Almost perfect Dell M4300 vanilla Snow Leopard

[kahuna0k]

Hello,

 

After many posts, too much google and some vi I get almost as far as I need my triple boot Dell Precision M4300 (Snow Leopard, Windows 7, Debian Testing). Using GPT/MBR Hybrid partition, Chameleon RC3.

 

What is working:

 

Nvidia FX360M (DSDT Injection)

Audio (VoodooHDA)

Keyboard+Trackpad (VoodooPS2)

Wifi Broadcom (Vanilla)

Bluetooth Dell TM360 (Vanilla)

Sleep (DSDT fix it)

Speedstep (DSDT allows vanilla)

 

What is not working:

 

Ethernet (Still waiting for opensource bcm57xx or 64bit compilation)

Restart,Shutdown (This is the reason for ALMOST)

 

I really do not understand why the Restart, Shutdown simply does not work. I have tried everything I found, from OpenHalRestart.kext to DSDT Injection. As soon as I start using nvidia card, reboot/shutdown gets disabled. When I restart/shutdown the process goes smoothly until the last, the screen blanks (after killing all procs, syncing disks, etc) and I have to keep pressed the power button in order to shutdown/start. I don't know why but my Dell M65 which has almost the same hardware has restart working (shutdown does the same as my M4300), I only need restart, as I can shutdown after restarting, but I think that shutting down "the hard way" might not be too good for my hardware.

 

Anybody has any other idea?

 

I have attached my DSDT.aml and smbios.plist, with this in /Extra and fakesmc.kext and PlatformUUID.kext in /Extra/Extensions (plus VoodooHDA and VoodooPS2 in its usual location if you want/need them) you can get your Dell Precision M4300 (with a 2.5Ghz T9300 Penryn CPU) run really cool and get Sleep.

 

Please some help with restart ... (I has no hope on ethernet ... *snif*)

DSDT.zip

[TuxToaster]

First of all... THANK YOU! The DSDT file you included is excellent! I just had to do a fresh install after my previous setup got corrupted, and using a vanilla setup with the DSDT, VoodooPS2, VoodooHDA, and VoodooBattery kexts works beautifully.

 

I can't help much with the restart issue, as I've seen it on both of my M4300s I tested with under various installs. I think it might be related to the display, as I want to say that I was able to get it to shut down properly for a short while when the display was not configured correctly.

 

On the Ethernet front, I had success with this package (wish I could remember who sent it to me now, it was someone on IRC...) Just install and reboot. Depending on your specific chipset, you might need to do something like ifconfig en0 11:22:33:44:55:66 to get the interface to show up.

 

HTH,

 

TuxToaster

AppleBCM5751Ethernet.pkg.zip

[cyonix]

@ kahuna0k

 

can u make a kext bundle and link it to your thread.. I have also a m4300 notebook and tried to make a guide for leopard.. but now its almost better..

 

do u run your system 64bit?

 

please link your com.apple.boot.plist

 

can u see the battery meter? my isnt shown up, cause at energy prefpane the carging is at 0%, with AppleACPIbatteryManager its working, but only in 32bit

[fgago]

Thanks for your post. I have a M4300 with SnowLeo + Win7 on primary HD using GPT and Ubuntu 9.10 on Bay HD using MBR.

 

To enable Ethernet I used the same AppleBCM5751Ethernet.pkg.zip package from TuxToaster. I also couldn't see the battery meter. I installed the battery.pkg attached and now it's working. I don't have a clue of what it does, but worked for me.

 

I still have problems with the display. Previously I had a Leopard installation in the same M4300 with no DSDT injection and only NVDarwin.kext to enable video. It was working in full resolution (1920x1200) with Quartz Extreme and Core Image enabled. Now with SnowLeo I tried both DSDT injection (using several different DSDT.aml, including the one from this post) and the previous injection method using NvDarwin.kext (tried also with NVinject.kext). None of the methods gave me QE/CI enabled. With NVDarwin at least I have full resolution and the Quadro FX360M recognized at System Profiler.

 

I don't understand why DSDT injection is not working for my video card. What could I be doing wrong? Do you have any special Kernel Flags at com.apple.Boot.plist? Any extra kexts for video injection besides DSDT itself?

 

Restart,Shutdown are not working for me too, even in my previous leopard install. I tried all the solutions I found in the forums with no success. As soon as I have my video working I intend to try a new one I found, the "OS X Restart Solution" http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=199048.

 

I would appreciate any help on this.

battery.pkg.zip

[cyonix]

My Video works perfectly with GraphicsEnabler with Chameleon RC3. no Injector needed. my VGA works also.

 

Ethernet doesnt work in 64bit mode. In 32bit mode, I see the ethernet with right MAC, but no connectivity.

 

Sleep works with netkas sleepenabler.kext.

[fgago]

Thanks for your post. I have a M4300 with SnowLeo + Win7 on primary HD using GPT and Ubuntu 9.10 on Bay HD using MBR.

 

To enable Ethernet I used the same AppleBCM5751Ethernet.pkg.zip package from TuxToaster. I also couldn't see the battery meter. I installed the battery.pkg attached and now it's working. I don't have a clue of what it does, but worked for me.

 

I still have problems with the display. Previously I had a Leopard installation in the same M4300 with no DSDT injection and only NVDarwin.kext to enable video. It was working in full resolution (1920x1200) with Quartz Extreme and Core Image enabled. Now with SnowLeo I tried both DSDT injection (using several different DSDT.aml, including the one from this post) and the previous injection method using NvDarwin.kext (tried also with NVinject.kext). None of the methods gave me QE/CI enabled. With NVDarwin at least I have full resolution and the Quadro FX360M recognized at System Profiler.

 

I don't understand why DSDT injection is not working for my video card. What could I be doing wrong? Do you have any special Kernel Flags at com.apple.Boot.plist? Any extra kexts for video injection besides DSDT itself?

 

Restart,Shutdown are not working for me too, even in my previous leopard install. I tried all the solutions I found in the forums with no success. As soon as I have my video working I intend to try a new one I found, the "OS X Restart Solution" http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=199048.

 

I would appreciate any help on this.

 

Figured out. I was trying to fix advanced DSDT stuff, but the problem was very basic. I just needed the following lines at my com.apple.Boot.plist at EFI partition.

 

<key>Graphics Mode</key>
<string>1920x1200x32</string>
<key>GraphicsEnabler</key>
<string>Yes</string>

 

Now Quartz Extreme and Core Image are enabled.

[dagobert]

hello,

I m a newbie in hackintosh and i try to install it on my dell precision m4300 i did use the empire efi. t did works but i still got some trouble.

First i use the AppleBCM5751Ethernet.pkg.zip but when i try to connect it do not work. Is there something to do to get an automatic connection (you plug the cable and Tada...) and if you need to set up everything how to be sure that the card is working ? how to get the info to connect manually?

second i did not got the hard drive on the desktop. nor the battery.

the restart function did not work too.

The etherenet trouble is the one that drive me crazy. so if someone can do a easy to folow guide for this computer it could be cool.

thanks for any help.

dagobert

[prmamidi]

I am sort of new to mac and its terminology. I have exactly same Dell Inspiron M4300. So far I did not do great.

 

Attempt I:

I used something called EmpireEFI_v108_i5 boot loader iso and burned into CD and booted. When it stops after sometime, I changed the DVD to snow leopard retail DVD. Then I think I erased everything on the full disk. This created some GUID partition table or something. Then I created a 50GB MacOS (case sensitive/jounrnaled) partition and installed snow leopard.

 

But I have to boot always with the EmpireEFI_v108_i5 boot loader and when it stops, I choose on-disc MacOs thing I installed and boot from there. It does come up. But display is just 1024x768, no ethernet, nor wireless, no Quartz etc. not much useful. Some googling told me that GUID partition table and snow leopard's kexts things don't go well with each other and that I have to have MBR. Some more googling told me that I have use Gparted to create MBR thing, and partitions and only do erase one partion with diskutil, where I want snow leopard

 

Attempt II:

I struggled hard with Gparted to create MBR thing and gave up:

 

Attempt III:

I know windows does MBR thing. So I have my windows 7 DVD and installed it by creating a 50GB partition. Then I went back to the attempt I process, and tried to 'erase' this 50GB MBR'ed partition that has windows 7, hoping to get snow leopard installed. But erase fails!

 

Now I am stuck. All of your notes tells me that you can have Windows7, snow leopard on Dell inspiron 4300 with MBR format. I am not getting how to get there. Can you pl. give me somewhat detailed steps if you can? Wonder I got to have a 8GB USB? I am using DVDs for putting boot loader to boot from. Pl. see

 

tell me if I need 8GB usb

how to make it

What I will need to get snow leopard

and what do I to get wireless, 1920x1600, Quartz Extreme.

I see some downloads given in these emails (like some *.asml files etc) that I have to use. Don't that either.

Thanks for the help.

 

 

Thanks for your post. I have a M4300 with SnowLeo + Win7 on primary HD using GPT and Ubuntu 9.10 on Bay HD using MBR.

 

To enable Ethernet I used the same AppleBCM5751Ethernet.pkg.zip package from TuxToaster. I also couldn't see the battery meter. I installed the battery.pkg attached and now it's working. I don't have a clue of what it does, but worked for me.

 

I still have problems with the display. Previously I had a Leopard installation in the same M4300 with no DSDT injection and only NVDarwin.kext to enable video. It was working in full resolution (1920x1200) with Quartz Extreme and Core Image enabled. Now with SnowLeo I tried both DSDT injection (using several different DSDT.aml, including the one from this post) and the previous injection method using NvDarwin.kext (tried also with NVinject.kext). None of the methods gave me QE/CI enabled. With NVDarwin at least I have full resolution and the Quadro FX360M recognized at System Profiler.

 

I don't understand why DSDT injection is not working for my video card. What could I be doing wrong? Do you have any special Kernel Flags at com.apple.Boot.plist? Any extra kexts for video injection besides DSDT itself?

 

Restart,Shutdown are not working for me too, even in my previous leopard install. I tried all the solutions I found in the forums with no success. As soon as I have my video working I intend to try a new one I found, the "OS X Restart Solution" http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=199048.

 

I would appreciate any help on this.

[tezmo]

kahuna0k - if I might ask, how did you get around the kernel panic that comes with the single IDE controller?

[prmamidi]

kahuna0k - if I might ask, how did you get around the kernel panic that comes with the single IDE controller?

 

I am a newbie too. So not sure if I am answering you question or not. But here is what I did...

 

I took the installer from here.

 

http://osx86.sojugarden.com/2010/02/myhack...rc5-2-released/

 

And installed into the SnowLeopard partition. I took all its defaults. But added ApplePS2<something>

 

When done, I put a

 

IOATAsomething (it is in the list of myhack kexts that I did not choose, if you choose it, it did not work for me)

 

at /Extra/Extensions

 

The myhack thing came with a script, 'pfix' and it kept it at /pfix. Then I ran that script and said yes to any questions and rebooted it. I no longer get the IOATA panic any more.

 

Mine is Dell M4300, everything is doing great. Only battery meter, restart, wireless don't work. Ethernet works.

Attached the IOATA stuff that worked for me.

 

Not sure if this is what you are after.

IOATAFamily.kext.tar.gz

[cyberbobcity]

Yes, Empire EFI, choosing Apple PS2 and IONetworkingFamily options in the myHack install worked for me. I also chose the graphics enabler which got me booted in, full 1920x1200 resolution. Looking nice so far!

 

I am a newbie too. So not sure if I am answering you question or not. But here is what I did...

 

I took the installer from here.

 

http://osx86.sojugarden.com/2010/02/myhack...rc5-2-released/

 

And installed into the SnowLeopard partition. I took all its defaults. But added ApplePS2<something>

 

When done, I put a

 

IOATAsomething (it is in the list of myhack kexts that I did not choose, if you choose it, it did not work for me)

 

at /Extra/Extensions

 

The myhack thing came with a script, 'pfix' and it kept it at /pfix. Then I ran that script and said yes to any questions and rebooted it. I no longer get the IOATA panic any more.

 

Mine is Dell M4300, everything is doing great. Only battery meter, restart, wireless don't work. Ethernet works.

Attached the IOATA stuff that worked for me.

 

Not sure if this is what you are after.

[Benny007]

Mine is Dell M4300, everything is doing great. Only battery meter, restart, wireless don't work. Ethernet works.

 

- For the battery I use VoodooBattery ( http://forum.voodooprojects.org/ )

 

- restart/shutdown does not work (I spent ages with it but no luck)

 

- wireless was working out of the box...

 

- sound VoodooHDA ( http://forum.voodooprojects.org/ )

 

benny007

[Guest freemaximus]

Hello everyone, after many trials, I can say that is the graphics acceleration the problem block the shutdown, without acceleration, the notebook reboots and off regularly, what is the next step????

[guho]

Hi, I installed on my M4300 using the latest myhack, with PS/2 on, RTC off and rest default. I found Bluetooth works except when I use the dsdt.aml from this thread. Is there another dsdt.aml, which allows me to use my Dell 360 Bluetooth under 10.6.3? Or is it easy to mod this one or even generate a new dsdt.aml? Thanks for the help. What's the downside to not having dsdt.aml or smbios.plist, which is how I am running 10.6.3 now?

[guho]

Hi I updated the DSDT.aml so the nullpower kext is no longer needed. Shutdown works! See attached. I have an M4300/D830 with T9300 2.5GHz. CoolBookController reports clock speed changes as the load changes! Without this DSDT I run at a constant 2.5GHz.

DSDT.aml.zip

[Guest freemaximus]

thanks Guho, now my M4300 is turned off and restarted correctly, even if the start is quite slow, another problem is that often the processor fan is on; could create a package of kexts specifically for the Dell 4300 ??

 

many thanks!!!!

[aemkeinyc]

Hi @all,

 

I have tried to install SNOW LEOPARD on my M4300 in different ways now. Lots of different bootloaders, in combination with original iso, iakktos s3 and so on.

Also different options in the bios settings and boot flags.

But what I ever get is "panic(cpu 0 caller ....).

 

Can anyone help me?

 

BR

 

aem

[GameOver69]

Yes, Empire EFI, choosing Apple PS2 and IONetworkingFamily options in the myHack install worked for me. I also chose the graphics enabler which got me booted in, full 1920x1200 resolution. Looking nice so far!

 

Ethernet is not working for me when i replace the IONetwrokingFamily options.

 

It is detected, but it never works, even with manual settings. PLease help as i this is the last piece that i need to get working on my machine!

[itsrlong]

subscribing.

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most things work works EXCEPT:

the touchpad is hypersensitive

the pointing stick does not work

sleep does not work (however restart and shut down work with latest dsd)t.

 

Anyone have any recommendations?

[thanh hoang]

Hi, my DSDT fix full with Graphics, Sleep, restart, shutdown, Smbus, clamshel. Hope help you. with restart and shutdown: you wait but it work. My ethernet conect 32 bit but not1 work, you can report.

CPU T9300

FX 360M

2G ram

My broblem: Ethernet and LPC enabler but C-state fail. Need help

DSDT.aml.zip

DSDT.aml.zip

[Openminded]

Hi, my DSDT fix full with Graphics, Sleep, restart, shutdown, Smbus, clamshel. Hope help you. with restart and shutdown: you wait but it work. My ethernet conect 32 bit but not1 work, you can report.

CPU T9300

FX 360M

2G ram

My broblem: Ethernet and LPC enabler but C-state fail. Need help

 

Hi,

 

Thanks for your DSDT!

It fixed my USB, shutdown and sleep.

No restart though.

Also issues with ethernet, but I gave up.

 

Can you let us know what you used for reboot fix?

Also, I have no battery, I used the battery.pkg which contains some VoodooBattery.

Can you post you kext?

thanks!

 

Hi,

 

Thanks for your DSDT!

It fixed my USB, shutdown and sleep.

No restart though.

Also issues with ethernet, but I gave up.

 

Can you let us know what you used for reboot fix?

Also, I have no battery, I used the battery.pkg which contains some VoodooBattery.

Can you post you kext?

thanks!

 

Fixed the battery by using version 1.3 of VoodooBattery.

does anyone know how to remove the @ permission?

Gonna try to find a restart fix now.

Did anyone have the cardbus and cardreader working and if so with which kexts?

[Guest freemaximus]

Hi,

 

Thanks for your DSDT!

It fixed my USB, shutdown and sleep.

No restart though.

Also issues with ethernet, but I gave up.

 

Can you let us know what you used for reboot fix?

Also, I have no battery, I used the battery.pkg which contains some VoodooBattery.

Can you post you kext?

thanks!

 

 

 

Fixed the battery by using version 1.3 of VoodooBattery.

does anyone know how to remove the @ permission?

Gonna try to find a restart fix now.

Did anyone have the cardbus and cardreader working and if so with which kexts?

 

 

Somebody has to try to install Lion on this notebook???? I have no luck, randomly freeze.......

[crc-error404]

Hi there!

 

I managed to get everything working in LION on M4300. I want to share with you and so I've attached the whole Extra Folder + modded bios which i have done.

 

For Bios flash - create a DOS-Stick or floppy drive - extract the zip on it - boot into dos and type in M4300OSX - thats all

 

BTW. if u have more question about bios or other dells and if you want further information about M4300 and other MacDells go to forum.osxlatitude.com .

 

We're always searching for new members which are willing to help us to get a bigger MacDell Database

 

cheers

 

CRC

M4300_Extra.zip

M4300OSX.zip

[guho]

I've tried to install Lion on my M4300 using your instructions at osxlatitude.com. BTW my M4300 works perfectly under 10.6.7. Literally everything works.

 

I have the Golden Master Lion DVD. I am stuck creating a bootable Lion USB stick. What version of Chameleon to use? When I use 2.0 RC5, it panics upon booting from the USB stick. It says "Unable to find a driver for this platform: ACPI [blah-blah] in IOPlatformExpert.cpp:1504".

 

Thanks for any help.