sunfish Posted December 6, 2011 Share Posted December 6, 2011 Greetings! The installation always seems to boot to a grey textured graphics screen, showing pictures of a desktop and a picture of a laptop alternately. It seems to ask the user to press the power button. Also, I can move the touchpad mouse cursor around. I have tried the following without success: patching AppleIntelCPUPowerManagement using 10.6.8 AppleACPIPlatform and IOPCIFamily removing NullPowerManagement using Mac8,1 smbios Dell Specs: Sandybridge HM67 HD3000 Core i5-2430M Any help is much appreciated. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LatinMcG Posted December 7, 2011 Share Posted December 7, 2011 likely needs dsdt with linux live like ubuntu or mint Ubuntu: sudo apt-get install acpidump iasl Then run the following commands on a terminal: mkdir ~/acpiinfo ; cd ~/acpiinfo sudo acpidump > acpidump.txt # enter password sudo acpixtract acpidump.txt ls *.dat | while read i; do iasl -d "${i}"; done pid=`sudo dmidecode -s system-product-name` vid=`sudo dmidecode -s system-version` name=${pid// /}.${vid// /} mkdir "${name}" && cp *.dsl "${name}"/ then zIp the /home/username/pcnamefolder and post Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sunfish Posted December 7, 2011 Author Share Posted December 7, 2011 https://rapidshare.com/files/3910553427/DellSystemInspironN411Z.zip Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LatinMcG Posted December 7, 2011 Share Posted December 7, 2011 ook ill try to patch it. most patches from dsdt guide for m1330 work for this i believe Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LatinMcG Posted December 7, 2011 Share Posted December 7, 2011 try this Sunfish_DSDT.aml.zip Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sunfish Posted December 10, 2011 Author Share Posted December 10, 2011 The problem is not DSDT. I have to chalk this one up as a LOL. Here is what happened: After trying to install numerous times, I got pissed and took it out on the Dell by slamming the keyboard with my fist. All of a sudden, the install screen showed up and I was able to install that damn lion. The "desktop" I was talking about is actually the apple wireless mouse and the "laptop" is the apple wireless keyboard. Apparently it was looking for the wireless mouse and keyboard. The only key that breaks the mouse/kb waiting screen is the space bar. Also, only some version of AppleACPIPS2Nub/ApplePS2Controller enables the laptop keyboard and trackpad. Adding to the complication is that only the USB 2.0 port in the left is active, so if you use it for a USB install drive, you'll have to get a USB hub in order to use USB wired/wireless mouse/kb. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LatinMcG Posted December 10, 2011 Share Posted December 10, 2011 i didnt fix fnkeys in dsdt. i did do ehci fix. that might only need one of them fixed not both Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sunfish Posted December 19, 2011 Author Share Posted December 19, 2011 The F11 and F12 keys work but F4/F5 for brightness control don't. Also, the "`" and "~" key is not mapped correctly. Do you think the fnkeys patch will fix it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ryanpat101 Posted July 4, 2012 Share Posted July 4, 2012 what did you use to install like the method thank you in advance i have same machine Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Faradis Posted June 22, 2013 Share Posted June 22, 2013 sunfish please give me suggestion how to install MAC OS X ML2 for my Install on a Dell Inspiron 14Z(N411Z) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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