Hi, interesting work, cant seem to download everything though...demiload or whatever requires username and p/w and registration is closed.

Just wondering, has anyone got idened v1.4 10.5.6 working on the NC10, i'm downloading now....i'm after the easy option.

are you talking to me mate? There are no OSX partitions, as I explained in my posts the installer doesn't finish starting up, so I can't get to the disk utility. I am following the pdf.

i would suggest you to remove everything apart from recovery and xp partition...

and start reading the partitioning again... including extended partitions... because current situation indicates that stg wrong with finding acceptable form of writable partition for OSX... either caused by your win 7 partitioning, and incorrect formatting/partitioning after removing win7!!!

and size the partitions as mentioned in the guide as 35000 mb rather than 24000 as i see...

also make sure u delete any aditional partition(s) win7 has created while installing! (win7 makes 200mb additional pri partition on some systems!!! which would mess up the whole stuff...)

@Mysticus

Hey,Can you suggest minimum possible partitions 4 nc10(160 GB)?{I got confused by 5-6 in the guide}
I've got an external optical drive
And can I do all the partitioning while XP installation ?

those partitions are examples for very newbies... and the idea behind it was as follows

1-recovery (built-in) primary
2-xp (built-in) primary
3-osx reserved area 35000mb pri (main installation)
4-extended area that will contain 5-6
5-osx reserved area 35000mb (for back-up/timemachine/clone drive for disaster recovery)
6-ddmac reserved area for dvd emulation
================================
3-5 are identical in size for perfect clone/backup but not necessary if u think you are too good...
6 is already for ddmac

if you want bare minimum it is 4 partitions
1-2 untouched primary
3-primary for osx give it the total left space minus 4.4 gb for ddmac
4- pri or extended as you like, make sure 4.4gb reserved for it!
================
if you have a usb copy of windows and wanna get rid of recover partition, than u can remove the recovery and have total of 3 partitions
1- windows
2- osx
3- ddmac
and make sure u start clean by wiping everything and not just deleting partitions and having free space1
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That's what I did, I deleted the win7 partition from the beginning, so I only have recovery and xp left.

Now, with recovery and xp partitions only, the unallocated space is 72gb(yours is 73gb), so I tried 35(pri)+35(ext)+leftovers(ext), ddmac doesnt have enough space and I get errors.

I tried 35(pri)+33(ext)+leftovers(ext) and ddmac works ok, I still get "Still waiting for root device".

If you really think that 35+35 will be magic, I will try resizing c: to make the unallocated space 73gb instead of 72gb. Let me know!

no i didnt say it is magic... i said it is better for newbies...

the best thing i could suggest you is to use ghost or stg similar to copy your recovery and win partition, and reformat entire hdd, bcoz i suspect win7 plays with mbr bits??? (needs more technicaly sound people to confirm)

else, like i said, there are two reasons for still waiting for root device!

1-) your sata/pata controller (sata in our case if your nc10 is a regular nc10 and not some different of the list model)) is not recognized! intel i945 chipset is well supported by osx so this option can be eliminated as i said before, if you dont have some funny pcie-x ssd hdd...

2-) your hdd partition scheme has some trouble/you dont have a partition that os x can access! a-) caused by altered MBR (suspicious because of win7 and/or vista way of playing with MBR bits) b-) wrong formatting of partition, so that osx cant access therefore cant initiate further install processes...

if you have enough technical knowledge and tools, i would suggest u to use ghost to back up win and rec partitions, and wipe entire hdd, using e.g. HIREN Tools CD

Hey Mysticus!

I appreciate your great job! I'm from Samsung's country (plz understand my bad Eng)

After the whole installing, the partition DDMAC should be kept?? I was not sure the partition is necessary to boot... give me some advices for this. It's not for keeping some hdd spaces, I want to simplify the boot sequence. After selecting 'osx system' in win-xp boot menu, should select osx partition in darwin again.. I tried to skip it - editing com.apple.boot.plist and using chain0 in windows.. but they didn't work. I guess it's caused by ddmac partition.

Any idea of it? I just want to see the apple logo with only 1 button in xp boot menu.

is it possible??

Thanks for reading!!

Thanks mysticus. I will try play around with the MBR or reformatting the whole thing and I'll let you know.

Hi Mysticus,

Was just wondering how you are getting on with the touchscreen, and whether you still think it's a worthwhile addition?

Andy.

i dont think it is a necessary addition for everyone... but if you have touchscreen it is quite handy at times as well... so it is down to a users' purpose, budget, ambition, and priorities... one thing is that this mod will make your warranty invalid because the stickers under the touchscreen that sticks the touchscreen module to the lcd will be strong and after a while it will be imposible to move/detach...

my impressions are not as professional use, as i dont do any fancy things on the sammy

considerations into buying/using:
+ it is handy for sure, but it costs 1/3 of the sammy!
+ process is simple yet can be BRUTAL in wrong hand easily rendering it useless well breaking/damaging LCD panel is an easy thing if wrong pressure at wrong place applied...
+ i dont have artistic ability or work to show off, but i can tell that it may not be a very sensitive tool for artistic work (well senstive pixel level work i mean, else it is fine )
+ for me at the moment, if i use touchpad for once, I use the touchscreen for 10 esp, if it is in my hands


@2motive: u can delete the ddmac partition, if you have installed the system using 10.5.6 iso, just tested it, and without ddmac, it works just fine, as long as u keep tboot in place rather than chain0

Good luck. I tried 10.5.6. I works, but ONLY if you do NOT select the NC10 option during the installation. For some reason, selecting that seems to break something and it will only boot using safe mode. I just didnt select that option, and instead selected the other options that I normally would select for chipset, apps and utilities, then it boots fine. I could not however, get Quartz Extreme to work....tried a lot of different kexts too.

Mysticus, indeed there was a problem with the MBR. I downloaded MBRwizard and did a /repair which messed things up, and I fixed it by doing /active my c: partition. I can't recall if I did anything else because I was messing about, but after that procedure, I managed to boot into the installation.

hockeydude! you are wrong! and doing it completely wrong!

if you do not select the nc10 option it will not install any driver! the reason why it is messing (which u say it is breaking something, in fact it is not) is because you do not have your bios set correctly! see the bios settings!!! in the guide!!!

the reason for making a guide is for people to READ!!! if you do not understand use a translator (for example use google translation) if you dont read the guide or you do not understand the guide, it is likely that you will mess things up! which explains your situation....

to fix your problems, either start reading the guide carefully! and do everything as it says! or, just install nc10 update pack from Bike Town... if you still do not understand what i say, it is hard to help you any further...

@kkelis: good luck mate, and i hope the rest of the process works smooth

Thanks Mysticus, just got my dell card yesterday, went ahead and followed your guide and everything is working flawlessly. Thanks for all the time and effort you are putting in.

Are any usb-wifi dongles compatible?
If so, is the compatibility dependent upon its chip?

Oh, and how do I turn off bluetooth? I went in preferences and the checkbox for turning it off is grayed out.

Mysticus, again thank you, the installation was succesfull...So if anyone has a similar problem, playing around with the MBR should solve it.

I don't know how much help I would be but if there is anything I could do to contribute to any osx86 projects I'm more than willing to.

go to biketown site, and find samsung nc10 files link in UPDATE title, in the given link you will find various newer patches etc files you will find what you are looking for bluetooth and maybe some other minor...

always read the first post! and last 2-3 pages...

By chance is anyone (successfully) using A2DP Bluetooth headphones w/ their Mac'd NC10?

Just curious, as I haven't been able to get my Voyager 855's to work yet as A2DP "headphones". They work fine as a headset/mic (use it with Skype a lot) and it does offer up the other A2DP "headphone" profile option, but no go when switching to it. Under XP both profiles work fine.

If someone else is having any success with an A2DP connection, I'd just like to know so I can keep diggin.

Sure, like 10 mins after I post that I find another post that give some things to try. And it worked Actually sounds very nice. So my NC10 is now complete with working Skype and music.

Thanks for your work M!

Hi,

anybody yet achieved to send the nc10 to deep sleep? I know that normal sleep at the moment only works on battery. Therefore deep sleep would be cool to have.

I habe searched via google and in this thread but so far I got no answer to my question. Someone asked it before but I havent seen anyone to answer it.

Thanks guys

Deep sleep... yeah sure..
I know my NC10 gets 8 hours of sleep every night at least. And it starts on REM sleep, then progresses to NREM 1-NREM 4, followed by REM again. Doing multiple cycles. Until I awaken it. My NC10 Doesn't like sleeping with the battery. Claiming the battery is a bed hog, always asking for a cuddle after the intimate encounter. He's just not that type of computer to get all emotional after the act. She finds sex so draining so afterward she wants him to just hold her, and he just wants her to get the freak out. I mean can you blame him.

well you should not blame him for this kind of reason she is the naughty one

Deep Sleep/Safe Sleep/Hibernate under OS X is actually bootloader-dependant...

I'm not sure this is because the feature requires hacking in order to get it to work on non-Apple hardware or, more likely, the restoration function is actually performed by Apple's bootloader or even (and this'd be my guess) an EFI callback.

In any case, the next release of Chameleon is imminent and will support Deep Sleep and and much more.

(If you look around, there is already a bootloader released which supports Deep Sleep - but it's still experimental and may lack other bootloader features which you rely on)

I've been looking further into the NC10's ACPI implementation, and of the three defined SSDTs, two fail to compile.

Looking at them, either the SSDT itself is junk or Intel's ACPI decompiler is broken: whilst they mostly make sense, there are several cases of unmatched nested brackets and custom functions being defined and then called with the wrong number of parameters.

For example, there's a function 'PRIT' which takes a single mandatory argument. 'pio0' is a defined variable. Yet the SSDT contains:



... which should clearly be:



It does look more like sloppy coding to be honest. This is a trivial example, but the code (which is almost identical between the two broken SSDTs) has some hideously complex contructs whose nesting has at some point got completely lost, and it's really not obvious to me yet if it's possible to fix without knowledge of what the function is trying to achieve.

On a positive note, it looks as if both of these broken tables affect the SATA controller and so are likely unnecessary fixes which won't directly affect anything.

Which leads me back to the reason that I originally started looking: It's been suggested that DSDT changes might be able to fix the problems with the NC10 not sleeping when on mains power.

Does anyone have any information on this?

Personally, I'm not entirely convinced that we understand the problem yet... As far as I know, German owners who do not have the Bluetooth hardware installed also find that their machine doesn't sleep on mains. Perhaps the errors on the Bluetooth adapter are a red herring? Being a standard USB device on a USB bus, I'm sceptical that this would affect system sleep on mains but not on battery... I don't see that there's a mechanism where a USB device would be able to act in this way. Having said that I am, as always, more than happy to be corrected - and if it leads to a patch for the NC10 which allows it to sleep at any time, then even better!

Cheers,

stuart

I've a few questions...
First of all: thank you Mysticus C* for your great work (disto, tutorial, drivers etc.)!!
I just bought a Samsung NC10 anyNet N270WBT (German Edition) and the installation worked very fine...
one of my problems is, that I want a connection in the internet...
I read in previous posts, that dell Wi-Fi adapters are recommended.
I looked up for them and found these Adapters (available in Swizerland):

Dell Wi-Fi Adapters

Which one would you recommend at the moment? Or are there cheaper possibilities?
What are the standings in the development of the full audio solution?
Will the internal LAN never work or are drivers in development?

Bonjour Mon Ami.
I have z'great news for you. If you just read from the beginning of this thread you will have found your answer. You read 1 page and made a comment, n'est-ce pas? A bientot mon ami


See, the sad thing about a guy like you is in 50 years you're gonna staht doin some thinkin on your own and you're gonna come up with the fact that there are two certaintees in life. One, don't do that. And Two, you dropped a hundred and fifty grand on a freakin education you coulda got for a dollah fifty in late chahges at the public library.

Hey Guys,

sorry, didn't write any post for a long time now...
So, I found out something about brightness adjustment after playing a bit in bios.

If you set in bios the brightness control to "manual" and adjust the brightness on booting up for eg on the bootloader prompt, osx boots up with exactly this brightness adjusted and keeps it also after waking from sleep.

Almost the same happens if you set in bios to automatic mode - so osx boots with brightness adjusted on bootloader's prompt but after waking from sleep it back to the low level as known.

Maybe this fact helps or gives any ideas for adjusting brightness in future without using scripts and additional software.


One other question:
I'd like to kill all partitions except windows recovery and osx. Is there any chance to do this without reinstalling osx? I'd like to have one big osx partition and I don't need windows xp anymore (didn't use it the last 2 months and it's only wasting space).

Another solution, using Sleep Watcher, is at post #1126 of this thread (page 57).
It works perfectly for me, I don't use anymore QuickSilver, as I rarely need to adjust screen brightness.
Bye!

hi all,

i downloaded the bike town iso and used the pdf to install it. my installation differs in some points from the manual, so i'm not sure if i did something wrong.

i would be glad if someone could take me by the hand and helps me to fix or to install it new, through msn would be the best.

when i start the nc10 i have 5 seconds to press a key where i can choose between the partitions. if i just wait 5 seconds osx is loading. i see the white screen with the apple logo and the cycling thing at the bottom. this screen stays forever, nothing happens.

can anyone help please?

tahnk you for your "help" wise french guy..
you would better spend some time to help people instead of talking rusbish..
has anyone else an idea (Post #1626)?

Yes read the first post of this topic. Mysticus is taking care of updating it regularly so you will find the list of compatible Dell cards.

This is the only answer you can have, and it's the one adamcarter gave to you.

Yeah .. netkas most recent pcefiv9 is known to support deep sleep and since its based on one of the most recent chameleon versions it shouldn't lack features.
I wasn't able to send my nc10 to deep sleep, though. It just goes to normal sleep. I just wondered if anybody else had successfull tried it. On unsupported hardware a fixed dsdt.aml might help but as I said I had no luck so far.

In the customize window is a checkbox with a -- sign in it. This means it's not signed, You must manually put a V into this checkbox for loading the specific NC10 drivers.

It's all in de pdf file, see pag 71

I make it more easy, see picture 4 and 5 here: http://home.deds.nl/~corvus/

hi mauritzs,

thanks a lot for your help. but what customize window with checkbox do your mean :-)?

minor news: i ve been working on the hda project sometime, trying to help someone with wind, but their hda 888 doesnt work no matter what, on the other hand, current driver i included in the 10.5.6 dvd works for internal speaker and external mic! yes mic working with external mic... however driver in that is older hda driver...

i ve been trying to patch and load latest hda, and now i managed to get it loaded however, only external mic in is working and nothing else... yet... and console spitting out lots of errors regarding the hda driver... feeling frustrated... bcoz voodoohda is now 3 months with no words on ETA of any testing alpha beta gama driver... but hang in there... bye the way hp/int speaker works with sensing... meaning when you plug hp jack, audio switches automatically but no sound in either one yet...

just some headsup...

+1 that it works with pc_efiv9 but with this u lose the ability to boot from efi partition so no more vanilla install. But if you are already installing NC10 dvd there shouldnt be any issue with it. The weird thing is deep sleep works better on my NC10 than "normal" sleep .

edit: Now when I put it to sleep, all I get is black screen (my bad, I didnt use Mysticus hacked IntegratedFramebuffer kext) so I had to power it off by holding the power button. When I boot it back up, the bootloader thinks I am booting up from hibernation.

edit2: I just tried deep sleep with mains on (using widget Deep Sleep Widget) and it works

Could you tell me something about your configuration and install. I can't get deep sleep to work on mine. I installed the retail dvd, patched it with pcefiv9 and the kext installation package from mysticus. I also added the DSDT.aml to the root directory. But it just goes to normal sleep .. even with the widget.

What happen was I installed vanilla Leopard from DL install disc and then use chameleon bootloader with efi partition to ensure that System/Library/Extension is intact. I managed to get most of Mysticus hacked kext to work apart from the video so I use fixedAppleIntelGMA950.kext and fixedAppleIntelIntegratedFramebuffer.kext floating around the site ( I forgot where I got them but I have a copy). It was working beautifully apart from the fact that brightness control hack doesnt work and sleep works intermittently (not working most of the time).

I then wanted to put Windows 7 on which is fine apart from the fact that chameleon cant see the damn partition and I am useless with vista bootloader business. So i make Vista partition active and installed easybcd 2.0 beta from Insanelymac and managed to boot into Leopard. This will install pc_efiv9 and in turn broke efi partition (actually Windows 7 broke it first but I cant fix the damn thing). I then copied my efi partition to S/L/E and eventhough sleep doesnt work, deep sleep does.

P/s - I am now using Vista Bootloader with Windows 7 and Leopard on right now. If you want to know more specifics, by all mean post back.

Do you use mbr or guid partition table? Im still using mbr so maybe that might be a problem. I might recheck if my pcefi is installed correctly. Ill just do that.
I suppose deep sleep is working fine with power cord attached or does it still restart immediately?

Hey again.

I think most of the problems with deep sleep arise from the fact that the sleepimage is deleted. This is what people always do as the image size (afaik) is the same size as your ram. What I think is the logic behind this is the RAM is written onto this sleepimage so it will correspond to your RAM size.

You can check it by opening Finder>Go>"Go to Folder" and write /private/var/vm and see if there is a sleepimage file and make sure its the same size as your ram.

Next you will need to check if hibernate is actually enable as I think a lot of distro (I assume JaS is) disable it to prevent sleepimage (2gig of useless space) to be formed.

With my laptop:
On Mains:
- Close lid/sleep will black out the screen and I had to hold the power button down to power it off. When I restart it acts like the laptop goes into deepsleep at the time I put it to sleep. This I think what makes NC10s cant sleep on mains, it thinks its going into hibernate and write the ram onto the sleepimage (S2/S3-which I dont know anything about ) making it impossible to wake back up, but the kernel still thinks its going to sleep so it didnt power down at all.
- Deep Sleep widget will make the screen go white for a sec and after 5 second or so all the power is gone. I boot back up and on the screen instead of apple boot logo (pc_efiv9 still have this instead of chameleon v6 which killed it) it said start hibernation, rotating ascii wheel and then Wake Kernel and it acts like ity just woke up from normal sleep, ie same state when I click on Deep Sleep widget (this I assume what hibernation does on a mac)

On battery:
- Close lid/sleep will make it go to normal sleep and pushing the power button will wake it back up.
- Deep sleep widget acts exactly like mains.

edit: to check the hibernatemode all you do is (in terminal) type "pmset -g" and paste it here, do it once when u plugged in and another one on battery.

edit2: now I made some change to my hibernatemode so if it goes to sleep on battery, it will go to normal sleep and on mains it will go straight to deep sleep as normal sleep on mains is broken anyway.

just for fun, my pmset -g
on mains:


on battery

Hi,

I think my settings aren't the problem. The sleepimage exists and has the correct size. Secure virtual memory is turned of and both hibernatemodes are set to 1. But it still just goes to normal sleep.

Do you have a mbr partition table or guid? I heard somewhere this might be a problem.

If its not that I might reinstall my osx ...

Hi folks,
as far as I know, deepsleep only worked with Retail Leopard and Ipc distro

Marvel Yukon 88E8040

http://people.freebsd.org/~yongari/msk/

Has anyone tried getting the latest version working with 10.5.6 ?

Thanks

After Installing OSX Ituns works not fine



CoverFlow doesn´t Work
visualization doesn´t work
Know anybody why?

I finally found the scripts folder. Sorry!

Cheers

Marco

Hi,

Does anyone have experience to the VGA output in the NC10 with the 10.5.6 system??
I am wondering if really the change of the com.apple.Boot.plist file solves the problem
with the VGA output. I tried to connect the nc10 to a external VGA projector and it does not work.
I tried to install the drivers, gm950.10.5.6 pkg, but still I have the same problem.

best wishes,

Is anyone using a portable bus-powered DVD drive with their NC10 and OSX?

I want one for movies and am looking at an LG GP08LU10, but can't find any information on whether its' region can be hacked. Is anyone using a drive they could recommend which they're certain is region free / will work with region x?

Hi guys, I ll be very original when I ll say thank you so much Mysticus , you helped having an amazing NC10 with MAC OS X, everything I wanted is working , it's perfect . Thank you so much .

I'd have just few questions ^^ :

- I installed trackpadfull.pkg.zip on my NC10, I rebooted it but I can't have multitouch on my trackpad, I can only clicking by tapping on the trackpad (= double click) but I can't scroll up and down by putting two fingers or any other method to scroll up and down. And I really need it ^^.

So is there any way to get it to work ?

Otherwise, my wifi card is working so perfectly , it 's so good surfing on the web on MAC OS X . I used Audieee.app to get my headphones and speakers to work and it work perfectly too. I tried a lot of things , the sh script, and a lot of things but nothing worked. Thanks to audieee.app it work so well. I used bluetoothfix.zip to stop having the bluetooth on and it s working well . I hope this will help .

Well I don't have any others questions for the moment, but thanks again .

Hi,

Works fine here (dual screen, haven't tried mirror), with Mysticus 10.5.4 patched iso, 10.5.6 combo and patch re-applied



By the way, thanx a lot Mysticus, My sammy is the perfect netbook now

@Mac_alpha : the trackpadfull.pkg installs a compatible trackpad driver and enables the trackpad prefpane (which appeared in 10.5.6). It is usefull when you break your original driver while trying to enable scrolling but It doesn't enable scrolling (there is apparently no working driver ATM, I tried a lot of them, but none worked).

sorry for my bad english !

VGA QUESTIONS:
vga output working on all patched drivers. however, it is only for "Desktop Extensions", if you want CLONE output as well, go to BIKE TOWN NC10 files section, and download and install the old fb driver for clone screen!

TOUCHPAD:
this is getting the most annoying question every now and then! there is no multi-touch driver for PS/2, in fact no ps/2 driver... We all using patched stuff. Multi-touch drivers are for USB interface touchpads that apple using, and you cant mix apples for oranges... Apples are apples, oranges are oranges! The trackpad driver that is supplied is to gain the trackpad menu, not for multitouch gestures...