br0adband Posted September 15, 2015 Share Posted September 15, 2015 Well I've been away for some time (started with The OSx86 Project way back in 2005 so it's been a decade now since this all got rolling I suppose) and I've got that old itch again to get involved. I own a Dell Latitude E6420 (duh) but at the moment it's a non-Nvidia GPU model with the following: - i5-2540m CPU so it has the Intel HD 3000 GPU - 8GB of RAM - 500GB Hitachi 7200 rpm hard drive (want an SSD but that has to wait till I hopefully get an Nvidia GPU-based mobo) - 1600x900 panel - I have several wireless cards I can make use of, both Broadcom (with BT integrated) and Atheros so I'm guessing one of them should work (factory Intel 6300 but it's removed at the moment in favor of an Atheros) The rest is the basic hardware I'm sure you're all familiar with. Now, having said that, here's what I'd like to see if I can get on this machine and be as functional as possible: OS X 10.11 El Capitan I don't care about any of the older releases, most especially not Yosemite. My fave version was probably Mountain Lion - disclaimer: I can and currently do run Mountain Lion and El Capitan (the GM candidate build 15A282b) in VMware Workstation Pro 12 without many issues but of course it's performance that's subpar compared to what the bare metal hardware would be capable of providing. I know that getting Core/Quartz acceleration could be a problem (meaning it might never work) on the Intel HD 3000 GPU but I'm hoping I can get something out of it. Since it'll be some time before i can swap out the mobo for one that has a native Nvidia Quadro NVS 4200m I figured I might as well spend it with the work needed to see just how possible things are with the Intel GPU and start taking notes and doing the research now. Anyway, I did a few searches for e6420 and capitan (since "el" is only two letters and doesn't seem to work as a search term) and came up with zip, nada, nothing. Seems unbelievable so, I figured it wouldn't hurt to ask if anyone else might be working on such a combination. I know that El Capitan isn't finalized yet (the GM build is a candidate one that could end up being the actual Gold Master but there's two weeks left to catch any showstoppers) and that some things could change between now and whenever and I'm fine with that. I like El Capitan, it has some features that I find very appealing and I'd really like to give this a shot to see what might happen. Like things were a decade ago, it's something interesting to do with respect to pushing the limits of what my hardware could be capable of. I don't necessarily care about a dual boot situation (Windows 7 Pro is still my primary day to day OS but I do run several Linux distros in VMs and a dual boot with Linux Mint presently). If anyone has any advice, experiences (with using El Capitan on an E6420), or suggestions I'm going to check in on this thread daily for a while hoping there's another kindred spirit that might be interested. Had a chance to get a nearly brand new E7440 maxed out (seriously) in a pawn shop recently for $250 and I just couldn't get the money together, that would have been a great machine to own and I regret missing out on it, but this E6420 is and has been rock solid in the time I've owned it so I know it should be capable of a bit more with respect to El Capitan. Guess I'll see what happens... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Jake Lo Posted September 15, 2015 Moderators Share Posted September 15, 2015 E6420 is pretty much the same as the E6220 except with a bigger screen, trackstick and DVD player. Hervé has a full guide here with the beta El Capitan, go check it out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Hervé Posted September 15, 2015 Administrators Share Posted September 15, 2015 The D630 EC guide may also be consulted as I've detailed the installation procedure with a bit more details. If you choose Enoch in preference to Clover, make sure to use r2760 and set CsrActiveConfig parameter to 3. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
br0adband Posted September 16, 2015 Author Share Posted September 16, 2015 Thanks for the responses and info, will do more research and then give one of those methods a go. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gia Cát Lang Posted September 19, 2015 Share Posted September 19, 2015 Dell e6420 working El capitan 10.11 GM with clover bootloader Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
debauchery1st Posted November 10, 2015 Share Posted November 10, 2015 Dell Latitude E6420: clean install of el capitan ( upgrade resulted in kp ) Clover boot loader 3320 Multi-boot (Mac, Linux, Win10) Almost 100% -battery status works, but wake from sleep does not. -system has 8GB RAM but is reporting 4GB Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gia Cát Lang Posted November 10, 2015 Share Posted November 10, 2015 hello guy Can you help me ? I'm need information device id webcam in laptop for you Example : VendorID_7119 ProductID_2817 Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Hervé Posted November 10, 2015 Administrators Share Posted November 10, 2015 [...] -battery status works, but wake from sleep does not. [...] Check your hibernation mode in Terminal with command: sudo pmset -g Make sure to disable hibernation as it's a prerequisite to get sleep & wake to work Ok on a Hackintosh. If you have a sleepimage file in /var/vm, delete it: sudo pmset hibernatemode 0 sudo rm /var/vm/sleepimage For additional tranquility, you may even set your sleep image to null device so that no file ever exists and prevents wake/reboot: sudo pmset hibernatefile /dev/null Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
debauchery1st Posted November 10, 2015 Share Posted November 10, 2015 sudo pmset -g Active Profiles: Battery Power 1* AC Power 2 Currently in use: hibernatemode 3 lidwake 1 halfdim 1 standbydelay 4200 ttyskeepawake 1 sleep 10 hibernatefile /var/vm/sleepimage disksleep 10 standby 0 displaysleep 2 sudo pmset hibernatemode 0 sudo rm /var/vm/sleepimage sudo pmset hibernatefile /dev/null sudo pmset -g Active Profiles: Battery Power -1* AC Power -1 Currently in use: hibernatemode 0 lidwake 1 halfdim 1 standbydelay 4200 ttyskeepawake 1 sleep 10 hibernatefile /dev/null disksleep 10 standby 0 displaysleep 2 Thanks!!! That fixed it. Sleep is working. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
debauchery1st Posted November 10, 2015 Share Posted November 10, 2015 hello guy Can you help me ? I'm need information device id webcam in laptop for you Example : VendorID_7119 ProductID_2817 Thanks My e6420 doesn't have a webcam. You can download lspci for mac to get the info you need. https://rampagedev.wordpress.com/more-guides/use-lspci-for-info/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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