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lion on d630 (basic system running. Now enable wifi/eithernet/etc)


kallumama

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Hello gurus,

 

I have been trying to install osx lion 10.7 on my off-lease dell latitude d630 for a couple of days now. I used myhack 3.1. Regarding Extra/ folder, I tried the vanilla Extra from myhack and couple of different ones from various ones including this one.

 

Some specs of my laptop:

- 4GB RAM

- intel core 2 duo

- 1440x900 resolution

- intel graphics

 

I had disabled the following in bios:

- SATA operation is AHCI under Onboard devices

- Dynamic acceleration is OFF under Performance

- wifi/bluetooth disabled in bios

 

Now, how do I enable the following. The following don't work:

 

- ethernet

- wifi (I read couple of places that wifi will never work until I get broadcom internal wifi card. Can someone suggest the model number of the cheapest chip out there)

- sound

- sleep (I tried to close the lid once but the system never recovered from it. I could never recover from it and had to reinstall the system. I couldnt even boot from the myhack boot disk.)

- resolution is stuck at 1024x768 (even when connected to an external monitor)

- UI seems slow (e.g. the animations on the dock are sluggish, typing the password at the login prompt is slow). I am comparing the speed to an imac I have at work which has a similar spec (2GB ram, core 2 duo).

- battery is being reported as 0% charged in SystemPreference->Energy saver even though my laptop is on ac since morning.

 

Some other issues:

1) Sometimes the system just freezes during boot. To get around it, I try either :

- I reboot and at the chameleon menu, switch the display an external monitor and give -f option. That usually gives an successful boot. I have found that the system hangs less if I use an external monitor throughout.

- I try the above step but dont use the external monitor i.e. let it boot into the internal monitor.

 

Things that work fine:

- internal KB is working fine.

- my trackpad/mouse is disabled from bios. So, usb mouse works fine.

 

I know this is a lot of ask so if you can help me with anyone of these that would be great.

 

Do I need to run EDP to fix these issues or get some kexts

 

Thanks everyone for reading and your help.

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After posting this, I thought of running the latest EDP 3. My laptop didn't have wifi/ethernet. So, I downloaded EDP3 on another mac, zipped it up, unzipped it into /Extra of my laptop. After running EDP, I chose option 1. It solved all my issues including:

 

- ethernet

- random hangs during boot and after login

- resolution looks amazing on external monitor

- UI on ext monitor is not sluggish anymore.

- sleep working fine (I can choose sleep from apple menu and then restore by pressing any key on KB)

- sound working great

- Haven't felt the need to use -f on chameleon boot menu even once after EDP3.

 

Thank you so much. Had been banging my head for 2-3 days now.

 

Remaining issues:

- Biggest issue is display on the laptop itself. I am attaching 2 images and a video which shows how during boot, the display goes from a rotating ball on the osxlatitude apple image to a image where there are multiple vertical lines on the display. Any ideas on this would be appreciated? However, when I connect an external monitor and close the laptop display, the display on the external monitor is amazing. The displays icon in the menubar shows multiple resolutions to choose from.

- clicking on battery icon on menu bar says "Change Battery"

 

Overall, a very workable machine for ios development. Now, I need to figure out if it is safe to upgrade to 10.7.3. All xcode versions for Lion seem to need it.

 

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Thanks syonagar. It worked!

 

My native display now works at 1440x900 resolution and I am also able to connect an external monitor and get dual displays.

 

I used the dsdt.aml from this post: https://osxlatitude.com/index.php?/topic/1144-d630-intel-1440x900-lion-success/page__view__findpost__p__9480

 

I extracted the dsdt.aml and replaced mine in /Extra and then rebooted and Viola, full resolution on the native display. You can't imagine how happy I was when I connected the external monitor and it worked too.

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I downloaded the 10.7.4 combo client update from apple and applied. It is getting stuck at: "Still waiting for root device". Yes, I have AHCI selected for SATA in bios.

 

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I searched for 10.7.4 on this but found no results.

 

I am able to boot into the 10.7 mac myhack usb stick and tried removing some extra kexts and then running myfix but doesnt seem to help.

 

Should I have upgraded to 10.7.3 instead? I dont really care about the version as long as I can run xcode - seems that 10.7.3 is bare minimum to run it.

 

I noticed some folks here have 10.7.4 in their signatures. Just curious how they were able to get that update.

 

Thanks again.

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Hi kallumama

 

 

This thread is all about 10.7.4 and posts with instructions on how to fix after updating:

https://osxlatitude.com/index.php?/topic/1363-start-your-engines-1074-is-here/

 

If you were to start setup of Lion all over again and only wanted to update to 10.7.3 then you can download the 10.7.3 separately:

https://osxlatitude.com/index.php?/topic/1407-1073-combo-update-direct-download/

 

Cheers

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Hi kallumama

 

This thread is all about 10.7.4 and posts with instructions on how to fix after updating:

https://osxlatitude.com/index.php?/topic/1363-start-your-engines-1074-is-here/

 

If you were to start setup of Lion all over again and only wanted to update to 10.7.3 then you can download the 10.7.3 separately:

https://osxlatitude.com/index.php?/topic/1407-1073-combo-update-direct-download/

 

Cheers

 

I am amazed by the speed of help I get on this site.

 

Thanks sipart. I followed Leon's instructions at https://osxlatitude.com/index.php?/topic/1363-start-your-engines-1074-is-here/page__view__findpost__p__9218

 

My D630 is up and running on 10.6.4. Glad I didnt have to go to 10.7.3

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I am amazed by the speed of help I get on this site.

 

Thanks sipart. I followed Leon's instructions at https://osxlatitude.com/index.php?/topic/1363-start-your-engines-1074-is-here/page__view__findpost__p__9218

 

My D630 is up and running on 10.6.4. Glad I didnt have to go to 10.7.3

Hi kallumama, congratulations! You got everything work on D630 10.7.4 (not 10.6.4), including sleep and wifi?

 

I just did about the same thing with 10.7.3 pen by myhack2.2 and the same dsdt, then upgraded to 10.7.4, upgrade to myhack3.1+EDP3. Everything works except sleep. Everytime I close the lid, it'll go sleep for a second and then awake again as if I hit a key or touched the mouse. I can see the bluetooth lit go off and on...

 

Maybe I need to create the usb pen using myhack3.1? Or you have special selections rebuilding EDP?

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