Miaplacidus Posted October 4, 2005 Share Posted October 4, 2005 Happy to report substantial success on my new setup: Athlon 64 X2 4200+; Asus A8N-E Motherboard, onboard nic (known incompatibility) unused but not disabled; Netgear FA311 PCI Ethernet Card; Syba PCI Firewire Card, VIA 6306 chipset; NEC ND-3520A DVD Writer, tested only as CD-ROM so far; GeForce 6600 (Gigabyte) + Sony SDM-HS73 LCD monitor, works with VESA 3.0 and 1280x1024x24. Installation: just dd'd tiger-x86-flat.img to an unused empty disk, followed by post-install configs: Removed AppleTPMACPI.kext CoreGraphics patch SSE3 kernel (not sure if this was needed) Maxxuss-AntiTPM-v0.5 patch Enabled onboard audio following the AC97 howto USB and Firewire external storage gets recognized and mounted; networking works with Netgear; audio output works. Still to be tested are CD and DVD burning, and dual-core performance. I will not be using audio input or SATA on this machine in the near future so these will not be tested. Two small problems so far are (1) the system asks for keyboard configuration after each boot; (2) it hangs on restart (disk spins down but the blue background and twirling circle remains; shutdown works fine). Should think there are forum threads on these, but haven't had time to search. This machine is mainly a Linux workstation (still being configured). I've been a fan of Apple laptops - currently using an iBook G4 14 in. - and am looking forward to a Yonah- or Merom-based Powerbook for my next upgrade; but I could not resist this opportunity for an osx86 sneak preview Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/3231-success-on-a-dual-core-athlon-platform/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
jcruzlara Posted October 5, 2005 Share Posted October 5, 2005 You should really try to burn the DVD instead of the dd method it is way faster and you get more compatability and it'll be way faster Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/3231-success-on-a-dual-core-athlon-platform/#findComment-20602 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miaplacidus Posted October 5, 2005 Author Share Posted October 5, 2005 Don't think it took more than twenty minutes to bzcat|tar the package and dd the image. The rest of the steps are well documented here and were altogether trivial. How long does it take to burn a DVD, and run install from it? BTW, I found that the keyboard setup doesn't do anything and can be dismissed. My keyboard is a Logitech Cordless Access and it is fully configured upon startup (but the Apple key is mapped to the Windows key! Go figure!) CD-ROM burning works and I see no reason DVD burning shouldn't work. I've also moved the install to a bigger partition on the main disk. I'm impressed by the polish of the OS X implementation on the X86 platform; Apple's transition to Intel should be smooth. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/3231-success-on-a-dual-core-athlon-platform/#findComment-20678 Share on other sites More sharing options...
DeathChill Posted October 5, 2005 Share Posted October 5, 2005 Don't think it took more than twenty minutes to bzcat|tar the package and dd the image. The rest of the steps are well documented here and were altogether trivial. How long does it take to burn a DVD, and run install from it? Not that long. The DVD method is REALLY the much better way as the DD way is horrible and outdated because it leaves you with a very messy install. Directly installing via the DVD sets up everything properly so OS X is set up for YOUR system, not someone elses. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/3231-success-on-a-dual-core-athlon-platform/#findComment-20764 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miaplacidus Posted October 6, 2005 Author Share Posted October 6, 2005 Not that long. The DVD method is REALLY the much better way as the DD way is horrible and outdated because it leaves you with a very messy install. Directly installing via the DVD sets up everything properly so OS X is set up for YOUR system, not someone elses. DVD sounds good . I might seek an image out if I were to pursue this further, but since a "sneak preview" is all what I'm interested in, I'm happy with what I got now. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/3231-success-on-a-dual-core-athlon-platform/#findComment-20781 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miaplacidus Posted October 11, 2005 Author Share Posted October 11, 2005 Just an update that the Keyboard Setup thing went away after I created my own account and got rid of Deadmoo's. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/3231-success-on-a-dual-core-athlon-platform/#findComment-21546 Share on other sites More sharing options...
thrunner Posted October 11, 2005 Share Posted October 11, 2005 It would be interesting to see the X-bench result on a dual core, perhaps post that here, although I doubt it would be much faster than a setup from that $199 "Mac" thread because of the lack of drivers: http://forum.osx86project.org/index.php?sh...=1395&hl=xbench Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/3231-success-on-a-dual-core-athlon-platform/#findComment-21567 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miaplacidus Posted October 11, 2005 Author Share Posted October 11, 2005 It would be interesting to see the X-bench result on a dual core, perhaps post that here Certainly - I've added my Xbench result to that thread. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/3231-success-on-a-dual-core-athlon-platform/#findComment-21607 Share on other sites More sharing options...
ipoh Posted October 11, 2005 Share Posted October 11, 2005 It's perfectly on my AMD X2 Dual Core 4400+ system as well....good speed with just 1GB of RAM... Still trying to getting more speed for the onboard ATI X300 VGA Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/3231-success-on-a-dual-core-athlon-platform/#findComment-21669 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Diranged Posted November 15, 2005 Share Posted November 15, 2005 It's perfectly on my AMD X2 Dual Core 4400+ system as well....good speed with just 1GB of RAM... Still trying to getting more speed for the onboard ATI X300 VGA What motherboard and BIOS? Its not working right on my Gigabyte GA-K8NSNXP-939 with the F11 or F12 BIOS. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/3231-success-on-a-dual-core-athlon-platform/#findComment-28495 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thor Posted November 22, 2005 Share Posted November 22, 2005 What motherboard and BIOS? Its not working right on my Gigabyte GA-K8NSNXP-939 with the F11 or F12 BIOS. It's working on the ga-k8ns ultra-939 Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/3231-success-on-a-dual-core-athlon-platform/#findComment-29919 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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