Showing posts with label driver. Show all posts
Showing posts with label driver. Show all posts

Hackintosh Under the Hood: Post-Installation System Overview

Posted by tonymacx86 on Thursday, January 26, 2012
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Here's a great introduction to a working Mac OS X installation on PC hardware. The video explains the function and location of the Chameleon/Chimera boot file, /Extra folder, DSDT, .plist files, and .kext files. Produced and narrated by one of our mods, StingRay. 
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How To Get iBoot Functionality From MultiBeast

Posted by tonymacx86 on Tuesday, March 15, 2011
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One of the top questions on the forum these days seems to be how to get the functionality of iBoot when booting from the hard drive. For novices, it seems like the process ends after the Combo Update. But iBoot was designed as an installation tool only- not as a permanent solution for post-installation. It is NOT a boot crutch. By using it as such, you are limiting the functionality and upgradeability of your system. Fortunately, MultiBeast contains the same drivers and files as iBoot and can allow most things to work without using a DSDT.

We created MultiBeast to solve the post-installation problem. When installed, the following MultiBeast options will allow boot from a 1 TB or less hard drive or partition, universal audio, network, and graphics. These are not the only drivers available, and may not give optimized performance. However, these options will allow you to be rid of iBoot as a boot crutch.

ATI Graphics


NVIDIA Graphics
Good luck, and see you on the forum!

-tonymacx86 & MacMan
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Updated NVIDIA Drivers for Mac OS X: Install Guide and iBoot-GE

Posted by tonymacx86 on Saturday, November 20, 2010
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This week, NVIDIA released drivers for their line of "Fermi" cards for Mac OS X.  Besides supporting their new flagship Quadro 4000, these drivers support the GeForce GT 430, GTS 450, GTX 460, GTX 465, GTX 470, GTX 480. They also show increased OpenGL, Quartz Graphics, and User Interface performance for NVIDIA 2xx cards.

To use the new drivers on any system, we made an alternate installer, tonymacx86 NVIDIA Update, that overcomes the official installer's system limitations.  We also created iBoot-GE, a new variation of iBoot that uses Chameleon's GraphicsEnabler instead of enabler kexts.  Finally, we've updated MultiBeast to include the necessary bootloader.
  • iBoot-GE uses Chameleon's GraphicsEnabler, with updated device IDs for new NVIDIA cards.  Update: iBoot now works for NVIDIA 4xx cards- you may need to type -x PCIRootUID=1 to install using these cards
    • MultiBeast now contains Chameleon 2.0 RC5 Prerelease which includes device IDs for all new NVIDIA cards.
    Guide for a Fresh Installation
    If you're starting from scratch, follow iBoot + MultiBeast.
    1. Install using iBoot
    2. Install latest Combo Update
    3. Install UserDSDT or EasyBeast, plus the latest Chameleon 2.0 RC5 from MultiBeast
    4. Install the tonymacx86 NVIDIA Update 
    5. Reboot

    Guide for an Existing Installation
    If you've already installed and configured your system to boot from hard drive
    1. Install latest Combo Update
    2. Install the latest Chameleon 2.0 RC5 from MultiBeast
    3. Install the tonymacx86 NVIDIA Update 
    4. Reboot
    Post your results in the forum!  Have fun, and enjoy!  

    -tonymacx86 & MacMan




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    Lnx2Mac's Realtek Ethernet Driver - Public Beta Now Available

    Posted by tonymacx86 on Monday, September 20, 2010
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    For the past few weeks, Lnx2Mac has been developing a new Realtek ethernet driver for Mac OS X. His goal was to create a driver that provides support for the latest motherboards that use the Realtek RTL8111E controller. This new driver is called RealtekRTL81xx.kext and supports the following ethernet controllers:
    • RTL8168, RTL8168B, RTL8168C
    • RTL8111, RTL8111B, RTL8111C, RTL8111CP, RTL8111D(L), RTL8111DP, RTL8111E
    It's based on the RealtekR1000SL.kext created by Chuck Fry in late 2009 with additions and fixes from the latest official Realtek Linux source. In addition the driver includes the following changes:
    • 32/64 bit support
    • Improved stability
    • Improved performance
    • Numerous bug fixes
    Today the beta went public! Check out Lnx2Mac's Blog for further details and the download link.  Please leave all feedback and comments there and in the RTL81xx Beta Testing forum.
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