As you can see in my signiture, I also have 3 partitions, with the Vista one marked as Boot to use Vista's bootloader (XP is set to default on the list so if I don't do anything, it boots into XP). Then when I select "Mac OS X Leopard", it takes me to the Darwin bootloader and allows me to select the drive to boot from there (When I tried to set up a drive as default, I screwed up twice and said to myself "This isn't worth it" and thought waiting to two seconds to select the boot drive is OK with me).

What's so wierd is that the sound WAS WORKING for a while and then it quit, installed patch again, rebooted, worked, quit, and never got working again. Every once in a while the patch will work, but if I reboot, sound is no longer there.

Also, I don't understand that IOKit thing that makes my boot process so slow! It takes probably about 15 seconds to load everything, but the IOKit timeout makes it hang for 45 seconds until it actually boots. What's up with that??

Did I mentioned my config is one physical disk only and 4 partitions (2 for Vista, Leo and Time Machine on the lastest). Did you succeeded with the <bless> command during dual boot setup ?
For the sound stuff, I've never had it working after reboot, only during a working session. The only way I've make it work for now is the one mentioned in this forum by "unpi" :
1. Boot with no injector / AppleHDA extensions (have to delete them before reboot/shutdown)
2. Copy attached injector/AppleHDA in S/L/E
3. Apply HDAPatcher 1.2 with "xps420" codec found elsewhere
4. Enjoy Leopard with sound !
Quite horrible but it allways works !
I've made a startupitem to help me not to forget to copy / delete initial 2 ALCinject/AppleHDA... If anyone is interested, I'll upload it.
If the <bless> command on an hybrid (Vista/Leo) disk is my problem, I'll install Leo on a separated disk...
PS. for the boot, you should try to enable AHCI in bios and use the kext given by frantisheq (see earlier in this topic).

I have 3 physical drives, and one drive had Leopard and XP installed on it. I've never tried Bless

Where's the attached injector/AppleHDA and what is S/L/E

it also works sometimes with 1.3 patcher and my knoppix dump. If you want it, just say the word...

And yes, could you PLEASE give us the startupitem to copy/delete the AppleHDA and ALCinject. Just one question about it: does it give you sound when you reboot, or do you have to patch it manually with Taruga's patcher? Hopefully you can make it so that it automatically applies the patch at boot.

Please tell us how your seperate disk install goes.

How do you enable AHCI in Dell BIOS?

OK guys,time to be practical, lets think over... What we might possibly do to get the wretched LAN working?...

1. Buy a new LAN card,
2. Buy another mobo (not an option for notebook users),
3. Depend on somebody forever.

We have tried all of them, didn't we? Whoever has exercised option 2 need not read this post, congratulations with your new board. However, for the rest of us, what to do? May I suggest that we hire a driver writer, a good one, a real driver writer I mean, who would demonstrate some credibility. And all of us, who would like to get their cards working, may contribute something to his account, I mean look at Taruga, he did not ask us to contribute ,but people contributed out of love, respect, gratitude, whatever.

P.S: I just hope if we do manage to do that, then GOD would save him from friend loss/being marooned/lack of Internet access/car crashes etc. ... and of course after he manages to survive all that, he would come up with a good (not renamed) driver and he would distribute it to all of us in the forum and not to "someone special".

Ooops ! My upload did not work !
Here it is http://rapidshare.com/files/95154956/HDAPa...upItem.zip.html
Well, everything you need is in the archive. You must unzip in /Library/StartupItems and repair permissions. After reboot, the ALCinject/AppleHDA that work for me are copied to /System/Library/Extensions. You'll have to apply manually Taruga HDAPatcher 1.20 with your codec after each boot : quite boring ! When shutdown is in progress the two ALCinject/AppleHDA are deleted from Extensions.
I've tried to automatically apply HDAPatcher in startupitem but it does not work silentely and ask to enter authentication and close the main window.

The AHCI is enabled in the "drive options" of the XPS 420 bios... But your 9200 may not have this option ? I don't know.

I wait for my new 320G drive to be shipped... Then I'll do a clean install of a Kalyway 10.5.1 + ComboUpdate 10.5.2. I'll have space enough for TM to be usefull and hope my EFI strings will work to get rid of these injectors.

ok thought I'd post an update here as well as one more request for help.

bigdaddyrob managed to get me squared away with instructions that were for the RC2 build of Leopard which I managed to grab and get to install.

The install completes successfully, but now I'm stuck in an infinite keyboard not recognized loop.

Basically it boots and then says it couldn't recognize my keyboard, has me press the z and / keys and then says it detected the keyboard, and sure enough on all the prompts following the keyboard works.

Then it asks me if I'd like to transfer any data from an old install. I tell it no thanks and press continue.

Then it seems to hang for a while and then the screen telling me the keyboard cannot be detected which then leads to me detecting the keyboard, and then it asks me if I want to transfer data, blah blah ad nauseum, ad infinitum.

Any ideas for how to get past this, minus a different keyboard? This is the stock Dell keyboard so it should work in my opinion.

As you all know the XPS410 has no legacy ports so I can't use any of other older keyboards.



Update - OK I managed to get the iAtkos 1.0iR2 to install and work by repairing my permissions using a script on the ToH RC2 disk that I mentioned above, but it does not have EFI, nor the Vanilla kernel.

Now from everyones personal experience here should it work if I update the kernel and EFI using the latest builds or is this going to be a trial by fire?

Also it appears that I'll have to buy a new video card as no one has managed to ever get working x1300 drivers for my particular DeviceID working

More money that they wife will be ticked at me spending on this endeavor

Any news about the 82566??

I'll try that next time I reboot into Leopard, but can you add the Taruga automatic patching function anyways? I don't care if its not silent or you have to close the window or whatever, I just need to remember to keep patching every time I boot, and this will help greatly. I'm sure this will help everyone else as well.

What is the "ideal" way to repair permissions. I use Disk Utility to do it, but is it the same thing as chown and chmod? Disk Utility probably just takes longer to repair permissions, right?

I don't believe that I have "drive options" in my BIOS, I'll have to check later.

Please tell us how your fresh drive install goes. If everything works, can we have your EFI strings and your boot.plist? I might also do an install on a clean drive if it works for you.

Thanks!


Does it repeat the intro video also? I had this problem too, but I found out that the easiest way to get past this is to go through it SLOWLY (read all the options and text, etc then move on) and when it goes back to the video and keyboard not recognized error, Power down your system. A cold boot usually fixes this for me, but you might have already solved it, right?


By the way, I may or may not have mentioned this, but my GFXUtil strings in boot.plist didn't work. Any insight, please? I can give you my full boot.plist once I get back into Leopard. Just ask, and I'll probably do it (I'm working on a gay Biology project and I need Word and an Internet connection, which Leopard does not currently have working for me. )

Actually I don't even get ot see an intro video. It just goes straight to the screen for that.

I've found that the iAtkos 10.5.1 build works if I do a repair permissions using the ToH RC2 disk, but I can't use EFI or the Vanilla Kernel without getting infinite reboots.

To be honest I'd just really like to own a real Intel-based Mac, but the wife won't let me buy one yet, so I'm stuck doing the Hackintosh route *sighs*

I agree that stupidity has no excuse, and before you state a qualifier like "always" you should make sure that it happens in each and every post.

I quote people at specific times, and the fact that I can effectively quote shows that I am well read.

Now please, just for the sake of my sporting sense of fun, tell me what your credentials are. Then I can test you based upon your credentials, and we can see who is the stupid one.

Trust me this is not a route you wish to go down with me

Okay guys, calm down. This is not a thread about who's "politically" correct or not, it's about helping people with their OSX86 problems (right? (or left)).

Agreed, that's why I feel that people who don't know what they are talking about should never pretend that they do.

I can't help if after I point out that an individual doesn't know what they are doing that they try to retaliate.

However, I can help the fact that I find it humorous, I just don't wish to

Does anyone know how to enable boot on a second SATA disk on a XPS 410/420 in dell bios options ?

Just press F12 and choose the disk that you want to boot from.

Mmmh... That's what I've done first but only one SATA disk is seen.Can you point me to a working bootloader that will boot to another disk/partition ?

OK I've found... In fact that was my temporary two Leo installs that blocks me to boot on the second one (tboot stop after the first OSX). Now that I've finished with Kalyway I removed my previous Iaktos and everything works fine (at least for dual boot) with Vista bootloader and the help of tboot.

Hi everyone, I need your help, one again ... This Sigmatel 9227 is driving me crazy !
I have a working EFI now with Leo installed on a secondary disk (at least I could see some changes with GFX strings for my ATI 2600 XT even if it doesn't work for now totally). But I can't make SFX work... and I still can't make ALCinject work too (except when booting with no ALC/HDA extension and copy these into S/L/E and then apply HDAPatcher 1.2 with a XPS 420 codec file found here). I'm now Kalyway 10.5.1 + 10.5.2 combo and graphics update and netkas latest kernel...
Thanks for your answers

lol..... (no hard feelings to him... just thought it was funny....)

hows the aluminum keyboard work in windows?

Yes, I upgraded my video card to a 7600 GS. The machine came with an 8300 GS, but I scrapped that to put in a media center machine (for its superior PureVideo).

No I cannot watch videos on YouTube without it skipping. Actually, it even happens with all videos that are encoded in Flash, I think because I cannot watch any videos on Metacafe without them skipping.

I can't put the stock videocard cause it just sucks too much, and I use this machine for demanding games as well (next-gen as well as last-gen (EX: HL2, CSS, Source Games, F.E.A.R., COD4, Peggle (laugh if you want, but its FUN!), and the like)).

My videocard is on the supported list, and I MIGHT buy an 8800 GT sometime later. MAYBE. My PSU is about 400 watts or higher, so it DOES support my videocard.

How does a different videocard affect sound? If it makes a difference, I use the Natit drivers. I used to use Titan, but since Natit works better, I started using that. Don't tell me to revert back to Titan.

What is this for?

Its got Mac firmware on the video card and the XPS 410 is expecting PC firmware.

Well i'm annoyed. I bought 4GB (2x2GB) ram for my XPs 410 (D9200) and you know what?

It worked!

Do ya know what i did then? I put in my 2 1GB dell sticks, and guess what?

It worked!

I now currently have 6GB installed in my computer. So much for the 4GB limit!

Unfortunately i've already sold those other sticks to a friend so i'll be back to 4GB soon. Now i'm interested to know if it will actually go up to 8GB.




This is the guy who said he could write a driver for a network card but doesn't know the answer to this question...

Don't do that, you''ll just flame the fire. Best option is just to send me a copy.

I am back with questions

First of all, thanks a lot frantisheq for all your precious advices concerning EFI Strings, now my Dellintosh is EFI: GFX, SFX, TM/UUID like you.
Only one difference : my videocard is a Geforce 7900 GS, but I fixed the plist file to fix it => everything works !
Wonderful, I am so happy!

Now, my questions :

1. Do you know if someone succeeded in working the mute function with our Sigmatel 9227?

I found a new AppleHDA.kext that makes another model Sigmatel chip audiocard work with mute function, I will test tonight and post feedbacks.

2. Wich the best kernel for our common PC? Vanilla 9.2.0, the new ones from Netkas with speestep, etc? Any improvments to fix all the sleep bugs? Any recommendation on that topic?

Thanks a lot in advance for your feedbacks

Bye

Let me guess. You'll make the video and for some reason will not be able to upload it. Probably because a flying pig will fly into the power lines outside your house and cause a massive black out!

Anyway though. I thought this computer wasn't supposed to be able to handle over 4GB's. I'd run OSX but i killed my install going to 10.5.2

LOL

Or maybe he would create the video indeed, but send it only to his very special friend . I bet that he wouldn't send it to you , atleast.

His very special friend that only he can see?

Why wouldn't he send it to me though. I'm a very nice person!

Although i can understand why he's angry that no one believes him. Sure if i made a driver for a network card then of course i'd keep it to myself, show no proof of it working, give people versions that don't work and don't make sense, have loads of reasons for why it is taking so long and still have nothing to show for it three months later.

Oh and of course being such an intellectual genius with hardware i wouldn't be able to figure out simple things like why a mac graphics card won't work on a PC. Similar to how super intellectual mathematicians can't do simple math any more. His brain is too far evolved for us puny little mindless twits.

I am sorry to say, but you do not get the exact intent. Had you referred to one of his earlier posts sometime back (in this thread only), you would have seen that he shouted on frantisheq that he would give his now famous driver to his only friend (mrjoe) and nobosy else, atleast not to frantisheq. So hence... you get it right

@frantisheq: Why, am I not right with that?

I knew that. I was just trying to joke that his friend is make believe. For all we know this Joe character could be an alias for BDR.

Any idea to my questions?

No success => another solution from someone perhaps?

Thanks frantisheq for your answer.
I have not yet tested the timemachine update, I will post feedbacks as soon as I performed tests.

Concerning the best Kernel to use any recommendation?
My issue is the following: the fan of my viedocard is silencious at first boot, if the Dellintosh sleeps, when I press barspace for waking up, the fan goes fast speed and noisy. I guess it is linked to Kernel or NVidia Kexts monitoring that. They can not reload correctly like done at first boot.

vanilla worked best for me. including sleep but no speedstep (can't see the difference if it works or not) and it gave me HPET error. with speedstep kernel - no HPET error but no sleep

EDIT: just installed TM update w/o any problems so now i'm on vanila. not sure if kernel version changed but here's a screenshot
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@frantisheq
HPET error? I do not undertsand, can you tell me more about that.
Do you also encounter fan noise issue ?

HPET error - it has something to do with AppleIntelCPUPowerManagement or AppleACPIPlatform. no idea
and no i have no such problems with fan

Just thought I'd throw an update in here for everyone.

I've bought an ATi Radeon HD3850 for my Dell as well as an Encore card that has the RTL8169 chipset. It was supposed to be the 8139 chipset, but the 8169 works just fine apparently so I'm happy.

So now I'm about to do a fresh install and see what I can do about getting Vanilla kernel and EFI working so that I can actually do proper updates without killing the OS.

Hey guys, I decided to give OSX another shot in my Dell XPS 410. I tried TOH RC2 over and over but just could not get any updates applied correctly. For some reason, even though it would never work for me before, I used the Kalyway 10.5.1 disc and had success! From there I installed Taruga's 1.16 audio patch, netkas' latest natit.kext for my ATI HD 2600 PRO 256mb (DVI is fully working with this kext!), then 10.5.2 and software updates. I disregarded all the security updates and the graphix update.

Now that you know where I'm coming from, I have a problem that I can't figure out. When I try to play a DVD movie, I get the following error:


Any suggestions? Has anyone else had this problem?

is your QE/CI ok?

Ok I now have everything other than sound working.

I'm using the onboard SigmaTel 9227 and I've tried the Tarugas HDA patcher, but it's not seeming to work.

I've heard that the issue could be my Radeon HD3850 since it also has an onboard soundchip for the HDMI.

Anyone have any ideas on how to make this play nice?

Thanks BigDaddyRob

Someone in the HDA area gave me the dump directly from their card that is working in Leopard and told me to use 1.16 as it appears that the later versions don't work correctly and now I have sound working.

So now I have Leo4all updated with PPF 1 installed and it has allowed me to use Software update perfectly for every single item without fail.

So now I'm up to Kernel 9.2.2 with my Radeon HD3850 working perfectly driving 2 monitors with Full OpenGL, QE, CI, and all up and running, and now I have sound and it all boots smooth.

Very Very happy camper finally.

Man, bigdaddyrob2g, YOU ROCK! I can watch DVDs now, QE & CI are working fully, sound is up, got my NIC going... I'm in MAC heaven! Thank you! Anyone who has anything bad to say about this man, shame on you! He's helped me out and gone out of his way to do it more than anyone!

Ok, I just swapped the SATA cables between my drives, now my TSST DVD drive shows up, but not the Phillips DVD drive... Any suggestions as to how I can have both at the same time?

जी हॉ, साबजी, बेशक, "बकचोदी" मे आपने काफी नाम, पैसा, ओर सोहरत कमाया होगा, लेकिन जहॅा तक network driver का सवाल है, तो आपसे उम्मीदे कुछ ज्यादा नहीं है।

If anybody would care to know what was that I'd be happy to help...

You didn't mention that in the PM.
That 10%, does it establish a working connection or it just doesn't show the cable disconnected problem?

If the latter you are probably farther away from a working driver than you think. You can graft parts of the linux driver into the other SmallTree network driver and get this result/behaviour but it would need much more. Obviously without seeing any code or knowing what you have done its really hard to give clearer more useful answers.

bigdaddyrob2g, like I mentioned some time ago, you need to ignore these personal posts. Quoting your resume or how successful you are isn't going to help your cause and most likely will just encourage more taunting posts. (P.S. I can trump those so can I speak? )

Whether you release anything to anyone is your business, (unless you are modifying parts of a GPL driver), but for the most part people are in this forum to get help.
Obviously you are going to alienate people when you continue to post: paraphrase "I have a somewhat working network driver, but because a few members have been mean to me I'm not going to share it with the rest of you."

Are you interested to learn the English/Deutsche translation of my Hindi post?

@frantisheq, what about you?

Basically, it says that "you may have earned money, name and respect in 'messing around (that word was something to do with the f-word and that is censored here)', but when it comes to network driver, we expect nothing from you."

That's pretty high-end Hindi there, so I got my dad to translate it for me.

I'm from Maharashtra, where are you from, Nirmalya?

Small correction, the original post was submitted by me. The official translation is with frantisheq, sent over to him via PM by "Yours truly" Basically from Kolkata, but now in Bangalore.

Sure did! Has anyone tried Paragon's NTFS for OS X, or NTFS-3g? I'm running Paragon's NTFS driver. It mounts my NTFS drives well, I have read and write, but for some reason whenever I try to play a video off of my NTFS drive, I get errors. I've tried to play the videos in flip4mac/quicktime, vlc, mplayer, etc... If I copy the videos to my hfs partition, they play great. Anyone else have this problem? If so, have you found a solution? Does this occur with NTFS-3g?

Don't get so upset friend Forget the driver (a very hard thing to do, indeed ) for the time being. And you'll see that that you would not find a better place where we can come together and exchange our thoughts, ok, just kidding. But seriously, why should *you* quit because of somebody? You'll see someday, if Krishna wants we would not need a driver made from copy+paste code, or Smalltree or whatever, because we'll have it from the Appletree itself.

Also, do not worry about somebody running away from the group, because for somebody who is so much crazy about publicity (negative or whatever), how can he even live without all these publicity? But, of course, eventually he had to run away someday. Maybe he would sign up again with another nickname like "smallmomma" and again start the process anew (Of duping people that is).