Tim Sodhi’s Weblog

Hi all, by popular demand – here are the contents of my /Extra folder, including the working DSDT.aml and the extensions (kexts) therein. These work superb on my 965P-DS4 system, and should work for those with the DS3 motherboards as well. Let me know how it goes!

http://www.mediafire.com/?4nxvnbn21lf

So I am back from an extended road-trip with former colleagues from the Netherlands. It was an enjoyable trip that took us 1300 miles from home to Catskill, New York, and Washington DC, and back again, with stops here and there. I am headed back to work after a long break, and I must admit I did miss using my brain cells the past week.

In the interim, the world has been busy releasing new apps/functionality and updates. The biggest of course being Chameleon 2 RC3. It is out, and for the selected few, it works great. It no longer errs on large drives and has full Snow Leopard support. One advantage of using it over Netkas’ 10.1 EFI is that it weeds out non-boot drives from the startup menu. Unfortunately, I haven’t had the best of luck with this version of Chameleon. It seems to oddly enough not work with my Graphics Card. As I wrote in an earlier post, I use EFI strings in my com.apple.Boot.plist for my Graphics card. The same however, does not work with Chameleon RC3. QE/CI seems to chug along just fine, but the resolution is stuck at VESA 1024×768. I refuse to use boot flags to force a resolution, and I am unable to get to the root of the issue. In the meantime, I have started using a DSDT.aml fix for my Graphics card. As a result, I now have full audio (in/out), QE/CI for my GFX card, and Gigabit LAN using my DSDT.aml. Life is indeed good.

Huzzah – Logitech is out with drivers for Snow Leopard (both 32 and 64 bit) and they work really well. Finally I can use my MX Revolution and VX Nano mice with Snow Leopard without additional hacks.

With new beta releases of DropBox, MenuMeters, Growl and the like, the migration to Snow Leopard can finally be proclaimed – a done deal.

I have often wondered where Leopard (OSX) stores the stock Wallpapers available in the Desktop Option in System Preferences. A bit of digging led me to the location.

/Volumes/’YourMacHD’/Library/Desktop Pictures/

Where ‘YourMacHD’ is the volume on which OSX is installed. I was rather surprised at first that it wasn’t under the ~ set of folders. But yeah it does make sense, it is after all a systemwide implementation/feature.