[Guide & Boot CD] D-Series Latitude/w NVIDIA or GMA950 and Intel Dual Core Retail Installs

[Mikkp]

Hey guys, i have a problem.

 

Im running Snow Leopard 10.6.2 on a Nvidia Dell D620.

My bar on the top(where you have the battery meter and etc), has purple buttons instead of blue.

I have tried changing my Display color settings and it has worked but some applications shadows are now cubes.

Not sure what to do, anyone else having this problem?

NVIDIA GeForce Go 7300:

 Chipset Model:	GeForce Go 7300
 Type:	GPU
 Bus:	PCIe
 PCIe Lane Width:	x16
 VRAM (Total):	64 MB
 Vendor:	NVIDIA (0x10de)
 Device ID:	0x01d7
 Revision ID:	0x00a1
 ROM Revision:	xx.xx.xx - internal
 Displays:
Display:
 Resolution:	1440 x 900
 Pixel Depth:	32-Bit Color (ARGB8888)
 Main Display:	Yes
 Mirror:	Off
 Online:	Yes
 Built-In:	Yes
Display Connector:
 Status:	No Display Connected

 

Mikk

[noisey]

Hey guys, just checking in. Been lurking for a few days now. Great thread, and great work to everyone, especially leppy700m. I really appreciate your work. This has been far more helpful than other threads on other boards I've looked at.

 

So, here's where things stand with me: I've got a D820 with the 2 GHz 7200, NVidia Quadro NVS 110M (128 MB), Broadcom (DW1490), the rest of the usuals. Got (most) everything working right in 10.6.0 32-bit mode with the help of leppy700m's post-install stuff (QE/CI, sound, keyboard and trackpad, wireless - even the wired ethernet looks like it wants to work - but I haven't tried it yet) - with notable exceptions of sleep and display turn-off when the lid's shut. Tried 64-bit mode, but sound acted like it didn't want to work, so back to 32 I went. I haven't done any DSDT patching or put any EFI strings in my com.apple.boot.plist. I haven't tried on battery power yet - I've got one dead battery and another defective one I've just returned (should get one here soon, hopefully it will work!)

 

Couple things I wanted to ask/state:

1. I got heat/fan issues. This thing runs hot, and always has. Doesn't matter what OS. In Windows I used to run SpeedFan or I8KFANGUI to keep the thing running cooler. Anyone have any experience with heat abatement with this from an OSX standpoint? Sleep would be nice for this.

 

2. I'm having ... some luck with the docking station (PR01X, you might call it a d/port). Anyone tried this with either 10.5.x or 10.6.x and want to enlighten me?

• a) In BIOS I set it to use the laptop's video card as opposed to the onboard on the dock, and had to boot up once with the lid open to enable mirroring. But, I think when the lid's closed, the display still may come on (need verification) so I've turned down the brightness (it's only a black screen, but still).
  
• No sound through the docking station - have to plug speakers into the headphone jack on the side of the laptop instead of the docking station's 1/8" jack.
  
• c) I haven't tried Ethernet on the docking station yet but ... I will likely soon - need to install some CAT-6 drops in the house since it's getting cooler and 802.11g just doesn't cut it.
  

3. Errors when installing software, it whines about not being plugged in. Even if it is - just on regular adapter and also on the dock.

 

Regardless of my gripes or whatever, I've been fairly happy with the results.

 

Has anyone with a similar config to mine gone up to 10.6.2? Your experiences?

[Edijs]

Great.. I found out how to get my Airport working. Actually there was not problem at all - except the one that I had my broadcom wifi card in wrong mini-pci port. There are two ports inside my d620 - one with title "wwan" on it and another with "wlan". And broadcom wifi card don't work in "wwan" port. So, everything is ok with Airport now. Now I will try to update to 10.6.2. Wish me luck.

 

O, I had a question about d620 touchpad. It doesn't understand multi touch, am I right? But I heard, that touchpad from d630 supports that feature. So, the question is - does anyone tried to change the touchpad, put one from d630 in some d620? I can't figure out, how to get them out..

 

Yesterday one friend of mine offer my an exchange - my d620 vs his macbook white. Technical parameters are +- same, except that I have nvidia video, but he has intel card. But ok, that is real Mac, not a hackintosh anymore. And then I started to think - what is that what I need from my Dell for full happiness.. One of the things is multi touch touchpad, I want to scroll with two fingers and go back/forward with three fingers. Etc. And Mac's touchpad works better than Dell's. About display - Dell has larger resolution, but Mac has brighter colors.. So.. I don't know what to do. My friend need windows 7 for work and he has problems with it on macbook. So, he wants to change... Hmm. Yes or no, that is the question.

[GrandMstrBud]

Hello, the guide was excellent and the boot CD worked perfect. The few things that I noticed is if I have the monitor set to shut off after an hour it does not want to come back on and when closing the lid it does not want to go into sleep for me. The other thing is I would really love to get the PCMCIA working so I can use a data card. Other than that everything works great and I even updated to 10.6.2 with no issues. I have not run it to long to fully test it but I will tomorrow when I get my own HD for this D620.

Thanks

[p0rl1n]

GrandMstrBud- to get PCMCIA working, try adding the attached kexts to the /Extra/Extensions folder and run the rebuild_mkext.command, it works witn my sprint novatel wireless broadband card. you also might want to try the power management kexts mentioned earlier.

 

leppy- thank you for all of your work, this is by far the easiest setup method for the d620.

PCMCIAkext.zip

[GrandMstrBud]

GrandMstrBud- to get PCMCIA working, try adding the attached kexts to the /Extra/Extensions folder and run the rebuild_mkext.command, it works witn my sprint novatel wireless broadband card. you also might want to try the power management kexts mentioned earlier.

 

leppy- thank you for all of your work, this is by far the easiest setup method for the d620.

 

 

Thanks, I'll give it a shot tomorrow. Now to search for those power management kexts. Are you referring to the PM_Kexts posted a few pages back? BTW leepy if you need someone to test just let me know.

[leppy700m]

Has anyone with a similar config to mine gone up to 10.6.2? Your experiences?

• I think 10.6.2 screws up the Nvidia kexts for the nvs110/7300 series graphics adapters.
  
• The EFI string posted a page or so ago provides better NVS110 graphics.
  
• When I updated to 10.6.2 I started seeing errors KP in 64 bit mode on my D620/nvidia machine. If you updated to 10.6.2, I think you are going to end up needing to back out all the applicable video kexts. DVD player is also broken on mine after the 10.6.2 update, and I believe it related to the graphics problems now well documented with the NV 7300 series graphics chip and the update.
  
• I had a typo in my 64-bit plist on the latest CD. It's being fixed shortly.
  {*]There's a companion applet for the voodoohda.kext that may enable sound on the dock. I haven't tried it.
  
• I haven't got video from the DVI port on the dock.
  
• Heat is controlled better with VoodooPower.kext and AppleACPIThermal.kext. Scroll back a few pages and your find a link. Also, make sure you clean the cooling system with some compressed air every year or so. Even in a relatively clean environment, dust builds and plugs passages in cooling tubes. The laptop may need to be partially disassembled to get this done.
  

Hey guys, i have a problem.

 

Im running Snow Leopard 10.6.2 on a Nvidia Dell D620.

My bar on the top(where you have the battery meter and etc), has purple buttons instead of blue.

 

Again, I don't think 10.6.2 graphics are working right on the D620/Nvidia machine. The graphics processor design is close to the 7300 chip, which definitely has problems with 10.6.2.

 

Yesterday one friend of mine offer my an exchange - my d620 vs his macbook white. ....So, he wants to change... Hmm. Yes or no, that is the question.

LOL - is that a serious question? On the off chance it is, I'll try to give it the consideration it's due.

 

• If you drive a minivan, are metro-sexual or {censored}, go for the pretty white Macbook.
  
• If you drink whiskey straight up, wipe your snotty nose with your sleeve and don't bother lifting the lid before peeing all over it, don't even think about giving up that he-man D620 with it's military good looks.
  
• If neither of the above two, start another thread with a vote button.
  

[Mikkp]

Reverting back to 10.6 then, Joy

[noisey]

• I think 10.6.2 screws up the Nvidia kexts for the nvs110/7300 series graphics adapters.
  
• The EFI string posted a page or so ago provides better NVS110 graphics.
  
• When I updated to 10.6.2 I started seeing errors KP in 64 bit mode on my D620/nvidia machine. If you updated to 10.6.2, I think you are going to end up needing to back out all the applicable video kexts. DVD player is also broken on mine after the 10.6.2 update, and I believe it related to the graphics problems now well documented with the NV 7300 series graphics chip and the update.
  

 

Believe it or not, I'm up to 10.6.2 this morning, and things still look relatively kosher to me. I am reporting now as a GeForce Go 7300, but it all looks right. DVD player doesn't work, sure, but a higher power than me made VLC for a reason anyways. No big loss, I'll continue.

 

• I haven't got video from the DVI port on the dock.
  

 

I have (and am right this moment, can attest it works on my D820 - my wife probably won't let me tinker on her D620 ). Used the method earlier (while docked go into BIOS, set to use laptop onboard video when docked, not dock video).

 

• Heat is controlled better with VoodooPower.kext and AppleACPIThermal.kext. Scroll back a few pages and your find a link. Also, make sure you clean the cooling system with some compressed air every year or so. Even in a relatively clean environment, dust builds and plugs passages in cooling tubes. The laptop may need to be partially disassembled to get this done.
  

 

I actually did this earlier this year when the machine would shut down any time I tried to reencode something with Handbrake. Got a whole bunch of dust out, and it did help, but this thing just naturally is a hot mother. I'll check out those kexts and see how that works out.

 

• If you drive a minivan, are metro-sexual or {censored}, go for the pretty whi-
  

 

I'm really happy for you and Imma let you finish, but man, I got a kid, a minivan and a couple D-series machines because they aren't sleek hipster calling cards. My minivan also has Kraftwerk in the rear-entertainment system because my 18 month old gets pissed when he has to look at Baby Einstein. The minivan ain't the problem, man. Just sayin'

[leppy700m]

Believe it or not, I'm up to 10.6.2 this morning, and things still look relatively kosher to me. I am reporting now as a GeForce Go 7300, but it all looks right. DVD player doesn't work, sure, but a higher power than me made VLC for a reason anyways. No big loss, I'll continue.

I think you'll find that if you fix my broken 64-bit plist and run that way that you'll end up with KPs.

 

I have (and am right this moment, can attest it works on my D820 - my wife probably won't let me tinker on her D620 ). Used the method earlier (while docked go into BIOS, set to use laptop onboard video when docked, not dock video).

Cool. I'll give that a try.

I actually did this earlier this year when the machine would shut down any time I tried to reencode something with Handbrake. Got a whole bunch of dust out, and it did help, but this thing just naturally is a hot mother. I'll check out those kexts and see how that works out.

Getting the dust out of the tubes running between the heat sink and the fans is not an easy task, but it works wonders.

I agree that these things, like a lot of laptops, get pretty warm in the best situations.

I'm really happy for you and Imma let you finish, but man, I got a kid, a minivan and a couple D-series machines because they aren't sleek hipster calling cards. My minivan also has Kraftwerk in the rear-entertainment system because my 18 month old gets pissed when he has to look at Baby Einstein. The minivan ain't the problem, man. Just sayin'

Ha - Proves my point - minivan drivers usually have a fam to consider and often unselfishly abstain from injecting preferences regarding things like colors and bedroom decorating. It's just better that way. If he said he was considering a trade for one of the rarer black macbooks, I would have had to use another approach completely. I thought I might get backlash from a different demographic, but it seems that demographic has a good sense of humor and recognizes an idiotic joke for what it is.

 

I do like the hipster/calling card bit - that's something I can add to my diatribe until I have to recant the whole thing because of an acquisition of a macbook pro just so I can have keys that glow in the dark and a battery that lasts longer than 45 minutes.

 

Edit: then maybe I'll have to ask people here if they think I should paint that silver case gun metal gray and put a Dell sticker over the Apple logo.

[Edijs]

Ok, I'm not {censored}, I'm driving saab 9k Aero and bmw e90, I drink whiskey right now and that is my favorite alko-drink. So, it looks that Macbook white is not for me. I'll keep my d620! But.. I hope one day somebody will get sleep working on d620/SL. I can't live without it. I want to wake up, open my notebook's lid and start using it. I don't want to wait until OS and all my programms boots up. And I still want multi-touch touchpad. Ok, I will try to change it - my friend want to sell his d630, so I can change touchpads before he does it. Btw - yesterday I updated to 10.6.2 with downloaded combo update and everything looks fine.

[leppy700m]

Ok, I'm not {censored}, I'm driving saab 9k Aero and bmw e90, I drink whiskey right now and that is my favorite alko-drink. So, it looks that Macbook white is not for me. I'll keep my d620! But.. I hope one day somebody will get sleep working on d620/SL. I can't live without it. I want to wake up, open my notebook's lid and start using it. I don't want to wait until OS and all my programms boots up. And I still want multi-touch touchpad. Ok, I will try to change it - my friend want to sell his d630, so I can change touchpads before he does it. Btw - yesterday I updated to 10.6.2 with downloaded combo update and everything looks fine.

You can still have a white macbook as long as you don't pee on the toilet seat. I do know what you mean about sleep - that would be nice - but I can live without it.

[GrandMstrBud]

GrandMstrBud- to get PCMCIA working, try adding the attached kexts to the /Extra/Extensions folder and run the rebuild_mkext.command, it works witn my sprint novatel wireless broadband card. you also might want to try the power management kexts mentioned earlier.

 

leppy- thank you for all of your work, this is by far the easiest setup method for the d620.

 

Okay I have the files but I don't know how to run that rebuild_mkext.command. I have the 10.6.0 loaded and everything works fine but the DVD player only plays the sound. I didn't update to 10.6.2 because I wanted to keep the DVD functionality.

 

NVIDIA GeForce Go 7300:

 

Chipset Model: GeForce Go 7300

Type: GPU

Bus: PCIe

PCIe Lane Width: x16

VRAM (Total): 64 MB

Vendor: NVIDIA (0x10de)

Device ID: 0x01d7

Revision ID: 0x00a1

ROM Revision: xx.xx.xx - internal

Displays:

Display:

Resolution: 1440 x 900

Pixel Depth: 32-Bit Color (ARGB8888)

Main Display: Yes

Mirror: Off

Online: Yes

Built-In: Yes

Display Connector:

Status: No Display Connected

[noisey]

Alright, so I tried to go 64-bit. Hit and miss, really. Sound crapped out, so I went to the new VoodooHDA.kext on their website. Had to put it in /S/L/E to get it to work. After that, kosher - no issues.

 

Next problem was that the trackpad wasn't working. Keyboard was, but the trackpad wasn't. So I got the newest VoodooPS2Controller from their website - again, didn't work in /E/E but I put it in /S/L/E and it worked - .... sort of. Trackpad was way too sensitive. I couldn't manage to get their preference panel working right (it wouldn't recognize everything right) so I couldn't manage to change the sensitivity through that. I found some post where some other person fixed it through manually changing some of the parameters. Of course, I put that on my machine - and all hell breaks loose

 

So back to i386 with the old box of kexts for me. I did add the VoodooPower and AppleACPIThermal kexts to /E/E but neither are showing up in System Profiler under Extensions (VoodooHDA is). I'm no expert (yet, I used to be pretty strong with System 7 - am I showing my age?) but does that only show what's in /S/L/E?

[leppy700m]

Alright, so I tried to go 64-bit. Hit and miss, really. Sound crapped out, so I went to the new VoodooHDA.kext on their website. Had to put it in /S/L/E to get it to work. After that, kosher - no issues.

 

Next problem was that the trackpad wasn't working. Keyboard was, but the trackpad wasn't. So I got the newest VoodooPS2Controller from their website - again, didn't work in /E/E but I put it in /S/L/E and it worked - .... sort of. Trackpad was way too sensitive. I couldn't manage to get their preference panel working right (it wouldn't recognize everything right) so I couldn't manage to change the sensitivity through that. I found some post where some other person fixed it through manually changing some of the parameters. Of course, I put that on my machine - and all hell breaks loose

 

So back to i386 with the old box of kexts for me. I did add the VoodooPower and AppleACPIThermal kexts to /E/E but neither are showing up in System Profiler under Extensions (VoodooHDA is). I'm no expert (yet, I used to be pretty strong with System 7 - am I showing my age?) but does that only show what's in /S/L/E?

A lot of kexts won't work if you just drop them into /E/E. You have to run the rebuild_mkext command to get them to load. If you make big changes to the package, you may need to make sure dependancies are also present. Every voodoo labs kext I tested will load without putting them in /S/L/E.

Okay I have the files but I don't know how to run that rebuild_mkext.command.

It's easy - just double click on rebuild_mkext, and enter your system password when prompted.

[GrandMstrBud]

A lot of kexts won't work if you just drop them into /E/E. You have to run the rebuild_mkext command to get them to load. If you make big changes to the package, you may need to make sure dependancies are also present. Every voodoo labs kext I tested will load without putting them in /S/L/E.

 

It's easy - just double click on rebuild_mkext, and enter your system password when prompted.

 

LOL, thanks, I found it just before I came back to this page.

Thanks for replying

 

Well I tried the PCMCIAkext and all that did was give a KP black screen saying I needed to shut down my computer when plugging in my data card in. I also tried the PM_Kexts and I didn't notice anything with those and my laptop would still not go to sleep. When I shut the lid and open it back up I get nothing and have to power it off. And the last thing I can't figure out is why the DVD player only gives audio and no video and I am on 10.6.0 also.

[consolation]

Here's a little tip I found.

 

I run freeBSD and OSX, the freeBSD install has lot of utilities I use for ummmm... testing network security; which is made much easier if you have two wlan cards. Luckily the wwan slot on the D620 can be used as wlan allowing for two cards. Now, the intel card is very well suported in BSD, not so much in OSX; the bcom card is very well supported in OSX, the bcom driver in BSD is very basic. So, install two cards, then in BIOS assign the wireless switch to turn only one off - this way you can disable only the intel card in OSX. You don't really need to do that - but it helps with battery life.

 

In fact, I have it set to disable bluetooth and intel, OSX won't turn off the bluetooth module by software; since I only use it when tethering my iPhone, it makes more sense to be able to turn it off to save battery life.

 

Here's an interesting question I've been pondering, afaik the miniPCIexpress slot is the same format as an SDD from some asus EEEPCs, has anyone tried using one in the WWAN slot? Theoretically a PCIe slot is a PCIe slot - so it should work...

[consolation]

The graphics mode string won't enable a resolution his screen won't support.

 

Yes, absolutely, that's what I get for skim reading...

 

Not all GMA950 laptops are created equally, and the GMA950 in D620s does not work with the newer appleintelintegratedframebuffer.kext. An older framebuffer is required to enable the display, so until I find another solution, we're stuck with a couple of older 32 bit extensions. The combination of kexts I am currently using (including natit) worked best on my D620 with Nvidia. The same procedure I used to patch dsdt on other machines with GMA950 fails miserably with D620s. If you have a D620 and have a solution that doesn't require loading kexts, then I am really missing something and I am all ears.

 

Good to know, the two D620s I have access to both have nVidias, my 950 experience is from a very similar HP - I guess not that similar. There are in fact 3 device IDs for the mobile 950 chipsets and two for desktop ones iirc, macminis came with the 400MHz desktop flavour - the macbooks have the 250MHz mobile. However, some people claim that the chip in MBs was the same as the MM's but downclocked. To confuse the issue, many laptop manufacturers went with the desktop flavour. I guess my point is that it's hardly surprising there's a lack of consistency in 950 results...

 

Basically, because sleep just doesn't work, I don't see any upside to adding it, unless it's actually part of a working sleep solution for my Latitudes.

 

Fair enough, paradoxically, I use it because it STOPS sleep. This way accidentally sending the lappy to sleep doesn't result in a hang and reboot.

 

If we have to go the no sleep route, we should disable hibernate mode in the postinstall script . It definitely seems to be broken on the D620 and can be a real pain at reboot as it will start to restore then hang...

 

sudo pmset -a hibernatemode 0
sudo rm /var/vm/sleepimage

 

It'll get you back a bit of disk space as a bonus. In case anyone wants to know the hibernate mode variable numbers:

 

0 - no sleepimage, RAM kept alive.

1 - only sleepimage, RAM purged.

3 - sleepimage is used when low power RAM kept alive otherwise. <-default setting

5 - sleepimage is used -secure virtual memory enabled.

7 - RAM kept alive, sleepimage id used - secure virtual memory enabled.

 

I think sleepenable + 0 = sleepdisabler...

 

The rebuild_mkext.command allows people to easily customize kexts to their own liking at their own risk. If they want to add or remove kexts, they can do it and rebuild in a matter of seconds without ever opening terminal manually.

 

I'd recommend including the kextutility.app (attached) instead. It offers more feedback and consistent results in my experience.

 

If by graphics strings you mean efi string,

Yes

 

Does anyone have a working solution for disabling tapping on the touch pad and enabling side scroll? It drives me insane - to the point that, in OSX, I have to use the {censored} mouse instead. I tried a few different kexts - none of them seem to work with a D620.

Kext_Utility.app.zip

[mac-es]

Leppy,

 

where did you get the Natit.kext from? I'm interested, since it seems to be the key to my mouse lag problems. Are there any possibilities to customize it?

 

About VoodooPS2*: do I need all of these .kexts? Or do the *Mouse and the *Controller include e.g. *Keyboard? I'm just wondering, since I remember from an earlier iDeneb installation to use only one .kext, i.e. either *Mouse or *Keyboard and not both at the same time.

[leppy700m]

Here's an interesting question I've been pondering, afaik the miniPCIexpress slot is the same format as an SDD from some asus EEEPCs, has anyone tried using one in the WWAN slot? Theoretically a PCIe slot is a PCIe slot - so it should work...

Yep, exactly. I did that in my D630 for the same reason. I run Linux and OS X on that, so I use an intel card in Linux and the Broadcom card in OS X. I use the WWAN slot, which conveniently already has a couple of antenna leads.

 

If we have to go the no sleep route, we should disable hibernate mode in the postinstall script . It definitely seems to be broken on the D620 and can be a real pain at reboot as it will start to restore then hang...

sudo pmset -a hibernatemode 0
sudo rm /var/vm/sleepimage

 

It'll get you back a bit of disk space as a bonus. In case anyone wants to know the hibernate mode variable numbers:

 

0 - no sleepimage, RAM kept alive.

1 - only sleepimage, RAM purged.

3 - sleepimage is used when low power RAM kept alive otherwise. <-default setting

5 - sleepimage is used -secure virtual memory enabled.

7 - RAM kept alive, sleepimage id used - secure virtual memory enabled.

 

I think sleepenable + 0 = sleepdisabler...

Very good point. I think I did that in the 10.5.6 post install, but forgot to include it in the SL post install. Thanks.

 

Leppy,

 

where did you get the Natit.kext from? I'm interested, since it seems to be the key to my mouse lag problems. Are there any possibilities to customize it?

 

At this point, I have no idea where that came from, and I don't think I am going to be modifying it, and I don't think theres an easy way for anyone else to. You load it, it works or it doesn't. I think it just made QE/CI easy on my GMA950 machine and worked on broad range of similar hardware. You could try removing it, then re-running rebuild_mkext. If your mouse problem is gone, then maybe you could add one of the many GMA950 EFI strings floating around to your Boot.plist. The Natit I am using isn't meant for this application, so I know it's a bandaid and I am still looking for a better solution. I hasn't been a high priority because on a D620 with GMA950, it just does it's job.

 

About VoodooPS2*: do I need all of these .kexts? Or do the *Mouse and the *Controller include e.g. *Keyboard? I'm just wondering, since I remember from an earlier iDeneb installation to use only one .kext, i.e. either *Mouse or *Keyboard and not both at the same time.

Define need. Are there other solutions? Yes. Did they work as well for me on my latitudes? Nope. If you have a USB keyboard and mouse, you could rip them all out, rebuild_mkexts and see how your mouse works. Add them back in one by one until you find the one that doesn't play nice with the others for you. If you get nice smooth operation, then you'll have to look at other kext solutions for internal keyboard, mouse, sound etc.

[Mikkp]

The new com.apple.boot.plist file made my install see that my card is 110NVS but the vram is still on 64mb.

I think that it would be better if i had the other half of it working so expose would work on a few more windows .

 

nVidia Quadro NVS 110M EFI:

 Chipset Model:	nVidia Quadro NVS 110M EFI
 Type:	GPU
 Bus:	PCIe
 PCIe Lane Width:	x16
 VRAM (Total):	64 MB
 Vendor:	NVIDIA (0x10de)
 Device ID:	0x01d7
 Revision ID:	0x00a1
 Displays:
Display:
 Resolution:	1440 x 900
 Pixel Depth:	32-Bit Color (ARGB8888)
 Main Display:	Yes
 Mirror:	Off
 Online:	Yes
 Built-In:	Yes
Display Connector:
 Status:	No Display Connected

 

Although it seems that my graphics are better than before.

Also if id try 64 bit and it turns out bad how would i revert back to 32 bit?

 

Mikk

[noisey]

A lot of kexts won't work if you just drop them into /E/E. You have to run the rebuild_mkext command to get them to load. If you make big changes to the package, you may need to make sure dependancies are also present. Every voodoo labs kext I tested will load without putting them in /S/L/E.

 

OK, so are you ready for crazy?

 

Remember how I was telling you I could only get the VoodooHDA.kext to work in 64-bit mode if it was in /S/L/E? Believe me, I'd done the rebuild_mkext in /Extra so many times to verify, but ... nothing going. Moved it to /S/L/E - boom, sound. Still, trackpad didn't work - so I thought, .. moved VoodooPS2*.kext from /E/E to /S/L/E (the ones that were came off the D620SLV1.iso) - and they now work in 64-bit. Even the stick works - granted, it's too sensitive off the bat to be useful. Trackpad is juuuuuust fine.

 

Trust me, I ran the rebuild_mkext command a bunch of times, but these only act like they want to work right in /S/L/E in 64-bit mode. In 32-bit, they don't care - /E/E is fine.

 

10.6.2 64-bit mode is nice so far - my Xbench scores are higher No KPs yet, but I'm on the lookout.

[leppy700m]

The new com.apple.boot.plist file made my install see that my card is 110NVS but the vram is still on 64mb.

I think that it would be better if i had the other half of it working so expose would work on a few more windows .

 

nVidia Quadro NVS 110M EFI:

 Chipset Model:	nVidia Quadro NVS 110M EFI
 Type:	GPU
 Bus:	PCIe
 PCIe Lane Width:	x16
 VRAM (Total):	64 MB
 Vendor:	NVIDIA (0x10de)
 Device ID:	0x01d7
 Revision ID:	0x00a1
 Displays:
Display:
 Resolution:	1440 x 900
 Pixel Depth:	32-Bit Color (ARGB8888)
 Main Display:	Yes
 Mirror:	Off
 Online:	Yes
 Built-In:	Yes
Display Connector:
 Status:	No Display Connected

 

Although it seems that my graphics are better than before.

Also if id try 64 bit and it turns out bad how would i revert back to 32 bit?

 

Mikk

I never saw any evidence of 128 mb vram even in Windows on my machine. I think it's only 64 mb.

[noisey]

I never saw any evidence of 128 mb vram even in Windows on my machine. I think it's only 64 mb.

 

May have been an option. I think on my wife's 620 with the 110M, it showed 256MB (and that's with NVidia drivers, straight from Dell)

[leppy700m]

OK, so are you ready for crazy?

 

Remember how I was telling you I could only get the VoodooHDA.kext to work in 64-bit mode if it was in /S/L/E? Believe me, I'd done the rebuild_mkext in /Extra so many times to verify, but ... nothing going. Moved it to /S/L/E - boom, sound. Still, trackpad didn't work - so I thought, .. moved VoodooPS2*.kext from /E/E to /S/L/E (the ones that were came off the D620SLV1.iso) - and they now work in 64-bit. Even the stick works - granted, it's too sensitive off the bat to be useful. Trackpad is juuuuuust fine.

 

Trust me, I ran the rebuild_mkext command a bunch of times, but these only act like they want to work right in /S/L/E in 64-bit mode. In 32-bit, they don't care - /E/E is fine.

 

10.6.2 64-bit mode is nice so far - my Xbench scores are higher No KPs yet, but I'm on the lookout.

Did you fix the error in .64plist before running rebuild_mkext in 64 bit mode?

 

All of those kexts work fine for me in 64 bit mode in /E/E except the ethernet kext, unitl I get to 10.6.2, and then I get graphics related KPs. The dicey NVS110/7300 graphics support in 10.6.2 also cause the dvd player to error in 32 bit mode.

 

May have been an option. I think on my wife's 620 with the 110M, it showed 256MB (and that's with NVidia drivers, straight from Dell)

 

Check what it says in system setup.

 

Nope, integrated video on these is all 64 MB. Supposedly, you are able to add to that by shifting a portion of system memory to that for a total of up to 256 mb, depending on how much system memory you have. I never saw that option in the system setup or with any of the dell drivers. Edit: it just does it automatically, based on the amount of RAM you have. I have 2 GB, and I just checked and Windows reports 256 mb. So - maybe an EFI string for a 256 MB configuration would work.

 

 

I read tons of threads about how Dell habitually misrepresented vram specs. I don't know if they're still doing that, but it's PO'd quite a few people in the past.

 

From Dell's own spec sheet:

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Video memory

 

up to 256 MB

 

NOTE: Total of local and shared system memory used may be up to 256 MB for graphics, dependent on system memory size and other factors. Local integrated memory is 64 MB. Up to 192 MB of system memory may be allocated to support graphics on computers with 512 MB or more of system memory for a total of 256 MB graphics memory; up to 64 MB of system memory may be allocated to support graphics on computers with 256 MB system memory for a total of 128 MB graphics memory.

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http://support.dell.com/support/edocs/syst...s.htm#wp1058978