staalwart Posted August 23, 2011 Share Posted August 23, 2011 Hello everyone! I've got my hands on a Dell D430, completely stock (no extras, although a media base/docking station is included but I don't use it). It's got 2GB in RAM, 120GB HDD, and BIOS A06, among other standard features - such as WiFi, BT, and such. It came with Ubuntu 11.04 installed from previous owner; I firstly, of course, tried installing Mac OS X, and I gave SL a first shot; I used iFail S3 v2 (10.6.4), but I experienced so many bugs (being the most annoying that the display only worked with an external monitor plugged in, but also including the usual bugs of no-sound, no-WiFi, no-Ethernet typical to OSX beginners) that I tried to "scale down" my installation to Leopard. I used, on this occasion, iFail 1.3 (10.5.2), and by only selecting the chipset (Intel ICHx) I was finally able to boot into OSX! However, again I'm with no sound, no Ethernet and no WiFi. Now, I've been looking into your forums, and I've seen all your comments, especially about the custom BIOS! But I've not seen many recommendations about custom installations. What installation methods are the best for the D430? Only vanilla OSX versions? And how, besides the custom BIOS method, can I make the sound, Ethernet and WiFi to work? Thanks, and forgive me in advance if this have been answered or spoken of before in other forums, I'm a newbie in OSX for PC... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Bronxteck Posted August 23, 2011 Administrators Share Posted August 23, 2011 a good place to start is to read through our wiki... should answer alot of questions you might have or come across... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
staalwart Posted August 23, 2011 Author Share Posted August 23, 2011 Hello, and thanks for your response! As a matter of fact I did, but as I said before every reference that I saw was related to vanilla installations... Also, it was there when I came across the custom BIOS, as a matter of fact. But I didn't see anything about special installations, such as Leo4All, iFail, iFail, Kalyway, and such... Anyway, is there a repository in which I could download the audio and network kexts for my D430? I downloaded the EDP package in your Wiki, but it doesn't configure kexts for audio and built-in Ethernet and/or Wi-Fi... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Bronxteck Posted August 24, 2011 Administrators Share Posted August 24, 2011 hmm it should work if your setup is using an extra folder. once edp 1.9 is installed you go to /Extra and run edptool.command that will open terminal window with options. audio and lan are added by default. but yes you are correct we do not have distro support; only "vanilla" support. the reason being is that those distros change a lot of key items which can cause problems with updates. and issues like the one your having. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
staalwart Posted August 24, 2011 Author Share Posted August 24, 2011 hmm it should work if your setup is using an extra folder. once edp 1.9 is installed you go to /Extra and run edptool.command that will open terminal window with options. audio and lan are added by default. but yes you are correct we do not have distro support; only "vanilla" support. the reason being is that those distros change a lot of key items which can cause problems with updates. and issues like the one your having. I see... I shall try again with a vanilla SL installation then, and keeping my fingers crossed! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Bronxteck Posted August 24, 2011 Administrators Share Posted August 24, 2011 d430 is one of the most compatible machines with edp and vanilla install.... leon makes sure of it as it's his model of choice lol... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
staalwart Posted August 27, 2011 Author Share Posted August 27, 2011 Ok, I've successfully installed 10.5.6 on my D430. Everything works but the wireless (I haven't tried any kext yet). I've got 1280x800 max res in internal display. Now, I have a couple of questions: 1) How do I set the graphics acceleration by hardware? Videos in YouTube shows somewhat choppy at times, and video in general seems a little slow (no artifacts at all in graphics though, just sluggishness). 2) How do I know if both CPU cores are working? The "About This Mac" dialog shows correctly an Intel Core 2 Duo, but trying to run a guitar lesson in Garage Band (in iLife 09), I got the message "The Learn To Play feature requires an Intel-based Mac with a dual-core processor or better". Why it doesn't recognize the CPU as a Core 2 Duo? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Bronxteck Posted August 28, 2011 Administrators Share Posted August 28, 2011 are you sure it's core 2 duo not core duo... big difference core duo is 32 bit Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
staalwart Posted August 28, 2011 Author Share Posted August 28, 2011 Yes, I'm sure... D430 came with a Core 2 Duo processor (I understands D420 had the option of Core Duo or Core 2 Duo in stock conditions). My BIOS identifies the processor with the following data: Processor Type = Intel® Core2 Duo processor Processor ID = 06FD Current Clock Speed = 1.33 GHz Minimum Clock Speed = 800 MHz Maximum Clock Speed = 1.33 GHz Processor Cache Size = 2048 KB Dual Core Present = Yes Is there an app like CPU-Z to check this inside my Mac OSX installation? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Bronxteck Posted August 29, 2011 Administrators Share Posted August 29, 2011 yes there is cpu-x.zip Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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