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Installing Mac OS X 10.5.8 on AMD Athlon X2

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Mac OS X 10.5.8I managed to install Mac OS X 10.5.8 on an AMD Athlon X2 system after little trouble. I’ll post the procedure to make sure if I have to do it again I can easily refer and someone trying to do the same can save the trouble. This will be composed of a series of posts, a post per step.

In the mean time find out the specifications of your box. I’m using GIGABYTE GAPM61SME-S2 motherboard with AMD Athlon X2 CPU. If your specifications are just like mine go ahead and download all the files listed bellow, otherwise download 1-3 and then look for kexts for your motherboard.

System specification

  • AMD Athlon X2 2800
  • nVidia GeForce 6100/nForce 405 chipset
  • 1 x 2 GB of DDR2 DIMM
  • On board ethernet (nForce 10/1oo Mbit)
  • Realtek ALC883 CODEC chip
  • SATA HDD (nForce sata controller)
  • USB Mouse
  • USB Keyboard
  • DVD Drive

Downloads

  1. iPC OSx86 Leopard 10.5.6 Intel AMD SSE2 SSE3 DVD (Google and find out, you will have to download via Bit torrent)
  2. Mac OS X 10.5.7 Update (http://keti.ws/95282)
  3. Mac OS X 10.5.8 Combo Update (http://keti.ws/95283)
  4. nForceLAN (http://keti.ws/94281)
  5. AppleNForceATA (http://keti.ws/95281)

Steps

  1. Patch the iPC DVD image (Otherwise the DVD will never boot)
  2. Install Mac OS X 10.5.6
  3. Remove all Intel kexts (Improves the boot time)
  4. Install Mac OS X 10.5.7 update
  5. Install Mac OS X 10.5.8 update

Await step 1, Patching the iPC DVD image tomorrow.

DVD movies on mplayer – Excellent

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I bought my self a Shrek2 (know it is old, but didn’t want to spend too much) DVD and wanted to check how well mplayer will handle it. To my surprise, there wasn’t a glitch. The movie was crystal clear. It’s as good as watching on a DVD player.

So I thought I would do more research and find out how mplayer decode the DVD so well without even loading the processor so much. To much of my surprise player does support hardware decoding of DVDs via graphic card (I have a nVidia GeForce with nVidia proprietary drivers). This is only supported in one of nVidia’s own media player when it comes to Windows, but mplayer did it.

Thanks allot for the mplayer project for a such a feature rich application.