I have recently upgraded my AAO to Leopard and am quite happy with it. Unfortunately my MacBook thinks it’s a Mac Pro and shows the icon accordingly in my shares list. It’s a small detail, but I don’t like it. I have created a small icon to solve this problem.

The following will change the Mac Pro icon of your AAO on the client side and as a consequence all Mac Pro’s will show as an AAO.. All instructions are to be followed on your other macs running Leopard, not on the Acer. (blank line means end of command, so two lines below each other are part of the same command)
1. Download the icon.zip as attached to this post. Unzip the file manually if needed.
2. Open the terminal and enter the following commands.

mv ~/Downloads/icon/Acer\ Icon.icns ~/Downloads/icon/com.apple.AAO.icns

sudo cp ~/Downloads/icon/com.apple.AAO.icns /System/Library/CoreServices/CoreTypes.bundle/Contents/Resources/

cd /System/Library/CoreServices/CoreTypes.bundle/Contents/Resources/

sudo cp com.apple.macpro.icns com.apple.macpro.icns.bak

sudo cp com.apple.AAO.icns com.apple.macpro.icns

3. Reboot

Please be careful with the commands in the Terminal: if you don’t understand what you’re doing you might be at risk! 

Icon.zip

I’ve been looking for a Tiger install DVD for the Aspire One for a while as Leopard’s footprint is a bit too big for the One (6,9GB vs 4GB). Unfortunately the releases I tried (JaS, XxX, Kalyway, etc) didn’t boot.. Now finally I have found one! It’s a release of 10.4.5 and I’m installing as I type. I’ll update this post as soon as I get some results!

Here is a link to a site with more info on this release.

Update after the break

After booting into the system (which seemed quicker than Leopard on the AAO), I tried to install the RTGMac v 2.0.0 driver to get ethernet working. That turned out to be a bad idea, as it gave me kernel panics when booting. Even safe mode and single user mode didn’t work any more.

This release does not have the correct UVC driver and PS2 driver, which means webcam and touchpad and keyboard do not work correctly after install. These drivers should be copied from another release. I have tried the PS2controller.kext from another release and it works fine, you can download it here. 

The instructions for Leopard (described here) are not working in Tiger, so no audio, video and ethernet support for now..

What’s not working (long list )

• Ethernet
• Webcam
• Airport
• Sound
• Native resolution / QE / CI
• Sleep
• Card reader

Lot of work to do!
Apparently the Atom chip is correctly recognized!

Screenshot Tiger on AAO