Hey, Just got Vista up and running on my Macbook. Everything seems to be working ok but many of the drivers don't seem to be installing properly at all. Specifically, does anyone know of a way to get the video drivers to install correctly. The NVIDIA drivers don't recognize Vista and the ATI drivers just freeze up. I got wireless and sound working though. Also, does anyone know how to get the eject button to work? (the driver for that isn't doing anything) And I really wish the damn trackpad would let me scroll down like in OSX. I know the driver for that installs on XP properly but I have no idea how to get it running on vista. Other than that, I'll say that Vista really robbed OSX blind when it comes to features. And some of them were so blatant it was just astonishing to see. Nice job Microsoft...
Out of curiousity, where did you get your copy of Vista? And more importantly, why would you be running a MS OS on a Macbook? I'm not a Mac user, but isn't OSX supposed to be a really good, stable OS?
When I installed Windows XP on our MacBook Pro, there was a step to make a "drivers CD". After the installation of XP, I installed that disc and all worked well. If I remember, the drivers CD for XP seemed specifically video related. Did the VIsta install include the same step? DId you ever run XP on your Mac or is this the first Windows version you tried to install?
The main reason I have Windows XP installed on our MacBook Pro is in case we need to run any Windows software. It enables us to just take one laptop on trips. There is a program named Parallels which enables you to run Windows on a Mac without rebooting but since I had an extra copy of Windows lying around, I chose that route rather than buy new software.
Are you running the latest version of Bootcamp? They put out new releases often and you can then burn a new driver cd.
Vista's a little different from XP. You can't run the executable with the drivers like you do on XP. You have to go in and extract all the drivers from the executable and run them one by one because Vista doesn't know what to do with them or how they apply. However, even doing that a lot of them don't seem to work. I was just hoping someone figured out another way to get stuff like the video drivers to work. I got Vista from Microsoft when they released the beta to the public a while ago. I just installed it to see how it works. Also, Vista and Parallels don't mix very well right now so I'm not going to risk messing everything up.
