darkten Posted October 12, 2008 Share Posted October 12, 2008 And now for something completely New and Different, from Yours Truly: Introducing Chromatophore for Chameleon DFE for HD What Chromatophore is: Chromatophore is an application that watches your /Extra folder for changes and allows for simple and proper management of your Extensions without the need or use of the Terminal. Background: A lot of guides and howto's don't tell you *everything* you need to know to use Chameleon for Hard Disks properly. Often, users find themselves confused because they add or remove Extensions, but never see changes/things don't work. This is because the /Extra folder, and all of its contents, need to have specific settings and files to work correctly. Chromotophore aids you in this in a simple, direct, and largely transparent way. Using Chromatophore: Using Chromatophore is easy; simply run the Chromatophore application. Upon launch, Chromatophore will be added to your menubar: When first run, the menu looks like this: When the contents of your /Extra folder are changed, Chromatophore alerts you: You can then choose the Activate Changes menu item. Upon successful authentication, your /Extras folder will be prepared for proper use when you restart. Please give it a try. Feedback is welcomed. Chromatophore.zip Ah. About the name... Chromatophores are the skin cells in chameleons that control color change; when the environment changes, the chromophores control the chameleon's color change Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/124363-dell-inspiron-mini-9/page/20/#findComment-927652 Share on other sites More sharing options...
m16 Posted October 12, 2008 Share Posted October 12, 2008 does this give you working keyboard: http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?sho...=95568&st=0 ? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/124363-dell-inspiron-mini-9/page/20/#findComment-927685 Share on other sites More sharing options...
darkten Posted October 12, 2008 Share Posted October 12, 2008 does this give you working keyboard: http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?sho...=95568&st=0 ? When has the keyboard...not worked? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/124363-dell-inspiron-mini-9/page/20/#findComment-927689 Share on other sites More sharing options...
PeteRock Posted October 12, 2008 Share Posted October 12, 2008 When has the keyboard...not worked? I think M16 means the keyboard mappings are wrong not the keyboard itself as if that did not work we would all have problems! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/124363-dell-inspiron-mini-9/page/20/#findComment-927693 Share on other sites More sharing options...
m16 Posted October 12, 2008 Share Posted October 12, 2008 nvm, it appears the spanish keyboard is wrong as well... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/124363-dell-inspiron-mini-9/page/20/#findComment-927780 Share on other sites More sharing options...
pepelucho Posted October 12, 2008 Share Posted October 12, 2008 been trolling on this board for a while now, just wondering a couple of things, since some people feel the sleep problem is attributable to the SSD, couldn't a simple swap for another SSD fix the problem ? and related to that, since the MSI Wind hackintosh has a working sleep, couldn't someone just try using the MSI's SSD in the dell mini to see if that fixes it ? I for one would totally plunk down some cash for a SSD that gives me working sleep. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/124363-dell-inspiron-mini-9/page/20/#findComment-927802 Share on other sites More sharing options...
darkten Posted October 12, 2008 Share Posted October 12, 2008 been trolling on this board for a while now, just wondering a couple of things, since some people feel the sleep problem is attributable to the SSD, couldn't a simple swap for another SSD fix the problem ? and related to that, since the MSI Wind hackintosh has a working sleep, couldn't someone just try using the MSI's SSD in the dell mini to see if that fixes it ? I for one would totally plunk down some cash for a SSD that gives me working sleep. Well, this is all as much a science as it is an art. I am science-minded due to my training, so, if I where to answer honestly... "We dont know." Specifically, there is conflicting evidence on the SSD hypothesis; we were told that even installing on an external drive, the results were the same. What we don't know, is if if or not the SSD was 'live' on this system, or disabled in the bios, or if the results are even repeatable...or even real Thru experimentation, I can tell you that no combination of kernels or kexts have gotten this to work right. In some cases, it works wrong in completely different ways then the commonly observed one. Until we have more data, I can't recommend buying "some other" SSD because the "included" ones are the problem as a solution the the sleep issue Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/124363-dell-inspiron-mini-9/page/20/#findComment-927829 Share on other sites More sharing options...
PapaYesse Posted October 12, 2008 Share Posted October 12, 2008 i think this is quite common from this thread and i think one of the guys here had to reinstall xp, then enable bluetooth in that then put back on osx after. what u can do to speed it up is use the latest beta of clonezilla intrepid which will allow you to make an image of your osx install which will save you the time of doing a full reinstall. Okay...I just spent the better half of my Sunday reinstalling xp in order to enable bluetooth. I then reinstalled osx per the instructions on page 18...again everything went smooth. This time bluetooth is working, so it looks like it definitely needs to be enabled before removing xp and installing osx. However, I still have no sound...I can't figure it out. Please help. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/124363-dell-inspiron-mini-9/page/20/#findComment-927999 Share on other sites More sharing options...
francola Posted October 13, 2008 Share Posted October 13, 2008 Okay...I just spent the better half of my Sunday reinstalling xp in order to enable bluetooth. I then reinstalled osx per the instructions on page 18...again everything went smooth. This time bluetooth is working, so it looks like it definitely needs to be enabled before removing xp and installing osx. However, I still have no sound...I can't figure it out. Please help. Have you updated to 10.5.5? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/124363-dell-inspiron-mini-9/page/20/#findComment-928017 Share on other sites More sharing options...
oddtiki Posted October 13, 2008 Share Posted October 13, 2008 Hey guys been following your progress from the first. Great work! I'm on my OSX Mini currently. Everything works great except for audio. I initially had this problem on my original install and remembered I had turned my audio off in XP. I reinstalled XP and all the Dell drivers (PIA) and after the initial install of OSX audio worked fine. Although when I updated to 10.5.5 audio disappeared. Any ideas? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/124363-dell-inspiron-mini-9/page/20/#findComment-928066 Share on other sites More sharing options...
darkten Posted October 13, 2008 Share Posted October 13, 2008 You have to run the installer again for audio. As these things keep coming up, I've decided to go ahead and add a system pref for the Mini 9. It looks like this: it should be done to day, in a little while. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/124363-dell-inspiron-mini-9/page/20/#findComment-928075 Share on other sites More sharing options...
oddtiki Posted October 13, 2008 Share Posted October 13, 2008 Thanks Darkten. Definitely appreciate your hard work. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/124363-dell-inspiron-mini-9/page/20/#findComment-928087 Share on other sites More sharing options...
PapaYesse Posted October 13, 2008 Share Posted October 13, 2008 Have you updated to 10.5.5? Yes. Audio didn't work off the original install of 10.5.4. I ran the ALC268 and got wifi but no audio. Then updated to 10.5.5, ran the ALC268 Installer again...but still no audio. Any thoughts, suggestions, ideas? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/124363-dell-inspiron-mini-9/page/20/#findComment-928124 Share on other sites More sharing options...
dirty6 Posted October 13, 2008 Share Posted October 13, 2008 Quick question-what keyboard mappings are off, specifically? Thanks. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/124363-dell-inspiron-mini-9/page/20/#findComment-928139 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Type11 Posted October 13, 2008 Share Posted October 13, 2008 Whoa pal! Same team, 'member? A little touchy, I feel. It is a very easy thing to test...I did All you have to do is boot from the iso i made. I'll bet your serial won't be 1234567890.... As I am also a Really-for-Real card-carrying ADC MacOS X dev...I assure you that you won't only have a problem with coolbook reading the hardware serial number. It is pretty much standard operating procedure When i don't boot up from whatever bootloader you are using, I have a real, unique serial number... When i use the same exact kext set and boot up from what you made, W1234567890. Try it...then let's fix it. The fact that other stuff is wrong too isn't a really good selling point; our aim is to be better Sorry did not mean to come across that way. So any ideas why it works sometimes? Again looking at that kext code I don't see how it will ever give a real one unless something else is over ridding it? Oh well I made myself a custom one for now. Maybe you could add it to the tool you are doing to set a custom serial? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/124363-dell-inspiron-mini-9/page/20/#findComment-928601 Share on other sites More sharing options...
darkten Posted October 13, 2008 Share Posted October 13, 2008 Ok, here is a Mini9 System Preferences pane that should help keep your mini 9 straight: Mini9.prefpane.zip Just unzip and double-click to install. Let me know if there are any questions/problems. NOTE: if you have/need custom strings in your boot.plist, do not use this. It was made for 'stock' installs that use chameleon dfe for hd/mini 9, not efi partition setup. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/124363-dell-inspiron-mini-9/page/20/#findComment-928723 Share on other sites More sharing options...
smelly Posted October 13, 2008 Share Posted October 13, 2008 How much space on the SSD is taken up with the latest install method? Will it fit on a 8GB SSD? Thanks for all the hard work Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/124363-dell-inspiron-mini-9/page/20/#findComment-928880 Share on other sites More sharing options...
oddtiki Posted October 13, 2008 Share Posted October 13, 2008 Hey Darkten. Just tried the Pref pane to fix my sound issue and it didn't help. Still no sound. Let me know if there is any info I can provide you to troubleshoot this. Thanks for the Pane though. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/124363-dell-inspiron-mini-9/page/20/#findComment-928894 Share on other sites More sharing options...
PapaYesse Posted October 13, 2008 Share Posted October 13, 2008 Ok, here is a Mini9 System Preferences pane that should help keep your mini 9 straight: Mini9.prefpane.zip Just unzip and double-click to install. Let me know if there are any questions/problems. NOTE: if you have/need custom strings in your boot.plist, do not use this. It was made for 'stock' installs that use chameleon dfe for hd/mini 9, not efi partition setup. Nice. thanks. I ran the audio fix...but still no luck. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/124363-dell-inspiron-mini-9/page/20/#findComment-928952 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Type11 Posted October 13, 2008 Share Posted October 13, 2008 So running the iso i did (darktens should be about the same) then running stripppc, monologual, and xslimmer and removing the hibernate file my base install is now down to about 6 GB. Not bad at all Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/124363-dell-inspiron-mini-9/page/20/#findComment-928962 Share on other sites More sharing options...
aimfire Posted October 13, 2008 Share Posted October 13, 2008 here is a Mini9 System Preferences pane that should help keep your mini 9 straight: Haha, awesome... thanks so much! I'm finally getting my Mini tonight, from a guy off CL... I couldn't take the 3-week wait from Dell, lol. I plan on upgrading the ram to 2GB... for those who have done it, have you seen a significant performance improvement (under Leo, of course)? I assume it would... but just asking. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/124363-dell-inspiron-mini-9/page/20/#findComment-929013 Share on other sites More sharing options...
alexanderjohn Posted October 13, 2008 Share Posted October 13, 2008 2gb ram is a very significant upgrade! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/124363-dell-inspiron-mini-9/page/20/#findComment-929097 Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrWolff Posted October 13, 2008 Share Posted October 13, 2008 Just wanted to check to see if anyone else has had the sound problem yet. I can't tell if it has to do with it heating up or if it just happens. The issue was: Fuzzing coming in and out of speakers intermittenly but if you squeeze (atleast on mine) to the right of the trackpad, depending on the pressure the fuzzing will stop. Only until you stop squeezing though. Anyone at all or suggestions? It's really starting to freak me out. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/124363-dell-inspiron-mini-9/page/20/#findComment-929202 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Type11 Posted October 14, 2008 Share Posted October 14, 2008 Mine used to do that on boot up every time, the fuzz sound. It stopped doing it though. I would not sweat it too much Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/124363-dell-inspiron-mini-9/page/20/#findComment-929225 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rasta_Mangi Posted October 14, 2008 Share Posted October 14, 2008 Hello Everyone, I have been reading through this forum and others awaiting the arrival of my Mini 9. Dell ESD of 11/10/08. Specs: *Obsidian Black *2GB RAM (upgrade from Crucial.com) *32GB SSD (upgrade from MDD.com) *XP Home *1.3M Pixel Webcam *Bluetooth built-in I had planned on ordering the Ubuntu version but Dell was running a special until 10/14 for an additional 9% off the Mini plus free 2 day shipping so it only ended up costing me about $5 more to get the XP version with 8GB of SSD and 512MB RAM then I could have the bigger storage in case the upgrade ever fails and an XP Home license for free. Not a bad deal. The complete package ended up costing me around $580 so I'm really excited at all the awesome hacks I'll be able to get into once the unit arrives. I first began looking at the possibility of installing Mac OS X and have looked at the various ways to do that (uneasysilence method and from insanelymac with the boot CD). I'm not sure if I will go that route, there are conflicting reports of sound not working with the 10.5.5 upgrade and bluetooth being flaky. I wanted to get your opinion on what OS I should run and try out. I would like to explore the Mini OS from Dell Ubuntu 8.04 but can't find the download links anywhere for the .iso Do you think they will ever offer that to Mini owners or it will only be available through the system choice? On the other hand it looks like some have decided that they are going with Ubuntu 8.10 custom install after playing around with the pre-installed option. Thanks and look forward to the updates:) Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/124363-dell-inspiron-mini-9/page/20/#findComment-929271 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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