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Do Photo Booth and Imovie work or crash on Dell Xps m1530?

 

Thanks...

 

Photo Booth works. iMovie works for everything but video capture I think.

 

Can someone say to me what kernel I need to flag during the Retail installation??

And If I need to flag other option to make a good installation. Thx so much.

 

There is only one kernel for a retail install: vanilla. Is there a reason you aren't reading the guide?

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I have read it and print it.

But my english isnt perfect and I have a lot of doubts.

So, this means also that if the installation proceeds its Vanilla.

Therefore I do not have to select nothing.

 

Thx for reply

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I'm not having much luck getting OS X to work on my XPS M1530. I'm currently trying iATKOS 5i and am attempting to dual-boot it with Vista (I know this guide doesn't deal with that, but so far I haven't even been able to boot into OS X) - so naturally I installed it on its own partition. Upon rebooting, I received a "boot0: error" message and found somewhere that I just needed to set the OS X partition (the fourth one on the drive) as active. However, since doing so, I just get absolutely no response when trying to start the computer. Just a black screen with a flashing underscore.

 

Please note that I've already tried the bootloader "trick" which was mentioned, and that this appears to make no difference at all. I can boot into Vista by setting this partition as active and then repairing with a startup disk - but that's hardly what I'm going for. :(

 

Might anyone have an idea of how to make this work? Thanks in advance!

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Do you get a Chameleon boot prompt at all? Can you boot into OS X using my boot-132 disk?

Yes! Your boot-132 disc allowed me to boot into OS X - progress at last. :)

Nonetheless, all I get when booting with my OS X partition as active is a black screen with a flashing _ in the top left. Not taking any input and no harddisk activity at all. So I'm guessing the problem's with my bootloader.

 

(For now I can live with booting from a CD, but naturally I'd like to get a bootloader working sooner or later. :))

 

Thanks again.

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I am stumped. I already get stuck during the boot from DVD. :blink:

 

I have an

XPS M1330

Core 2 Duo T7500 2,2 GHz

3 GB RAM

250 GB ATA Drive (with Vista Ultimate on it)

8400M GS

 

I tried booting with iDeneb 1.3 and iAtkos 5. With both I get to the apple with this "spinning wheel" progress indicator but not more. I did let sit the computer there for a couple of minutes without any change.

 

When I use -v with iDeneb the last three lines on the screen are:

 

MAC Framework successfully initialized

Using 15728 buffer headers and 4096 cluster IO buffer headers

IOAPIC: Version 0x20 Vectors 0:23

 

With iAtkos I get one more line:

 

Extension com.apple.driver.ACPI_SMC_PlatformPlugin has immediate dependencies on both com.apple.kernel and com.apple.kpi; use only one common stile

 

Switching off all the CPU stuff in the BIOS and also switching to ATA does not seem to make a difference.

I also upgraded to the newest BIOS (A14). No change.

 

Did I miss something? Do I have to patch the ISO images?

I had the impression that at least booting into the installer should kind of work out of the box.

 

I found this:

http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showtopic=100804

There's a post near the bottom that says boot with cpus=2

 

That didn't work for me at first, but then I updated my BIOS.

 

What BIOS version do you have? I had the problem with A12, and I installed A15. Then cpus=2 -v worked for me. FYI, the BIOS settings are still plain old default.

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Yes! Your boot-132 disc allowed me to boot into OS X - progress at last. :blink:

Nonetheless, all I get when booting with my OS X partition as active is a black screen with a flashing _ in the top left. Not taking any input and no harddisk activity at all. So I'm guessing the problem's with my bootloader.

 

(For now I can live with booting from a CD, but naturally I'd like to get a bootloader working sooner or later. :blink: )

 

You need to reinstall Chameleon. It sounds like it didn't install correctly.

 

Can anyone tell me how to update the XPS M1330 bios running OSX.

 

I downloaded the bios update file from dell but I cannot run the windows file on OSX...any clue...

 

 

I have bios version A13, but want to update to A15.

 

I do not know how to run the windows file on OSx.

 

Can some please guide.

 

There is no reason to post the same question within three hours of each other.

 

That file can be run in a DOS environment. You need to either create a bootable USB key or a bootable CD. Once you get to the DOS environment run the executable. This is how I do BIOS upgrades.

 

Here's a nice example on making a bootable USB key: http://www.bay-wolf.com/usbmemstick.htm

It does require Windows to do it though. If you Google around some there's probably a way to create a bootable USB key in OS X.

 

For all who are wondering I have the A15 bios installed. cpus=2 should not be needed to boot the OS X installer or anything else related to OS X. Only Dells older than ours needed that flag to work correctly.

 

IOAPIC errors most likely mean a bad burn. Reburn the disk on a slower speed or try a different distribution (iPC may work well on these machines...or just buy OS X retail).

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I'm sorry, I should have waiting a bit longer before posting. I don't think the BIOS worked at all. Sorry fireitfox...

 

It just booted once to iATKos v5, and then the next time, it gave me the same things I was getting before.

 

I can reboot, with the same everything, and about one out of five times it will fail.

 

I am now using the iPC disk (10.5.6) and it's KPing, even though I set sata to ata and disabled the speedstep and other thing.

 

It's kernel panicking, and it looks like it's in the ACPI module.

 

panic: "ACPI AcpiOsFree"...

Kernel loadable modules in backtrace (with dependencies):

com.apple.drive.AppleACPIPlatform(1.0.3)

dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOPCIFamily(2.4.1)

dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOAPCIFamily(1.2.8)

 

I'm burning the iPC again on another machine, I've burned all of them on this m1330.

 

I can boot into single user mode, can I do the md5 sum there? Can I manually disable the ACPI {censored}?

 

Sorry again to anyone who worked on their BIOS on my recommendation, I really thought that solved it.

 

Would it be helpful to post the lspci -nn output? Maybe there's an obvious difference in hardware between my 1330 and yours wingrun21

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Im here, again, to ask for help.

Before to try a retail I have tried a iPC 10.5.6 solution.

In option install I havent flag kernel.

In others options I have flag simple softwares utility and stop.

No drivers because my idea was that to use the Dell Post Installation pkg.

The installation has left and all goes well. So, Vanilla.

But I have recived the boot0: error

To go on I have used the DVD.

The welcome animation has played and after I have recived the keyboard install instruction.

It say to me to push the button on the right of the "shift" button.

After more, more and more time with the button pushed nothings happen.

What are my mistakes?? Need I to choice something during installation options??

What chipset I can flag??

Here all the option of the iPC 10.5.6

http://img18.imageshack.us/img18/4124/ipcp...kagelistgi6.png

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Im here, again, to ask for help.

Before to try a retail I have tried a iPC 10.5.6 solution.

In option install I havent flag kernel.

In others options I have flag simple softwares utility and stop.

No drivers because my idea was that to use the Dell Post Installation pkg.

The installation has left and all goes well. So, Vanilla.

But I have recived the boot0: error

To go on I have used the DVD.

The welcome animation has played and after I have recived the keyboard install instruction.

It say to me to push the button on the right of the "shift" button.

After more, more and more time with the button pushed nothings happen.

What are my mistakes?? Need I to choice something during installation options??

What chipset I can flag??

Here all the option of the iPC 10.5.6

http://img18.imageshack.us/img18/4124/ipcp...kagelistgi6.png

 

You need the ApplePS2Controller.kext to be installed. You can install this after the setup process or maybe there are drivers on the DVD. Either way you can solve this by using a USB keyboard and mouse to finish setting up and then install the PS2 drivers.

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5. After the installation completed and rebooted (I always select -v when booting), I checked System Profiler and discovered that I didn't have Hardware Acceleration nor QE/CI ability on the Graphics, so I then installed Macgirls M1330 kext (as recommended by Wingrunr21 earlier in this thread) using OSx86 Tools (be sure you Repair Permissions and Clear Cache when you do this). With this kext installed I then had Hardware Accelerated Video and QE/CI

 

Thanks for posting your notes. I finally got iPC to install (trust me, the finally deserves to be in this sentence). I'm not clear on what this step 5 is about. I downloaded the NVInject kext that MacGirl made for the 8400M GS, and I told the OSx86 tools to install it, but it rebooted, and I didn't clear the cache or repaired permissions. Can I do that now and get it to work? There's also an option in OSx86Tools to enable the QE. Did you choose that?

 

So far, I'm getting the power off issue, but my wireless works (Broadcom BCM4328), my resolution is correct, and I have a terminal, so I'm pretty happy. These forums sure do have a lot of info in them.

 

Thanks, Jeff

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I hope u dont became angry ;)

but I havent find the guide that u talk about.

And, there is a guide for all kext install when I cant access to osx??

 

You are posting in the guide thread...

 

You need to use a USB Keyboard and Mouse so you can install the kexts.

 

jeffeb3, if you have QE/CI enabled in system profiler then you are done. All you need to do is install the nvinject. You don't need to worry about QGL since applications use that on a per-application basis and not on a system wide basis.

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