Faustus Posted March 22, 2006 Share Posted March 22, 2006 The suggested Bluetooth and Wireless driver didn't work on my Macbook. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
berhb Posted March 23, 2006 Share Posted March 23, 2006 "Effects" was testing a MBP with an ATI drivers solutions, everything seem to work fine,we were about to hear the latest news on his solution, until Onmac.net site went down. Now i'm pretty anxious and bitting my nails! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
whitecom Posted March 23, 2006 Share Posted March 23, 2006 lol, could it be!!!!!! OMG. i'm also biting my nails. I feel your pain.. hehe ^^ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
berhb Posted March 23, 2006 Share Posted March 23, 2006 lol, could it be!!!!!! OMG. i'm also biting my nails. I feel your pain.. hehe ^^ Have you visited Onmac.net recently, specifically on forum, Ati drivers.? I haven't been able to enter the site for almost two hours. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
whitecom Posted March 23, 2006 Share Posted March 23, 2006 Have you visited Onmac.net recently, specifically on forum, Ati drivers.? I haven't been able to enter the site for almost two hours. After i saw the previous post before mine, i tried the site and i couldn't access it. Hopefully someone posted a fix, and the server couldn't handle the load. hehe i'll wait to see for sure! I can't wait to play FFXI on my (win)mac Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
berhb Posted March 23, 2006 Share Posted March 23, 2006 After i saw the previous post before mine, i tried the site and i couldn't access it. Hopefully someone posted a fix, and the server couldn't handle the load. hehe i'll wait to see for sure! I can't wait to play FFXI on my (win)mac Cross fingers! i'll try later! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
INFNITE Posted March 23, 2006 Share Posted March 23, 2006 wait, so does Effect's solution actually work? the last time I checked onmac.net, he said that he is still waiting for someone at work to get him his MBP Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
krispyrob Posted March 23, 2006 Share Posted March 23, 2006 wait, so does Effect's solution actually work? the last time I checked onmac.net, he said that he is still waiting for someone at work to get him his MBP I saw the same thing... he said even said "don't get too excited", I don't think the reason the site is down is because of "effect's" possible solution that he hadn't even thoroughly tested. Although, I don't think he mentioned that it was his MBP that he was asking his co-worker to get, just some "items" that he needed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
effects Posted March 23, 2006 Share Posted March 23, 2006 Hey all! I wanted to answer some of the speculation. I am working n a fix. I have also had problems getting into onmac.net. Also, the solution is not yet posted as, I am still in the testing phase. It is looking okay at the moment, but I have been sick and haven't had the time to devote to it. I will keep you updated. Also, I needed a few things from work including my macbook pro. I currently have two of them for work, but one of them is a test machine that I have been working on. I left it at work when I got sick and just got it back tonight. However, my coworker left some of my software at work on accident. This is what I can tell you so far. The problem is with driver implementation. It wasn't built into the slipstream cd and efi properly, so I have edited both. I can make the machine boot with the new driver, but am not sure if it will remain stable. I am working without narf and blanka's source code, so I am piecing it together. Please be patient and continue all of your testing. I am just like everyone else. I am experimenting and am getting close. I am not trying to stop the success that is going on. I actually have gotten where I am so far, by reading all of your posts, suggestions and researching myself. Cross your fingers, but don't get to excited. I am not posting the final solution at this time, but am hopeful that I might be able to do it soon. Keep up the good work and wish me luck. If my testing works, then I have several people who have volunteered to help me test further. IF I get this working correctly, I will post it for everyone to grab. Until then I regularly check both posts and will continue to do so. As soon as I am up and around a little better, I will finish testing. Please, leave some of your nails intact , Effects Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Velvet Nightmare Posted March 23, 2006 Share Posted March 23, 2006 Sounds good. Do let us know when you get it ready so that we can be the first to test. And if it all possible, it would be great if we didn't have to reinstall. I already have HL2 and a bunch of other games on that I'd like to not have to put back on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
berhb Posted March 23, 2006 Share Posted March 23, 2006 Hey all! I wanted to answer some of the speculation....Please, leave some of your nails intact , Effects Good to hear from you! I hope you are feeling better if not get some rest. As for the drivers i agree too, i tried to install an xp64 version of catalyst , because xp64 works on efi. The drivers recognized the card but keeps showing an alert with a .nif file , even if this method don´t work apparently what it´s stopping the drivers is the VGA BIOS, not the driver itself!. I think that there is a way make windows recognize the video card as Virtual PC does trying to emulate a common PC. I´ll be trying anyway. Get better effects our nails and are depending on you! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
darkten Posted March 23, 2006 Share Posted March 23, 2006 Note that effects said "I can make the machine boot with the new driver, but am not sure if it will remain stable." I'm curious as to if by this he means "not using XpOnMac VGASAVE"...that alone is an accomplishment, heheh -D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
settolo Posted March 23, 2006 Share Posted March 23, 2006 be sure to be the first to post it once the contest begins Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Generic Posted March 23, 2006 Share Posted March 23, 2006 Do they realy want to start a new Contest for the drivers? In that case we will have to wait a long, long time to get it working... The first Contest isnt just over, couse narf and blanka havnt posted ths source by now. This way itll never become a comunity project... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ToXic_WaSTe Posted March 23, 2006 Share Posted March 23, 2006 I actually have gotten where I am so far, by reading all of your posts, suggestions and researching myself. Hmmm so which posts were helpfull??? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
effects Posted March 23, 2006 Share Posted March 23, 2006 Hey all! I am still very sick and hopefully this will be the last day. I am tired of feeling this bad. Anyway, as for a contest. I'll be honest. If my solution works right, then I am not waiting on a contest. Sure money is always nice, but I'm not doing this for money. I am doing it because it would be great to have a fully functional xp and mac os on the same computer. So, that being said, I will get back on the project as quick as I can. P.S. I can't name one specific message or post that was helpful, it was a combination of watching people try various things such as drivers from different vendors and trying to change the xomdd.sys file. Hope that helps. Thanks for the confidence and wishing me well, Effects Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vector Posted March 23, 2006 Share Posted March 23, 2006 Do they realy want to start a new Contest for the drivers? In that case we will have to wait a long, long time to get it working... The first Contest isnt just over, couse narf and blanka havnt posted ths source by now. This way itll never become a comunity project... I have mixed feelings about a contest too. Somehow it seems that it has catalyzed things to happen faster, yet now, as I read it from Effects, he could use the openess of a community project to advance further and more swiftly... Perhaps if Narf and Blanka were to provide him the necessary code, the entire community could benefit from the collaboration, and we could all celebrate this historic victory all that much sooner! Just my two cents... either way, I am like a kid at the eve of christmas and looking forward to using the 4k worth of software I have on the world sleekest machines, which I had reluctantly relinquished for practicality purposes. Now it seems that a new era is dawning. Thanks to all for the pioneering and keep up the good work! Too bad I have very limited programming skills, I could have gotten involved instead of doing the cheerleader! Ciao Vector Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
effects Posted March 23, 2006 Share Posted March 23, 2006 P.P.S - it's booting withot the xom dirver. Just thought you should know. It's know just a question of stability. (again, refrain from to much excitement. Testing isn't done. If it's not stable, it's not a working solution.) Effects Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ToXic_WaSTe Posted March 23, 2006 Share Posted March 23, 2006 Well then... If you need any help i'm sure anyone with a mac and some experience is ready to jump in. Kindda wish everyone would share everything. I still think that we would be done faster. Anyway, Good luck Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John the Geek Posted March 23, 2006 Share Posted March 23, 2006 Too bad I have very limited programming skills, I could have gotten involved instead of doing the cheerleader! I missed out on so much in school. I should have done more cheerleaders. Anyway!!! (Sorry about the ) Let's get back to driver discussion. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anderton Posted March 23, 2006 Share Posted March 23, 2006 I read there was now DELL drivers for the Mac Minis GPU that worked on DVI? Anyone knows where to download them? Got no luck at onmac (the site is down)... Cheers! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rsang2 Posted March 23, 2006 Share Posted March 23, 2006 onmac.net is back up Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rsang2 Posted March 23, 2006 Share Posted March 23, 2006 Here is a very usefull software for MacXp users. "MacDrive" it allows windows to use hard drives formatted for mac. Im using this with my external hdd. very cool. This is the link to get the trial http://www.mediafour.com/products/macdrive6/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
berhb Posted March 23, 2006 Share Posted March 23, 2006 Here is a very usefull software for MacXp users. "MacDrive" it allows windows to use hard drives formatted for mac. Im using this with my external hdd. very cool. This is the link to get the trial http://www.mediafour.com/products/macdrive6/ Just the fact that effects is booting without xom driver is indeed a great advance. I think this driver is the key to make ati card work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Faustus Posted March 24, 2006 Share Posted March 24, 2006 I know the x1600 is top priority and it SHOULD BE. lol ... but has anyone working on a way to get the MBP internal speakers to work? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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