Valir Posted February 1, 2011 Share Posted February 1, 2011 Hello all, I have a Dell Inspiron 9400. Specs are: Moble Intell Core Solo (its core duo but have it set as solo in bio) i945GM Chipset 945GM Video Card (Intel 450GMA) Sigmatel Audio Broadcom 440x 10/100 intergrated Dell Wireless 1390 (i believe is also broadcom related) I am using iDeneb 10.5.6 as my distro The issue im having is i get no video after boot up. Laptop boots fine after it loads i get a blue screen and then it goes black. Any one have any insite on this???? anyone have a fix for it???? Thanks for the help Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Valir Posted February 2, 2011 Author Share Posted February 2, 2011 bump anyone??? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brandonb21 Posted February 6, 2011 Share Posted February 6, 2011 i also have dell inspiron 9400 but i have an ati 1400 and it works with qe/ci enabled full 1440x900 no screen tearing Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Valir Posted February 7, 2011 Author Share Posted February 7, 2011 I got it working with iDeneb 10.5.8 Lite Edition. Used the GMA 950 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LatinMcG Posted February 8, 2011 Share Posted February 8, 2011 it has to do with _DOD in dsdt. switch the last 3 digits around corresponding to lcd and vga. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stinger696969 Posted June 18, 2012 Share Posted June 18, 2012 (edited) Hello All, Valir I have almost the smae system as you. Dell Inspiron E1705 / 9400 Core 2 Duo - T7400 , 2.16Ghz (You said you set it to solo in Bios) im not sure how you did that Im using the A10 Bios Rev: And I dont see the option to do anything like that. Mobil Intel® 945GM/GU/PM/GMS/940GML and Intel® 945GT Express Processor to DRAM Controller - 27A0 Ricoh Chipset (Im sure this is for the card reader) Mobil Intel ®945 Express Chipset Family (Video) Sigmatel Audio - (Dell Drivers website states that it is a - (SIGMATEL STAC 92XX C-Major HD Audio) I also have 3 Network Cards Listed Dell Wireless 355 Bluetooth Module - Bluetooth Broadcom 440x 10/100 intergrated Dell Wireless 1490 Dual-Band WLAN MiniCard I did get Mac Os X installed once with Snow Leopard 10.6 Ideneb i also got the blue screen and then the black screen. The problem that i found on mine was that the Apple kext was loaded automatically from the cd. So i had to boot up under -s for single user mode and then delete all the kext files for the video card. Once i did that i was up and running or so i thought. The wireless kext ( or also known in windows as driver) was working but I had a kernal error and everytime i downloaded something i would download the file and then it went verifing and crashed my computer. Also at the time i didnt have a ethernet kext installed and i was told that i need to reinstall it from scratch and loqd those kexts in as i go if i want those devices to work. I have been unsucessful with that as of yet. So i am looking for help as to what i should load for kexts to get my laptop up and running and fully functional. Any advice you give give in return would be greatful i would like to figure this thing out as i find it challenging thanks in advance Dave AKA Stinger696969 So I finally got it installed again and now i am typing to you from the dell with Mac OSX installed however it is not snow leopard like i thought. the c.d. i was using was labeled as 10.6 so thats why i thought it was snow leopard. in fact the CD was 10.5.6 so its just leopard. Edited June 21, 2012 by stinger696969 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stinger696969 Posted June 21, 2012 Share Posted June 21, 2012 So i have been using the new operating system for a day now . So far everything is going great, unless i want to do something other than post here . Examples: I plug a USB flash drive in Kernel Error I download something it gets all the way to 100% then it goes to verify the information: Kernel Error So this means i cant download Firefox or an updated safari - and without them i cant listen to pandora radio because you need updated browser for that. So thats pretty annoying. I have not found much else wrong with it so far but the problems i listed if anyone knows anything to help me fix this that would be awesome On board network working wireless network working I think the video is working by a default function i do not believe there is any kext installed for it. only resolution option i have is 1024x768 front buttons working sound working apps working ( just cant get any new ones yet) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stinger696969 Posted June 22, 2012 Share Posted June 22, 2012 So its been a couple days and ive been working on this Dell. Here's what I Installed this time Ideneb Essential System Sigmtel 9200 Inspiron 9400 - ( Sound ) ICHX Fixed - Driver for Intel ICH7,8,9 Kernal 9.2.2 SSE3 Apple440X - ( Broadcom Local Area Connection ) CPU=1 - FIX Firewire Remove IOUSB Family Fix ( This was a fix to attempt to fix a non working USB, Still didnt work for me ) Seatbel Fix Intel GMA950 ( Video ) ASU Kext Helper OSx86 Helper Temp Monitor After the OS installed the computer booted up to a blue screen and then went to a blacak screen so here is how i fixed it. I booted the computer with -s for single user mode once here i had to type the following commands mount -UV / cd system cd library cd extensions then i typed LS -L AppleIntel* to find all the video card drivers. then it listed all the files so i then typed rm -rf AppleIntel with the file names to remove them all and once i removed all the video drivers i was able to boot up the computer. Now i am able to download programs and everything is seems functional except for the USB that i mentioned so what ill have to live with downloading whatever i want on another computer and copy it over the network or put it on a cd big deal. everything else is working SUCCESS !! Oh i forgot to mention again it is Leopard 10.5.6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stinger696969 Posted June 28, 2012 Share Posted June 28, 2012 So I tried to do an update and the computer crashed so i had to reinstall the OS again and this time i left out the IOUSB Family Fix which is the USB controller and my usb is working great. So now I'm looking for a kext to fix my video. Mobil Intel® 945GM/GU/PM/GMS/940GML and Intel® 945GT Express Processor to DRAM Controller - 27A0 Please help Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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