S10 Snow Leopard Enabler 1.1.16

[vaniii]

The S10 Snow Leopard Enabler lets you easily install your vanilla retail Snow Leopard on your S10, including full graphics acceleration, sound, AirPort, Trackpad preference panel for two-finger scrolling, volume and brightness controls, and sleep.

Please do NOT install 10.6.2 or 10.6.3 before you have installed the latest version of the Enabler

Installation boils down to:

• Update your firmware to 14CN94WW or later (if your model is supported by it). Firmware 14CN94WW or later required for fan control and brightness to work.
• Format destination hard drive
• Restore Snow Leopard DVD to USB installation medium. Please buy it, don't steal Mac OS X!
• Install the Enabler package to USB installation medium. The installer will not work on Tiger or earlier systems!
• Install Snow Leopard using the enabled USB installation medium
• Boot the newly installed system
• Be free to run Software Update

The Enabler is free, but you can make me happy with a donation. You decide what it's worth to you.



Download with instructions

It is possible to install newer versions of the Enabler "over" older ones without reinstalling the OS.
Updating the OS should normally not require you to re-install the Enabler, though.

This is built on the shoulders of giants, combining the various pieces, adding a bit here and there and giving it some polishing touches. Thanks go to all the people who contributed to make this happen.

Known issues:
If you get an "0xdeadbeef" error, disable quick start in BIOS (Quick Start=No). If you get flaky mouse behavior or random "0000" appear on screen during wake-up from sleep, then you need to press the Shift key.

Changelog:
1.1.16 Fix backlight issue on wake by using framebuffer from 10.6
1.1.15 Ready for 10.6.4, new SleepEnabler
1.1.14 Automatically disable "Use secure virtual memory" during installation,
Enabler checks for MacOS X 10.5 Leopard (Intel), improved audio (no more driver reloading on wake),
microphone, lid sleep under 10.6.3 (thanks meklort)
1.1.13 Ready for 10.6.3, new SleepEnabler and bootloader that patches the kernel on-the-fly (thanks meklort)
1.1.12 Revert to VoodooHDA 0.2.1 (no microphone but less crashes after sleep)
1.1.11 Should fix crash on wakeup
1.1.10 Bootable USB installation medium can be created on Leopard and Snow Leopard
1.1.9 Working internal microphone
1.1.8 Fix another yellow exclamation mark bug in Atom Kernel Patch
1.1.7 Fix another yellow exclamation mark bug
1.1.6 Fix yellow exclamation mark error when installing the system from bootable USB installation medium
1.1.5 Fix yellow exclamation mark error when creating bootable USB installation medium
1.1.4 Allow for 10.6.2 to be installed (install Enabler first, reboot, then it is safe to update to 10.6.2)
1.1.3 Enable Boot Camp Assistant
1.1.2 Can switch from ISO to ANSI keyboard layout by editing ApplePS2Keyboard's Info.plist
1.1.1 Fix grey screen after boot, fix sometimes missing sound, fix lock before spinner (UHCIreset)
1.1 Slipstream Enabler into USB installation medium, improved Trackpad driver by Meklort
1.0.15 Fix installer when using Leopard, fix FN-(key to the right of left shift key)
1.0.14 Allow installation to disks with MBR partition scheme; fix missing QE/CI
1.0.13 Ericsson F3507g Mobile Broadband (3G/UMTS) support
1.0.12 Graphical bootloader (press F8 to get the device selector)
1.0.11 Generate /Extra/DSDT.aml on the fly, this should solve problems with non-1GB RAM machines
1.0.10 Improved installer experience, bugfix in 27ae installation
1.0.9 Allow Bluetooth to be disabled, enable existing GMA950 kexts for 27ae
1.0.8 Simplified installation process - no more Terminal commands needed
1.0.7 Improve bootloader installation by always installing boot0 (maybe fixes some boot problems)
1.0.6 Really fix crackling sound after sleep
1.0.5 Fix crackling sound after sleep
1.0.4 Fix regular sleep, thanks meklort
1.0.3 OS Updates should no longer break QE/CI (tested with 10.6.1)
1.0.2 Fix blinking "_" on boot by properly setting partition active
1.0.1 Fix broken Bootloader symlink

[lemming]

Nice - Will give it a go on my s10e now

[intommy]

I am try it.. but.. while i am tryin make boot see only in package this:

Maybe i am doin somethin wrong? And what format on USB partition? Mac Journaled?
Thanks for ur time .)
See like in ur package only Shortcut from Bootloader?

[vaniii]

Fixed in 1.0.1

[kennykilla]

Great news!
It looks very easy to install and promising.
The one really useful but missing thing is sleep mode. But i think it's a matter of time for such guru like you
Will try this at home.

[intommy]

thanks for fast reply. I am testin "ur way" today

[maxxor]

before I try it.
Does the integrated 3G module work? If not, can I just try the instructions posted elsewhere here to install it?

[kennykilla]

BTW what are the requirements to firmware version?
Did you really experienced any problems with old versions?

[NOX]

when I try to boot to the usb it just hanges at what looks like a dos promt with nothing on it...just a blinking _ at the upper left hand side.. any clue whats going on here?

[vaniii]

The one really useful but missing thing is sleep mode. But i think it's a matter of time for such guru like you

Deep Sleep should work right out of the box (remember to disable secure virtual memory and to reboot). I also have normal sleep working but since that requires changing an apple-provided file (which I feel is not a clean solution and can easily break) I did not include it in the enabler.

before I try it.
Does the integrated 3G module work? If not, can I just try the instructions posted elsewhere here to install it?

It shows up in the Network preference panel, but you have to configure it. Since this is different depending on your provider, the Enabler doesn't do that for you. You'll need to use a modem script and instructions found elsewhere.

BTW what are the requirements to firmware version?
Did you really experienced any problems with old versions?

I used the latest available one, 14CN94WW. Earlier versions had the following issues: kernel panic when used without "cpus=1", brightness and volume controls did not work, fan control did not work properly.