I suggest trying to use version 0.31, it was the one I used first and worked great, I reformatted and tried using 0.32, got the same error as you, and now I use 0.31 and it works, so whatever it is in 0.31 it works (at least for the M1330)

im thinking of buying a dell 1310, should it be possible to get it fully working with a x3100 videocard?

is the shutdown problem only for the nvidia cards?

only with Nvidia, but the X3100 has also another issues (which in my opinion are worst than the shutdown/restart problem).

Well, I guess I had to answer my own question (thanks guys). I ended up buying a cheap USB 7.1 channel audio device for like $13 shipped online and finally figured out how to use it in Leopard today! I had to go to System Preferences then Sound and select USB as the output (and input in order to use microphone - have not tested.) Now I have 100% working audio (can use internal speakers, headphones, and external speakers with subwoofer ). I just wanted to put that out there for anyone else who may have audio issues. And to get the USB sound card, just Google 'Cheap USB Audio' and it should turn up in the results.

Cheers.
PS - as a side note, even when factoring the cost of buying peripherals to get fully functionality (wireless card, USB audio, and eventually USB ethernet) I still come out about $600 golden over an equivalently-spec'd MacBook Pro. That's not chump change for a poor college student . OSx86 rocks the house!)

$600 cheaper than Pro? How much did you pay for your XPS?

MacGirl, please accept my belated appreciation of your advice regarding the Snow Leopard, couldn't reply earlier due the very busy schedule.

To anyone that cares, I was able to install Snow Leopard on a friend's iMac quite painlessly without a DL-DVD. I've used an image of 10.6 on my removable HDD, if only the hackintoshes were this easy. Interestingly, despite only having 512mb of RAM, this 64 bit system had installed and functioned beautifully while appearing almost identical to Leopard.
It was a crying shame having to erase it. Needless to say, only kernel panics occur while trying to install the 10.6 on my Dell, even with the modified BOOT-132.
Also, does anyone on this planet know why the sound stutters on my system using ANY vanilla kernel? It does NOT occur when I'm running off an external HDD.

I paid about $1874 for my XPS with the following specifications and peripherals, a combination of a special promotion and college discounts (I just copied and pasted my order confirmation email below). Keep in mind that I got the computer, a bag, and a printer for the final figure of about $1874.

Order Details
Order Number: 254733425
Estimated Ship Date: 05/21/2008

Item Description
XPS M1530, Intel Core 2 Duo Processor T8300 (2.4GHz/800MHzFSB, 3M L2 Cache)
Tuxedo Black Casing XPS M1530
4GB, DDR2, 667MHz 2 Dimm, for XPS M1530
15.4 inch Wide Screen WXGA+ TrueLife LED LCD with Camera for XPS M1530
256MB NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT
Dell 926 Vista Printer Driver
320GB 5400RPM SATA Hard Drive for XPS M1530
Microsoft Windows Vista Home Premium Edition, English
Media Direct 3.5
Dell Owners Manual installed on your system,click on icon after system set-up to access
DELL RESOURCE DVD,BACK-UP, XPSM1530
Turbine Lord of the Rings Online
ADOBE ACROBAT READER 8.1 DIM/INSP
8X DVD+/-RW Slot Load Drive for XPSM1530
Roxio Creator DE 10
Integrated Sound Blaster Audigy
Intel 4965AGN Wireless-N Mini-card
No Virus Protection Requested
85 WHr 9-cell Lithium Ion Primary Battery, for XPS M1530
No Internet Service Provider Requested
Microsoft Works 9.0, English For Inspiron
Soft Contracts - Qualxserve
3 Year Limited Warranty
Dell Hardware Warranty Plus Onsite Service, Extended Year(s)
Type 15- Third Party At HomeService with Nights and Weekends, 24x7 Technical Support,2 Year Extended
Dell Hardware Warranty PlusOnsite Service, Initial Year
Type 15- Third Party At Home Service with Nights and Week ends, 24x7 Technical Support, Initial Year
Soft Contracts - Consumer Complete Care
CompleteCare Accidental Damage Protection, Inspiron, 3 Year
Bundle LoJack Theft Recovery Service - 3 Year
Dell Wirless 355 Bluetooth Module (2.0+EDR)
Finger Print Reader XPS M1530
You have chosen a Windows Vista Premium System
Intel Centrino Core Duo Processor
15.4 inch Black Wide Screen WX+ LED TrueLife LCD with 2.0 MP Camera for XPS M1530
Camera Software XPS M1530 2.0MP
Adobe Pepe,English
XPS,Datasafe 20GB,1YR,DHS
DataSafe included with DellCare Service bundle

Subtotal: $1,613.92
Shipping and Handling: $0.00
Sales Tax: $104.81
Total: $1,718.73

Order Details
Order Number: 254733474 Estimated Ship Date: 05/21/2008
Item Description
Dell Photo AIO Printer 926
DELL USB PRINTER CABLE - 10 FTBLACK
Warranty Support, initial year

Subtotal: $109.12
Shipping and Handling: $0.00
Sales Tax: $7.38
Total: $116.50

Order Details
Order Number: 254733532 Estimated Ship Date: 05/21/2008
Item Description
Absolute - Computrace LoJack for Laptops 3 Year
Sling Bag for Laptops up to 15.4-in - Laptop Carrying Backpack - Black Red
Subtotal: $36.96
Shipping and Handling: $0.00
Sales Tax: $2.49
Total: $39.45

Here is the closest spec'd MacBook Pro and the cost (with college discounts of course; please keep in mind that the 'Buy a Mac for college get a free iPod' promotion wasn't going on at the time I ordered, and that I can easily buy an iPod with the money I saved ):
MacBook Pro, 15-inch, 2.4GHz
Part Number: Z0EY
4GB 667MHz DDR2 SDRAM - 2x2GB
Backlit Keyboard (English) / User's Guide
SuperDrive 8x (DVD±R DL/DVD±RW/CD-RW)
MacBook Pro 15-inch Glossy Widescreen Display
250GB Serial ATA Drive @ 5400 rpm
2.4GHz Intel Core 2 Duo
Accessory Kit
Apple Remote
AppleCare Protection Plan for MacBook Pro (w/or w/o Display) - Auto-enroll (3 years)
Subtotal: $2,282.00
Free Shipping : $0.00
Estimated Tax: $154.03
Estimated Total: $2,436.03


So there you have it: overall price difference of only $562, a price difference of $718 when only factoring in the computer. This is the absolute closest configuration I could get, and the Dell still comes out on top: a bigger hard drive, more software (Adobe Premiere Elements + Photoshop Elements for free), a real accessory kit. And, more importantly, the ability to run three operating systems . I am very happy with my decision to go Dell.

macgirl, do you have the 'family specific matching fails' issue due to the EHCISleepEnabler.kext?
Without the EHCISleepEnabler.kext, I don't have the 'family specific matching fails' spam in my verbose.

crosbyla: you could at least edit your post so that it doesn't have a stupid amount of spaces

Done deal, edited post to eliminate most spaces.

I see. I suppose it always strikes me a surprise considering I've only paid $950 (slickdeals.net) for mine (plus tax$). In fact, it would have been $150 less had I opted for a slower processor and no bluetooth, probably should have but the T9300 runs just as fast as any modern MacBook Pro. This CPU is identical to the ones found in most of the high end Macs. What are your GeekBench scores? I am very curious as mine average around 3300 which is expected of a Mac with the same specs. However, I consistently rank at only around 2800 while on Vista, also expected. The 64 bit Leopard averages up to 3800(!) on a genuine Mac! As personal opinions are obviously very subjective, benchmarking is the only true way to measure the viability of any given system, so why not share all of our experiences to establish a sort of a baseline to achieve better performance. Perhaps even consider overclocking, nothing major, +.1 Ghz or so, I do realize it is not recommended in Windows based notebooks but I want it just a little faster!PS. Running Vanilla 9.4.0 now after replacing the 1.5.28 (10.5.3) NVidia kexts with the 1.5.26 (10.5.1) ones per MacGirl recommendation. I was using the NVKush, perhaps that was the culprit that produced this unbearable stuttering on Vanillas, strange...I know this was for the MacGirl, but I have also noticed this exact verbiage, since the 10.5.4 update I believe. It is hard to miss as it is presented in yellow....

My Dell XPS M1530, T9300 CPU and Nvidia GeForce 8600M GT scores a GeekBench of 3411 in 32-bit mode

I attached it for those who want to compare.

I got a GeekBench score of 3171 with my M1530 in the 32-bit test. I'm not sure why, but my memory test scores seem a bit slower than most MacBook Pros, but the overall score is on par with an equivalently spec'd model. Wow $950? That's quite a steal especially with a faster processor (albeit by .1GHz). I'm still happy with mine, which is running Vanilla kernel 9.4 and 10.5.4 like a dream. I used NVinstaller v5.2 for accelerated graphics, and I haven't had any stuttering issues so far. Just the shutdown/reboot problems that everyone with accelerated graphics experiences...

researching for a friend that has a 1530, any updates to the first page about what's working and not working?

Well they are easy once you know which elements need to change, tha lastest Intalation I made to make som test was very easy, I installed from a Real Mac onto an External USB Disk (I did not need to boot with the Retail DVD sice you can open the OSInstall.mpkg directly), then without rebooting I applied the 10.5.3 Combo Update (when you install on a different volume it does not need to run the InstallAtStartup script because none of its system files are in use) then I deleted some kexts (like AppleIntelCPUPowerManagement), installed some other and patches like dsmos.kext, gfx string, etc. then the last step was the installation of the bootloader, with PCWiz OSXTools I installed Chameleon. I disconnected the drive, connected to the M1330 and boot from it.

Piece of cake...


Yes I having those, but only on boot, I had to read the old system.logs because is rare that I boot on verbose lately, and rare that I boot since I put the laptop to sleep mostly all the time.


The 1st post is updated, unless you count the 10.5.4 updates, which does not require any special work (I mean the 10.5.4 delta update, since it has no conflicting kext), of course if you are running without any EFI bootloader you need to reinstall a modded kernel before reboot.

hey m8s.
i read this topic and i couldn't decide - What is the best Dell Notebook for OSX?
i just can't find any perfect notebook... every model got it own problems....
pls help?
thanks

Will this help me with "Unknown CPU" in about this mac? I have a C2D E8400 on a P5E-VM HDMI. All is well...but this little things is bugging me.

Thanks in advance...

/mdg.

Unfortunately, no



The Dell XPS M1530 compares very well to the MacBook Pro imho.
The only major gripe is that you have to sleep/wake the system to use sound, but tbh, just do what Macgirl does... never shutdown

Hi,

I've a Dell M1530 and the shoutdown doesn't works :S (I must stop the dell by the power button).
I'm on Kalyway 10.5.3
Who are a solution for this ?

Sorry for my bad bad English.

wow really? even the doal core? the card reader? wlan? lan? turn off and reset? what about the battery? (sorry for all the questions lol ...)
that's great! thanks!

ho btw, on what system version?

edit:
i Checked the system spec, and it's like M1330 but heavier, is the M1330 will work perfectly fine as the m1350 is?
thanks.
i'm talking about this spec:

I'm running 10.5.4 dual booting with Vista SP1 Ultimate atm.
Dual core works perfectly, the card reader doesn't work, but you could always buy a seperate USB card reader that is compatible with Mac (I think). The M1330 is a great little machine too, same kind of setup really, just a smaller screen. Check out MacGirl's machine page, she lists her M1330 and all the aspects of the hardware that work, I'm sure you will be happy

Ho COOl!!

LAN: Integrated Broadcom 5906M (not working)
WLAN: Integrated Intel 3945abg mini PCI-E [on WWAN slot] (not working)

that's a real problem....
but i saw that the wlan card that comes with the m1330 is "Dell Wireless 1395 802.11g Mini Card" and i think that works fine, doesn't it?
another thing:
she got Geforce 8400mGS QE/CI, i will get ntel® Integrated Graphics Media Accelerator X3100, is this video adapter works fine? the hdmi and all...?

thanks!

I don't have any first hand experience with the Intel X3100, but if you refer to Macgirl's first post, she has two links for X3100 users.
Personally, I'd recommend getting the GeForce 8400M GS, and go for the Dell Wireless 1505 802.11n WLAN card instead.

it's comes 2 expansive for me.
i will upgrade for Dell Wireless 1505 Wireless-N Mini-card, but this is inner card right?
for the video adapter... i will check those links out...

thanks man

Inner card, yeah, but very easy to fit!
All you do is unscrew the panel at the back, take the Intel Wireless card out and put the Dell Wireless one in.
If you're worried about doing it yourself, don't be, because all Dell laptops have a service manual that you can download from their site
I'm assuming you're getting this as a package deal though, so you probably don't need to worry about the whole DIY aspect

Is this the average? My scores tend to range anywhere from the 3200 - 3400, all on the same system, not very consistent at all. Vista benches consistently around 2750. Also, I think the GUID makes a difference, it is quite nice to be able to resize and defragment my mac volumes, GPT is the only way to go.My CPU choice was largely due to the 6 MiB of the L2 cache as well as the 45 nm architecture which of course your processor also possesses. This deal was the largest thread to date on the slickdeals.net, sometime around the first of May. In any case, as I have mentioned before, the stuttering has now dissipated just as unexpectadly as it had once appeared, somehow, manually installing the Vanilla kernel apparently resolves that issue. Interestingly, the sound was consistently operational, however stutterish and it still is now, upon every reboot; it is peculiar considering that most systems on this thread are very similar or even identical.Oh MacGirl, it all comes so easily to you! However, considering the intelligence of your average beer guzzling homo erectus, all of this may as well be rocket science, literally.PCWiz's OSx86 Tools resolves that, among others.http://osx86tools.googlecode.com/files/OSX...ols_1.0.149.zipFor the love of GOD man, NOT the Intel X3100, anything but that!

oh ok... so i will have to add more 100$
thank you guys

hehe

You won't regret it!

Where is IntelCPUPMDisabler.kext? I don't seem to see it referenced anywhere else -- So I should not remove that file, and just load IntelCPUPMDisabler.kext after reboot? In that case I just need that kext...

Another question.

I followed the instructions here to upgrade iatkos 2.0i to 10.5.3 (was planning to do 10.5.4 after)

http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?sho...mp;#entry802081

but now I am getting "still waiting for root device" when I reboot after installing 10.5.3 via the method above. I changed the startup script as instructed. What did I do wrong? It looks like it's having some errors attempting to load my custom kexts (com.apple.driver.AppleAHCIPort is in yellow so this is likely the big problem) that I had previously installed. Do I have to somehow delete the kextcache? -s or -x also give me the root device error.

Any help would really be appreciated, I'm stuck!

It's on the BOOT-132 ISO, in the IMG.

Devilhood are you planning to do a Install guide using BOOT-132 ?

Maybe we could do a Dell already BOOT-132 guide

"Someone" already did an ISO for some Dells.

Good idea actually, I'll need to experiment more with it myself though.

i've made my own but it's not perfect actually. Applehda can't be load by bootloader (injector ok), nvinject, even with ioprobescore to 0 fails to activate QE (or i choose the wrong one!), shutdown restart dont work.
I'm waiting to see if they can to make Chameleon booting the Retail DVD from the HDD, then i will investigate deeply.
Just one thing: SMBIOSresolver required minimum 10.5.2 installation Disk.

Let me rephrase that:

. shutdown only works if Audio is enabled (e.g. by sleep trick) and after I have played some sound

Maybe this way it also worked in 10.5.3 and I didn't notice, since I'm using restart most of the time (since I continue to work in other OS).

I'm pretty sure this will fix it (and make sleep trick for sound no longer necessary):
http://translate.google.de/translate?u=htt...de&ie=UTF-8
http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?sho...05077&st=0)

However I'm having some minor problems regarding executing a script at startup:
http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?s=&...st&p=809447

$100 for a dell wireless card? You could get one for $15 on ebay (mentioned on macgirls first post) and the 1505 is around $40 on ebay last I saw, but you should only get the 1505 if you plan on using wireless N, which is not standard yet, at least for me.

Is anyone here using an M1530 or M1330 with 10.5.4? After a bunch of reinstalls today, I finally have 10.5.4 up and running fairly stable, however, none of the solutions (the ones with working links anyway) for 8400GS M graphics seems to be working -- Either rejected kext or black screen at startup. I know Macgirl listed some values but I must be putting them in the wrong place or kext as I haven't been able to get it working.

Once I get that working, I'll look at powermanagement and sleep, which also don't seem to be working.

Got AHCI back via an older 10.5.2 kext, as well as sound and wireless thru the same previous methods.

Sontone - I used your pack under 10.5.4 and had success with 1395 wireless and media keys/touchpad. 2 finger scroll seems to KIND OF work (though I think the readme said to disable it, so I'm confused, I still have it enabled in preference pane). Will play with that.

Sonotone's graphics for nvidia 8400 doesn't seem to work in 10.5.2 - 10.5.4 at all on my M1530. Also am not seeing the battery icon yet after installing powermanagement but perhaps there is another step.

My biggest interest now is if anyone on a M1530 or M1330 in 10.5.4 has their nvidia working and what method they used step by step.

The $100 he is refering ar for the Nvidia card instead of the Intel GMAX3100 card.


I have 10.5.4 working fine, but not all the kexts are from most recent version (which is 10.5.3), I revert from 10.5.2 these files to have better performance:
GeForce.kext
GeForce8xxxGLDriver.bundle
GeForceFXGLDriver.bundle

Keep in mind that on 10.5.3 and 10.5.4 NVinject needs the IOProbeScore, NVkush and Natit have it already, also using GFX String has no problems.

I did not use any step by step method, I test one by one with which kexts I have better performace, so I installed all 10.5.3 Nvidia kexts and then replaced those I listed above, since I had gfx strin already I did not need to use NVkush, Natiti, or NVinject.

I have 10.5.4 installed and my NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT is working with NVInstaller v5.2. This should fix problems with accelerated graphics after updating.

I read of some users installing NVInstaller v.41 so I went back to that one and it worked - However, I also this time selected 128MB and not the "Go" mobile version which is what I had been trying. It worked. I'll go ahead and try using v.52 without selecting the "Go" version and see if I have better luck. For whatever reason my M1530 really seems to hate the NVInjectGo kext.

Sidenote - Sleep seems better now, however, have any users noticed that the left mouse click tap on the touchpad stops working after waking from sleep? Any fix for that? I tend to do that more than actually left-click the hard button below the touchpad.

Hey, does anyone know if it is possible to use Butler to control Front Row? If so, how? I would like to use my Dell Remote as a Front Row Remote, because that would be really awesome.

I was wondering if anyone could provide me with the gfx string for the 256mb 8600m gt 0x0407 on the Dell XPS M1530. I have been struggling to get this to work and the best luck I've had is geting the native res 1920x1200 but no QE and CI is listed as Software. I'm using Kalyway 10.5.2, vanilla kernal, PC_EFIv8. NVInjectGO works, but when I run the 10.5.4 update with the while sleep 1 thing in the terminal it hangs on the install and locks the system when in gets to the Install time: about a minute phase. Without NVinjectGO 10.5.4 update works fine but I lose QE/CI when I install it after the 10.5.4 update. I didn't know if the gfx string method would work better but a lot of people report better performance with this method. Any thoughts? A working gfx string would be very helpful.

Dell XPS M1530
Intel T9300 Core2Duo
4GB Ram
Nvidia 8600M GT 256MB
Dell Truemobile 1395 (working with device ID 4315 added to AppleBroadcom4311.kext)
1920x1200 Resolution
Marvell LAN (not Working)
320GB 7200PRM HDD
Grub booting XP Pro, Vista Ult, Leopard, Ubuntu 8.04, Dell Media Direct(XP Embedded)

I just used latest NVInstaller:
http://scottdangel.com/blog/?p=27

Selected 128MB card worked fine as far as I can tell so far..

Just some more info for the 10.5.4 users, Macgirl add to thread if you like.

Under 10.5.4, installing NVinstaller .52 on its own does not work with the 8400 GS M. I had to first install .41, then .52 on top. Also, NVinstaller did not like it when I picked any of the "go" versions. I used standard NVInject 128mb for my M1530 and 8400 GS M.

Finally, I did try and overwrite these 3 kexts from the .41 version once I installed the .52 version:

GeForce.kext
GeForce8xxxGLDriver.bundle
GeForceFXGLDriver.bundle

The second 2 took fine, but GeForce.kext threw an incompatibility error when I attempted to use the .41 version on top of .52.

One step closer to perfection, anyway -- Just wish I could get my Geekbench numbers higher, only around 2700 now but granted that is with a 3 GB machine and slightly slower processor.

EFI GFX String doesn't fix anything for 8600M GT users; I still have to revert to the 10.5.2 Nvidia kext's or use NVkush/NVinject with an IOProbeScore of 0.
I wonder what could be the cause of this? maybe there is something important missing from the string that EFI Studio doesn't generate.

Hi, I was working on getting sleep to work and it did after I installed the USBEHCI from superhai but when I wake up my laptop it crashes and I'm forced to restart. Any idea what could be causing this?

Anyone else notice their geekbench/xbench scores dropping significantly after resuming from sleep? My geekbench drops by half, and xbench loses about 40 pts. I figured this may be because one cores is workign after the resume, but activity monitor seems to show both working...

Figures, theres audio but half the performance.

my config is in my sig.

Anybody with iatkos successfully updated to 10.5.4? Im on 10.5.2. What would be the steps. I have full backups.

Simple, just compare results before and after to see what has dropped, then you can pin-point what aspect of your machine is slowing down after sleep.

Help Pls....i just bought one M1530 with T8300, 4GB memory, 8600m GT 256MB,etc...

I've tried both iAtkos v2.0 and Kalyway 10.5.2 DVD installation...kalyway works better for me...iAtkos can't have nvinject installed properly...but the problem of them is the fan wont work with either of them...dont know why they will stop the fan of my laptop( i have chosen vanilla kernel for both of them)...

then i tried to install leopard to the hard disk of my laptop from my desktop by using original 10.5 leopard DVD with 10.5.4 combo updates and general post patches...everything works perfectly except video andd keyboard/trackpad....for video i will have to use nvkush to get it work...but losing restart and shutdown...I installed Components package from sonotone...but it doesn't make any differences...i've also tried different version of appleps2controller.kext by kext helper...it doesn't work...

any guys have solutions? Thanks in advance!

It worked for me on M1330 using standard 128MB

Use my attached copycat plist file and copy it into 'EFIStudio.app/Contents/Resources/graphiccards' then generate the GFX String.
It works perfectly with the 10.5.2 Nvidia kext's.
System Profiler info will look like it does on a real MacBook Pro with the 8600M GT