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[Guide] Dell Inspiron 6400/9400/1520/1720/E1405/E1505/E1705 Intel Core Duo

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tbcarey
tbcarey
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Different board different video card different bios

 

Irrelevant. Same chipset, video card already mentioned irrespective of model, BIOS is nearly functionally identical between the two. Anyway, hope all of your questions are answered. Good luck to you. 

Cristial
Cristial
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tbcarey is EFI v5 the only one that works on dells or is it the only one u've tried? because i tried installed EFI v7.3 on a new leopard installation and all i get in verbose is Package 0 didn't get an HPET. also my hard drive was formated using guid following i_am_me's guide to installing efi

kevinosx
kevinosx
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Irrelevant. Same chipset, video card already mentioned irrespective of model, BIOS is nearly functionally identical between the two. Anyway, hope all of your questions are answered. Good luck to you. 

 

Are both cores working via the sleep initialization trick or is it working from the beginning? thx

ShiNZ
ShiNZ
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Tried installing some Synaptics trackpad driver, screwed up, made no backup. I think if i can replace the ApplePS2Controller.kext with the old one it'll function again. Anyone send me the file?

 

Also, I tried this

cd "/Volumes/(name-of-OSX-partition)"
diskutil repairPermissions ./
cd System/Library
rm -rf Extensions.mkext Extensions.kextcache
cd Extensions
find ApplePS2Controller.kext -type d -exec chmod 755 {} \;
find ApplePS2Controller.kext -type f -exec chmod 644 {} \;
chown -R root:wheel ApplePS2Controller.kext

 

but when I pressed enter on "cd Extensions", something like directory/file not found came out.

Anyone help? Suggestions?

 

Thx

ShiNZ

(I posted this somewhere else and no one helped.. Could someone at least please send/attach "ApplePS2Controller.kext" for me to download?)

Please help! I REALLY don't wanna re-install everything just because of the stupid keyboard. Could someone PLEASE attach "ApplePS2Controller.kext" for 10.4 here for me to download? Please. If it's illegal or something maybe I could PM you with my email for you to send? Please help a noob!

ShiNZ

reecepeart
reecepeart
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Hi Everyone!

I have a few questions that I know all you geniuses can only answer for me...

 

Firstly can the Retail Version of Leopard be patched with that patch?

 

Secondly how does a Dell Inspiron 1720 Laptop run Leopard Completely?

* Sound

* V-RAM

* Sleeping/Shutdown

* Wireless

 

 

Thirdly can VMWARE Fusion run on a Hackingtosh with Windows Media Center 2005?

 

Fourthly does Leopard have battery indication support? Also can a third party software measure and

run my battery?

 

Thank you,

Very Much

 

Reece Peart

josftx
josftx
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As mentioned in the initial post, T7200 processor and GeForce Go 7900 GS GPU. What other hardware would you consider relevant to dual-core functionality or sleep? ICH7 controller, 945GM chipset, etc. I'm triple-booting with Vista Home Premium x86 and Vista Ultimate x64.

 

What are the steps you follow? kexts and kernels ? can you do a list of steps?

tbcarey
tbcarey
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tbcarey is EFI v5 the only one that works on dells or is it the only one u've tried? because i tried installed EFI v7.3 on a new leopard installation and all i get in verbose is Package 0 didn't get an HPET. also my hard drive was formated using guid following i_am_me's guide to installing efi
My drive is MBR formatted, not GUID Partition Table, so I've only tried v5. Sorry!
Are both cores working via the sleep initialization trick or is it working from the beginning? thx
I still need to enter sleep to initialise the second core properly.
What are the steps you follow? kexts and kernels ? can you do a list of steps?
The steps were as mentioned in the initial post -- the only kexts replaced/added were Natit v0.2, my AppleHDA for 10.4.10, and the AppleSMBIOS included with the EFI package. I also performed the usual 'sudo pmset -a hibernatemode 0' trick to disable hybrid sleep. The interesting part is that I did not need to install nvidiaEFI to get sleep working after upgrading to the stock 9.1.0 kernel, which I previously needed to do with 10.4.10.
aquanutz
aquanutz
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I've got EFI 5.1 loaded... but the vanilla kernel of Leo 10.5 hangs on:

 

NTFS driver 2.0 [Flags: R/O].

NTFS volume name , version 3.1.

 

My ToH kernel that I installed no longer boots too... I'm going to boot of the ToH disk tomorrow, replace all the kexts and repair permissions, I'll post how it goes. Just wondering if anyone else had this problem(s).

tops
tops
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Also, despite the 10.4.10 AppleHDA patch working with Leopard, I fully intend to update the patch to be based on 10.5, which seems to use a new DSP/filtering library. Perhaps it may contain a few more surprises as well, but I've yet to look at it in any depth. Will get around to that as soon as I can, but it could be awhile given the hectic nature of the holiday season!

 

Any questions, let me know.

 

This may be a lot to ask, but can we get a headphone version of the kext along with the subwoofer version? That would be awesome if possible! I still want to be able to mute my system speakers when using headphones!

Demonhawk
Demonhawk
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EDIT: Okay disregard whatever I had written here earlier!

 

So I have 10.5.1 Leopard Installed and working using PC EFI v5.2 on a E1705 2.0Ghz with Nvidia 7900 GS with NVInject .15, Broadcom 440x using the 10.4.6 kext. However I could not get the Sigmatel 9200 working at all using the AppleHDAPatcher nor the special 10.4.10 kext. Also sleep and speedstep do NOT work. Also the 3965 Intel Wireless card does not work AT ALL and results in a KERNEL PANIC. If anyone knows/has a solution please let me know!

erudified
erudified
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Hi! First post here =)

 

I'm trying to patch this bootloader: http://www.tgwbd.org/darwin/boot.html (this is the basis of PC_EFI) to support loading of arbitrary DSDT tables - I'm not there yet, but I was hoping to get my hands on ACPI dumps from some known working hardware so I can test things out when I get it working. Here's what I'd like to get:

 

DSDT from:

 

1.) As many core duo/core 2 duo MacBooks as possible

2.) Dell E1720/E1520 machines with the latest BIOS revision

 

If you've got linux installed, just cat /proc/acpi/dsdt > my_laptop.bin and send it to me! If you don't, just boot a livecd and do it anyways =)

 

What's the goal of this? Booting the vanilla kernel with no flags and having dual cores and sleep just work. Yeah boi!

 

I had initially asked about IOGraphics-233, but it seems I was a bit misguided about how to get native res with my X1400. It turns out, this can also be implemented in the bootloader! It iterates through the VBE modes and selects the one nearest to what you've defined in com.apple.Boot.plist and defaults to 1024x768x32 - this is why setting, e.g., 1440x900x32 as my graphics mode via the plist method results in 1152x864 stretched.

 

Native resolution for us X1400 users is my new first priority! I hope to have it working in the morning.

 

Thanks in advance,

Alex

 

UPDATE: As it turns out, the VBE setMode function won't allow you to set arbitrary resolutions. The spec has stereoscopic 3D support, but no arbitrary resolutions!! Can't win em all, I guess =). I'm attempting to port the relevant modesetting functions from the open source RadeonHD driver (not to be confused with netkas' radeonhd). I'm just going to hardcode my 1440x900 rensolution initially. Maybe EDID later if I feel ambitious.

josftx
josftx
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Hi! First post here =)

 

I'm trying to patch this bootloader: http://www.tgwbd.org/darwin/boot.html (this is the basis of PC_EFI) to support loading of arbitrary DSDT tables - I'm not there yet, but I was hoping to get my hands on ACPI dumps from some known working hardware so I can test things out when I get it working. Here's what I'd like to get:

 

DSDT from:

 

1.) As many core duo/core 2 duo MacBooks as possible

2.) Dell E1720/E1520 machines with the latest BIOS revision

 

If you've got linux installed, just cat /proc/acpi/dsdt > my_laptop.bin and send it to me! If you don't, just boot a livecd and do it anyways =)

 

What's the goal of this? Booting the vanilla kernel with no flags and having dual cores and sleep just work. Yeah boi!

 

I had initially asked about IOGraphics-233, but it seems I was a bit misguided about how to get native res with my X1400. It turns out, this can also be implemented in the bootloader! It iterates through the VBE modes and selects the one nearest to what you've defined in com.apple.Boot.plist and defaults to 1024x768x32 - this is why setting, e.g., 1440x900x32 as my graphics mode via the plist method results in 1152x864 stretched.

 

Native resolution for us X1400 users is my new first priority! I hope to have it working in the morning.

 

Thanks in advance,

Alex

I hope that you can run dual cores with no flags. wait me, i´ll send you a linux dump.but i have the A08 bios..

 

EDIT: the dump has 18kb. does work?

viperrt74
viperrt74
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HI I just upgraded to 10.4.10 using koolkat updater. I have a e1705 with gma950. It did update just fine but now my screen does not work only an external monitor works. I updated from a jas 10.4.9. I looked through alot of threads but no help. Please help if you can. Thank you in advance.

TheGreatDeceiver
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HI I just upgraded to 10.4.10 using koolkat updater. I have a e1705 with gma950. It did update just fine but now my screen does not work only an external monitor works. I updated from a jas 10.4.9. I looked through alot of threads but no help. Please help if you can. Thank you in advance.

 

I had the same exact problem and was able to fix it by putting the previous IntelIntegratedFramebuffer.kext back to the extension folder. I used the one from the ToH disk, but really any previous one should work if not too old.

 

you can also use Jas gma950 pkg from his disk if you have it and install it over, then copy gma950 kexts back from leo (except the framebuffer..)

good luck

oSxFr33k
oSxFr33k
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EFI 8.0 with Guid here.

 

Keyboard does not work?

 

If I don't pass CPUS=1 My D820 keeps rebooting and only occasional will it boot in.

 

 

I am running NVInjectGO.kext and wonder if I shoul try Natit or try a lower version EFI?

 

Is this Mobile Core 2 Dilema only related to Dell Laptops are all laptops in general using Core 2 DUos?

yozh
yozh
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I got to be the most unlucky person. I bought the 7300 for my dell and with nvinject I got the full resolution and QE/CI no tearing looks perfect. But freaking sleep still doesnt work. The screen does go off,, but the bluetooth is lit I hear the HD and the fan and when I press any key it doesnt come back on. What ta hell is going on ? Please some one help.

TheGreatDeceiver
TheGreatDeceiver
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I got to be the most unlucky person. I bought the 7300 for my dell and with nvinject I got the full resolution and QE/CI no tearing looks perfect. But freaking sleep still doesnt work. The screen does go off,, but the bluetooth is lit I hear the HD and the fan and when I press any key it doesnt come back on. What ta hell is going on ? Please some one help.
sounds like it does exactly what it did before the upgrade? what you describe is happening on my 6400 with the gma950. btw. you are not alone. I tried to upgrade mine to the 7300 and found out that I cannot upgrade from an onboard to a dedicated gfx card with the 6400 :blink: . selling the card back on ebay :P looks like the Dell's hardware is doing something funny with the sleep. I give up and I believe there won't be a fix for sleep on Dell's (But deep inside I am still hoping to come across a solution).good luck
i sell my 9400 with leopard preinstalled.. here is the ebay address:http://cgi.ebay.de/Dell-Inspiron-9400-Roya...1QQcmdZViewItem
hehe: "Es ist eine Demoversion von Leopard auf dem Laptop vorinstalliert, dass nach dem Kauf gelöscht werden muss. "nice idea, interessant. das bist du ja schnell losgeworden ;)
yozh
yozh
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Well no its not doing the same. The screen actually does go off, it didnt before with x1400. Still no sleep. Oh and also I cant use the "sudo pmset -a hibernatemode 0" command it gives me a error that it cant change the custom power settings or somethign similar to that.

 

Also when I close the lid nothing happenes. I`m using the powermanagment bundle from the 1st post, should I try some other one ? really really frustrated here :angel:

 

If wify wasnt pregnant I probably buy a mac book already,

oSxFr33k
oSxFr33k
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1505 Broadcom Wireless. I have it installed on my Dell D820 and works right away from Leopard Vanilla Install. How can I tell if I am getting the airport Extreme Speeds? 100mbit right?

 

Maybe dslreports.com?

 

ifconfig does not really give enough information.

Spence825
Spence825
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I have a dell e1405 and im running the uphuck 10.4.9 1.4i_r2. I have no networking, I downloaded the ionetworkingfamily.kext but im new to the mac so I dont know how to replace it or repair permissions and that sorta stuff. Someone please help.

 

My sigmatel sound card does not work either but I get audio from a usb sound card.

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