deathwarder Posted December 3, 2006 Share Posted December 3, 2006 Ok, I sorted out my hsf error, but now I have a few problems: 1.On the radeon mobility 9000, I can't get my widescreen res(1280x800) 2.sigmatel 9750 audio doesn't work, although it says it should work on the wiki 3.Not sure if networking is working. The worst and most hindering is probably the networking, then the audio, then the display. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/34824-inspiron-8500-hardware-not-working-on-1047/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
elRey Posted December 3, 2006 Share Posted December 3, 2006 you need some patching try a search on this forum first i'm sure you will find some info about your probs Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/34824-inspiron-8500-hardware-not-working-on-1047/#findComment-247152 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rammjet Posted December 3, 2006 Share Posted December 3, 2006 No real good news here. 1. 9000 - no support for widescreen currently but someone is trying 2. Audio - need to research more 3) Networking - wireless has Lucent chipset with no OSX driver. Ethernet has Broadcom 440x chipset. Only solution in OSX is old and probably won't work: http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?s=&...ost&p=73600 Can probably buy a Dell Truemobile 1390 or 1450 and replace wireless card. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/34824-inspiron-8500-hardware-not-working-on-1047/#findComment-247154 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rammjet Posted December 3, 2006 Share Posted December 3, 2006 Update on wireless: it is a Broadcom chipset and should be able to work with OSX. Follow the Broadcom link in my signature and use the values of vendor = 14e4 and device = 4320 Audio: go to Windows and determine the vendor id and device id of your audio card. Vendor id should be 8086. Add that information to the following file under the ICH type 2 section. The info should be of the form of 0x + (device) + (vendor) and look similar to this: 0x24458086 Add your values to this file: /System/Library/Extensions/AppleAC97Audio.kext/Contents/PlugIns/AppleAC97AudioIntelICH.kext/Contents/Info.plist Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/34824-inspiron-8500-hardware-not-working-on-1047/#findComment-247170 Share on other sites More sharing options...
deathwarder Posted December 3, 2006 Author Share Posted December 3, 2006 I did ok, #1 isn't too important, its not wireless, its a wired chipset, although my wireless didn't work either(linksys wireless usb) windows isn't running on this laptop, only osx. what do I open kext's in? It seems to detect the wired networking, but not work with it. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/34824-inspiron-8500-hardware-not-working-on-1047/#findComment-247184 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rammjet Posted December 3, 2006 Share Posted December 3, 2006 In Terminal type: sudo nano /path/to/file/name.of.file Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/34824-inspiron-8500-hardware-not-working-on-1047/#findComment-247188 Share on other sites More sharing options...
deathwarder Posted December 3, 2006 Author Share Posted December 3, 2006 ok, number 3 works(networking), and it was previously stated that I wont be able to get number 1(widescreen) working, and so, the only remaining problem is sound, which refuses to work. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/34824-inspiron-8500-hardware-not-working-on-1047/#findComment-247236 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rammjet Posted December 3, 2006 Share Posted December 3, 2006 OK, create an output file of your hardware and I'll see if I can find a vendor/device id to plug into the audio file since you do not have Windows installed where you could find the info. In Terminal: ioreg -l > ~/Desktop/ioreg.txt Attach that file to a posting here. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/34824-inspiron-8500-hardware-not-working-on-1047/#findComment-247243 Share on other sites More sharing options...
deathwarder Posted December 3, 2006 Author Share Posted December 3, 2006 this what you want? ioreg.txt Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/34824-inspiron-8500-hardware-not-working-on-1047/#findComment-247315 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rammjet Posted December 3, 2006 Share Posted December 3, 2006 Thank you. There are two chips that make HD sound - the codec chip and the controller chip. The controller chip by Intel (8086:24c5) is already listed in the AC97 kext. The codec chip is not in the ioreg listing you gave me probably because OSX doesn't know what it is. By Googling, I think your codec chip is a Sigmatel (8384:7650), but is not a common Sigmatel chip. Besides, OSX has only a little support for Sigmatel chips right now. The only thing I can suggest right now is to try to repair permissions on the AC97 kext and see if that helps. Go to Terminal: cd /System/Library sudo rm -rf Extensions.mkext Extensions.kextcache cd Extensions chown -R root:wheel AppleAC97Audio.kext Reboot Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/34824-inspiron-8500-hardware-not-working-on-1047/#findComment-247335 Share on other sites More sharing options...
deathwarder Posted December 3, 2006 Author Share Posted December 3, 2006 didn't work, isnt there some generic driver I can use? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/34824-inspiron-8500-hardware-not-working-on-1047/#findComment-247354 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rammjet Posted December 3, 2006 Share Posted December 3, 2006 No, OSX only comes with drivers that support sound systems that they have used. It is designed for a certain set of hardware and if you don't have that hardware, there are no drivers. Sometimes hardware is similar enough that tweaking the driver is enough. Other times not. As far as I know, the only working Sigmatel system is a Sigmatel 9220. Yours is something like 9750. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/34824-inspiron-8500-hardware-not-working-on-1047/#findComment-247356 Share on other sites More sharing options...
deathwarder Posted December 3, 2006 Author Share Posted December 3, 2006 is that close enough for tweaking? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/34824-inspiron-8500-hardware-not-working-on-1047/#findComment-247360 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rammjet Posted December 3, 2006 Share Posted December 3, 2006 Don't know what to tweak. As I said, only one Sigmatel has ever successfully been activated. A lot of people have 9200 and can't get it to work. Several people started efforts to write or port drivers and have failed or given up. Even the Linux community from what I can tell doesn't know what to do with your chip. Tweaking involves putting the correct vendor/device ids in the Info.plist of the kext. Further tweaking involves hex editing the binary in the kext and try to change out the hex values for the 9220 chip and put in the hex values for whatever chip. That hasn't been successful in the past. Edit - not even sure which Sigmatel codec chip you have. Don't have the device id. Only got a hint of it from a message on Google: Sigmatel 9750 vendor: 8384 device: 7650 http://www.ee.surrey.ac.uk/Personal/G.Wilf...-_Sigmatel_9750 Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/34824-inspiron-8500-hardware-not-working-on-1047/#findComment-247364 Share on other sites More sharing options...
deathwarder Posted December 3, 2006 Author Share Posted December 3, 2006 I just had a thought. Can drivers be run in emulation mode? Like have a very small windows emulator running and importing the sound output from osx? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/34824-inspiron-8500-hardware-not-working-on-1047/#findComment-247369 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rammjet Posted December 3, 2006 Share Posted December 3, 2006 Maybe if you write one and it is fast enough to keep up with whatever is going on. Can just see lost lip syncing in videos... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/34824-inspiron-8500-hardware-not-working-on-1047/#findComment-247373 Share on other sites More sharing options...
deathwarder Posted December 3, 2006 Author Share Posted December 3, 2006 I don't know how, although I have been googling for something Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/34824-inspiron-8500-hardware-not-working-on-1047/#findComment-247376 Share on other sites More sharing options...
techbinge Posted December 4, 2006 Share Posted December 4, 2006 deathwarder, you were able to get your Broadcom 440x ethernet to work? Could you detail your steps? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/34824-inspiron-8500-hardware-not-working-on-1047/#findComment-247437 Share on other sites More sharing options...
deathwarder Posted December 4, 2006 Author Share Posted December 4, 2006 I can't remember, although I think it had something to do with changing the values in a file I cant remember Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/34824-inspiron-8500-hardware-not-working-on-1047/#findComment-247956 Share on other sites More sharing options...
techbinge Posted December 4, 2006 Share Posted December 4, 2006 No worries, I got mine to work by ensuring it was the first bootable device. This made sure that the card was powered on when OS X started. Thanks anyway! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/34824-inspiron-8500-hardware-not-working-on-1047/#findComment-247962 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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