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aztec_knight
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Guys this is just a big thanks to all of you :) What an amazing support team we have here! With your help I got everything running great ! No problem at all :) A little recommandation, may be you should include in your tutorial ''how to dual boot with XP using Chain0'' as it's really easy and would have saved me hours of searching on the net :angel: .

Thanks again, hoping to get wifi working without changing the card soon :)

 

EDIT: Wow after 2 hours of searching, downloading, changing fixing etc... I cannot get my wifi to work. I get the airport sign without grey bars in it. This said, I cannot activate airport, when I click activate airport it does nothing. Any advice?

 

I'm actually at the same point here hehe... got the card to be recognized, but no luck finding networks... still researching will let you know if I find anything and if anyone knows more than me Please be kind and post it :wacko:

 

If I'm a pain in the A.. pls let me know... otherwise thank you very much :)

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Paralles 4 wont install BUT I was able to install Paralles 3 (build 5626) and installed Windows XP via the Acer Aspire Recovery Disc. I prefer just booting directly into Windows XP but it's nice to have this as an option while running OS X.

 

I am quite curious as to how the hell you did this! The Intel Atom does not support Virtualization at all yet Parallels 3 installed? I thought by the very definition of these programs the processor was required to have Virtualization tech. If I am wrong please let me know as I am quite curious on this....

 

I'm actually at the same point here hehe... got the card to be recognized, but no luck finding networks... still researching will let you know if I find anything and if anyone knows more than me Please be kind and post it :)

 

If I'm a pain in the A.. pls let me know... otherwise thank you very much :)

 

If you want the absolute best support for Airport by default use a Broadcom based chip. Yes you have to crack the sucker open but its worth it. Believe me.... I installed an 802.11n chip inside and the range and speed even when on G networks is far superior, and to be honest the Atheros line of chips are {censored}! I have had and know of people that have used these chips and they have some of the worst support. My hats off to the guys working on a driver for this but Broadcom is the superior chip and no worries on compatibility. You can find one for between $15-$30 and about 20 minutes of your time to install and its totally worth it.

~Stephen

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I am quite curious as to how the hell you did this! The Intel Atom does not support Virtualization at all yet Parallels 3 installed? I thought by the very definition of these programs the processor was required to have Virtualization tech. If I am wrong please let me know as I am quite curious on this....

 

I think it has to do with the VooDoo kernel faking the Atom as a Core Solo and thus making Parallels 3 think I meet the CPU requirements. I think the reason Parallels 4 wont load it because minimum CPU requirement is 1.66 GHz and the Atom is just shy @ 1.6GHz.

 

BTW - I'm having Shutdown problems. I tried searching for answers in this thread and the one suggestion I saw about deleting a particular kext file (something like AppleCPIBattery.kext) but I can't seem to find it anywhere on my computer so either I don't have it and it's not my problem or I do have and need help finding it and hopefully it will fix my problem. I just want this thing to shutdown properly. Any help is much appreciated!

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I am quite curious as to how the hell you did this! The Intel Atom does not support Virtualization at all yet Parallels 3 installed? I thought by the very definition of these programs the processor was required to have Virtualization tech. If I am wrong please let me know as I am quite curious on this....

 

 

 

If you want the absolute best support for Airport by default use a Broadcom based chip. Yes you have to crack the sucker open but its worth it. Believe me.... I installed an 802.11n chip inside and the range and speed even when on G networks is far superior, and to be honest the Atheros line of chips are {censored}! I have had and know of people that have used these chips and they have some of the worst support. My hats off to the guys working on a driver for this but Broadcom is the superior chip and no worries on compatibility. You can find one for between $15-$30 and about 20 minutes of your time to install and its totally worth it.

~Stephen

 

K too much peer pressure :( I guess I'll just order it lol. any who.... back on the processor thing (Remember I'm no t Mac literate at all) i found this lines in my Error Log:

 

localhost - - [12/Dec/2008:14:44:43 -0700] "POST / HTTP/1.1" 200 419 CUPS-Get-Classes client-error-not-found

localhost - - [12/Dec/2008:14:44:43 -0700] "POST / HTTP/1.1" 200 75 CUPS-Get-Default client-error-not-found

 

does it have anything to do with the fact that I can't change the name of the processor? cus I can pretty much change everything else, with the OS x86 Tools but that one line in the About This Mac :) I seriously think I might be doing something wrong

 

BTW big thanks SB Mac if its wasn't for your replies I wouldn't be posting from my hackintosh :)

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I am quite curious as to how the hell you did this! The Intel Atom does not support Virtualization at all yet Parallels 3 installed? I thought by the very definition of these programs the processor was required to have Virtualization tech. If I am wrong please let me know as I am quite curious on this....

VMware Fusion 2.0 works perfectly!

I used the latest voodo kernal and VMware just installs normal and works straight away!

I have xp as a virtual machine.

I prefer VMware to parallels.

 

Benjamin

 

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about resizing i recomend you not to do that i f*ck*d up my instalation once doing that :wacko: , but if you want to do it i would recomend you to reinstall all from the begining...

 

#2 kernels are like the hearts of the os more info in: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kernel_(computer_science) and a kext is an extension of the kernel they work like the drivers in windows, with the difference that if you screw up with one of the kexts the OS could have problems more info here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kext

#3 I'm not sure about this but i think that we have to repair permissions because we're moddifing the kernel, and in the begining of the OS this permissions need to be checked for the correct funtuanility of the OS

#4 Never...

#5 I had the same question but if you need something (knowledge, an advise, or anything) you have the best friend a man can get: Google XD so go and google it XD

 

Thanks, I think I might do the full reinstall anyway :P Just a followup, can I use time machine to recover everything when I re-install? Will i still have to do all the upgrades/fixes if i do?

 

Thanks for the help. Surprisingly I never thought to check wikipedia. Great source for general info.

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I had made some Disc labels for all the OSx86 versions I've burned and I figured I'd share them with you guys.

 

Enjoy!

 

Thanks a lot. Highly appreciated! :D

 

VMware Fusion 2.0 works perfectly!

I used the latest voodo kernal and VMware just installs normal and works straight away!

I have xp as a virtual machine.

I prefer VMware to parallels.

 

Benjamin

 

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Thanks for letting us know! I will try it and get rid of the dual boot... :)

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VMware Fusion 2.0 works perfectly!

I used the latest voodo kernal and VMware just installs normal and works straight away!

I have xp as a virtual machine.

I prefer VMware to parallels.

 

Benjamin

 

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Mhm...seems quite neat :) ! Now I will get ride of my Dual-Boot...Oh, btw, have you tried it with Ubuntu? 3 OS on a AAO..THIS would be awesome!!! :(

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I am trying to install the xxx 10.5.5 and I cant seem to get the "customize" config right, could you please outline exactly what drivers we need to select for XXX 10.5.5 on Aspire One?

 

At the moment i just get stuck in a repeating restart loop with the aspire screen and the grey apple boot screen.

 

Thanks for all the hard work, after being a avid user mac since my first computer, its great to finally be able to break away from the expensive hardware.

 

On my previous installs, a restart loop meant too many kexts are trying to load at the same time..When I loaded up and added two chipset drivers or VGA drivers thinking it will catch at least one of them..

 

Here's my configuration. People have reported using xXx out of the box, but I was missing some things. Others may have different or better suggestions..My Specs: I am running AAO with 320GB hard drive, BIOS 3305, Dual Boot Windows 7 pre-beta, 1.5GB ram, Dell 1590 Wireless.

 

I just did the following install 5 minutes ago so I know it works flawlessly on my machine..

 

If you haven't done so, update your xXx disc with the PPF2 patch and then try choosing these for your AAO as a start (at your own risk):

Check - Essential System Software

Check - PC_EFI9 (needed to update to 10.5.6 next week)

Check - DSDT patch (needed to update to 10.5.6 next week)

Check - Essential Kexts

Check - Kernel = Voodoo 9.5 v1.0 (you can choose whichever you'd like or no choice for default)

Check - Chipset = ICHx

Check - Video = GMA950 0x27 AAO version

Check - Network = Realtek1000 (you'll probably need an ethernet connection to get through the setup routine)

Check - Audio = ALC268 AAO version

Check - Power = ACPIBatteryManager Chun Nan version

Check - Others = Boot Prompt (for some reason Darwin boot options weren't showing up without this)

Check - Tools

 

After setup,

1) Change Sleep settings to Never

2) If you used Voodoo kernel you can edit com.apple.boot.plist to add "cpus=2" for Hyperthreading, tho' I haven't been able to get this to show in profiler on my machine.

3) Add a longer Darwin timeout in com.apple.boot.plist - I changed mine to 30 sec so I have plenty of time

3) Change trackpad settings to tap/click if you want

 

CAVEATS:

Sleep doesn't work

There may be a Atheros 5007ag fix if you don't want to buy a new wireless card (search InsanelyMac or AspireOneUser.com)

I heard there are now patched drivers for SD card only, haven't tested..AspireOneUser.com or osxsdhci.sourceforge.net

 

Oh yeah, always boot with -v until your machine is dialed in so you can see what's happening!

 

Check here often for more fixes and tuneups..there are many Geniuses working hard to help!!

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thnx...how do i apply that kext? if you dont mind explaining it to me...thnx

 

sure, to install the kext you can unse kexthelperb7, and then you must repair the permissions on the mac partition using the disk utility. you can also use osx86 tools.

 

Mhm...seems quite neat :censored2: ! Now I will get ride of my Dual-Boot...Oh, btw, have you tried it with Ubuntu? 3 OS on a AAO..THIS would be awesome!!! ;)

 

I've got XP, OSX 10.5.5 and Ubuntu 8.10 running smoothly. If you are intrested in installing ubuntu on the aspire one, there's a guide at ubuntu's community documentation which helps a bit.

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Hey guys, I don't know what happened but my trackpad and it's buttons just stopped working :(! Went to shut it down and got a kernel panic (as usual) so I held the power button. When I went to use my AA1 again trackpad and mouse dont do anything whatso ever! Any ideas on how to fix this!

 

Thanks,

 

JJ

 

Update: Trackpad and it's buttons just stopped working on both Stock XP and Leopard! WTF! Right now im using a mouse, can u disable the trackpad in the Bios somehow? I'm about to cry :( !!

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Hey guys, I don't know what happened but my trackpad and it's buttons just stopped working :unsure: ! Went to shut it down and got a kernel panic (as usual) so I held the power button. When I went to use my AA1 again trackpad and mouse dont do anything whatso ever! Any ideas on how to fix this!

 

Thanks,

 

JJ

 

Update: Trackpad and it's buttons just stopped working on both Stock XP and Leopard! WTF! Right now im using a mouse, can u disable the trackpad in the Bios somehow? I'm about to cry :angel: !!

 

 

Take it apart and check the connection

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Did that and the connection is fine! I don't know what the hell could have happened to it! Right after I get the computer exactly the way I want it's gotta do this! I'm so bitter right now.

 

*Update* Just figured it out!! A quick heads up to everyone if your trackpad stops working. I must have accidently pushed the function key and than F7. Why would they have a special key like that!

 

Oh well, life is good again!

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I've got XP, OSX 10.5.5 and Ubuntu 8.10 running smoothly. If you are intrested in installing ubuntu on the aspire one, there's a guide at ubuntu's community documentation which helps a bit.

 

Hey, thanks for the Link :D ! I've tried it yesterday with Parallels 3, but it was very slow from the DVD...and I was too tired to install it...

I will try to get it working with Parallels, if not, I'll use this great Tutorial, Thanks!!!

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Update to all.....

 

There is a new Bios out, v. 3309 it is supposed to fix an issue with the battery not charging, have not had any issues with my batt but figured what the hell. So far so good, and seems to be a bit quicker in boot and all around. Dont know if its just me or not but hey, did not brick my system! :D

 

Aspire One BIOS 3309

 

~Stephen

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Here's a new project for you guys! Changing the Apple Logo in the About This Mac window to an Acer Aspire One logo

 

 

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Changing the default Apple logo is quite easy and you can put virtually any 214×124 tif image in it's place, here's how to do it:

 

  1. Go to ' /System/Library/CoreServices', right click and select 'Get Info'. Change permission for 'Everyone' to 'Read and Write'. Before closing, select 'Apply to enclosed items'.
  2. In 'CoreServices' you'll find 'loginwindow'. Right click and select 'Show Package Contents'. A new window will pop up. Go to ' /Contents/Resources'
  3. In this directory you will find a file called 'MacOSX.tif'. Make a backup copy of the file 'MacOSX.tif' by renamining it 'MacOSX.tif.bak'. This is very important if you want to revert back to the default Apple logo.
  4. Download the zipped 'MacOSX.tif' and move it to this same Resources/ folder.
  5. That's it! Now when you reboot, the new logo will appear. To revert back to the default Apple logo, follow the same directions and replace the new logo with the original MacOSX.tif file that you backed up

Click HERE to download Acer logo

MacOSXacer.png

 

Here's a couple other "MacOSX.tif"s you can use too

Click HERE to download Black logo

MacOSXblack.png

Click HERE to download Chrome logo

MacOSXchrome.png

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