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Here are my notes on installing uphuck's 10.4.9 v1.3 on my Dell Latitude D830...

 

Most of my issues now I guess are finding drivers but hopefully this can help someone else. I think the key to success here is only install what you absolutely need, i.e. don't install both SSE3-1 and SSE3-2, just pick one....

 

Specs:

Core 2 Duo T3700 2.0 Ghz

2GB RAM

Broadcom 57XX Gigabit Ethernet

Dell 1490 Dual Band a/g

NVIDIA Quadro NVS 140M 256MB

250GB 5400RPM SATA

 

1. Installed Windows XP SP2; created partition during setup of 119GB

2. In XP created a second partiion from the remaining unallocated space of 119GB. Used diskpart (create partition primary id=af and set it to active)

3. Booted from 10.4.9 DVD

 

 

Disabled the following in BIOS (A02)

- All wireless devices

- Dynamic Acceleration

- SpeedStep Enable

 

Note: I did not have to disable Multi Core Support; When I didn't disable the components above I would get panic

 

Selected the following packages:

- 10.4.9 Intel

- Kernel; Intel SSE3-2

- Patches; IOATAFamily.kext 10.4.8

- Patches; Remove CPUPowerManagement kext

- Patches; Remove Thermal kexts

- Drivers: nVidia (Titan, nVidia mobility)

- Drivers: ICH8

- Drivers: USB

- Drivers: Azalia Audio

- Drivers: IO80211Family.kext 10.4.5

- Drivers: PowerManagement bundle

- Applications (all)

 

 

Dell Wireless 1490 currently works about 50% of the time. When I re-enable it in the BIOS sometimes OSx will boot and then I get a screen telling me I need to restart; this will go on until I disable the wireless again. Then sometimes I can enable the wireless and it will boot into OS X fine.

 

No drivers or not deteced:

- Wired Broadcom GigE 57XX

- NVIDIA Quadro NVS 140M

- Dell Wireless 1490

 

Also not detected is the integrated fingerprint reader; not even sure it supported by OS X

 

When the OS X install completed and rebooted I had a dual-boot darwin screen showing:

 

hd(0,1) Windows NTFS

hd(0,2) OSx86

 

A 5 second countdown was also there; anyone know how to change this menu?

 

Update: Figured out this just uses the disk labels. I did not label the XP disk before so I just booted into XP, named it Windows XP and now menu shows (also decided to change the OS X drive label while I was at it):

 

hd(0,1) Windows XP

hd(0,2) MAC OS X

 

 

Just for the sake of testing I ran this configuration/install 6 times and worked all 6 times. On the 2nd install I ran the software update figuring it would screw up the OS X but I had to try icon8.gif, sure enough it rebooted after installing the patches and kept on rebooting.

 

Final results are:

Working OS X/WinXP Dual boot

- No sound, even though it shows sound is working; volume issue?

- No wired Gigabit Ethernet

- Sporadic wireless

  • 2 weeks later...
No drivers or not deteced:

- Wired Broadcom GigE 57XX

- NVIDIA Quadro NVS 140M

- Dell Wireless 1490

So you didn't get the NVIDIA hardware working? Does anyone know if this is possible? I'm wondering, because I was thinking of getting a Thinkpad T61 and the video options are either the NVIDIA Quadro NVS 140M or the Intel GMA X3100.

So you didn't get the NVIDIA hardware working? Does anyone know if this is possible? I'm wondering, because I was thinking of getting a Thinkpad T61 and the video options are either the NVIDIA Quadro NVS 140M or the Intel GMA X3100.

 

I've got uphuck 10.4.9 installed on my T61, and it's working, but without QE or CI (yet, at any rate). I'm trying to get that working but failing so far.

  • 2 months later...

Hi there,

 

I've got the Dell D830 yesterday, I've managed to get the Uphuck 10.4.9 1.4i installed on the D830. I have no audio, (wireless) network or working nvidia graphics.

 

You say you have some kext loaded for the nVidia Quadro NVS 140 (PCIe) card, could you please tell me which kexts (or packages) you installed or actived to get any other resolution than the 1024x768?

 

I've got the Intel N wireless chipset with the Toshiba bluetooth stack. The bluetooth stack seems to work (is recognized). How are you guys holding out on the other devices (network, audio)?

 

Thanks in advance

I updated to 10.4.10 and now my wireless seems stable but no N, only G. Still no audio, GigE or nVidia Quadro NVS driver. Also just noticed something strange. I cannot seem to install some software; when i try to mont a .dmg sometimes i get an error saying that the "device cannot be configured"

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