Mysticus or Niteman or anyone else who might be able to help:

I'm at 10.5.6, using MSIWindos86x, upgraded from 10.5.4 with the help of Mysticus' NC10 fix. (Thanks Mysticus!).

Everything is working well, except for one thing: I lost my sound

Now, I installed the chud package via Biketown, but didn't know what to do with it - so realize I may have messed up my sound (or not) by loading it.

I also may have messed up my sound in the upgrade to 10.5.6 as well.

Is there a simple fix for me to get my sound back? Could it be as easy as using Mysticus' 10.5.5 fix and making sure the correct sound driver is checked (but making sure not to check anything else)?

Also, any word on how to make chud work would be appreciated.

Thanks to Mysticus and everyone else working hard on the OSX install on the nc10.

EDIT 1/2/09: Just found the AzaliaAudio.pkg and reloaded it. Worked a charm.

It's not perfect, but the best fix is to add the 'RealTimeIsUniversal' registry key to Windows:

http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/mswish/ut-rtc.html

Untrue, I'm pleased to say!

One of the kexts that you are using may be causing this - but on my machine (which has only AppleDecrypt, replacement PS2 drivers, AppleAzaliaAudio, and AppleACPIBatteryManager) the system fan only spins up during heavy processing/activity. During normal usage, this is rare and usually occurs only for short lengths of time - for the most part of machine is totally silent.

Well that's just a small heat-sensor attached to your cpu-heatsink/fan. It doesn't affect processor speed at all.. your cpu will always run at 1.6 gHz when using osx. And if I'm not totally wrong you will notice that, when using windows, the fan will stop blowing at all at some times, and that's when the cpu's running at lower speeds and won't need any additional fan-cooling at all.
So it's not really Power Management when your fan goes faster sometimes, because it noticed that your cpu got warmer .

Cheers,
iXXn

did anyone try installing a touch screen yet? i am thinking about getting this

please help me install stock wi-fi. It's not work.

Is it possible to enable scrolling with the trackpad? I installed the trackpad-driver from biketown, but with this i can only enable Clicking.  I dont want to have multitouch, but scrolling within the right zone would be great.

@ Iscander1980: As more than often posted here - Stock Wifi does not work on OS X. Buy a Dell and you will get it working OOB.

@ -benir: No, at this time there is no native solution, but please read the forum, there are some ideas or ways to get multitouch work.

I don't know why some people don't read this topic. I've read every single page and I think after this I'm no longer asking stupid or already answered questions.

G4-Flo: Could not be Agreed more

I have added answers to some of those questions, and some noobs never learn... (NOOBS i say, because Newbies, although new to all these things, they read first before they post, NOOBs on the other hand, always jumps tolast page and read no single line, and start wasting space...)

Believe it or not, I had to argue with many noobs so many times, in my other topics for the same behaviour... I m usually told to be stupid to tell them to read...

@G4-Flo  thanks, but i didnt ask für multitouch... only for the right scrollpanel

i think this is a forum and if there are 51 pages you couldnt expect from everyone to read every single page. I used the search but with no result, so i asked one "stupid" question...  

Did you drink too much yesterday so your head is going to explode, or why are so unpleasent? 

I've been running my NC10 with 10.5.6 for a week now, I still can't believe what a great job Mysticus and others have done. As others have said, trackpad scrolling aside this machine is almost perfect!

A question about software update... besides the major OS point updates, is it safe to install everything else? e.g. Java, airport updates? I'm scared to break my installation has anyone had any troubles?

Also, posted this a few pages back but no response yet - if there's an SD card in the slot when it's put in sleep mode, the NC10 won't wake from sleep. Any workarounds for that?

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

Why not? We are not your personal helpdesk. Please put a little effort into finding the answers that are already in this thread. It ain't rocket science...

Cheers


Oh, by the way: a dutch newspaper has labeled the NC10 'Netbook of the year 2008'. Yay!

Sorry, but if you would search this thread using words like "Scrolling, Trackpad etc." you would have found all the answers you need!
Yes, you are right, this is a forum. And what's the first thing you should at a forum? Read the forum. After this, if you don't find answers? Ask.

Nobody will be unpleasent if you're asking AFTER reading.

And guy, your argument that we are on page 51 fails. If you would have tried to read a bit here you would have found the answer within the first 10 pages.

As Mysticus said - With such posts we are wasting space and time.

the problem was i did not find any answer of this thread when i was using the search with the keyword "scrolling" so i thougt it wasnt mentioned yet! Maybe im not able to use the search correctly, i dont know.. 

Then i was asking, if somebody knows to activate scrolling... and i got rather an insult than an aswer.

So im sorry for wasting your time and the space!

benir: no point of arguing about issues that are already mentioned in first post already... please get a habit of reading first posts and learn to use google...

if u dont do it, u ll be told off in any topic

im sorry. Next time i will do it better. I was just suprised about the reaction concerning my question...

So am i wright, when i say, that for the scroll panel there will be no solution in the nearby future, but for multitouch there is a workaround?

look you are not the first noob here and probably not the last either... some questions have been answered over and over again and again... this is an annoying thing... i understand you are excited about your software, but be clever! read through things, before you post something... there is no propar answer to your question, and it has been mentioned already. You still insist on your point...

You are wrong in your argument as well as your comments...

Noone has a duty to entertain you, and this is no MacDonalds where you just order and in two minutes it will be ready to be eaten...

You gotta learn to search as well... Everynow and then, people argue about not finding things through search because IM search function is completely non - functional or very poorly implemented... if you want something bad, go to google, and type in "insanelymac whatever your problem or subject is" and see if it grabs anything...

If 50 pages are written and you dont read it, do use google, else dont post! You didnt read through topic, and you dont really wanna read it either, and you dont know how to correctly search at all, and want a quick answer fix... That is the type of behaviour which will put you in nasty situation...

I can only agree with you mate , when i had to rebuild my osx because of a stupid mistake
i had to re-read about 30 pages to make sure i didn't miss anything.

The information is in the thread for all those that are not too lazy to read.

Regards

Niteman1969

I had this problem, just make sure the time zone settings are the same in both osx and winxp

I got the Dell 1490 wireless card and installed it tonight. I tried using the Dell driver for XP, but it says I don't have compatible hardware. Does anyone have a link to the Broadcom driver for XP?

Mysticus let me handle this...
ok... for those having trouble getting thei nc10 up and running. If you have an older distro or a different distro make a back up, and clean install the Mysticus nc10 follow the version 2 pdf its pretty easy he really took all the thinking out of it. You cant expect Mysticus to help you fix a problem that is probably linked to a different distro.

Now tuckers...I know you are probably a mac user so i will go easy on you... and not yell...
Go to add new hardware in win xp, it will recognize the wifi card and ask to search online for drivers click the no I have the disk option and select the folder where you unziped the 1490 you downloaded there will be a folder called driver once you do that windows will search for the broadcam driver and install it done.

if that doesnt make sense then stay out of the XP side. if you have a 1505 card like me, same procedure just download the 15xx driver installer. that simple. I am sorry to be an ass on here. but I read each post and many people just discovering this forum chime in on thr 51st page havent read 1-50. I know its a lot of cr@apola to go thru so here are some helpful tips I saved them for last as you guys seem to read the end before reading the beginning.

If you want a flawless install read download the pdf version 2 and read it 3 times I dont care if you understand it on the first run read it three times. then install. if once the install is finished you still have problems start on the beginning of this forum and read every post

if someone asks again about multi touch or drivers for original lan or original wifi. I may go insane.
Let mysticus or his boy finish the last 2 things being worked on.

Sorry mysticus I had to say it.. I dont like it when people get snippy on n00bs, I have been yelled at quite a lot in my day. You did a marvelous job putting this a together. But I needed to put in my 2 cents. If I offended anyone suck it up... you'll live.

This is a fantastic thread, im hooked! but its grown the last month and its now so time consuming to go through every page.

how about we create a wiki or faq for those just joining?

Hello!

I know i had a really bad start...

And im sorry for that, im really thankfull for the hard work you have done to get macosx working on the NC10! And i know you have more important things to do than answering to all the repeating questions. 

But now i have a problem where i couldnt find an answer in a lot of threats and topics, and maybe you can help me:

i want to use the headphone switch, so i installed the CHUD from Biketown. But for this development tool i dont find a script.

Then i found a shell script which was made for the MSI Wind and edited by a user called adie to work for the NC10, but this one doesnt work for me(it breaks with an error "unaligned base adress"). I tried in the way described here , without the quicksilverpart. Normally i use Linux so i know how to handle with the terminal... Maybe because it was created for the MSIWindosx86.iso and there are different drivers?

Can anybody give me a link to a working script to switch between headphones and internal speakers? This would be great!

Thanks a lot!

I would just like to say a massive thanks Mysticus...exceptional work. Thanks to you I have a dual booting superfine NC10...and a few jealous friends.

Great work...and keep it up in 09...LAN drivers and full audio cant be far away!

hey mysticus, just a heads up, looks like the latest beta of the next OS is on piratebay. I know we still have awhile, wondering if you needed to check it out so when it is released the transition will go smooth.. anyway.. enjoy your vacay with wife

i may take a look at it as soon as i have time to finger around... at the moment, it is family time

lol mate people already asking for snow leopard...
why waste your time with a beta?

If it was full retail final then i could see the attraction, but not beta..

regards

Niteman1969

it's called looking forward.

new appltv and mini reported coming out. Not sure about mini, but appletv reported on having an atom processor. could have more native support, something to look ahead to you know dip your toes in, get your feet wet. I am not asking for a Snow leopard NC10 iso. but like blade said a lil tooling around couldnt hurt...

There may not be much benefit to loading Snow Leopard on Atom-based machines. The 64-bit OS is the real draw with SL and the Atom, if my memory is correct, is not a true 64-bit CPU. We would save on smaller file sizes for the Applications (Intel-only and streamlined codebase), but this is supposed to be a speed/engine overhaul release rather than the usual feature-rich Apple 10.x versions. Of course, we should know more about what is in store next week after the Macworld keynote...

I just got my Dell DW1490 WLAN card and installed it. Works great in Mac OS, no problems at all. HOWEVER, I guess I need a driver to hook it up on the XP side. Can someone hold my hand and walk through the details? I can't seem to get any of the Dell drivers I've downloaded to work. Maybe a specific driver version to start?

The only thing confusing about installing the DW 1490 is that it appears the wire terminals are reversed from the OEM card. The Dell card had a sticker that had a black circle at one terminal and a white circle at the other, and I assumed that meant "hook the black wire to the black dot" and vise-versa....

for XP first connect to internet using ethernet and then search for windows update, you will find a hardware update available as broadcom wireless install update and reboot.In vista it will work out of the box.OR if u install xp after installing the card it will work automatically.

Yeah, first I had the same question. But that's correct, black cable to white port and vice versa. Don't know why the colors are vv, but if you compare on some pictures of the stock card and the Dell, you will find aux and main printed next to the ports. And aux and main are at the same position on both cards, just the color is vv.

Hi Guys,

I have got an error like this everytime when i start up,

The disk "Samsung NC10" was not
repairable by this computer. It is being made available to you with limited functionality.
You must back up your data and reformat the disk as soon as possible.

Things were working fine until one time the computer did not shut down properly and this error message pops up since then everytime when i start up. Does anyone know what to do in order to get rid of this error message?

Note: i installed using the NC10 10.5.6 ISO linked in biketown.

Thanks.

it is happens because the drive is kind of read only (although u can still write files inside) therefore system can not fix it (you can try disk fix once if you like)... what you can do is boot into windows, delete the ddmac partition and re create it... and do ddmac into that partition again... should not take very long time...

thanks Mysticus, solved it.
Just wondering what caused it and how to prevent it from happening again?

Uh, well now I have to wonder... I plugged the white cable into the "white" marked port on the Dell 1490 and the black into the black. Airport worked fine first time. XP drivers won't seem to install correctly. Hmmm...

Well, I don't think that this will make a big difference. Maybe there's absolutely no difference to original way of configuration or you just will have a little less good wifi-link.
Did you try to install at XP like posted above? Connecting via lan-cable and auto-update windows? I found the following driver for XP from the german dell site (I'm in germany):

http://support.euro.dell.com/support/downl...p;fileid=281722

You could try this, should work.

aBirch,

Windows did not find the driver automatically, as the other poster mentioned. If yours doesn't, you will need to find the driver for the 1490 on the Dell support site. Download it, then run the executable. It will install the drivers in a directory c:\dell . . . It will also run the dell install wizard, which failed on me. So to take ACarters suggestion, you need to go the old fashioned way and use the Add Hardware wizard in the Control Panel. When it asks for your driver, navigate to the c:\dell . . . path to find the drivers and run the install. This worked for me.

It's been a long time since I used the Add Hardware Wizard! that's why I didn't think of it before.

for Dell 1490 with XP:

- download driver and NOT run Setup.exe; u must install driver by Control Panel -> System etc etc and select c:\dell directory

Ok, then I have a problem. The new revision of GMA950 driver have artifact with external VGA display... Mysticus can you post old pkg from 1.0 installation package?

for Dell 1490 with XP:

- download driver and NOT run Setup.exe; u must install driver by Control Panel -> System etc etc and select c:\dell directory

Ok, then I have a problem. The new revision of GMA950 driver have artifact with external VGA display... Mysticus can you post old pkg from 1.0 installation package?

Hi Mysticus C* and all other contributors,

happy new year and a big THANKS! to all of you - here's one happy camper that, using your work, managed to run 10.5.6 on his NC10.

Let me quickly add to this thread and describe how I managed to set everything up and where I'm at right now.

1. Initial install
I used msiwindosx.iso to install 10.5.4 using the ddmac method. This worked out of the box using the default settings. One thing that was great back then was that it had the resolution (1024x600) right up front.

2. Apple setup loop
yes, I saw it, too :-) After doing some research I can confirm from my observations that apple setup expects *any* network adapter. If it doesn't find one, it simply restarts itself. If you have Bluetooth installed this means you have a network adapter and you probably won't see the problem. If you only have the stock NC10 WLAN & LAN interface, you're hosed. For me, it worked to boot into single-user mode (-s on the boot prompt, then fsck & mnt) and then touch /var/db/.AppleSetupDone -- this got me past all the setup hassle

3. WLAN
I spent way too many hours trying to get the stock WLAN card to work. Using the hints from many forums on the web I managed to get it working several times using a hacked Atheros kext and KisMAC to set the card into passive mode. In the end, however, this turned out to be more frustrating than anything else because it wouldn't work reliably. So I bought a random BCM4311-based card (checked eBay) and it worked out of the box. No need to mention that this got rid of the setup loop problem, too (see above).

To run the BCM4311 under XP I found this site and chose the latest driver package, installed it using the device manager and it just works.

4. Upgrade to 10.5.6
I screwed my previously installed 10.5.5 so I decided to do an upgrade straight from my clean 10.5.4 using apple's (fixed) Combo Updater and Mysticus C*'s install package (just make sure you install Mysticus' NC10 install *after* the Combo Update but *before* restarting). That worked perfectly fine. Digging through the posts I found the way to recover the trackpad prefpane by installing the trackpadfull installer from Mysticus C*'s rapidshare site. This also spared me so much trouble -- Mysticus, thanks again for making it so easy for us.

5. Display brightness
That was actually the killer app itself -- whoever went through the registers of the graphics card - nice work! Installed CHUD, Quicksilver and followed the setup guide to set up the brightness scripts. Using the latest NC10 updater, the newest brightness icons were already installed. While setting up the QS hotkeys I ran into the issue that the increase/decrease scripts timed out on me. Adding some debug dialogs I found that scripting the Keychain would fail and never return so I never got to the point where I could allow keychain access. The only thing that could fix this was to manually start the Keychain Scripting Access. Strangely I only had to do this once, upon the first run -- now everything works right after logging into the system.

6. BIOS update
Well *sigh* never change a running system. I did it anyway and upgraded to Samsungs 04CA BIOS and here's what I came up with.

6.1 EDB - I can confirm that the BIOS update magically disables the EDB to without any user intervention. So, whoever does the BIOS upgrade, you need to re-enter the BIOS and re-enable the EDB.

6.2 Brightness (again)
After the BIOS update, the brightness scripts wouldn't work anymore. So I toyed around with the reggie_se tool and found that the PCI Device IDs seem to have changed with the update. So, to re-enable the brightness scripts, simply change the PCI-Device ID in /Library/Scripts/change-brightness from 16 to 15 and adjusting the brightness will work again (see below for a remaining sleep-related problem)



7. USB
USB mounting/unmounting works fine (besides the know issue that USB mounts wouldn't unmount before going to sleep). Also I use a HUAWEI UMTS stick which works just fine.

8. Sound
output works just fine (besides the known issue that the headphone out won't work although CHUD is installed). Thanks for the hint that one needs to change the output device in the sound pref panel from headphone to speaker manually! No luck with sound input though - I was hoping to be able to use Skype (the webcam works, too, btw!) but this is pointless if there's only one-way audio. Does anyone know about plans to port sound input (from the mic or line-in)?

9. Remote Disc
About having the NC10 use a remote disc offered by another Mac: I found these instructions on another forum -- after a reboot I had the remote discs back.



10. Not working at all
* wired LAN - hopefully someone feels obliged to port the driver at some point
* sleep when on power (though I've read that it's a known issue it's not really a blocker -- I only need sleep mode when I'm without power)
* sound input (see above)

11. Still has me puzzled
* changing brightness after waking up *
After waking up from sleep, the display brightness is turned down. Changing the brightness again won't work anymore. Again I played with reggie_se and found that the display controller's PCI Device ID has changed to 14 - changing the script to write to ID 14 will then, of course, re-enable the brightness setting with Quicksilver. All subsequent sleep/waking cycles will leave the display controller device ID at 14.
Could this be related to the BIOS upgrade? Is there anyway we can have the display controller stick to the same PCI ID all the time? Or can we find the display controller by other means that won't change upon sleep?

* speedstep *
Is proper powermanagement in place? sorry for asking so bluntly but I think that the fan is blowing way more often than when I had the genericpowermanagement.kext in place (or when running XP, for that matter). Are there any issues with that? I would be curious to hear other's opinions - I've read adam's notes about power consumption but they went largely unnoticed.

* touch screens *
I'm tempted to get me a touch screen - I saw the offer from a seller on eBay - has anyone bought from them yet? And who has registered for the free giveaway yet?

* retrofitting bluetooth *
having a NC without bluetooth I'm thinking about retrofitting a module. I've seen some pretty whacky approaches at a german NC10 site where they do quite some soldering to get 5V from other parts of the mainboard so they can connect a disassembled module taken from a BT dongles. However, I'd like to use a module that would fit on the slot on the mainboard. Any hints who might sell those modules?

That's my 2c for today - thanks again to anyone who has contributed time and effort into this thread. This is a great project!

Cheers,
jay zee

Well shoot. I'm still having problems. I may or may not have installed the wrong 1490 drivers or something, but I can't get straight now. First thing I need to do is completely remove any old drivers. How do I do that?

Second, when I download the dell drivers from the link above (German site), I get a file called R202478.exe. When I run the .exe, it installs a folder called C:/Dell/Drivers and then the dell installer fails. OK, so then I go to Add Hardware Wizard and then when I go to "Have Disk" it asks me to navigate to the .inf file, so when I go to the Dell folder, there are 4 choices: Driver, Driver_jpn, Driver_row, and x64. Which .inf to I pick?

So anyway, thanks for the help, folks.

Jay Zee-
You are clearly way more advanced than I am on the programming side, but I thought I would let you know that I had updated the bios to 04CA before doing a complete msiwindos86x re-install and update to 10.5.6 and I had no EDB problem and the brightness script worked fine. (I had to reinstall after bricking the 10.5.5 upgrade and realized I only needed the 10.5.6 combo plus the mysticus fix).

first you are just navigating to the enclosing folder. Pick driver, Driver jpn is japanese I think, and driver x64 is for a 64 bit processor or 64 bit XP/Vista which I am sure you are not running.

just pick the "driver" folder and it will find it just find.

hello folks,
i installed my dell dw 1490 today and it does not work right now.
How can i install the dw1490 card on mac os x?



hello folks,
i installed my dell dw 1490 today and it does not work right now.
How can i install the dw1490 card on mac os x?

Hi all...I would like to say thanks to everyone who has put so much time and effort into this project. I have successfully been running XP and OSX flawlessly because of all of the helpful information. I have been quiet for sometime as the knowlge base is very through in this post but I have a couple questions with DDMAC. I am using ddmac to dual boot OSX and it works great. My question is if I have to keep the NC10 OSX iso on my C: drive after it has been mounted to the bootable partion? I'd like to move the iso to an external hard drive if it is possible to free up space on my xp partition. Also is it possible to tripple boot using ddmac? I have a copy of windows 7b that I'd like to try out.

Thanks!

Hey mysticus or anyone around, I never tried my earphones port. but I did just now, doesnt work and yes I selected sound output as headphones...
Anybody know when voodoo is gonna release the driver version of gold

correction to your faq's numlock works, but led light doesnt when on thats all....and I can live with that.

DJKwai,

thanks for your response - that's very interesting. Are you saying that the brightness scripts still work for you, even after you sent the NC10 to sleep and woke it up again?

Cheers,
jay zee

You could also try replacing that line with:



... which will cause the script to take longer to execute (because reggie_se has to interrogate the hardware each time the script is called), but has the benefit that it will always work, regardless of BIOS version or whether the machine has been put to sleep at any point.