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

[Orange Mac]

I've been running the MSIwindOSX86.iso for several weeks on my NC10 with only a few annoyances. I've read through this entire thread, have downloaded all of the installation support files (just waiting for the JAS ISO to complete). In preparation for installation I have a few questions that I hope you can help me with.

Current config: US NC-10 (white), 2GB, Dell 1500, bluetooth mouse
Disk config: disk0s1=Samsung recovery (6GB FAT), disk0s2=XP (60GB NTFS), disk0s3=OS X (83GB). External DVD, external drive for Time Machine and media/movie storage

Annoyances: USB only available if USB was in use at boot, bluetooth mouse connects but cannot pair, Option and Cmd key mapping, headphone audio (would be nice to have for in-flight entertainment), external display support mirror or dual (would be nice to have)

Q1: will the solution discussed in this thread address all of the annoyances listed above (except the nice-to-haves)?

Q2: for partition cloning, would an external drive suffice?
I'm currently using Time Machine to one external drive.
I currently run OS X almost exclusively, including corporate VPN, etc.
It'd be nice to keep my current OS X partition size.
I could go to 2x40GB partitions if needed.

Thanks for your efforts... I look forward to having a cleaner, sleeker, OS X install.

[SWE-gargamel]

Annoyances: USB only available if USB was in use at boot, bluetooth mouse connects but cannot pair, Option and Cmd key mapping, headphone audio (would be nice to have for in-flight entertainment), external display support mirror or dual (would be nice to have)

Q1: will the solution discussed in this thread address all of the annoyances listed above (except the nice-to-haves)?

USB only available if USB was in use at boot [WORKS]
bluetooth mouse connects but cannot pair [DON'T KNOW]
Option and Cmd key mapping [WORKS WITH A FIX(?)]
headphone audio (would be nice to have for in-flight entertainment) [DON'T WORK]
external display support mirror or dual (would be nice to have) [WORKS]

[RealRooster]

I have been playing around with the screen brightness and I have some info to share.
With the modified kext files I'm now able to change screen brightness with terminal commands; meaning that we don't have to use ScreenShade or any similar software to dim our screens anymore.

Something I would like to know and hope that someone here could give me an answer is that where we define Fn + key button mapping. Like for volume adjustment the key mapping (Fn+ left/right arrow) is already working, where this is defined? Idea is that screen brightness could be changed by pressing Fn + Up/Down arrow.

[ Mysticus C*]

fattony:
sorry i didnt have time to do it lately working on audio and other things... it is not hard to do it either, there have been links posted couple of times... but i will update guide soon, as soon as i finish other kinks... (audio if possible, vanilla pm bundle is working so i will just add the solution to next package, dsdt implementation which will be necessary for upcoming 10.5.6 update--which also requires either chamelon bootloader installation or netkas efi v9, but i need to make it as noob friendly as possible otherwise it will be diffucult to manage by newbies/noobs)--> once all does done, i will wrap it up mate, also delaying it for 10.5.6 purposes, because i m planning on making a 10.5.6 upgrade dvd package as well so everything will be done at once, else, i will have to keep modifying adding different things which makes it hard to follow later, and will confuse some newbies...

orange mac:
usb will work just fine no worries about it
bluetooth issue is something out of my scope since i dont have any bluetooth mouse/kb to test to see what is going on... if you are planning on sending me one you re welcome to do, so i can tell u
bluetooth audio pairing would require bluetooth audio transmitter or bluetooth sound card...
you can keep your current partition size, but you can also split the osx partition into two pieces one should be 4.4 gb (for ddmac hdd installation of iso --i dont have the guide made for it yet, but there are links posted before you can read through)

I have been playing around with the screen brightness and I have some info to share.
With the modified kext files I'm now able to change screen brightness with terminal commands; meaning that we don't have to use ScreenShade or any similar software to dim our screens anymore.

Something I would like to know and hope that someone here could give me an answer is that where we define Fn + key button mapping. Like for volume adjustment the key mapping (Fn+ left/right arrow) is already working, where this is defined? Idea is that screen brightness could be changed by pressing Fn + Up/Down arrow.

if it can work with terminal, it is possible to make scripts and assigning shortcut keys for it, but i need to search a bit for keymapping for those function keys, it may be easy or difficult depending on which file or program they are defined inside...

[SWE-gargamel]

I have been playing around with the screen brightness and I have some info to share.
With the modified kext files I'm now able to change screen brightness with terminal commands; meaning that we don't have to use ScreenShade or any similar software to dim our screens anymore.

Something I would like to know and hope that someone here could give me an answer is that where we define Fn + key button mapping. Like for volume adjustment the key mapping (Fn+ left/right arrow) is already working, where this is defined? Idea is that screen brightness could be changed by pressing Fn + Up/Down arrow.

That sounds very interesting. Care to share with us how you did it?

[JPUK]

Anyone comfy doing a tutorial for installing from the HDD? Nevermind, I missed the link in #423.

Also, there is a serious lack of seeding for the ISO. Im really eager to test this but the ETA is days if not weeks!

[mudzilla]

Anyone comfy doing a tutorial for installing from the HDD? Nevermind, I missed the link in #423.

Also, there is a serious lack of seeding for the ISO. Im really eager to test this but the ETA is days if not weeks!

You might be quicker grabbing the JAS ISO, installing that then patching upwards. That's what I did and everything's been sweet.

[SL3]

I'll be ordering a white NC10 on Tuesday. This thread is partly why I've chosen the NC10 over other netbooks.

Here's to hoping we've got a fully working NC10osx86.iso before too long!

[G4-Flo]

One little stupid question:

I found out that my wireless-card is extremely slow and I'm not sure if the card is installed correctly.

When I installed the card, there were two arrows printed next to the antenna-connectors. One arrow was white an the other black. I connected the white cable to the black arrowed connector and the black cable to the white arrow....

I did it that way because the old card was connected in the same way.

Is the card installed correctly that way or do i have to connect the black cable to the black connector?

[fattony897]

fattony:
sorry i didnt have time to do it lately working on audio and other things... it is not hard to do it either, there have been links posted couple of times... but i will update guide soon, as soon as i finish other kinks... (audio if possible, vanilla pm bundle is working so i will just add the solution to next package, dsdt implementation which will be necessary for upcoming 10.5.6 update--which also requires either chamelon bootloader installation or netkas efi v9, but i need to make it as noob friendly as possible otherwise it will be diffucult to manage by newbies/noobs)--> once all does done, i will wrap it up mate, also delaying it for 10.5.6 purposes, because i m planning on making a 10.5.6 upgrade dvd package as well so everything will be done at once, else, i will have to keep modifying adding different things which makes it hard to follow later, and will confuse some newbies...

thanks and cant wait!!! keep up the gd work!!!!

[ Mysticus C*]

note for the audio: i m still working on it, but i dont really have progress yet, i also sent a post on msi forums and noone with knowledge wanna really bother joining forces...
also anyone has tried the audio installer? if so any results with external mic (second on the list)?? why no feedback?

looks like i will have to do it all by myself trying to figure out...

Warning Note for 10.5.6 update: when it comes out do not jump and update it... wait for responses from testers! there is an rtc issue keep being reported so wait and stay safe and dont be too curious unless you know what you are doing...

[srcshelton]

also anyone has tried the audio installer? if so any results with external mic (second on the list)?? why no feedback?

I've given it a try - and with the new AppleHDA.kext from your package in my EFI partition's Extensions directory (from where the Azalia kext runs successfully), I have no sound devices detected at all

dmesg reports:

CODE

AppleHDA.kext failed to load: unable to locate 'layout-id' property.

(For some reason, the file Resources/layout46.xml is thought to be binary by both 'grep' and 'file', whereas the other files in the same location are detected as text - although I can't see any embedded control-characters, and this may be entirely spurious)

[ Mysticus C*]

I've given it a try - and with the new AppleHDA.kext from your package in my EFI partition's Extensions directory (from where the Azalia kext runs successfully), I have no sound devices detected at all

dmesg reports:

CODE

AppleHDA.kext failed to load: unable to locate 'layout-id' property.

(For some reason, the file Resources/layout46.xml is thought to be binary by both 'grep' and 'file', whereas the other files in the same location are detected as text - although I can't see any embedded control-characters, and this may be entirely spurious)

did you use the installer or did you extract the file? and did it manually?

if you used installer, it should have worked
if you did it manually,

1) u need to delete the caches/com* and extensions.mkext --- this step is a must otherwise it doesnt work!
2) u also need to remove azalia audio driver

also are you using boot-132/custom extensions folder?
also are you using ncq10 dvd or your own version?

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also this is an old driver patch
new driver patch is on the works...will test it out soon... it may or may not work i dont know yet...

[adamcarter]

sorry if this is a repost, but was wondering if the LAN was a ralink

they have drivers now

http://www.ralinktech.com/ralink/Home/Support/Macintosh.html

[srcshelton]

did you use the installer or did you extract the file? and did it manually?

Yeah, I extracted the kext to my EFI partition manually - but I did ensure that the caches were cleared and the Azalia driver was removed. I'll try to check today whether some dependancy was missing - but the error message does suggest that there's something wrong with the kext's plist files rather than anything else... have you yourself tested the packaged version you uploaded, just in case some gremlin crept in during packaging?

also this is an old driver patch
new driver patch is on the works...will test it out soon... it may or may not work i dont know yet...

I'm happy to test anything that might be useful, fully working or not

Thanks for the work on this - if we can get audio and brightness (mentioned above - more details appreciated!) working, then the NC10 will be one of the best MBA alternatives around.

[G4-Flo]

Any idea for my wireless-card posted above?
The card is the same model like the Dell DW1390 and I don't know wich antenna-cable must be connected to wich port (white/black cable left or right and so on)...

Thanx

[mudzilla]

Any idea for my wireless-card posted above?
The card is the same model like the Dell DW1390 and I don't know wich antenna-cable must be connected to wich port (white/black cable left or right and so on)...

Thanx

Hi mate, I don't know if this pic will help, it's from when I had mine in pieces. That's the stock card in there...


http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3061/308025...16e3fdc08_b.jpg

[maas aa]

10.5.5 installation disc worked perfectly.

issue:

How do i enable two finger scrolling is OSX?
The option doesn't exist on my setting. only clicking and speed sliders

Thanks

[G4-Flo]

Hi mate, I don't know if this pic will help, it's from when I had mine in pieces. That's the stock card in there...


http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3061/308025...16e3fdc08_b.jpg

Thanks,

thats the point now - the old card had no marks.
But the new card has 1 coloured arrow on each connector. And if I'd connect the cables fitting to the colors of the marks, it would be vice versa to the original atheros card.

Now, almost everybody here has a dell card. How did you connect the antenna-cables?

[mudzilla]

Thanks,

thats the point now - the old card had no marks.
But the new card has 1 coloured arrow on each connector. And if I'd connect the cables fitting to the colors of the marks, it would be vice versa to the original atheros card.

Now, almost everybody here has a dell card. How did you connect the antenna-cables?

I connected my 1390 by putting the cables back in the same position they are on the picture, not trying to match up any markings or colours on the card, and seems to be fine so far.