Swad Posted July 5, 2005 Share Posted July 5, 2005 As you get OS X to run on your x86 machine, let us know what hardware you're using here. Ask any questions you'd like. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LiquidPro Posted July 5, 2005 Share Posted July 5, 2005 Haven't tried. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Bond Posted July 5, 2005 Share Posted July 5, 2005 Same thing as everyone else....log-in and thats it.... Specs ->> Dell Dimension 4300 Desktop 512 MB DDR SDRAM 180GB Maxtor HDD, 20GB Western Digital 128MB ATI Radeon 9200 Intel Pentium 4 1.8GHz Also too, we discussed this brefily on the IRC channel yesterday. Finding supported hardware for darwin should hopefully help with getting the leaked verson(s) working. Though myself and Mashugly couldn't find a proper site, and the one we did was taken down because of it's innacuracy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MacZero Posted July 5, 2005 Share Posted July 5, 2005 does it run on an amd64 3000+? (darwin 8.1) maybe somebody knows... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hq23t Posted July 5, 2005 Share Posted July 5, 2005 Probably this is the following well known problem ... the 8.01 distribution was unfortunately compiled with SSE2 instructions enabled, which means you can not run it (nor future distributions) on hardware with e.g. an AMD Athlon or Athlon-XP processor. http://lists.apple.com/archives/Darwin-x86...n/msg00065.html This is what this dude said. But below me is a corection. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shuddertrix Posted July 5, 2005 Share Posted July 5, 2005 Probably this is the following well known problem ... the 8.01 distribution was unfortunately compiled with SSE2 instructions enabled, which means you can not run it (nor future distributions) on hardware with e.g. an AMD Athlon or Athlon-XP processor. http://lists.apple.com/archives/Darwin-x86...n/msg00065.html Sorry Athlon 64, Opteron, and above all have support for SSE2. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stegve Posted July 8, 2005 Share Posted July 8, 2005 I'm still blocked here, like you... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
evolver56k Posted July 8, 2005 Share Posted July 8, 2005 i could be wrong, but i thought darwin 8.1 required SSE3? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ozone Posted July 8, 2005 Share Posted July 8, 2005 i could be wrong, but i thought darwin 8.1 required SSE3? No Darwin 8.01 and 8.1 only required SSE2. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
evolver56k Posted July 8, 2005 Share Posted July 8, 2005 okey dokey :wink: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alright Posted July 12, 2005 Share Posted July 12, 2005 how about intel wireless card? does anybody know?it's can be used or not? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
banini_jeque Posted July 13, 2005 Share Posted July 13, 2005 how about intel wireless card?does anybody know?it's can be used or not? Dude thats like the least of anyones worries right now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lanny Posted July 24, 2005 Share Posted July 24, 2005 Anyone tried it with any Intel GMA 900? http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Intel_Graphi...Accelerator_900 The containing chipsets are listed here, is not so new, you can find many motherboards with them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
banini_jeque Posted July 25, 2005 Share Posted July 25, 2005 I'm most interested in sound card support, because even if the GUI won't boot, if the sound and video cards had drivers from mactelbase.tar that worked in darwin, then I could at least run X with like gnome or something. It might be a nice alternative to linux or something. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blackentangled Posted July 26, 2005 Share Posted July 26, 2005 i've got the mouse pointer to appear but thats it... i made a WindowServer.plist and changed the /etc/ttys to start up with login window and when restarted iDarwin just said that starting loginwindow in loop. Darwin is looking for some file to startup with loginwindow (i guess) but so far that's it... sigh SPECs intel845e chipset intel82810 onboard sound geforce 4 mx 512ram Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jtle Posted July 26, 2005 Share Posted July 26, 2005 Deleted Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BoNeS Posted August 2, 2005 Share Posted August 2, 2005 well i'm browsing this forum but i can't find a description of whats inside the real dev-kit... ne1 tried the 'original' mainboard with the 'original' gma900 vga-adapter? i think the leaked version should run pretty well with this hardware or am i missing something? :? i guess i will print some of the dev-kit pictures (from one of the mactel-rumors websites) and ask some pc-dealer if they know the type of board... EDIT: ok, it looks like apple used this board: Intel D915GUXLK. (f+p://download.intel.com/design/motherbd/ux/C7453001.pdf) so what do you think? will this thing work? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dexos Posted August 3, 2005 Share Posted August 3, 2005 Hi, I have the possibility to test it with the D915GUXLK. But I have to wait till the download of the DVD is finished ;-) More later... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BoNeS Posted August 3, 2005 Share Posted August 3, 2005 superb! i think intel will sell many of these boards if it does :roll: :wink: ähm, do you have a prescott p4 too? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cajuncoon Posted August 3, 2005 Share Posted August 3, 2005 no we then just find someone to get a dos like pc emulator and install os ontop of it thats how i always wanted ppc to work you put a boot floppy in it puts pearpc on your harddrive like a base os and then asks for the mac cd and you just run mac like it was windows if a dos working emulator exists Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dho Posted August 3, 2005 Share Posted August 3, 2005 Check this out. This *could* greatly increase the amount of hardware supported. Don't use mactel. Don't boot the disk at all! try this. http://www.osx86.classicbeta.com/forum/vie...c.php?p=932#932 and that should allow complete installations from the dvd. Once you get to an almost booted stage with that, ALL the effort can be put into modifying the installed kext. None of this hack the dvd and then hack its installation nonsense. BYPASS THE DVD! sse3 is liekly still required for now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
computertrendy Posted August 4, 2005 Share Posted August 4, 2005 I actually have the D915gev board. SO I should be pretty damn compatable. to the most I can be, of course. Friggin communist apple and its hardware checks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anarchron Posted August 4, 2005 Share Posted August 4, 2005 Hi, do you guys know what chipset is used for the original Apple Airport cards? Also, do you guys reckon that if I were to use a normal PCMCIA with the same chipset found in the Apple Airport cards it would work in Darwin? Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BoNeS Posted August 4, 2005 Share Posted August 4, 2005 the original airport card used a broadcom chipset Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redmeat Posted August 10, 2005 Share Posted August 10, 2005 Im wondering if there are any video cards/drivers that will allow acceleration. So far my GF6800 is a no go. Any other ideas? I did however get everything else working: Intel 875 chipset Prescott 2.8ghz Onboard sound AC97 USB Logitech mouse IBM Model M Keyboard Nec 16x DVD burner Compaq 16x DVDROM Onboard Intel CSA Gigabit nic This is all working from a native boot except video drivers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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