Samsung NC10 UK revision, Updates / Installation / Modding etc, stuff will be here Options

[naujoks]

Has anyone figured out a way how to keep the fan off for most of the time? Under Windows there is the Silent Mode, of course, which does a pretty nice job (although the fan does come on every now and then). It would be nice to achieve this under OSX as well, which would give me a near silent machine, as I've put in a SSD. OSX handles SSD sooo much better than Win. No lag or anything.

[ourson]

Hello

Sorry for my bad english

First i'd like to thanks all the team for the works

I try to install ideneb 1.4, installation goes well but it hangs at boot

I found the jas 10.5.6 iso that I burned.
The installation takes place and less than 15 minutes, there is an error "Setup could not validate the contents of the packet migrationassistant".
Have you an idea ?

My BIOS is configured as nc10 on the pdf and I use an external usb dvd drive to install macos

NC10 version 1270 2 gb ram

4 partitions:
1 for recovery
1 for XP
1 for data
1 for mac

Thank you for your help

[aggelopp]

Hi to everyone!
First of all i want to thank you, and especially Mysticus, for the great job you're doing!
Everything works great on my NC10 with OSX installation.
The only problem i have and it's really bothering me, is that everytime my netbook wakes from sleep, brightness is very low and i have to increase it through hot keys!
I read that there is a solution for this with use of Sleepwatcher. The command i have to add goes like that:
"reggie_se -D PCI -i 16 -r -a 0xF4 -B 32 2>&1 | grep 'Offset' | cut -d 'x' -f 3 | cut -d ' ' -f 1 > /etc/last_brightness"
and it says
"(Change 16 to be your PCI number.)"

But....what is my PCI number?? How can i find it??
Can anyone help me with this??

[Skashion]

You have to create two separate AppleScripts to execute tiomo's functions. In the following examples 'change-brightness.sh' script is stored in Scripts folder but you can save it in any folder you want, just adjust the folder paths accordingly.

First script is to increase the brightness:
do shell script "/Library/Scripts/change-brightness.sh set + 25" password "..." with administrator privileges

Second script is to decrease the brightness:
do shell script "/Library/Scripts/change-brightness.sh set - 25" password "..." with administrator privileges

NOTE:
"..." must be changed to your user password

After you have created the mentioned AppleScripts, store them e.g. in the same folder what you used earlier for the 'change-brightness.sh'.

In QuickSilver application you can then assign keyboard shortcuts for your AppleScripts by using Custom Triggers -functionality.

Hopefully this helps.

Thsnk you very much. Works like a dream!  And also thanks to the original change-brightness script poster. 

[ourson]

So finally I install the 10.5.6 version ideneb -> impossible to boot top
Without training I then installed the JAS over and since it works

[Aligor]

Hi guys,

I tried to look for the fileson the internet but it doesn't work at all. Please can someone send me the files AppleACPIPS2Nub.kext , ApplePS2Controller.kext. I don't want to reinstall the OS because I download some soft like switching Internal speakers <-> Headphones for example and I don't remember where I found it. It took me a lot lot lot of time to find it, so I don't want to lost my time again :s. Please.

Thanks a lot .

[niteman1969]

Just to let you guys know although it is not strictly on topic......

Used CleanMyMac on my machine today and it gets rid of all the ppc part of universal programs
as well as all unwanted language files and seems to have sped up the nc10 quite a bit including
speeding up office 2008.

Boot times of OSX however remain unaffected.

[Johnny V]

I've made a custom "About this Mac" logo for the Samsung.

The "How to install" is below...installation credit goes to mtotho in his first post: http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=83689

1.) Go to /System/Library/CoreServices (manually, not in terminal)
2.) Find the file "loginwindow", Right click--Show package contents.
3.) Then browse to /Contents/Resources. You should now be in a folder with images.
4.) Find the one Labeled "MacOSX.tif" and back it up somewhere.. then delete if from its' normal spot.
5.) Download the attached file from this post, (MacOSX.tif)
6.) Drag it to the /Contents/Resources Folder and authenticate.
7.) Now simply log out then log back in, and your new image will be there.

Edit: I've edited the attached logo as I forgot to turn off a layer for transparency. Should look better without gray box around logo.

Attached File(s)

 MacOSX.tif.zip ( 86.13K ) Number of downloads: 0
 Picture_1.png ( 25.45K ) Number of downloads: 69

 

[niteman1969]

Very nice thank you very much for that logo, working well here.

Great work being done by everyone here even on the little touches.
The NC10 is becoming a near perfect OSX machine for me.

Only the sleep and sound driver stuff to go....lol

I am using a bluetooth headset for skype and for the time being
sleep is not really an issue that bugs me too much.

All in all very happy with my NC10.


Regards

Niteman1969

[ Mysticus C*]

good work johhny... well done...

[ Mysticus C*]

added Johnny's logo as an installer to nc10 files folder for less-abled people

[agn0stic]

hi everyone.

above all, i'd like to thank Mysticus and everyone else for sharing their knowledge an being so helpfull (and polite, even when answering the same questions for the bazillionth time).

may this be usefull to someone as semi-skilled as me and/or amusing to those more knowing :

got the NC10-osx86 working on my NC10 (Model NC10-KA06DE).
trackpad works with the trackpadfull package, no scrolling but for now i can live with scrolling by arrow-buttons (had to do so under linux for years, so i'll just wait 'till one of the wizards gets that working)
wifi doesn't work however (tried several tutorials, leading to several complete new reinstallations of the os, and finally ordered a dell wifi-card. if anyone's interested i'll tell how it worked when it arrives)
speakers are fine, missing the headphone-jack though (voip-ing with headphones would be nice), ext. mic's ok.
keyboard layout is funny (got a german keyboard: e.g. option+L for @ should be option+Q, option+8 gives me { instead of [ etc.) - not really a problem but if someone knows a step by step tutorial for remapping the keyboard i'd be gratefull for a link.

yesterday i modded the dock (wanted it black), after that the NC10 rebooted fine several times, but today i didn't even get to the bootloader - only saw "... com.apple.Boot.plist not found".
TimeMachine wouldn't start from DVD and my carboncopycloner-backup didn't boot either (should've tried booting that one before i really needed it, damn ).
booting ubuntu or partedmagic from usb didn't work for copying the .plist --> hfs+ volumes are read only
booted from usb, ran diskutility, repaired permissions and disks: no effect
-took a break, got some fresh air, and some calories-

booted from usb (NC10 install-dvd), F8 for options, rd=disk0s1
screen resolution was screwed, but that didn't bother. time-machine started but didn't run properly (saw one finder-window, but only one, no space-pic, no arrows etc).
copied the .plist from my ccc-backup to /Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/
reboot: same error
booted from usb again, restored the files i changed when modding the dock
reboot: no luck
booted from usb, ran osx86tools, repairing permissions
didn't fix it either.

what finally solved the problem was using the NC10-install-dvd for booting into the installation (F8, rd=disk0s1) and using osx86tools for running fdisk and reinstallig the darwin-bootloader

and after reading several extreeemly helpfull posts elsewehere along the lines of "ah well, if you get that error you're screwed, go buy a real mac"... well my that was my 2 ct. :-]

cheers
agn0stic

__________________________________________
sol omnibus lucet !

[naujoks]

I thought I provide some feedback with the touch screen from TouchKit.
In one word: It's a complete piece of rubbish.
Most problems I had might have stemmed from a faulty controller board: the mouse was always stuck at one side and moved quickly back there once touching the screen somewhere.
I magaged to get it to work for a few days, but today it was back to the old fault, so ripped it out, breaking it in the process, but I didn't care. A costly lesson learnt.
There are two downsides to even when it was working though, which makes me less sad about it:
The touch accuracy was terrible; using the scroll bars was virtually impossible, and precise clicking wasnt really possible either. This might have to do with some space between the touch screen and the TFT, I'm not sure. Also, the touch screen makes the screen glossy, which is much worse than the original nice screen finish. It also attracts a lot more dust.
So, with these things, even if it had continued to work, I wouldn't have been too happy. You can actually see on the youtube videos that people have difficulties with the screen. It's certainly not as nice as a built in one. So my advice: Hands off.

[NSCXP2005]

Does anybody know how to get Chameleon 2.0 RC1 working with XP?

I keep getting a erro about missing Boot.INI file.

Please can somebody help.

NSCXP2005

[ Mysticus C*]

I thought I provide some feedback with the touch screen from TouchKit.
In one word: It's a complete piece of rubbish.
Most problems I had might have stemmed from a faulty controller board: the mouse was always stuck at one side and moved quickly back there once touching the screen somewhere.
I magaged to get it to work for a few days, but today it was back to the old fault, so ripped it out, breaking it in the process, but I didn't care. A costly lesson learnt.
There are two downsides to even when it was working though, which makes me less sad about it:
The touch accuracy was terrible; using the scroll bars was virtually impossible, and precise clicking wasnt really possible either. This might have to do with some space between the touch screen and the TFT, I'm not sure. Also, the touch screen makes the screen glossy, which is much worse than the original nice screen finish. It also attracts a lot more dust.
So, with these things, even if it had continued to work, I wouldn't have been too happy. You can actually see on the youtube videos that people have difficulties with the screen. It's certainly not as nice as a built in one. So my advice: Hands off.

sorry to hear your bad luck with this... the one i have is quite nice and responsive! seriously very usable and scroll etc everything working fine... accuracy and sensitivity can be something adjusted/calibrated i think, i didnt have any issue with lag of pointer, or scrolling etc...

but it is possible that you may have one of the fake/cheap cloned controllers which on the touch controller's web site i saw warning for! they mentioned exactly same detailed problems as you are talking about!

[qwerty100]

Just to let some of you know, you do not need more then 1 partition for mac.

I have

1: Recovery (6gb)

2: Windows 7 (60Gb)

3: Data Storage NTFS (50gb)

4: Mac OS X HSF+ (32gb)

I assume:

TimeMachine parttiton is for back ups

ddmac is to use to install mac os if u dont have usb DVDrom.

I use windows boot loader to auto boot win7 in 3 seconds or i can click mac os and get darwin boot loader which allows u to boot mac (you cannot remove darwin as i found out)

Thanks to Mysticus C 10.5.6 DVD

[naujoks]

sorry to hear your bad luck with this... the one i have is quite nice and responsive! seriously very usable and scroll etc everything working fine... accuracy and sensitivity can be something adjusted/calibrated i think, i didnt have any issue with lag of pointer, or scrolling etc...

but it is possible that you may have one of the fake/cheap cloned controllers which on the touch controller's web site i saw warning for! they mentioned exactly same detailed problems as you are talking about!

That's interesting! Could you point me to that website where it says that?
I've actually been in contact with the manufacturers and they're about to send me a new PANEL (not controller though). Trouble is, I have already found out the definitely the controller is at fault: when I disconnected the panel and only the controller was plugged in, the mouse pointer was still behaving irratically.

[ Mysticus C*]

voodoohda when deemed dead by many incl me, has been alive and posted!

i will post an installer for this in the nc10 files section shortly...

[tutti]

sorry to hear your bad luck with this... the one i have is quite nice and responsive! seriously very usable and scroll etc everything working fine... accuracy and sensitivity can be something adjusted/calibrated i think, i didnt have any issue with lag of pointer, or scrolling etc...

but it is possible that you may have one of the fake/cheap cloned controllers which on the touch controller's web site i saw warning for! they mentioned exactly same detailed problems as you are talking about!

ditto here, the one i have works great..

[ Mysticus C*]

voodoohda installer is in nc10 files already... enjoy voodoohda release by voodoo team...

+ hp/spk switching works without any additional stuffs to finger with...
+ only external mic working, internal mic somehow not amplified or some encode/decoder codec issue ??