Author Topic: Noppoo Choc Mini Mac OSX workaround (Read 7309 times)

manfaux · « **on:** Mon, 21 February 2011, 17:07:52 »

Okay, I got this from a Chinese friend who's on a Hackintosh and he has a choc mini.

Basically what you need is the VoodooPS2Controller.kext, here:

http://chameleon.osx86.hu/articles/voodoo-team-proudly-presents-voodoops2controller

and use a USB to PS/2 adapter - boom, magic.

He also told me that scroll lock and numlock still don't work, and tilde still returns §, but everything else works.
I don't have a Mac here at home to test this, just want to share this workaround with those of you who might want to use the noppoo under OSX, post here if this works! (Or doesn't)

ch_123 · « **Reply #1 on:** Mon, 21 February 2011, 17:10:21 »

I'm not sure if OS X supports scroll lock to begin with, but I may stand corrected on this.

DaemonRaccoon · « **Reply #2 on:** Mon, 21 February 2011, 17:22:18 »

I don't own a Mac but I do know that they don't have PS/2 ports. That isn't really a solution. :doh:

keyboardlover · « **Reply #3 on:** Mon, 21 February 2011, 17:35:44 »

Quote from: ripster;298999

Blue Cube comes up as "USBPS2"

Best of both worlds!

keyboardlover · « **Reply #4 on:** Mon, 21 February 2011, 17:59:21 »

Define underage? Miley Cyrus is 19.

manfaux · « **Reply #5 on:** Mon, 21 February 2011, 18:17:13 »

Quote from: DaemonRaccoon;298997

I don't own a Mac but I do know that they don't have PS/2 ports. That isn't really a solution. :doh:

ya i was talking about hackintosh, should have clarified that in the OP, but it's quite self explanatory seeing how Macs don't have PS/2.

theferenc · « **Reply #6 on:** Mon, 21 February 2011, 18:30:03 »

Maybe stick a blue cube on the end for regular macs?

Basically, that would strip out the NRKO, which is what is actually causing the problems.

Native USB -> PS/2 -> USB dongle

theferenc · « **Reply #7 on:** Mon, 21 February 2011, 21:22:25 »

Honestly, they probably don't. They are decidedly rare in mainland China, as well as most of the rest of Asia, last I checked. Basically unusable by real adults in Korea.

Is it the HID fields, or the masquerading as multiple keyboards that causes the problem?

Geeek · « **Reply #8 on:** Sun, 20 March 2011, 14:59:35 »

Has anyone tried this with their hackintosh?

I have a dual boot Vista/OS X hackintosh setup and had just ruled out the Noppoo for this reason but if the workaround above works then I'd be pretty happy about it.

db_Iodine · « **Reply #9 on:** Sun, 20 March 2011, 15:09:24 »

As the OP suggests, this should work if you have a PS2 port.

flyinout · « **Reply #10 on:** Sun, 20 March 2011, 17:09:27 »

Quote from: theferenc;299110

Honestly, they probably don't. They are decidedly rare in mainland China, as well as most of the rest of Asia, last I checked. Basically unusable by real adults in Korea.

In mainland, more and more people are going to try mac, but they just install a windows OS in it and never use Mac os agian....they buy mac only for its beautiful appearance....

manfaux · « **Reply #11 on:** Sun, 20 March 2011, 21:00:59 »

Quote from: ripster;315049

Most keyboard manufacturers at least would buy ONE Mac for testing purposes.

REALLY! I'm NO Pooooooooing you.

And I'm assuming the Ducky G2 will have the same behavior (same OEM).

I don't think the ducky G2 has that stupid USB NKRO solution?

ningbo182 · « **Reply #12 on:** Wed, 27 April 2011, 21:25:54 »

Quote from: manfaux;299021

ya i was talking about hackintosh, should have clarified that in the OP, but it's quite self explanatory seeing how Macs don't have PS/2.

tried it today and it really works!
anyway i contact noppoo the other day, they told me a new chip is on the way.

daerid · « **Reply #13 on:** Thu, 28 April 2011, 23:29:57 »

I gotta warn you, if you do any work in the Terminal in OSX you'll have all sorts of fun without a ~ key. I had to actually grab the source and manually fix the PS2 to ADB keymap by hand until all the keys on my AT101W worked correctly. Lots of agonizing trial-and-error

jonmarimba · « **Reply #14 on:** Mon, 08 August 2011, 12:31:17 »

Just solved this on OS X today. Go buy a blue cube PS/2 to USB converters from clickyKeyboards and then use one of those cheap direct connection USB to PS/2 adaptors. You'll convert (not kidding) usb -> PS2, then the blue cube will TRANSLATE the resulting PS2 to USB the way Mac OS X likes it to be. I'm typing this with a noppoo choc mini on OS X Lion. Looks like this http://geekhack.org/attachment.php?attachmentid=20300&d=1310271261

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