Dell Precision M6400 OSX Lion

jriker1 · August 13, 2011

Hmm, weird, reboot has never been a problem for me, only shutdown ... I have tried the dsdt from the other thread but it hangs with Fakesmc complaining that it can't read some keys ... will keep an eye on it nonetheless, the less kexts in /E/E the better

Regards

Funny how the same system can act differently for different people. Anyway, did you remove the three kext files that were recommended to be eliminated in the thread?

Thanks.

JR

madmatt · August 14, 2011

Funny how the same system can act differently for different people. Anyway, did you remove the three kext files that were recommended to be eliminated in the thread?

Thanks.

JR

Yes I did, and in my case it's only AppleIntelCPUPowerManagement, I don't use Evoreboot or similar kexts (with or without them I have the same behaviour, can reboot, cannot shutdown) and since sleep isn't working I haven't even tried lidsleep .

Funny indeed that the same machine behaves differently, maybe it's because of the configuration .... mine has:

- Bios Rev. A10

- 3.06Ghz Core 2 Extreme (X9100) Processor

- 8Gb Memory (4 x 2Gb) DDR3 1066Mhz

- Intel 3945 Wireless (not used in Osx) in the WLAN slot

- Dell 1510 Wireless in the WWAN slot (using the WWAN antennas, got to love the precision design )

- two hard drives, Lion boots from the second (I still have Snow Leopard on the first for emergency boots)

- 1GB FX3700M

In the bios I have enabled pretty much everything, except for the parallel port, storage controller in AHCI mode ...

Will try again today

madmatt · August 14, 2011

Been playing with a couple of dsdt fixes found here:

http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=190780

I have added to JR's DSDT (post #22 http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php...t&p=1733890 ) this fix:

Optional: Wait for it... SHUTDOWN FIX (YAY!) (added 2010/04/12)
This patch allows the computer to shut down properly with NVidia graphics. Reportedly working on M1530s but unfortunately not M1330s yet. Our friends on the Gigabyte thread figured out how to get shutdown working (sorry don't know who to credit), and Dlach and MorLipf here applied it to the M1530. Above method PTS, add the following:
OperationRegion (PMRS, SystemIO, 0x1030, One)
Field (PMRS, ByteAcc, NoLock, Preserve)
{
, 4,
SLPE, 1
}
and then replace the PTS method with the following:
	Method (_PTS, 1, NotSerialized)
{
	If (LEqual (Arg0, 0x05))
	{
		Store (Zero, SLPE)
		Sleep (0x10)
	}
}

.. and for the first time since installing osx the machine has shut down (it never had a problem restarting, so I don't know whether this will help you JR )

Here's the modded DSDT

dsdt.jr_shutdown.zip

.. now off to play with the sleep ... so far I have tried Netkas's Sleepenabler for Lion with no joy .....

jriker1 · August 14, 2011

Yes I did, and in my case it's only AppleIntelCPUPowerManagement, I don't use Evoreboot or similar kexts (with or without them I have the same behaviour, can reboot, cannot shutdown) and since sleep isn't working I haven't even tried lidsleep .

Funny indeed that the same machine behaves differently, maybe it's because of the configuration .... mine has:

- Bios Rev. A10

- 3.06Ghz Core 2 Extreme (X9100) Processor

- 8Gb Memory (4 x 2Gb) DDR3 1066Mhz

- Intel 3945 Wireless (not used in Osx) in the WLAN slot

- Dell 1510 Wireless in the WWAN slot (using the WWAN antennas, got to love the precision design )

- two hard drives, Lion boots from the second (I still have Snow Leopard on the first for emergency boots)

- 1GB FX3700M

In the bios I have enabled pretty much everything, except for the parallel port, storage controller in AHCI mode ...

Will try again today

My specs are similar to yours other than I am on Bios A09 and my processor is a 2.53GHz Quad. I also have an external EdiMax USB Mini network adapter. Oh and mine is booting off the primary. Secondary is my Time Machine drive. I would think the bios update "may" make a difference.

Funny you were looking at that also. I actually left that webpage on my screen last night not knowing if it would help in our case.

So I replaced my dsdt.aml file with the updated one you provided and oddly enough it actually kernel panic'd at AppleIntelCPUPowerManagement. Do I have to regenerate my Extensions.mkext file after a change like this? I will try injecting it directly into mine and see if it makes a dif also.

JR

madmatt · August 14, 2011

My specs are similar to yours other than I am on Bios A09 and my processor is a 2.53GHz Quad. I also have an external EdiMax USB Mini network adapter. Oh and mine is booting off the primary. Secondary is my Time Machine drive. I would think the bios update "may" make a difference.

Funny you were looking at that also. I actually left that webpage on my screen last night not knowing if it would help in our case.

So I replaced my dsdt.aml file with the updated one you provided and oddly enough it actually kernel panic'd at AppleIntelCPUPowerManagement. Do I have to regenerate my Extensions.mkext file after a change like this? I will try injecting it directly into mine and see if it makes a dif also.

JR

If you are loading AppleIntelCPUPowerManagement I'd say no, you don't need to rebuild the kexts , the dsdt is the one you posted, opened with dsdtse, patched with the two diffs in the previous post, and recompiled with iasl -sa ... no other mods .... on the other hand, the dsdt compiled for you by mald0n won't boot on my machine so I'd say that either the bios or some other difference (Patched AppleHda - com.apple.driver.AppleHDA (1.7.4a1) in my case) comes to mind as a possible difference ...

.

jriker1 · August 14, 2011

If you are loading AppleIntelCPUPowerManagement I'd say no, you don't need to rebuild the kexts , the dsdt is the one you posted, opened with dsdtse, patched with the two diffs in the previous post, and recompiled with iasl -sa ... no other mods .... on the other hand, the dsdt compiled for you by mald0n won't boot on my machine so I'd say that either the bios or some other difference (Patched AppleHda - com.apple.driver.AppleHDA (1.7.4a1) in my case) comes to mind as a possible difference ...
.

I did the same thing you did but didn't need to "recompile". DSDTSE does it all. This time it worked. Odd. I can now shutdown. This is great. Even compiled my first Xcode project on it. I see some querkyness in Xcode that things hang for a bit like error dialogs in XCode that the red/yellow/green buttons don't become active for a bit to close the popup, but otherwise good to go. Thanks for your assistance. Now to document all this.

JR

"The power of collaboration!!"

jriker1 · August 14, 2011

By the way, couple items:

- How is your audio? Mine works fine but has a setting of full on and then depending on the day, is completely off if you even move the volume bar down a bit it turns off, or full on and real quiet.

- I notice the picture on the webcam isn't the greatest. A lot of color artifacts on the screen. Nothing new, just always been that way since turning this thing into a pseudo-Mac.

Thanks.

JR

jriker1 · August 16, 2011

FYI: 10.7.1 update installed including iTunes 10.4. No issues.

JR

jriker1 · August 17, 2011

Another update. AppleHDA was touched. Audio dead. Will need to get my prior kext to see if replacing it will do the job.

Edit: Replacing the AppleHDA with the prior time machined one worked. Other issue I have now, after the computer is booted, it won't accept any USB devices. My USB network card works fine, but if I pull it and put it back in the USB port it won't redetect. Also USB flash drives will not show anymore once started.

JR

madmatt · August 17, 2011

By the way, couple items:

- How is your audio? Mine works fine but has a setting of full on and then depending on the day, is completely off if you even move the volume bar down a bit it turns off, or full on and real quiet.

- I notice the picture on the webcam isn't the greatest. A lot of color artifacts on the screen. Nothing new, just always been that way since turning this thing into a pseudo-Mac.

Thanks.

JR

Audio is fine, always at the same level afaict (to be honest, I don'y use it often since I use a pair of usb plantronics headphones/microphone the only glitch I have noticed is when I use the volume buttons over the keypad, the first time I hit the volume down key it mutes, but the second hit resumes normal volume and then it works normally until I change the volume through the sound preferences.

I use

kextstat | grep HDA
  56	2 0xffffff7f80a94000 0xc000	 0xc000	 com.apple.iokit.IOHDAFamily (1.7.4a1) <5 4 3 1>
  57	0 0xffffff7f80aa0000 0x14000	0x14000	com.apple.driver.AppleHDAController (1.7.4a1) <56 9 5 4 3 1>
  76	0 0xffffff7f812bb000 0x83000	0x83000	com.apple.driver.AppleHDA (1.7.4a1) <75 74 56 5 4 3 1>

I believe it's the original 10.7 AppleHda (but I could be wrong ...) and then I use the SL HDAEnabler kext

Webcam .. I use it even less than the embedded audio, and I am color blind so I am not really the one to ask when talking about color artifacts .. the only thing I can say is that it works in skype ...

Another update. AppleHDA was touched. Audio dead. Will need to get my prior kext to see if replacing it will do the job.

Edit: Replacing the AppleHDA with the prior time machined one worked. Other issue I have now, after the computer is booted, it won't accept any USB devices. My USB network card works fine, but if I pull it and put it back in the USB port it won't redetect. Also USB flash drives will not show anymore once started.

JR

Well, I guess I'll wait and see how the situation evolves before updating

jriker1 · August 18, 2011

Does it make any sense when you cold boot the computer the USB ports do not detect any new devices that aren't connected at boot time and if you then reboot it accepts new connections on USB? I also noticed since 10.7.1 that my speakers crackle on reboot.

JR

madmatt · August 18, 2011

Does it make any sense when you cold boot the computer the USB ports do not detect any new devices that aren't connected at boot time and if you then reboot it accepts new connections on USB? I also noticed since 10.7.1 that my speakers crackle on reboot.

JR

.. no it doesn't make any sense and on 10.7 my speakers do not crackle ..... how did you configure Usb Legacy in the Bios, by the way ?

jriker1 · August 18, 2011

.. no it doesn't make any sense and on 10.7 my speakers do not crackle ..... how did you configure Usb Legacy in the Bios, by the way ?

It has the checkbox set for "Enable Legacy USB Emulation"

Thanks.

jriker1 · August 19, 2011

What do you have for your USB Kext files?

administrators-Mac-Pro:Extensions administrator$ kextstat | grep USB
  37	6 0xffffff7f8090f000 0x4e000	0x4e000	com.apple.iokit.IOUSBFamily (4.4.0) <9 7 5 4 3 1>
  38	0 0xffffff7f8095d000 0x10000	0x10000	com.apple.driver.AppleUSBUHCI (4.4.0) <37 9 7 5 4 3 1>
  45	0 0xffffff7f809ad000 0x17000	0x17000	com.apple.driver.AppleUSBEHCI (4.4.0) <37 9 7 5 4 3 1>
  62	0 0xffffff7f80b65000 0x3000	 0x3000	 com.apple.iokit.IOUSBUserClient (4.4.0) <37 7 5 4 3 1>
  63	0 0xffffff7f80b68000 0x11000	0x11000	com.apple.driver.AppleUSBHub (4.4.0) <37 5 4 3 1>
  64	0 0xffffff7f80b7d000 0x6000	 0x6000	 com.apple.driver.AppleUSBComposite (3.9.0) <37 4 3 1>

madmatt · August 19, 2011

What do you have for your USB Kext files?

administrators-Mac-Pro:Extensions administrator$ kextstat | grep USB
  37	6 0xffffff7f8090f000 0x4e000	0x4e000	com.apple.iokit.IOUSBFamily (4.4.0) <9 7 5 4 3 1>
  38	0 0xffffff7f8095d000 0x10000	0x10000	com.apple.driver.AppleUSBUHCI (4.4.0) <37 9 7 5 4 3 1>
  45	0 0xffffff7f809ad000 0x17000	0x17000	com.apple.driver.AppleUSBEHCI (4.4.0) <37 9 7 5 4 3 1>
  62	0 0xffffff7f80b65000 0x3000	 0x3000	 com.apple.iokit.IOUSBUserClient (4.4.0) <37 7 5 4 3 1>
  63	0 0xffffff7f80b68000 0x11000	0x11000	com.apple.driver.AppleUSBHub (4.4.0) <37 5 4 3 1>
  64	0 0xffffff7f80b7d000 0x6000	 0x6000	 com.apple.driver.AppleUSBComposite (3.9.0) <37 4 3 1>

Here's mine, with com.apple.boot.plist and smbios.plist thrown in as well

sh-3.2# kextstat | grep USB
  37   13 0xffffff7f80910000 0x4e000	0x4e000	com.apple.iokit.IOUSBFamily (4.4.0) <9 7 5 4 3 1>
  38	0 0xffffff7f8095e000 0x10000	0x10000	com.apple.driver.AppleUSBUHCI (4.4.0) <37 9 7 5 4 3 1>
  39	0 0xffffff7f80974000 0x17000	0x17000	com.apple.driver.AppleUSBEHCI (4.4.0) <37 9 7 5 4 3 1>
  50	0 0xffffff7f80bbe000 0x3000	 0x3000	 com.apple.iokit.IOUSBUserClient (4.4.0) <37 7 5 4 3 1>
  51	0 0xffffff7f80bc1000 0x11000	0x11000	com.apple.driver.AppleUSBHub (4.4.0) <37 5 4 3 1>
  64	1 0xffffff7f80d24000 0x6000	 0x6000	 com.apple.driver.AppleUSBComposite (3.9.0) <37 4 3 1>
  67	0 0xffffff7f80d32000 0x8000	 0x8000	 com.apple.iokit.IOUSBHIDDriver (4.4.0) <37 34 5 4 3 1>
  69	0 0xffffff7f80dad000 0xe000	 0xe000	 com.apple.driver.AppleUSBBluetoothHCIController (2.5f17) <68 37 7 5 4 3>
 123	0 0xffffff7f818e0000 0x6000	 0x6000	 com.apple.driver.AppleUSBMergeNub (4.4.0) <64 37 4 3 1>
 124	0 0xffffff7f818e6000 0x3000	 0x3000	 com.apple.driver.AppleUSBCDC (4.1.15) <37 4 3>
 125	0 0xffffff7f818ea000 0x11000	0x11000	com.apple.iokit.IOUSBMassStorageClass (3.0.0) <54 37 23 5 4 3 1>
sh-3.2# uname -a
Darwin matt-lion-m6400.localdomain 11.0.0 Darwin Kernel Version 11.0.0: Sat Jun 18 12:56:35 PDT 2011; root:xnu-1699.22.73~1/RELEASE_X86_64 x86_64
sh-3.2# cat /Extra/com.apple.Boot.plist
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
	<key>GenerateCStates</key>
	<string>Yes</string>
	<key>GeneratePStates</key>
	<string>Yes</string>
	<key>Kernel</key>
	<string>mach_kernel</string>
	<key>Kernel Flags</key>
	<string>npci=0x2000  Wait=no -usecache</string>
	<key>GraphicsEnabler</key>
	<string>No</string>
	<key>EthernetBuiltIn</key>
	<string>Yes</string>
	<key>Timeout</key>
	<string>1</string>
</dict>
</plist>

sh-3.2# cat /Extra/smbios.plist
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
	<key>SMbiosvendor</key>
	<string>Apple Inc.</string>
<key>SMbiosversion</key>
<string>MP31.88Z.00C1.B00.080209154<</string>
<key>SMmanufacter</key>
<string>Apple Computer, Inc.</string>
<key>SMproductname</key>
<string>MacPro3,1</string>
<key>SMsystemversion</key>
<string>1.0</string>
<key>SMserial</key>
<string>G87421B908S</string>
<key>SMfamily</key>
<string>macpro</string>
<key>SMboardmanufacter</key>
<string>Apple Computer, Inc.</string>
<key>SMboardproduct</key>
<string>Mac-F4208DC8</string>
	<key>SMsystemversion</key>
	<string>1.0</string>
	<key>SMUUID</key>
	<string>C0CE2600-93D7-3B41-843A-4D7C8E2C12E2</string>
</dict>
</plist>

USB setting in Bios is Auto for me (it should enable USB legacy and allow boot and/or detect keyboard mouses if they are connected at boot, disable it otherwise)

Regards

fegato · September 25, 2011

Lot of work here!

can't wait to come back from work to help out here and upgrade my (full working)M6400 - 10.6.8

to Lion 10.7.1

and maybe cooperate in writing another guide..

kmisterk · April 24, 2012

Wow. This threads been dead awhile.

Hate to bring back a dinosaur, but guess what. I'm trying to get this thing on lion. Best I can do is 10.6.3. Soon as I update, it breaks, and I'm sure there is a LOT of good info in this thread, But it seems so confusing. Maybe some of you who has had this thing successfully booted to lion could help me out. If you guys are even still watching this thread anyway.

Only issue I can see is that I've got Bios rev a.12, and an Nvidia Quadro FX 2700m (which seems to work perfect OOB in 10.6.3 using NawComs ModCD)

Hope I can get this situated.

UTR · May 12, 2012

I too have (anonymously - until now) been following this thread, waiting for some clarity. I've got a Dell Covet M6400 with a QX9300 quad core extreme, 32GB's of RAM, dual SSD's and a 1GB Quadro FX3700M video card. Would love to dual boot with W7 and Lion.

Oh well, I'll keep checking back.

kmisterk · May 18, 2012

Have you tried nawcoms boot cd?

macahaca · August 18, 2012

Ok, looks like network is working too

Thanks to adlan here: http://www.insanelym...howtopic=247470 that got fed up by hex editing the old AppleBCM5701 driver and ported a real driver from Linux.

Had to add the pci id of my card (14e4:1680) Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5761e Gigabit Ethernet PCIe (rev 10) in the Info.plist file, driver loaded in 10.7, no complaints, card was recognized , DHCP works, web browsing works, just copied a 8GB file over the net and no kp, so I would say the kext is working

Looking at this page: http://www.broadcom.com/support/ethernet_n...mine_driver.php

I think the driver _SHOULD_ work for all the chips tagged ad Nextreme/Desktop/Mobile, but YMMV

Device ID Part # Model

1600 BCM5752 NetXtreme Desktop/Mobile

1601 BCM5752M NetXtreme Desktop/Mobile

160a BCM5761E NetXtreme Desktop/Mobile

1646 BCM5702 NetXtreme Desktop/Mobile

1653 BCM5705 NetXtreme Desktop/Mobile

1654 BCM5705 NetXtreme Desktop/Mobile

165d BCM5705M NetXtreme Desktop/Mobile

165e BCM5705M NetXtreme Desktop/Mobile

1672 BCM5754M NetXtreme Desktop/Mobile

1673 BCM5755M NetXtreme Desktop/Mobile

1674 BCM5756ME NetXtreme Desktop/Mobile

1677 BCM5751 NetXtreme Desktop/Mobile

167a BCM5754 NetXtreme Desktop/Mobile

167b BCM5755 NetXtreme Desktop/Mobile

167d BCM5751M NetXtreme Desktop/Mobile

1680 BCM5761E NetXtreme Desktop/Mobile

1681 BCM5761 NetXtreme Desktop/Mobile

1684 BCM5764 NetXtreme Desktop/Mobile

1690 BCM57760 NetXtreme Desktop/Mobile

1696 BCM5782 NetXtreme Desktop/Mobile

16b0 BCM57761 NetXtreme Desktop/Mobile

16b4 BCM57765 NetXtreme Desktop/Mobile

16c7 BCM5703 NetXtreme Server

16f7 BCM5753 NetXtreme Desktop/Mobile

16fd BCM5753M NetXtreme Desktop/Mobile

16fe BCM5753F NetXtreme Desktop/Mobile

The guys writing on this forum always surprise me with the amount of time and effort they put into the hobby

Here's the modified version of the kext

BCM5722D.zip

Many thanks this helped me get my NetXtreme BCM5756ME Gigabit Ethernet PCI Express working perfectly :thumbsup_anim:

joshc12345 · January 6, 2013

can someone please help me get lion running on my m6400

10gb ram

intel core 2 quad q9000 2.0ghz

nvidia quadro fx 3700m

joshc12345 · January 12, 2013

can anyone help me crate a dsdt.aml for my system

dell precision m6400

core2quad q9000

nvidia quadro fx 3700m 1gb

newest bios revision from dell all bios settings are correct as per a post i read some where on here i will even pay the persom who makes the best one 50 bucks via paypal

fegato · November 6, 2013

hey everybody! I'm using mavericks now http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/293519-109-mavericks-on-dell-precision-m6400-work-in-progerss/

M-x-M · January 2, 2014

Me too

But having some troubles with battery, cpu speed and sleep, missing DVD driver. Other work well.

Installed using MyHack and Mavericks install from Apple Store.

Dell Precision M6400 OSX Lion

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