staulkor Posted August 17, 2005 Share Posted August 17, 2005 I was wondering if anybody has tried osx86 on a Dell Inspiron 5100. If you have, what works and so on. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/428-anyone-try-inspiron-5100/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dunbar Posted August 17, 2005 Share Posted August 17, 2005 I've got it working on an Ispiron 5160, the direct descendant of the 5100. Everything seems to be working quite well except for the usb mouse, which refuses to work despite all my messing with the BIOS. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/428-anyone-try-inspiron-5100/#findComment-2643 Share on other sites More sharing options...
staulkor Posted August 17, 2005 Author Share Posted August 17, 2005 now when you say everything works, did you do it vmware, or native install on the hdd...are you dual booting? or just mac and no windows/linux. please msg me on aim: anti g4tv I would really like to test it on my 5100. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/428-anyone-try-inspiron-5100/#findComment-2698 Share on other sites More sharing options...
nevir Posted August 18, 2005 Share Posted August 18, 2005 I am also in the same situation (Everything is golden except for my USB mouse... and nvidia drivers 'course) on my i8500 - which is essentially a 5100 w/ widescreen. This is running in native via deadmoo's image. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/428-anyone-try-inspiron-5100/#findComment-2823 Share on other sites More sharing options...
psycx Posted August 18, 2005 Share Posted August 18, 2005 Everything apart from my truemobile card works on my Inspiron 5150. The Nvidia card uses VESA 3 too. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/428-anyone-try-inspiron-5100/#findComment-2824 Share on other sites More sharing options...
tauge Posted August 22, 2005 Share Posted August 22, 2005 Everything apart from my truemobile card works on my Inspiron 5150. The Nvidia card uses VESA 3 too. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Works on my inspiron 5100 .. itunes is not fully working yet .. usb mouse not working at all, BT and WiFi nothing .... No VMWare used.... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/428-anyone-try-inspiron-5100/#findComment-4989 Share on other sites More sharing options...
stevenh Posted August 22, 2005 Share Posted August 22, 2005 I got everything working... the sound needs a quick hack of the Audio Kexts... but no video... I can't get it to load with the ATI*.kexts check Other Post Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/428-anyone-try-inspiron-5100/#findComment-5171 Share on other sites More sharing options...
psycx Posted August 22, 2005 Share Posted August 22, 2005 Works on my inspiron 5100 .. itunes is not fully working yet .. usb mouse not working at all, BT and WiFi nothing .... No VMWare used.... <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Yeah! WTF is going on with the USB mouse?!! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/428-anyone-try-inspiron-5100/#findComment-5406 Share on other sites More sharing options...
tauge Posted August 28, 2005 Share Posted August 28, 2005 Yeah! WTF is going on with the USB mouse?!! <{POST_SNAPBACK}> There is fix available for USB mouse and BT USB dongle ... search for AppleFPMemDriver.kext .. .sorry too lazy to link.... I did it in my other post.... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/428-anyone-try-inspiron-5100/#findComment-8614 Share on other sites More sharing options...
jimbospoon Posted August 28, 2005 Share Posted August 28, 2005 i am running osx native on my inspiron 5150. about all that doesn't work is video acceleration and my ability to use a BT dongle (i am going to look into that fix to see if i can get it working). i have the dell truemobile 1350 card in this thing and got it to work using instructions from this forum (http://forum.osx86project.org/index.php?showtopic=1263). i have full wep ability and everything. i have the rosetta sse3-sse2 patch and most everything works ok. itunes runs well for the most part except the audio can get glitchy during times of higher cpu load. limewire won't launch but that's about the only thing that won't. UPDATE: i just did that usb fix and now my BT dongle works perfectly. directions can be found here http://forum.osx86project.org/index.php?showtopic=540&st=20 now all i need is a universal binary for itunes and some video drivers.... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/428-anyone-try-inspiron-5100/#findComment-8670 Share on other sites More sharing options...
larrybird Posted August 29, 2005 Share Posted August 29, 2005 Everything works natively on my i5100. The only thing that doesn't work is my wireless card. My video card isn't supported by QE or CI of course. It is very stable and runs PPC apps without problem. I've nearly thrown away my XP drive. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/428-anyone-try-inspiron-5100/#findComment-8811 Share on other sites More sharing options...
AJBMatrix Posted September 7, 2005 Share Posted September 7, 2005 I have mine now working. The Video Card is not supported and my wireless as everyone seems to have problems with. If anyone knows of a solution please tell me. I am also trying to fix the Audio diver as well. It is currently not seeing my audio but I think I can get that one. One copy of OS x86 did not want to load programs but I have MS Office and several other programs running as well. It is really zippy. I am on a Inspiron 5160. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/428-anyone-try-inspiron-5100/#findComment-13809 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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