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This is a guide to install OsX 10.6.2 Snow Leopard into a Medion Akoya Mini, MSI Wind and clones for dummies like me.
You can check PART I and PART II of this guide. Here, in the third part I’ll post updates, solution to problems, ans useful stuff I came across.
So basically, this third part is “what should be known” about your kexts already succesful Hackintosh installation.
About the kexts:
(I) The process of changing or updating kexts is fairly simple. Asumming you just kept your Vanilla folder inside your Downloads folder, you just change the kexts to replace inside ~/Downloads/Vanilla/EFIkext, and then from a Terminal run:
sudo -s (and type your password)
cd ~Downloads/Vanilla/EFIkext
./27ae.sh
./update.sh
Then reboot, and your new kexts will be loaded.
You can check which kexts are loaded typing in a Terminal:
kextstat
If your kext installations is giving you constant kernel panics, you ca debug them by booting the system, and when the chameleon appears write:
debug=0x100
This way, when you have a kernel panic, a lot of information about it will be shown on the screen and most probably the name of the conflicting kext.
Sound Kext Updates:
The sound in the netbooks is improving constantly. Although it has reached a great stability, qith a lot of internal mics now working, the sound related kexts will be probably the ones that you will update most. There is a quite stable sound kext called VoodooHDA. As you can see in the official website, the voodoohda is stalled since some months. Fortunately for us, Slice is making the hell of job with the VoodooHda project. You can see official updates here.
At the time of this writing, version 2.52 is the newest one of the voodooHDA module, so in order to update it, we download the file VoodooHDA.kext_Snow252.zip from its website, and unzip it to our Downloads Folder. Now we replace the folder VoodooHDA in our ~/Downloads/Vanilla/EFIkext folder with the VoodooHDA folder that we just downloaded and go to (I) to update the modules in the EFI partition.
About random Kernel Panics and power management:
The guy whose magic makes possible for us to have powerManagment in our netbooks is Superhai. You can find the lastest updates to his kernel extensions here.
I have found that the VoodooPower, wlthough it works under 10.6.2, it’s a little unstable causing some random kernel panics. I am using now VoodooPowerMini with much better results. I definitely advice to change to VoodooPowerMini. You can download the lastest release it from Superhai’s website and you know what to do (I).
About the fakeSMC update:
A new release of fakeSMC is out. You can download it from netkas website. It is safe and unstable. However, Prasys, from insanelywind.com has made some modifications to it spscifically for the MSI wind and clones, and it works great to, so you might want to try it. You can download it from here , and go to (I).
About the Intel GMA950 Mirroring: The Mirroring does not work. And if you don’t believed it, and you activated it, you probably messed up, because now you can’t see anything in your screen with two screens, and in one screen mode, the option to disable Mirroring is hidden.
How to solve the mirroring black lines problem with Intel GMA950 in the MSi wind? In this case Fabian Cañas will save your day! Download his app, and run it with just one screen. Problem solved!.
About VoodooBattery:
VoodooBattery is the kernel extension from Superhai that allows you to have battery readings. His extension works pretty fine, but I found that appleACPIBatteryManager has more accurate readings. You can download it from here, and go to (I).
After having all the updated kexts, I’m having still an issue I can’t find solution for. I got always a kernel panic if I start the netbook with a different USB configuration (different number of devices or in different ports), and I have to restart it a couple of times until it works. For example when I’m on the go, and I start and halt the netbook several times a never have a problem, because there are no USB gadgets on it. But when I’m at home, I have a mouse, and an external keybord. If I turn off the netbook with those plugged in, and then I start it without them, a KP will appear.
If you have any idea about what could be causing this, please enlight me!!!
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[...] In this first part, we’ll see how to create a USB (pendrive or hard disk) from the Snow Leopard DVD image. This USB device will be used in PART II OF THIS GUIDE to install Snow Leopard in the Netbook. After the install, we’ll make a few changes to leave the system as stable as possible, and we’ll update some kexts with newer versions in PART III. [...]
Great ! Really good tutorial. Thanks a lot