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newbmac
05-12-2009, 05:56 PM
Anyone have a guess if this will work under osx86?

I assume the video acceleration wont work, unless the 9300M drivers will work as that is the same video GPU as ION video

http://www.anandtech.com/video/showdoc.aspx?i=3562&p=2

vorchan
05-13-2009, 07:34 AM
I don't know about this Ion board but I have an Acer Revo R3600 which is Ion based

http://www.aceroutlet.com/CAT_ListCategories.aspx?cid=850&category=NEW-ASPIRE-REVO&gclid=CJWh7tfVuJoCFUU_3godWlLtcg

I have tried every single distro I can find and none of them will install. They either reboot the PC during loading the installer or in the case of iDeneb I can get it to install but it stops when doing the first boot at

"using 9175 buffer headers and 4096 cluster buffer IO headers"

and I have no idea on how to get round it. Open to suggestions if anyone has any.

bolonia
10-15-2009, 12:01 PM
"using 9175 buffer headers and 4096 cluster buffer IO headers"
Can be fixed by going into the BIOS and turning off hyperthreading for the Atom CPU.

also may need to use...

"Graphics Mode"="640x480x32" -v