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[Wayde <didinux@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hello Thomas,

Did you succeed on installing mac os x using psystar rebel ?

Thanks,
--
Wayde.


On Thu, Nov 5, 2009 at 7:30 PM, Thomas Jensen <vaio@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:

> Hi,
> I've stumpled upon an alternative method to activating the Nvidia card,
> which I would like to share with you. Maybe it can be used for creating a
> better method of activating the card, than the current ones.
>
> It happend when I was trying to install Mac OS X (Snow Leopard) on my Vaio,
> using the Rebel EFI from Psystar.com. To install it, you have to boot on a
> CD containing the Rebel EFI and then insert the Mac OS X dvd and the
> installation starts.
>
> On my computer, the installation process fails after a minute or so and
> freezes the computer, with the apple logo on the screen. Now this is where
> the "magic" begins. Only way to get out of the freeeze is to press and hold
> the power button and then the computer shuts down. But when you turn it on
> again, the Stamina - Speed button lights up, instantly and stays lit when
> booting into Kubuntu, and the Nvidia card is activatet and as far as I can
> see, the Intel card is shut off, it is nowhere to be found in lspci and sudo
> lshw, check this out:
>
> thomas@thomas-vaio:~$ glxinfo | grep ren
> direct rendering: Yes
> OpenGL renderer string: GeForce 9300M GS/PCI/SSE2
>  GL_NV_depth_buffer_float, GL_NV_conditional_render, GL_NV_depth_clamp,
>  GL_NV_vertex_program3, GL_NVX_conditional_render,
> thomas@thomas-vaio:~$ lspci
> 00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile 4 Series Chipset Memory
> Controller Hub (rev 07)
> 00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile 4 Series Chipset PCI Express
> Graphics Port (rev 07)
> 00:19.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82567LM Gigabit Network
> Connection (rev 03)
> 00:1a.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI
> Controller #4 (rev 03)
> 00:1a.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI
> Controller #5 (rev 03)
> 00:1a.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI
> Controller #6 (rev 03)
> 00:1a.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB2 EHCI
> Controller #2 (rev 03)
> 00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) HD Audio
> Controller (rev 03)
> 00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port
> 1 (rev 03)
> 00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port
> 2 (rev 03)
> 00:1c.3 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port
> 4 (rev 03)
> 00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI
> Controller #1 (rev 03)
> 00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI
> Controller #2 (rev 03)
> 00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI
> Controller #3 (rev 03)
> 00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB2 EHCI
> Controller #1 (rev 03)
> 00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev 93)
> 00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation ICH9M-E LPC Interface Controller (rev
> 03)
> 00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation ICH9M/M-E SATA AHCI Controller
> (rev 03)
> 00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) SMBus Controller (rev
> 03)
> 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation G98 [GeForce 9300M
> GS] (rev a1)
> 06:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation Wireless WiFi Link 5100
> 0b:04.0 CardBus bridge: Ricoh Co Ltd RL5c476 II (rev ba)
> 0b:04.1 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Ricoh Co Ltd R5C832 IEEE 1394 Controller (rev
> 04)
> 0b:04.2 SD Host controller: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C822 SD/SDIO/MMC/MS/MSPro Host
> Adapter (rev 21)
> 0b:04.4 System peripheral: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C592 Memory Stick Bus Host
> Adapter (rev 11)
>
> *-pci:0
>           description: PCI bridge
>           product: Mobile 4 Series Chipset PCI Express Graphics Port
>           vendor: Intel Corporation
>           physical id: 1
>           bus info: pci@0000:00:01.0
>           version: 07
>           width: 32 bits
>           clock: 33MHz
>           capabilities: pci pm msi pciexpress bus_master cap_list
>           configuration: driver=pcieport-driver
>           resources: irq:24 ioport:7000(size=4096) memory:d2000000-d4ffffff
> ioport:c0000000(size=268435456)
>         *-display
>              description: VGA compatible controller
>              product: G98 [GeForce 9300M GS]
>              vendor: nVidia Corporation
>              physical id: 0
>              bus info: pci@0000:01:00.0
>              version: a1
>              width: 64 bits
>              clock: 33MHz
>              capabilities: pm msi pciexpress bus_master cap_list rom
>              configuration: driver=nvidia latency=0
>              resources: irq:16 memory:d4000000-d4ffffff
> memory:c0000000-cfffffff(prefetchable) memory:d2000000-d3ffffff
>
>
> The downside is, that when you shutdown Kubuntu, the Nvidia card is
> deactivatet again and you have to start the Mac OS X installation again.
>
> A funny thing is, that if you boot into Vista after the failed Max OS X
> installation, it can't find any graphic cards what so ever, which results in
> a very low resolution. You actually have to boot into Kubuntu and do a
> shutdown, before you can boot into windows. I've even tried taking out the
> battery to turn of the Nvidia card, but no, it just stays activated until
> you do a nice shutdown from Kubuntu :o)
>
> I hope you can use this for something :o)
>
> Regards
> Thomas
>
>
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