Leopard on the HP Mini 311 : Fight Plan No.1

image from geek.pe

Like I've said before, I'm gonna go kext route as initial strategy on enabling Leopard features on the HP Mini 311 and first on the feature is Quartz Extreme.
I found this in the Project OS X forums:

Add your device ID in /system/library/extensions/NVDAResman.kext/contents/info.plist

Add your device ID in /system/library/extensions/NVDANV50Hal.kext/contents/info.plist

Find/download an injecter (any one will do, they're basically the same thing, only plists differ)

Add your device ID in (some_injecter.kext)/contents/info.plist

In the same plist, set the NVCAP string correctly and replace the IOProbeScore number by 0.

My main problem is getting the NVCAP string which I do by using NVCap app to generate a string through the ROM file for Ion which I extract by running NVflash.exe from inside Windows which I don't have installed on my Mini 311 which doesn't accept BartPE since BartPE does not support SCSI (at least my BartPE does not).

Unless I find a readily available NVCAP string for the Ion (which is essentially an nVidia 9400M) on the internet, or find an easy, far from time consuming, way to include SCSI support on my BartPE stick, it's a long shot of installing Windows on my Mini 311.



Then again, I'm not sure whether this would work or not.

Quartz Extreme at the End of the Tunnel?

I wish I didn't have MA class this Saturday so I could begin playing with NVinject, EFI strings, NVCAP etc. - all for the sake of enabling Quartz Extreme in Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard.

So far, on 10.5.6, there are 2 major points I'd like to sort out:
(1) Full graphics hardware accelaration or simply put, enable Quartz Extreme - NVinject method is first for me try
(2) Audio - sound assertions in the dsdt.aml from the HP Mini 311 Darwin Project (which supports Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard exclusively) causes freezes during boot up.

That's 2 out of a legion of "issues" I'm anticipating.

For now, as initial approach in this so-called "reconnaissance stage" with Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard on the HP Mini 311, I'm using kexts with some EFI strings approach and not dsdt.aml yet (which I hope to arrive at as finishing stages).

Gee, it's like writing my thesis again only this time, it's aiming at less abstract ends than my literature concentrated thesis in college :D