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more details please.....at what step do you have the kernel panic?

 

After last reboot.. cpu specific.. tried booting with cpus=1 etc.. also tried both your method and some of my own tricks.. my guess is that your cpu is somewhat diffrent and i need to patch to dtst.aml to fix it.. even tho i have no idea of howto do that...

 

Also.. VoodooHDA is causing kernel panic...

 

I have to admit, its alot easier getting the dell's to run osx..

 

I used my image that i use for the dells, along with the kexts that i used there.. and allmost have it working (without dtst.. tho).. but after updating to 10.6.4 i just get a "white screen"

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hahaaa......like chatting - boot into your usb and install disabler.kext (in chameleon package) to Extra and delete the dsdt.aml - and yes the 6291 has an other cpu, so it can´t work with this dsdt.

 

as soon you booted succesful, download dsdtse and extract the dsdt - send it to me I´ll patch it for you

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hahaaa......like chatting - boot into your usb and install disabler.kext (in chameleon package) to Extra and delete the dsdt.aml - and yes the 6291 has an other cpu, so it can´t work with this dsdt.

 

as soon you booted succesful, download dsdtse and extract the dsdt - send it to me I´ll patch it for you

 

 

Gonna try that out.. what does disabler.kext do ? - also, do you have multi core support ? .. i have that in my "dell" version...

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Gonna try that out.. what does disabler.kext do ? - also, do you have multi core support ? .. i have that in my "dell" version...

 

it disables the appleintelcpupowermanagment.kext which will cause a panic if you don´t patch the dsdt to load hpet.

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it disables the appleintelcpupowermanagment.kext which will cause a panic if you don´t patch the dsdt to load hpet.

 

Ok, but i guess without the dsdt the graphics will also be messed up and i will have todo some kext magic there instead.. is there anyway you could be a lifesafer and make a patched dsdt that would fit for my model please ?

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it disables the appleintelcpupowermanagment.kext which will cause a panic if you don´t patch the dsdt to load hpet.

 

it would be really good if you could make a dstd file for the 6231, since i now got it booting, but crashes along the line with a white/grey screen (even in verbose mode), i also tried to add some diffrent kexts for the graphics, but that dident help much...

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I can´t patch your dsdt if you don´t extraxt one from a booted system. I could do it from the bios file, but this is anyway not the solution for your problems.

 

once more: more precision please!

 

if you mean it hangs at the grey screen - first boot after install? did you ever boot into snow leo.....or where are you?

I can´t help you with that kind of information. also you are suddenly talking about a 6231 - wasn´t it a 6291?

 

if it hangs the first boot at the grey screen, search for login window crash and you will find a solution

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After a lot of testing, i've finally installed Snow Leopard successfully on my TM 6292 :) I'm upgrading to 10.6.4 right now

 

Thank you for this guide peach :D

 

Please specify in the A-4 step that EVERYTHING must be unchecked (no kernels, no chipset etc..) in the usb drive configuration. That was my error, after that kalyway 10.5.2 worked like a charm :)

 

Another thing: if you follow this guide you can install SL on MBR disks without problems (i've tested it: i have now SL and Windows 7 in Dual Boot)

 

 

Waiting for a WiFi fix and for a better webcam solution ;)

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yes - brightness with hotkeys works - Fn+ the butttons on the lower right (next to volume)

 

chameleon - no - is that important? first time I hear someone worrying about that :)

 

Thank you, Fn + right/left works ;) strange that it doesn't with Fn + F12 / Pause

 

I am not "worried", it's just an esthetic thing :D themes look very ugly with this resolution ;)

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no - i don´t have this problem

 

if you did a vanilla install and you are using my dsdt sleep is working - without sleepenabler

sleepenabler even could cause some problems

 

but there is an issue with sleep since 10.6.4 : the screen needs long to wake up and it seems to make a difference if you use the keyboard or the power button - power button seems to be faster

 

I will work on that next week

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no - i don´t have this problem

 

if you did a vanilla install and you are using my dsdt sleep is working - without sleepenabler

sleepenabler even could cause some problems

 

but there is an issue with sleep since 10.6.4 : the screen needs long to wake up and it seems to make a difference if you use the keyboard or the power button - power button seems to be faster

 

I will work on that next week

 

 

Hi,

 

I'm from the D4x0 group, we are a group of people who is working on making the D420/D430 more compat. with OSX.

 

I'm interested in hearing more about how you patched dsdt to support sleep.. would you care to elaborate and maybe share you work ?

 

//Leon

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no - i don´t have this problem

 

if you did a vanilla install and you are using my dsdt sleep is working - without sleepenabler

sleepenabler even could cause some problems

 

but there is an issue with sleep since 10.6.4 : the screen needs long to wake up and it seems to make a difference if you use the keyboard or the power button - power button seems to be faster

 

I will work on that next week

 

I just followed your guide (method 2), using all your files, starting from 10.6.0 and upgrading to 10.6.4.

The screen doesn't turn on even if i wait some minutes after i open the laptop

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Oneiros - this is still not a MacBook - it´s a hackintosh, hence you can´t expect that it will wake up by opening the lid.

it´s already a success that it sleeps when closing the lid man :wacko:

 

i did some experiments with dsdt on it - funny thing was that I succeeded in putting it back to sleep when opening - that was funny as hell :huh:

 

I decided not to waste my time on it, because I don´t mind pressing one extra button to wake it.

 

@ leon

 

reading the specs of the d420 I can´t imagine that it should be such a big deal to bring it very close to a mac having a gma950, except the sigmatel audio (what is a mess).

 

what help could you expect? I could send you the dsdt of the acer and a dsdt of a dell inspiron 1525, that I installed last week. handsome machine - almost everything was working ootb. the only issues was the core solo cpu, which needed a patched kernel, and the sigmatel that worked with only one version of voodoohda - but still without mic.

the thing that you might be intersted in: it sleeps after adding the patches for lpc,smbus and ehci without sleepenabler

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Hey,

 

I'm interested in learning how you patch dsdt.aml... what you look for, how you find the correct hardware ID's to use etc.. would you happend to have URL's that is a good starting point ?

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Oneiros - this is still not a MacBook - it´s a hackintosh, hence you can´t expect that it will wake up by opening the lid.

it´s already a success that it sleeps when closing the lid man :unsure:

 

i did some experiments with dsdt on it - funny thing was that I succeeded in putting it back to sleep when opening - that was funny as hell :D

 

I decided not to waste my time on it, because I don´t mind pressing one extra button to wake it.

 

What's the button to wake the laptop after closing it?

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