greggh Posted May 12, 2006 Share Posted May 12, 2006 I now have my new laptop triple booting. OS X, Linux (gentoo), and Windows XP pro. The laptop is ATI based: motherboard: ATI RX480M, SB450 chipset video: ATI x1600 pci-e 256meg ram: 2gig PC3200 400mhz DDR (corsair) cpu: Amd Turion64 mt-40 wireless: Intel PRO2915 ABG MiniPCI ethernet: Realtek 8168 sound: Realtek HD Ac97 monitor: 15.4 WXGA 1280x800 So I love my new laptop but of course there are problems. Wireless and built-in ethernet are both unsupported. Sound is also not supported. The video works pretty good. It supports QE and CI by default, I didnt have to hack any of that to get it working. But it does have artifacts when I move the mouse (not always.) Now to see what I can do about helping get drivers for the lan/wlan/sound. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/17226-somewhat-successful/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
keith Posted May 16, 2006 Share Posted May 16, 2006 Gratz on getting your system up! Interesting how you got the ATI RX480M, SB400 chipset, as mine does not work. You using JaS 10.4.6? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/17226-somewhat-successful/#findComment-113884 Share on other sites More sharing options...
greggh Posted May 17, 2006 Author Share Posted May 17, 2006 Yeah I have JaS 10.4.6. The only thing giving me trouble now is the DVD drive. It isnt showing up at all. but I have sound, wireless, and my video card works great. Did you select the right patches? You need the amd base and the sse3 patches. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/17226-somewhat-successful/#findComment-114120 Share on other sites More sharing options...
greggh Posted May 17, 2006 Author Share Posted May 17, 2006 So how about I document it all. Install went fine, used the amd base and sse3 options (10.4.6 JaS dvd.) DVD drive solved. I replaced my ATA driver with this one: http://forum.osx86project.org/index.php?showtopic=13413&st=0 I used the instructions from here: http://forum.osx86project.org/index.php?showtopic=13197&hl= That got my hard drive into udma mode (running nice and fast) and it got my DVD drive fully working. Get your audio ids and edit the AppleAzalia kext (many other posts describe this.) With that all done I have good video, good sound and working dvd burning. I got an Atheros based wifi card (mini pci) to replace the intel one, then got the IO80211 kext from the 10.4.5 update and replaced the one from 10.4.6. I edited the id for my card into the Atheros kext and airport was up and working (of course after rebulding the kext cache and repairing permissions.) This is about half an hours worth of work once I know how to do it. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/17226-somewhat-successful/#findComment-114134 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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