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  1. Hi, I'm currently running Snow Leopard 10.6.8 on my d630 3GB X3100, and I'm getting total lockups (i.e. mouse moves but no other signs of life requiring full power off to get back) with the Preview app when editing photos. Anyone come across this before? Any fixes? Cheers Steve
  2. Anyone else having really bad performance with Intel x3100 & 10.7.4 on YouTube? (on a d630) Safari (via HTML5) is really awful about 2fps Chrome (via Flash) is 100% CPU and a bit jerky...
  3. As any lover of the trackpoing/pointing stick/nipple mouse will tell you, the best version of it is the Thinkpad one.....and the Dell one STINKS!!!! (YMMV) I've done a handy mod to make mine a bit more like the Thinkpad version I'm used to. Theory: Basically the stick on the Dell trackpoint is a bit shorter than the Thinkpad one (2mm vs 3mm), so it has less leverage. This makes it harder to move the thing! I tried using a Thinkpad nipple to get more leverage, but unfortunately the hole for the Thinkpad nipples is slightly too big for the "stick" bit of the Dell. So the idea with this mod is to modify a Thinkpad nipple to fit onto a Dell trackpoint. Parts Needed: 1) Thinkpad trackpoint nipple (pennies from ebay) 2) Some Polymorph plastic (about 10 grains) (numerous places) 3) Some form of oil (I used olive oil) + a small brush (probably optional but used for safety) 4) Matchstick Polymorph is a fantastic type of plastic that melts (well softens) at about 60C, when it sets though it's very similar to the Nylon plastic used to make gears in cameras etc. Steps: 1) Melt some polymorph in a small amount of water. (I do this in the microwave, but the official instructions say to use hot water & measure the temperature). If you use a microwave, be very careful as very hot Polymorph burns and sticks like hot glue! 2) Stuff the inside of the Thinkpad nipple with polymorph, & use the end of the matchstick to begin a hole to take the "stick" bit from the trackpoint. 3) Trim off the excess Polymorph. 4) (OPTIONAL) Paint the trackpoint stick with a very small bit of oil, this is to prevent the polymorph sticking to it! 5) Pop the polymorph stuffed nipple in some hot water to make sure the polymorph is nice an soft. 6) Once the polymorph is soft (clear), remove the matchstick, dry the nipple and press fit it onto the trackpoint. 7) Wait for the polymorph to cool (a few mins), remove the nipple, wipe off the oil & reinstall. 8) Enjoy.
  4. Yes I had that suspicion too! Seems wierd putting out a new BIOS 2 years after the last one, and for a discontinued product. I'm leaving well alone!!!
  5. The bios (on the BIOS setup screen) says the battery doesn't exist (no battery connected)! (But it happily charges it and lights the battery light above the keyboard) I've a nasty feeling the power control circuitry has failed in a wierd way.
  6. I've got a bit of a weird problem on my D630. (not OSX related..) The battery itself seems pretty good, it will power my laptop for up to 2 hours, without blanking the screen. However, bios and hence the OS doesn't think the laptop exists! It charges, and the LED glows green & orange as expected. Also in OSX when I do a Software Update, it claims that I have no power connected (even though I'm running off the mains!).... Anyone seen this before?
  7. Anyone using the new A18 BIOS on the D630? Any real reason to update? The changes seems to be mainly lockdowns of some sort...DRM?
  8. FINALLY SUCCESS!!! I've got 10.7.3 installed, and so far wake from sleep is working fine. The problem? Quite a few bad sectors on the disc, which the Lion install was OK with but the 10.7.3 update hit halfway through. Several passes of HDD Regenerator 2011 couldn't fix them, so I ended up moving the partitions about to make sure the area isn't used. Onwards and upwards.... now to try various mouse drivers to see if I can get a satisfactory experience. (Oh and create a franken keyboard hybrid of a Thinkpad & D630, the Dell keyboard is <fill in expletive here>)
  9. Total fail with the 10.7.3 update. Totally non bootable. Even the time machine restore failed. Reinstalling now. Will do a proper dd backup next time
  10. Yea sleep was pretty easy. mine seems to sleep no matter if I use sleepenabler or the apple power management (1st two questions in EDP) or not, AND I DON"T EVEN NEED TO USE A BIOS PASSWORD!!!!! ( In snow leopard I had to use normal default apple power managment or it wouldn't sleep at all) In /Extra/Extensions is: AppleACPIPS2Nub.kext BCM5722D.kext IntelCPUMonitor.kext VoodooBattery.kext VoodooTSCSync.kext AppleHDADisabler.kext FakeSMC.kext NullCPUPowerManagement.kext VoodooHDA.kext ApplePS2Controller.kext IOAudioFamily.kext OSvKernDSPLib.kext VoodooPS2Trackpad.kext ApplePS2Keyboard.kext IONetworkingFamily.kext SleepEnabler.kext VoodooPState.kext I'm currently experimenting with the SlicePS2 controller (not sure on that one). I'm using the "stock" DSTS for a D630 x3100 (1280x800) that comes with EDP 2.2 (no fiddling required). My Wifi card in a Dell 1390 bought off the bay, I didn't do any rebranding. It was picked up automatically during the Lion install. It reports as BCM4311 in the graphical lspci. The only things I did "off piste" from the wiki were: 1) Always booting with "-v -x" during the install process. 2) Had to use a USB keyboard & mouse otherwise the Lion install kept looking for a bluetooth keyboard. It still even now keeps trying to find a bluetooth kb and mouse...so I've disabled bluetooth for the moment in the bios. hope this helps....
  11. Ahhh just seen an entry in the change log for the 10.7.3 update: * Resolve a Wi-Fi connection issue when waking from sleep time to update (after a time machine backup....)
  12. Just as I thought I'd got Lion licked. I've a bit of a niggle with the Wifi on my D630 X3100 with Dell 1390 WiFi. It's fine 90% of the time, but after returning from SLEEP the Internet connection doesn't work.. Well I say it doesn't work, actually I can ping various sites, but internet browsers Chrome, Safari etc don't believe the network is up. Bringing the wifi down and up again fixes everything, but that's pretty damn annoying. Anyone seen this before? Cheers Steve
  13. Can I caveat the NVIDIA choice? Pretty much all NVIDIA laptops of the d6x0 era (even some apples) had issues with GPUs failing. Many of these motherboards may have been reflowed in an oven to get them working....for a month or two. So if you are shelling out real money be careful. How do I know? Experience. Hence why I replaced the nvidia board with an Intel. (i reflowed the NVIDIA board and am planning to turn it into a desktop with mega cooling on the gpu)
  14. Just a quick note to say thanks! Have just finished installing Lion on my D630. What process did I follow? Simple.... the one in the Wiki. Everything working. Sound, Wifi (I have a Dell 1390), Sleep, x3100 etc etc. Many thanks! (Have had to disable ReportCrash server as that was going ape for some reason: launchctl unload -w /System/Library/LaunchAgents/com.apple.ReportCrash.plist sudo launchctl unload -w /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.ReportCrash.Root.plist {from: http://jonathansblog.co.uk/disable-reportcrash-osx-lion} ) Now to sort out multiboot (chameleon, stolen and rebranded). Cheers Steve
  15. SOLVED!!!!! Ok the problem was essentially using the GRUB2 bootloader. So basically I did the following. 1) Restored back to 10.6 2) Restored the MBR bootloader back to Chameleon using a dd from a full disk image prior to me installing Linux. I had previously tried to re-install Chameleon but it hadn't altered the first stage boot loader. 3) Rebooted & upgraded. 4) Rebooted. 5) Ran edptool & myfix 6) Rebooted - much better. Booted faster & no beach ball however still no wifi. 7) Reran edptool Option 1 & rebuild. 8) Reboot 9) SUCCESS!!!!!! Everything works even sleep with no bios password set, just get the occasional 777777777s problem, but I've seen that mentioned elsewhere so it's not just me ! Thanks for your help. Now to get dual boot going without breaking it.
  16. Ok attempt 2: 1) Restored to 10.6 from backup. 2) Did Software Update 3) Reboot.... Same symptoms as before. 4) Rerun EDP Tool. 5) Repair permissions 6) Reboot No change 7) Run myFix 8) Reboot No change 9) Re install Chameleon. 10 reboot 11) No change Some extracts of files after step 3. dmesg includes: AirPort: Link Down on en0. Reason 8 (Disassociated because station leaving). Refusing new kext com.apple.kext.OSvKernDSPLib, v1.3: a loaded copy with a different executable UUID is already present. Refusing new kext com.apple.iokit.IOAudioFamily, v1.8.3f2: already have loaded v1.7f16. Refusing new kext com.apple.kext.OSvKernDSPLib, v1.3: a loaded copy with a different executable UUID is already present. Refusing new kext com.apple.iokit.IOAudioFamily, v1.8.3f2: already have loaded v1.7f16. kxld[com.apple.driver.AudioIPCDriver]: The super class vtable '__ZTV13IOAudioEngine' for vtable '__ZTV31com_apple_driver_AudioIPCEngine' is out of date. Make sure your kext has been built against the correct headers. Can't load kext com.apple.driver.AudioIPCDriver - link failed. Failed to load executable for kext com.apple.driver.AudioIPCDriver. Kext com.apple.driver.AudioIPCDriver failed to load (0xdc008016). Failed to load kext com.apple.driver.AudioIPCDriver (error 0xdc008016). IG: Invalid firmware max backlight setting systemShutdown false Refusing new kext com.apple.kext.OSvKernDSPLib, v1.3: a loaded copy with a different executable UUID is already present. Refusing new kext com.apple.iokit.IOAudioFamily, v1.8.3f2: already have loaded v1.7f16. kxld[com.apple.driver.AudioIPCDriver]: The super class vtable '__ZTV13IOAudioEngine' for vtable '__ZTV31com_apple_driver_AudioIPCEngine' is out of date. Make sure your kext has been built against the correct headers. Can't load kext com.apple.driver.AudioIPCDriver - link failed. Failed to load executable for kext com.apple.driver.AudioIPCDriver. Kext com.apple.driver.AudioIPCDriver failed to load (0xdc008016). Failed to load kext com.apple.driver.AudioIPCDriver (error 0xdc008016). DSMOS has arrived IntelMemory::init IntelMemory::init InitPool: offset= 0x08000000 size = 0x08000000 ACPI_SMC_PlatformPlugin::registerLPCDriver - WARNING - LPC device initialization failed: C-state power management not /var/log/system.log includes: Mar 9 21:41:17 skss-mac-pro mds[1951]: (Error) Task: QueryClose failed (-1) for store <MDSStoreToken: 0x100325610>{storeID:0x6b000000 registered:YES private:NO age:9h09m09s uuid:A9609302-8034-4128-8814-C048DB595E48 machPort:0x00006303} Mar 9 21:41:18: --- last message repeated 2 times --- Mar 9 21:41:18 skss-mac-pro mDNSResponder[26]: mDNSResponder mDNSResponder-212.1 (Jul 24 2009 22:34:12) stopping Mar 9 21:41:18 skss-mac-pro WindowServer[3022]: hidd died. Reestablishing connection. Mar 9 21:41:18 skss-mac-pro WindowServer[3022]: bootstrap_look_ip failed: Unknown service name Mar 9 21:42:35 localhost com.apple.launchd[1]: *** launchd[1] has started up. *** Mar 9 21:42:45 localhost mtversionlog[46]: SWU: system version changed from 10.6 (10A432) to 10.6.8 (10K549) Mar 9 21:42:45 localhost bootlog[41]: BOOT_TIME: 1331329354 0 Mar 9 21:42:45 localhost blued[17]: Apple Bluetooth daemon started Mar 9 21:42:45 localhost blued[17]: _CFGetHostUUIDString: unable to determine UUID for host. Error: 35 dmesg.txt system.log.txt
  17. Frail not... I'm currently restoring from a dd backup will retry the upgrade later.... thanks for your help so far...
  18. No change I'm afraid.. Did the touch and then rebooted, but symptoms remain the same.
  19. Thanks! Unfortunately that didn't work. 1) ran edptool & chose option 1 followed by option a 2) ran Disc Utility and clicked "repair permissions" this found a lot of wrong permissions 3) ran kextcache -system-prelinked-kernel. & kextcache -system-caches. To rebuild the kernel caches 4) repeated step 1 to be sure 5) rebooted Unfortunately there's no change. System.log. is reporting repeated crashes of configd, the crash files mention use of 64 bit binaries?!? Any clue before I resort to backup?
  20. EDIT: [sOLVED!!! It was the bootloader see my last post] So I'm running SL quite happily on my D630 X3100 and for some reason decided to let OSX do it's own update to 10.6.8.... Bad move.... On the reboot: 1) It takes AGES to boot up. 2) Any clicks on the top menu bar provokes a beachball. 3) The WIFI (which previously worked a treat), is "switched off". I click on the "Turn Airport On" button, but it does nothing. 4) Slow generally.... Anyone any clues please? How can I get my system back without a total re-install? Vital specs: D630, 1.8Ghz, 2GB RAM,Intel X3100, BIOS A17. WIFI is BCM4311 (dell 1390? bought from ebay to get SL to work originally).... Cheers Steve
  21. SUCCESS!!! Without removing the bluetooth hardware, though I've only just seen that and it's a great suggestion. Should have thought of it myself having done similar sorts of things debugging sleep issues on Linux (remove any optional hardware you can). The way I got it working was to rerun edptool.command and configure as follows: 1) Machine type 6 = D630 Intel 2) Apples PS2 Controller for mouse (seems to work OK on mine) 3) n = Use Apples power management 4) 0 = none no battery management (this comes up as VoodooBattery.kext on the summary) 5) Speedstep = no This works for me, now I'm going to keep re-running edp changing one option at a time until it breaks! I suspect it's the power management.... (EDIT: Yes it was Screen 3 Power Management, reverting to Apples power mgmt) Cheers for your help! Steve
  22. Using a "system password" on the bios as described on the wiki. Not setting the "ask for password after sleep" in OSX security settings. Pressing the power button after sleep does nothing though. No fans. No disk. No signs of life. Just the power light (steady not pulsing) and bluetooth light. No changes in either of them with power button. Anything I can provide for debugging? (For a hardware check, it was working under Ubuntu. So the hardware's ok) Cheers for your help Steve
  23. Just tried that. Doesn't work I'm afraid. Did a reboot immediatly after. Then when it had started up again pressed the power button & clicked sleep. Same symptoms, Power light + bluetooth light, blank screen (no fans). Unresponsive to power button (apart from 4sec hold down), keyboard & lid. Also checked that USB Wakeup in the BIOS is disabled (as mentioned in another thread). Any ideas?
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