4.6 Goatsecx dvd. The two problems I ran into is Although my PS2 keyboard and mouse are functional, somtimes when I boot theyre not recognized so when I type or try to move the mouse nothing happens. Other times it boots and they work but if I press the Caps Lock key more than 2 or 3 times it freezes and stops responding to the keyboard and mouse. I also cant get it to boot with USB enabled in Bios. Ive tried enabling and disabling Legacy to no avail. Everything else seems to work right out the gate the sound, onboard video, and dvd burner (lite on) are all fully functional. Are you having the same problems with the ps2 keyboard? Im going to try the latest Jas release with all the patches and see if I have any luck. JaS.Mac.OS.X.10.4.8.AMD.Intel.SSE2.SSE3.PPF.1.Defiant.diskut Ill get back to you with my results Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vieux Lyon Posted March 8, 2007 Author Share Posted March 8, 2007 Yes, it happens from time to time, I turn on the machine and the mouse is not detected but that is solved just by rebooting. So you say that with that distribution everything is working, good, I'll give it a try. Did the onboard networking card work out of the box or did you have to use any old drivers? What about the performance, is it good? Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DRKRONNIN Posted March 9, 2007 Share Posted March 9, 2007 (edited) Ya the onboard lan is fully functional everything works 100% except the ps2 issue and usb video and sound were also fine out of the box. I want usb support si Im still hunting for a solution. And the ps2 thing is pretty annoying when your trying to type document or post to forums. Im going to try the new Jas .iso over the weekend. well it runs pretty smooth but its not as fast as I would like but that probally because OSX is a more ram dependednt OS to begin with and I dont have alot of memory I have a 512MB and 128 is used for the x200 graphics. Edited March 9, 2007 by DRKRONNIN Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vieux Lyon Posted March 27, 2007 Author Share Posted March 27, 2007 One think I don't have clear...do you have a D101GGC or a D102GGC2 Motherboard? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Innocent Devil Posted March 30, 2007 Share Posted March 30, 2007 Both are same except for memory module D101GGC have DDR supprt only D102GGC2 have DDR2 supported Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mifki Posted March 30, 2007 Share Posted March 30, 2007 sound work fully? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vieux Lyon Posted March 31, 2007 Author Share Posted March 31, 2007 Yup, I know that the only differ in the DDR module but I've read several reports saying that JaS 10.4.5 works with sound and ethernet out of the box on D101GGC and I tried JaS 10.4.5 and 10.4.6 on my 102GGC2 and I can guarantee you that neither sound nor onboard network work. On the other side, on my Myzaar 10.4.5 I could make both sound and ethernet work but with some tweaking. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Innocent Devil Posted April 4, 2007 Share Posted April 4, 2007 any update on USB, i m waiting for that...., havnt got a ps2 mouse :EDIT finally got a PS2 Mouse disabled USB completely booted with Jas 10.4.7 DVD Got the Installer Screen But the SATA HDD is no being recognized so no HDD in Disk Utility How to add SATA support ??? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vieux Lyon Posted May 7, 2007 Author Share Posted May 7, 2007 That I don't know...although I have a SATA disk I did not even try to have it recognized because I don´t want MacOS to be playing with my Windows partition... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Innocent Devil Posted May 28, 2007 Share Posted May 28, 2007 anyone know any solution ? iam still stuck at the installer window with my sata HDD :censored2: EDIT: manged to install it 2 my HDD partition thru VMware edited some kexts to get (tweaking Serverworks SATA driver info.plist) it working natively but the probled is that after reboot , still stuck at waiting for boot device So I had to delete Extensions.mkext & extensions.kextcache on every reboot (make automator workflow) Still no working soln. for getting USB & Sound ?? any idea ?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pablovbas Posted September 5, 2007 Share Posted September 5, 2007 I have this mobo, with a pentium d processor, I have working the sound with alc883 realtek drivers, and finally after months of researching usb 2.0 works, you need disable all the usb ports in the bios, buy a cheaper usb pci card with 4 ports, update the system and got it!! Hope it helps sorry for the spanglish pabs :devil: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DRKRONNIN Posted September 12, 2007 Share Posted September 12, 2007 I have this mobo, with a pentium d processor, I have working the sound with alc883 realtek drivers, and finally after months of researching usb 2.0 works, you need disable all the usb ports in the bios, buy a cheaper usb pci card with 4 ports, update the system and got it!!Hope it helps sorry for the spanglish pabs :devil: Thats a pretty good idea, which one did u buy? you could just use the wiki and narrow the cheapest one thats supported pop it in and be done with it. You can get some for as little as 9.99 from newegg.com.. There arent many users for this board (or coders interested in writing a kext) so this might be your best bet. Im not really pursuing it anymore because I plan on building a new PC soon anyway.. DRKRONNIN Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pablovbas Posted September 14, 2007 Share Posted September 14, 2007 Thats a pretty good idea, which one did u buy? you could just use the wiki and narrow the cheapest one thats supported pop it in and be done with it. You can get some for as little as 9.99 from newegg.com.. There arent many users for this board (or coders interested in writing a kext) so this might be your best bet. Im not really pursuing it anymore because I plan on building a new PC soon anyway.. DRKRONNIN I’m using a PCTronic pci card usb 2.0 4 ports via, model ck0001 a/c cheers :beer: pabs :devil: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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