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[rcfa]

Now I'm getting frequent sound-related kernel panics. Sometimes it will panic while playing a sound, and opening the input preferences (from "Sound" in System Preferences, not the VoodooHDA prefpane) will panic it almost immediately. Also, occasionally when playing a sound, the system will freeze momentarily halfway though playing it, then unfreeze and play the rest of the sound. I've tried replacing the VoodooHDA.kext that come with the install .dmg with the latest version from voodooprojects.org and the older version on Google Code, and I get kernel panics with all of them. I saw another guy earlier in the thread was also getting audio-related kernel panics, were you able to fix them at all? I used this same version of VoodooHDA under iDeneb, and never got a single audio-related kernel panic.

I didn't fix any audio related kernel panics, because I don't have any. Never did have any.
However, you may want to read up on the original VoodooHDA install instructions to see of still any of the left-over kernel extensions may be floating around in /System/Library/Extensions/ that may cause issues.
I installed straight from a 10.5.6 original Apple install DVD, so I only had to upgrade to 10.5.7 and some minor security fixes. It could be that if you start out with an earlier release, some parts of older device drivers remain and cause trouble.

I don't use sound intensively, but I do listen to or view lengthy podcasts, e.g. the hour long "Democracy Now!" and I have done video conferencing with Skype. Of course, sometimes audio stutters for a few moments, but that's a known issue with that driver plus sometimes playing back video is just too much for the poor Atom chip, particularly if Mail is downloading and indexing a few hundered new mail messages in the background or stuff like that.

There is only one kernel panic that I get reliably (hate to use the word in this context), and it's the one I describe here: http://smallcomputing.net/forums/index.php/topic,51.0.html

Also, replacing the VoodooHDA with the latest one posted on VoodooProjects.org is (as of this date) futile, because the v3 package (and likely earlier ones) should already contain the 0.2.2 beta w/ preference pane that is available from here: http://forum.voodooprojects.org/index.php/topic,234.0.html
Or did you find a spot where there's a more recent version available for download and testing?

[nickca]

However, you may want to read up on the original VoodooHDA install instructions to see of still any of the left-over kernel extensions may be floating around in /System/Library/Extensions/ that may cause issues.

I did in fact have an AppleHDA.kext still in /System/Library/Extensions. However, I deleted it, re-installed the latest beta from your image, rebuilt the extension cache and rebooted without cpus=1... and I still get the kernel panic. I might try obtaining a later OSX install DVD and starting over if it crops up again, but booting with cpus=1 seems to fix the problem totally.

Also worth noting is I actually have the 1000HEB, which is the cheaper Best Buy retail version without Bluetooth (which I have little use for). I assumed that was the only difference, but there might be other minor differences as well that might cause a problem like this.

[rcfa]

I did in fact have an AppleHDA.kext still in /System/Library/Extensions. However, I deleted it, rebuild the extension cache and rebooted without cpus=1... and I still get the kernel panic. I might try obtaining a later OSX install DVD and starting over if it crops up again, but booting with cpus=1 seems to fix the problem totally.

While it's nice that it's "fixed" by turning Hyperthreading off, it still makes no sense that it works here with hyperthreading turned on.

Here a few things to try out:
a) install the latest Apple developer tools (I installed the 3.0 iPhone SDK, which is a superset of regular Xcode), then make sure CHUD is installed, and the Processor preference pane is installed.
Now try if you can turn off Hyperthreading there, and if you can elicit the crash with Hyperthreading turned off that way. Then turn hyperthreading back on, see if it crashes then. I pretty much always had CHUD installed, maybe that alone makes a difference?

b) set the boot option debug=0x122 this should both give more verbose kernel message in the system and console logs, and disable the new-fangled panic screen and give you an old-fashioned kernel dump on screen, which is key, since for the lack of proper NVRAM, no panic.log will be created, and otherwise all information about the crash will be lost. Check out the messages of the crash as the kernel goes down, also check if any pertinent messages end up in the system or console log before the crash. It may help figuring out what's going on...
See also: http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Darwin/Conceptual/KernelProgramming/build/build.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/TP30000905-CH221-CIHIAFFJ

[nickca]

While it's nice that it's "fixed" by turning Hyperthreading off, it still makes no sense that it works here with hyperthreading turned on.

Well, I did some research and discovered that the 1000HEB is actually quite a bit more different than the 1000HE than I thought: it uses a different CPU (Atom N270), at a lower clock speed (1.6GHz) and bus speed (533MHz). I tried making the appropriate changes in smbios.plist, and then I even made my own patched dsdt.aml, and neither fixes the problem... it only works with "cpus=1". I'm feeling a bit ripped off... I think I'm going to order a real 1000HE and sell this one and just be done with it.

[rcfa]

While it's nice that it's "fixed" by turning Hyperthreading off, it still makes no sense that it works here with hyperthreading turned on.

Well, I did some research and discovered that the 1000HEB is actually quite a bit more different than the 1000HE than I thought: it uses a different CPU (Atom N270), at a lower clock speed (1.6GHz) and bus speed (533MHz). I tried making the appropriate changes in smbios.plist, and then I even made my own patched dsdt.aml, and neither fixes the problem... it only works with "cpus=1". I'm feeling a bit ripped off... I think I'm going to order a real 1000HE and sell this one and just be done with it.

Ah, I thought you had a 1000HE. There might be subtle differences between the N270 and N280.
But more importantly things like the dsdt.aml/dsl files need to be done from scratch. Also, EFI strings, etc. are all likely different. I'm not even sure it uses exactly the same sound hardware. So you're a bit on your own with that stuff...

[Troklo]

Hi guys Im completely stuck on what to do after I update to 10.5.7, all I´ve goten to work was the display
A bit more of a step by step guide would be greatly apreciated

Edit: Ive got rcfa´s v3 pack

[Troklo]

So I screwed up big time and my computer wouldn´t boot anymore. Now I´m trying to do a clean install again by doing the following:
1) I put the boot cd in my external DVD drive wait till the boot:_ comes out
2) Put my leopard cd in

Now the problem is that when I press enter I come to the menu were I can select form my main Partiton or my secundary you know where you put 80 or 81
How do I make it boot from my leopard dvd?

Edit: OK got it working again!
Doing a clean install as i type

[Troklo]

Hi guys its me again!

Is there a way to make the boot123 iso usb bootable?
im working on a pc and on linux
thx

[rcfa]

Hi guys its me again!

Is there a way to make the boot123 iso usb bootable?
im working on a pc and on linux
thx

Not sure, nothing I want to invest time into, because I only need it once for the install.
Longer term, Chameleon will hopefully add support for booting from CD/DVD, and then this can all be unified.
My next bigger involvement with this will be to try to get SnowLeopard working well, but that will have to wait for a while...

[Troklo]

Dont worry ill find a way or I just get an external dvd from some where.
Ok so this what I did lastime:
Intalled Leopard and updated to 10.5.7
After that I installed the Chameleon boot loader
Then I mounted the EeeMac1000HE-1GB-RescueSDCard.v3.dmg
So if I understood right you have to do this in the terminal:

dd if=/dev/disk1s1 of=/dev/disk0s1

The first being my mounted EeeMac1000HE-1GB-RescueSDCard.v3 (in my case I think it was disk3s1) and the second being my hard drive right?

When I did the dd command It told me: disk3s1 access denied
do I have to put tomething like dd if=/dev/whatever disc is the mounted dmgs1 -r -o of=/dev/disk0s1???

This should write on chameleon all the boot files and my computer should boot. Am I on the right track?

After that I should copy from the mounted EeeMac1000HE-GB-RescueSDCard.v3   the corresponding files fomr each folder (only the green and blue ones)

Two more things I couldn't find the "usr" folder on my mac do I need this files if so how can I find it?
I saw that you said that I have to put my computers serila number in some ketx can you help me out here a bit more?

this should make my install complete?

Once again thx for all your help

[rcfa]

Dont worry ill find a way or I just get an external dvd from some where.
Ok so this what I did lastime:
Intalled Leopard and updated to 10.5.7
After that I installed the Chameleon boot loader
Then I mounted the EeeMac1000HE-1GB-RescueSDCard.v3.dmg
So if I understood right you have to do this in the terminal:

dd if=/dev/disk1s1 of=/dev/disk0s1

The first being my mounted EeeMac1000HE-1GB-RescueSDCard.v3 (in my case I think it was disk3s1) and the second being my hard drive right?

When I did the dd command It told me: disk3s1 access denied
do I have to put tomething like dd if=/dev/whatever disc is the mounted dmgs1 -r -o of=/dev/disk0s1???

You'll have to be root to do this, or else you can try to do it with sudo. A regular user does not have access to raw devices.

This should write on chameleon all the boot files and my computer should boot. Am I on the right track?

This will (re)write a preconfigured EFI partition. So if you installed Chameleon before with the EFI partition option, it should have written the various boot blocks, and by overwriting the default EFI boot configuration with the preconfigured one for the 1000HE, you should be OK.

After that I should copy from the mounted EeeMac1000HE-GB-RescueSDCard.v3   the corresponding files fomr each folder (only the green and blue ones)

Well, the red/white files in the /Library/Documentation/EeeMac1000HE you can copy, too. I probably shouldn't have colored them red...

Two more things I couldn't find the "usr" folder on my mac do I need this files if so how can I find it?

Apple's Finder will hide the default UNIX hierarchy from view to prevent novice users from deleting "these files I never use", and to reduce clutter for users mainly operating from the GUI.
You can however directly go there with cmd-shift-G in Finder, and then just entering the path.
Or you can use TinkerTool or something like it to set the hidden preference that unhides these UNIX folders.

I saw that you said that I have to put my computers serila number in some ketx can you help me out here a bit more?

Once you dd'ed over the EFI partition, you'll have to mount it. On that volume you'll find an Extra folder and within that an Extensions folder. Both of these contain some red colored files.
In these there are the System UUID and things like the computer serial number. You can set them in there. The UUID should have the last 12 digits correspond to the MAC address of your built-in ethernet.

this should make my install complete?

More or less. You should have a functional system after that. Of course, there are still some tweaks that need to be made, hopefully a final release of Chameleon, further releases of VoodooHDA, etc. will eventually take care of these...

[norrmd]

I have a 1000HE with the four partitions. I installed OSX using iDeneb but can't get the video resolution right without locking up the boot. I tried to install using this system, but when I get the 10.5.6 install CD running, it tells me I cannot install on my OSX volume because it cannot initialize it. Any suggestions on either issue?

[llxxjinxxll]

firstly i'd like to thank the people of this forum for their awesome knowledge and information
through this tutorial i was successful in installing OSX retail on my 1000he
i have the broadcom wireless on its way so i'll report on that when it gets here
however
all i was able to do was get osx installed and that was it
i have no idea how to install this DSDT patch and also the chameleon bootloader
i had a dual boot setup right now between osx and win 7
and it boots into win 7 automatically and i can get into osx using the boot132 cd
i'm guessing the chameleon would fix this...
so...some simple instruction would be all i need
i need to do chameleon and dsdt...and the kexts (i have no idea what these are i'm guessing like modified drivers or something and no idea how to install)? again all i did was install osx successfully which was the extent of this tutorial

once i get everything up and running i'll write up a detailed howto since i took pictures along the way...
btw i'm new to osx so very simple layman's instructions will help greatly

any takers?

[SheepNervous]

Anyone happen to try the new 0902 BIOS version with this install yet? I'm considering trying it out but wanted to see if there were any issues before I do.

[Troklo]

I´ll post tomorrow a step by step guide on how i got my MacOSX working on my 1000HE.

 

[rcfa]

Anyone happen to try the new 0902 BIOS version with this install yet? I'm considering trying it out but wanted to see if there were any issues before I do.

Nope, I won't be able to deal with anything related to the EeeMac 1000HE until the end of August...
...what are the changes between 802 and 902 supposed to be?

[taze]

Just wanted to thank rcfa for the life saving boot disc! I had done a 901 hackintosh and my friend decided he wanted me to do a 1000he for him. I had no idea it would be such a huge pain. Well, it was until i found this thread (3 days later). Here was my process

1. Removed hard drive and put in a sata->usb dock and attached to a Macbook Pro. Installed 10.5.6 on the drive. After it rebooted I installed the combo 10.5.7 update. I then switched back to the internal Macbook drive and renamed the apple.acpiplatform.kext, apple.apic.kext and appleEFIruntime.kext.

2. Put the hard drive back into the 1000he and booted from using a boot132 I burned from the iso in the boot132 folder on rcfa's image (using -f cpus=1) to boot to the hard drive. installed all the blue and green labeled kexts from the kext folder in the boot132 using the kext helper application. Rebooted again with the cd (still using -f cpus=1) and installed chameleon. Booted 1 more time from the cd (-f cpus=1) and ran the dsdt.aml pather checking the force compile and apply options.
Restarted, this time removing the cd and starting from the hard drive. 

Chameleon did it's thing but did not automatically start into the mac os. I had to hit enter. When it booted the video was stretched so I re-installed the video kexts (all the appleintelgma950*.kext from the kexts folder within the boot132 folder in rcfa's image as well as the integratedframebuffer.kext) using kext helper. Rebooted and video was good so I decided to fix the chameleon issue.

I tried to modify the com.apple.boot.plist file just through TextEdit, but no matter how I fixed the permissions it wouldn't let me save. So I went through Terminal and used the sudo command to edit the file and add
<key>Timeout</key>
<string>3</string>
in the body of the file.

At this point the LAN was working but the wireless wasn't. So I swapped the wifi card for an Apple Airport card from a Macbook Pro and fixed that.

The internal mic is currently not working but I believe I saw a possible solution in this thread so I'll work on that. My friend is very happy with his new toy and I'm sure he thanks rcfa too.

I really like that there was no messing with the bios and minimal changes that you can see and understand with the kexts. I may try this with my 901 so I can do a dual boot.

Thanks again!

[LonelyTV]

I have updated the tutorial finally! Sorry for the wait!

[SheepNervous]

Anyone happen to try the new 0902 BIOS version with this install yet? I'm considering trying it out but wanted to see if there were any issues before I do.

Nope, I won't be able to deal with anything related to the EeeMac 1000HE until the end of August...
...what are the changes between 802 and 902 supposed to be?

From what I've read the clock speed under power saving mode is now 1440MHz, it was at 1250 on 0802. All voltages are still the same.

On a side note, 10.5.8 was released today..

[nickca]

For anyone updating to 10.5.8, here's what I did:

First I tried updating (using the downloaded delta patch, not through Software Update), using rfca's patches (in the Tools folder on the SD card) for both the graphics kexts (AppleIntelIntegratedFramebuffer, AppleIntelGMA950) and IOBluetoothFamily. The patch didn't work on the graphics kexts and resulted in a system that was unbootable in either normal or safe mode. I then restored my 10.5.7 backup (which you should always make before a OS update, even on a real Mac) and tried again.

This time I updated, again with the delta patch, then rebooted normally. Like when you updated to 10.5.7 just after installing, it'll reboot itself on your first try to boot it, then boot normally. This time, I used the graphics drivers from the System/Library/Extensions folder on the SD card (i.e. the same ones I had been using on 10.5.7), and just used the patch on the Bluetooth kext. This worked fine. I've been using 10.5.8 for a while, and there seems to be no problems as long as you reinstall those three kexts. I installed the three kexts with Kext Helper, then repaired permissions and cleared the extension cache before rebooting.

Also, to use the Bluetooth patch, copy /System/Library/Extensions/IOBlueToothFamily.kext to some folder. Put the IOBluetoothFamily.kext.patch file somewhere, then open the terminal and cd to the folder where the kext is and do "cd IOBlueToothFamily.kext", then "patch < (full path to IOBluetoothFamily.kext.patch)". It'll ask you for the location of the file to patch (I couldn't figure out the right -p option to use to just do it automatically). Enter "Contents/PlugIns/BroadcomUSBBluetoothHCIController.kext/Contents/Info.plist", and it'll indicate success. Now you have a patched Bluetooth kext you can install with Kext Helper.

You could just reinstall the already-patched Bluetooth kext from the SD card, but there are a lot of Bluetooth fixes in this update, so I wanted to make sure I had the latest.

Also, one thing I've noticed is it seems to take longer to boot. Not a whole lot longer, but noticeably so. No big deal really.

[rcfa]

Interesting that the patch for the GMA950 didn't work. I'll have to see what's up with that when I'm back in action.

Since the occasional KPs I get most of the time seem to be in the Window Server, I would of course want to take as many fixes Apple provides as possible into the next release...

Anyway, soon the fun will start trying to get SL to work...

Another thing: if you patch certain extensions that are also installed in the EFI partition, be sure to update the extensions in both places. OS X/Chameleon can be a bit fickle in what it loads from where, and a mixture of versions is likely to cause trouble.

[LonelyTV]

nickca: Quick question for you, since you updated to 10.5.8 have you any problems with waking up the machine from sleep? I updated and couldn't get my machine to wake up.

Also, to anyone else who has updated... has anyone tried Netkas' new DSMOS? It apparently speeds up boot times AND removes the console errors that AppleDecrypt gives on boot. If you haven't tried it, make sure to remove AppleDecrypt from Chameleon and your System's hard drive, as well as the Extensions.mkext.

[pcata]

I was also curious if you are able to boot with working video without an EFI string for it in your boot.plist? I ask because I notice the video kexts have the 0x27ae patch applied.

The EFI string is there not for the video, but to make the built-in ethernet adapter be recognized as built-in, at least if it's what I have in there now. In the course of the various experiments I'm not sure what I had when. In any case, getting the built-in ethernet adapter to be recognized as built-in is one of the steps to get the IOPlatformUUID to be properly assigned, which in turn is used for things like TimeMachine, MobileMe syncing, etc. Without it, the OS will sort of work, but you may have the infamous Error 35 type messages in your system log, and certain things wont work properly in non-obvious ways.

If the EFI string does what I think it does (i.e. does what my current EFI string does), then you should see a number bigger than zero as output from this command:

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cat /Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/NetworkInterfaces.plist | grep -A 1 "IOBuiltin" | grep true | wc


I'm hoping someone can help me as my system always shows 0's from the command above. I'm also getting persistent Error 35's and cannot figure out how to add the ethernet EFI string to stop the UUID errors (and also fix Time Machine). I'm using rcfa's v3 kit with a dd'd over EFI partition. I guess I need help on specifically how to add the appropriate strings to the Boot.plist (and where to put the Boot.plist file so it is recognized properly).

Any assistance would be greatly appreciated! Also, this is a great forum; thanks to the hard work of lots of folks here I'm able to have almost everything working great on my 1000HE (under 10.5.7 anyway). You guys are great.

[nickca]

nickca: Quick question for you, since you updated to 10.5.8 have you any problems with waking up the machine from sleep? I updated and couldn't get my machine to wake up.

Also, to anyone else who has updated... has anyone tried Netkas' new DSMOS? It apparently speeds up boot times AND removes the console errors that AppleDecrypt gives on boot. If you haven't tried it, make sure to remove AppleDecrypt from Chameleon and your System's hard drive, as well as the Extensions.mkext.

Nope, no problems here - very occasionally I won't be able to wake it up from sleep, but that's not new with 10.5.8. Mostly waking from sleep works fine.

I tried replacing AppleDecrypt.kext with the dsmos.kext from the link in both /System/Library/Extensions and on my EFI partition. The result was quite positive - a notable decrease in boot time. It boots quicker now than it did before the update, whereas before it had been taking a while.

[nickca]

Also, I haven't seen anyone mention yet that Chameleon 2.0 RC2 is out. To update, just run the installer and tell it to install to your EFI partition (as you did when you installed RC1). It will only update the bootloader itself and leave all your kexts, preferences, etc. untouched. Changes can be found most likely on whichever website you download it from. Hibernate still appears to be broken, but there are a few new options you can set (most of which don't apply to us 1000HE users) and some bugfixes, etc.

I also haven't seen that WindowServer kernel panic since updating to 10.5.8. I never saw it that frequently in the first place, and I've only been running 10.5.8 for a couple days, so I can't say if it's fixed or not, but I haven't seen it yet.