EeeMac – Updated to 10.5.7

Posted by Darren on June 13, 2009 at 8:49 am

img_0152With the release of the final version of Safari 4 it was finally time to bite the bullet and update my EeeMac to 10.5.7.

This update is required before Safari 4 can be installed and for those of you familiar with Hackintosh builds, OS updates are far from trivial and can sometimes resort in bricked systems.

However, I’m pleased to report that on this occasion it was pretty simple. I ran Software Update and selected the 10.5.7 updated, installed and rebooted. After restart the graphics were a little skewed. A quick Google took me to the enik.ch site and his EeePc install pack.

This has a 10.5.7 section with the two kexts required to correct the post 10.5.7 issues, namely AppleIntelGMA950 and AppleIntegratedFrameBuffer. A quick install of those and normal service was resumed.

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The 100HE 'Chiclet' keyboard on top of my Apple Wireless Keyboard

Now if only I could find a patched BIOS later than 0803 for my EeePC 1000 so I could make use of the 1000HE Chiclet keyboard I bought. If I connect it at the moment I variously get no boot with it hanging on the Grey Apple screen or I get a desktop after a very long wait and the ‘0′, ‘P’, ‘:’ and ‘/’ keys don’t function. A real shame as the 1000HE keyboard is a beauty. The shift key has been moved inboard of the cursor keys and it is much nicer to type on than the standard 1000 keyboard.

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