#661 by Dispatches #735 by Author Reads #3,752 by Thread Reach Member #23,382 Retail DVD / USB Voodoo / XNU Kernel Dell Inspiron / Latitude
@maaarcooose
InfiniteMac community contributor with 12 recorded dispatches, 3 lead technical dossiers (15,415 direct reads), participating in discussions reaching 18,961 historical readers.
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Ranked #735 · 3 dossiers
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Lead Dossiers
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5,138 avg reads / dossier
Member Number
#23,382
Joined 2010-02-04
Active Window
2010
2010-02-24 → 2010-03-19
- Archive Standing
- #661 of 6,691 by Dispatches (12 notes) · #735 of 3,454 by Author Readership (15,415 reads across 3 dossiers) · #3,752 by Thread Reach (18,961 cumulative reads)
- InfiniteMac ID
- Member #23,382 · Joined 2010-02-04
- Hardware & Kernel Topics
- Retail DVD / USB (2) · Voodoo / XNU Kernel (2) · Dell Inspiron / Latitude (2) · Chameleon / Boot-132 (1)
- Frequent Thread Collaborators
- @briankeats @needs_help @xenophek
Dispatches by Mac OS X Collection
Distribution across 2 technical boards
Lead Dossiers Authored by @maaarcooose (3)
15,415 cumulative reads on threads started by @maaarcooose
| Dossier Title & Summary | Collection | Readership |
|---|---|---|
| DELL Studio XPS 1340 Laptop. Just thought I'd start a thread for my laptop that I've installed on. So far I've done a plain retail install of SL from a USB stick to an external USB hard disk. I've got no additional kexts installed yet. Everything seems to be mostly… | 10.X Core | 9,095 reads 2010-02-26 · 8 notes |
| Laptop hardware not all working. kexts I've managed to get SL installed on an external hard disk using my laptop but I've been unable to get my internal keyboard and trackpad to work. It works fin at the moment with an external USB keyboard and mouse. I've tried installing a… | Snow Leopard 10.6 | 3,723 reads 2010-02-24 · 4 notes |
| Keyboard Layout adjustments. I have sucessfully, after many false starts and problems, got Snow Leopard installed on my Dell Studio XPS 1340. Does anyone know of a way of changing what particular keys produce? I have a british keyboad layout, and even though I have… | 10.X Core | 2,597 reads 2010-03-17 · 2 notes |
Field Notes & Technical Dispatches (9)
Direct links into threads where @maaarcooose contributed solutions & commentary
| Thread & Dispatch Excerpt | Collection | Date & Reach |
|---|---|---|
| DELL Studio XPS 1340 Laptop. “I now have a Tripple boot lappy with Snow Leopard 10.6.2, Windows 7 & Ubuntu 9.10. I managed to hose my Windows 7 install by moving the partition in Gparted. It is on partiton 3 and I moved it to the begining of the disk, deleting the two p…” | 10.X Core | 2010-03-19 9,095 dossier reads |
| DELL Studio XPS 1340 Laptop. “I am now using the installer available from osx86.soju garden.com/ It seems to work pretty perfectly. I now have a working install on my external USB hard disk and the keyboard and touchpad both work. I recommend following the instructions …” | 10.X Core | 2010-03-10 9,095 dossier reads |
| DELL Studio XPS 1340 Laptop. “Did you install the voodoo PS2 kext files as well as having the ApplePS2Controller.kext in /System/Library/Extensions as I have tried it before? !m!” | 10.X Core | 2010-03-08 9,095 dossier reads |
| DELL Studio XPS 1340 Laptop. “Keyboard and mouse update: I tried installing the voodoops2controller package from: chameleon.osx 86.hu/articles/voodoo-team-proudly-presents-voodoops2controller First time it got an error on install. Second go, it worked fine. After reboot…” | 10.X Core | 2010-03-03 9,095 dossier reads |
| DELL Studio XPS 1340 Laptop. “I have been attempting to clone the partition from my external USB disk onto a partition on my internal disk and run into problems. It seems that Clonezilla has problems cloning to and from USB devices. I've been getting a timeout in the mi…” | 10.X Core | 2010-03-02 9,095 dossier reads |
| DELL Studio XPS 1340 Laptop. “Just a small update. I've tried using voodops2controller.kext and the ACPINub kext file and keyboard & mouse are still non functional. !m!” | 10.X Core | 2010-03-01 9,095 dossier reads |
| Laptop hardware not all working. kexts “I did try the voodoops2 kext but I've still to try it now I've reinstalled. It didn't help last time and I also tried the voodoo_trackpad_ps2 kext. I have been using kext helper b7 to install the kexts. I guess I'm still looking to see if t…” | Snow Leopard 10.6 | 2010-02-26 3,723 dossier reads |
| Missing kext “I had these problems with my Dell lappy that I was installing on. I must have tried an install at least 10 times and never could get the keyboard and trackpad to work despite the addition of some kext files. Then I found: osx86.soju garden.…” | 10.X Core | 2010-03-11 3,546 dossier reads |
| Keyboard Layout adjustments. “I have downloaded KeyRemap with has done the trick for the @" switch, but still no way to type a #. !m!” | 10.X Core | 2010-03-19 2,597 dossier reads |