broxi Posted September 6, 2009 Share Posted September 6, 2009 Hi all, I am a total newbie with Mac OS X but I have spent the last two days messing with it and I must say im impressed. I must have installed about 15 times in the last 2 days and I am close a fully functioning machine. I used the iDeneb 1.3 10.5.5 disk for installation and my pc specs are as follows:- Mobo: MSI P35 Neo 7360 (bios mod v1.9) CPU: Intel Core 2 Duo E6550 Ram : Corsair 4GB DDR800 GPU: Nvidia 8800GTS 320mb HDD1: WD 750GB HDD2: Samsung 500GB DVD: Cheap IDE (Emprex i think) Mouse: Logitech Trackman Optical Keyboard: MS Razer Reclusa. The only problems I am having at the moment are, the keyboard is messed up with keys all over the place and the DVD drive doesnt work at all, it was fine during installation but nothing since. If anyone feels like shedding some light on the two problems that would be great. Love the site and im sure i will be floating around a fair bit, so keep up the good work Laters Broxi Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/184451-total-mac-newbie-loving-it/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
vilpostus Posted September 6, 2009 Share Posted September 6, 2009 The keyboard. If it's an USB keyboard it should work fine. If it's not an USB - then you need a PS2 keyboard driver e.g. voodoops2.kext Other options, you may have some PS2 driver installed, ever on purpose or by mistake and use an USB keyboard. Just a thoughts... The DVD. If the DVD drive you use is SATA, then it's about the on-board SATA controller driver. Also it may be a connection problem (master/slave or primary/secondary). Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/184451-total-mac-newbie-loving-it/#findComment-1253644 Share on other sites More sharing options...
broxi Posted September 6, 2009 Author Share Posted September 6, 2009 The keyboard. If it's an USB keyboard it should work fine. If it's not an USB - then you need a PS2 keyboard driver e.g. voodoops2.kext Other options, you may have some PS2 driver installed, ever on purpose or by mistake and use an USB keyboard. Just a thoughts... The DVD. If the DVD drive you use is SATA, then it's about the on-board SATA controller driver. Also it may be a connection problem (master/slave or primary/secondary). Thanks for the reply, The keyboard is a usb one, most of it works ok just that some of the keys are in the wrong places kinda like when you use a US layout instead of UK in windows. How do i check if a PS/2 driver is installed? The DVD drive is an IDE not SATA and it is connected as a primary master, I have tried a SH-W162 Toshiba one but that doesn't work either. Cheers for any help, Broxi Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/184451-total-mac-newbie-loving-it/#findComment-1253722 Share on other sites More sharing options...
vilpostus Posted September 6, 2009 Share Posted September 6, 2009 About PS2. Have a look at /System/Library/Extensions folder. Search for anything containing PS2 in the name. I consider this problem is more about the keyboard layout. Are you sure, that you have the right layout settings? Check it in System Preferences > Mouse and Keyboard. Or maybe apple hates Microsoft products Try a different USB keyboard just to be sure... About DVD. Well even it is ATA drive, it may still be the controller problem. Check the SATA and ATA info in System Profiler. If you have your SATA HDD listed in ATA section instead of SATA, the problem has dug there. In other words, even if the HDD is usable and boot able, there may still not be the right IOATAFamily.kext installed. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/184451-total-mac-newbie-loving-it/#findComment-1254657 Share on other sites More sharing options...
broxi Posted September 7, 2009 Author Share Posted September 7, 2009 About PS2. Have a look at /System/Library/Extensions folder. Search for anything containing PS2 in the name. I consider this problem is more about the keyboard layout. Are you sure, that you have the right layout settings? Check it in System Preferences > Mouse and Keyboard. Or maybe apple hates Microsoft products Try a different USB keyboard just to be sure... About DVD. Well even it is ATA drive, it may still be the controller problem. Check the SATA and ATA info in System Profiler. If you have your SATA HDD listed in ATA section instead of SATA, the problem has dug there. In other words, even if the HDD is usable and boot able, there may still not be the right IOATAFamily.kext installed. Thanks again for the response, I have looked in the Extension folder and there is an ApplePS2Controller.kext in there. I have checked the system profiler and both HDD show in the sata section with nothing in the ATA or burning tabs? hope this helps Cheers Broxi Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/184451-total-mac-newbie-loving-it/#findComment-1255403 Share on other sites More sharing options...
vilpostus Posted September 7, 2009 Share Posted September 7, 2009 I see... Well try deleting the ApplePS2Controller.kext (backup extensions before that - just in case ). About ATA. Very strange. I have 2 DVD drives, both are IDE. Both are listed in ATA section. Could only suggest this http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=88335 It is a SATA controller driver for all existing ICH controllers. Download the one that is intended for your OS X version (for 10.5.5). Try installing it (once again backup extension before that). If everything is OK, the DVD drives should now work. If it doesn't (e.g. still waiting for root device) than restore extensions from backup. And see the next step. Inside the IOATAFamily.kext's plugins folder you'll find an AppleINtelPIIXATA.kext Add your controller's Vendor/Device ID to it. That will make it "see" and use your particular hardware. In case you have a Jmicron controller... Check this http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=147102 Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/184451-total-mac-newbie-loving-it/#findComment-1256314 Share on other sites More sharing options...
broxi Posted January 10, 2010 Author Share Posted January 10, 2010 Hi all, I had an hdd failure way back so have been away for a while. Anyway I just did a reinstall of 10.5.5 from ideneb 1.3 and it works without any problems except the dvd drive not working. I had a few problems installing chameleon bootloader and had to boot into osx from the dvd using rd=disk1s1 and to my suprise the dvd started working, yet on reboot from hdd it doesn't. can someone help me to understand why this would happen. many thanks. PS it;s good to be back lol.... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/184451-total-mac-newbie-loving-it/#findComment-1381537 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord_Jeremy Posted January 11, 2010 Share Posted January 11, 2010 Ok IMO the guy who was helping you before does not know what he's talking about. Sounds like you had a keyboard layout problem, not a kext problem. He also missed the fact that your optical drive is IDE. Anyway, my advice would be to replace it with a SATA drive. In my experience, IDE is very problematic with OS X on a PC. If you don't want to do that, you might try rebuilding your kext cache with -f. I'm not entirely sure why the rd option is causing different kexts to load. Where did you put your IDE kext, if you installed it yourself? You also might try using Terminal to "sudo kextload IDEkext". Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/184451-total-mac-newbie-loving-it/#findComment-1382007 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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