Hi All, (my first post ever)
Actually this was intended to be a PM for macnb, but since I can not send PMs until I have 50 posts, I decided to post here.
I am hoping someone can help me out with a couple of things regarding my Acer S3, and truly appreciate if you could help.
First things first, I have a:
S3-951 with i5-2467M (from BIOS info) (1.6GHz/Turbo 2.3GHz) Sandy Bridge CPU
Aspire S3-951-2464G34iss (sticker underneath computer)
intel HD 3000 Graphics
4GB DDR3/USB 2.0, Bluetooth 4.0, Standard SATA Hard Disk
So, my problem is, after reading both forums (this and the master thread) from beginning to end and at least twice, plus a thousand experiments, reading an absurd amount of other forums and reinstalliing MAC OS 200 times, I've decided to ask for your help.
To cut the story short, among other things, I've tried macnb "method" with hiis SLE + Extra (from this forum). But whenever I use those kexts and extra I always get a KP.
So, through trial and error I've learned that the IOAHCIFamily.kext always triggers KP, the ApplePS2ElanTouchpad.kext does absolutely nothing, I could not get sound to work, or sleep. Actually I have the same exact problems described by macnb, before he fixed it all to work 99,9%
Then I found the NEOMORPHEY's "method" using the Extra and Kexts he uploaded. And for the first time ever I got sound and no KP.
So, with his method I have sound and regular mouse but have no:
Wifi - not to worry I already ordered the AR5B195
Elan Touchpad
Sleep - wakes up immediately
Yesterday, after re-reading macnb posts trying to make the S3 sleep and making the Touchpad work, by an incredible chance at some point I got it to sleep by using macnb SSDT, but the mouse completely stopped working - had to use external usb, and then when I was trying to repair that installing Mouse+touchpad kexts I got a KP.
Since yesterday I've tried to replicate making the sleep work, but I always get KP.
Tried every combination I can think of:
just placing macnb SSDT in extra folder
placing macnb SSDT + all the rest in extra folder (replacing the one that is there with macnb)
placing macnb SSDT + all the rest in extra folder but moving my current kexts in extra folder to SLE first
doing the above but also using macnb kexts
I always use the Kext utility to repair permissions after any change and also to install kexts
I'm out of ideas and very frustrated!
Since macnb S3 seems to be exactly like mine this should work without a problem, right???
Ahh, almost forgot, Maybe very important - I'm using ML 10.8.3.
I've created the Unibeast USB in a real mac, with a legit copy of ML 10.8.3 bought from app store, had no probs with creating it, or installing to S3, only post installation probs.
Any help or suggestions would be great!
THANKS in advance for any help.
JS
Ps - tried to edit DSDT and SSDT with DSDT editor - but its just a bunch of numbers and letters to me... have no idea how to edit or what to edit