Over the past couple of months, many Leopard drivers have been released, updated, killed with OS updates, etc. To keep up with all of these changes, one must refer to 12 different posts, two encyclopedias, and a lawyer to go through all the fine. I figured “If people have to look in so many places, why not make one central location they can reference?
With that in mind, I collected the kexts from all of our other posts, and am posting them in this one guide for easy access. Note that this is not a repost of all drivers but simply links to those kexts/guides. To download a kext, just click on the name of the function you’d like to fix, ie. Audio, and you will be taken to the post for that device. In some cases, you will be taken directly to a download as there is no post associated with that driver. Is this happens then, unless indicated otherwise, Kext Helper the kexts, Repair Permissions in Disk Utility, and boot with -f on your next boot. So, in no particular order, here are the kexts that continually save your butt:
Hardware Drivers:
DSDT.aml (Replacement for Hot Corner/Sleep Trick/Alternative to Sleep Trick):
QE/CI Support on screen with Max resoluion of 1440×900 (not common):
QE/CI support for all other screens (Most common):
Ethernet (If not already working after updating to 10.5.7):
Keyboard and/or Trackpad (Only if not already working):
Miscellaneous Goodies:
Chameleon Bootloader Latest Version:
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March 28th, 2010 at 2:28 AM
Would I have to reinstall any drivers/fixes? Also, can you provide a link to the best upgrade tutorial? Again, thank you for all your help.
March 28th, 2010 at 11:15 AM
The best would of course be our upgrade guide :p. We have upgrade guides for 10.5.6, 10.5.7, and 10.5.8. Or, even more simply, all our upgrade guides can be found here.
March 28th, 2010 at 1:36 AM
I do, but it’s severely limited. It’s listed as “Mouse” and only offers tracking speed, double click speed, and left/right click options. Is there some way I can get the full fledged version on 10.5.5?
March 28th, 2010 at 1:55 AM
Unfortunately there isn’t. I definitely recommend you upgrade to 10.5.6 however; it’s extremely stable, boasts a ton of upgrade, and fixes much more than it breaks (it doesn’t break anything!). 10.5.7 was also a fairly smooth update, but users started to run into issues at 10.5.8
March 28th, 2010 at 1:30 AM
10.5.5
I was going to update all the way up to 10.5.8, but I finally got a stable system and didn’t feel like tempting fate.
March 28th, 2010 at 1:34 AM
The Trackpad Preference Pane listed above is only for systems running 10.5.6-10.5.8. You should have a Trackpad tab in your Keyboard Preference Pane.
March 27th, 2010 at 10:45 PM
The wifi works like a dream now, thank you. However, I still have one problem left; I installed the trackpad preference pane, but whenever I try to access it form the system preferences menu, it says
“Preferences Error
Could not load Trackpad preference pane.”
March 27th, 2010 at 11:13 PM
Which version of OS X are you running?
March 21st, 2010 at 12:40 AM
I can’t seem to get my wifi working on 10.5.5. Any suggestions?
March 21st, 2010 at 10:45 AM
Download this zip file and follow the included instructions. Then repair permissions in Disk Utility and reboot with the -f flag.
September 14th, 2009 at 7:53 PM
Hi Thomas,
Yes I understood what you were saying however, I must add the line as proper code as there is no reference to resolution in the file.
You gave me the answer, I just needed to locate the proper format for the file which was what I was missing.
I’ve never modified the file before and I had to be sure I used the correct format.
Below is what I’m about to try and I might also have to add the freq to this as well.
Graphics Mode
1366x768x32
If the freq is required I’ll add it like this @75 behind the 32
1366x768x32@75
Thanks for your help so far, you got me on the right road.
-Cheers
September 14th, 2009 at 8:00 PM
You most likely don’t need the frequency so try it without it first. Just make sure that when adding it to the com.apple.Boot.plist you include all the <’s and all that other funky punctuation
September 14th, 2009 at 12:40 PM
I’ll have to look around as the file you indicated above does not reference the included resolution and the actual file name has a cap B for .Boot.plist I don’t think that affects anything, but I’ll have to see what line actual needs to be added.
I’ll search around and get back on the results.
-Cheers
September 14th, 2009 at 7:27 PM
I told you to replace the line in the file with the bold resolution in my last comment. And the file you are looking for is called com.apple.Boot.plist with that capital B.
September 14th, 2009 at 4:10 AM
Any video fixes for the Dell i1545-3311 the only display option is 1024×768.
Is there anything I can do besides the common one for 1366×768 posted
here.
http://deviato.wordpress.com/2009/09/03/howto-get-1366×768-resolution-on-dell-with-leopard/
-Cheers
September 14th, 2009 at 6:39 AM
What you can do is add the lines from this file to your com.apple.boot.plist but replacing the included resolution to 1366x768x32
July 9th, 2009 at 11:24 PM
I second this. Hell, even though I use Time Machine on a gigantic 500GB drive, I still use my tiny “keychain” 8GB flash drive to hold the real keepers that I don’t want to lose in case my drive crashes and burns. Better to be safe than sorry!
July 9th, 2009 at 8:01 PM
very nice would you recommend downloading all these and putting them on a flash drive for future reference?
July 9th, 2009 at 8:04 PM
Sure. It would probably be a good idea as most of these kexts are likely to be the final versions. You can even burn then to a CD for permanent storage.