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rinjose
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Installed Ideneb 1.3 / 10.5.5 on my TX2590, no big hazzle if selecting the proper *extras & patches* as described in this thread. As reported before working fine with Vista as dual boot.

 

Great news though, after applying Apples latest Airport update:

 

AirPort_Extreme_Update_2008-004 (available for download via another thread here)

 

My TX2590 hackintosh immedatey detected the BCM4322 embedded wifi as an Airport card !

 

Only need a patch for the ATI 3200 card now....

 

Keihanno please go through this thread thoroughly and you will find everything you need to make everything except HD 3200 Radeon to get to work on your tablet.

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WACOMalt
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I read on netkas.org and IRC that there is now support for the Radeon HD3650a (and HD2800 also i thought). Has anyone used any of those two drivers/packages (especially the HD3650 one) to try to get the Radeon HD3200 to work?

 

Has anyone who know how to do stuff with these (aka not me) checked this out? If they got those cards working, shouldn't it be possible to get the 3200 working?

WACOMalt
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bump, and has anyone tried the ideneb 10.5.5 release yet?

 

I see in it's description it supports the following video cards:

 

• HD Series

 

HD 2400Pro AGP

HD 2600Pro AGP

HD 2600XT AGP

HD 2400Pro PCIE

HD 2400XT PCIE

HD 2600Pro PCIE

HD 2600XT PCIE

HD2900

HD3650

HD3850

HD3870

HD3870X2

 

Though one card is blatantly missing... At least there are more HD series cards supported. Perhaps one could work with the HD3200?

 

 

I will try to install once it finishes downloading. I may try to patch the some of the ATI kexts to say they are for the 3200, if I can remember how. Last time I had to do that was for my Desktop OSx86 which has a Nvidia 6800XT.

 

To be honest I think OSx86 without video support is not OS X at all. Until I got the video working on my desktop I was about to just delete OS X and go back to just XPx64. So if the video doesn't work on this, it is unlikely I will keep it installed.

WACOMalt
WACOMalt
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Sorry to bump again (but not really...)

 

I got iDeneb 10.5.5 installed. And I must say it was the easiest time I have had getting a successful osx86 installation. though of course the HD3200 doesn't work (and you can tell) I got the audio working using rinjose's method (I didn't follow it very well, forgot to delete the alcinject before restart, but it still worked for me) On the 10.5.5 installer I couldnt find the ApplePS2Controller option, but it didn't seem to matter.

 

Sound works, but is choppy as hell, but I think it is because of the computer lagging because of a lack of GPU acceleration. Do anybody else's graphics seem to glitch? Like the dock (with magnification effect enabled) spazzes out when you mouse over it sometimes, and just a bunch of random things like that...

 

Question... who made the kexts that come with ideneb? Aka, who got the other ATI HD cards to work? I am sure if we could contact them, they could get the 3200 working pretty easily. I think that is out best bet on getting this card working, as it seems most people have forgotten about us tx2500z users.

 

I am likely going to try to edit one of the new kexts myself, but I wondered if anyone knows which one out of the newly supported HD cards is the closest in hardware to the HD3200?

 

EDIT: Also got WiFi working, I have thecard that supports wireless n.

 

The Airport Extreme 2008-04 update SOMEWHAT fixed it (That is a link for the person who couldn't find the update). I had to use Pacifist to install it though. It said my hard drive didn't meet the requirements (though it did). I cannot use WEP or WPA, but an unsecured network works fine (which is fine with me because I live in the middle of nowhere and didn't need the security anyways...) I am now typing this on my hackintosh.

 

Not working:

ATI HD3200

Touch/Wacom Pen Calibration

Quickplay Buttons

Fingerprint Scanner

Scoll section of trackpad

Wireless with WEP or WPA

Inking options do not show for me in system prefs.

 

Working:

Wireless (Unsecured)

Trackpad

Camera (though I cannot use photo booth for lack of video drivers)

Sound (Speakers, Stereo Mic, headphone port, and mic port)

Battery management

Bluetooth

Volume buttons

Sleep mode

Everything else?

 

The addition of Wifi made me be able to look over not having video drivers for awhile. Though it will still annoy the {censored} out of me :wacko:.

 

Thanks everyone for your help thus far!

skierguy
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I am looking at buying the TX2510CA

 

I want to ascertain:

How is the performance (usable?)

Wireless network card working?

Ethernet working?

Can I calibrate the tablet (not so important since I will be using WinXP for taking notes)?

What distro do people use (I don't care what version of Leopard, as long it is 10.5.2 or greater..

 

Hopefully Apple will release a tablet at MacWorld 09 (I pray)

Auggie
Auggie
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skierguy,

 

Your questions seem to be answered (for the most part) in this thread, if you read up a bit. Performance - seems to depend on what you accept as usable in terms of graphics. Wireless - read above your post. Seems like everyone got support without the draft-n card, and now people are getting support WITH draft-n card, but not for secured networks. Ethernet seems to be working from what people said. Everyone clearly stated that calibration is not working. Seems like people are switching over to iDeneb for the most part.

 

Just read the posts in this thread and you will find answers to all of your questions, in-depth.

 

Back to the topic now - does anyone know who wrote the texts for iDeneb? WACOMalt seems to have a good point about this. The quickest way to get support for our graphics is probably through the person/group of people who wrote the drives for the other cards supported in iDeneb. It has been a few years since I tinkered with this stuff at all, and I don't have a ton of time right now to do it myself, but I probably wasn't good enough at it in the first place :)

WACOMalt
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skierguy, the post RIGHT above yours (my post) has most of the answers to your questions, and the rest of the answers are not far from that.

People are more likely to help if you have put in some effort finding answers yourself. To reiterate... performance is usable, but without GPU support, there is a bit of a hitch on the UI itself. wireless works (for the n cards and the others) using the link in the post right above yours, and you have to install it using pacifist. Ethernet works out of the box (install the only Broadcom kext upon install). Calibration is a no go and will likely require a custom application written for us. And iDeneb is the best choice it seems, I used v1.3 (the newest I think, and it worked the best I have seen out of any of them). Hope that helps you out. Read the posts next time.

 

Now then, I am looking on the iDeneb install CD for contact info, still waiting for it to load, will edit this post once it does. I think it had some useful info.

 

EDIT: ok, so their webpage is http://ideneb.insanelymac.net They have a chat and a forum, I will try asking in both of these places, or try to find out WHO to ask.

skierguy
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Sorry for asking stupid questions, it just looked like everyone had different answers. Thanks for helping the noob anyways! I will order the laptop without wireless N I guess. Does anyone know of a tablet that works better as a hackintosh? They all seem to have problems that are hard to fix..

Auggie
Auggie
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To WACOMalt,

 

did you have md5 errors when u were downloading the iDeneb? I can't get mine to match up according to the md5 supplied in the text document with the image... wondering if it's a bad upload, or just me.

 

To skierguy:

I don't know of any, but you could look through the HCL (hardware compatability lists) on the wiki page of oxx86project.org to see if any are listed... not sure though. And most systems have some milestone problems that end up being tough to fix when you're running osx on a windows platform... it's part of the challenge.

 

WACOM, let us know what you find out!

WACOMalt
WACOMalt
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skierguy - the wireless N card works using the link I gave you, though the non n card will work out of the box I hear.

 

Auggie - Try using a different site for the torrent, some of the trackers get one person on them with a corrupt copy, and that person ruins it for everyone else. I got mine from Demonoid.com, but their registration is closed if you dont have a link.

 

Thepiratebay's copys tend to be non-corrupted most of the time. Rule of thumb is, MD5 error, don't download again from the same source unless you have to. I had MD5 errors on the copy of kalyway that is on my desktop, downloaded 3 times, then tried a different source, and it was perfect.

Auggie
Auggie
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Yeah, I'm using the one on demonoid... has had a lot of activity, and i'm guessing its the same one you used, so i'll give it one more shot.

 

as to the wireless n card - wasn't the conclusion that is working BUT without support for a secure network? so if you use passwords on your router, it's a no go. you could use mac address filtering if your router uses it, but just a heads up... thats what I remember reading anyway...

 

 

so sick of vista, trying to get a good copy of this iDeneb and hoping for a guru to work out this graphics issue so i can run osx again...

WACOMalt
WACOMalt
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Hmm.. are you getting 1.3 on demonoid? thats what i got... thats odd that you are getting a corrupt one from them, I guess again one person is screwing it up, not realizing their download is corrupt and sharing it.

 

Anyways I actually need to retest if WEP and WPA worked on my router, it took a reboot for no encryption to work, and I didn't test encryption AFTER that reboot.

 

It kills me how close this is to being perfect, and I guarantee the right person could fix us up in a matter of days if they tried, or knew we needed help.

 

After new years I plan to try editing each of the new ATI HD cards' kexts that have been added, will take me some remembering on how, but hey, I gotta try.

 

Someone remind me to do that though, after new years i don't plan on remembering much ;)

razor1394
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On my tx2690eo I got a disc error during the middle of the installation with iDeneb 1.3 10.5.5. I got the iso from usenet but I downloaded the same file again. This time I didn't skip the disc verification and it failed here as well. I then downloaded the rtf file from tpb with the md5 and compared the md5:s with the downloaded iso and they matched:

 

79af2c037b48e976d9f51839ec009bb5

79af2c037b48e976d9f51839ec009bb5

 

Nerolinux verifies that the disc is ok so I don't know what's wrong. I have also installed with this .iso taken from Usenet on a desktop and it succeeds.

 

The discs are Verbatim 4X DVD+RW and I have never had a problem with them.

WACOMalt
WACOMalt
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hmm, that is odd... I recommend, (as seen earlier) with every problem to try a different source, but your MD5s match, so that is odd.... perhaps there is some difference hardware-wise, between the 2500z (mine) and the 2690eo?

 

maybe try the newest kalyway patched to use chameleon loader?

 

sorry if I'm not much help, but the MD5s match, so your burn was bad or something, but the download is fine.

try burning with the lowest speed? and if your drive supports it turn up "vari-rec" to 4x power.

 

if that doesn't work, try the kalyway, or an earlier version of iDeneb.

 

good luck!

 

(sorry if I am not understandable, it IS new years and I AM a bit drunk...)

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razor1394
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hmm, that is odd... I recommend, (as seen earlier) with every problem to try a different source, but your MD5s match, so that is odd.... perhaps there is some difference hardware-wise, between the 2500z (mine) and the 2690eo?

 

maybe try the newest kalyway patched to use chameleon loader?

 

sorry if I'm not much help, but the MD5s match, so your burn was bad or something, but the download is fine.

try burning with the lowest speed? and if your drive supports it turn up "vari-rec" to 4x power.

 

if that doesn't work, try the kalyway, or an earlier version of iDeneb.

 

good luck!

 

(sorry if I am not understandable, it IS new years and I AM a bit drunk...)

 

No problem. Leo4allv6 is around the corner so I will try that on the tx2690eo once It's out.

y0ungSir
y0ungSir
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Okay, I get everything to work except Wifi (excluding hd3200), any one know what's wrong? I tried the wifi thingy in the install, but it didn't work after the install. I tried the other Wifi thing in this thread, anyone got an idea? Because when I try to scan for a signal, nothing comes up.

jbn7343
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Well I have a strange problem i'm hoping you guys can help with. I'v got the tx2525nr and when I try to install iDeneb 10.5.5 off the DVD it fails about halfway through. I downloaded the MD5's and they match, I also did an md5 on the CD after it was burned and it matched again. I saw a few posts ago a user with a version of the tx2500 appeared to be having the same problem. I'm not sure where to proceed from here as the MD5's are matching and I have heard from numerous people that this should work on the tx2500, any help would be appreciated. Thanks

 

EDIT: It also fails when apple checks the disk not only during install, I'm thinking I must have a weird hardware problem as other people with the same version with the same md5 can get it to work. I'm really hoping someone out there has some ideas. Thanks again

Clock190
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I got Ideneb 1.3 up and running on my Tx2500z. The graphics aren't working (as in there's no 3200HD driver), but I've got a question for you guys -

 

Has anyone managed to force OSX to use the native 1280*800 resolution of the Ts2500's screen? My understanding is that this is possible to do, and if so, then the only thing we'd be missing out on is graphics hardware acceleration.

 

I ask because that's my only major qualm with the setup right now. I've tried a few different things:

  • Using the cscreen command line tool. I could never actually get it to run from the terminal.
  • Tried using DisplayConfigX - crashes when it loads.
  • Tried using SwitchResX - I added a new custom entry and restarted, but it didn't do anything. Perhaps I'm missing a step there, but even when I went back into the app there was no obvious area to actually set the resolution.
  • And of course, modifying the com.apple.Boot.plist file.

Nothing seems to be working for me. Has anyone had any success here?

razor1394
razor1394
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I'v burned another distro and it to says bad media halfway during install :-/

 

Well there is something that is definitively wrong. I tried the IPC beta and I get the same bad media problem at the end of the disc. I have installed Ubuntu Jaunty from a daily disc and it works fine except the graphics because there is no 2d acceleration with the open drivers and it causes extreme stuttering. I'm currently trying to get the fglrx v9.1 drivers working but it doesn't seem to like my system configuration. Previous driver locked up when logging out so I don't have such high hopes for this one. I can install Intrepid as well but it has serious problems with USB on my system. I can install Windows 7 as well.

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