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OK I figured it out. There's no brightness slider, and the default brightness shortcuts using Fn+ arrow keys work. On my D620 brightness is controlled by the Pause and Scroll Lock buttons so I had mistakenly assumed that the same is true of the M4300. My bad.

I got an M4300 off of eBay for super-cheap. It's got the T8300 2.4GHz chip, 4GB of RAM, a 250GB hard drive, the Quadro FX 360M, and a 1920x1200 display. Everything works - everything - except for brightness options. I can't lower the brightness and it will not dim itself. Instead, the image on the screen "freezes" (only to come back to life when I move the mouse). The screen doesn't sleep at all, though it does go out once the computer puts itself to sleep. I searched the forum and searched insanelymac and came up empty. Nobody else seems to be dealing with this. Any suggestions?

System Profiler has this line: 64-bit Kernel and Extensions: No So it's definitely in 32-bit mode. And again, i know the drivers are loading because I have QE and CI. it's just bad drivers. I can play Civ IV, but Flash is painfully slow and Bit.Trip Beat has graphics corruption. I can deal with upgrading. Thanks for trying to help though.

I had a TON of problems in Pro Tools 8LE on my D620 where Windows XP was fine. They went away entirely when I chose to run my CPU at max (1992MHz) from the PStateMenu. I think it's overly-aggressive in down-clocking the CPU, making it choke. Then when I'm done in PT I go back to On Demand Performance and the CPU starts down-clocking again. You won't get more than approximately 3.25GB of usable RAM on the 945GM chipset, though. You need a D630 or other 965GM chipset to get everything out of 4GB. Upgrading the RAM even to 3GB should make a big difference, and my PT sessions are very comfortable that way.

I already have graphicsenabler=yes (and I have QE and CI, as evidenced by the water effect when you drop a new widget on the dashboard), but I don't have that recent of a Chameleon. I'm using whatever it is that's in the EDP. I'll try upgrading and see what happens, though. edit: yeah, that made absolutely no difference - the drivers were loaded, but the drivers themselves are meh. I even removed the ones from /Extra/Extensions and re-built my Extensions.mkext and it's still weird. The stock Apple drivers work, they just suck. And I think it's just that the hardware is slow. Still interested in the D630 at some point. edit2: i just want to express that it's not anyone's fault but Apple's. We deal with what we have.

Congrats, man. I have SL on my D620 and it is indeed pretty great. I have a couple questions and/or wonder if you could try a couple of things: 1.) Does Bit.trip Beat play in Snow Leopard? On the GMA 950 the graphics are corrupted and you can't see the paddle/ball. It works fine on the GMA950 in Lion but Lion is otherwise unstable for me. 2.) Does Pioneer Trail (facebook game) play without lag? The GMA 950 is very slow with that game. I'm trying to get a relatively inexpensive Dell for my wife that will play those two games (the D620 is fine for what I do though, so I will keep it), and I'm trying to avoid paying the price premium for a model with nVidia graphics if at all possible.

Install 10.7.0, open the Mac App Store, and Option+click (actually, Windows key + click) the purchases tab. You'll see you can re-download Lion, and that download has 10.7.2 built in. Once it downloads, make a new USB drive, and then install fresh again, this time you'll be on 10.7.2. No reason to install the 10.7.1 update in teh first place, though - you should just be able to upgrade to 10.7.2 from 10.7.0 if you got the Combo update and not the Delta update.

I have a D620 I've been playing with, and I'm looking at upgrading to a D830, for the bigger screen and for nVidia graphics (I have GMA 950, and Flash/Youtube is choppy though QE/CI are working). Looking at the BIOS mods page, it doesn't appear there's a BIOS mod for the D830. Does sleep work without SleepEnabler/NullCPUPowerManagement? Do I have to keep a USB flash drive plugged in for USB ports to work when waking from sleep? How about BIOS passwords? My wife has taken the notebook hostage and said she'd like one of her own that could handle Youtube/flash games on Facebook, and has kind of groaned about the BIOS passwords and flash drive unmounted complaints when waking up the machine. If I can get around those, I certainly will. My other option is an M4300. Both of these laptops start in the $220 range on eBay, so I just want to get the one that works best with the least goofiness. I do see a BIOS for the M4300.

I need to work harder before I post. I got this to work: * Turned off wake on USB (not sure how it got turned on in the first place) * Reinstalled EDP * Repaired all permissions from the Terminal: sudo diskutil repairPermissions / * Re-ran the kext config. i don't have NullCPUPowerManagement or SleepEnabler installed at all; just using AppleIntelCPUPowerManagement (or whatever) and emulated SpeedStep * Rebooted Hit the power button and it offers to sleep and does so. Waited 10 minutes and hit the power button and it wakes up. Closed the lid and it slept again. Waited around 15 minutes and opened the lid and it woke up.

I had a 10.6.8 install working beautifully, INCLUDING this sleep issue I'm about to explain, and I decided to wipe it to try 10.7.2. Well Lion was pretty darn crashy so I reinstalled 10.6.3 this morning and installed the 10.6.8 combo. Then I installed the EDP and ran it. I have all the hardware working - video, sound, etc. I have a BIOS password and I enter it every time the machine boots. But I can't put it to sleep. When I hit the power button and click Sleep, it goes out for about 2 seconds, wakes up, and KPs. I do have NullCPUPowerManagement and SleepEnabler installed. I tried going without them but it would sleep, wake, and get stuck at a dark screen and I had to hold the power button to turn it off, like I do with the KPs I'm getting. I have done the sudo pmset hibernatemode 0 I have done the touch and rm of the sleep image I have a USB pen drive (little tiny thing from Staples) plugged in at all times. I don't know what else to do. What exact options should I pick from the Kext installer? What options did YOU pick, and how are they working? Thanks!

Yes, you can upgrade via the Combo update, that's what I did when I installed SL. It works pretty darn well. 10.6.8 is super-stable on the D620, in my brief experience. I'm less impressed with Lion on the machine. I may revert now that I've tried it. Weird random KPs on startup - VoodooRTC, GMA950, VoodooSynaptics...it's a different one every time. If I can get it to boot it seems fine, but getting it to boot is a bit of a chore.

I hate to ask so many questions, but I noticed one little thing in Lion - is hte Battery menu item supposed to be showing that the power source is battery all hte time, even when plugged in? I have the plug icon in the menu bar, but it says "Power Source: Battery" and I can't find a way to change it. edit: OK, I fixed THAT problem by using AppleACPIBatteryManager instead of VoodooBattery. Why does EDP use VoodooBattery by default? The EDP util never gave me an option; I had to move VoodooBattery out of Extra/extensions and move AppleACPIBatteryManager into Extra/Extensions by hand.

Created on a different thumb drive and Lion installed fine. First boot from the HDD crashed before it hit the desktop, though - very early on I got a mis-match on SleepEnabler.kext. It was a 32-bit kext trying to load on 64-bit Lion by default. I added arch=i386 to the USB boot loader and taht still didn't work. Not sure what else to do but remove that kext i guess. edit: did fresh install instead of upgrading over SL and it works. I used SoundFlower and found I have to delete VoodooHDA.kext in order to prevent KPs, but otherwise life is grand in Lion now.

Thanks, appreciate it. I did have to make a new USB drive for the D620 because I couldn't get it to boot at all from the unifail one I created. When I ran myHack I let it search my system for the Install Mac OS X app, and it seemed to find teh right one, but maybe if I just specifically point to it I might get better results? I deleted it and initiated a fresh download, just to be sure. I just discovered online I can make it available to re-download on Lion by holding Opt when clicking the Purchases link on the App Store. edit: holy crap. If you're stupid like me and try to enable mirror mode, Fn+F8 worked in OS X and got me back to extended desktop mode. Did not expect that to work in a thousand years, but did it just now.

Hi guys, I'm kinda stuck with my D620 and Lion from the Mac App Store. I got as far as the very beginning of step2 of the guide - I can start up from USB but I get KPs. Core 2 Duo 2Ghz, GMA950 graphics, 2 GB of RAM, 500GB hard drive. I created a USB drive using myHack 2.0 RC4.1(it says something about an EDP edition in the guide, but I can't find any such thing on the myHack website) and that part went well. The program used the Extra folder from bootpack-D620-Intel.zip and the utility copied that onto the drive just fine. I can get to Chameleon no sweat, and I can try to boot...then comes KP and the message has to do with the GMA950 driver. Booting with -v gives me that message, and booting with -v -x dims the backlight to the lowest brightness and it just kinda sits there, never progressing. The Mac App STore version I have is 10.7.2, freshly downloaded to my Hackintosh Core i3 desktop a couple days ago. I installed Lion to upgrade from SL on the desktop just fine using unifail/multifail/User DSDT. So this isn't my first rodeo, just my first try with the D620. Is there something I'm doing wrong? I don't install the EDP until I get Lion on the D620 right? Thanks for any insight. edit: Until I get this figured out, I have Snow Leopard installed. The OSXLatitude guide talks about manually flashing a modified install DVD to a USB drive, but I just used the same myHack 2.0 RC4.1 utility to create a SL install drive from my DVD, installed SL, rebooted, installed the EDP and 10.6.8 combo, rebooted again and voila. It worked.