Snow Leopard 10.6.1 on Dell Latitude E6500

[marthastewart333]

Hi all, first post here, so go easy on me if I'm missing something completely obvious.

 

I'm not a computer novice by any means, I work in tech support at my university and have a few years of advanced Linux experience. However, I'm pretty new to OSX.

 

I've installed OSX 10.6 on my Dell E6500 using the Totally Vanilla Guide and upgraded to 10.6.1. After a few hours, I've managed to get everything working except Sleep and Shutdown/Restart. I have audio partially working with the VoodooHDA kext. I have sound, but when changing the volume, moving the slider down 5% results in almost a 50% decrease in volume, so I have a very limited range of volume levels to choose from, but at least it's working.

 

I've read almost everywhere that Shutdown and Restart is next to impossible while using an NVIDIA card. I currently have mine working (Quadro 160M) with an EFI string.

 

Wireless isn't working right now (Intel Wifi 5100, no drivers) but I have a replacement WLAN card on the way that does have compatible drivers.

 

I've read that Sleep works out of the box with some people on the E6400, but I've been searching and Googling for weeks, trying every solution I can find, to no avail.

 

If anyone has any information regarding better Audio support, or how to get Sleep working on the E6400/E6500, please post. This is my college laptop, so Standby in between classes is really a necessity for me, and it would be great if I could get it working.

 

Also, if anyone wants to know how I got everything working on my E6400/E6500 (battery, graphics, native resolution, touchpad, point-stick, keyboard, ethernet) with Snow Leopard 10.6.1, just post. I'll be glad to post a guide. I won't go through how to do it in this post, because I'm not sure if anyone is even interested.

 

Also, I just wanted to thank everyone here on InsanelyMac and in those helping to develop and maintain the OSx86 project. This seems like a really great community. Thanks so much for all the help I've already gotten from these forums.

[Kreeg]

I would like to see your post on how you installed snow leopard or how you got the NVS160m working with EFI strings.

 

Thanks.

[Silver Byte]

If anyone has any information regarding better Audio support, or how to get Sleep working on the E6400/E6500, please post. This is my college laptop, so Standby in between classes is really a necessity for me, and it would be great if I could get it working.

 

Maybe this will help you - http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=187356 (post #14)

 

I've come to the conclusion after a bit more testing that openhaltrestart has no discernible affect on my system and it was nullcpupowermanagment.kext that stopped the laptop entering sleep.

 

So with sleep now working I discovered the next problem, voodooHDA does not recover properly and I believe the system is running slower than it should after awakening from sleep. I had a look at VoodooHDA and this is a well know problem, under Leopard you could just reload the driver but that hack has not worked since 10.5.6. I had a look at the VoodooHDA code and I have some thoughts on what the problem might be but I really need to setup another system so I can debug the driver (on hold for the moment).

[kyleafull]

I have a Dell E6500 - would really appreciate some help

[Fatface]

Also, if anyone wants to know how I got everything working on my E6400/E6500 (battery, graphics, native resolution, touchpad, point-stick, keyboard, ethernet) with Snow Leopard 10.6.1, just post. I'll be glad to post a guide. I won't go through how to do it in this post, because I'm not sure if anyone is even interested.

 

Hi Cullimsmith

 

I have an E6400 with NVidia. I would be gratefull if you could post the content of you "extra" folder and any other kext you installed in System\Library\Extensions folder, as these would guide us through setting our own 10.6.1. Particularly important is the DSDT.aml file you used in you setup.

 

Thanks

[DrWatson2005]

Also, if anyone wants to know how I got everything working on my E6400/E6500 (battery, graphics, native resolution, touchpad, point-stick, keyboard, ethernet) with Snow Leopard 10.6.1, just post. I'll be glad to post a guide. I won't go through how to do it in this post, because I'm not sure if anyone is even interested.

 

Hello Cullumsmith, Im writing on my Dell E6500 on OSX Snow Leo 10.6. Just got it working today. But Im missing sound and touchpad (also some trouble with the keyboard) so, if you could post what you did, we´ll appreciate it!

Thanks

The Doc.

[ntyonline]

Hello Cullumsmith, Im writing on my Dell E6500 on OSX Snow Leo 10.6. Just got it working today. But Im missing sound and touchpad (also some trouble with the keyboard) so, if you could post what you did, we´ll appreciate it!

Thanks

The Doc.

 

Hi,

 

Take a look at this

http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php...p;#entry1313518

[prmamidi]

I could not even this far as far you have come on E6500 though I was able to install SN on older Dell laptops. There too not much success with restart/shutdown. Once you enable Nividia thing, reboot/restart go kaput. Ya, sound is sketchy and when it goes bad, only reboot seems to cure.

 

But I now have a Latitude E6500. After GUID'ing the disk and booting with a EFI bootloader, I managed to instll SN. Then I wanted to bring it back up, by first CD booting with bootloader and switch to MacOS boot, then wanted to install Camellion and stuff. This is the way I installed my other Dells. But now with E6500, I could

 

- boot up with EmpireEFI bootloader

- Switch to boot from SN DVD

- GUID the disk and install SN

- Restart and boot with EmpireEFI bootloader

- Swtich to disk boot with installed SN on disc

 

The last step is stuck! It goes into loop saying "Still waiting for root device"

 

Any clues or process you used to setup E6500 would help. Any kexts that you may have used would also help.

 

Pl. see

 

 

 

Hi all, first post here, so go easy on me if I'm missing something completely obvious.

 

I'm not a computer novice by any means, I work in tech support at my university and have a few years of advanced Linux experience. However, I'm pretty new to OSX.

 

I've installed OSX 10.6 on my Dell E6500 using the Totally Vanilla Guide and upgraded to 10.6.1. After a few hours, I've managed to get everything working except Sleep and Shutdown/Restart. I have audio partially working with the VoodooHDA kext. I have sound, but when changing the volume, moving the slider down 5% results in almost a 50% decrease in volume, so I have a very limited range of volume levels to choose from, but at least it's working.

 

I've read almost everywhere that Shutdown and Restart is next to impossible while using an NVIDIA card. I currently have mine working (Quadro 160M) with an EFI string.

 

Wireless isn't working right now (Intel Wifi 5100, no drivers) but I have a replacement WLAN card on the way that does have compatible drivers.

 

I've read that Sleep works out of the box with some people on the E6400, but I've been searching and Googling for weeks, trying every solution I can find, to no avail.

 

If anyone has any information regarding better Audio support, or how to get Sleep working on the E6400/E6500, please post. This is my college laptop, so Standby in between classes is really a necessity for me, and it would be great if I could get it working.

 

Also, if anyone wants to know how I got everything working on my E6400/E6500 (battery, graphics, native resolution, touchpad, point-stick, keyboard, ethernet) with Snow Leopard 10.6.1, just post. I'll be glad to post a guide. I won't go through how to do it in this post, because I'm not sure if anyone is even interested.

 

Also, I just wanted to thank everyone here on InsanelyMac and in those helping to develop and maintain the OSx86 project. This seems like a really great community. Thanks so much for all the help I've already gotten from these forums.

[brandonrlane]

Hi all, first post here, so go easy on me if I'm missing something completely obvious.

 

I'm not a computer novice by any means, I work in tech support at my university and have a few years of advanced Linux experience. However, I'm pretty new to OSX.

 

I've installed OSX 10.6 on my Dell E6500 using the Totally Vanilla Guide and upgraded to 10.6.1. After a few hours, I've managed to get everything working except Sleep and Shutdown/Restart. I have audio partially working with the VoodooHDA kext. I have sound, but when changing the volume, moving the slider down 5% results in almost a 50% decrease in volume, so I have a very limited range of volume levels to choose from, but at least it's working.

 

I've read almost everywhere that Shutdown and Restart is next to impossible while using an NVIDIA card. I currently have mine working (Quadro 160M) with an EFI string.

 

Wireless isn't working right now (Intel Wifi 5100, no drivers) but I have a replacement WLAN card on the way that does have compatible drivers.

 

I've read that Sleep works out of the box with some people on the E6400, but I've been searching and Googling for weeks, trying every solution I can find, to no avail.

 

If anyone has any information regarding better Audio support, or how to get Sleep working on the E6400/E6500, please post. This is my college laptop, so Standby in between classes is really a necessity for me, and it would be great if I could get it working.

 

Also, if anyone wants to know how I got everything working on my E6400/E6500 (battery, graphics, native resolution, touchpad, point-stick, keyboard, ethernet) with Snow Leopard 10.6.1, just post. I'll be glad to post a guide. I won't go through how to do it in this post, because I'm not sure if anyone is even interested.

 

Also, I just wanted to thank everyone here on InsanelyMac and in those helping to develop and maintain the OSx86 project. This seems like a really great community. Thanks so much for all the help I've already gotten from these forums.

 

I would really love to see how you got everthing working