Mac OS 10.5.6 on the Samsung NC10

hello,

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

Thank you for your reply,

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.

One last thing,

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!

Hi Stuart,

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