Lion on Intel DX58S0 - Need help

[Jedispara]

If its 32, wont that cause issues with the stability of OS as i'm fairly sure that my install is 64bit.

Also, i'm assuming that i just install these kext's like the other ones, install, touch the S/L/E using terminal and reboot?

[Cassio]

You'll have to use arch=i386, but it shouldn't cause instability.

I'm almost sure there's a 64 bit kext with > 2 GB bug fixed, but I couldn't find it now.

[Jedispara]

Well, rebooted several times with the new kext in there and it seems to be working fine. And when i run compatibility check with the program "System Info" the marvell driver shows a checkmark. But the DVD drive doesn't register, either in the system profile, or when a disk is inserted.

[freethinker]

Jed did you get the Sleep (energy saver) to work in the DSDT?

I Have a dx58so, i7-920, 6bm Ram, Powercolor HD4870, I used the AppleAzila for audio and E100e for Ethernet, Both seem to be working without any issues.. The Only issue is Powermanagement.. When the System goes to sleep from the energy saver the system does not wake. I am assuming its DSDT.

I hope your Audio and Ethernet is working for you.

Too bad there isnt a more automated way to extract and patch the DSDT. Does anyone have a good DSDT guide on how to create and modify?

Edited November 25, 2011 by Guest

[Jedispara]

To be honest, i've disabled the machine going to sleep to avoid dealing with that. I've got it set to go to screensaver after 15 minutes and monitors to shut off at the hour mark. From what I've read though you do need to patch it in the DSDT, I just haven't bothered going into it as it something that I don't need.

Audio and Ethernet are fine using the kext's that Cassio linked earlier in this thread.

For extracting and patching the DSDT i've done it all myself. I've used DSDTFixer from the Evo team. I use it to extract the DSDT and fix any errors, BUT I don't apply any patches using that program. Once the DSDT is extracted and fixed, I apply the DX58S0 patch compiled on this found here, and patch the DSDT using DSDT Editor.

From there I just use multishit and kext helper b7 to set up the bootloader and kext files (if you check back to page 2 you can find the most recent WORKING order of things).

Hope that helps! I'll probably write a guide about this once I get the last thing working.

[Cassio]

Well, rebooted several times with the new kext in there and it seems to be working fine. And when i run compatibility check with the program "System Info" the marvell driver shows a checkmark. But the DVD drive doesn't register, either in the system profile, or when a disk is inserted.

Try this one

http://www.osx86.net/view/87-appleviaata_for_snow_leopard.html

 

Too bad there isnt a more automated way to extract and patch the DSDT. Does anyone have a good DSDT guide on how to create and modify?

I wrote a basic guide here http://Olarila.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=19&t=634

[Jedispara]

OK, so with that last driver, the DVD drive is showing up in the System Profile, both under ATA and Disk Drive. Now initially i had the drive plugged into the "lower" or the one closer to the motherboard and the drive didn't show, but when i plugged it into the upper one it shows up.

However, i've put in an audio disk several times and each time iTunes loads fine, it pulls the CD information. But as soon as i start to play a track it goes to 0:00 and holds there. the Drive light doesn't show any activity, but my hard drive light goes on solid. I also told it to not import the CD.

[freethinker]

i tried this one... dsdt patcher gui from http://pcwizcomputer.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=150&Itemid=48 and it seemed to work. i was hesitant because it did no mention lion. but it still worked.

what inputs outputs show up in system preferences ? did you try the appleazila driver ?

[Jedispara]

Please read through this entire thread. I've used the VoodooHDA.kext that is posted in this thread and gotten full audio working.

In regardes to the DVD player, still no luck getting it to work. When i boot up the system, the drive shows all the proper information, but the minute you stick in a disk it practically freezes. The system still functions, and i can do anything else, but the disk drive becomes un-available and even refuses to eject the disk.

Should i try to get the firmware for the DVD drive updated? or just try getting a different dvd drive, one that is fully supported? If I need a new DVD drive, anything i should look out for?

[Jedispara]

I've done some more digging and it seems like the problem is that Lion doesn't want to interact with something that is labeled as IDE even though it is plugged into a SATA port. I suspect this is a limitation of the bios, that these ports wont run as AHCI (which i'm assuming would remove the problem). I have acouple of spare PCIE ports and after reading a post on tonycrap i think i'm going to get a PCIE Sata card that runs natively on AHCI and that has been tested to work OOB with no kexts.

http://tonycrapx86.blogspot.com/2011/08/increasing-disk-performance-sata-6gbs.html

I will wait until monday, but if anyone has any comments on this and whether this is a good idea, please let me know.

[Jedispara]

So i've got my machine running quite stably, and it has been for some time now, but i keep having an issue (notably only in games like WoW and SC2, but sometimes on the desktop), where the mouse cursor will hang in place while the video continues and then a second or 2 later catch up. I was wondering if you had any knowledge on how to fix this/what is causing it.

*EDIT* I should also say that it seems to come and go, sometimes it happens, sometimes it doesn't, its really odd.

Thanks in advance!