100% Success with Leopard on AMD

[Mike Hentrich]

I just wanted to share my success with Leopard on my AMD system using "Mac OS X Leopard 10.5.1 for AMD SSE2/SSE3 (32bits)"

 

My Specs:

ASUS M2N-SLI Deluxe Mobo w/ nForce 570 SLI

AMD Athlon 64 X2 5200+ CPU

SATA II 400GB HD & ATA 60GB HD

Integrated NVidia nForce Dual Gigabit LAN (not working)

IBM 10/100 Etherjet PCI Adapter

SoundMax Integrated Digital HD 7.1

Logitech QuickCam Pro 5000 Webcam

3GB DDR2 800 Ram

ASUS DRW-1814BLT DVD Burner (SATA)

Sapphire Radeon x1550 Pci-e 16x w/256mb DDR2

 

After installing this DVD (which worked without a hitch), on first reboot it gave me a kernel panic on the built-in Geforce kexts that came with this release. Obviously because I don't have a Geforce. So I booted in Safe Mode by adding -x at startup. That allowed me to at least run Leopard but with no video acceleration or sound. CPU, HDs (including my windows partitions, both Vista & XP), Internet (the IBM ethernet card), webcam w/microphone, and burner were all recognized right away. The solutions:

 

Sound: I dug out my old Mac OS X 10.4.9 Uphuck v1.3 that I had used before. I inserted it while Leapord was running and I found the Azalia Kext in the installation folder and ran the installer. Rebooted and my sound works fine (2-channel of course). I also took that chance to install Office 2004

 

Video: On the same DVD, I also found the Natit x1300 kext that worked for me back with Tiger. Back then, It didn't give me any acceleration, but this time I get full acceleration on everything.

 

One time it started and the internet didn't work, but after a reboot it worked fine. Basically everything running very smooth. Thank you Zephyroth for posting this.

[KenMac]

Also post your success in this thread which is dedicated to this release:

 

http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?sho...amp;mode=linear