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Ok thanks Leon. I'm attaching both the ubuntu and aida64 dsdt dumps (untouched). Along with my hybrid m4300/fx3600m dsdt hack (stable). And my patched dsdts, which have yielded an unstable hackintosh. I used the patches for ICH8 notebook that came with DSDT editor. Maybe someone can point to mistakes in it. I'm including the nvidia fx3600m rom as well. osxlatitude-m6300-research.zip

I'll think about that. But really, I was hoping for someone else with the same problem. I did manage to tailor the video section to my graphics card, and even used an extracted rom to my specific video card (fx3600m). It seems to load fine through chameleon. Is it doing anything? I really don't know. I can boot either way with or without GraphicsEnabler with the vanilla nvidia kexts and profiler properly identifies the card as fx3600m. As far as the fan goes, I'm setting them manually in the bios prior to loading the OS. I'll keep this thread alive as I keep finding more about this model thanks for the suggestion

Do you have a working dsdt.aml for your model? I too have an m6300. But I haven't been able to run anything beyond 10.6.8. For some reason myHack fails (and so does tony mac) in installing both Lion and ML. It doesn't matter what kernel flags and boot options I throw at it, the installer hangs prior to loading any extension at the ACPI [s1 s2 s3 s4] message. Although technically I did manage to install lion on a second partition via vmware. That is patching vmware using the unlocker v1.1.0 to make it recognize HFS and then installing Lion on another mac partition through vmware. But i have deleted that partition because the install came out buggy as hell. It would run lion for 5 mins then KP. Another thing that's driving me nuts is that even in ubuntu the graphics card fan does not kick in at all. Even if running the i8kfan for linux. I'm close to either selling this laptop and getting something else or *gulp* run windows 7. The dsdt editing is another story. I haven't even found a line related to the secondary fan. There's a block of code related to CPU fan, but not the graphics card fan. And the graphics card bus is technically PCIE, not AGP. But there's nothing in the PCIE block relating to the graphics card. I've looked at the DSDT of similar models like the HP 8710w, but holly shit those dsdt are a total mess. No amount of DSDT patching has helped so far. In fact I'm running a DSDT off the osxlatitude pack based on the M4300 because no DSDT I have edited even runs on this thing. It really is a total stubborn mule of a laptop. HEEEEEELP!

Ok. I don't know if your package had anything to do with my partial success or not. Probably not. But this is what I did. I just got 2 laptops. An inspiron 9400 and a precision m90. bot are identical in design and chipset (945PM). And so is the dell d520 (the chipset that is, not the design) which I've used EDP 1.9.2 on. The 9400 has a bad motherboard, won't even boot. The M90 boots fine with my d520's HD (10.6.8 + EDP 1.9.2). I did not reinstall OSX on it. The graphics card is not seen by system profiler. I downloaded NVenabler and installed that, and I got full 19200x1200 resolution after a reboot. The card is an nvdia FX1500M. Upon boot, NVenabler does seen to probe it successfully. However, when I use system profiler and scroll down to the graphics section, system profiler simply crashes. So I don't really know if it supports QE, CI. The video cards are interchangeable between the precision M90, the latitude E1705, the xps m1710 and the inspiron 9400, so tomorrow I'd test the ATI X1400 card that came with the 9400 on the M90 and see if the OS sees it. I'm running 10.6.8 w/ EDP 1.9.2 The trackpad isn't working btw. I'm using an external mouse. I think I'm going to check insanelymac instead, but I wanted to keep you guys updated. I think these models are totally do-able. l8r! PS: forgot to mention that wireless and audio work just fine. The speakers of the M90 are definitely better than the built speakers of the d520 and d620

Thanks. That's good to know. But I was referring to older dell laptops. made sometime between 2007-2009. I can't afford anything newer than that anyway. I'm not even considering running Lion. I recently bought two broken inspiron e1705 laptops off ebay. I would test osx on it as soon as I get one working. I will let you guys know. In a few weeks I hope.

Right. My question came out wrong. What I meant to say is if you have tested your release/install method on other Dell models aside from the D series. I have both a d520 and d620 and have outgrown those laptops. Looking for a 17" laptop to run osx with, even if older. I've also replaced the motherboard on my d620 twice because of graphics card problems. At least on the other models you can take out the video card and either bake it in the oven to make it work again, or simply get another one off ebay.

dell M1710,M90,E1705,9400, M6300 Also does it make a difference if the video card is ATI or Nvidia. Is it safe to say all nvidia cards would be supported as opposed to ATI's? thanks

For the time being I found a quick solution in the form of a USB to ethernet stick (linksys USB200M) I found lying around. No drivers were available for OSX, or at least it couldn't be recognized by the OS. Fortunately some guy made drivers for it. http://www.sustworks.com/site/news_usb_ethernet.html It's a temporary fix that seems to work just fine. Still looking for the built-in eth perm fix

Ok I'm back, and now running 10.6.6 to some successful degree. My most immediate concern is getting the built-in ethernet port working, as I have to transfer a few files over wire to an ancient system incapable of wireless. For some reason the ethernet port has worked under a fresh install of iFail 10.6.3, but stopped working after an upgrade to 10.6.4. I'm still looking for a fix for that. Thanks for your help.

Actually, using -F alone in chameleon booted the OS fine. That was the last thing it occurred me to do. Ignore all kernel flags.. Ugh, I should've tried that a day ago.. *facepalm* Now I guess I'll upgrade to 10.6.6 and install chama 2/edp 1.5 again.. Be back in 2 hrs! (after I'm done dling & installing 10.6.6)

So I guess I can just boot off a dvd install and simply rename my previous edp 1.4 backup folder to Extra again and then I'd be able to boot? Are chameleon 2.0 and edp 1.4 compatible? Thanks

Currently running 10.6.4 with chameleon 2.0 rc5 r665 + edp 1.5rc5. The edp installer had an option for d520. I chose that of course. Before this failed install it was working fine with AsereBLN bootloader & EDP 1.4 Was this upgrade only meant for 10.6.6 installs? At the moment I can't do much since I'm away from home, nor have access to an install DVD of iFail. I did rename the /Extra folder to /Extra_bak prior to installing Chameleon 2.0/EDP 1.5, maybe this would help? Thanks