GingerPrince Posted August 18, 2007 Share Posted August 18, 2007 Hi, So I've got a very nice hackintosh and it's all pretty much working. I've got the xdeveloper tools and downloaded a few of the open source kexts from apple and had a shufty. all fairly straightforward. what I've not managed to find is any information about what each of the kext's actually does and why people like paulicat and netkas have had to patch certain texts. I mean, all the upgrade guides tell everybody to use the old AppleSMBios. Why? it's quite old now (v1.0.1 vs latest - 1.0.11). Is there a reason I can't just use the official apple version? What sort of patches are paulicat and netkas doing? just the plist.info files? or the actual code? any help/pointers much appreciated. Matt Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/60583-applesmbios/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
tha_toadman Posted August 19, 2007 Share Posted August 19, 2007 here's my advice...this is fixed my issues recently.... google for "applesmbios.kext" and the 3rd link down is at rapidshare. d/l it and use it. i'm running 10.4.9 and like you, i too was having problems/issues with the older kexts. i can't describe what the different ones do but this one's been working great for me. my method -- install Jas 10.4.8 (with ppf's 1 & 2) install Jas 10.4.9 update copy the file above into /system/library/extensions (you have to authenticate to overwrite the other one) finally, go to disk utility and select your hard drive/partition and 'repair permissions' reboot and you should be good to go. when i was using the older one's, "about this mac" would restart the gui which annoyed the hell out of me. but after discovering another thread here, i did this method and sure enough, not only did "about this mac" work, but i was also able to install CS3 web premium too. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/60583-applesmbios/#findComment-430811 Share on other sites More sharing options...
GingerPrince Posted August 19, 2007 Author Share Posted August 19, 2007 thanks. I'm not actually having any problems with it, I'd just like to know what it does, why it needs to be patched and whether or not I can do it myself. To be honest, my hardware is pretty similar to a real mac, i don't have any AMD/nVidia stuff so I'm not really clear which, if any, patches I really need and which ones I'm applying just because 'everybody says so'. Does anybody actually know or is everybody just following instructions they've seen elsewhere? cheers, Matt Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/60583-applesmbios/#findComment-430835 Share on other sites More sharing options...
GingerPrince Posted August 20, 2007 Author Share Posted August 20, 2007 Nobody knows? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/60583-applesmbios/#findComment-431439 Share on other sites More sharing options...
tha_toadman Posted August 21, 2007 Share Posted August 21, 2007 if the answers aren't good enough, then try IRC Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/60583-applesmbios/#findComment-431920 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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