[Karm]

Originally Posted by AlixanderMcFly

With help from the amazing Merklot (of netbookinstaller fame), I have got 10.6.3 running on my new Dell Inspiron Duo. I followed all the instructions in the above post but had to remove the appleACPIbatterymanagement kext to get it installed. This is located in the extensions.mkext on the installer usb stick.

I had to download the atheros WIFI_AR9285 kext to get wifi working.

Unfortunately, a few things still aren't working. Touchscreen works only as a click at this point, so i can point the mouse to an item on screen and double click the screen and it will launch it, but can't get the cursor to move.

Sound is still not working, no sign of bluetooth, camera works but unsure whether the mic on it works yet.
No video out, card reader or ethernet (but then there are no ports for those) and i am still trying to work out whether sleep is working or not.
But hey, a lot further along the line than I was 4 days ago when the installer kept crashing (due to the battery kext).

I attempted installing 10.6.5 combo update, but it looks like it replaces the battery kext, so unless someone can tell me how to unpack the package remove that kext and repack it, I am stuck on that one.

Any help or ideas to get it running fully please let me know!!

What sound card does it use? Have you tried Voodoo?

[AlixanderMcFly]

Originally Posted by Karm

What sound card does it use? Have you tried Voodoo?

Voodoo worked like a charm for sound. Now fully working. I also ran software update for the mac ignoring the 10.6.5 update and although it crashed and made me reboot the system when i turned it back on I know have bluetooth working and touchscreen w multitouch. The touchscreen however is badly calibrated and I can't work out how to calibrate it. Anyone know how to solve this issue? and are there any decent control overlays like in windows 7 (right click, gestures, scrolling etc.)

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Originally Posted by AlixanderMcFly

Voodoo worked like a charm for sound. Now fully working. I also ran software update for the mac ignoring the 10.6.5 update and although it crashed and made me reboot the system when i turned it back on I know have bluetooth working and touchscreen w multitouch. The touchscreen however is badly calibrated and I can't work out how to calibrate it. Anyone know how to solve this issue? and are there any decent control overlays like in windows 7 (right click, gestures, scrolling etc.)

After a reboot, i am now back to no bluetooth and touchscreen is now tap to select only, seems like a usb controller issue from what i've read. Any solutions? How can i get 10.6.5 installed?

[sonictk]

Hi, I recently tried updating iTunes after hackintoshing my 1012 and ended up with kernel panic, with the SleepEnabler.kext seeming to be the cause of the problem. I tried deleting them from the /Extra/Extensions by using my OSX install HDD and going via Terminal, but I still got KP on boot. I ended up just reformatting and reinstalling OSX.

Is there any alternative for mounting an iPhone and backing it up other than iTunes? And yes, I'm pretty new to OSX/iOS overall, so I only have very cursory knowledge of how to resolve such issues. I'm currently still on 10.6.3, if that makes any difference.

EDIT: Additionally, OSX seems to go into KP after every 30 minutes or so after the OS boots up. I can't seem to tie it down to any particular action that I'm performing, only the dialog coming out and saying that I need to restart my computer pops out of nowhere. Is there any way I can view a logfile or dump of what is causing this?

[Karm]

Did you update iTunes via "Software Update"? if so you need to make sure you untick the combo update thats why you got the kp.

[obento]

Originally Posted by AlixanderMcFly

With help from the amazing Merklot (of netbookinstaller fame), I have got 10.6.3 running on my new Dell Inspiron Duo. I followed all the instructions in the above post but had to remove the appleACPIbatterymanagement kext to get it installed. This is located in the extensions.mkext on the installer usb stick.

I had to download the atheros WIFI_AR9285 kext to get wifi working.

Unfortunately, a few things still aren't working. Touchscreen works only as a click at this point, so i can point the mouse to an item on screen and double click the screen and it will launch it, but can't get the cursor to move.

Sound is still not working, no sign of bluetooth, camera works but unsure whether the mic on it works yet.
No video out, card reader or ethernet (but then there are no ports for those) and i am still trying to work out whether sleep is working or not.
But hey, a lot further along the line than I was 4 days ago when the installer kept crashing (due to the battery kext).

I attempted installing 10.6.5 combo update, but it looks like it replaces the battery kext, so unless someone can tell me how to unpack the package remove that kext and repack it, I am stuck on that one.

Any help or ideas to get it running fully please let me know!!

Thanks for this. I have been searching for someone who instal OSx. I get my duo next week and i have my usb installation all ready. Can you tell me how to delete the appleACPIbatterymanagement kext? i am still new at all of this.

[obento]

[QUOTE=AlixanderMcFly;177534]With help from the amazing Merklot (of netbookinstaller fame), I have got 10.6.3 running on my new Dell Inspiron Duo. I followed all the instructions in the above post but had to remove the appleACPIbatterymanagement kext to get it installed. This is located in the extensions.mkext on the installer usb stick.[/QUOT

Can anyone tell me how to remove the appleACPIbatterymanagement kext from the USB installer?

[sonictk]

Originally Posted by Karm

Did you update iTunes via "Software Update"? if so you need to make sure you untick the combo update thats why you got the kp.

Oh crap, you're right. iTunes now updated and working, excellent. BTW, if I wanted to dual-boot Ubuntu on this thing, should I just use the Netbook Edition USB stick that Ubuntu's site has and rely on that? Or should I be looking at something like GRUB as an alternative bootloader instead? I mean I saw the instructions for dual booting W7/OSX, but I didn't really see anything about a Linux dual boot and though I'm hoping it should be similar (i.e. bootloader takes care of everything) I'm not sure if there are things I should watch out for to ensure my OSX install remains safe.

[AlixanderMcFly]

Sorry for the slow reply. I will explain how to unpack the mkext when i have chance, but for the minute here is the link to my extensions.mkext for 10.6.3 for the inspiron duo.
Simply open up the installer image on your usb stick, use finder with go (shift, command + g) to go to /extra on the usb stick, and place the extensions.mkext into the /10.6 folder overwriting the existing one.
Here is the link.
Extensions.mkext

hope this helps.

To install the 10.6.5 you have to remove the battery kext again, try replacing the mkext in /*root*/extra with the one above as soon as you get into snow leopard and then install the 10.6.5 combo update (Linked in the 1012 install guide on page 39).

Good luck, let me know how it goes.

[Gnom]

Originally Posted by sonictk

.BTW, if I wanted to dual-boot Ubuntu on this thing, should I just use the Netbook Edition USB stick that Ubuntu's site has and rely on that? Or should I be looking at something like GRUB as an alternative bootloader instead? I mean I saw the instructions for dual booting W7/OSX, but I didn't really see anything about a Linux dual boot and though I'm hoping it should be similar (i.e. bootloader takes care of everything) I'm not sure if there are things I should watch out for to ensure my OSX install remains safe.

Here's what I did with my 10v, it should be the same for you :
-Create free disk space using OS X disc utility
-Boot Ubuntu live-USB (used the netbook version but that shouldn't matter)
-Format your free disk space
-IMPORTANT : when asked where to install grub bootloader, don't use the default location (MBR) but your main Linux partition (probably /dev/sda4 but you'd better check). If you don't change this setting it will overwrite chameleon, and you'll have to either reinstall it or get grub to boot OS X (which I hear is possible, but dunno how).
-Install, and then you're done.

When you boot your computer you can use Linux by holding the SHIFT button, which will make chameleon show you all bootables partitions, then choose your Linux one. This will actually boot grub which will then allow you to boot Linux. You can also set grub to auto-boot your basic Linux setup without showing the boot-mode choosing screen, so when chameleon loads grub you don't have anything to do.

[obento]

Originally Posted by AlixanderMcFly

Sorry for the slow reply. I will explain how to unpack the mkext when i have chance, but for the minute here is the link to my extensions.mkext for 10.6.3 for the inspiron duo.
Simply open up the installer image on your usb stick, use finder with go (shift, command + g) to go to /extra on the usb stick, and place the extensions.mkext into the /10.6 folder overwriting the existing one.
Here is the link.
Extensions.mkext

hope this helps.

To install the 10.6.5 you have to remove the battery kext again, try replacing the mkext in /*root*/extra with the one above as soon as you get into snow leopard and then install the 10.6.5 combo update (Linked in the 1012 install guide on page 39).

Good luck, let me know how it goes.

Thanks man, After getting in there and replacing the extensions.mkext i also found and deleted the battery kext on the usb loader. I Could not find the same battery kext or the extensions.mkext in the 10.6.5 update but do i really need to update to 10.6.5? I will let you know how everything works out when i get my duo. It sucks being stationed overseas and using the USPS. No such thing as priority mail!