Does an Intel X58 motherboard need DSDT?

[colbygardner]

Does an Intel X58 motherboard need DSDT?

That's what I'm working with in my Dell XPS 435T that I want to Hackintosh.

Thanks!



colby

 

[Going Bald]

X58 board doesn't have to have one, but makes it easier to get 100% use of the board. You can just use the EasyBeast install from MultiBeast without a DSDT. Audio and network kexts will need to be added separately, as EasyBeast doesn't install them.

 

[colbygardner]

SWEET!!!

Can you point me in the right direction of the correct Texts to get for audio and whatnot? I know you guys are experienced with this but I am not... yet!

Thanks!



colby

 

[Going Bald]

MultiBeast. (Resources button top right of forum screen ->downloads)
Do your research on your main board to find which ones you need.

 

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Does an Intel X58 motherboard need DSDT?

That's what I'm working with in my Dell XPS 435T that I want to Hackintosh.

Thanks!

colby

Hey!

I hope your build is running well! I was curious if you ever found a DSDT for the Intel X58 board? I've got a build up and running now without DSDT but I got myself some new drives and I'm gonna be doing clean installs. I would love to use a DSDT if there is one available since the DSDT database doesn't seem to have one.

 

[koala61]

I have 2 of these boards running 10.7.3.
Never had a problem with them.
I have linked to my Extra, Files and How to.
Have fun
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/17342272/MyDX58 ... er2011.zip

 

[span]

I have 2 of these boards running 10.7.3.
Never had a problem with them.
I have linked to my Extra, Files and How to.
Have fun
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/17342272/MyDX58 ... er2011.zip

Oh! Awesome! Thanks

Edit: Your howto says to use "my own" DSDT and copy paste the differences from yours. Does that mean that I just extract my DSDT, compile it as it is and the copy the differences over from yours with FileMerge or do I have to make edits to my DSDT before compiling it?

 

[koala61]

Span
DX58SO has a couple of problems (USB KPs) that get introduced from Bios its important that a proceedure is followed to fix them, best to read this
http://www.convertit2mac.com/forum/index.cfm?mainaction=posts&forumid=55&threadid=233
And do the BIOS downgrade and upgrade.

DSDT - my understanding is that they pertain to a particular BIOS of a Motherboard.
DSDT this is how I do it and I'm no expert here.
1 -Download UBuntu Live CD from Ubunu website
http://releases.ubuntu.com/11.10/
2 -Burn and boot from CD. Choose the 1st option - run without installing.
3 -You will be in Ubuntu desktop as user ubuntu with a home folder of /home/ubuntu.
4 -Select white Ubuntu Icon called Dash Home (located at the top left), enter the letter 't' or word 'term' in the search bar to rev eat the Terminal. Launch Terminal and type:

sudo cat /sys/firmware/acpi/tables/DSDT > dsdt.aml

Now you'll have dsdt.aml in your home folder.
5 -You can save the file to a USB flash drive and transfer to OSX for future editing.

Editing the DSDT - I follow Samisnake's guide here
http://www.tonymacx86.com/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=35559
And use Maldon's DSDTEditor there are standard patches for DX58SO in the package.
Just apply and compile, its is fairly easy.

Thanks to all contributors to the forums mention here they are the heroes.

 

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Span
DX58SO has a couple of problems (USB KPs) that get introduced from Bios its important that a proceedure is followed to fix them, best to read this
http://www.convertit2mac.com/forum/index.cfm?mainaction=posts&forumid=55&threadid=233
And do the BIOS downgrade and upgrade.

DSDT - my understanding is that they pertain to a particular BIOS of a Motherboard.
DSDT this is how I do it and I'm no expert here.
1 -Download UBuntu Live CD from Ubunu website
http://releases.ubuntu.com/11.10/
2 -Burn and boot from CD. Choose the 1st option - run without installing.
3 -You will be in Ubuntu desktop as user ubuntu with a home folder of /home/ubuntu.
4 -Select white Ubuntu Icon called Dash Home (located at the top left), enter the letter 't' or word 'term' in the search bar to rev eat the Terminal. Launch Terminal and type:

sudo cat /sys/firmware/acpi/tables/DSDT > dsdt.aml

Now you'll have dsdt.aml in your home folder.
5 -You can save the file to a USB flash drive and transfer to OSX for future editing.

Editing the DSDT - I follow Samisnake's guide here
http://www.tonymacx86.com/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=35559
And use Maldon's DSDTEditor there are standard patches for DX58SO in the package.
Just apply and compile, its is fairly easy.

Thanks to all contributors to the forums mention here they are the heroes.

Wow, thank you for your extensive and detailed post. I will look through this and start learning more.