flyingscott Posted March 27, 2006 Share Posted March 27, 2006 Hey Everyone... Well, I just installed 10.4.5 on my dell laptop with no install issues. I was amazed how easy it went. I started with a 10gig partition in windows. I did have to reformat to UNIX with the disk utility, but it worked fine after that. So, now I have a dual boot XP/OSX machine, which makes me happy... BUT... I still have 2 big issues, and after reading the forums here, it looks like there is not much hope (for now). 1.ATI Mobility Radeon X600 – Only getting 1024x768, and performance is lousy 2.Broadcom NetXtreme 57xx Gigabit Controller – OSX appears to see and Ethernet device, but nothing works. Here are a couple screen caps with hardware info. graphic screen cap: network screen cap: I have read several post with info on these components, but no real answers. Anyone have any insight / updates or possible fixes? I'm a Mac OS novice, so I'm not really sure if I am even applying some of the workarounds correctly. So, if you have any suggestions, please dumb it down for me. Thanks, Scott Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/13209-dell-latitude-d810/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
cwdrake Posted March 28, 2006 Share Posted March 28, 2006 bump! I have the same laptop, with the same problems. Please help! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/13209-dell-latitude-d810/#findComment-84573 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jon D Posted April 6, 2006 Share Posted April 6, 2006 I'm not sure if you've seen it, but there is a patch to get some ATI PCI-Express graphics cards working. It's discussed here: http://forum.osx86project.org/index.php?showtopic=10415 It worked for the Mobility Radeon X300 in my 6000. I'd give it a try. As far as networking, I've noticed that unless I get the network card active somehow prior to booting, OS X will see my card but I don't have any connectivity. If I go to the one-time boot menu (F12 when starting up for me) and choose Onboard LAN, my network card lights will come on and then I can reboot to OS X and have network access. Not sure if it'll work for you as I've got the Broadcom 440x chipset. Hope that helps, Jon Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/13209-dell-latitude-d810/#findComment-90525 Share on other sites More sharing options...
flyingscott Posted April 16, 2006 Author Share Posted April 16, 2006 Thanks for the link! That process worked great... now, its just networking I have to work on. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/13209-dell-latitude-d810/#findComment-96835 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason_Thames Posted April 16, 2006 Share Posted April 16, 2006 Hey guys... if your ethernet is greyed out in the the networking pref pane, then it is very likely that your network card is being seen by the IONetworkingFamily.kext, however your device and vendor ID are likely incorrect. Get the proper device/vendor id from Windows or Linux... and give it a go. This should correct your problems. -Jason Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/13209-dell-latitude-d810/#findComment-96962 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Whacko Posted April 21, 2006 Share Posted April 21, 2006 I have the same laptop, and i'm doing some research before i try it.. How are the other built-in devices working? like the bluetooth, wifi, pcmcia, smartcard-reader, etc? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/13209-dell-latitude-d810/#findComment-100505 Share on other sites More sharing options...
ondrovic Posted April 21, 2006 Share Posted April 21, 2006 I have the same problem. Has there been any resoultion? Thanks Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/13209-dell-latitude-d810/#findComment-100508 Share on other sites More sharing options...
ondrovic Posted April 21, 2006 Share Posted April 21, 2006 ok i have an error now lol I restarted the computer and booted into windows then restarted again and tried to boot back into OSX and it just hangs on the grey screen. So I rebooted again and did -v option and get a zero error any ideas? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/13209-dell-latitude-d810/#findComment-100512 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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