reedog117 Posted October 27, 2008 Share Posted October 27, 2008 I'm trying to get iDeneb v1.3 working on my Inspiron 8600 that's hooked up to the living room TV. I have it installing, and booting. However... When I try to boot normally (or with -v), I get a blue screen and the spinning rainbow pinwheel thing, but after 5-10 minutes, it's still stuck like that. In addition, my fan whirs up, meaning that the CPU usage must have shot up. However, when I boot into safe mode (-v -x), I can get in and futz around with the system as much as I want. I haven't really tested yet whether sound works, but I know my wireless still isn't showing up. I remember getting it to work waaaay back in the 10.3/10.4 days. How would I go about troubleshooting this? Obviously, there's nothing I'm catching at boottime before the GUI comes up, so I'm guessing there's some sort of other driver issue? Packages installed are: AC97Audio StageXNU 9.4.0 Kernel ICHx IntelBC440X Ethernet NVInject 0.2.0 for 128MB Broadcom Wireless ACPI-Fix PowerManagement Lappie specs below... edit: forgot to put in NVInject Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZeeJM Posted November 25, 2008 Share Posted November 25, 2008 I'm in the process installing the same release on my 8600. You're a little further down the road than I am at the moment, but I'd wager your problem is the video driver (NVinject). I've got the gForce GO 5200 video chipset (64MB), and it'll only work right with Natit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
macintrash Posted April 14, 2009 Share Posted April 14, 2009 I'm in the process installing the same release on my 8600. You're a little further down the road than I am at the moment, but I'd wager your problem is the video driver (NVinject). I've got the gForce GO 5200 video chipset (64MB), and it'll only work right with Natit. Just picked up an old Inspiron 8600, same specs. GeForce 52xx FX. NVKush handles the video (although it complains a little). The first time it booted up fine, and fortunately I turned on screen sharing - because the *second* time it booted, it went to the snow-storm-of-death. Remoted in, detected monitors, changed the screen res to 1920x1200 (native LCD), then thought better of it (I'm saving my eyes for porn), and stuck it in 1280x800. Boots up fine now. Inbuild Broadcom LAN works, Broadcom TrueMobile BlueTooth works, but Wifi (TrueMobile 1400 / Broadcom 4324) is sulking. It's a soft-switch unit, so *gulp* we'll see. Sound (AC97 "default/original" drivers work - input too), full QE/CI. DVD Burner is sweet, ... for a Dell, it's going pretty well. It just won't sleep. (It's Dell, you get that). Fan is also a bit over-excited. So - if you want to get your 8600 working, and it's like mine (ICH4, P4M 2.0 GHZ), you can copy my method - Install JaS 10.5.4 (you need the SSE3 emulation). Enable NVKush, and the AC97 drivers (yes, I know there are three seperate AC97 options in three seperate sections... I forget which I checked - but definately the last one in Audio.) Tick ICH support where you see it (not ICH7-8 though), and enable the Broadcom 4xxx drivers where you find em. It's all pretty logical. Network cable seemed to be a bit shy on detection - if it's not pluggin in on boot, I don't think it will detect. I used a USB Apple adapter just in case. You need the PS/2 driver from Kalyway 10.5.2, forget what it's called, but it's in a Kext on the CD. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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