smellyshoes90 Posted October 9, 2007 Share Posted October 9, 2007 Hi, Anyone here with a Dell XPS M1330? I need a bit of help with things that are working and things that are not with the XPS. Which driver are best for components of the XPS? Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dark42 Posted October 10, 2007 Share Posted October 10, 2007 Yes, I also have a problem installing on my XPS M1330. I am using Uphuck 10.4.9 v1.4i r3 (for Intel only). It installs but crashes when booting up. Hardware is Core2Duo (Merom), Geforce 8400m, Santa Rosa, Intel WiFi Link a/g/n, and Sigmatel audio. Thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
triccer Posted October 10, 2007 Share Posted October 10, 2007 This seems to be a santa rosa laptop issue, see Asus F3sv with same or similar issues. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smellyshoes90 Posted October 10, 2007 Author Share Posted October 10, 2007 Guys, I'm suspecting the problem lies with the new Santa Rosa Platform power management. Since there have been cases of Asus on Santa Rosa not working, I reckon the problem is widespread. I actually got a little further today, I boot into verbose mode from darwin, It seems to be the Apple ACPI management that's stuck. In fact, when I off the Speedstep, Dynamic Clocking and Running on Single core. The JaS CD booted into the Grey Apple Logo, previously it restarts 1 sec after the logo. Now it loads forever, verbose will load until there will be unreadable distortion. Much like very serious error. We might get t to work either by tweaking the Dell's BIOS or changes to Apple ACPI. Althought strange that Macbook and Macbook Pro relies on the same architechture. P.S: It worked on my XPS M1210, funny thing... Dell XPS M1330 Intel Core 2 Duo T7300 2GB 667mhz DDR2 RAM 160GB 7200RPM 2.5" HDD nVidia GeForce 8400GS Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
macgirl Posted October 10, 2007 Share Posted October 10, 2007 YES, I'm using Mac OS on my XPS M1330. Method of install: Made a FAT32 partition. Jas 10.4.8 10.4.8 DVD Upgrade to 10.4.10 with Pascalw packacge When I installed I booted with cpus=1 and -s option (Single User mode) then when i got the Prompt I hit control-D, it stalls at a point so I hit the eject button so it continues (I put back the DVD again). Once the installer is running I use the Disk Utility and erase (format) the FAT32 partition to a HFS+ Journaled, back to the Installer I choose the new partition, I select only the JAS ATA option, wait to the installer ends. Once Mac OS is installed every boot until upgrade to 10.4.10 I did the eject trick (you need a cd or dvd inside). I made the upgrade to 10.4.10 Before the upgrade the screen shows trailing of things, also I could set Graphics Mode to 1280x800x32 on the com.apple.Boot.plist Things that works: Keyboard an Trackpad, USB and FireWire ports, webcam, (does not need iChatUSBCam) Media buttons works flaswlesly, Bluetooth, Graphics card in VESA mode only (but is very fast thoug), External VGA port works with the fn-f8 keys, I don't have a DVI-HDMI cable or monitor yet, so I don't know if that port works. Things that doesn't work: Ethernet (broadcom 59xx) Wireless Intel Card 4935ABG Card Reader. The Fingerprint reader is recognized, so with proper software can be used. I use a Ralink based chip C-Net USB Wireless and a Linksys USB to Ethernet to connect to Internet. I got sound with AppleHDA patch but only trhu headphones jack, other usb sound cards works. Since I have no QE/CI I use Toast 7 instead of 8 version, VMware works great, even it recognizes Vista partition as Boot Camp, but does not allow 3d aceleration. More to come... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Superhai Posted October 10, 2007 Share Posted October 10, 2007 I am planneing to get one like this, so intersting to see that so much do work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
macgirl Posted October 11, 2007 Share Posted October 11, 2007 I just waiting to get QE/CI a decent (I mean compatible with Mac OS) Wifi card and sleep to get rid of Vista for ever. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
khull Posted October 11, 2007 Share Posted October 11, 2007 dark42, have you tried disabling multi core support before installing? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
macgirl Posted October 11, 2007 Share Posted October 11, 2007 It doesn't need that. I forgot to mention that both cores are working without stuttering after ugrade to 10.4.10 but at install is easy with cpus=1 at boot as kernel flags. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
khull Posted October 12, 2007 Share Posted October 12, 2007 macgirl: do you think its possible to outline the exact steps on installing on the m1330? it would be great to get a guide from you Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smellyshoes90 Posted October 12, 2007 Author Share Posted October 12, 2007 I totally agree with khull, macgirl please emphasis on the installation. Thanks Seems to me that there's something with the processor or mainboard power management that cause this. Anyway glad to hear that smeone was able to overcome this. Rock on people! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
macgirl Posted October 12, 2007 Share Posted October 12, 2007 Shure I'm planning to write a Guide, meanwhile I made an update to my Rigs at my signature. Also following the [Guide] Dell Inspiron 6400/9400/1520/1720/E1405/E1505/E1705 Intel Core Duo or the The Complete Dell XPS m1210 Installation + Dual Boot Tutorial could help you too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
khull Posted October 12, 2007 Share Posted October 12, 2007 if possible, it would also be a good experiment to see if there is a difference in terms of using Uphuck's or JAS version? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smellyshoes90 Posted October 13, 2007 Author Share Posted October 13, 2007 I might have stumbled upon a site which will get the Intel 4965 A/B/G/N wireless card working. It's on http://code.google.com/p/iwidarwin/ Currently not released as stable, but I guess soon a stable release. Yet to try this out, keep you guys posted when I manage to. Meanwhile if you can it to work please share your results. The XPS might just be one of the hackintoshes sucess with full support soon, CI/QE graphic, wireless and ethernet. Cross fingers! Rock On! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
macgirl Posted October 13, 2007 Share Posted October 13, 2007 I tried the iwidarwin, no luck it locks the system, I could try with other version of Mac OS X,but right now I onlyy have space in this disk to 10.4.10, maybe later when I get a larger HD. I hope soon will be a suport to eht 8400GS card, and fix to the audio problem so I can rid of Vista. Anyone knows how the Card reader is conected? It does not appear on the USB busses. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smellyshoes90 Posted October 13, 2007 Author Share Posted October 13, 2007 Macgirl: The card reader is attached to the system via the PCI Bus, Precisely Bus 3 of the mainboard. It's not the PCI-E bus or the USB. The card reader shares the same Bus as the Firewire. Only listed by the diffrent function value.I I'm having performance problem with the OS X, it's sluggish running on VMware. Any idea? RAM is set at 1024MB. Single processor at the moment. Installing 10.4.10 update now. You mention dumping Vista, Well. That was also my intention with the M1210 at first, but later you will find that OS X's limitation in software is annoying, it all depends on your usage. But still in OS X I can multitask way more efficiently than windows. Almost forgeting about crashing issue, unlike windows. I usually mulitask till I pushes the system to the limit of crashing, OS X meets my expectation. My "standard" is that Windows do a restart in under 1 min flat. From restart command to welcome screen in 1min. After login, little or no waiting for desktop to launch. Start menu immediately responsive upon login. OS X can match that on the M1210. If I don't remember wrongly on the XPS M1210 it attach via USB. By the way, thanks for the wireless driver advise. Rock On. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
macgirl Posted October 13, 2007 Share Posted October 13, 2007 The best performance is from OS X 10.4.3 on VMware, but there were 2 builds, 8F1099 and 8F1111, the first is faster than the second. I kept this installation across my native OSes and Rigs, it is handful to correct some things on native hardrive when something went wrong. I dont use it much, I prefer Native. In my case OS X is ready to run in 30 to 40 seconds, Vista about 1 minute, fortunately Sleep works fine on Vista so I can work realy fast if I left the XPS slept, almost like my PowerBook that it is faster on wake and run, Vista needs somethign that needs read from disk, PB don't. The thing about get rid of vista (well not completely) is that sometimes I lost the wireless signal at the office, then for a extrange reason Vista can not longer find any Wireless signal, that does not happen on OS X. Is also a pain that sometimes Vista is not very reponsive, you click on a menu or a program and for moments nothing happens, also Viruses and Spyware is a Nightmare. In my case the limitation on Software for Mac OS X is not an issue, I dont't really need any software that does not exist for OS X., and if I need it, I run it on Fusion. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
macgirl Posted October 17, 2007 Share Posted October 17, 2007 Great news: now my Fingerprint scanner works with my Mac Dell see this http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showtopic=66791 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
khull Posted October 19, 2007 Share Posted October 19, 2007 to what extent does the graphics card work ? also would the release of leopard affect the incompatible wireless issues? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
macgirl Posted October 19, 2007 Share Posted October 19, 2007 The Graphics is working to Full 1280x800 on Integrated Display, although iQE/CI is not enable is very fast, VMware and other Video programs like EyeTV works well, I tested EyeTV in HD TV it has some stuttering, I think QE/CI could increase speed a lot. I don't think Leopard could release a compatible driver for Intel Wireless cards, only if any of MacBook, MackBook Pro, Mac Mini or iMac will have that card Apple would develop that driver. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blindspot Posted October 21, 2007 Share Posted October 21, 2007 I was able to get it installed, however when it reboots into the Darwin boot manager it shows my three partitions, one a system partition from dell the second vista and the third osx. When I choose to boot from os x nothing happens but a flash of text that goes away. It says something about a .plist. Too fast to read though. You had mentioned something about a trick when you boot into the OS. IS that something I should be doing or is there a specific command line? Thanks in advance! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
macgirl Posted October 21, 2007 Share Posted October 21, 2007 at prompt of bootaloader hit F8 and type -s or -s -x -s let you boot in Single user mode to see what's happening. -x let you boot in Safe mode, so not all drivers are loaded. -s -x is a combination of both. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blindspot Posted October 21, 2007 Share Posted October 21, 2007 at prompt of bootaloader hit F8 and type -s or -s -x -s let you boot in Single user mode to see what's happening. -x let you boot in Safe mode, so not all drivers are loaded. -s -x is a combination of both. Hi MacGirl, thanks for the quick response. I tried those switches with no luck. But I do have an error message that may help us out here. This is what I get: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- [Library.Preferences/SystemConfiguration/com/apple.lre.boot.plist] from 42302c0 Setting boot-uuid to: 5bd97f06-fc3a-3fd7-8a5f-e4404 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
khull Posted October 22, 2007 Share Posted October 22, 2007 macgirl: have you fixed the audio problem? and is it likely there will be support for the 8400 soon? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
macgirl Posted October 22, 2007 Share Posted October 22, 2007 blindspot: did you install with Jas DVD or uphuck? I think that th uphuck does not install the kexts for the ICH8 khull, no I could ran Kunbuntu Live CD, it uses the ALSA driver that gives you sound on the speakers and detetcts if you plug a headphone, I think someone could loot at the ALSA driver and see if a patch could be done to get sund on the speakers. The dump of core#0 with the latest Kubuntu gives another sound port that I think is the digital output, but I cannot test it until I figure how to connect the HDMI to my Home Theatre (Digital receiver). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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