[moofers]

I ended up giving up on 1.2a and going back to 1.1. That seems to have gotten me past the corrupted display issue. Things still aren't as stable as I'd like yet but it's progress... Thanks.

[tbuckley]

hi, i've finally gotten around to updating the battery status icon, and it works now, i have time remaining on battery when setting it to time, and percentage is still working. i've got my energy settings prefence pane back too. I installed the SMBIOS.kext using the kext helper and it appeared to fix the issue right off the bat, however, now when i unplug my mini9 and run on battery i lose my wifi. it says im connected, but all browsers time out, no apps can connect. As soon as i plug the power back in, my network starts to work again. is there anyway to remove this kext so i can get my network back again when i unplug the power ? i'd rather be able to have network access than a fulling functioning battery meter. Or is there something i can do to fix it ?

[jetkins]

Originally Posted by tbuckley

is there anyway to remove this kext

Assuming you enabled Kext Helper's backup feature, you should be able to simply run it again to reinstall the original kext from its backup folder. If not, you'll need to get a copy of the original from someone else.

[phreakwenci]

Hey Guys, I'm having an issue after installing 10.5.8 from 10.5.7, after it rebooted it goes to the grey apple screen and then nothing happens, I've waited 10-20 minutes for anything to happen and I got nothing... so I tried to boot into safe mode and I get the same thing, no spinny grey wheel, just the grey apple logo screen and that's where it stays... how do I attempt to fix this?

UPDATE: tried rebooting into safe mode again, and was successful. Is it safe to use kext helper in safe mode for the sleep, wifi and trackpad updates?

[gary551@]

OSX 10.5.8 on DELL Vostro A90 all seems to be working exept the SD card slot not recognised. after instal of NetbookInstaler 0.8.2 RC4

Sleep okay
Sound okay
Battery time remaning okay

Anyone able to see an SD card on an A90 with 10.5.8?

[neilium]

Hi,
First post. Got a dell mini 9, followed the instructions here using DellEFI method. Got everything working after numerous visits/searches here and several restarts. 10.5.8, monitor mirroring, card reader, usb, audio, battery indicator and bluetooth.

All in all, super neato. With a little bit of effort and not a lot of money, I've got a great little fakeMac for commuting. Thanks to everyone who contributes to this forum.

[ad720]

I was a little hesitant to do the 10.5.8 update but I jumped in and had the battery issue. I was able to solve it. You guys are a bunch if geniuses!

[Interloper]

I did a fresh install of 10.5.6 on a mini 9 using mech's guide. (Thanks mech btw) Did the combo update and froze about 90% through. After about 25 mins I tried unplugging the power, closing lid (to my mistake -but not really) and other various things, but ended up having to hard reset it. I booted into safemode and software ver reported 1.0.5.8. I ran NBT, rebooted, and it froze at the apple screen. I rebooted again in verbose mode, but it booted normally and everything seems ok except

My question is:
Did the end of the installer which removes temp files not complete? I ask because I installed leopard without printer drivers, fonts, etc and came out to 6 gigs. After I did the combo update the OS is taking 9.18Gb on my 14.03Gb (16gb SSD). Is this correct? If not, where are these temp files that need booting? Any other suggestions? Thanks a lot


Edit/update: I Ran the same update on a PPC in the same state and all went well so it wasn't the combo -for the most part. And the usage on that one is 7.07Gb. I'm tempted to hose the thing and start over again -but not really! Darn tiny SSD drives

---------- Post added at 05:53 PM ---------- Previous post was at 04:26 PM ----------

I think I found the problem to the above. When the installer froze and I had to reset it after sleeping (one of my attempts to unfreeze the installer :P ) the sleepimage file was saved BEFORE I disabled it with NBT. I found the sleepimage file at 2.07Gb which puts me ~100mb difference with my PPC. I did the following
sudo:
pmset -a hibernatemode 0
cd /var/vm
sudo rm sleepimage

Cheers to not reinstalling... yet?

Edit: Sorry if this was already covered. I just can't cope with some search engines' comprehensiveness, as some of you do, and like to work a little faster than (some of) them :P Anyway to top off the above (which has been covered, I know) I had to disable Bios USB legacy to avoid the freeze after closing the lappy. I hope this helped someone if anything.

[neOsX]

Hi Gang I think I might be a little late in the game but i did this. Went from retail 10.5.6 did software update to 10.5.8 now the graphics is shot to hell. meaning I see a cursor but nothing else its like the graphics has static. So since I cant really click on anything or do anything. Followed Dculps method which is

***Run Software Update, install 10.5.8.
Let it reboot twice, which is normal for Mac system updates. Let it go to the gray screen with the sad gray apple & spinning wheel of death, after a few seconds it will reboot itself. Watch for this second reboot and press any key when prompted, then enter -x to boot in Safe Mode.
After in Safe Mode run DellEFI 1.2a5.
Select Custom Installation and uncheck everything except “Reinstall Dell Mini 9 Extensions” and “Remove custom dsdt.aml file”.
Install and reboot.
Run DellEFI again and rebuild the custom dsdt.aml file; install.***

The issue im now encountering is the card slot not being recognized. I was able to use the sleep file listed in the first post. Thank you poster for posting the sleep file.

[TallPaul86]

After installing the 10.5.8 combo update using said methods, all i get now is the turqoisy blue screen before login and that is where i am stuck regardless if i boot normally or in safe mode

Any ideas on how to get round this?