Comments on: Snow Leopard 10.6 on MSI Wind U100 netbook

By: Peter

Peter — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 21:14:41 +0000

some times wen i start my mswind in osx 10.6.1 it is starting the screen resolution on 800×600 but most of the times it runs in 1024×600
is anybody having the same problem?

Regards Peter

By: questionman

questionman — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 02:06:07 +0000

hi which version did you intalled … ?? i tried the hazard 10.6.2 and it dont work at all ….
installation was workin and first start it say problems with my cpu oder some …. could be that the version is normaly in 64 bit mode … but how do i change it to 32 bit … and your patch for atom processors is in that version included …. if you can give me an answere would be damn nice :)

By: CK

CK — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 03:35:55 +0000

Any chance someone is willing to post a step by step tutorial, I would like to put OSX 10.6 on my U100 Wind, I have a retail osx dvd 10.6 and bought an airport card to replace the realtek if that is better. I would like to dual boot Win 7 Ultimate w OSX 10.6 , my last attempt worked to a degree but I went back to Win 7. Really looking for some help in a simple tutorial

By: pulpo

pulpo — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 06:34:44 +0000

VGA Connectors tested with a 1440×900 monitor, worked like a charm!.

Great work!

By: John

John — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 14:34:06 +0000

Have you been able to test the external sound and VGA connectors?

By: JB

JB — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 12:53:15 +0000

Hi, Thanks so much for your instructions. I got my MSI Wind U120 up and running with your kexts.

By: Max

Max — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 20:25:22 +0000

Hi – great job, installation went smoothly, unfortunately there`s one BIG problem: Network don`t work, no WLAN, no internal LAN, no Apple USB to Ethernet adapter, nothing. The main problem seems to be that I can`t access Network Settings in System Preferences. Whenever I click on the icon, it says “Loading Network” but nothing happens, the systems runs slower but you can do everything, to stop the process or even try to restart or shut down you have to kill the beast !
Anybody got any idea ??
By the way, it`s a U100X in original configuration with BIOS EN011IMS Ver.10A

By: Foo Yong Hwee

Foo Yong Hwee — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 11:39:57 +0000

Can you point me to a guide which I can follow? Will this work?

http://insanelywind.com/wiki/i.....ow_Leopard

By: Teddy

Teddy — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 09:40:23 +0000

Microphone is working by using SliceVoodooHDA and its prefpane, go on insanelywind.com/forum you will find everything you need for your osx on u100

By: Battle_Fury

Battle_Fury — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 13:55:34 +0000

Hello, and thanx a lot for the great tutorial !

Can someone please share, if the microphone is working, and (if necessary) how does one make it work ?

Thanx a bunch,

Cheers

By: Jan

Jan — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 18:11:24 +0000

In my case it works using the kexts & DSDT above. Verified with cpu-x.app

Cheers,
Jan

By: LIC

LIC — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 13:10:44 +0000

Any luck on speedstep after resuming from sleep?

By: Jan

Jan — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 18:29:07 +0000

Mini has a smaller memory footprint because unnecessary (for the Atom CPU) code was thrown out.

Cheers,
Jan

By: LIC

LIC — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 16:49:33 +0000

1 more quick question:

Any reason why you picked VoodooPowerMini over VoodooPower? Can you explain the difference please?

Thanks again!

By: LIC

LIC — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 16:42:24 +0000

Awesome, thanks for your time.

By: Jan

Jan — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 14:58:39 +0000

Hi LIC,

The NullCPUPowerManagement disables (nulls) the Mac OS CPU speedstep kext as it is not compatible with the Atom CPU. That’s why I use the VoodooPowerMini kext to re-add speedstep support.

I have no idea what the bundles do. Sometimes I have to install the GMA950 kexts/bundles twice and reboot in between to get the native resolution back (after installing a Mac OS update). It’s kinda weird but it works.

The AHCI kexts are related to the I/O controller hub and add support for several ICHs and make sure internal drive icons don’t show up as external drive icons.

Cheers,
Jan

By: LIC

LIC — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 14:43:19 +0000

Hi Jan, thanks for this. I’m just wondering what the following kexts do, as I have seen other tutorials that exclude them, I’ve also found that when excluding the GMA bundle/plugin files, I don’t face resolution errors anymore

AHCIPortInjector.kext
AppleIntelGMA950GA.plugin
AppleIntelGMA950GLDriver.bundle
AppleIntelGMA950VADriver.bundle
IOAHCIBlockStorageInjector.kext
NullCPUPowerManagement.kext

Cheers!

LIC

By: Jan

Jan — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 06:10:18 +0000

Golbez, this is just a personal preference. Most can be loaded from E/E as well but a few have dependencies on other modules.

Cheers,
Jan

By: Golbez

Golbez — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 02:55:42 +0000

Is there any reason the grey kexts can’t be loaded also from the E/E folder? Also are all these kexts compatible with Leopard as long as the fakesmc is swapped?

By: Jan

Jan — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 19:00:47 +0000

Hello Karl,
unfortunately, I don’t know if that is possible.

Cheers,
Jan

By: Karl

Karl — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 21:59:59 +0000

Hi Jan,
yes, this seems to be the problem – my profile is identical. Only the version is 3.08 ….
Is there any chance to downgrade the firmware??

Kind regards

Karl

By: Jan

Jan — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 19:59:30 +0000

This is the data I get from System Profiler for the webcam.

BisonCam, NB Pro:

Product ID: 0×0203
Vendor ID: 0×5986
Version: 0.02
Speed: Up to 480 Mb/sec
Location ID: 0xfd500000
Current Available (mA): 500
Current Required (mA): 500

If yours is different, then it may be something on the firmware/hardware level. There are some posts that say v0.03 doesn’t work with Mac OS, only v0.02 does.

Cheers,
Jan

By: Karl

Karl — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 09:43:26 +0000

Hi Jan,
yes, I use DSDT. Maybe I have to turn it off? It is interesting that in Photo Booth, the little orange light on the left of the camera “burns”, but the Photo Booth window keeps black …
Any idea on this?

Kind regards

Karl

By: Jan

Jan — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 21:48:50 +0000

Karl, the internal webcam doesn’t need a kext. It works out of the box. The problem is, I have no idea why it’s working great for me but not for you. Maybe the U100 plus camera has a different firmware or even is a different model. Are you using DSDT? Did you activate the webcam with the function keys?

By: Karl

Karl — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 16:42:16 +0000

Hi, I used your hints to install Snow Leopard on an MSI Wind U100 Plus (with Atheros WLAN chipset – working directly und Snow ;-).
I have only one problem: the webcam is not working well. Starting Photo Booth, I just get a black window. Which of the kext is for the webcam?

Kind regards

Karl