2013btuttle1 Posted January 25, 2011 Share Posted January 25, 2011 Hey, I have a dell latitude D620 with the intel 945GM chipset and the GMA950 Graphics. It seemd like the graphics card works fine on 10.6.0 (eg, windows minimize extremely smoothly, expose rolls out nicely) but the system actually reads the card as an nVidia graphics card. When I try to update to 10.6.6, The graphics card just stops working (I can see the minimize animation significantly degraded) but the system still reads that it has an nVidia card. I am using a retail leopard installation disc bought straight from the apple store, and the chameleon bootloader (2.0 RC3). Do any of you know of any kexts I should try? I have already tried the generic 'post_install.command' off the disc my bootloader was on, and even some other reiterations of it. The boot CD's name is D620SLV1.iso, and it was made specifically for my model of computer. Specs -1 GB DDR2 -1.66 GHz Core Duo /not/ core 2 duo. -Brodacom BCM94311 internal wifi card -Intel i945GM express chipset -Intel GMA950 Graphics Media Accelerator Besides the graphics card, everything else works perfectly. Thanks to leppy700m for all his hard work. Quote Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/245041-d620-gma950-os-x-106/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
dothacker Posted January 25, 2011 Share Posted January 25, 2011 search for the modified GMA950.kext and the AppleIntelIntegratedFramebuffer.kext for GMA950. This particular topic has been covered, although it was a D630, but same graphics chipset. Since they're ALMOST the same (Latitude D620 and D630), with the only difference of the processor, they have the same solution and has been covered in this forum MANY TIMES. Again, please use the search function. Quote Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/245041-d620-gma950-os-x-106/#findComment-1629026 Share on other sites More sharing options...
2013btuttle1 Posted January 26, 2011 Author Share Posted January 26, 2011 search for the modified GMA950.kext and the AppleIntelIntegratedFramebuffer.kext for GMA950. This particular topic has been covered, although it was a D630, but same graphics chipset. Since they're ALMOST the same (Latitude D620 and D630), with the only difference of the processor, they have the same solution and has been covered in this forum MANY TIMES. Again, please use the search function. I have tried both of your methods.. they just simply dont work, and i have also tried EFI strings. I dont know whats wrong. Quote Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/245041-d620-gma950-os-x-106/#findComment-1629485 Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnthor Posted March 7, 2011 Share Posted March 7, 2011 Hey, I have a dell latitude D620 with the intel 945GM chipset and the GMA950 Graphics. It seemd like the graphics card works fine on 10.6.0 (eg, windows minimize extremely smoothly, expose rolls out nicely) but the system actually reads the card as an nVidia graphics card. When I try to update to 10.6.6, The graphics card just stops working (I can see the minimize animation significantly degraded) but the system still reads that it has an nVidia card. I am using a retail leopard installation disc bought straight from the apple store, and the chameleon bootloader (2.0 RC3). Do any of you know of any kexts I should try? I have already tried the generic 'post_install.command' off the disc my bootloader was on, and even some other reiterations of it. The boot CD's name is D620SLV1.iso, and it was made specifically for my model of computer. Specs -1 GB DDR2 -1.66 GHz Core Duo /not/ core 2 duo. -Brodacom BCM94311 internal wifi card -Intel i945GM express chipset -Intel GMA950 Graphics Media Accelerator Besides the graphics card, everything else works perfectly. Thanks to leppy700m for all his hard work. Hello, I also have the Dell D620 similar to your configuration and I cannot get 10.6.3 to install. Did you change anything in BIOS? I have the A10 version of the BIOS and cannot get to any HD settings. John Quote Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/245041-d620-gma950-os-x-106/#findComment-1650793 Share on other sites More sharing options...
simbasounds Posted September 28, 2011 Share Posted September 28, 2011 Hi there all D620 GMA950 (27A2) owners, I have uploaded an Extra folder. It has all the goodies needed for 10.6 up to version 10.6.8 (tested from 10.6.5) on Dell Latitude D620 GMA950 (27A2 only). Simply including this folder at the drive root + AsereBLN bootloader, Voodoo HDA, Voodoo PS2 keyboard and trackpad will give you a very sweet system. Read the blurb there for more info. Note (just in case): Lion install is not possible on many D620's without upgrading the CPU. It may show as Core2Duo, but it's really only a CoreDuo (32bit). Use CPU-X to find actual CPU model. Notes: ~≈ UPDATE: I upgraded to 10.6.8 and this still works ≈~ This is an Extra folder packed with solutions* to get a Dell D620, running Snow Leopard 10.6.6 thru 10.6.8, to have working GMA950 27A2 card. ie. it probably won't work with GMA950 27AE, and definitely not NVIDIA X3100. It has worked on most Dell D620's (GMA950 27A2), though there was this one.. If you install MacOS 10.6.8 / 7 / 6 (possibly earlier) to an external device on another Mac, all you need to do is drop this folder in, then install AsereBLN (or [url="http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/"]#####[/url]) to the device. You will then have a bootable Dell D620 to install / clone to. *contains: EFI string for GMA950 in boot.plist DSDT.aml GMA950 ROM file com.apple.boot.plist with many tweaks kexts carefully selected for 10.6.8 on D620 Simba Quote Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/245041-d620-gma950-os-x-106/#findComment-1753680 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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