kinkadius Posted March 11, 2006 Share Posted March 11, 2006 so i just went onto dell.com and purchased the following configuration for the E1505: processor Intel® Core™ Duo processor T2400 (2MB Cache/1.83GHz/667MHz FSB)LCD Panel 15.4 inch UltraSharp™ Wide Screen SXGA+ Display with TrueLife™ Memory 1GB Shared Dual Channel DDR2 SDRAM at 533MHz, 2 Dimm Video Card Intel® Graphics Media Accelerator 950 Hard Drive 80GB 5400rpm SATA Hard Drive Network Integrated 10/100 Network Card and Modem DVD+RW 24X CD Burner/DVD Combo Drive Wireless Intel PRO/Wireless 3945 802.11a/g Mini Card (54Mbps) Battery 85 WHr 9-cell Lithium Ion Primary Battery my question is, i see a lot of install dvds that are for sse2, but i'm sure this is sse3, what would be the best way to install OS X on this machine? anybody see any problems with this configuration? Think this is going to be stable enough? You guys have been really helpful so far (and i hoped i helped a couple others when my intel iMac came in), and any suggestions or comments would be very much appreciated. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kinkadius Posted March 11, 2006 Author Share Posted March 11, 2006 i mean wouldi require the sse2 patch here? can i run the sse3 no problems? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brywalker Posted March 11, 2006 Share Posted March 11, 2006 Intel Core Duo has the SSE3 instruction set. You should just need the base patch. Please keep us posted on your progress. When is your delivery date? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kinkadius Posted March 11, 2006 Author Share Posted March 11, 2006 hopefully by next week. i'll use this thread to post pics and progress. i got the laptop cause i feel it's the closest right now to mac hardware. the video card is the same one the mac mini uses (which i don't know still if that's really a good thing ) i'm a developer so i'm hoping i can triple boot all 3 major OSes on this thing. that would be the ultimate dev box Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
williedigital Posted March 14, 2006 Share Posted March 14, 2006 mine is scheduled to be delivered tomorrow. expect some results in a day or two. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kinkadius Posted March 14, 2006 Author Share Posted March 14, 2006 sweet, i'd love to hear about that. I just hope i didn't make too much of a boo boo by not getting a macbook pro, especially when it looks like windows xp will run just fine on it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
williedigital Posted March 16, 2006 Share Posted March 16, 2006 we'll i've been working and have missed ups a couple of times. should get it tomorrow though. you didn't make a boo boo. macbook pro has too low screen resolution. I dont think I could buy one for that fact alone. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrhotwings Posted March 16, 2006 Share Posted March 16, 2006 how would you install OSX on your SATA HD? i would like to know cuz i have laptop with SATA drive that i would like to install on. any info would be great thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kinkadius Posted March 16, 2006 Author Share Posted March 16, 2006 how would you install OSX on your SATA HD?i would like to know cuz i have laptop with SATA drive that i would like to install on. any info would be great thanks. no idea, but i'm sure we're going to be able to tell you soon if we learn anything :-D you might want to poke around still on the messageboard, i'm sure someone has been able to do it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrhotwings Posted March 16, 2006 Share Posted March 16, 2006 yeah i've been reading alot of posts lol gonna dive into it soon Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slau98006 Posted March 17, 2006 Share Posted March 17, 2006 Install 10.4.5 using the prepatched DVD. It runs, but very very slow...xBeach shows 4-6 range. Video runs very slowly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thrunner Posted March 17, 2006 Share Posted March 17, 2006 Install 10.4.5 using the prepatched DVD. It runs, but very very slow...xBeach shows 4-6 range. Video runs very slowly.Did you unchecked the AMD Enabler in the install? Could you post the 'ioreg -l' from the Mac terminal or a html report from Everest Home (WinXP) as an attachment? So that the hardware could be analyzed? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
williedigital Posted March 17, 2006 Share Posted March 17, 2006 my setup is pretty much the same. 10.4.5 from the pre-patched dvd. the machine does seem very erratic, in lots of ways. here's the ioreg. Saved_Terminal_Output.txt Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kinkadius Posted March 17, 2006 Author Share Posted March 17, 2006 my setup is pretty much the same. 10.4.5 from the pre-patched dvd. the machine does seem very erratic, in lots of ways. here's the ioreg. how is it erratic? is the video a problem? i'm wondering if the drivers for the mac mini's video card would be worth getting a hold of seeing as how they are the same ones. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slau98006 Posted March 17, 2006 Share Posted March 17, 2006 More info on 14.5 on Dell E1505 - Sound does not work. video works fine, but I believe the patches took away Duo Core processing speed. Speed fine in web browsing, but slow even in Finder and terminal session. Tried mach_kernel with base patch only - won't boot at all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kinkadius Posted March 17, 2006 Author Share Posted March 17, 2006 More info on 14.5 on Dell E1505 - Sound does not work. video works fine, but I believe the patches took away Duo Core processing speed. Speed fine in web browsing, but slow even in Finder and terminal session. Tried mach_kernel with base patch only - won't boot at all. what kind of screen did you choose? did you get the high end one? I know this may sound kinda dorky, but where you able to try the speed of the laptop running it's original Operating System? (MCE2005)? What do you think of the laptop overall? yep. i'm a pest. :-D it looked like a nice laptop, i just haven't really heard many reviews about it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slau98006 Posted March 17, 2006 Share Posted March 17, 2006 xBench is at 70-80 range after disabling CoreDuo in BIOS. Working on Audio now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kinkadius Posted March 17, 2006 Author Share Posted March 17, 2006 xBench is at 70-80 range after disabling CoreDuo in BIOS. Working on Audio now. disabling dual cores makes things go faster? weird. I'm not sure if disabling that however is going to be a good long term solution, especially with dual booting. i guess those are decent xbench scores. maybe they are on par with the intel mac mini? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thrunner Posted March 17, 2006 Share Posted March 17, 2006 Is this similar to the AMD x2 dual core stuttering problem? Does the problem exits even if you disabled (uncheck) the AMD Enabler during the 10.4.4/5 install? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kinkadius Posted March 17, 2006 Author Share Posted March 17, 2006 Is this similar to the AMD x2 dual core stuttering problem? Does the problem exits even if you disabled (uncheck) the AMD Enabler during the 10.4.4/5 install? well for that matter, has anybody tried running osx86 on a intel core duo pc? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
williedigital Posted March 18, 2006 Share Posted March 18, 2006 sorry i didn't reply faster. The problems are really varied. The biggest one is that there seems to be tons of graphical glitches. Most of the time (but not always) if there is any part of the aqua interface, such as a progress bar or "ok" "cancel" buttons then the color within the buttons/bar--the "fill" if you will, is really flickery. when you open an icon in the dock, the bounce is jerky, you do a left click and machine thinks you did a right click. In addition, I have the screen saver disabled, yet sometimes when I boot it boots straight to te screen saver screen. Just lots and lots of things like that. the solutions I tried were to disable all the hardware I could in bios (firewire, bluetooth, wifi, etc) but that didn't seem to have any effect, except the wifi, which did make it noticeably less buggy. Another weird thing is that it seemed lke the machine got more and more buggy as I used it. When i first started after install the problems were minor, and by now after startup I only go a minute or so before the whole thing just freezes. On the upside, the laptop recognizes the 1680x1050 screen and core image/quartz--the only laptop I know of that does so. I tried installs using jas 10.4.3 and the myzar 10.4.5 ( I didn't think to undo the amd enabler). The results were pretty much the same, except that the 10.4.5 was able to see the dell 1390 wifi just like an airport card. Will probably futz around with it some more in the next few days. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
williedigital Posted March 18, 2006 Share Posted March 18, 2006 also, i forgot to mention that the graphical glitches are present from within the installer, so I figure it's something at a really low level that's causing this problem, rather than anything specific that the installer is doing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kinkadius Posted March 18, 2006 Author Share Posted March 18, 2006 i'm really wondering if using the intel video driver from the mac mini would help. Does anybody have an intel mac mini in which to at least try it. If not i can always go to an intel mac mini at a mac store and upload the drivers from there. slau98006, what about you? did you have any video problems? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
williedigital Posted March 18, 2006 Share Posted March 18, 2006 at what point does osx86 load a "driver" for the video card though? This machine is sketchy even on the very first boot (ie on the white screen with apple right after you choose to install osx86 from the darwin screen). The little circular progress wheel exhibits the same sort of jerky stuttering motion as dock icons do when you open a program. I don't know anything about video cards really, but it seems like the card initially fills up its RAM fine, but then can't flush it cleanly. Other evidence for this: when you run xbench and it gets the the graphics tests, the first 3 seconds or so of the test work lightning quick, like every gma 900 desktop i've used, but then it almost freezes, to where you're getting like 1 frame per second, literally. After that test finally finishes, three more seconds of full speed, then almost full freeze again. Very strange. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thrunner Posted March 18, 2006 Share Posted March 18, 2006 This post may help, a partial success on an Acer TM Core Duo: http://forum.osx86project.org/index.php?s=...indpost&p=77723 I can second that installation from the Myzar patched DVD goes quite nicely but at first boot there is a serious kernel panic that halts the boot process. I repeated the install making sure I DID NOT choose AMD-specific patches nor 10.4.5 update (dropping either one or altogether) with exactly the same result. I assume some of the patches were carried out differently than in the original Maxxuss procedure that locks up the Core Duo. There is another, patched DVD ISO floating 'round (and released earlier) with a nickname HoTiSo that contains only 10.4.4 based on Maxxuss first patch. Installation and booting is successful with this Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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