JamerTheProgrammer Posted March 31, 2013 Share Posted March 31, 2013 Hey guys!Just found this thread: http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=1550560&page=2 Sounds like this guy made some GMA 950 kexts for Mountain Lion with QE/CI! Do you think this might get QE/CI working on the Core 2 Duo D430? Picture proof of it working on a GMA 950! http://forums.macrumors.com/showpost.php?p=16933676&postcount=9 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Hervé Posted March 31, 2013 Administrators Share Posted March 31, 2013 Yes, definitely something to be tested! But caution, it seems to require the DP1 kernel, so that may lead to losing quite a few apps... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JamerTheProgrammer Posted March 31, 2013 Author Share Posted March 31, 2013 Awesome news! Im thrilled! Havent got my D430 yet but I will buy one soon. Cant wait to see this in action even if it means loosing a few apps! (Although, this remains to be seen haha! ) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Hervé Posted March 31, 2013 Administrators Share Posted March 31, 2013 Even with GMA support, you'd find ML quite slow on a D430. Lion is already kinda slow on the D4x0. Best OS X version on those is SL... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JamerTheProgrammer Posted March 31, 2013 Author Share Posted March 31, 2013 Yeah. Id dual boot though. ML would be just for the odd thing that I can only do in ML. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Hervé Posted March 31, 2013 Administrators Share Posted March 31, 2013 Ok, well, I don't want to ruin your early enthusiasm, but this is highly unlikely to work on our hacks. And no, no-one made any GMA950/GMA X3100 kexts for ML. This is a rather dirty, not to say completely fu**ed up method (!): 1) it basically replaces the entire /S/L/E folder of mainstream ML by /S/L/E of DP1, to which 32bit graphics kexts from Lion have been added 2) it replaces the entire /S/L/F OpenGL folder of mainstream ML by an edited one (from DP1?) 2) it replaces mainstream Mach kernel with DP1 kernel (to support 32bit mode) Simply open up the install.command script with a text editor and you'll see... This leads to some sort of seriously degenerated 32bit version of ML! The result is that some real Mac can boot ML in 32bit mode and, thanks to Lion graphics kexts, then fully supports those GMA950 & GMA X3100 graphics chips dropped by mainstream ML. However, there's no guarantee that our EDP add-on kexts will load under DP1 kernel or that certain applications or utilities will even work on such bastardized installations. One of the replies in the thread mentions that Disk Utility no longer works and others mentioned losing networking too... One could argue that running ML DP1 itself would probably work better! I'm going to test this on D620/D630 Intel, but this may just end up as a red herring... This is very very different from the proper job done by Nawcom & Co on SL legacy kernels where each particular version of kernel was patched or the myHack clever way of bypassing /S/L/E vanilla kexts to load replacements from /E/E. /S/L/E should always be left untouched! On top of that, it's not really sustainable: you lose any new kexts provided in any mainstream ML that's not included in DP1 list you would have to repeat the task after every ML update, again losing all potential new kexts brought by the update It's probably kind of lucky that it worked at all on 10.8.1/10.8.2 installations (and it looks like it does not on 10.8.3). I guess, this has a better chance to work on older Macs than later ones dropped by Apple for ML. But calling and locking on DP1 kernel + kexts is just kind of stupid to me... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JamerTheProgrammer Posted April 4, 2013 Author Share Posted April 4, 2013 Haha! Wow I never realised what a dark messed up method this was. This is really getting accel running under ML just for the sake of it haha. Well, thanks for the run down! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Hervé Posted April 4, 2013 Administrators Share Posted April 4, 2013 This is really getting accel running under ML just for the sake of it haha. Yes, kind of... I tried briefly on my D630 GMA, but quickly stopped when I met problem booting the DP1 kernel; there's just no point at all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Hervé Posted April 11, 2013 Administrators Share Posted April 11, 2013 These guys have been busy refining their initial work and published an app. It seems it's not directly usable on our Hackintoshes (it's really geared for older Apple Macs), but I managed to use it and got ML installed on (previously) unsupported systems. I'm putting a post under "Other research" section. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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