correos.e Posted November 20, 2006 Share Posted November 20, 2006 I've been following these discussions with great interest, I have a C2D Dell 6400 GMA950 and can't get dual core working, there are a bunch of threads about it around here. OK, so as many of you are probably aware, 10.4.8 installs and works beatifully on the latest laptop hardware... as long as you have some very precise hardware, AND you don't care about running only ONE core. This is true at the very least for a series of (Core Duo, Core 2 Duo) Dell notebooks, such as Inspiron 9400 E1705, 6400 E1505, E1405, etc: using two cores results in severe stuttering and system instability. While the OS is still pretty fast and responsive for nomal use, this is especially important as a handicap when using vmware or parallels to run a contained OS or for people doing heavy math/stats stuff. From waht I've read, this might be solved by means of kernel source code programming / patching. Given the number of Dell and CD/C2D users, I read in some post frm last week that a bounty could be setup, with the money going to the creator of a working solution. Now, I've read that before bootcamp, the bounty for Xp on the Mac was criticised because it encouraged isolated and non cooperative work, and probably resulted in a slower development pace (though this has to be balanced with the incentive effect of the reward). In this case, it is more complex, since the solution would probably build largely on other people's FREE work, people who by the way give freely and only request donations (i.e., they do not sell their solutions), like this site itself, JaS, semthex, vitality and others. So let me know what you people think about this. May be we can come up with creative solutions (50% of the bounty for solution, 50% goes to site, JaS&co...). Please, if you find my point completely useless, idiotic or counter-productive, please state so but don't start a flame war - I WANT to hear opinions, that what this post was started for, and I won't start anything before checking here with the community... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
semthex Posted November 20, 2006 Share Posted November 20, 2006 I not really get the point about it Why not just wait until I read through all the reports and found a working solution? A lot of Core releated issues have been found and eliminated in the last few days, beta5 was reported to work very well on most ppls hardware. Ah and btw. if you are into runnign "heavy maths" you proberly should think about buying a real mac, this is still a (well supported) hacked OS But as I said, never mind, jsut join the channel and maybe we can proberly solve this problem somehow. Oh a Tip: tried to disable soudn in Bios or something? It was reported wrong sound setups caused issues with 2 cores (but don't ask me why...) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joe75 Posted November 20, 2006 Share Posted November 20, 2006 I like semthex's idea. I'll donate when theres a solution Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
guiyoforward Posted November 20, 2006 Share Posted November 20, 2006 I mentioned the bounty thing a while ago. I'm not sure it's the ideal solution, at least while we are still in beta. I will start reporting my stats to semthex as soon as I get my machine. and I thinkk we should all first donate (c'mon, at least 5 bucks...) to this site, Jas, semthex, vitality, etc., before starting a obunty... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trexplorer Posted November 20, 2006 Share Posted November 20, 2006 Would love to see a fix for Intel CoreDuo laptops. I've installed the 10.4.8 kernel on my Dell 6400 laptop but without dual core, there is no significant improvement (for this laptop at least) over the 10.4.4 kernel (i.e., system is stable and GMA950 graphics are already supported). Cheers ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
guiyoforward Posted November 21, 2006 Share Posted November 21, 2006 trexplorer, dual core worked fine under 10.4.4? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joe75 Posted November 21, 2006 Share Posted November 21, 2006 Have you guys been sending in bugreports? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trexplorer Posted November 25, 2006 Share Posted November 25, 2006 trexplorer, dual core worked fine under 10.4.4? I've never been able to get both cores working on inspiron 6400 laptop (same with other users on this forum) without stutter (10.4.4 thru 10.4.8 semthex, all known kernels incl SSE2 emulation versions, etc...) ... I have had other pc's that worked fine w dual cores including AMD X2 3800+ and most recently core 2 duo on asus p5b deluxe (overclocked fr 1.8 Ghz to 3.3 Ghz ... very fast). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JustAnotherIdiot Posted November 25, 2006 Share Posted November 25, 2006 great Idea!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
guiyoforward Posted November 26, 2006 Share Posted November 26, 2006 I will get my machine this week and will start reporting bugs, joe. can you post a how-to-report-bugs? thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joe75 Posted November 26, 2006 Share Posted November 26, 2006 I didn't get any specifics from semthex, so I just did what was said in the FAQ. Open terminal. Type: sudo dmesg, save what comes up in terminal to a sticky. Type: sudo ioreg -l, it will be long, save it. Type: sudo sysctl -a, not as long but long enough, save it Thats all I did, and PMed all three to semthex with my name and hardware description Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
correos.e Posted November 26, 2006 Author Share Posted November 26, 2006 thanks to all who participated in the poll - apparently the great and the sucks options are nec to neck. not a lot of progress lately, but I agree that we should wait for semthex. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
guiyoforward Posted December 15, 2006 Share Posted December 15, 2006 time to re think about this dudes!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bsgjunkie Posted December 15, 2006 Share Posted December 15, 2006 A group fund could be set up - one of the well known contributors to the project could be in charge of administering the funds to those involved. There could be a minimum amount of work required until a programmer qualifies for a share of the bounty. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
guiyoforward Posted December 18, 2006 Share Posted December 18, 2006 Two alternatives: https://www.bountysource.com/ http://bountycounty.org/ Anyone had experience with any of those? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jtg Posted December 18, 2006 Share Posted December 18, 2006 Im kind of wondering why Core 2 Duo laptops dont work out of the box. All of the iMac and Mac mini use core 2 duo laptop chips (merom), so its odd that they would have issues. Id definitely like to see it working on my dell core 2 duo laptop Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
guiyoforward Posted December 19, 2006 Share Posted December 19, 2006 Ok, I'm pledging 50 bucks. Anyone else? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
guiyoforward Posted December 22, 2006 Share Posted December 22, 2006 no one wants a fast dual core hackintosh??? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iwannadl Posted December 26, 2006 Share Posted December 26, 2006 I wuld like to donate 50 US Dollars t make T5600 work on my Dell notework. After running latest softwares like Parallels 3094, I feel it is a must to get doth 2 cores running. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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