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

[blazes816]

I followed the instructions exactly. I know have my resolution up, but only on my external monitor. My internal is now blank. I also don't have QE/CI enabled. Any help? I'm on Kalyway Leopard.

[michaelOSX]

Edit: Damn it, everything was going fine until I went to the Disk Utility to Repair Disk Permissions...

Now while booting it stops on

#localhost /root: _here a space to type

 

Why did this happen?

 

Hi!

 

I can't tell you why this happened. But it worked in the past didn't it? So I would reinstall and see if it works - then try to reconstructing this problem. (Or don't, if it works after install again and you dont want to install it over and over... )

[yozh]

So anyone brave ? updated to 10.5.2 ? I`m on kalyway DVD wondering if I should try it ?

[touchthesky]

Hi!

 

I can't tell you why this happened. But it worked in the past didn't it? So I would reinstall and see if it works - then try to reconstructing this problem. (Or don't, if it works after install again and you dont want to install it over and over... )

First of all, thanks for answering.

Now, yeah, it would work again... but still how do I solve the problem of the system being so slow, or why is it slow?

[yozh]

OK I was the brave one, updated to 10.5.2 on kalyway DVD,

 

Had to follow instructions on http://netkas.org/?p=50 then replaced the applesmbios, applehda, appleps2controller, appleacpiplatform

 

the keyboard/mouse doesnt work on first boot had to use USB.

 

Battery meter is gone. Sleep still works! If you find a way to get battery back let me know.

 

Going to try to put powermanagemnet bundle.

 

Update: Powermanagment bundle seems to work now. I did have a problem for 1 wake up, might of been a fluke will try again.

[macgirl]

for battery you need to match the AppleACPIPlatform.kext and IOACPIFamily.kext in the plist of the AppleACPIPowerSource.kext

 

you can use the AppleACPIPowerSource.kext alone with the Vanilla AppleACPIPlatform.kext though but you alse will need ACPIPS2Nub.kext

 

New AppleACPIPlatform.kext is 1.2.1 and new IOACPIFamily.kext is 1.2.0

[michaelOSX]

but still how do I solve the problem of the system being so slow, or why is it slow?

 

Oh, sorry. I didn't know that your system is slow. But what should a disk repair change?

Have you installed something different or selected (at the install) a wrong kext or something?

[yozh]

Ok 10.5.2 works great sleep still works and every thing else seems to work as well. Enjoy

[touchthesky]

Oh, sorry. I didn't know that your system is slow. But what should a disk repair change?

Have you installed something different or selected (at the install) a wrong kext or something?

No, actually I just did it because I read a topic which said permissions should be repaired right after install if it was going slow... but i guess it did no good for me.

 

So, let me see if I got the kext load part right: Do I have to copy now the according kext files (to fix sound, video, etc.) to System/Extensions in order to load them through Terminal? Will a flash drive work for this?

[manmower]

Ive read a lot of posts in this topic, and I see that a lot of people have the same problem as me...

A dell 6400 with an ATI x1400 with edited ATIRadeonX1000.kext, but still a black screen... (after the stripes...)

 

Does ANYONE has a solution?

I've read about not installing any video drivers... can anyone confirm that?

Im using a Kalyway installation by the way...

 

Thanks in advance!

[manmower]

allright...

 

I just tried installing without selecting a video driver using kalyway... I dont have the black screen anymore, so I have visuals... but my resolution is 1024x768... and I think its a bit jerky...

[TheGreatDeceiver]

those of you with 6400/E1505 and gma950 gfx that upgraded to 10.5.2, did the mouse tearing go away? I see in other threads that people with e.g. desktop gma950 that used to have mouse tearing don't have it anymore after upgrading plus the new graphic upgrade that shows on updates.

wonder if this works with the dell notebooks as well???

 

btw. the reports I've read are referring to Kalyway's 10.5.2 patched upgrade and his kernel upgrade, not the stock apple upgrade.

 

will give this a try tomorrow.

[typhoonman]

Hi all.. finally i've got a working osx 10.5.1 on my dell Inspiron 9400 (BIOS A09)

 

i've used kalyway release with vanilla kernel+efi and i've installed it into an USB external drive

 

i have the cpu issue so i'm with 1 cpu by bios right now.

lan and video works perfectly with kalyway drivers, i have a geforce 7900gs

bluetooth works

wifi haven't installed so i don't know

 

i still have 2 problems:

 

1-i've installed APPLEHDA Dell Inspiron 9400.dmg for my sigmatel audio device, is for 10.4.10 but i've read it works fine also in 10.5.1, anyway i've used "kext helper" for install as i don't know how without, it has installed everything well and i have not the "bad kext installation" warning at boot.

The problem is that it doesn't works it outputs no audio, i have no input selection, and if i try using the "play thru sigmatel 9200" app it hangs and i have to force quit. Am i missing something ?

i've tried also trashing apple audio prefs, i think the problem is that i've selected kalyway audio drivers during install.. could be the problem ?

 

2-I've read everywhere that sleep works with vanilla kernel.. but mine doesn't works, i mean it goes to sleep, and it turns off my usb hd aswell and power led starts blinking, but when i press something to back it on it just reboot from bios.

i would like to have a working sleep mode so i can use the sleep trick to enable boh processors..

are there particular bios settings for sleep? or do i have to trash/change some kext ?

what am i missing?

 

many thanks for any answer!!!

[sonotone]

Hi all.. finally i've got a working osx 10.5.1 on my dell Inspiron 9400 (BIOS A09)

 

i've used kalyway release with vanilla kernel+efi and i've installed it into an USB external drive

 

i have the cpu issue so i'm with 1 cpu by bios right now.

lan and video works perfectly with kalyway drivers, i have a geforce 7900gs

bluetooth works

wifi haven't installed so i don't know

 

i still have 2 problems:

 

1-i've installed APPLEHDA Dell Inspiron 9400.dmg for my sigmatel audio device, is for 10.4.10 but i've read it works fine also in 10.5.1, anyway i've used "kext helper" for install as i don't know how without, it has installed everything well and i have not the "bad kext installation" warning at boot.

The problem is that it doesn't works it outputs no audio, i have no input selection, and if i try using the "play thru sigmatel 9200" app it hangs and i have to force quit. Am i missing something ?

i've tried also trashing apple audio prefs, i think the problem is that i've selected kalyway audio drivers during install.. could be the problem ?

 

2-I've read everywhere that sleep works with vanilla kernel.. but mine doesn't works, i mean it goes to sleep, and it turns off my usb hd aswell and power led starts blinking, but when i press something to back it on it just reboot from bios.

i would like to have a working sleep mode so i can use the sleep trick to enable boh processors..

are there particular bios settings for sleep? or do i have to trash/change some kext ?

what am i missing?

 

many thanks for any answer!!!

 

Try to set your defaut bios settings. "Sleep prevent..." or something like this cause reboot after sleep if it's turned off.

[typhoonman]

1-i've installed APPLEHDA Dell Inspiron 9400.dmg for my sigmatel audio device, is for 10.4.10 but i've read it works fine also in 10.5.1, anyway i've used "kext helper" for install as i don't know how without, it has installed everything well and i have not the "bad kext installation" warning at boot.

The problem is that it doesn't works it outputs no audio, i have no input selection, and if i try using the "play thru sigmatel 9200" app it hangs and i have to force quit. Am i missing something ?

i've tried also trashing apple audio prefs, i think the problem is that i've selected kalyway audio drivers during install.. could be the problem ?

 

update: i've reinstalled again everything disabling kalyway audio driver during install, tried again "AppleHDA Dell Inspiron 9400", now i have the right options under the sound preference pane, i have mic in in input and "internal speaker" or "headphones" as output using Stereo Master Output and SubWoofer, "play thru for SigmaTel 9200" doesn't hangs anymore if i click play thru, so now i can hear sounds but with volume i can control only the front speakers and subwoofer keeps the same volume until i go to 0 volume then it stops, also there is no way to get the audio going out thru the minijack, if i insert headphones the control panel recognizes it but doesn't output any sound, is that normal ?

mic in seems to work fine i've plugged headphones in it and i can hear my voice thru the speakers using the little app.

 

Try to set your defaut bios settings. "Sleep prevent..." or something like this cause reboot after sleep if it's turned off.

 

i've just looked inside bios there are no options regarding any sleep mode, let's say the word "sleep" is not present in my Bios, anywhere!!

i have bios a09. yours ?

also i get hangs even with just monitor off, i mean that if it goes black it will never show up again, i have to hard reset.

i think i have no chance if even the graphic card won't sleep right?

the strange thing is that you have the same computer as mine, the graphic card aswell!!

well is not identical cause you have the dell wifi and i have intel one cause dell was incompatible with some other parts i've choose during configuration on dell website, so it's a bit different...

also consider that i'm booting from an external usb drive, dunno fi it means something btw.

The graphic card is identical, why i get hangs with just monitor off, probably we have a different graphic card bios version ???? i have to do some more tests..

 

here are geforce7900 info from apple system profiler:

  Chipset Model:	GeForce Go 7900 GS
 Type:	Display
 Bus:	PCIe
 PCIe Lane Width:	x16
 VRAM (Total):	256 MB
 Vendor:	NVIDIA (0x10de)
 Device ID:	0x0298
 Revision ID:	0x00a1
 ROM Revision:	NVinject 0.1.5

[sonotone]

Sorry, i do not enter in bios setup for a while... the option is "cpu XD" in security. you need to keep this enable.

Also try to use the latest nvinject. (attached in first post)

And Osx86 is not an "exact science": with the same laptop as you, i can't boot with my both cores under Leopard 5.2...and it works flawless on my USB external drive.

[typhoonman]

sleep works now fantastic!!! thank you!

anyway i can't boot with disable bit on and multi cpu support, no way, it auto reboots during the blank page with the apple logo, i wanted to have sleep ability to use the trick for using multi cores, but i cannot boot so i'm forced to use 1 cpu..

 

about audio, do you have sound going out thru the minijack aswell or only internal speakers also for you ?

 

i really need minijack out to be working, else i'll lose my purpouse (that is evaluating audio plug-ins performance in logic pro on an intel system, and compare to my real mac g5 ppc with tiger and logic v7, and possibly the ability to use logic when i'm not at home, but i need headphones!)

 

i've done xbench in the meantime this is mine (with only 1 cpu) compared to my g5 2.5 dual

 

laptop

Results	129.74	
System Info		
	Xbench Version		1.3
	System Version		10.5.1 (9B18)
	Physical RAM		2048 MB
	Model		Mac Pro
	Drive Type		Maxtor 6Y250P0
CPU Test	124.62	
	GCD Loop	254.61	13.42 Mops/sec
	Floating Point Basic	123.59	2.94 Gflop/sec
	vecLib FFT	101.02	3.33 Gflop/sec
	Floating Point Library	98.23	17.11 Mops/sec
Thread Test	126.47	
	Computation	99.26	2.01 Mops/sec, 4 threads
	Lock Contention	174.24	7.50 Mlocks/sec, 4 threads
Memory Test	139.04	
	System	159.88	
		Allocate	259.38	952.53 Kalloc/sec
		Fill	131.41	6389.39 MB/sec
		Copy	137.00	2829.67 MB/sec
	Stream	123.01	
		Copy	115.30	2381.48 MB/sec
		Scale	119.52	2469.33 MB/sec
		Add	129.04	2748.82 MB/sec
		Triad	129.41	2768.33 MB/sec
Quartz Graphics Test	199.13	
	Line	148.97	9.92 Klines/sec [50% alpha]
	Rectangle	213.57	63.76 Krects/sec [50% alpha]
	Circle	173.34	14.13 Kcircles/sec [50% alpha]
	Bezier	168.99	4.26 Kbeziers/sec [50% alpha]
	Text	493.29	30.86 Kchars/sec
OpenGL Graphics Test	176.53	
	Spinning Squares	176.53	223.94 frames/sec
User Interface Test	297.25	
	Elements	297.25	1.36 Krefresh/sec
Disk Test	49.97	
	Sequential	47.65	
		Uncached Write	47.66	29.26 MB/sec [4K blocks]
		Uncached Write	48.20	27.27 MB/sec [256K blocks]
		Uncached Read	35.01	10.25 MB/sec [4K blocks]
		Uncached Read	73.28	36.83 MB/sec [256K blocks]
	Random	52.52	
		Uncached Write	22.28	2.36 MB/sec [4K blocks]
		Uncached Write	88.51	28.34 MB/sec [256K blocks]
		Uncached Read	93.21	0.66 MB/sec [4K blocks]
		Uncached Read	107.92	20.03 MB/sec [256K blocks]

 

this is the mac g5

 

Results	125.96	
System Info		
	Xbench Version		1.3
	System Version		10.4.9 (8P135)
	Physical RAM		2560 MB
	Model		PowerMac7,3
	Processor		PowerPC G5x2 @ 2.50 GHz
		L1 Cache		64K (instruction), 32K (data)
		L2 Cache		512K @ 2.50 GHz
		Bus Frequency		1 GHz
	Video Card		ATY,RV351
	Drive Type		Hitachi HDS722525VLSA80
CPU Test	147.92	
	GCD Loop	114.21	6.02 Mops/sec
	Floating Point Basic	167.10	3.97 Gflop/sec
	AltiVec Basic	328.80	13.10 Gflop/sec
	vecLib FFT	126.78	4.18 Gflop/sec
	Floating Point Library	122.97	21.41 Mops/sec
Thread Test	127.37	
	Computation	129.91	2.63 Mops/sec, 4 threads
	Lock Contention	124.94	5.37 Mlocks/sec, 4 threads
Memory Test	109.67	
	System	108.64	
		Allocate	133.66	490.83 Kalloc/sec
		Fill	123.73	6016.18 MB/sec
		Copy	82.98	1713.90 MB/sec
	Stream	110.73	
		Copy	104.37	2155.76 MB/sec [G5]
		Scale	104.98	2168.75 MB/sec [G5]
		Add	117.48	2502.47 MB/sec [G5]
		Triad	117.57	2515.04 MB/sec [G5]
Quartz Graphics Test	138.24	
	Line	127.80	8.51 Klines/sec [50% alpha]
	Rectangle	127.99	38.21 Krects/sec [50% alpha]
	Circle	132.45	10.80 Kcircles/sec [50% alpha]
	Bezier	128.32	3.24 Kbeziers/sec [50% alpha]
	Text	192.74	12.06 Kchars/sec
OpenGL Graphics Test	155.89	
	Spinning Squares	155.89	197.75 frames/sec
User Interface Test	136.97	
	Elements	136.97	628.61 refresh/sec
Disk Test	60.04	
	Sequential	83.90	
		Uncached Write	99.01	60.79 MB/sec [4K blocks]
		Uncached Write	96.48	54.59 MB/sec [256K blocks]
		Uncached Read	91.30	26.72 MB/sec [4K blocks]
		Uncached Read	61.51	30.91 MB/sec [256K blocks]
	Random	46.75	
		Uncached Write	17.52	1.86 MB/sec [4K blocks]
		Uncached Write	91.24	29.21 MB/sec [256K blocks]
		Uncached Read	95.09	0.67 MB/sec [4K blocks]
		Uncached Read	142.28	26.40 MB/sec [256K blocks]

 

it seems i have better cpu (even 1v1) and disk (well obviously, i'm using usb drive in laptop) in G5, while laptop has better memory and graphic, my g5 still rocks yeah

the strange thing is the thread test, i get very high values in laptop even with 1 cpu, similar result i had with g5 and 2 cores!! it seems my t7400 have nearly better multithreading handle with only 1 cpu than a dual g5 2.5 with both cores on ?!?!?!

[TheGreatDeceiver]

those of you with 6400/E1505 and gma950 gfx that upgraded to 10.5.2, did the mouse tearing go away? I see in other threads that people with e.g. desktop gma950 that used to have mouse tearing don't have it anymore after upgrading plus the new graphic upgrade that shows on updates.

wonder if this works with the dell notebooks as well???

 

btw. the reports I've read are referring to Kalyway's 10.5.2 patched upgrade and his kernel upgrade, not the stock apple upgrade.

 

will give this a try tomorrow.

 

ok, went ahead and installed kalyway's 10.5.2 combo updater onto the existing kalyway 10.5.1. worked great, no problems with the exception of no write to ntfs drives. I guess my paragon ntfs for osx bit the bullet. have to reinstall this. powermanagement went back to were it used to be, e.g. no battery meter. need to get this back as well.

 

then I installed the graphic update available for download. installed that and ended up with black screen after boot. same old problem. Now I have to wait until I get sth to get my gma950 kexts back that work. has to wait until tomorrow.

 

anyways, kalyway 10.5.2 update works smoothly, however the graphic update from apple for your gma950 dell notebook will get you a black screen after boot. will report back when I get the working gma950 kexts back. but knowing that I have to put old kexts back makes me believe that I will still have problems with mouse tearing.

 

later

 

edit 1: later... was able to connect an external monitor and install older AppleIntelIntegratedFramebuffer.kext. That fixed the black screen. Reinstalled Paragon NTFS and works fine now. Unfortunately, the mouse tearing is still present. So, what works for the desktops in the other threads certainly does not work for the Dell 6400 with gma950 - too bad, was so promising. also installed the new mach_92 from netkas and the new smbios from netkas. everything works fine, just like before. Got everything except sleep and the mouse tearing. gotta live with it I know.

[Terrence Monroe]

Ok I have Uphuck's Mac OS X86 10.4.9 on my Dell E1705. I would like to put 10.5.1 on to replace it, but I'm having doubts about getting my ATI X1400 working properly. Right now It's running with 1600x1200 res. If I do the same thing I did with 10.4.9 will it work?

[candykane]

I got a dell 6400/E1505 and gma950 gfx im using kalaway 10.5.1 and can tell you no more mouse trouble for moost of the time only program witch does give me trouble thats firefox after i open that program the mouse trouble starts and en when. close the program strange but true dont have any trouble with safari.

do have the CPU bug. Got a dual core cpu so disabled 1 core in the bios verythings just working great now. exept of course the sleep function thinking about ditching this dell 6400 and getting me a toshiba A200 there close to 99% compatible

[aerotwelve]

Ok I have Uphuck's Mac OS X86 10.4.9 on my Dell E1705. I would like to put 10.5.1 on to replace it, but I'm having doubts about getting my ATI X1400 working properly. Right now It's running with 1600x1200 res. If I do the same thing I did with 10.4.9 will it work?

 

It should work fine, it did for me. Question, if I may, how did you get your res that high? What's your panel's native res?

[sonotone]

Add a little weirdness to this. I just realized that when I had an NTFS partition as the first partition on the drive, (prior to making this a Leopard only machine) That the issue did not happen. When I first cloned the second partition to the first one problem first happened. And still persists with the whole drive as one partition.

 

iAtkos resulted in the same problem.

 

I'm thinking of possibly creating a small NTFS partition as the first partition and seeing if I can duplicate the results.

 

Any news about testing?

[kokoras]

Any news about testing?

please help me

 

hello my name is Manos and i have Inspiron 9400 ,

T7200 (from bios disable 1 core),

Go7900 GS (no dual display but 1920x1200) ,

wifi intel 4965 (not working) ,

sound Sigmatel 9200 (not working) ,

Bios A09 ,

 

and Leeopard 10.5 Hackintosh.

 

i want help for Sigmatel 9200 , and Go7900gs support dual display...but with step by step instructions....

[sonotone]

Don't be so lasy, all answers are in the topic.

Video: http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?sho...st&p=591863

Sound: http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?sho...amp;hl=stac9200 "How to install a kext file"

http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?act...st&id=17891

[yozh]

So some one is buying my dell. I`m thinking of getting a new one eather another dell or a macbook. I rather get teh 15.4 inch dell then the 13.3 inch mac. Which dell is the most compatable ? The core issue and vid card and such.... Is the new Vastro more compatable ? Please let me know before I buy. Thanks in advance.