Hello all,
Today is the day for the install log post.
It's actually a pretty easy install, I followed
alancurry's Thin mini-ITX build for a base. And a big thank you to him.
Installation Notes:
NOTE: My Nvidia GTX 750ti was NOT installed into the system at this time, I will touch on that later in the install guide.
Like Alan did in his install, I used UEFI only booting from EFI/BIOS. Most of my other settings were
"Optimized Defaults" Though I may have changed the default integrated graphics RAM allocation.
Clover Installation:
The standard Unibeast method does not work with this board, the board will not boot a Unibeast USB drive, (at least in my tests). So the best bet is to follow the
Clover Install Guide for Mac OS X Yosemite.
And also like he did, I started with the config.plist-Intel-HD4600-desktop for the config.plist Clover uses.
On-board Ethernet is a Realtek RTL8111g, and I used
Mieze's Realtek RTL8111 Kext. Add it to
/EFI/CLOVER/kexts/10.10/ as noted in the
Clover Install Guide.
After a following the rest of the
Clover Install Guide you should have a booted system.
Onboard Audio:
I used the
Clover Patched Realtek ALC Installation way to enable audio, it can be found from toleda at
toleda/audio_CloverALC. toleda also has some more information on this forum under his
Audio - Realtek ALC AppleHDA.
The next part of the audio is pretty much exactly what alancurry did, but I'll post it here as well.
Installation:
1. Download and unpack the zip files from the following locations:
2. Change the audio id to 2 in config.plist to this:
Code:
<key>Audio</key>
<dict>
<key>Inject</key>
<string>2</string>
</dict>
3. Via Finder, navigate to Downloads/audio_CloverALC-master/. Or wherever it is you have unpacked the zip files.
- Unpack realTekALC.kext.zip.
- Copy realTekALC.kext to /Volumes/EFI/EFI/CLOVER/kexts/10.10/
4. Via Finder, navigate to Downloads/audio_CloverALC-master/. Or wherever it is you have unpacked the zip files.
- Unpack config-audio_cloverALC.plist.zip
From config-audio_cloverALC.plist, there are two KextsToPatch sections that need to be added to config.plist. They are:
Code:
<dict>
<key>Comment</key>
<string>10.10/AppleHDA/Resources/xml>zml</string>
<key>Find</key>
<data>
eG1sLnps
</data>
<key>Name</key>
<string>AppleHDA</string>
<key>Replace</key>
<data>
em1sLnps
</data>
</dict>
Code:
<dict>
<key>Comment</key>
<string>10.10/AppleHDA/Realtek ALC887</string>
<key>Find</key>
<data>
ixnUEQ==
</data>
<key>Name</key>
<string>AppleHDA</string>
<key>Replace</key>
<data>
hwjsEA==
</data>
</dict>
5. Via Finder, navigate to Downloads/audio_ALC887-master/cloverALC/.
- Execute audio_cloverALC887-90_patch.command
6. Reboot
You should now be able to select a Line Out in OS X and use the audio output on the motherboard.
NOTE: At this point alancurry goes on to enable HDMI audio, I have NOT done this yet, and I cannot verify that his method will work with Yosemite
Now this is where I mention again, a big thank you to alancurry for what he has posted. From here I went on my own to install and enable the Nvidia GTX 750ti.
GTX 750ti Installation:
The first thing I did from my already working system was download the
Latest Nvidia Web Drivers for OS X 10.10.2 and the
Nvidia CUDA Drivers.
From there I shutdown the system and installed the GTX 750ti.
I booted into Clover and added the
nvda_drv=1 flag and continued to boot. The system was very buggy and graphically glitching, but it booted,
barely.
I installed the two previously mentioned Nvidia drivers and rebooted, the system booted fine without any added flags.
Success! The system is working fine now. Using my Windows 8.1 drive, I did some rudimentary game FPS testing with a few games from my Steam Library and found that I had similar, (but lower on Yosemite), FPS than Windows which I am attributing to the difference between DirectX and OpenGL.
Again, thank you for your patience in this build log, there is still some more to come, but this is also a good milestone.
Cheers.