henghim Posted December 1, 2011 Share Posted December 1, 2011 Thanks guys for the hard work. I played around and got my d620 work pretty good, then I tried a install on my E6500. So far everything working good 10.7.2. Not working: wireless - had to use a dongle Sleep / hibernate Everything else works good and really snappy. When I get a free moment I can write up what I did to get it working. It took me a few trys to get 10.7.2 to work correctly. Thanks again for a great site!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thrakkar Posted December 1, 2011 Share Posted December 1, 2011 Does your E6500 have an Intel or NVidia graphics card? I enjoyed a fair amount of success with my E6500 except for the NVidia card that's in there. Managed to get it working full resolution but had issues with video playback and full QE/CI. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Bronxteck Posted December 1, 2011 Administrators Share Posted December 1, 2011 have you tried some of the newer chameleon distros there constantly adding ati and nvidia support. some times you need graphicsenabler=yes sometimes=no depending on the card... also try the nvidia site for osx drivers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thrakkar Posted December 1, 2011 Share Posted December 1, 2011 I don't recall which version of Chameleon that I made the attempt with, but booting with graphicsenable=yes option set got full resolution working. Card showed as 'NVidia' but unknown type in the system profiler. There were no OSX drivers available from the NVIDIA website, the NV160M doesn't have any official support for the OS. If I'm feeling froggy over the next couple of days I might give it another shot, but I've got a D820 and a 4300 working flawlessly with 10.6.8 at the moment so it's not a really high priority. More of a science project really. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Bronxteck Posted December 2, 2011 Administrators Share Posted December 2, 2011 glad it worked out and keep us tuned in Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kilroy Posted January 9, 2012 Share Posted January 9, 2012 Thanks guys for the hard work. I played around and got my d620 work pretty good, then I tried a install on my E6500. So far everything working good 10.7.2. Not working: wireless - had to use a dongle Sleep / hibernate Everything else works good and really snappy. When I get a free moment I can write up what I did to get it working. It took me a few trys to get 10.7.2 to work correctly. Thanks again for a great site!!! If you had any more success, it would be great to know which model or method you used. I have a Precision M4400 which is almost exactly like the E6500 and it is working flawlessly with with the exceptions of: Sleep / Standby some keyboard key combos volume keys (show the volume going up and down but the actual volume never changes - maybe this is correct and I need to use a different tool for volume) I changed out the wireless so it is okay. My big issue is that the battery is always showing 0% whether on AC or on Battery. Did your battery work fine from the start? I have a 9 cell battery in the unit but I wouldn't think that makes a difference. I updated to 10.7.2 but the video just went black like it didn't see the monitor (LCD panel) so I went back to 10.7.1 kexts for GeForce, GeForceGA, NVDANV50Hal, and NVDAResman to get it working again. What version of the bios do you have? is it A27? TIA Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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