Mac OS X on x86 Hardware 2008–2024 Technical Archive
Member #464 · 2008-01-29 → 2008-03-03
#465 by Dispatches #722 by Author Reads #3,066 by Thread Reach Member #464 Dell Inspiron / Latitude ATI Radeon NVIDIA GeForce

@Raidz1

InfiniteMac community contributor with 17 recorded dispatches, 2 lead technical dossiers (15,866 direct reads), participating in discussions reaching 38,700 historical readers.

Dispatches 17 Ranked #465 of 6,691
Author Reads 15,866 Ranked #722 · 2 dossiers
Thread Reach 38,700 Ranked #3,066 in reach
Lead Dossiers 2 7,933 avg reads / dossier
Member Number #464 Joined 2008-01-29
Active Window 2008 2008-01-29 → 2008-03-03
Hardware Specs Reported in Dispatches
@nfoav8or: · Yes i do, Im using a Dell inspiron 1501, AMD Turion 64 X2 Mobile TL-60, 120 GB SATA HD, With an ATI Xpress 200 chipset (SB600)
Archive Standing
#465 of 6,691 by Dispatches (17 notes) · #722 of 3,454 by Author Readership (15,866 reads across 2 dossiers) · #3,066 by Thread Reach (38,700 cumulative reads)
InfiniteMac ID
Member #464 · Joined 2008-01-29
Hardware & Kernel Topics
Dell Inspiron / Latitude (2) · ATI Radeon (2) · NVIDIA GeForce (1) · Retail DVD / USB (1) · AMD OSx86 (1)
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Dispatches by Mac OS X Collection

Distribution across 3 technical boards

Leopard 10.5
15 (88%)
10.X Core
1 (6%)

Lead Dossiers Authored by @Raidz1 (2)

15,866 cumulative reads on threads started by @Raidz1

Dossier Title & SummaryCollectionReadership
Installed fine, No sound, default graphics
I installed 10.5.2 Rev 1. just fine on my Dell Inspiron 1501, it takes a while to boot up to it though, almost acts like it freezes. But i have no audio, maybe i forgot a kext? I am just unsure as to which one i need. As for my graphics, i…
Leopard 10.510,078 reads
2008-02-21 · 24 notes
Leopard Installed fine, Cannot boot
Well I've managed to get Leopard to recognize my Hard drives with the SB600 kext, It installled, everything went well. But when it told me to restart i did as it did, i took out my CD and proceeded to boot up into Leopard, But when i do,…
Leopard 10.55,788 reads
2008-02-01 · 8 notes

Field Notes & Technical Dispatches (15)

Direct links into threads where @Raidz1 contributed solutions & commentary

Thread & Dispatch ExcerptCollectionDate & Reach
Installed fine, No sound, default graphics
“Sorry for the triple postings, i managed to install an audio kext with Apple HDA, using the Sigmatel 9200 driver. My sound is working, but it is coming out very choppy. Would that mean for a different driver?”
Leopard 10.52008-02-22
10,078 dossier reads
Installed fine, No sound, default graphics
“Thanks a lot eddie11c. Now to just fix my graphics. :| Ok, i installed the .pkg, rebooted, Still no sound.. any help? I tried installing it again and still no luck Also, is there a way to change the resolution manually? My laptop is widescr…”
Leopard 10.52008-02-21
10,078 dossier reads
Installed fine, No sound, default graphics
“Well booting with -x (Safe mood) Helped the boot time greatly, But i tried searching for the Sigmatel 9220.pkg, i had found it but they removed it from the server or something.. If anyone has that package and is willing to upload to this se…”
Leopard 10.52008-02-21
10,078 dossier reads
Installed fine, No sound, default graphics
“Alright i will try that, my sound card is an Sigmatel 9200 i believe.”
Leopard 10.52008-02-21
10,078 dossier reads
Installed fine, No sound, default graphics
“Excuse my ignorance, It is an ATI Radeon Xpress 1150. When i booted with -v, it hung at Configid[44]: InterfaceNumber: Timed out for waiting for IOKit to Quiesce for like 5 minutes.”
Leopard 10.52008-02-21
10,078 dossier reads
Disk Utility Does Not Recognize HDD
“I understand, One last thing, i've tried searching for the SB600 kext file and nothing has came up, Google, or Insanleymac.”
Leopard 10.52008-01-30
8,678 dossier reads
Disk Utility Does Not Recognize HDD
“You serious? Why is that? Are only the Nvidia ones supported or what?”
Leopard 10.52008-01-30
8,678 dossier reads
Disk Utility Does Not Recognize HDD
“I also have this problem, It does not recognize it no matter what i try to do, format to NTFS, FAT32, HFS+ nothing. My chipset: Chipset ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Northbridge ATI Xpress 20…”
Leopard 10.52008-01-29
8,678 dossier reads
Front Row quits after watching a trailer.
“Well i had noticed that a few programs quit expectedly on me. Like iChat, MSN, and ever Safari.”
Software & Kexts2008-02-21
7,931 dossier reads
Leopard Installed fine, Xp won't load
“What i used, is Gparted Live CD, It has this nifty utility, forgot what it is called, but its the first one on the utility list, I had to search the sectors within the HD, once, then after it finished, i had to search deeper for it to find …”
10.X Core2008-02-21
6,225 dossier reads
Leopard Installed fine, Cannot boot
“@nfoav8or: Yes i do, Im using a Dell inspiron 1501, AMD Turion 64 X2 Mobile TL-60, 120 GB SATA HD, With an ATI Xpress 200 chipset (SB600) @Xxp/TuX: Ok i will keep on trying.”
Leopard 10.52008-02-03
5,788 dossier reads
Leopard Installed fine, Cannot boot
“Ok i had tried what you told me riangeli, and no luck. It proceeds to load, but then it just freezes. It gives me the error of 'Waiting for root' something i can't quite remember what it says exactly, but something along those lines.”
Leopard 10.52008-02-03
5,788 dossier reads
Leopard Installed fine, Cannot boot
“to sorta answer my own question i am going to try this: [cite] Puttabong:riangeli, How to fix MBR boot without EFI: // rdiskXsX: you have to know the proper partition names and replace them with X. In my case, it would be rdisk0s1, first HD…”
Leopard 10.52008-02-02
5,788 dossier reads
Installed fine, No sound, default graphics
“and yet another bump..”
Leopard 10.52008-03-03
10,078 dossier reads
Installed fine, No sound, default graphics
“Can anyone help please?”
Leopard 10.52008-02-22
10,078 dossier reads