[Solved]Can't get Quartz Extreme to work for Go 7900 GS/Guide on how to install iAtkos v7 on Inspiron 9400/E1705

[nenitosoyyo]

I think its a official GeForce Go 7900 GS 256mb Quartz Extreme and Core Image are not supported in anyway in 10.5.7 version, for ideneb 10.5.7 i still got to try out some other versions, but I have a feeling it doesn't support QE/CI which really sucks, it could maybe be the kind of computer i got too, i dunno. Well gotta get going out to the lake, if anyone has an idea or has gone through this and managed to succeed, please let me know. Thanks, well starting my weekend out early, have a good weekend all!

[vilpostus]

You may try to upgrade to 10.5.8 via the iDenebComboUpdate10.5.8

[nenitosoyyo]

I'll try when I get back to the city

[nenitosoyyo]

So over the weekend I messed around with the laptop with different distros and came across iAtkos v7 10.5.7 and sure enough I got everything working. The video card is working wonderfuly I got the Image Core and Quartz Extreme working! FINALLY!!! after all the hell I went through, So installed my iLife 09' and I am really happy with it, when I have the money I will most defiently be buying a mac. I wanted to thank everyone that helped out, especially Das_Human, if it wasn't for him I probably wouldn't have os x on my laptop and would be returning my copy of iLife 09'. Thanks again, I will be working on a tutorial for the iAtkos v7 for the Inspiron 9400 with the Nvidia GeForce Go 7900 GS 256mb video card, and also for the Acer Aspire 6920 as i got os x working great on that too.

 

now the only problem I got is that the mic either wont work at times or I get a very fuzzy noise when trying to record something, if any ideas what kext or pkg file I could use let me know, I will anyways look through the forum and google pretty sure theres a solution for it.

 

Thanks again all! ;)

[vilpostus]

Congrats!!! You made it! Realy glad you did

 

About audio... check this link http://www.infinitemac.com/f7/dell-inspiro...45-audio-t3482/

[emp_%]

So over the weekend I messed around with the laptop with different distros and came across iAtkos v7 10.5.7 and sure enough I got everything working. The video card is working wonderfuly I got the Image Core and Quartz Extreme working! FINALLY!!! after all the hell I went through, So installed my iLife 09' and I am really happy with it, when I have the money I will most defiently be buying a mac. I wanted to thank everyone that helped out, especially Das_Human, if it wasn't for him I probably wouldn't have os x on my laptop and would be returning my copy of iLife 09'. Thanks again, I will be working on a tutorial for the iAtkos v7 for the Inspiron 9400 with the Nvidia GeForce Go 7900 GS 256mb video card, and also for the Acer Aspire 6920 as i got os x working great on that too.

 

now the only problem I got is that the mic either wont work at times or I get a very fuzzy noise when trying to record something, if any ideas what kext or pkg file I could use let me know, I will anyways look through the forum and google pretty sure theres a solution for it.

 

Thanks again all!

 

Congratz, which option did you choose for the nvidia card in the installer of iatkos? Currently running it myself but i cannot enable QE/CI.

[nenitosoyyo]

Congratz, which option did you choose for the nvidia card in the installer of iatkos? Currently running it myself but i cannot enable QE/CI.

You where asking which I choose from iAtkos DVD well I didn't choose any because the ones provided on this cd did not work. So I made my own video kexts, well not my own but edited it, I grabbed it from kalway 10.5.2, the NVinjectGO one, because that seemed to be the only distro that would work out of the box on my laptop. The zip file is at the bottom for download, just install it with Kext Helper b7 or OSx86 Tools.

 

----------------For others with my laptop heres a little guide----------------

Turn on your laptop, hit F2 in the dell bios screen and now you should see the bios. Scroll down with the arrow keys, to "Performance" and hit enter then scroll down to "Multi Core Support" and hit enter. Now you should be able to scroll side to side either choosing "off" or "enabled" choose "off" and hit enter and then hit "esc" on the keyboard and save/exit option.

 

Now Load the DVD by hitting F12 and you should get a black screen where it says a lot of stuff and the options you have is to hit enter or hit F8, I want to you to just hit "Enter" and then the DVD should boot up and once your passed the Apple Logo with the spinning wheel of death. There is only one language in this DVD so all you have to do is click next the little blue arrow button on the window.

 

Now you will need to format your hard drive in Disk Utility(I will continue writing this paragraph another day don't have time right now, just search the forum if you are wanting to just format the whole drive for OS X or if you are wanting to have windows and os x on it)

 

Once you get you have finished formating your drive, you will need to click next and choose your drive and then you are going to get three options in the next window, click on Customize, you have too.

 

Here is what your going to want to choose in the Customize Section of the iAtkos v7 DVD:

 

 

That's about it for the installation, now when you boot into os x, your probably going to want to install the video drivers, follow these next instructions.

 

So what you need to do is download the driver I provided here towards the bottom. You will also need Kext Helper b7 and OSx86 Tools to get them installed and working.

 

Open Kext Helper and drag the the two files you downloaded from here into the Kext Helper program. Now type your password in the password box, then click "Easy install", when that's done, click ok and close the program.

 

Now open up OSx86 Tools and check "Set Extensions permissions" and "Clear Extensions Cache" in the System Maintenance section. Once everything is checked click on "Run Selected Tasks" button and let it do its thing. Once its done click ok and restart OS X. Now your QE/IC should be working(Well lets hope so).

 

Now to get two CPU's running again, your going to need to download Voodoo Kernel Release 1.0 REV A and to install it on the OS X. Once you have done that you need to do open up OSx86 Tools again and check "Set Extensions permissions" and "Clear Extensions Cache" in the System Maintenance section. Once everything is checked click on "Run Selected Tasks" button and let it do its thing. Once its done click ok and restart OS X. Now make sure when you restart the computer hit F2 in bios boot before it gets to Chameleon/Darwin bootloader, which I assume is called Bios Screen where it says Dell. So once you hit F2 and the bios loads up scroll down with the arrow keys, to "Performance" and hit enter then scroll down to "Multi Core Support" and hit enter. Now you should be able to scroll side to side either choosing "off" or "enabled" choose "enabled" and hit enter and then hit "esc" on the keyboard and save/exit option.

 

Now your computer should reload and go into the bootloader, it might be slow when loading through bios but thats normal. Once you get into OS X you should have everything working fully. Have Fun!

 

 

 

------------------For others with just the video card read here------------------

 

So what you need to do is download the driver I provided here towards the bottom. You will also need Kext Helper b7 and OSx86 Tools to get them installed and working. (I can't guarantee its going to work for you but its worth a shot.)

 

Open Kext Helper and drag the the two files you downloaded from here into the Kext Helper program. Now type your password in the password box, then click "Easy install", when that's done, click ok and close the program.

 

Now open up OSx86 Tools and check "Set Extensions permissions" and "Clear Extensions Cache" in the System Maintenance section. Once everything is checked click on "Run Selected Tasks" button and let it do its thing. Once its done click ok and restart os x. Now your QE/IC should be working(Well lets hope so).

 

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Please read more information on the board if your really not sure what your doing, you could end up making a mess on your computer, so educate yourself a bit more on this stuff. Good Luck!

--------------------

Here's where you can find the recommended programs/files:

OSx86 Tools

Voodoo Kernel Release 1.0 Rev A

Kext Helper b7

 

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If you tried to hook up your webcam and it didn't work, you could give this webcam driver for mac a try. The description that's on there is in dutch, basically what it says is:

 

"This is a Universal USB Webcam Driver works with 99% of all USB webcams, even with the PS3 Cam really recommend if your webcam is not working on OS X"

 

Here the link, just click on the download button on the site:

USB WEBCAM DRIVER

 

I haven't tried it because my webcam worked fine.

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Someone had ask me for a driver for the Intel PRO/Wireless 3945 802.11a/g Mini Card, if your looking for one to get your Wireless enabled, you could give this one a try. To install this, follow in my guide, in the part about installing the video driver.

Intel PRO/Wireless 3945 802.11a/g

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GeForceNvidiaGO7900GS.zip

[Frattaglia]

You where asking which I choose from iAtkos DVD well I didn't choose any because the ones provided on this cd did not work. So I made my own video kexts, well not my own but edited it, I grabbed it from kalway 10.5.2, the NVinjectGO one, because that seemed to be the only distro that would work out of the box on my laptop. The zip file is at the bottom for download, just install it with Kext Helper b7 or OSx86 Tools.

 

----------------For others with my laptop heres a little guide----------------

Turn on your laptop, hit F2 in the dell bios screen and now you should see the bios. Scroll down with the arrow keys, to "Performance" and hit enter then scroll down to "Multi Core Support" and hit enter. Now you should be able to scroll side to side either choosing "off" or "enabled" choose "off" and hit enter and then hit "esc" on the keyboard and save/exit option.

 

Now Load the DVD by hitting F12 and you should get a black screen where it says a lot of stuff and the options you have is to hit enter or hit F8, I want to you to just hit "Enter" and then the DVD should boot up and once your passed the Apple Logo with the spinning wheel of death. There is only one language in this DVD so all you have to do is click next the little blue arrow button on the window.

 

Now you will need to format your hard drive in Disk Utility(I will continue writing this paragraph another day don't have time right now, just search the forum if you are wanting to just format the whole drive for OS X or if you are wanting to have windows and os x on it)

 

Once you get you have finished formating your drive, you will need to click next and choose your drive and then you are going to get three options in the next window, click on Customize, you have too.

 

Here is what your going to want to choose in the Customize Section of the iAtkos v7 DVD:

 

 

That's about it for the installation, now when you boot into os x, your probably going to want to install the video drivers, follow these next instructions.

 

So what you need to do is download the driver I provided here towards the bottom. You will also need Kext Helper b7 and OSx86 Tools to get them installed and working.

 

Open Kext Helper and drag the the two files you downloaded from here into the Kext Helper program. Now type your password in the password box, then click "Easy install", when that's done, click ok and close the program.

 

Now open up OSx86 Tools and check "Set Extensions permissions" and "Clear Extensions Cache" in the System Maintenance section. Once everything is checked click on "Run Selected Tasks" button and let it do its thing. Once its done click ok and restart OS X. Now your QE/IC should be working(Well lets hope so).

 

Now to get two CPU's running again, your going to need to download Voodoo Kernel Release 1.0 REV A and to install it on the OS X. Once you have done that you need to do open up OSx86 Tools again and check "Set Extensions permissions" and "Clear Extensions Cache" in the System Maintenance section. Once everything is checked click on "Run Selected Tasks" button and let it do its thing. Once its done click ok and restart OS X. Now make sure when you restart the computer hit F2 in bios boot before it gets to Chameleon/Darwin bootloader, which I assume is called Bios Screen where it says Dell. So once you hit F2 and the bios loads up scroll down with the arrow keys, to "Performance" and hit enter then scroll down to "Multi Core Support" and hit enter. Now you should be able to scroll side to side either choosing "off" or "enabled" choose "enabled" and hit enter and then hit "esc" on the keyboard and save/exit option.

 

Now your computer should reload and go into the bootloader, it might be slow when loading through bios but thats normal. Once you get into OS X you should have everything working fully. Have Fun!

 

 

 

------------------For others with just the video card read here------------------

 

So what you need to do is download the driver I provided here towards the bottom. You will also need Kext Helper b7 and OSx86 Tools to get them installed and working. (I can't guarantee its going to work for you but its worth a shot.)

 

Open Kext Helper and drag the the two files you downloaded from here into the Kext Helper program. Now type your password in the password box, then click "Easy install", when that's done, click ok and close the program.

 

Now open up OSx86 Tools and check "Set Extensions permissions" and "Clear Extensions Cache" in the System Maintenance section. Once everything is checked click on "Run Selected Tasks" button and let it do its thing. Once its done click ok and restart os x. Now your QE/IC should be working(Well lets hope so).

 

--------------------

Please read more information on the board if your really not sure what your doing, you could end up making a mess on your computer, so educate yourself a bit more on this stuff. Good Luck!

--------------------

Here's where you can find the recommended programs/files:

OSx86 Tools

Voodoo Kernel Release 1.0 Rev A

Kext Helper b7

 

--------------

If you tried to hook up your webcam and it didn't work, you could give this webcam driver for mac a try. The description that's on there is in dutch, basically what it says is:

 

"This is a Universal USB Webcam Driver works with 99% of all USB webcams, even with the PS3 Cam really recommend if your webcam is not working on OS X"

 

Here the link, just click on the download button on the site:

USB WEBCAM DRIVER

 

I haven't tried it because my webcam worked fine.

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Someone had ask me for a driver for the Intel PRO/Wireless 3945 802.11a/g Mini Card, if your looking for one to get your Wireless enabled, you could give this one a try. To install this, follow in my guide, in the part about installing the video driver.

Intel PRO/Wireless 3945 802.11a/g

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i try to download your file for wireless but the link is dead. can u upload it again please?

[marine5537]

indeed. please post the wifi driver again. it would make a lot of people happy!!!

[marine5537]

in addition to the wifi, i followed your intructions, but my screen resolution is still stuck at 1024x786. thats my only option in system preferences/display. Any ideas on how to fix this?