Dell D820 Success

[MikeBee]

Finally managed to get Leopard on my Dell D820 (2.0 C2D 2Gb RAM GMA950)

 

Used BrazilMac patched 10.5 DVD. (Patch from 31st Oct)

 

Clean install. Partition using JaS 10.4.8 install DVD. Strangely the 10,5 DVD wants to put my SATA drive into GUID instead of MBR boot?

 

INstall and do patch off USB stick. The trick here is to edit all the .sh files ahead of time otherwise you can get stuck booting into terminal after install (using -v option instead of -s as some install guides have suggested).

 

After reboot the drive boot flag is off, so use GPartEd LiveCD to set boot flag on again.

 

Audio working fine after Taruga 1.16 patch. GMA950 working spot on apart from some artifacts after a Firefox install.

 

Wifi working fine with Broadcom chipset (think it is a 4309? it's a dell truemobile card).

 

 

Feels marginally quicker loading applications and booting. Graphics slightly less smooth than Tiger but acceptable.

 

Not liking the stacks much - would be much handier if you could do a list view! Also the new dock makes it diffcult to see which apps are running.

 

Other than that it feels much the same. Firefox works okay, VLC works, Parallels works a treat. Good stuff :-)

 

This seems to be a basis for new things which I expect to see in future Leopard releases.

[Blitz0r]

Thanks for that, finally someone managed to do it.

 

I've been trying 3 nights in a row now with no success both with the patched one and the ToH release which halts at 'unable to verify essentials', which apperantly a lot of "real" mac users also gets.

 

I will try this approach later tonight, hopefully it will be successful.

[MikeBee]

to prevent the 'unable to cerify essentials' error make sure you deselect all packages under 'Custom' when you install Leopard. selecting these causes the installer to try and find items frmo the dual layer DVD which have been stripped to fit it onto a single layer.

 

(you can install printers, X11 etc from a 10.4.8 DVD later if required).

[Blitz0r]

Thanks, so what i only want is the Essentials package?

 

I always thought that X11 were the Window handler for OS X? like X11R6 or Xorg on the other dists?

 

UPDATE:

 

I finally managed to get the ToH release installed, apperantly my DVD was not good enough, got another one and its working now.

 

Kernel Panic when booting... trying to fix..

 

UPDATE:

 

Disabled multicore and some other stuff in bios, booting with -V and now its working.. no sound, no network sofar. only 1024x768 res.

[ToGr82B4Gotn]

MikeBee;

How did you get the sound to work?

[jacoch]

MikeBee;

How did you get the sound to work?

 

Using Taruga AppleHDA patcher it works. But on mine, if I load AppleHDA, the laptop doesn't shutdown correctly. It goes until all lights are off except the power. And it never do the last step. I have to press the power button for 5s to shut it down. If I remove AppleHDA from extensions, I don't have this problem. Maybe I'm not using the right codec dump when patching. MikeBee, which one did you use? Do you have the problem on shutdown?

[benhorstmann]

What "Other Stuff" did you disable? I am running an 830 and am also getting panics.

 

Thanks, so what i only want is the Essentials package?

 

I always thought that X11 were the Window handler for OS X? like X11R6 or Xorg on the other dists?

 

UPDATE:

 

I finally managed to get the ToH release installed, apperantly my DVD was not good enough, got another one and its working now.

 

Kernel Panic when booting... trying to fix..

 

UPDATE:

 

Disabled multicore and some other stuff in bios, booting with -V and now its working.. no sound, no network sofar. only 1024x768 res.

[Blitz0r]

What "Other Stuff" did you disable? I am running an 830 and am also getting panics.

 

Disable the Multicore and then hit F8 for menu and then -v for verbose mode..

 

You might be able to use the cpu=1 in the F8 menu too, i tried the ncpu and ncpus, but in boot.post i believe it is its cpu=x.

 

I have now due to lack of time put the leopard back in the drawer until later and hopefully a better working version.

[oSxFr33k]

MikeBee USB Mouse problems. I installed the Prepatched BrazilMac's on partition 1 but first patched with EFI 8.0 and partitioned it to GUID. I had this same problem with MBR and no EFI or With EFI and GUID.

 

I see the USB MS optical Mouse just freezes and I have to wait for it to unfreeze. Its very weird.

 

I installed the NVinject to see if my Graphics was the problem and now I have great Graphics with this NVInject which is better than Natit if you ask me but the Mouse Freezing up is still a problem.

 

I don't understand why you have not seen this issue but I am guessing we are using different mice.

 

Another question, How were we able to get the Devices to be seen without the Sata AHCI. No option in our D820's only in the New D830's with the Santa Rosa 965 chipsets. I don't think we will ever have that option in our 945 Intel chipset Laptop MB. Unless Dell updates the BIos which I complained about.

 

Anyhow do you notice a somewhat performance loss from no AHCI?

 

 

Thanks

[Erik-O]

I see the USB MS optical Mouse just freezes and I have to wait for it to unfreeze. Its very weird.

 

The Mouse 'freezing' is likely due to a D820 problem in BIOS. To overcome this hit F8 at boot and add cpus=1 then continue booting. You can 'permanently' add that boot flag to the boot config files... though I can't find that post now...

 

My question to you... do you have the Broadcom 57xx onboard wired ethernet working? My attempts have failed to get it working.

[littledragon]

on my D620 which is essentially a d820 with a smaller screen, I disabled a core in the bios and installed the Toh package which went easily without a hitch. I changed my wireless card a while back when I was running Tiger so that was picked up right away. The only thing I can't get working is the onboard ethernet and the sound patch I used comes out of both the speaker and headphones when I have headphones plugged in.

[oSxFr33k]

Erik-O I'll try the CPUS=1 on Darwin BOot prompt. Then I will get back to you on the Ethernet.

 

There are drivers for both the 3945 and 4964 Intel WIreless so those should work. Here is the link "http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showtopic=36976&pid=535042&start=3700entry535042"

 

It sais duing the bootup that both CPUs are enabled then I see "CPU 01 on" does that mean CPU 0 and 1 enabled or only CPU 1 enabled?

 

So just because the Kernel sais they are enabled does not mean it will run correctly is why I might be seeing the Mouse freeze?

 

By the way my Keyboard does not work as well, only if I plug a USB keyboard in does it work.

 

I am pretty sure I used the latest Pre PAtched BrazilMAc's install DVD but just in case I think I will make another Pre patched one and install that. I want to do a vanilla Install on partition 2 as soon as I can get partition 1 to stop freezing on the mouse.

 

I am going out to tigerdirect today to get a Latop SATA drive External Closure to USB and install vanilla Leopard from my Desktop PC (see my Signature) to the external drive then pop the drive back into the laptop just for ease sake.

[oSxFr33k]

Erik-O, I am still working on fixing my Keyboard problem. The Mouse freezing has been taken care of with you suggestions of cpus=1.

 

If I got into sleep mode then back to wake mode that fixes it as well but if I already passed the CPUS=1 will the sleep/wake give me back the 2 cpus or will it remain as one? System profiler still shows o CPUS and 1 core.

 

 

I am at a total loss as to why my keyboard is not functioning at all. I can use an external USB keyboard but I prefer the built in one.

 

I tried that 3945 wireless driver and that crashes my system even lost the darwin bootloader as others have reported.

 

I will soon try the built in lan soon.

 

Any ideas on the keyboard issue?

[Erik-O]

If I got into sleep mode then back to wake mode that fixes it as well but if I already passed the CPUS=1 will the sleep/wake give me back the 2 cpus or will it remain as one? System profiler still shows o CPUS and 1 core.

 

I am at a total loss as to why my keyboard is not functioning at all. I can use an external USB keyboard but I prefer the built in one.

 

I tried that 3945 wireless driver and that crashes my system even lost the darwin bootloader as others have reported.

 

I will soon try the built in lan soon.

 

Glad to hear the mouse works... It is a BIOS problem, and I'll find the forum post to force the kernel to boot 1 core only. It's a simple edit. You can set BIOS as well, but if you dual boot then that isn't a good solution as you will want both in XP / Linux. It's unclear from the posts as to whether both cores are used but not shown or what happens.

 

My laptop keyboard was working fine as does my USB keyboard. I'll confirm that.

 

I haven't even tried the very experimental 3945 driver but instead ordered (for $12) a Dell 1490 from eBay. That is reported to work out of the box.

 

Once I get ANY LAN working I'll get more done as xfer via USB stick is slower and required two computers! I won't get much more done until the weekend as I use the D820 daily for work - but I'll post what I learn.

 

Erik

[MikeBee]

my dell came with the truemobile card which worked straight out of the box (woot!).

 

also you need to use the cpus=1 flag in the Boot.com.Apple.plist file to force Leopard to boot using one core. (or set multi-core to be off in the bios).

 

just need a fix for the GMA950 to work at 1680x1050!

[oSxFr33k]

I just pass the cpus=1 at the Darwin BOot Prompt:

 

It this CPU issue soley related to Dell laptops or is it all laptops in general using the Intel Mobile Core 2 Duo's?

 

 

SO if you run 1 core you are not getting the best performance out of your machine but better than nothing right?

 

Will there be a future fix for this problem?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

my dell came with the truemobile card which worked straight out of the box (woot!).

 

also you need to use the cpus=1 flag in the Boot.com.Apple.plist file to force Leopard to boot using one core. (or set multi-core to be off in the bios).

 

just need a fix for the GMA950 to work at 1680x1050!

[SteeLlSquirreL]

Hi, just installed iAtkos v7 on my Dell D820 successfuly BUT the built in keyboard isnt working and so as the trackpad... Ive got Dell Wireless card 1490 and it isnt working, at first when i turn on my Hackintosh the wifi looks to work but when i try to use it, it disapears.... Any Ideas?

 

Installed using:

-v cpus=1

[SteeLlSquirreL]

OK, i fixed the keyboard and the trackpad with Apple PS2 kexts, but theres a new problem... I have to start my osx86 in safe mode otherways it shows apple and loading icon below and nothing happens...? any suggestions??