Re: [Fed-Talk] ADC Question with Bootcamp
Re: [Fed-Talk] ADC Question with Bootcamp
- Subject: Re: [Fed-Talk] ADC Question with Bootcamp
- From: Dave Schroeder <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 28 Dec 2006 18:26:11 -0600
On Dec 28, 2006, at 6:21 PM, Michael Pike wrote:
Thanks Dave!
I have basically two issues I cannot get to function... I would
like to use the two finger scroll on the MacBook Pro and the
control-click for macbook pro does not work for right click
functionality... other than that I got everything to work great...
I know there was a program called ARC (apple right click) but it is
no longer in bootcamp drivers... is there another way to get it to
work? And of course the two finger scrolling... this hardware is
MacBook Pro...
Have you tried http://www.geocities.com/pronto4u/applemouse.html ?
Not sure if it would work under Vista, but I used that under XP in
Boot Camp for a while.
(I'm just using a two button mouse.)
One other noteworthy thing, my MacPro Quad 3ghz with 4 gb RAM will
NOT install vista... vista goes through and kernel panics with blue
screen of death about 90% through and then just has "Windows has
encountered an unexpected error, cannot continue installation"...
We've gotten vista to run well on Mac mini, iMac 20 and 24, and the
MacBook pros... no go on the macpro though (i heard vista cannot
address more than 2gb ram... would that cause it?)...
As you may be aware, Mac Pro hardware is probably the most
"different" among the Intel-based Macs than the others. I would
imagine this will be addressed as Vista support is officially added
to Boot Camp.
If you can provide any guidance on the two finger and right click
issue I would be very grateful, and would buy you any single item
off the $1 McDonalds value menu in thanks :)
I don't have any idea about two finger scrolling, unfortunately...I
don't use it (even under Mac OS X), and would imagine it's again
simply an issue of having a driver recognize the functionality.
- Dave
Mike
On 12/28/06, Dave Schroeder <email@hidden> wrote: There are no
other Boot Camp betas (e.g., via ADC or AppleSeed, or
any private seeds I'm aware of) other than what you have seen
publicly released. Also, Vista isn't officially supported by Boot
Camp yet (I'm sure it eventually will be, and obviously it works now
- I'm doing the same thing as you). Since the only actual components
of "Boot Camp" that could be seeded would be the assistant and the
Windows driver package, and Apple has been keeping these fairly up to
date via the public beta channel, I'm going to guess that there
probably isn't an "official" Vista-compatible Windows driver
installer yet, even internally. Now, that last statement is just a
guess, but I think that Apple is probably focused on getting Boot
Camp itself solid and supporting XP, and then supporting Vista will
be an easy addition/update to the Windows driver installer. The CSM
for EFI (the BIOS backward compatibility layer) is done, and while
it's under the umbrella of "Boot Camp", isn't actually installed or
managed via Boot Camp. So really the only thing needed for Vista
support is 1.) Apple officially stating that is is "supported" in
Boot Camp, and 2.) a Vista-compatible Windows driver installer.
- Dave
On Dec 28, 2006, at 5:13 PM, Michael Pike wrote:
> I am wondering if I am missing something here... I have an ADC
> membership (the paid one)... I notice new BootCamp betas coming out
> publicly but nothing on ADC.
>
> We have Windows Vista Ultimate running via Bootcamp (we have MSDN
> as well), and I had to "creatively configure" some things to
> extract the apple drivers for work on Vista.... is there a place in
> ADC where we can get Bootcamp beta's before the general public?
>
> That's one frustration I have with ADC... while MSDN gives us
> access to everything, ADC seems to give us the bare minimum...
> there has to be someone testing bootcamp before the "public"
> does... we are interested in Vista builds, and it would be nice to
> beta test bootcamp in a more stable fashioned than the public
> beta. For all intents and purposes, XP is dead... yeah it will be
> around awhile as people tend to not upgrade right away, but I am
> one of those people that want the latest and greatest, so we've
> done away with XP.
>
> So, if it is in ADC, where.. if not, is there a list we can get
on? :)
>
> mike
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