Hi Dell users

Notebook Dell 6400/E1505 - GeekBench score ~1900 , XBench score ~110
- Leopard Kalyway 10.5.1 with "vanilla" kernel working fine
- CPU T7200 Intel Core 2 Duo at 2 GHz (installation and working fine with only one core BIOS enabled)
- 2x1 Gb DDR2 PC5300 (667 MHz) - working fine
- GMA 945Mobile (GMA950 graphic card) - QE and CI working fine under different resolutions (no patching needed, active directly in the system installation)
- HDD Toshiba 120 GHz (with the map as follows first/primary partition WinVista 32 NTFS 512 bit/sector, second/primary partition Leopard 10.5.1 EFI-MBR HFS+ Extended Journaled, other three extended/logical partitions NTFS 512 bit/sector)
- DVD-RW Philips - working fine
- Firewire 400 working fine under OSX (perfect connection to an iMac 17")
- Sound Sigmatel 9200 patched with Taruga's 1.20 patch and linux codec dump http://psykopat.free.fr/apple/AppleHDA/sig...igmatel9200.txt - working fine as normal output (louder up and quiet down buttons working only), BUT NO MIC
- 3 in 1 card reader working fine
- all USB active with very good speed
- NO LID REACTIVATION AFTER CLOSING
- Intel Wireless 3945a/b/g NOT WORKING (the PCI-e minicard can be replaced with Dell ones 1390 or even 1500 Draft N - for only max. 50$)

Is the card reader built in that you have working ? and how did you get it working.

there seems to be a modified powermanagement bundle for leo. haven't tried yet, notebook at work, will try tomorrow.
New PM

Doesn't work for me, anyone else try it?

Tried it and it didnt work. Now I cant get back what I had working. Oh well

shite, sorry that happened to you.

Hi everyone, I've been following this post since I have a Dell Latitude and I'm trying to get sleep working to get the dual core workaround going. I'm having no luck getting it to work with the iATKOS release.
I've tried the following string in terminal: sudo pmset -a hibernatemode 0but get this error: Error 0xe00002c9 writing customized power profiles to disk. Is there something else required to get sleep working? Thanks much!

Use different AppleSMBIOS. You can use vanilla, paulicat, netkas (inside pc_efi v8) or macdotnub (attached in first post) to get sleep working.


New PowerManagement.bundle doesn't work for me also.

Hey....how did you get the card reader working? and anyone get pcmcia working or the svideo out? also when I say shutdown it actually doesn't...it turns off the os but thats it..still have to manually shutdown (although restart does shut it down and reboot)

Same prob here with Vanilla and kalyway.

I'm not completely agree with that: maybe it work for you, but (on last leopard's releases) sleep works especially with vanilla's kernel. Applesmbios is a part of the problem, nothing more.
Powermanagement don't work here.

here too.
however, i noticed that right after the installation, before applying applehdapatcher (i am using 1.1.6) the system can be shutdown properly.

One thing I have noticed with the iATKOS v1.0i install (this can be replicated on a different machine) is that CandyBar 3.1.1 seems to freeze when loading 'My Icons' which then eventually leads to an application crash.

I have tried reverting to 100% stock 10.5.1 kext's with the exception of macdotnub's AppleSMBIOS.kext, tbcarey's AppleHDA.kext and the 10.4.6 IONetworkingFamily.kext, but this hasn't helped the problem.

Can anyone else using iATKOS give CandyBar a quick test for me?

Cheers.

I am using Candybar with 10.5.1 (iatkos install) with vanilla SMBIOS and it works fine.

EDIT: Just found out that it was basically the stupid iATKOS customizations that was causing CandyBar to crash. I put the MacOSX.tif and SystemVersion.plist back to stock and it works fine

Thanks for the help Chrysaor! I managed to get pc_efi v8 from IRC. Is it possible to upgrade efi in iATKOS without reinstalling Leopard? All the guides I've managed to find are for new instalations. I assume I use the AppleSMBIOS that come with it, it appears to be a Netkas bundle. Also I'm running an MBR partition, do I need version 8 or should I use version 5.2? One last question, does anyone know what version of efi iATKOS uses? Thanks again for the help!This is the best guide I've found: http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showtopic=73952I don't have candybar but will try to install and test later tonight and get back to you.

I couldn't get the dual monitor to work

What did you do? I click on detect displays and nothing happens This is with the 7300 go right?

You may want to try Natit I believe it is version .2 or 2. I got it working with that first and then upgraded to NVinject. The one time it I did install Natit by itself it would hand on a black screen for about ten seconds after the apple white screen and then boot. I found that installing titan first then natit solved that issue but like I said right now I'm running NVinject. By the way my card is recognized as the go 7400 and I 'm pretty sure the 7300 is similar. Hope this helps.

Hi again, I got my installation working but on an external Drive, So I want to transfer it to my main hdd, I opened up disk util and imaged the hdd and put it into my internal hdd, but it will not boot.

Maybe using chain 0 along with vista boot loader and bcedit?

Any other ideas?

oh...hold the phone...you have a completely different card no wonder its working for you. I dont' think anyone got it working with the 7300 go

Yup it's different alright, just posting what worked for me. Essentially if I remember correctly the NVS 120 is essentially an Nvidia 7400 go and the NVS 110 is an Nvidia 7300 go, the only differnce is the onnboard memory 128 vs 256.

I have it working with the Nvidia Geforce Go 7300 in my Dell E1505. I deleted Natit and only have NVinjectGo. I can take a picture of my setup when I get home if anyone doubts it. Let me know if anyone likes anymore info.

was able to try it on mine today and it worked. however the downside is that I cannot shutdown properly (need to power off using the power button). ah well, nothing is perfect.

edit: updated PM in same post, working now here.

in the same thread here DualBoot or use this guide if you have vista installed and try to dual boot of course. you can use tboot (instead of chain0) also, as it boots from extended partitions also.

I'm really confused Now. I'm reading for the last 5 days with Tons of new words. It is like chineeeeeeeesssssss to me.

Anyhow, I got Kalyway and I have Dell inspiron 6400. After booting from the DVD, and pressing F8.
DO I HAVE TO TYPE -v ???
or shall I type cpu=1?
or Vanilla?
or Do not press anything?

sorry, but there are a number of instructions on how to install these. sorry you didn't find those threads. if you pop you dvd in to the drive and you tell your bios to boot from the dvd drive and it starts up, it asks you to press a key to boot from the dvd, otherwise it will boot your default os that's anywhere on your drives. you hit a key and it will start the installer. at some point (can take up to 10-15 minutes) you get a welcome screen from which you continue the installation by clicking through and picking the right options for your system. you may well try all the default options, they should work.
good luck

hey, I am a brand new OS X user, I have succesfully install from the uphuck 10.5.1 iAtkos1.0 DVD and almost everything works,

I need help getting my sound to work, my laptop is a Dell Inspiron 9400/E1705 with Sigmatel 9200 HDA Sound Card.
My wireless is also not functioning, and any advice would be appreciated, the card is a DELL Wireless 1390 Card

Please note that I am absolutely new to this, and I know nothing of kexts an plists and whatever else, so if you could give a fair bit of detail, or perhaps a link where i can see how to do what i need to do.

thanks

hmsdexter, this is basic info, and some googling can explain a lot of what you need to know very quickly.

A kext file is basically what a Kernel Module (ko) is on Linux, but on the Mac we call them Kernel Extension (kext) files.
They are situated in: /System/Library/Extensions
They tell them Mac how to function and how to utilize its own hardware.

If we run a Mac on Generic X86 PC's, we are running them on a different and usually unintended hardware base, so that means we may need to patch certain kext files in-order to get things working properly.
For example, the device id may differ on a certain hard disk controller, so unless that device id is listed in the relevant kext file (usually IOATAFamily.kext), the Mac will simply ignore it.
The naming of kexts are fairly self-explanatory, IOATAFamily meaning Input/Output ATA Family, as in all associated ATA devices; AppleHDA meaning Apple High Definition Audio, etc.
A plist file is usually contained within the /Contents/ folder of a kext file. To view this folder, you need to right click on a kext and choose 'Show Package Contents'.
This file is what holds all the hardware configuration and device id information.
To replace a kext file, you may simply do this in a drag and drop fashion, but since they are classed as System files, the Mac will request your password for authentication.
I prefer to delete the one I am replacing first, and then copy the new one over.
After that, you must delete a particular file in /System/Library/ called Extensions.mkext.
This file is the Kernel Extension cache file which holds information about the currently installed kext files.
After you have done this, you have to repair permissions from within Terminal.

Load Terminal located in Applications/Utilities/ then type this:

sudo -s (it will ask for your password so type it in when it does)
chown -R root:wheel /System/Library/Extensions
chmod -R 755 /System/Library/Extensions
rm -r /System/Library/Extensions.mkext (or ignore this part if you have already deleted that file)

Done! Now you can restart your computer.

So for example, if you want to patch your Sigmatel 9200 audio, download http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?act...st&id=17891 and extract it.
Mount the DMG (Disk Image) file by double clicking on it and replace the AppleHDA.kext in your /System/Library/Extensions folder with the new one, also copy across ALCinject.kext otherwise it wont work. Repair permissions.

Have fun

P.

wow, quick, thorough and understandable.

thank you so much

No problem at all

I actually just incorporated that post with my guide now, so in-case anyone else has problems installing kext files, they can just go over that

Yeah...can you take a pic of that directory...it would be great...although I am about to see what's going on myself. I originally used the geforce package to get the monitor working. I don't remember having natit in there at all. Can you also zip of your kext and post it.

Thanks

Is this only for the 9400/E1705, or can it be used with the 6400/E1505? Thanks!

Jennifer

Got PM.bundle (battery status) working. It has an updated version with better instructions.

HELP DELL XPS M1730...laptop...!!

Pentiuim Duo 2.8ghz exterme (3.4ghz OC)
1x 250gb 5400 RPM samsung Drive
1x 200gb 7400 PRM samsung Drive
Duel SLI Nvidia 8700 GT graphics cards
4GB Memory
Bluetooth
gamepannel LCD
17 WXVGA LCD Screen
Sata 2 ATA ICH-8 controller.
Backlit keyboard

etc blah blah...



anybody know if these apple OS'es are working on DELL XPS M1730??
Id love to get this working on my dell.... thanks.!

ps: any dell users with bios setting information, tips on installing etc.. please let me know...

So long as your laptop has a Sigmatel 9200 codec, it will work.

works perfect now.

Here you go. I've attached a screen shot of my setup. Please let me know if that helped. I also attached my complete NVinjectGo.kext if you need it. I also wanted to make sure everyone knew that this is for a Geforce Go 7300 on a Dell E1505. Let me know if that was able to help you.

The new PM.bundle is working great

Hrmm.. just tried experimenting with the Broadcom 440x ethernet once more, seeing as I'm currently somewhere that doesn't have a Wireless router

Looks like that cutting out problem still exists, and what's even stranger, when I switched over to use the 10.4.6 IONetworkingFamily.kext, my Wireless card wasn't recognized anymore.
As soon as I put back the new kext Wireless is fine.

It didn't work Maybe this has something to do with the fact that I used the geforce bundle to get the video working first? Is there a way to uninstall that and just use this? I do show nvinject is the one being used....its just the detect displays button does absolutely nothing

I tried again and it doesnt work, no battery metter. which ACPI kext you guys using from the 4.11 or 5.1 ?

Just use the one from the iATKOS disc (see attached file), it works fine

Dell Inspiron 6400: Bios A17
Tri boot with Win XP, Linux KUbuntu (KDE version of ubuntu), Leopard 10.5.1 kalyway install dvd
C2D T7200 (both cores working after sleep)
Nvidia 7300 go (QE and CI working)
Sigmatel 9200 (speakers working without mute, no mic)
Intel 3945 wifi (does not work)
Dlink DWL g122 C1 usb wifi dongle (working)
Power Meter working using (http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showtopic=80425#) and installing the slimbattery widget
USB and firewire (working)
Ricoh Card reader (not working)
Broadcom 440x NIC (working) : haven't checked for extended period of use so don't know if it drops

Now is there anyway to get intels speedstep to work? and is there any program which will be able to detect my current processor clocks.
Secondly if my screen goes to sleep then i can't get the display back untill i sleep and then wakeup the laptop, is there any fix for that?

For booting i'm using Window XP's default bootloader as the primary bootloader.
Added tboot entry in boot.ini to boot mac's bootloader (yes that is correct)
finally added grub4dos's entry in boot.ini to boot linux

tboot: http://blogulate.com/files/macosx/tboot.zip
place tboot in ur windows xp partition (note this can also be used via the vista bootloader)
open boot.ini and add the following line
c:\tboot="Mac OSX Leopard"

Or you can edit your file like that if you're using kalyway:



Working well for me.

Thanks guys working now but I think im using from 4.11

same here, just followed the original post of the guy who made it and installed iATKOS ACPI kext.

works well now with attached next

Hey got a little situation here http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showtopic=81558

if any one can help would be great. If not I guess reinstall is in my future. Thanks

i cannot get this sigmatel audio working on my e1705. I tried updating the kernel, reinstalling. I tried all the codec dumps on every version of hda patcher. no luck. I am on 10.4.8 jas intel patched dvd

mtotho, download and install 10.5+ (either iATKOS or Kalyway's release) and use tbcarey's latest package as clearly stated on the guide

DELL 1520 -
Everything working but Shut Down and Restart, Card Reader, and sometimes It only recognizes CPU as 1.6ghz instead of 2ghz like it really is.


DOES ANYONE KNOW A SOLUTION TO SHUTDOWN AND RESTART after installing video kext for 8600 GT?

Hi guys

Sorry if this has been already beaten to death twice, bu tI just really want a clear and simple answer. Is there or not a way to fix and have working Sleep (S3) mode on the Inspiron 6400/E1505 with Leopard and a Intel GMA950 graphics solution?

Thanks

unfortunately there is no fix. seeing that the gurus shift to newer problems, newer gfx cards as the gma950 gets outdated, I am very pessimistic this will ever be solved.