bobbago Posted May 14, 2006 Share Posted May 14, 2006 Hello, I bought a super cheap Dell laptop for around $700 with all the functions you could possibly want. OSX 10.4.6 runs beautifully (including PPC apps) but I'm still having issues with Displays and Sound - and haven't found any definitive solution as I trawled through the forums (mainly discussed end of last year): DISPLAY - How do I get Quartz Extreme/ CE to work? Do I need to install/edit any kexts? - Is there a solution to avoid the blue screen at startup and wake up without the dongle fix that I'm currently using (connecting the VGA socket pins 1 to 6, 2 to 12)? SOUND - No sound at all (I think the only solution is still USB)? OSX recognises the sound up, down and mute function keys (like a mac) on my laptop! Any help, especially with the display, would be great! Thanks. Dell Inspiron 1300 Celeron M Processor 380 (1.60 GHz, 1 MB L2 Cache, 400 MHz FSB) 512MB 533MHz DDR2 SDRAM 15.4" Wide XGA screen (1280 x 800) Integrated Intel® 900 GMA with up to 128MB of shared video memory DellTM Wireless 1370 802.11b/g 54Mbps Mini-PCI Wireless Card 8x DVD+/-RW AUDIO: Integrated Audio Type: AC'97 Audio controller: SigmaTel STAC9200 Conversion: 187bit (analog-to-digital) and 18-bit (digital-to-analog) Internal: PCI bus/AC'97 Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/17435-help-with-display-sound-on-dell-laptop-nearly-cracked-it/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
thefighter Posted May 14, 2006 Share Posted May 14, 2006 Check the Wiki for information about the blue screen and how to enable your sound. If it uses AC'97, I'm pretty sure all you have to do is add uour Device ID to a kext. The 900GMA, up until quite recently, used to be fully supported. But I think 10.4.6 put a stop to that, check other posts about that Graphics Card. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/17435-help-with-display-sound-on-dell-laptop-nearly-cracked-it/#findComment-112570 Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobbago Posted May 14, 2006 Author Share Posted May 14, 2006 Ok, thanks but I'm not sure where to look exactly (have spent many hours looking!) Can anyone give me the direct link to the solution or let me know exactly how I could make the display/sound work? Thanks. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/17435-help-with-display-sound-on-dell-laptop-nearly-cracked-it/#findComment-112604 Share on other sites More sharing options...
thefighter Posted May 14, 2006 Share Posted May 14, 2006 AC97: http://wiki.osx86project.org/wiki/index.php/3rdPartyDrivers http://wiki.osx86project.org/wiki/index.ph..._SB_Live.21_.3F Display: http://wiki.osx86project.org/wiki/index.ph...when_booting.3F http://wiki.osx86project.org/wiki/index.ph....27t_working.3F Links to pages in the Wiki Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/17435-help-with-display-sound-on-dell-laptop-nearly-cracked-it/#findComment-112778 Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobbago Posted May 14, 2006 Author Share Posted May 14, 2006 AC97: http://wiki.osx86project.org/wiki/index.php/3rdPartyDrivers http://wiki.osx86project.org/wiki/index.ph..._SB_Live.21_.3F Display: http://wiki.osx86project.org/wiki/index.ph...when_booting.3F http://wiki.osx86project.org/wiki/index.ph....27t_working.3F Links to pages in the Wiki Haven't see those Sound tips before so will try them right now, thanks. If I don't post a follow up then it didn't work! Display: Nothing new here - looks like it is aimed for people that can't get past the nothing blue screen stage. I can - just want a permanent solution to not using a dongle to get past it and enable Core Image/ Quartz Extreme (worked under 10.3)... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/17435-help-with-display-sound-on-dell-laptop-nearly-cracked-it/#findComment-112796 Share on other sites More sharing options...
mega Posted May 15, 2006 Share Posted May 15, 2006 pretty sure there's currently NO way to get that sound chipset to work right now Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/17435-help-with-display-sound-on-dell-laptop-nearly-cracked-it/#findComment-112890 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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