Hi Forum,
Thanks for the forum and excellent EDP.
I have a Dell D820. Spec as:
2G Centrino Duo, 2G RAM, 80G Intel SSD. Replace Intel wireless card with Dell (Boardcom) one, and installed Bluetooth card.
My installation steps as:
BIOS: disable serial port, parallel port, setup system password.
Use unifail create a bootable USB stick (check tony's x86 blog).
Copy VoodooTSCSync.kext into USB stick /S/L/E (This is important, otherwise mouse is so hard to move during installation)
Use this USB stick to boot and install into hard disk. After reboot, System still boot from USB stick, but select boot from your HDD. Now you should have a running Lion with working WIFI. Update to 10.7.2 and any software update. Just remember you still cannot boot from HDD directly yet. So always boot from USB and select HDD from boot loader.
After all update, install EDP latest (2.2 at this time). After install, open terminal and run edpcommand. Install whatever you need. (I'm using D820 with Intel video). Install boot loader and so on.
Few issue:
1. Sometime VoodooHDA 2.7.3 could cause KP. Especially when you boot with "-f". Normally another reboot should fix it. This is VoodooHDA 2.7.3 bug. I hope patched AppleHDA should work, but didn't test it yet.
2. Sleep/wakeup works in most cases. The exceptions are USB keyboard and mouse. I following every step from wiki.
The pain part is: after wakeup, you cannot input system password from usb keyboard, it will only accept input from laptop keyboard.
Another issue is: USB keyboard and mouse will not work unless you install a USB stick. Either before sleep you have a USB stick plugged in, or after sleep you plug in a USB stick, both will make USB keyboard/mouse work again.
3. Display brightness issue. I also followed instruction. Disable sensor in BIOS, apply brightness fix in EDP and so on. It works in most cases, but sometimes after system wakeup from sleep, display is very very dark, and cannot adjust it from anywhere. In this case, I just put system into sleep again, and wake it up again.
Thanks again, and hope we found solution for issues someday.
Noodle