Thursday, December 25, 2008

XxX 10.5.6 is out

The new ISO has been just upped. It includes all the drivers from the previous 10.5.5 release (with all the PPFs) plus some new kexts for 10.5.6.
Please test; 10.5.6 has introduced some changes and some of the old drivers might not work (could even generate kernel panics). As always new add-ons and bugs will be handled by PPFs.
Enjoy!

Wednesday, December 17, 2008

PPF3

The PPF3 is up at the usual place. You need to apply PPF1 & PPF2 before using this!
Add-on and fixes:

-Chameleon 1.0.11 cdboot (JMicron fix)
-Fixed ChameleonSMBIOS boot.plist (Timeout added)
-Fixed Uli SATA controller support
-Fixed GMAx3000
-GMAx3500
-New Alc 268
-kXAudioDriver 1.2b1
-Ralink RT71
-Old APIC/ACPI
-Marvin's AMD Patcher
-NTFS Driver
-PackageMaker
-IORegistryExplorer
-Updated x86Tools
-DSDTPatcher GUI
-MKextTool
-Minor typo bugs

Monday, December 15, 2008

First AMD success report!

The specs:
AMD X2 5200+ (dual core @2.6Ghz, 1MB L2)
Asus M2N32SLI - NForce 590SLI
Geforce 8800GTS 320 MB
Installed Packages:
-Essentials
-Voodoo 1.0
-dsdt patch
-Netkas EFI v9 bootloader
-NforceATA
-nForceLAN.kext
-AzaliaAD1988b
-NVInject 0.21 320

Saturday, December 6, 2008

PPF2 Released

I've just released the PPF2 (get it at the usual place). This patch will upgrade the ISO to Rev1.

The highlight features are:
-Voodoo 1.0 RevA Kernel (many thanks to the Voodoo XNU team for their work!!). It is also used to boot the DVD installer and thanks to its on-the-fly patching I hope the ISO can work on AMD cpus too! (I can not test this. AMD users please test)
-DSDT patcher (by fassl) is integrated on the installer; it will generate a DSDT.aml file that will be load in the first boot with the right bootloader. (be aware that the patcher doesnt work with all the mobos/laptops; check the Install log to see if the patching succeeded or not)
-PCEFI 9 (by netkas) and Chameleon with smbios and dsdt override (by mackerintel)

Besides those the PPF adds the following patches/drivers: Disabler.kext, SMBIOSResolver, ToH 9.2.0 Speedstep kernel, Jmicron JMB360, ATI SB4x0 ATA, Uli 5278 ATA, Marvell 610111ab IDE, fixed ATI x1950 pro/gt, ATI x1600, GMAx3100 id 2a12, ALC 268 for ACER Aspire One, STAC 9271d, AD1981 AC97, Ali Uli M5455 AC97, NForce LAN Driver, SKGE 02d, iwi 3945, iwi 4965, ACPIBattery, USB Fixed kexts, AHCI icons fix, OpenDSDT kext, CPUx app, PCITools 3.0.0, MSRTools. It also has a new kextcache that hopefully will fix the issues with mouse/keyboard some where having...

The PPF has the undo data just in case something is wrong. Also theres a alternative kernel in the root of the ISO (which doesnt support AMD patching); If you have any problems starting the installer try booting with: -mach_kernel_2. Also please read the topics linked above to understand how the new features works...

ENJOY!