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

[ Mysticus C*]

rudog: i will be doing it for 10.5.6 an on as well... no worry...

lupin3d: get a dell 1490 or 1500 series, they work with built in drivers... no worries anymore...

g4-flo: it is because of the smbioefi driver, it is just modified stuff... u know it is not detected as mac book air originally

CFGethHostUUIDString error is fixable, and i m working on it and will make a small package to fix it when done and let another power management driver, to use vanilla pm bundle, but understand that it doesnt make it available to use brightness etc settings...

cpu clock management requires speedstep, which i dont wanna involve... vanilla is fine at the moment...

darkgemini: the current 10.5.5 dvd if you made it, has 980 mb of free space i think, i can remove the space and make the dvd 1gb less, but i dont know if it s wise at the moment, for future packages/add-ons...

(4gb-1byte) file size is the limit for fat32 because of addressing issues... anything above that will not copy to the file system... it is file system limitation...

[fattony897]

hi all, sorry but im a newb and need to install osx directly from hd as i have no usb dvd drive. is there a guide on installing osx from a hd?

thanks for your help

[cmascatello]

MC:

Awesome work with this set of releases and patches. To have done it in so little time is one hell of an accomplishment.

One question, however. Do you have a solid way to enable and disable the headphone port? I had an MSI Wind for a few weeks and went through the various audio switching methods and eventual menu switch applet. Do any of these methods work for the NC10?

[ Mysticus C*]

fattony: read post#423

cmascatello: well mate, i have tried the script and those apps, but in a rush i didnt throughly test them all... script method works fine i first tested it and working fine.... than was testing those other apps, but in a rush while doing packages etc and dvd patch i didnt have time to finger with them but will test again to see...

g4-flo: i figured out a solution for the cfget errors... i think it works at the moment no cfgethosuuid errors for 2 hr... it should have been started immidiately normally will post some installer to test (will need people to test these so no complain, if it does not work, since it will be test... )

TO ALL OTHES: If you consider a small donation, it will help me start with the touchscreen kit install and guides for it afterwards... Like i always say, donations are not necessary but good way to appreciate time/efforts put into all those things, for the touchscreen kit project... it will ease the risks a little on my shoulder if i ve enough donations to support it... a thanx is also sufficent if you cant donate...

cheers...

[G4-Flo]

g4-flo: i figured out a solution for the cfget errors... i think it works at the moment no cfgethosuuid errors for 2 hr... it should have been started immidiately normally will post some installer to test (will need people to test these so no complain, if it does not work, since it will be test... )

WANNA HAVE! ;-)

[fattony897]

thanks for the help MC but i think ill wait for the proper guide.

[RT91]

Ordered a dell 1390
As the 1490 postage was an extra £4 so i didn't think it was worth it when i get it i'll be a full mac converty!
Only what an I.M program,flickr uploadr,and internet browsing

Anyone know any good I.M programs for mac?

[farcortex]

Small doubt...slightly offtopic.Will updating the BIOS interfere with OSX installation on samsung NC10?thank you.

[ Mysticus C*]

Small doubt...slightly offtopic.Will updating the BIOS interfere with OSX installation on samsung NC10?thank you.

cant say for sure, but in past, it had effects on some systems, some doesnt get any difference... only u can volunteer to test it..

[mudzilla]

Anyone know any good I.M programs for mac?

http://www.systemerror.co.uk/2008/10/28/wi...-and-free-apps/

[Mr_CP]

Anyone know any good I.M programs for mac?

On my old PowerBook I had either aMsn or Adium both pretty well supported and cover most clients, try those out they should both support video as well if you want to get your webcam on.

[niteman1969]

Mysticus C you are a star...

Got my NC10 all updated and running fine.

Decided against the JaS download and just updated my Installed MSIwindOSx86
with your upgrade pack and instructions....

Only scary thing that happened was some of the updates from apple after the main updates
and drivers came up with the your computer needs to restart black box.

This happened a couple of times after the main update reboots , but I carried on
and now it says my computer is up to date on apple update.

Fixed all file permissions all working fine ..... apart from i have first primary partition
as OSX drive and second primary as windows and cannot get parallels or vmware fusion to
function. The OSX drive is the active partition and I am using Darwin Bootloader as my OS
boot selector.


VMware fusion 2.1 kills the install dead and requires a reinstall.
Parallels refuses to use the bootcamp disk named Windows HD.

Apart from this and some slow disk access it is working amazingly well as
shown in the xbench results below... Again many thanks.

Results 44.25
System Info
Xbench Version 1.3
System Version 10.5.5 (9F33)
Physical RAM 2048 MB
Model MacBookAir1,1
Drive Type Hitachi HTS543216L9A300 Hitachi HTS543216L9A300
CPU Test 28.81
GCD Loop 61.48 3.24 Mops/sec
Floating Point Basic 18.60 441.99 Mflop/sec
vecLib FFT 24.54 809.72 Mflop/sec
Floating Point Library 35.64 6.21 Mops/sec
Thread Test 50.60
Computation 42.71 865.17 Kops/sec, 4 threads
Lock Contention 62.07 2.67 Mlocks/sec, 4 threads
Memory Test 76.24
System 66.49
Allocate 100.07 367.48 Kalloc/sec
Fill 84.78 4121.99 MB/sec
Copy 42.86 885.28 MB/sec
Stream 89.33
Copy 88.28 1823.46 MB/sec
Scale 86.41 1785.12 MB/sec
Add 101.35 2159.04 MB/sec
Triad 83.26 1781.07 MB/sec
Quartz Graphics Test 62.57
Line 58.51 3.90 Klines/sec [50% alpha]
Rectangle 55.14 16.46 Krects/sec [50% alpha]
Circle 48.94 3.99 Kcircles/sec [50% alpha]
Bezier 59.06 1.49 Kbeziers/sec [50% alpha]
Text 136.67 8.55 Kchars/sec
OpenGL Graphics Test 58.73
Spinning Squares 58.73 74.50 frames/sec
User Interface Test 29.29
Elements 29.29 134.43 refresh/sec
Disk Test 42.64
Sequential 87.12
Uncached Write 101.75 62.48 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Write 100.36 56.78 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Uncached Read 55.93 16.37 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Read 121.31 60.97 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Random 28.23
Uncached Write 9.59 1.02 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Write 75.87 24.29 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Uncached Read 65.64 0.47 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Read 110.59 20.52 MB/sec [256K blocks]

Will hopefully at some point soon mod in an internal usb mobile broadband dongle and if i get
the guts to maybe ruin my beloved sambook / macsung ??? Then I will buy an intel atom dualcore
desktop board and get an engineer friend of mine to do processor swap-out..

Simply put he works in aerospace industry and has all the knowledge and tools to do complex
pinpoint soldering / bga / reflows / reballs etc etc....

[ Mysticus C*]

niteman:

+ have you treid the nc10 ppf?
+ update issue of having KP is caused by not having disable kext, this happens from appleintelcpupowermanagement.kext if you have the disabler kext (which comes with nc10 dvd)
+ what you can do is while you have a system right now, use my upgrade instructions for current jas/nc10 isos and upgrade it... post #385
+ rather than mobile broadband mod, i suggest doing touchscreen mod, you can have your mobile broadband as usb in your pocket anyway... but touchscreen kit is way better and usefull
+ i doubt atom dual core will work in the same cpu part of the mobo because first it may have more connecter points? it is quite hard to do by hand soldering considering the size of these cpus it may use different bus/fsb speeds? but still may be possible to swap if your friend have all the precision tools and knowledge...

g4-flo: i will make the pm package and cfget fix today hopefully when i ve enough time and post it as a test package...

[mudzilla]

Sorry to message this again, as I didn't get an answer I don't think.

Everyone whose swapped out the wifi card, does the Network interface show as a USB Ethernet (en0), and not connect automatically, and the menubar doesn't change when you connect to a network?

Thanks!

[ Mysticus C*]

Sorry to message this again, as I didn't get an answer I don't think.

Everyone whose swapped out the wifi card, does the Network interface show as a USB Ethernet (en0), and not connect automatically, and the menubar doesn't change when you connect to a network?

Thanks!

if you used a usb card, it will show as usb, if u used one of the dell dw 1490 or 1500 series.. it should show built in... it should connect auto...

also it would be better if you did give information regarding your wireless card how can we know what you are using?

[torpie13]

Hi Mysticius,

Did you tried patching the RealTek ALC272 Audio card using this manual:
http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showtopic=127227

I did this on my ALC266 And it works like a charm.

Just everybody try to hex it

[ Mysticus C*]

torpie: i did in a different way using taruga patches but didnt work, caused kernel panics etc.. but will try this to see if it help, but i read somewhere that 272 codecs are new and not supported by applehda thats probably why it doesnt work... anyways i ll test and see how it goes, and if it works, i can put the driver in an installer just dont put too much hope on this yet...

in my opinion best way is to use azalia driver since it has the codec, it would be easier to start with... i m just speculating but it would be the logical choice, however it needs someone like taruga to work it out since he is the one behind taruga hda patcher...

[mujol]

hello Mysticus C* sorry lot of questions ^^

so I've found a french.pkg ; after installation all osx was in french , but since i did i left shutdown
when I close the nc10 or when I push power button in order to select shutdown the screen is off but the led of wifi is on (i don't have wifi cause i didn't change the card)

before the french.pkg shutdown was ok ; I don't understand

french.pkg is for leo 10.5.4 ; so this can make a difference ? (i've installed on 10.5.5)

About partition I've an USB cd recorder so I wonder if i could change partition like this :
primary 1 windows (ntfs)
primary 2 data for xp (ntfs because large files)
primary 3 data xp/mac (fat32)
primary 4 OSX

or instead of primary 2 and 3 : one logical and 2 extended
so OSX will be on primary 2

I'll use gparted for partitionning and I already have a ghost for xp with true image

At last how can I do the DVD 10.5.5 ??
I've the dvd 10.5.4 with nc10 ppf
I guess i've to do the dvd in osx but how ? (the newbee guide have to be updated ??)

thanks a lot for your work

ps : oups ; about wifi what's the best ? dell 1390 or 1490 ? (I'll buy on ebay with Uk sellers)

[mudzilla]

if you used a usb card, it will show as usb, if u used one of the dell dw 1490 or 1500 series.. it should show built in... it should connect auto...

also it would be better if you did give information regarding your wireless card how can we know what you are using?

Sorry, I should have re-stated the model number. It's a Dell 1390 Mini PCI-e card that I'd used in my Asus, and under OSX on the Asus EEE 701 worked as expected, recognised as an Apple card etc.


However, under System Profiler on the NC10, the Airport Card is listed as a Third Party Wireless Card, which explains that bit, and *always* says "Airport is currently turned off" despite having a live connection and IP address.

Wondering if this is something that's been chopped out of the JaS installer for these cards?

btw, I'm in no way questioning you or trying to be smart Mysticus, I'm immensley grateful for all your hard work, and looking forward to being able to travel back and forth from Spain with OSX on a laptop half the size of usual

[ Mysticus C*]

Sorry, I should have re-stated the model number. It's a Dell 1390 Mini PCI-e card that I'd used in my Asus, and under OSX on the Asus EEE 701 worked as expected, recognised as an Apple card etc.


However, under System Profiler on the NC10, the Airport Card is listed as a Third Party Wireless Card, which explains that bit, and *always* says "Airport is currently turned off" despite having a live connection and IP address.

Wondering if this is something that's been chopped out of the JaS installer for these cards?

btw, I'm in no way questioning you or trying to be smart Mysticus, I'm immensley grateful for all your hard work, and looking forward to being able to travel back and forth from Spain with OSX on a laptop half the size of usual

it appears to be 1390s are older and maybe slightly different than 1490... it shows third party on my system too, but doesnt have any problem with auto connecting or staying off or anything...

u can see the status on (u can even turn it off as well) and it connects to whatever network u sorted for it... once it is saved, it always connects to preferred networks in the list...

we said 1490 works better many times, but people dont listen, and go for coupld usd/gbp etc cheaper model, and have trouble...

none of the 1490-1500 owners complained so far, and so far 1390 owners are the only ones complaining... have a saying, you got what you pay for j/k... i dont know the reason behind it but 1390s have some trouble... and i didnt chop main stuffs from the system, everything comes vanilla and only certain additional drivers...