Compaq C700 series and iATKOS 2.0

[Zeroburn]

Hi everyone,

 

 

As most know, it seems that the most friendly version of OS X with the Compaq Presario C700s series is iATKOS 1.0ir. Since the latest has been out so far, version 2.0. I would like to gather any information, suggestions, and overall user experience with this new build with any C700 series laptop. That way we can find out the best way to install this new version with everyone's input. So far this is my experience with it:

 

Using a Compaq Presario C751NR model. Swapped out the wireless mini-pc card from the C715NR laptop model into my C751NR.

 

I installed the following options:

 

Default System files

Default Darwin bootloader

Intel SATA driver

Intel X3100 driver

Realtek 8139 driver

Darwin MBR bootloader patch

NTFS -3G patch

 

 

 

So far things overall work fine, I have internal wireless working, keyboard/mouse working, battery monitor working, screen saver mode works. Speed is good, about a 25 second bootup time. I did seem to notice a long boot time if I had either Intel Speedstep or SMBIOS Macbook driver being isntalled. Not sure which of those contributed to longer bootup time so far. Video is working perfectly as well as audio, minus the audio jacks as they do not work due to no driver being installed for audio.

 

The only issue I'm having is sleep mode. The system will go to sleep but not wake up. If anyone can figure the right combination to get this going, then I'm set as well as many others likely with C751nr model.

 

 

 

Hope this helps anyone starting out and if anyone else don't mind to contribute to the cause.

 

Thanks,

ZB

[Zeroburn]

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[El_Siciliano]

Hey!... I'm sorry, I wrote last post in spanish, and I didn't notice it until too late... my bad. (Anyway, I edited it....)

 

I was asking if you had any luck with the audio jack...And... I was telling you that I'm totally new on this, so I may ask some silly stuff.

 

1.- Is it possible to have Leopard (via Atkos) AND Windows Vista on the same computer?... in some way I could choose what system to boot... (the way Mac does, holding the Mac key, or something like that when you boot)

2.- Is there any good instructions anywhere?... and by "good", I mean for newbies... step by step.

 

Thanks in advance!

Regards from Santiago, Chile

El Siciliano

Hola!Has tenido suerte con el audio?Mira.... soy ABSOULUTAMENTE nuevo con esto... así que cualquier ayuda me puede servir.Hay alguna posibilidad de particionar el disco, dejar Windows Vista en una partición, Leopard en otra... y al bootear, elegir qué sistema quiero cargar?Muchas gracias, y saludos...El Siciliano

[Zeroburn]

Ok this is as much as I know so far:

 

1. As far as getting the audio jacks working. No, I have not had any luck on any release to get the audio jacks to work. Honestly I don't think they ever will work as far as I know as no one has remotely made any Conexant audio drivers (kexts in this case of OS X) at all. If someone with the Apple HD patcher project has, I'm not sure if it is for exact model. It seems like you have a better chance with Realtek audio chips as they are more common now and therefore have drivers avaloable. So, no. No working audio jacks. But what I did to work around this issue was to buy a nice USB Logitech headphone set and it works perfectly.

 

2. If you go to the genius bar forum (tutorial forum) on this site. There is a very nice and straight forward step by step guide to teach you how to dual boot OS X with Windows XP and Vista. I believe its titled "the fool proof guide to multi-booting do and vista" or something similar. I did this guide on my desktop and it worked fine. I'm using a different setup on my laptop with Unbuntu Linux and OS X. Let me k is if you find that tutorial helpful or if you can't find it and I'll do a search for it.

 

Also for more info on getting help with this laptop series. There is a fairly long thread covering some of the issues we've faced and help on the matter. I believe the title to that thread is called "installing mac os x on a compaq c714" it is a thread I have posted on as well. Its in the OS X installation forum under the 10.5.1 area.

 

Just to let you and anyone else know. That currently I am running on Kalyway 10.5.2 realease on my c751nr. Everything worked fine mostly out of the install. I do get sleep working but it kills the battery monitor and possible temperature issues can occur. But a simple reboot fixes that. I also installed the enhanced ps2 controller kext listed in the mouse, keyboard, trackpad guide in the genius forums area to improve my keyboard. Also iATKOS has a odd issue where adium crashes and you have to login under another user account to make it work, maybe similar issues in other apps.

 

Good luck. Hope this helps

[El_Siciliano]

Thanks!

 

I'll do my best on this matter.

 

Regards,

El Siciliano

 

Ok this is as much as I know so far:

 

1. As far as getting the audio jacks working. No, I have not had any luck on any release to get the audio jacks to work. Honestly I don't think they ever will work as far as I know as no one has remotely made any Conexant audio drivers (kexts in this case of OS X) at all. If someone with the Apple HD patcher project has, I'm not sure if it is for exact model. It seems like you have a better chance with Realtek audio chips as they are more common now and therefore have drivers avaloable. So, no. No working audio jacks. But what I did to work around this issue was to buy a nice USB Logitech headphone set and it works perfectly.

 

2. If you go to the genius bar forum (tutorial forum) on this site. There is a very nice and straight forward step by step guide to teach you how to dual boot OS X with Windows XP and Vista. I believe its titled "the fool proof guide to multi-booting do and vista" or something similar. I did this guide on my desktop and it worked fine. I'm using a different setup on my laptop with Unbuntu Linux and OS X. Let me k is if you find that tutorial helpful or if you can't find it and I'll do a search for it.

 

Also for more info on getting help with this laptop series. There is a fairly long thread covering some of the issues we've faced and help on the matter. I believe the title to that thread is called "installing mac os x on a compaq c714" it is a thread I have posted on as well. Its in the OS X installation forum under the 10.5.1 area.

 

Just to let you and anyone else know. That currently I am running on Kalyway 10.5.2 realease on my c751nr. Everything worked fine mostly out of the install. I do get sleep working but it kills the battery monitor and possible temperature issues can occur. But a simple reboot fixes that. I also installed the enhanced ps2 controller kext listed in the mouse, keyboard, trackpad guide in the genius forums area to improve my keyboard. Also iATKOS has a odd issue where adium crashes and you have to login under another user account to make it work, maybe similar issues in other apps.

 

Good luck. Hope this helps

[fayze]

i have the same laptop, and have some questions.

 

does your trackpad work 100%? on the first boot to disc it worked fine, as well as on the first run of leopard. then after that i went about fix vista, and when i was finally able to boot back into leopard, it started glitching out.

 

also, have you attempted to update to 10.5.3 yet? (using kalyway). i did, but i think i forgot to select the right kernel in the fix package. so im back to square one.

[zchef2k]

I've been running iatkos2 on my c700 for a few days now.

 

I have few probems to report. Currently, I am at 62 degrees Celsius on each of the two cores, and the comp has been running for several hours of light computing. The onbard Atheros 5007 is not working, of course, but am wifi enabled via a Ralink- chipset USB adapter.

 

The keyboard works out of the box, but feels like it misses a buffer from time to time. The trackpad works well also- no problems.

 

CI and QE are supported onboard. I have not tested the external vga/s-video ports. Onboard audio works and sounds great, but the audio jacks and mic do not work.

 

I used options Base system, Darwin Loader and Intel VGA drivers. I did, however, have to use the iatkos1 dvd to install the Darwin Boot via terminal for the system to boot.

 

There seems to be no logic between power options and how the display and HD sleep- ultimately becoming unable to wake. Any help here would be great.

 

The laptop does operate normally on AC and battery power with full support from the vanilla kernel.

 

Kalyway update failed with 9.3.3 selected. Terminal replacements of the kernel with others proved equll unsuccessful. Abandonded and reinstalled stable 10.5.2 via iatkos2 dvd.

[agentphish]

greetings, I'm looking to see if anyone has done osx86 on a c762nr.

 

Seems to be similar specs to a c751nr

 

Thanks

[airtraxxx]

I installed 10.5.2 using Kalyway osx86 disc on my c762nr. I chose EFI guid and stock kernel. It booted up fine but there was no sound and no QE/CI. In order to get those working I installed AppleAzaliaAudio.mpkg from an old uphuck installation cd and the graphics update from Apple. Now my c762nr is running leopard 10.5.2 the way I want it. Took a lot of trial and error to get it up. Hope this helps those who have the c762nr too.

[ObsidianPhoenix]

Hello. I'm new to all of this, so please bear with me. I installed Leopard using the iATKOS 2.0 onto my C762NR. Trackpad acts funky, but works great with a USB mouse. Sound and video worked great, but my internal wireless Atheros 5007 doesn't. Also, how do I customize the Darwin / x86 Bootloader? I am absolutely new to Mac OS but have been wanting to give it a try and this is my "trial run." Thank you.