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Some final words

Repair permissions

Repair permissions is often seen as a general tonic for a whole range of problems. It’s not. It is considered good form to repair permissions after any major application install or system update. Fire up Disk Utility select your MAC OS X partition and click repair permissions.

Have a strategy

You can save yourself a lot of trouble along the way if you come up with a strategy for managing your extensions. Devise a folder structure and keep everything organized.

One possibility is:

‘/Users/Me/Dell1525/Extensions/New’ – this is were you “land” new extensions.

‘/users/Me/Dell1525/Extensions/Current’ as the base for a copy of your current setup. Inside this folder you create folders for Backup, Installed extra, Installed system. Versioning your backups if there is more than one of something isn’t a bad idea. You get the point, a little time now can save major headaches later. Burn these things to a disc every now and again so that you can do a fresh install without having to hunt down all you extensions.

Rescue disc

If your system panics when booting or you lose your keyboard and mouse, you need a way to get in and fix things.

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Thanks to Slashack over at forum.voodooprojects.org we finally have side scrolling!

(Thank you zoharxero for emailing me letting me know how well it works)

I’ve been following this for a while and waiting for something a bit more stable and I think it’s pretty good right now. It will only get better from here when we get a prefpane for it.

This uses VoodooPS2controller.kext to get sidescrolling working thanks to a lot of people especially the Voodoo team!

A bonus to this is the the media keys work natively in itunes and quicktime without having to use Butler!

1) Download this sidescroll_voodoops2controller

2) Open terminal and run the following:

(Remember to replace YOUR-HDD with the name of your HDD, If you followed my guide it would be “/Macintosh\ HD/” Some of these files wont exist on your install, I’ve tried to make it as broad as possible, you should run all of the commands just in case.)

sudo -s

cd /Volumes/YOUR-HDD/System/Library/Extensions/AppleACPIPlatform.kext/Contents/PlugIns/

rm -Rf AppleACPIPS2Nub.kext

rm -Rf ACPIPS2Nub.kext

cd /Volumes/YOUR-HDD/System/Library/Extensions

rm -Rf ApplePS2Controller.kext

rm -Rf ApplePS2Controller.kext.orig

rm -Rf AppleACPIPS2Nub.kext

rm -Rf ACPIPS2Nub.kext

3) open OSX86Tools

4) Select Repair Permissions / Set Extensions permissions / Clear Extensions Cache and click “Run Selected Tasks”

5) Click “Install Kexts” install “VoodooPS2Controller.kext” to your HDD

6) Reboot with “-f” (without the quotes)

7) Open “System Preferences” and go to “Trackpad” and select “Clicking”

**As a side note Smart Scroll also makes side scrolling a lot smoother and really improves it in my opinion although alone it still works quite well.**

**THIS POST IS OUTDATED PLEASE REFER TO THE SNOW LEOPARD GUIDE**

I know a lot of you are concerned with how to get the SD card reader working so here you go. This driver only works with SD and SDHC cards any other cards wont show up. read more »

**THIS GUIDE IS OUTDATED PLEASE REFER TO THE SNOW LEOPARD GUIDE**

I know a lot of people have these keys working but for some of you that are still lost in the dark, I’m writing this quick guide.

1) Download appleps2controller.kext and then kexthelper it. read more »

**THIS POST IS OUTDATED PLEASE REFER TO THE SNOW LEOPARD GUIDE**

Alright well before we get started let me show you a little video of what two-finger scrolling looks on my laptop.

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**THIS GUIDE IS OUTDATED PLEASE REFER TO THE SNOW LEOPARD GUIDE**

So you just got your Dell Inspiron 1525 or you’ve had it for a while and can no longer suffer the equivalent of modern day water torture, otherwise known as vista. Don’t fret, Macintosh osx is here to save the day.

I’ll lay out the steps in the easiest way I can possibly make it so you guys can have the least amount of questions.

Edit: Benefits of using this driver pack.

1. No Sleep Hack!
2. Perfect Audio as well as Internal Mic
3. Easy Power Management
4. Ethernet Fix
5. SD Card Reader fix

1) Get your copy of “iPC OSx86 10.5.6 Universal FINAL” onto a dvd. You should be able to find it at all the usual locations. read more »