Kexts for ASUS P6T mainboard
Comments(9) Here are the kernel extensions I’m using on my ASUS P6T (non SE, non Deluxe) mainboard to run Mac OS X 10.6. I’m not planning to write a guide for a vanilla installation but I already summed up some important points when installing OS X on the P6T in this post from a retail Mac OS DVD.
Download ASUS P6T kexts (1.3 MB)
With these kexts, my P6T with 12 GB of 1600 MHz triple channel RAM, a Nvidia GTX 260 graphics card and several SATA drives runs rock solid, including on-board sound, support for multicast networking (important for Bonjour), sleep and waking up just by touching my wireless USB mouse. I’m even able to overclock the i7 920 to 4 GHz and it still runs stable. I have a monstrous CPU cooler mounted though. Running at 4 GHz, the ASUS P6T with the Intel i7 920 CPU achieves a Geekbench score of 12400 points.
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very cool. i will try them.
i made a post on fleebailey33.org
my blog. i messed with the dsdt, alot. And there are alot of kexts we no longer need anymore. please check out my post.
if you use the DSDT, and boot file i listed you don’t need the following:
ioachiblockstorate
ahciportinjector
openhaltrestart
much cleaner and more mac like and much more to come.
Nice work indeed, flee. There’s just one thing that doesn’t work anymore using your DSDT/boot combination: Wake from sleep using USB mouse. Probably this has something to do with the changes you made to the USB port sections.
Shutdown after sleep works without openhaltrestart? I don’t think so.
It does indeed, I tried it. But you need that modified bootloader. I’d rather stick with the original Chameleon bootloader and use openhaltrestart.
Can you do some cpu benchmarks and confirm that you have no speed penalty using vanilla cpupowermanagement and/or nullcpupowermanagement ? aicpm ncpm=good, aicpm-ncpm=bad (-12% benchmarks),none none=good (this with bios disabled eist,cpu tm, speedstep and c-states ?)
What might you think would be different running your P6T kexts on a P6T6 WS revolution board? Any ideas?
Martin, I’d say just give it a try but make sure you don’t use the P6T DSDT. You should be able to install OS X without a DSDT even though some things like sound, USB, sleep and so on probably won’t work without DSDT.
Cheers,
Jan