Dominic Clifton

ASUS P5K-E Wifi with ATI 5870 Triple Screen hackintosh

Sun, 17 Apr 2011 17:05:00 GMT

Guide Version: 1 – 17/April/2011

Hardware

Mobo: ASUS P5K-E Wifi/AP (Network: Marvel 88E8056 Gigabit, Vendor: 0×11ab, Device: 0×4364, SS Vendor: 0×1043, SS: 0×81f8)
CPU: Intel E8200
OCZ 2×2GB RAM OCZ2P8002G (Slots A1/B1)
GFX: HIS 5870 (VendorID: ATI 0×1002, Device ID: 0×6898, Revision ID: 0×0000)
Optical Drive: Pioneer DVR-218L / 1.02 / SATA
HDD: Old Seagate 7200.11 SATA drive (for testing, will move to Seagate Momentus XT later)

HIS ATI 5870 Bios: HIS.HD5870.1024.091112.bin from Tech Power-Up, Flashed using ATIWinFlash in Windows (I did this before I used the card in my hackintosh box, unsure if older BIOS revisions work on hackintosh)

ASUS P5K-E Wifi Bios Version: 1305

Needed stuff

Multibeast 3.4 (latest as of 17/4/2011)
IBoot (latest as of 17/4/2011)
Kaybl bootloader – http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=231768 (patch commit revision 700 (09.01.2011))
DSDTAutoPatcher

BIOS Settings

Load Setup Defaults

Configure SATA as: AHCI
ACPI v2: enabled
JMicron disabled (to be enabled later)
Suspend Mode: S3 Only
ACPI 2.0 support: Enabled

The procedure and notes

Boot IBoot cd

Problem #1:

IBoot comes up with ‘ebios read error’

Solution:

Removing SATA cable, then booting IBoot CD, then inserting SL DVD, then pressing F5 then quickly connecting HDD SATA Cable back to HDD allows system to boot.

Problem #2:

Install CD fails to boot to a GUI. The Apple logo appears, following by spinning circle but no GUI appears

Solution 1:

Use Rebel EFI to boot the DVD instead of IBoot (also means you don’t have to fiddle with SATA cables, however this, didn’t allow me to get native res and accelerated graphics when using it to boot from the HDD)

Solution 2:

Use iBoot-ATI-5xxx-3.iso to boot the DVD (although unavailable from tonymac site and you still have to fiddle with SATA cables)

Create 2 partitions using disk utility before continuing with the installer (one for boot, one for bootable backup) GPT style, not MBR.

Install OSX. Might say failed after copying the files, ignore and reboot using IBoot ATI boot cd.

Install OSX 10.6.7 combo update, wait till the restart prompt appears, don’t click it, then run MultiBeast, select EasyBeast and PCIRootUID fix

Could boot off HDD using IBoot ATI boot cd with boot arguments (just type in once you cursor over to the HDD in the IBoot chameleon boot menu):
PCIRootUID=1

Installed experimental ATI Chameleon bootloader (without ATI support attempting to boot from HDD resulted in the graphics cards fans being turned on full – power cycle required!)

This allowed booting from HD but not to GUI

Could get into single user mode from HDD with:
arch=i386 PCIRootUID=1 -s

Create a DSDT file using DSDTAutoPatcher (selecting Asus, P5K-E Wifi/AP), install as /Extra/dsdt.aml

Remove the following kexts from /Extras:
EvOreboot.kext
LegacyAppleRTC.kext
NullCPUPowerManagement.kext

Could then boot with arch=x86_64 (no other options)

Display port would not work

Installed Kaybl bootloader – http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=231768

sudo su – gzip -d boot.gz
mv boot kaybl-boot
mv /boot/boot.multibeast
cp kaybl-boot /boot

FYI, the unarchived kaybl-boot file was 297152 bytes long, the one i had before that was 199712 bytes long

Made no difference, but there was some settings to try:

Set AtiConfig=Uakari in boot plist after looking at source here: http://forge.voodooprojects.org/p/chameleon/source/tree/HEAD/branches/Kabyl/i386/libsaio/ati.c

That enabled DisplayPort and a second monitor using the top DVI port, plugging in an HDMI cable resulted in all three monitors being detected but only the output on the displayport worked.

Moving the DVI cable to the bottom DVI port restored a display on a second monitor, still only 2 displays however.

Using AtiConfig=Zonalis only enabled bottom DVI port (this was probably the previous default)

Weirdly, after a reboot (using AtiConfig=Uakari, still in boot plist from before), with DVI cable in bottom port, DVI-VGA in top port and Display Port all three monitors worked! Need to cold boot to check it works twice.

Yay, still works after a cold boot, GFX done!

Wifi and JMicron IDE not working yet.

Went back into bios:
JMicron Controller: enabled
Controller Mode: AHCI

Rebooted, JMicron JMB363 AHCI listed in System Profiler ‘Serial-ATA’ section, had a Pioneer DVR-110D connected via IDE cable, popped in a DVD and it appeared on the Desktop.

Note: From Multibeast selected Lnx2Mac Realtek RTL81xx driver, which fired up another installed, installed ‘Release’ version of driver, rebooted – that failed, killed regular ethernet because it moved the IONetworkingFamily.kext driver to my desktop, removed /S/L/E/RealtekRTL81xx.kext, restored IONetworkingFamily.kext to /E/E)

Realtek 8187L driver on their site is for OSX 10.5 which some people report as working in 32bit mode, but we’re using x86_64 so just gonna leave it as not-working.

Aside form the Wifi, all the hardware seems to be working!

34 Pin IDC to 25 Pin Female D-Sub floppy drive pin mapping for Magic Super Griffin

Sun, 04 Jul 2010 21:27:03 GMT

I cracked open my Magic Super Griffin today after finding an old external floppy drive (FDD) that I wanted to hook up to it. I was expecting to have to look at chip pinouts and signals to figure out which pins were which on the 25-pin connector but to my surprise there was space on the motherboard for a 34pin IDC connector. So the signals can and pinout could be taken directly from that. The FDD controller chip on the SMG, for reference, is a socketed (!) Motorola MCS3201FN - http://www.datasheetarchive.com/pdf-datasheets/Datasheets-111/DSAP0039438.html. The datasheet reveals that the controller can handle up to 1.4M drives too.

\ 13 12 11 10 09 08 07  06 05 04 03 02 01 /
 \  25 24 23 22 21 20 19 18 17 16 15 14  /

The pins above are taken looking directory at the female pin (cable) side of the D-Sub connector.

The pins of the IDC connector are numbered from left to right, vertically, from the component side of the board.

The pin mapping is thus:

D-Sub  - IDC    - Signal     
01     - 01,03,...,33 - GND        
02     - 08           - /INDEX     
03     - 26           - /TRK00     
04     - 28           - /WPT       
05     - 30           - /RDATA     
06     - 34           - /DSKCHG    
07     - NC           - NC         
08     - NC           - +5V        
09     - NC           - NC         
10     - NC           - NC         
11     - 16           - /MOTEB     
12     - 22           - /WDATA     
13     - 24           - /WGATE     
14     - 02           - /REDWC     
15     - 32           - /SIDE1     
16     - 18           - /DIR       
17     - 20           - /STEP      
18     - 01,03,...,33 - GND        
19     - 01,03,...,33 - GND        
20     - 01,03,...,33 - GND        
21     - 01,03,...,33 - GND        
22     - 01,03,...,33 - GND        
23     - 01,03,...,33 - GND        
24     - 01,03,...,33 - GND        
25     - 01,03,...,33 - GND        
Shield - 01,03,...,33 - GND

With the above information I'm now able to make a suitable cable to connect up any standard PC floppy disk drive. I don't know which model drives are actually compatible. Though I would suggest checking out the Datasheet for the FDD controller chip. If you have any success please let me know so I can share the information with others.

BTW, If you didn't know already a Super Magic Griffin is a PC Engine console backup unit. With it you can load dumped ROM images into the SMG and then run them on your PC Engine console. The unit is basically a ROM emulator with FDD and Parallel I/O connections. They were manufactured by Front Fareast Co. Ltd. (Taiwan).

No-Fuss Tomcat 5.5 installation on OSX 10.5 (December 2009)

Tue, 01 Dec 2009 14:58:00 GMT

After a bit of googling on the topic I couldn't find a decent guide of how to install Tomcat 5.5 on OSX. Here's how I did it.

Download the apache-tomcat-5.5.28.zip zip file from 'Core' section of the Tomcat 5.5 download page from here: http://tomcat.apache.org/download-55.cgi
Download the apache-tomcat-5.5.28-admin.zip zip file from the same page

Open a terminal window.

# perform following operations as root
sudo su -

# unpack tomcat
cd /Library
unzip ~/downloads/apache-tomcat-5.5.28.zip
unzip ~/downloads/apache-tomcat-5.5.28-admin.zip
mv apache-tomcat-5.5.28 Tomcat5

# remove the holding page for the message about the admin webapp not being included by default
rm -rf /Library/Tomcat5/webapps/ROOT/admin

# create tomcat group and user
dscl . -create /groups/tomcat
dscl . -create /groups/tomcat Password "*"
dscl . -create /groups/tomcat PrimaryGroupID 498
dscl . -create /groups/tomcat RealName "Apache Tomcat Users"
dscl . -create /users/tomcat
dscl . -create /users/tomcat Password "*"
dscl . -create /users/tomcat UniqueID 498
dscl . -create /users/tomcat PrimaryGroupID 498
dscl . -create /users/tomcat RealName "Apache Tomcat Server"
dscl . -create /users/tomcat NFSHomeDirectory /var/empty
dscl . -create /users/tomcat UserShell /usr/bin/false

# Hide the tomcat user (and all other users with a UniqueID less than 500) from the Mac OS X GUI
defaults write /Library/Preferences/com.apple.loginwindow Hide500Users -bool true

# fix permissions
cd /Library
chown -R tomcat:tomcat Tomcat5
chmod +x Tomcat5/bin/*.sh

# use a text editor to create a launch script
mate /Library/LaunchDaemons/org.apache.tomcat5.plist

paste in the following xml content and save the file

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
   <dict>
       <key>EnvironmentVariables</key>
       <dict>
           <key>CATALINA_HOME</key>
           <string>/Library/Tomcat5</string>
           <key>CATALINA_OPTS</key>
           <string>
                -server
                -Xmx256m
                -Dfile.encoding=UTF-8
                -Djava.awt.headless=true
                -Duser.language=en
                -Duser.timezone=GMT+0
            </string>
           <key>JAVA_HOME</key>
           <string>/Library/Java/Home</string>
       </dict>
       <key>KeepAlive</key>
       <dict>
           <key>SuccessfulExit</key>
           <true/>
       </dict>
       <key>Label</key>
       <string>org.apache.tomcat5</string>
       <key>ProgramArguments</key>
       <array>
           <string>/Library/Tomcat5/bin/catalina.sh</string>
           <string>run</string>
       </array>
       <key>RunAtLoad</key>
       <true/>
       <key>UserName</key>
       <string>tomcat</string>
   </dict>
</plist>

Configure the tomcat users

mate /Library/Tomcat5/conf/tomcat-users.xml

paste in the following xml content and save the file

<?xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8'?>
<tomcat-users>
<role rolename="tomcat"/>
<role rolename="role1"/>
<role rolename="manager"/>
<role rolename="admin"/>
<user username="tomcat" password="tomcat" roles="tomcat"/>
<user username="both" password="tomcat" roles="tomcat,role1"/>
<user username="role1" password="tomcat" roles="role1"/>
<user username="admin" password="secret" roles="admin,manager"/>
</tomcat-users>

Finally, start tomcat

launchctl load -w /Library/LaunchDaemons/org.apache.tomcat.plist

You can now start your browser and point it to:

http://localhost:8080

You can login to both the manager application and the admin application using the username: 'admin' and the password: 'secret'