Zeppo Posted February 1, 2011 Share Posted February 1, 2011 Hi All! Since I am new here, I would like to thank all involved first. Great forum and great work! My kudos! And now, I already need some help. I have an d430 with 1.33GHz and 2GB of RAM, Broadcom WiFi etc. I was following the "how to install..." tutorial and it went without a glitch. Graphics, Sound, WiFi, Bonjour, etc. - all fine. I did the next step and downloaded and installed the EDP. I had some troubles recompiling the .mkext file until I found out that ./edptool.command was working only if Extra folder was on my HD (I keep booting from USB stick and didn't alter the SL installation). After realized my error I was able to recompile the .mkext file and didn't see any errors doing so. After the reboot my keyboard and trackpad were lost. I needed to attach external USB keyboard/mouse combo to be able to do anything. Since I thought the dsdt and kexts are optimized for 10.6.6 I successfully installed the combo update. I could use my keyboard in Chameleon, to select my boot drive. SL boots fine and I don't see any further issues (still didn't install fixes for heating, sleep or sound) except the missing keyboard/trackpad. But this one is crucial. What did I do wrong? Where do I need to start fixing this issue? Many thanks! Zep Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Leon Posted February 1, 2011 Administrators Share Posted February 1, 2011 grap the latest EDP from the forum under betas... and put it on your HD and use bootloader 665 EDP 1.5 - rc6: https://osxlatitude.com/index.php?/topic/130-edp-15-release-candidate-6-released/ Guide for doing new build: http://www.osxlatitude.com/groups/d4xosx/wiki/900e4/How_to_do_a_new_build.html //Leon Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Bronxteck Posted February 1, 2011 Administrators Share Posted February 1, 2011 while you still have the issue look in extra/ extentions is there a blue folder with the name "content" mixed with all the kext files? please check and post results.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zeppo Posted February 1, 2011 Author Share Posted February 1, 2011 THX Leon! But without those I wouldn't be able to run 10.6.6 anyways. So: been there, done that, have a T-Shirt. Well, I did follow the guide meticulously. Hence, the bootloader or EDP themselves couldn't be the cause of the issue. The only logical thing was to look into the things I created myself. And that would be the .mkext combined driver out of the EDP. Meanwhile I spent some time evaluating this. The only reasonable explanation was the PS2 kext, which manages I/O from KB/TP, is causing trouble. So, I rerun the the EDP script again and installed Voodoo's PS2 kext instead of Apple's. And my KB/TP are back! Strange, I read that few people here had some issues with Woodoo and switched back to Apple. I will try to use the correct kexts in Extensions folder (without combining them in a single .mkext file). There might have been a glitch in the compressing (compiling) process and driver might have been corrupted. Now I have this one irking issue I would like to solve: I cannot see my battery status. And I cannot turn it on in energy preffs. It's really a bad thing for a laptop: if you don't know how much power remains, you can just run out of juice in a wrong moment. Any ideas? THX! Zep Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zeppo Posted February 1, 2011 Author Share Posted February 1, 2011 while you still have the issue look in extra/ extentions is there a blue folder with the name "content" mixed with all the kext files? please check and post results.. Well, I kinda solved this issue by trial & error. But I still kept the /Extra folder on my stick. Nope, no blue folder. Not in the original .zip, not in the config which failed me, nor in the version I run now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Bronxteck Posted February 2, 2011 Administrators Share Posted February 2, 2011 Thanks for the feedback.. sometimes when building the extension it corrupts the trackpad kext but I don't know why. It will extract to a folder instead of building the extension. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zeppo Posted February 2, 2011 Author Share Posted February 2, 2011 Now I have this one irking issue I would like to solve: I cannot see my battery status. And I cannot turn it on in energy preffs. It's really a bad thing for a laptop: if you don't know how much power remains, you can just run out of juice in a wrong moment. OK. I tried both, Apple and Voodoo Battery kext, but to no avail. I still don't see the battery status or am able to enable it. If I remember correctly, battery was shown after my first installation but disappeared right after I installed the EDP RC6. Do you know what prevents battery status to be shown? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Leon Posted February 2, 2011 Administrators Share Posted February 2, 2011 Are you using the native battery meter in OSX or the one from istat ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zeppo Posted February 2, 2011 Author Share Posted February 2, 2011 Are you using the native battery meter in OSX or the one from istat ? Native. That's the one I had after the 1st installation. Basically I didn't consider istat because I read a lot of comments on its inaccuracy. Also, I thought, if the system is not delivering the battery load status how could istat show it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Leon Posted February 2, 2011 Administrators Share Posted February 2, 2011 Hmm.. gotta be some software config error, i have the excat same machine as you, and it works perfect here... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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