Install Guide For Dell Latitude D630 and D830

[sanssome]

Can someone post up-to-date information on what is currently known to work on the D630? I have a D630 with Intel GMA graphics and can't get any distribution to work. I get:

 

Kalyway 10.5.2: Hangs at IOAPIC message, documented in many posts.

iATKOS 5i: This installed, but on boot remained at apple logo spinning wheel on kernel load. Looks like another APIC problem with a module load creating panic. Subseqent installs cannot be done. Booting install DVD results in "power down or reset" message when attempting to boot install kernel.

Leo4allv5: install DVD won't boot, hangs at kernel load.

 

I had similar results witha D620 I also have. I can boot Leo install on that, but have to use external video to install. Should I be working with an older version?

[naldiegn]

As helpful as that first post probably was it did not help me one iota in getting my D630 up. First thing's first, if installing from iATKOS v5i do not pay attention to the first post on how to install your graphics. Instead, download the 10.5.5 9f23 graphic drivers here - http://www.fileqube.com/file/kIJhBN99908 and install it. Do not reboot the PC yet, as you still got more work to do. Next download the hack kext linked in the first post and install ONLY AppleIntelGMAX3100FB.kext and natit.kext. Then go into your /System/Library/Extensions folder and delete AppleIntelIntegratedFrameBuffer.kext. Now install the Sleep application and script, along with a sleep hot corner just in case. Be sure to launch both the application and the script at least once so that you can get rid of the 'Do you want to launch' box that pops up everytime a new application is launched.

 

As to your wireless - if you have an Intel wireless card you're out of luck as only the Dell cards have drivers. Also, if your sound isn't working this should fix it - http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showtopic=97966

 

Hope this helps! Getting the graphics up and running took roughly 10 installs and countless hours over two days, but it's been worth it.

 

 

This doesn't give me QE/ only CI, did it work for you?

[scorcho]

This doesn't give me QE/ only CI, did it work for you?

I have both CI and QE. Did you accidentally delete any of the other AppleIntelGMA video kexts?

[kamil.michalski]

I have d630 with GMAX3100 and iATKOS V5i version. I have installed everything with roneil4 or course without graphics - scorcho help me with it, and almost works to me, but I still have few queations:

 

1. I want to plug-in external monitor (LCD TV - by rbg) and I have done it by running system with -f and pluged lcd (it works like a external desktop first), but I have changed in preferences display to "mirror ..." or sth and now its not working - graphic problems (i see only mouse arrow and many colours) - what I have to do - can I change display settings to default ?

 

2. Whats with touchpad? Double touch works like a left mouse click or not ? I read that the scroll cannot work.

 

3. Sometimes when i shutdown leo power button still shine and laptop is working.

 

4. And last question about power - on battery he works only 45 minutes on xp my dell works up to 3hrs. - is this normal ?

 

Thanks in advanced

Kamil

[TjLaZer]

I have d630 with GMAX3100 and iATKOS V5i version. I have installed everything with roneil4 or course without graphics - scorcho help me with it, and almost works to me, but I still have few queations:

 

1. I want to plug-in external monitor (LCD TV - by rbg) and I have done it by running system with -f and pluged lcd (it works like a external desktop first), but I have changed in preferences display to "mirror ..." or sth and now its not working - graphic problems (i see only mouse arrow and many colours) - what I have to do - can I change display settings to default ?

 

2. Whats with touchpad? Double touch works like a left mouse click or not ? I read that the scroll cannot work.

 

3. Sometimes when i shutdown leo power button still shine and laptop is working.

 

4. And last question about power - on battery he works only 45 minutes on xp my dell works up to 3hrs. - is this normal ?

 

Thanks in advanced

Kamil

 

There are issues with Shutdown and restart. As far as external Video I got it working with NVKUSH.KEXT posted on this thread. Touch pad I dont know it only works like it does in Win here, but I dont care. And it sounds like your CPU is not doing SpeedStep so it is running at full speed and draining battery faster! Get the Speedstep kext to have it throttle down to 800MHz when idle.

[inc188]

There are issues with Shutdown and restart. As far as external Video I got it working with NVKUSH.KEXT posted on this thread. Touch pad I dont know it only works like it does in Win here, but I dont care. And it sounds like your CPU is not doing SpeedStep so it is running at full speed and draining battery faster! Get the Speedstep kext to have it throttle down to 800MHz when idle.

 

hey,

 

i have installed the Speedstep about 5 times now, i used to get the process speed displayed in the task bar, but i cant see it in iATKOS 5.1,

 

i got the speed step from http://code.google.com/p/xnu-speedstep/

 

which speedstep did you install?

 

thanks

[fearthepus]

Any one having luck with the 10.5.6 update? I am getting a you must reboot your computer immediatley after desktop comes on.

[techgeekwill]

I just installed 10.5.6 on a fresh iAtkos 5i system. There is a thread in one of the general discussion forums. Everything worked for me.

[Magic75]

I just installed 10.5.6 on a fresh iAtkos 5i system. There is a thread in one of the general discussion forums. Everything worked for me.

 

Could you pls identify your system? Do you have Dell D630 and after 10.5.6, is everyting fine? video driver, ethernet, wireless etc..

 

Thanks

 

Magic.

[techgeekwill]

It's a D630 with NVS135.

 

I installed iAtkos 5i fresh, then applied the 10.5.6 update straight from Apple as soon as I got the Ethernet working. Once I rebooted and everything looked fine, I re-applied the Kexts for everything else, and it's working as it should now.

[surrealillusion]

It's a D630 with NVS135.

 

I installed iAtkos 5i fresh, then applied the 10.5.6 update straight from Apple as soon as I got the Ethernet working. Once I rebooted and everything looked fine, I re-applied the Kexts for everything else, and it's working as it should now.

 

 

Mind sharing what install options you selected to get iAtoks 5i installed successfully on your D630? I've scoured the last 33 pages to put something together that would be the resemblance of a working system only to get the spinning wheel and kernel panic after install.

[surrealillusion]

Well after posting up that message I finally got the install to finally go through without having it throw a fit after reboot. Now the challenge is to get shutdown/restart/sleep working properly ... it may have been the install options I selected that are causing this? The BCM kext works well as far as I can tell (DHCP works, can get online). Haven't tested anything else out just yet.

[fearthepus]

I tried to give credit to whomever gave me the info, but if you deserve credit and I didn't give it to you please let me know and I will update post. I didn't make most of this I only compiled it.

 

For the love of god flash your bios to latest release, it works and may save you some headaches. I wrote these instructions on A08 though, and then after everything worked upgraded to A14, which worked fine any way, but don’t be stupid like me ☺

 

Update 10.5.6 came out as I was working on this guide, and this guide has instructions for the update, this is the way I got to having a mostly functional system, I’m sure there are shortcuts and what not for a more experienced user however the point of this guide is to be simple and very much step-by-step oriented so that the guess work is taken out of it.

 

Warning: Some expletives maybe contained throughout this guide do not read to children as a bedtime story. Oh and I don’t condone what’s going on in this guide, nor am I stating that this guide does anything, matter of fact I did not write it. You should respect Apple’s wishes not to want their OS installed on non-mac branded PC’s and shame on you for any attempt at breaking/circumventing the software/hardware based security measures.

 

Needed:

HW

 

1. External display

2. External keyboard/mouse

3. Jump drive would be helpful otherwise you will have to find another way to move files about.

Burned/Bought disks:

4. Retail Mac OS X 10.5 disk (I suggest go buy, if not and I don’t condone this you can download but you’ll need a dual layer burner as the disk is 7gb and if you only have access to a PC then I hear transmac let’s you burnd dmg’s. You could delete stuff off the image and try to fit it on a 4gb, or you could go to your local shop buy a DL burner and some DL Dvd’s, go home, burn your disk, return the burner, it’s just an idea) again, I don’t condone downloading it at all.

5. SlimBuild 132 disk (burned to CD) *ISO included in files attached* Thanks to JaS for this.

Downloads (Network dosen’t work out of box so…)

6. 10.5.5 combo update you can download it on a PC and put it onto an external drive, I’ve tried, it works. (

http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/apple/macosx_updates/macosx1055comboupdate.html

)

Website wouldn't allow me to link to one of these, so i'll give you exact phrase to google to get top link)

7. Chameleon (google for Chameleon 1.0.11)

8. Kext Helper

http://cheetha.net/

9. Dell Laptop Post Installer:(google for Dell Laptop Post installer 1.31)

10. Download/unzip all the files attached to this post including files from links above.

 

Just in case I added this guide to list of files to download in case you want to print it or have it offline.

 

This guide is written like a dummy manual for a Dell Latitude D630 with the following configuration type:

• GRAPHICS:

Mobile Intel GM965 W/ GRAPHICS MEDIA ACCELERATOR X3100

• PROCESSOR:

SPEED 2.2GHZ DUAL CORE

SYS BUS: 800MHz

L2 CACHE MEMORY: 4MB PER CORE

• NETWORK ADAPTER:

BROADCOM NETXTREME 57xx Gigabit Controller

dell wireless 1395 wlan mini-card - broadcom

1394 net adapter #11

• pcmcia

O2Micro OZ711EZ1 Memory Card Bus Controller

• smart card reader

O2micro Oz776 usb ccid smartcard reader

• sound:

Sigma Tel High Definition Audio Codec

 

If you are following this guide because your hardware closely matches the configuration above here are a few helpful notes: Knowledge of your Hardware, having your laptop model doesn’t help, before you start I suggest in windows going to your device manager and writing down all the devices you have installed. Then google “chipset” + type of device you have.

 

Installation:

1. Boot the slimbuild 132 disk.

2. Press F8 when the prompt appears

3. Esc at next prompt

4. Eject SlimBuild Disk

5. Insert Retail 10.5 disk

6. At this point hit enter, if it asks you to do anything like enter boot options hit enter, and if it asks you for default boot device hit enter, basically just keep hitting enter till it starts booting. (if you have to hit enter more than 2 times, you may have a bad DVD-ROM as I found out the hard way)

7. Boot time to installer is less than 2 min, if it’s taking you longer, you did something wrong, or you don’t have same HW config as me.

IMPORTANT: DO NOT

use case sensitive volume, it will make the version of chameleon you downloaded not work, also if you plan on using Adobe it has issues with that. Figure out the installer, create a partition using disk utility(Utilities>Disk Utility) personally I’m fully wiping the drive so I removed all my partitions and started from scratch with 1 partition a Mac OS Extended (Journaled) volume named it OSX. Don’t forget to click options and checkmark GUID Partition table. The installer will tell you that if you forgot. ☺

8. Customization page is at the end, button on left. (Only thing I did was un-checked the print drivers left everything else on, you don’t have to uncheck printer drivers I did it to save HD space)

9. Wait…..

10. Wait longer…. Took 20 min for me. Personally I looked up p0rn while it was going, how you spend your time is your own business, no one will judge you, porn is mainstream now. I’d share some of my fav sites with you but I’m sure I’d get banned from this site. ☺

Boot into the OS:

11. System will reboot itself, if you walked away and all you see is a blinking cursor at the top left, that means it rebooted, eject the retail DVD

12. Put in the Slimbuild 132 Disk, REBOOT

13. Press F8 when the prompt appears

14. Esc at next prompt

15. type in 80 at this prompt.

16. hit enter at this prompt

Setup config:

17. Neat-o OS is booting!!!!! You should be seeing the Welcome video on your external display only.

18. Follow prompts to setup, things aren’t going to work out of box, so don’t worry about anything, just get into the OS. (remember the password you create in this step because you’ll be using it often)

Install 10.5.5 combo update:

19. Start with the 10.5.5 update. It’s a very simple install double click the DMG then double click the PKG. Follow the prompts and after Install finishes reboot, follow steps 12-16.

20. Don’t get scared when it reboots while booting OS, steps 12-16 again. It’s all part of the plan.

21. External monitor will come up but it’ll be all blue. Nothing to do! Oh no what do I do?!? Wait for HD to stop spinning. On the internal laptop keyboard hold down Fn key. (It’s blue, on the bottom left of keyboard, you can do it…) and push the Esc key. (if you need help finding it shoot yourself in the head). Let go. Computer will go into sleep mode, and will right away jump back out(If it dosen’t you’ll see the power light blinking, just push the power button once and it’ll come back), how fun, now you should see desktop on the laptop screen and the extended part of the desktop on the external monitor. If it’s not working you are doing it wrong.

Display Fix: (because sleep does not yet work make sure this is done before upgrading to 10.5.6 and before installing chameleon)

22. an excerpt from roneil4’s guide follows:

23. One of the files you downloaded is a SleepDisplay folder, copy it to applications folder and

NEVER

delete it.

24. Open folder and double click on SleepDisplayScript (This step is to get past the downloaded from internet dialog, it will turn off your screen for a moment)

25. Go into System Preferences. (Icon with gears on the dock)

26. Click accounts

27. Select Main Account

28. Click Login Items

29. Click the plus

30. Find and select the sleepdisplayscript file from your applications folder and click add.

31. Make sure the account you are in is set to auto login.

32. Click the lock to make changes

33. Click Login Options

34. Make sure main account is selected for Automatic login.

35. Click the lock again to lock this window.

36. From now on when you reboot this script will run and you’ll never have to push Fn+Esc.

Let’s stop doing steps 12-16:

37. Copy Chameleon-1.0.11.dmg to your applications folder. (you may need it at some point if you use time machine to revert back, fyi: Time Machine backups kexts but messes up the boot volume.

38. Launch the Chameleon-1.0.11 file, you’ll see 2 icons

39. Double click on the Chameleon_V_1.0.11 icon

40. Respond positive for all prompts, you’ll need to input your password (from when you setup the OS), when installer finishes do not reboot.

Files mentioned below are in chameleon-addtl zip/folder

41. Run AppleDecrypt.pkg put in your password and let it install

42. Open KextHelper and drag Disabler.kext into the white space put in password and click easy install. Once done it’ll say cross fingers and reboot.

43. Go into your system volume browse to the System folder then your Library Folder, then your Extensions folder right click on AppleIntelCPUPowerManagement.kext and click move to trash.

44. Before rebooting get ready by ejecting the slimbuild disk, and to tap F8 after the Dell logo, if you don’t tap F8 it’ll boot and give you a “reboot your computer error”

45. Reboot

46. Tap F8 after dell bios screen goes away

47. Once prompt comes up put in –f –v at the prompt and hit enter

48. You’ll see a bunch of stuff going by and it should boot into the OS

49. Reboot

50. From this point forward when you reboot you should not have to respond to any prompts it should boot you direct into OS. (until you install 10.5.6)

 

Notes about chameleon :

The process for this install is a bit convoluted, this is how I got mine to work, maybe there’s and easier way, If someone speaks up I’ll update the steps.

If you setup your volume as case-sensitive you will more than likely see the following on reboot and your computer won’t boot any further.

boot 0: GPT

boot 0: HFS+

boot0: booting

boot0: done

boot1: error

Built in Ethernet (I have you do this now so you can do updates if you don’t have access to hardwire then you can skip and do wifi then do this at a later point):

51. Open kext helper

52. Drag AppleBCM5751Ethernet.kext into whitespace

(contained in 57xx folder)

53. Put in password click easy install

54. Let it do it’s thing

55. Reboot(before you’ll have a chance OSX will probably tell you that it found a new network interface)

Updates, get to 10.5.6 + everything else:

56. Click the Apple at the top left, and click Software Update.

57. It’ll give you a list of things that need updates, click update and let it do its thing including reboot.

Steps 61-62 This only happens after 10.5.6 update:

58. You will need to put in the SlimBuild disk and boot from it to the HD. (steps 12-16) 10.5.6 will reboot during booting, so don’t worry just wait till you get to OS

59. To fix booting without Slimbuild disk repeat steps 43-49.

60. If you do updates via wireless every time you do an Airport update you’ll have to repeat steps 62-65 to get the wifi card recognized

61. Repeat steps 58-60 until the list it gives you in 57 is empty.

Wifi:

62. Open Kext Helper.

63. Into it’s blank area drag the IO80211Family.kext file.

(contained in Wifi folder)

64. Put your password in the password area and click Easy Install.

65. When it comes up Install looks to be fine, cross fingers and reboot, you can reboot, but guess what airport is already working, and you could get away with not rebooting, but do you really want to take that chance?

Sound

66. Roneil4 once more

(contained in Sound folder)

67. Drag the text file codec_dump1.txt onto the file AppleHDAPatcherv1.20 that was in the zip it’s icon looks like a frog with it’s tongue out.

68. Put in your password.

69. Let it do it’s thing then hit quit when it comes up.

70. Reboot

71. Open kexthelper

72. Drag applehda.kext into whitespace

73. Input password, click easyinstall let it finish

74. Reboot

Battery:

75. Double click on PowerManagement_bundle_powermanagement.pkg

(contained in PowerManagement)

76. It’s an installer and it’s not that hard so I’m pretty sure you can do it.

77. Reboot

78. Might have to unplug power cord/plug it back in to make battery icon appear. (it’ll always stay going forward)

Dell post installer/Keyboard&Mouse: (keyboardmouse folder)

79. Double Click on Dell Laptop Post Installer v1.3.dmg

80. You’ll find Dell Laptop Post Installer v1.3 on your desktop double click it.

81. Double click on Dell Laptop Post Installer v1.3.1 icon

82. For options select Power Management>Lid Sleep

83. The rest are out of date or don’t work if you select them, you more than likely will crash and I’m not going to help you ☺

84. Proceed through installer and click ok once it’s done

85. Now go into your root /System/Library/Extensions

86. Right click on these two files (if they exist) ACPIPS2Nub.kext and ApplePS2Controller.kext and click move to trash, put in your password when prompted

87. Open kexthelper

88. Drag the two files you downloaded same as the ones named above, put in password and click easy install.

89. Go to Terminal (applications>Utilities>Terminal)

90. Type in: sudo diskutil repairPermisssions /

91. Hit enter, and wait for it to finish

92. Reboot.

Getting About this Mac to appear correctly (contained in SMBIOS) (thanks to a3Dman)

93. Open Kexthelper

94. Drag AppleSMBIOS.kext into the whitespace

95. Input password, wait for it to say it's done.

96. Reboot.

 

 

PCMCIA:

93. I don’t have a PCMCIA device to test this with so not going to put something up that I don’t know if it’s working or not. If someone wants to share I’ll update based on their experience.

Sleep Fix:

I haven’t been able to figure out how to get this to work, and am giving up someone in this thread will I’m sure help me out.

Keyboard/mouse was a little weird getting it to work, if it dosen’t work for you on first try I’m not surprised. Just keep messing/reinstalling and I think it’ll work.

 

 

Not working/unconfirmed:

PCMCIA

Bluetooth

Sleep

About this mac things that aren’t showing up correctly (don’t really know how to fix this, but the system seems to work, this aspect seems more like a vanity item still if any one knows please share)

Audio (Built In)

 

Good luck.

 

57xx.zip

Chameleon_addtl.zip

D630_Guide_to_OSX.doc.zip

KeyboardMouse.zip

PowerManagement.zip

SleepDisplay.zip

SlimBuild.zip

Sound.zip

Wifi.zip

SMBIOS.zip

[naldiegn]

Finally My DellMacOSX is perfect all is running perfect!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Life is sweet!

[Magic75]

It's a D630 with NVS135.

 

I installed iAtkos 5i fresh, then applied the 10.5.6 update straight from Apple as soon as I got the Ethernet working. Once I rebooted and everything looked fine, I re-applied the Kexts for everything else, and it's working as it should now.

 

 

Hmm ok, difference is NVS135. People which has x3100 video string has trouble to set resolution or external display plugin.

Thanks you comment.

 

Magic.

[knuckles]

Hello all, i just completed my iAktos v5 installation. I updated directly to 10.5.6 via software updater.

 

I have a few problems, if you can help me to solve them :

 

- I have no sound. Does the method in the first post still the best one?

 

- My keyboard layout is strange (not apple one, but not azerty one either). Do you know a website where i can download a french keyboard layout (It's boring to use Ukulele but i will do it if i have no other choice).

 

- My computer doesn't shutdown automatically, i have to press 3 seconds the power button. What can i do?

 

To finish, a simple question, is it possible to use multitouch with D630 touchpad?

 

Thank you for your answers!

[knuckles]

Ok that's good for the sound. Can you help me about my shutdown/reboot problem and multitouch please?

 

Thank you.

[fearthepus]

Any one giving this a shot? or going to? I'd really like to know people's results/suggestions.

 

Thanks.

[arildj]

Tried to upgrade steps from above to 10.5.6. Almost everything ok, but I lost my battery status?

System Profiler show a battery, and detects wether or not it´s charging, but no icon or settings in Energy Saver.

 

Anyone with the same problem or solution?

[knuckles]

I don't have this problem on my iaktos updated 10.5.6.

[liuxiaobo]

my only problem is :if i install nvqush.kext,i cant shutdown/restart automatically,else shutdown/restart works

who can solve this problem? thanks

[techgeekwill]

my only problem is :if i install nvqush.kext,i cant shutdown/restart automatically,shutdown/restart works

who can solve this problem? thanks

 

No fix yet. It's a minor inconvenience, but I am on the look out for a fix.

 

Does anyone else with the NVS 135M experience choppy graphics? I have QE/CI enabled, but when I watch a video, it starts to get choppy. I think it has something to do with the CPU or GPU getting hot. Anyone?

[kamil.michalski]

Hi,

 

a have a strange problem. I have installed iatkos v5i and everythink works fine, but in info about my laptop says that I have Leopard 10.5.1 ?!?!?! WHy ? I have 10.5.5 and I have installed nvkush.kext, and maybe this file change this ? Is this possible ?

[Nasbin]

I wanted to say thanks to Achtung for your working vertical scroll Plist - only damned way I could get intelligible scrolling working with my D630. Was just about to give up when I came upon your post.

 

I fiddled with it a bit to figure out how to add a horizontal scroll area, and found it was as simple* as duplicating the first scroll dictionary, changing the direction value from '0' to '1', and editing the x/y coordinates. This was the last thing I needed to get a functionally 'perfect' hackbook running, so big big thanks again.

 

_{*I also had to change the working dictionary from the ALPS to Synpatics because for whatever reason my trackpad isn't detected correctly. You may also want to tweak the scrollspeed way up for horizontal scrolling to some value like ~1,600.}

 

_{EDIT: Lol, a day later something - I have no idea what - fixed it such that my trackpad was being detected correctly, so I had to reverse the dictionaries again. I figured what the hell, might as well have both preferences identical, so I fixed the plist and reuploaded it.}

com.apple.driver.ApplePS2Trackpad.plist.zip

[WzC]

With a lot of pain and effort I managed to get a running 10.5.5 system on my D630 (with an Intel VGA). Method used: Installed iATKOS 4i to get a 10.5.4 system. Removed the AppleIntel* kext right after installation. Updated to 10.5.5 using the BikeTown patch and combo update. Before restarting used the procedure Scorcho mentioned. At that point I had a booting 10.5.5 system with decent graphics support and sleep. Installing the other kexts (sound + speedstep + battery meter + PMCIA kexts ) somehow broke my sleep support.

 

Anyone useful ideas how to get sleep support without breaking the other good stuff ( sound + speedstep + battery ) ?