I am trying to run OSx86 10.5.6 and using all-in-one motherboard with built-in video chip G33 (GMA3100) running Intel D2C cpu 2.66GHz. I face the problem that I cannot boot up the desktop. I just got the pending greyscreen with bitten apple. Heard that from some websites they claim we can change GMA3100 (no driver provided) to GMA950 in order to bring it up. I tried to use the method you suggested above but it still fails. Could you kindly provide some more help please?

Kernel
mach_kernel
Kernel Flags
boot-uuid=xxxx
device-properties
6d00000001000000010000006100000002000000
02010c00d041030a000000000101060000027fff
0400100000006d006f00640065006c0000000b00
0000474d4120393530200000004100410050004c
002c00480061007300500061006e0065006c0000
000800000001000000

Many thanks.
Justme

It was done using the various tools and advice that are floating around for Dell and Wind and a Leopard 10.5.4 Upgrade disk (not the recommended Retail disk that didn’t work for me). USB, onboard keyboard, trackpad and speaker as well as Bluetooth work and the usual suspects don’t (ethernet, wifi, headphone and microphone).

Being a total novice I have done nothing using command lines or console and I am deeply indebted to all the advice and gizmos that I have picked up from sites such as this one and the wonderful people who put all the knowledge and effort out there., particularly as they gave me the guts to give it a go…..

I cant get the video strings installation to work. Can you please describe how you did this? i see that you point at the com.apple.boot.plist and pasting the string you have above, i’ve tried this, but i couldnt get it to work.

Can you please tell me how to do the strings? or point me in the right direction, i too dont want to have the natit.kext there.

thanks!

The post below that links to an audio switcher which works with the NC10 – but this doesn’t affect the microphone, unfortunately. USB and Bluetooth microphones work correctly right now, but it looks as if the integrated one will have to wait until at least the Voodoo audio driver release.

I will look into using efi strings for video, that’s how i have it on my desktop (Nvidia 8800 GT)

I also changed my stock HDD for a 320 GB WD black edition, its the one that spins at 7200, I guess this impacts battery life on one way or another. But 8 hours without any power management sounds incredible!

I will try to get an SSD drive at some point in the future, when prices drop a little more.

I know there is a fix in the works from voodoo for the audio, but i haven’t seen any updates in over a month, have you been able to use ur internal mic? discovered any work arounds?

when firing up photobooth, i cant see the whole window, because of the limited vertical resilution, I know im only missing the bottome portion that shows the pictures taken, no big deal. But i was wondering is there was a way to change the resolution at which photobooth previews the webcam, so i can make it smaller and see the whole thing. This can be done in regular windows computer by changing the resolution of the camera. any ideas?

thanks.

I’m not actually using any specific power management extension – and with the screen brightness set to 25 but browsing all day on Wifi and doing Xcode development gets me between 6 and 8 hours… but I have replaced the internal disc with an SSD. I haven’t had any problems with instability or sleep.

The main advantage of using EFI strings is that it requires one less hacked kernel extension. Since it uses the system driver, it won’t make any difference to VGA out (which I’ve not tried) or stability (which I’ve not actually had any problems with). The strings needed are documented in this post.

I’ve been following this thread, as well as the mysticus one in insanelymac for a while. here is what i did,
Installed a retail copy from an existing working installation of leopard on my desktop, updated to 10.5.6, installed chameleon bootloader, and from installed a bunch of kexts from “bike town” that were in a package for the NC10.
What I’ve been trying to do is getting the original video kext to work by modifying it and not having to use the natit.kext file. I read that you were able to do this. What advantages does this have? better video support? better VGA out support, more stable system? one less unneeded kext to load? I would like to try this.

What power management kext are u currently using? i’ve used the voodoo power kext, but as other have said, it can cause the system to crash, and in my case the system would freeze every once in a while, for about 2 seconds, and then it would be fine.

Another thing, what do you see for battery life with your current set up? with the unstable voodoo kext i get about 6 hours, on the lowest brightness with minimal internet browsing.

I’ve also noticed that my trackpad is not mapped in proportion to the size of the screen. for example, when moving my finger from top to botom causes the mouse to move vertically accross the whole screen, but moving it from sideways, causes the mouse to move only half way of the screen width, causing me to have to lift my finger and swipe again to complete one horizontal travel. It doesnt sound like much, but it leads to unpredictable mouse speed.

What other things have you discovered? at what point are you with your installation.

Any input would be awesome.

thanks

http://blog.stuart.shelton.me/downloads#Audieee-NC10.dmg

I’ve just created an archive of my EFI partition, which you’ll now be able to find on the downloads page.

Note that the UUID value in Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/com.apple.Boot.plist on the EFI partition will have to be commented out, removed, or corrected for the target system.

The fix is to edit /System/Library/Extensions/IOBluetoothFamily.kext/Contents/PlugIns/BroadcomUSBBluetoothHCIController.kext/Contents/Info.plist and change all two instances of ‘8448‘ to ‘8449‘. For efi_boot usage, only /System/Library/Extensions/IOBluetoothFamily.kext need be copied to the /Volumes/EFI partition, as it has no further runtime dependencies.

(It can be seen in System Profiler that the device ID of the Bluetooth adapter is 0x2101, or 8449 in decimal.)

Unfortunately, however, these do not yet work correctly with 10.5.6, although this is apparently being actively worked on. Even better, the next release of the Chameleon bootloader (which should integrate boot-from-EFI-partition functionality) should have SMBIOS override abilities, according to this.

I know that with 10.5.5 and SMBIOS overrides Reggie SE ran happily, whilst with 10.5.6 I get the same warning when the application is launched – but I don’t think that this actually breaks anything.

Before, when i’ve install iDeneb10.5.5 DVD i got the following (it was correct):
Nome modello: Mac
Identificatore modello: MacPro3,1
Nome processore: Intel® Atom(TM) CPU N270 @
Velocità processore: 1.6 GHz
Numero totale di nuclei: 1
Cache L2: 512 KB
Caratteristiche CPU: FPU VME DE PSE TSC MSR PAE MCE CX8 A APIC SEP MTRR PGE MCA CMOV PAT CLFSH DS ACPI MMX FXSR SSE SSE2 SS HTT TM SSE3 MON DSCPL EST TM2 SSSE3 TPR PDCM
Memoria: 1 GB
Velocità bus: 100 MHz
Versione Boot ROM: BOOT.88Z.EFI.V80.061193037 (Phoenix Technologies Ltd.)
Numero di serie: CK157KMHK5B

As you see, the L2 cache and characteristics are all right in that case.

Does it mean that i got problem with the actual retail installation with the CPU?
I got the same problem when i fire the Reggie SE application (Developer/Applicatio/Performance tools/CHUD/Hardware Tools/Reggie SE)
In that case i got:
WARNING
Unknown processor type (658)

I’ve trying with DSDT patcher, EFI ver.9 etc bootloder, but no luck to recognise correctly the CPU on retail installation.
I’ve installed the 04CA bios ver. on samsung NC10.

Can you post your System Profiler and a few step about your installation process, so i can try your way?

Thanks,

http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?s=&showtopic=137314

… although I had used OSx86Tools previously to make the same change. The former is probably the better solution, though, as OSx86Tools is a little buggy in this respect and making the change can require setting and unsetting the option several times, with reboots.

Just for information, if anybody else need it, first of all i’ve installed manually the 10.5.5 retail DVD in a USB disc from the OSX installed on samsung NC10 with Wind dvd, just launching the install package osxinstall.mpkg.
Then installed the combo update 10.5.5 from apple, the 10.5.6 combo update and at the end the chameleon.
In the extra folder created from chemeleon, i’ve put the OS2 driver (AppleACPIPS2Nub.kext, ApplePS2Controller.kext and AppleDecrypt.kext), so no problem in booting with mouse and keyboard fully functional.
After that i’ve made a copy of the USB disk, and with disk utility cloned it on a partition of samsung’s hard disk.
Make the EDB enable mode, installed the driver for the grafic and audio, and that’s it.

Thank You

thank you for replaying.
I have EDB in disable mode (isn’t it only to protect from the malicious software?).
I’am playing around with the BIOS with other settings (like hyperthreading ecc), but no difference.
Today i will tray your suggestion and give a feedback on it.
My bios version is 03CA. I sow on the samsung page the newer (ver.04CA), and i will do the upgrade too.
Till now I was trying with different versions of kext for ACPI, SMBIOS and others, no luck.

I installed from an original Leopard boot DVD and then upgraded first to 10.5.5 then 10.5.6, and have not needed boot flags. Both logical CPUs are recognised by Xcode, Automake scripts, and Apple’s Activity Monitor.

i’m consulting this pages for days and i’ve got OSX 10.5.6 on NC10 working, this thank your efforts. My problem is that i can boot only with the flag cpus=1 on vanilla kernel 9.6, so no hyperthread at all. I’m trying for days, with different kext, but no luck. Has anybody my problem and find a way to resolve it?

Thanks in advance,