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andyi89 12-24-2009 08:14 PM

Kext ideas and recommendations for a dell studio 1555 and similar laptops
 
hello guys :), just wondering if anybody would help me out in buying a new laptop. ive been looking into getting a dell inspiron 1545 but after putting 4gb memory and 320 hard drive in and a graphics card there like 600 quid! which is quite alot really just wondering if anyones got any ideas on any laptops which are a bit better valve for money which will run os x nicely :D.

thanks alot guys :D

xXrkidXx 12-24-2009 08:19 PM

HP Mini 1030NR

Its a tiny net book with a lot of power. You can also upgrade it to a 2GB RAMN stick.. YouTube it.

andyi89 12-24-2009 08:23 PM

youtubed it and its pretty sweet looking but looking for more of a laptop as its going to be my main computer :( kinda hoping to get a dual boot of windows 7/ mac os x

andyi89 12-24-2009 10:48 PM

would a Intel® Core™ 2 Duo Processor P7450 be compatable with one of the distro's? ive looked on osx86 and cant see it :( i think a t6600 would work

Imkantus 12-25-2009 12:56 AM

The used CPU is only minor important - any Intel Core should be fine.

More important is A) to get one with a compatible chipset - Intel highly recommended! - do not get VIA, SiS or stuff like that & B) to get one with a compatible graphics-chip/-card - GMA950, GMAX1300 or NVidia. Any ATI Mobility Radeon or newer Intel GMA cards are not fully supported.

andyi89 12-25-2009 12:30 PM

So last night i made a desicion and bought this spec laptop :D now to start lookin for some kexts am pretty sure i have an idea on what i need bu any ideas ould b rally apreciated :P



thanks!
andy



STUDIO 15
Intel� Pentium� Dual-Core Processor T4300 (2.1GHz, 800MHz, 1MB cache), Genuine Windows� 7 Home Premium 64bit- English





Item
Description

Base
Intel� Pentium� Dual-Core Processor T4300 (2.1GHz, 800MHz, 1MB cache)

Memory
4096MB 800MHz Dual Channel DDR2 SDRAM [2x2048]

Keyboard
Internal UK/Irish Qwerty Keyboard

Video Card
512MB ATI Mobility RADEON HD 4570

Hard Drive
500GB (5.400rpm) SATA Hard Drive

Microsoft Operating System
Genuine Windows� 7 Home Premium 64bit- English

Optical Devices
Fixed Internal DVD+/-RW Slot Load Drive including Software

Wireless Networking
Dell Wireless 1397 Mini Card (802.11 b/g)

Bluetooth
No Bluetooth Upgrade

Order Information
Studio 1555

Primary Battery
Primary 6-cell 56 WHr Lithium Ion battery

Camera
2.0 Mega pixel Integrated Web Camera

Colour Choice
Midnight Blue with Microsatin Finish

LCD
15.6in Widescreen High Definition (1366x768) WLED with TrueLife

ive actually been doing some reading round and found out the graphics card seems to be unsupported. would this mean i wouldnt be abe to see the desktop or just play videos and play games? also does anybody know of any ways around this? thankyou!

andyi89 12-28-2009 12:44 PM

okay so ive done a bit of searching around and ive come up with this. now unfortunatly i dont actually have my new laptop yet its estimated delivery date is the 14th of janurary! >> but that gives me time to do abit of reasearch

so far as an idea without actually trying ive come u with this (which is just a guess)

Bootloader: Chameleon v2

chipset: not really sure maybe intel ICHx SATA Drivers?

Other Drivers: Just Sata Patch, NTFS3G

kernel: i think is vanilla

Sound: Audio HP_DV5_IDT_V2

wireless: AppleAirPortBrcm4311.kext with Dev ID inserted

Usb: usb patched

Power: Voodoo Battery - Sleep Enabler - FakeSMC

Trackpad + keypad: VoodooPS2 Controller with VoodooPS2Trackpad also placed into /S/L/E
(dont really understand that yet)

Graphics: ive heard is not supported but have seen two ways of perhaps doing it
first being: Graphics Enabler and Dev ID inserted into ATIRadeonX2000.kext and ATI4500Controller.kext
second being: i've forgotten but ill have a search round see if i cant find it :P


so far thats what ive got as an idea any input would be greatly apreciated thanks :D
oh and if this is now in the wrong forum please let me know and ill move it i dont really know were to put it :P thanks!

Imkantus 12-30-2009 02:03 AM

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Originally Posted by andyi89 (Post 41910)
Graphics: ive heard is not supported but have seen two ways of perhaps doing it
first being: Graphics Enabler and Dev ID inserted into ATIRadeonX2000.kext and ATI4500Controller.kext
second being: i've forgotten but ill have a search round see if i cant find it :P

I had told you, that there is no proper support for any Mobility HD by OS X....
You can use this Framebuffer driver, I made good experiences with it. As a Framebuffer driver does, it will allow you to change screen resolution, but will not give you any kind of accerlation - so no way for HD videos, coverflow on iTunes, high-toned games and stuff like that.

andyi89 01-02-2010 01:48 AM

I did listen to your advice but couldn’t find a laptop meeting the graphics requirements as well as getting all the other components supported (with the little amount of knowledge i had about components supported and the osx86 wiki) this seemed like a pretty reasonable choice at the time got to admit kind of a rushed decision because it was a boxing day deal and was dirt cheap.

thank you ever so much for the driver that’s fantastic i was getting quite worried about drivers for graphics that'll be a big help

as for the laptop i still haven’t got it! ive finally got a date given to me which is Tuesday hopefully should get to play with it then

whiles ive got u another thing that is worrying me is dsdt.aml patching that seems to me like a massive pain ive been speaking on another forum to somebody about it and it just seems quite involved so if u had any input on that topic that would be really appreciated. Thanks

Imkantus 01-02-2010 01:21 PM

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Originally Posted by andyi89 (Post 42215)
whiles ive got u another thing that is worrying me is dsdt.aml patching that seems to me like a massive pain ive been speaking on another forum to somebody about it and it just seems quite involved so if u had any input on that topic that would be really appreciated. Thanks[/color][/font][/color]

Currently there is allmost nothing that will force you to mess with editing any acpi table by hand - maybe the need to patch it using fassls utility to solve something, but that's aint a big deal - for all those edits there is allmost also a kext or string based solution or alternative out there. :)