I am facing the same problem mate, I hope somebody manages to fix it.

NSCXP2005

Hey toc
Can you just give me your drive details please?
I mean how you managed your hard disk partitions.....
thanx,waiting......

I have just 2 partitions: OSX (~75% of HD capacity) and XP (~25%); no XP restore partitions (removed before installing OSX; there were two I think... ).
To shrink the XP partition to 25% of HD and remove the useless (for me) XP partitions, I used Parted Magic (linux) but I guess I did something wrong making the NC10 unusable, so I reinstalled XP from scratch (with Samsung discs) after complete formatting and partitioning (then with my desired setup).
Then I installed OSX using Mysticus guide, using an external DVD reader.

Hi, I wonder if anyone got two finger scroll working?

Have tried two different ways, but none of them worked!

//Smoothie

Hi, nice tuto and 10.5.6 DVD .. works pretty well..
just picked up some tweaks in this thread and worked fine ..

The touchpad/trackpad is just a lame ... it doesn't works the same way on the vertical axis as it does on the horizontal axis (twice as fast)..
isn't there a tip to ehance the behaviour of the touchpad ? it works pretty well under windows, but it's almost unusable under Mac OS X

I've tried several things and this is worse than the original trackpad included on the DVD ...
I don't care about the scroll.. I know I won't get such a feature ... but at least restore the smothness of the trackpad/touchpad would be great ..

any ideas about this ?

thanks

I assume you havn't looked at BikeTown...

http://rapidshare.com/users/4GZUA1

Download trackpad full, and everything should be just fine .

Anyone got two finger scroll working?

Nope, it just enables the trackpad panel, but it doesn't fix that problem for me neither...

Yeah, but then you go into the Trackpad panel, and you lower the "Tracking Speed".........

Did anyone else find it impossible to unscrew the screw holding the Atheros wireless card in place? No matter how much strength I used, it wouldn't budge, and I nearly stripped the screw in the process.

Needless to say, I'm pretty pissed now. What good is installing OS X if I can't get a supported wireless card into the damn thing?

I had problems too, and in the end came to the conclusion that the screwdriver wasn't quite the right size. Tried a different one that that looked nearly identical and it came straight out.

And it doesn't fix the speed problem...

Check yourself.

I might have missunderstood your question, but when i install the trackpad pref panel, the pointer goes smooth and fine, or is it only working for me?

It does work for me too, meaning it is usable. But even when I set the tracking speed to the minimum the vertical speed is still faster than the horizontal speed.

Also I wish there was a working trackpad driver with 2-finger scrolling and fixed-speed for the NC10 trackpad. I wonder what the model of the new big trackpad on the NC10 limited edition is (that should be available on amazon soon), and if there is a driver for that one.

I'm pleased to see that I'm not the onlt one to mention it !!!

vertical speed is EVER twice as fast (x2 at least) as the horizontal speed

even at the lowest speed available (which obviously is way too slow horizontaly)...

Complaints complaints complaints.


Look two problems
track pad is PS2... Not USB.. there are innate problems to that I don't want to go into.
Major factor. Not sure if you guys noticed but the trackpad is wide.... All apple track pads are square or close to. There is just an innate problem with that as well. Don't expect this to ever work right. Cause it wont. Scrolling support may be an option in the future, but for now. No can do. at least not perfect anyway

Buy a small wireless mouse or laptop mouse and just deal.

Now... on to more pressing questions.

I havent had much experience with SD cards. Mysticus had me set up a second partition to have as a backup incase stuff went sour. Would rather back up the drive to say a 16gb SDHC card. yes i know it is slow 15 mb/s max. I wouldnt be running from it. I noticed that when you put an SD card in that it sticks out (reason probably being that makes it easier to pull it out). Anybody know how much of the card is memory and how much is extra plastic say in an ordinary sdhc card. Would love to sand down a 16gb one so that it is flush with front of computer.

hey guys, i just got back...

and didnt read a lot since i left... will try to answer some questions later if not answered...

for the ps2 touchpad, not much can be done, apple touchpads like adam mentioned, are almost 1:1, whereas nc10 has ~1:2 ratio, which is the trouble some of you mentioning...

there is not a propar OTB solution for this, and it is not really that much of a trouble to begin with either... so most people complain about things that we cant do much about... cosmetic issues will be there no matter what...

for the sleep issue, i will provide stuart the info i got, and see how testing will go...

cheers...

I don't complain, just mentioning the problem...

I don't remember reading anything about the internal mic: any hope to see it work in the future?
Same question for Ethernet?

Thx again.

Internal mic should work with the voodoo HDA whenever it comes out.
Sleep issue is a DSDT thing which is being worked on too.

All quiet on the NC10 front.

Anyone looking for the perfect NC10 mouse, get a Logitech VX Nano. The receiver is tiny - you can leave it in all the time. It's the slickest mouse I've ever used (install Steermouse for it). The trackpad is bad even in Windows on this thing.

Since getting my NC10 set up, I don't touch my macbook pro anymore. Apart from heavy encoding and video work, this plus the VX Nano is pure portable bliss!

It's not about complaining, it is about sharing the problems to figure out if others ran into it and have solutions and work arounds. This thread is an amazing source and I really appreciate the help from everybody (and of course Mysticus C being number 1).

A PS2 driver could handle different size ratios, but apparently since Apple doesn't have a need for it, they haven't coded the option.

An external mouse is great when you're on a desk, not so convenient when you're in the train holding the NC10 on your laps.

Does anybody know the brand and model of the trackpad of the NC10 Special Edition?

I REALLY need help and let me first say I am SO sorry for hijacking this thread, but no matter what I do I cannot make a NewTopic in the hardware forum! Something is wrong with the site...I have tried in Firefox and Iexplore and STILL get that error "You must enter a post" as if I never type anything.

Ok, here' s my topic - I am building a Quad Xeon Hackintosh. I pasted the info from Apple's site for their current MacPro, and then the list of hardware I am buying. How does this look?...

===

From Apple's Site...Mac Pro (8 cores standard, up to 3.2 GHz)
-Two 2.8GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon "Harpertown" processors
-2GB memory (800MHz DDR2 fully-buffered DIMM ECC)
-ATI Radeon HD 2600 XT graphics with 256MB memory
-320GB Serial ATA 3Gb/s 7200-rpm hard drive1
-16x double-layer SuperDrive

===
So, here's my custom parts list...

-MOTHERBOARD: Asus Z7S = $480 @ newegg

-CPU: Intel Quad Xeon E5420 - BX80574E5420A = $330 @ newegg (QTY = 2)

-MEMORY: OCZ Platinum Rev2 PC-6400 DDR2 800 (1GB) - OCZ2P800R21G = $23 @ amazon (QTY = 4)
Do I need EEC instead?

-VIDEO: ATI Radeon HD 3870X2 (1GB) = $275 @ tigerdirect
I heard that MacOSX OSx86 will only recognize 256mb...?

-AUDIO: (on board)

-OPTICAL: 20x Pioneer DVR-116D = $70 @ amazon

-WIRELESS: MA688ZM ???
What will work in both MacOSX OSx86 (show up as "Airport") and work in Windows?

===

I will primarily be using this computer for HD video editing on Premiere Pro when booted into Windows and HD video editing in Final Cut Pro when booted into MacOSX, so a lot of rendering. I will NOT be playing games on it at all, but I will be using it also for a webserver and mail server for my personal domains. NOt a ton of traffic, but enough to be left on 24/7 and also why I am going with Xeon CPUs on a 771 socket mobo rather than Core2Quad on a 775 socket.

So, will this setup work well for runniong OSx86 and Windows? Also, if you can answer my questions above, I'd appreciate that too. THANKS!!

there's plenty of threads where you should have posted your question.. or better one, a brand new topic ... instead your hyjacking this one, which is clearly related to samsung NC10 hardware

Or, if you have an iPhone, you could use it as an external trackpad via WiFi. There's an iPhone App for this. Didn't try it yet. I will...





About sound... as a temporary solution in order to enable sound out on headphone, I installed AzaliaAudio.pkg and Audieee application for NC10. Unfortunately I noticed strange things after that... for example, sometimes the NC10 didn't shutdown properly and in System Profiler the Machine Model string wasn't "NC10" anymore, but it changed more or less randomly to "NC10" + some garbage string. I don't know if this is just a cosmetic issue or a sign that something is going wrong...
At the end I unistalled AzaliaAudio and everything is fine again: no shutdown problems anymore.

Did anybody notice troubles with AzaliaAudio package?

Mine is a "standard" Mysticus installation (JaS based OSX 10.5.6 for NC10), as described in the guide.

i was hoping that someone would see it here and help me. i chose this thread because it has so much ativity and views.

i tried posting in the help forum over 3 days ago, and have not gotten one response.

have you read the title of this topic?

have you posted your questions in the right place?

have you read the appropriate sections in this forum?

your post is useless and waste of time for this topic, and your excuse is even worse... stop the crap, and take a walk before you get harsher comments...

this is a big problem with newcomers...

Hey Mysitcus:
I once used your "Old-FB-for-clonescreen.pkg.zip"
It would be great if you offer the new one to download.
Thanks
gt

You can use the NC10 package for other installations, i think it installs trackpad, keyboard and graphics drivers (only shure about the new graphics drivers )

Has anyone attempted to download Apples new security update 2009-001 via the software updater?

Is it safe to install ?

that just proves my point. that there is a BIG problem with the forum/hosting code, not the newcomers.

don't talk down to me like i am some stupid young 16yr old kid. I have been in the IT business for over 15 years. ever heard of QNIX? yeah, didn't think so. stop putting people down and realize it is not our fault that the forum will NOT ALLOW new topics for many users. there is a problem with the pho code, the problem is not with me.

stop being a jerk, grow up, and read the bginning of my post again. i said i was intentionally hijacking the thread because i was forced to. there was no way for me to post a new thread, the forum just gives an error everytime i try, and i have created 3 usernames now to get this working. i got no response from the help forum that i posted in 4 days ago now, and i have emailed 3 admins, and gotten NO response. how is any of this my fault?

look, this is my last post here, because it obviously didnt work in getting any help, but i still had to do it and my logic in posting here was justified since the forum isnt working.

-C

Me, not yet.
If somebody tries, please post the result.
Thanks.

The Security Update and the Java update work fine with the NC10. You may have to Hard Reset to get the machine to reboot properly, but there are no ill-effects. FWIW, I had the same issue on my Feb 2008 17" MBPro.

Do you mean shutdown or sleep? I've not had problems with either (when on battery) - but I do get the corrupt Model Name in System Profiler... which I assumed was a 10.5.6 problem. Now I'm wondering if it could be an AppleAzaliaAudio on 10.5.6 probelm...


No problems here (with the installation or reboot)!

The other update was to Java - and note that Apple's Java 1.6 binaries are all 64bit, though, and so can't be run on an Atom (N270) processor.

Annoyingly, if you erase them completely then Software Manager just wants to reinstall them again.

After installing AzaliaAudio package I noticed:
- corrupt model name in system profile
- shutdown *sometimes* didn't work (I don't remember if it was in battery mode or power supply)
- sleep working properly

With shutdown not working, I mean that I gave the command to shutdown (Apple menu / Shut Down...), then NC10 started the shutdown procedure and at a certain point it just froze, then the only way out was a hard shutdown (keeping power button pressed). The successive reboot was fine, so it seems that the shutdown procedure almost came to the end, but without shutting the power.

After unistalling AzaliaAudio package:
- everything fine.

For me headphones aren't vital, so I'll wait for the final audio drivers... patiently



The previous Java update (Java for Mac OS X 10.5 Update 2) updates:
- Java SE 6 to version 1.6.0_07
- J2SE 5.0 to version 1.5.0_16
- J2SE 1.4.2 to 1.4.2_18

The latest update (Java for Mac OS X 10.5 Update 3) generically addresses security and compatibility issues, and requires "Update 2".

Are you really sure that "Java Update 3" updates only Java SE 6 (which - I agree - can't run on Atom CPU) and not also J2SE 5 or J2SE 1.4.2?

Hi all,

I bought a NC10 couple of weeks ago (with 3g). Now I wanted to try out MacOS but the iso isn't at Bike Town anymore.

I found a couple other iso's but I'm not sure witch one I should take. And I read, that the one from Bike Town is the best one.

Can anyone provide an Emule or Rapidshare link where I can get the iso?

Has anyone got any ideas on how to change partition sizes without messing a succesful install up?

I have a standard Mysticus style install xp 50gb/osx1 50gb/osx 2 50 gb/ ddmac 5gb.
All installed as per Mysticus instructons with darwin bootloader at start up.

Now osx is working so well I would like to increase my osx allocation and shrink xp down to maybe 20gb.

Not sure how to do this - from windows/ 3rd party software/ from osx ???

Really dont want to have to start whole thing from scatch again if I dont have to.
Will I mess up my partiton tables ??

Any advice gratefully received.

Thanks for all your collective help getting OSX on the NC10 working - my 12inch powerbook is soon to go on ebay!

The links are in the txt file

Samsung NC10 Blue OSX icon. Need to tweak the blue a bit more.

Updated it.... Think it looks nice.
Mysticus Feel Free to add it to the next disc image you make

Let me know what everyone thinks

Hej 2 all,

i´ve just installed, and everything works like charm. Thank you Mysticus for your work.

sincerly amanoth

Got it, thanks a lot for your help.

Before I start downloading and spend hours with installing OSX, I would like to know how far it is a problem not changing the wifi card.

I don't want give up my warranty and I guess that's the case when I change the card. So can anyone please tell me what's the problem with the wifi card that comes with the NC10?

@goodhope
The build in wifi card is not compatible to OSX. Although there is an workaround somwhere in the forum.
But it is very unstable.

If you don´t need Internet, you shound not have any problems.
If you need networking you could buy an OSX compatible USB-WLAN stick or even a USB lan-stick.

I don´t think you loose your garaty by changing the card but I am not sure.
Hope you unterstand my bad english.
gt

Hello

First I want to say THANKS! your work is awesome and all is very simple now!

But i've got a problem. All the installation works perfectly. But after the first restart, mac osX boot, I can see a grey screen with an apple in the center. And juste after that, the computer reboot. Dual boot works perfectly, but I've got that problem with mac osx =/

Sorry for poor english, I'm french.

EDIT : okay, that was just the option of EDB in the bios -__- All working great now! =D

Thanks for your help. I think I would go with the USB Wlan stick then. A netbook without Wifi sucks :-).
Maybe I change the internal card if I find a changing manual. I believe I saw one nut I can't remember where. Do you know?

here's a walkthrough for disassembling, but it's in french.
very easy.

http://www.blogeee.net/forum/viewtopic.php?p=106563#p106563

I'm getting a "Still waiting for root device" on my nc10, before getting into the installation menu.

I'm doing the ddmac method, the nc10 is stock besides the 2gb ram (bought last month). Bios settings triple checked, they are the same as the ones in the guide. DDmac probably works fine because drive D: disappears upon reboot (and the installation procedure starts properly until the "still waiting" part). I have 3 primary partitions (recovery, xp, empty for osx) and 3 logical (time machine, reserved space, ddmac).

I get the choice of selecting the osx installation during boot, I the choose nc10, osx stuff start loading and I get the "Still waiting for root device" after the trackpad detection routine (if i remember well).

On the first try, ddmac's partition wasn't the last one on the disk, so I tried a second time, letting ddmac have the last partition. Same result.

It's strange, since this iso should work with the nc10 hardware (i'm using the 10.5.6 nc10 iso). Any suggestions? Apologies if this has been covered, I haven't found anything helpful.

it is strange, because you are the first one hit that bump...

this is most likely (-a-) you altered some stuff unknowingly, or (-b-) you have a different version of NC10 (if it is NC10 of course)

because if it is nc10, your hdd controller should have been recognized... (well unless you are using some sort of pci-x type of SSD drive found on bottom line series...)

because the sata controller in atom based devices uses same intel controller (until nvidia ION platform comes out) so they should all be recognized and have no problem...

like i said, first option (-a-) is the most likely, u didnt create a partition for the OSX most likely, or u created wrong partition types!

Oops

The WiFi was working quite good with the atheros card.
But I update the system (including a airport update) and now, the WiFi card is not supported O.o Kismac doesn't find any networks but before it was!
I try 5 different versions of kext drivers but nothing... =(

Thanks for your reply mysticus. The netbook is an nc10, got it from ebuyer, I'm sure about that. The purchased date stated in the BIOS is 01/2009.

The only thing that might have affected the procedure was that I installed win7 on D:. I yesterday deleted the d: partition and restored the boot procedure so that the xp boot.ini was followed. I haven't changed any hardware besides the ram, the hdd is the 160gb one.

Here are some screenshots that show my configuration:








Apologies for the blurriness of the last one.

I don't see any OSX boot partitions, I assume the extended journaled MAC format isn't available, see the howto pdf from Mysticus C

Start from scratch, delete Windows 7 it's all in the pdf