Install 10.4.1 on i855

[soogy]

Hi,

 

Well, I was around here months ago when OS X x86 first started going around, but I dropped it a short while later simply because I couldn't get QE or CI to work on my Intel 855GM chipset (P4-M 2.2ghz laptop).

 

I've regained interest in OS X again (who can resist that font smoothing?) and I've read a bit around this forum. I suppose you need 10.4.1 to get QE working, but the information on these forums is very hard to find. All I've found is people saying "it's on the forums," but I haven't found the solution. I'm going to install OS X tomorrow (I think it's the 10.4.1 image, "10.4.Generic" is it, right?), but I want to make sure I'm going to do it right this time.

 

What do I need to do to get at least QE working on the 855GM? CI too, if possible, but I can live without it.

Also, how exactly do you update to the latest (10.4.5?) version? Can it even be done?

 

I hope someone can help me, I'm dying to get back on OS X (oh Windows, how I loathe you).

 

Thanks to anyone who even bothered reading this far.

 

 

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[bilditup1]

You are basically screwed with the i855 chipset. Widescreen isn't supported in versions after 10.4.1, and that version is useless nowadays because nothing is built for it. As for QE CI - I believe there's a sticky in the Genius Bar that explains how to do it. It sometimes works, sometimes doesn't - depends alot on the vendor/how much memory is allocated at startup. If you could increase this in the BIOS, you may have a chance, if not sorry. I feel your pain (I have a Fujitsu P7010D ultralight with this useless chipset.)

[soogy]

Luckily, I don't have widescreen. I couldn't find the thread in the Genius Bar. I recall hearing something about changing some lines and switching kext files, but I can't do much without finding a thread. Any ideas?

 

(By the way, thanks a ton for replying. Glad to see people helping, I was expecting my thread to die.)

[bilditup1]

It would be this thread:

 

http://forum.osx86project.org/index.php?showtopic=757

 

It says it's for widescreen, but it's applicable here as well.

This is a summary of that thread:

 

Get into single user mode and get to the root:

sudo -s
Enter password.
cd ../..

 

Find AppleIntel830.kext and AppleIntelIntegratedGraphics.kext in /System/Library/Extensions.

 

Within each kext, you have to edit /Contents/info.plist to include your PCI-id:

 

nano AppleIntel830.kext/Contents/info.plist
nano AppleIntelIntegratedGraphics.kext/Contents/Info.plist

 

Go to the line under <IOPCIMatch> and add in 0x35828086. Then Ctrl+O to save, and CTRL+X to exit nano.

 

After you finish editing, you have to repair permissions of those files:

 

sudo chown -R root:wheel AppleIntel*
sudo chmod 755 AppleIntel*

 

Then flush the extensions cache (go back to /System/Library)

 

cd .. 
sudo rm Extensions.kextcache
sudo rm Extensions.mkext
sudo kextcache -k /System/Library/Extensions

 

In order to get QE/CI, you might have to do this for other files. Some have reported success renaming AppleIntel915 to AppleIntel830. I have not tried this recently; I don't think it worked for me, but again, results are different for each user. Some have reported that they get QE and CI only after booting into another OS (like WinXP) and then rebooting.

 

Yet others have reported that in order to get this working without any finnagling with other OSes, you need to set the Aperture in the BIOS to max, so it could accomodate QE/CI without crashing. I don't know how true that is. Your best bet is to search through that thread, as I said, this is only a summary. I gave up on this long ago; I'm content to having it work only on my desktop.

[soogy]

Great, thanks bilditup1! I'll give that a try when I finished installing.

[soogy]

Ah, well, I gave it a go. No QE or CI possible on the 852/855 chipsets. Not possible whatsoever. The people who had success were using other chipsets (like 865). Oh well; I'm sticking to OS X anyways. I've had enough of Windows' font smoothing.