Snow Leopard 10.6.2 Released

The 10.6.2 Update is recommended for all users running Mac OS X Snow Leopard and includes general operating system fixes that enhance the stability, compatibility, and security of your Mac, including fixes for:

PC EFI v10.5

New in release:

• Automatic detection of pci root uid value(for GraphicsEnabler and ethernetbuiltin options) based on parsing DSDT.aml file (if you dont use custom DSDT.aml, you will need to use -pci1 flag in case you have uid=1) .
  

HPETDevice kext

This kext creates HPET device in ioreg, so you dont need(if you need) to edit DSDT to get it.
You can use it if you want to get HPET device in ioreg and are lazy to edit DSDT.

Intel GMAX3100 and GMA950 Sleep Display Solution

As so many people get problems on GMAX3100 and GMA950 driver for mac os x, and black screen problem, I'm here to share a complete solution which works fine for me after each os update with vanilla kexts.

PC EFI V10.4 Released

New version of chameleon based booter includes these new abilities:

• GraphicsEnabler now supports Radeon hd 2/3 series too, but only for Leopard
• GraphicsEnabler now set up bin_image property for all radeon hd cards found in system, should fix 100% fan speed issue.

Download Kexts for Snow Leopard 32/64 Bits

In preparation for users moving to Snow Leopard, I’d like to share a collection of KEXT files I believe people will find quite useful. Be aware these drivers are to be used with Snow Leopard ONLY and have been compiled for x86_x64 architecture unless noted.

AppleVIAATA & AppleNForceATA for Snow Leopard

SuperVIAATA
A new one for Snow Leopard, with controller name Support.
Build in Snow Leopard in x86_64 and with the newest compiler.

Download Themes For Chameleon

Just move to the themes folder which is in the extra folder and that folder is in the root of your Mac partition then edit the com.apple.boot.plist which should also be in the extra folder and put the following (with out the quotes)

“<key>Theme</key>
<string>Boot_Camp</string>”

Or use this application to change boot theme SetBootTheme

VMware Fusion 2.0.6

What's New

VMware Fusion 2.0.6 is a maintenance release of VMware Fusion 2. It is a free upgrade for all VMware Fusion 1 and VMware Fusion 2 customers, and provides the following enhancements:

• Fixes multiple issues when running VMware Fusion 2.0.x on Mac OS X Snow Leopard (32-bit kernel mode)

Dell Latitude D630 Kexts for Snow

Extensions:
AppleACPIBattery Manager Battery meter in menubar
Fakesmc This is better compensation for dsmos.kext. If you have DSMOS.kext remove it before install
NullCPUPowerManagement Fix for Intel Power Managment Kernel Panic

ACPI DSDT Table

I started diving into all this wired ACPI-DSDT stuff. The ACPI-Spec has more than 700 pages! Part of the ACPI is the DSDT. DSDT is an acronym for Differentiated System Description Table. This table contains the Differentiated Definition Block, which supplies the information and configuration information about the base system.

VoodooTSCSync for Snow Leopard

Voodoo TSC sync Kext, fixes "stutter" when using both cores on most Dell laptops.
This is for a core2duo only.

FakeSMC V2

Updated version of fakesmc includes new features:
fakesmc2.0 for snow leopard
fakesmc2.0 for leopard

First update to Snow Leopard 10.6.1

Apple has released 10.6.1, the first update for Snow Leopard.
Mac OS X 10.6.1, a recommended update for all Mac OS X 10.6 users, contains general operating system fixes that enhance the stability, compatibility and security of Macs.
The update is available as a 75.1MB download (currently via Software Update only).

Little Snitch 2.2 released (Snow compatible)

This version is compatible with Snow Leopard (Mac OS X 10.6).

What's new in 2.2

• Support for 64-bit kernels has been added.
• Little Snitch's Connection Alert displays more process attributes in detail view.
  

DSDT simple editor v1.2.4

The EvOsx86 team has graciously translated their DSDT app, “DSDTSE” to English recently. For people looking to get into DSDT editing, this is a wonderful toolset to get you started.

x64 Virtual Machine - Sun's Virtual Box

At this point in time neither Parallels Desktop or VMware Fusion has a Snow x64 capable build of their software. However, with the release of Sun’s Virtual Box 3.0.4, x64 enabled Snow Leopard

Chameleon 2.0-RC2 is available with new features

New options

GraphicsEnabler will detect your NVIDIA graphics card and setup the necessary device-properties at runtime. These values injected to the IODeviceTree are needed to make the NVIDIA drives working properly. You also need to disable your hardwired device-properties key in your boot.plist (generated by EFIStudio for example) and remove other “enabler” kexts for your graphics card (NVEnabler, Natit, NVinject, etc).

Basics of OSX86

This guide for noobs of OSX86 who are interested to run MacOSx on their P.C. Most comes from windows platform and never heard about Kernel,Kext,Vanilla etc. Lets take a quick look.