I am getting the blue screen after boot and after about 5 minutes it goes to the desktop. Any ideas why this is happening? Using Punk's installer.

I have Dell 1330 with Nvidia GPU. Used Retail install method.

Dell m1330 user
intel graphics
4gb ram
dell wireless

just installed os x 10.5.4 with the retail dvd and a boot 132 cd...

install went fine, updated to 10.5.6

won't boot, -v gives messages about extension com.apple.driver.applesmbios failing to load

safe mode works, installed 3 different applesmbios with no resolution

any ideas?

Boot with -v and give more info. It may be running fsck every boot.



Do you have any kind of decrypt kext installed like AppleDecrypt? See my tutorial for that kext.

no decrypt kext at all. i'll see the tutorial and report back

That and SMBIOSResolver is needed to boot.

Thanks for the tips, however i'm still getting a "failed to load extension com.apple.driver.applesmbios"

i've installed both smbiosresolver and appledecrypt kexts via Kext Helper with no success.

I can boot into safe mode just fine, but trying to boot normal freezes at the apple logo after a few seconds, and with the -v argument it displays in yellow the failed to load message.

First of all you need SMBIOSResolver and AppleDecrypt installed anyway to boot. I'm surprised it worked without a decrypt kext. Secondly, do you have a DSDT.aml installed? 10.5.6 needs one to be installed upon its first boot and that file can later be deleted.

Thanks for the reply

I did a Vanilla install with a retail dvd of os x 10.5.4 and your boot 132 cd.

everything went fine except initially my mouse didn't work. so, i plugged in a usb mouse and that worked...

i updated to 10.5.6 and that's when the problem started.

mouse works in safe mode but computer won't boot normally.

no replaced extensions except for the decrypter and smbiosresolver atm but 10.5.4 worked with a vanilla install.

Are you still booting off of my CD or are have you installed PC EFI v9?

I've installed pc efi v9 and am booting from the HD. However, booting from the cd has the same effect.

With -V, I am getting something about NTFS driver 2.1, two more lines about NTFS Drivers. How would I know if it's a FDISK problem?

i've fixed the problem. I had to move a few kexts into the "extra" folder for efi.....

thanks for your help though.

Something on a whole new level however........

My screen goes black immediately after starting os x. anyway to fix that? lol

Do you have any NTFS hard disks plugged in?

freeza, how did you install the nvidia drivers?

Thats a normal kext problem with iatkos. Try these:

http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?act...st&id=41025

[quote name='wingrunr21' date='Jan 28 2009, 09:15 PM' post='1060516']
Do you have any NTFS hard disks plugged in?

It's a dual boot system (Vista 64), but this happens after I update to 10.5.6.

I don't have NVIDIA graphics.

I've got intel :-P

but does anyone know how to resolve the "black display on login" problem?

I've tried searching but haven't found any definitive answer, only work arounds.

Are the work arounds (installing a program that loads with login items and adding a sleep display to the top corner of expose) the only way to fix this or is there an official fix?

Oops, ya you already said that. I can't help with that since I don't know much about getting Intel graphics working on these things.

i've got everything working good except for the display turning off immediately after login.

i've done the left corner expose trick but am really hoping there's a permanent fix available.

hi there,

Sorry if I´m asking about something just resolved but 156 pages of topic are too much pages, i used the google search on this site but i didn't get any clear answer, my question is about the xps 1330 with nvidia design bug and the fan control, i suppose you know there is a design flaw in the xps1330 motherboard with NVIDIA chipset, as result of this, sooner or later you will get a fry graphic card and a dead laptop due to overheating, the only response from DELL is a bios update that don't solve the problem and a warranty extension for a year, so if you want to everlast the laptop life you need to to cool it to the point of frostbite, to do this you need as first emergency measure be able to maintain the fans spinning at hightest levels all the time, i´m looking for a fan control application that don´t depends on bios but no luck for me, so my first question is, do you any fan control application suitable for our xps computers?

Second question, i´m sure solved and answered, so if you point me to a link, enought for me, is about the update from 10.5.5 to 10.5.6, i´m running iAtkos 5i, with PC Efi 9 and the original kernel, so, is it safe to update the system to 10.5.6? what are the main features i will lose in the update? can i recover this lost of features with 10.5.5 kexts?

regards from spain,

danzarinrostro

You need the DSDT patch. Try finding Superhai's DSDT.aml for the m1330. You also need the disabler.kext which you might already have. You might also break your keyboard and trackpad after installing 10.5.6 so try these kexts before you update: http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?act...st&id=41025.

Read wingrunr21's guide: http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showtopic=119654

thanks for the reply,

regarding the fan control application, do you any that works in 1330?

okie, i would to start learning the kext development and mac os x sysinternals, any site to start with? there is an open topic or effort to solve the shutdown/restart issue? if so, can you give a link? iḿ really interested in solving this issue...

again, thanks in advance.

danzarinrostro.

Do you know C/C++? If not, I'd start with learning those. Otherwise head over to the Apple Developer website and start reading up on IOKit and their other development resources.

As for the shutdown/restart issue, I have not heard of anyone investigating a solution. I know the root cause has to do with the nvidia drivers (most likely the driver not properly unloading upon system shutdown and hanging the system) but I have done no research on how to fix it.

I hate to add to an already too long thread, but since macgirl stopped maintaining the sticky, its kind of an endless free-for-all down here.

I understand the tradeoff, naturally, between hardware accelerated graphics and shutdown/suspend. In my case, I don't care about accelerated graphics, but I really need shutdown/suspend. That does not seem to be a common case.

I used to have this working, then I was playing around with NVInject once a while ago, and hardware acceleration started working and shutdown/suspend stopped working. This is horrible for me. Unfortunately, I have had trouble identifying and reversing what I did.

Has anyone worked out a way to switch back and forth between hardware graphics acceleration boots and shutdown/suspend working boots?

I don't want to just yank NVInject, because I have a 1530 with the 1920x screen, and I must retain full resolution.

Can anyone help me get my laptop back to running with working suspend? I don't want graphics acceleration. I don't use it for video, games, whatever. Its purely a dev machine, mail client, and high resolution text editor. I need it to not require a reboot every time i move between meetings again.

thanks

I'm assuming that you're running 10.5.5 or 10.5.6, but sleep (I believe this is what you mean by suspend) is fully working and supported on our machines even with accelerated graphics. What you need to do is go to Superhai's site and download EHCISleepenabler.kext and follow the instruction in the readme also on his site (http://superhai.com/darwin.html).

The likely cause is that you updated to 10.5.6 from 10.5.5, which would overwrite the modified IOUSBFamily.kext that allows Superhai's enabler to work, it also could be that you had never given NVInject the correct permissions, so it woild fail to load, and you did a Repair permissions from diskutility, causing it to start working and thus kill your shutdown/reboot ability

It is possible to boot into single user mode before you start to really use the computer and do a mv -R NVInject.kext /Users/$Yourname/Desktop and then reboot with the "Graphics Mode"="1920x1200x32@60" flag, which would give you full res, shutdown/restart, but no sleep unless you correctly install EHCISleepenabler.

See the text right under my first quote

Why do you need shutdown/restart working correctly? You can just press the power button for 5 seconds when the screen turns black or sleep the computer.

nope, you guys oversimplify.

I do have EHCISleepEnabler installed, and the USBEHCI Plist properly edited.

Closing the lid makes it die, and then i have to do a new boot, with a long forced fsck.

so, i suppose i meant sleep/suspend dont work.

I'm still running 10.5.5.. I think i changed a plist in one of the nvidia kexts to get QI/CE working, and since doing that sleep and suspend have not worked.

I started having the infamous NVIDIA Quicktime lag problem after installing iLife '09 (and QT 7.6), so it is affecting M1530 G84Ms (8600M GT) also. Not sure if G86Ms in M1330 are affected as well.
The symptoms are not very obvious; you can mostly tell by a slight stuttering in the dock on application launch and mostly by skipping mouse behaviour.
Last known QT build that is not affected by this issue is 7.5.5 (.13 build). QT 7.5.5 (.24 build) and 7.6 are affected.
Known fixes are flashing the video bios (not recommended) or using NV50 extension from 10.5.5 or using QuickTimeComponents.component from 7.5.5 (.13). I use the old QTComponents and the issues disappeared, haven't seen any incompatibilities with any application so far.

If editing the plist is all you did then your solution is very simple.

Get rid of Nvinject, and for added measures get rid of Superhai's EHCI and reverse the changes in USBEHCI.

Then reinstall all these kexts and edit the USBEHCI again.

Make sure you do not reboot in the middle as you will not be able to boot back into the graphics mode.

If you do reboot make sure you know how to install a kext in single user mode with -s

As far as I know just having the Nvinject load is enough to break the shutdown/reboot without even having HA or QGL. Sleep is always possible and I myself have it working with nvinject loading with full QE/CI-HA/QGL

Purlah, have you also checked that you don't have Wake on USB enabled in the BIOS? That will also cause your computer to restart when suspended if it is plugged into an outlet.



Chryasor,

No lag here with an 8600M GT on a vanilla 10.5.6 with Quicktime 7.6 installed, Macgirl also reported the same thing in the original mouse lag thread, so it very well could be that there are several different revisions of the G84Ms, which is an especially likely case for people who got their laptops after the news about the Nvidia cards failing came out.

Hy there!

I have a dell vostro 1310 with nvidia 8400M GS

Installed iDeneb 1.3 and it works but I have some problems

selected fixes in ideneb install: ichx, nvinject, power management

after install I managed to make my wifi, hda intel soundcard, alps touchpad (without scrolling) to work, but I still have serious problems

if I start the ffscrolldaemon to have two finger scroll, my trackpad gets terribly slow, and the scrolling isnt too smooth

sleep seems to work, but it wakes up immedietly and the log tell's me that: USB caused wake event (EHCI)
I searched around a lot, tryed lots of fixes and different kernels, but cant any of them helps :S
I can test it if it sleeps without any usb devices because I have an internal usb webcam

and finally my keyboard is interesting too, I known that mac's use a different keyboard map, i downloaded some windows'ish maps, but can't any of them solves my problem, that my "0" key writes the "í" character and the "í" key wont do anything :S so I only can write a "0" usig my FN key and use the blue "numpad" 0...
And, I'm hungarian, so I have a hungarian keyboard layout...

So if anyone can help me, or has configured a same machine, or had simlar problems before please help me, because I'm out of ideas, or luck :S

Thanks!!

It is no lag (mouse or whatever) whatsoever in QT on my Dell m1330, i got changed mb in august due to builtin display issue. Actually it is more smoother than it used to be, before i needed to display sleep when i wanted to watch qt movies. Now it is running at full fps. And mouse movement is smooth as silk.

I had ordered my M1530 in late July and received it in August due to a delay, so this lends a bit of credence to my theory that there are a few different revisions of the 8400/8600s out there.

and Superhai, a while back you mentioned that DSDT would be replacing Clamshelldisplay.kext, do you know when that will happen and barring that, could DSDT patching do anything to help get Mirror Mode working?

My M1330 is not affected by the "lag" issue. Even not in my desktop which has a 9800GTX (supposedly one of the G92 cards that are affected). I already reported that.

Add PNLF to your DSDT, and add built-in property to 1 in your NVinject or strings or whatever. If you have intel gfx, adding the PNLF might be all you need. Then AppleBalcklightDisplay will load and control the AppleClamshellCausesslepp property.

Have you gotten that working on your own laptop?

Hey all,

I have a Vostro 1700 that is working pretty much perfectly thanks to this thread. The only problem I've got is that I can't figure out how to get touchpad tapping to work - having to use the mouse buttons themselves is kind of a pain. Can anyone give me some advice on this? Thanks!

My XPS 1330 is from January 08 and I am not getting lag issues at all.

Superhai, do you have a newer version of your DSDT? I just ended up deleting mine because it was wrecking havoc with my USB.

Oh ya, and what is NVResolver? What are its advantages and such over other current injectors?

Please post your kextstat and version of QuickTimeComponents.component (its in /S/L/QT).
Make sure you have QT running, it doesn't affect when its not launched.

Here is the comparison:

QT 7.6: Click to view attachment
Dock QT application stutters on launch and mouse jumps.


QT 7.6 with QTComponents.components from 7.5.5 (.13): Click to view attachment
Dock QT application launch is smooth and no mouse jump.

Thank you very much, i will try this soon, but before, the DSDT.aml depends, more or less on BIOS version? I just downloaded the Superhai's DSDT.aml and in the filename there is a v12 that i don know if is refered to the bios version, i recently updated my xps to A14 trying to solve the nvidia bug, so is it safe to use this file?



I read it, along with this post is my guide and my light, and shows me the way to the exploding fist

regards, d.

Hi guys!

After spending days browsing through this thread i managed to install iatkos_5i on my Inspiron 1420, manage to update to 10.5.6. I've got intel X3100 working with efi strings, sata with ahci, efi bootloader , Sigmatel 9228 for sound and the normal stuffs. Manage to boot into leopard without any hassle. But i have a problem though. In order to get sound i need to sleep the laptop which instantly wakes up. After sleep i loses the tap function on the trackpad. Installed kext from this post http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?s=&...t&p=1033011 but still couldn't get single tap working after sleep. Its like "tap" function totally disappear after sleep. Now im stuck between 2, its either tap without sound or sound without tapping on the touchpad (have to use the buttons). LOL.

Any help would be greatly appreciated. Cheers!

I tested my desktop (G92 card) and the QT player sttuters on launch but mouse lag is almost unnoticeable.
No sttuter or mouse lag launcing iTunes though.

Does the mouse lag should be occur when QT is playing something? I did not get tha also.

Hey Mac Girl,

Is their going to be a Studio XPS Thread Soon?

Tropics,

The Studio XPS line has entirely different hardware and configurations from the current/older XPS line, the best I can suggest is to backup and try it yourself to see what does and doesn't work.

NVResolver is start of a project, it does basically the same thing as nvinject 0.22 for the moment. Furthermore it queries the vga bios to find model name, and you can have same plist for both mobile and desktop machine. Plan is to probe the card for more information and be more generic. Unfortunately information is very sparse about the nvidia vga bios, and pci registers.

I am not sure which version of dsdt that I posted here, and which I have now. But I have modified it somewhat I am sure. I can upload it here later.

Superhai, if we were to give you the DSDT of the M1530s could you make some of the changes you've done to the 1330 and possibly fix the leftside USB bugs? I udnerstand you're incredibly busy with VoodooPower.kext and all of the ACPI stuff so even if it took a few months I'm sure all of with an M1530 would be very grateful.

that will be really nice, i´m terrified of updating to 10.5.6 and i would like to get the latest and most updated data available, thank you very much.

Try changing the keyboard layout in System preferences -> International.

For ffscroll see here... http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showtopic=88811

[Spanish] No necesitas DSDT para la actualización a 10.5.6 pero vea que tiene disabler.kext. Tambien, ver no es el verbo correcto para esta frase, si?[/Spanish]

Translation: You don't need DSDT for the 10.5.6 update, but check you have the disabler.kext

Thanks, but I have tryed both of them already :S

I'm unable to open STAC9228_0x83847616.zip. On my Mac, it says "Error 1 - Operation Not Permitted", and if I try to open it in Windows, it says that the file is corrupt. I can't get access to another copy through Google or anything either and I need the file to make everything on my m1530 work. Is anyone else having this issue?