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Last update: 22 Mar 2020 Our former EDP utility having long been abandoned, here are full packs for the Latitude D620/D630 series. The packs do not require any subsequent tuning at all, they provide everything required to obtain a fully working system (CPU power management, graphics, LAN, audio, keyboard, trackpad), non-OOB wireless, bluetooth and any other devices excluded of course. However, some manual tuning for proper Sleep/Wake operation is required: setting hibernation mode to plain old sleep and deleting any eventual sleepimage file. This is done through the following Terminal commands upon final OS X installation: sudo pmset -a hibernatemode 0 sudo pmset -a hibernatefile /dev/null sudo rm -f /var/vm/sleepimage Vanilla support stops at Lion 10.7.5 for all Intel GMA based models and the D620 nVidia due to GPU support limitations in Mac OS X. For those systems, ML may be installed and tuned back to 32bit operation through MLPF hack. Look at the Dell installation guides forum subsection for MLPF'ed ML guides and packs. It's not 100% bug-free though... Only the D630 nVidia supports vanilla installation of OS X Mountain Lion / Mavericks / Yosemite / El Capitan and Sierra / High Sierra (macOS only with Penryn CPUs). For all models, read the Performance tuning thread for CPU + GPU tuning if required but the FakeSMC kext included in the packs below brings it all. D620 GMA950 LoRes (WXGA 1280x800): D620_GMA950_LoRes_10.6.8_Pack.zip D620_GMA950_LoRes_10.7.5_Pack.zip D620 GMA950 HiRes (WXGA+ 1440x900): D620_GMA950_HiRes_10.6.8_Pack.zip D620_GMA950_HiRes_10.7.5_Pack.zip D620 nVidia Quadro 110M (all res): D620_NV110m_10.6.8_Pack.zip D620_NV110m_10.7.5_Pack.zip D630 GMA X3100 LoRes (WXGA 1280x800): D630_X3100_LoRes_10.6.8.zip D630_X3100_LoRes_10.7.5_Pack.zip D630 GMA X3100 HiRes (WXGA+ 1440x900): D630_X3100_HiRes_10.6.8.zip D630_X3100_HiRes_10.7.5_Pack.zip D630 nVidia Quadro NVS 135M (all res): D630_NV135m_10.6.8_Pack.zip D630_NV135m_10.7.5_Pack.zip D630_NV135m_10.8.5_Pack.zip D630_NV135m_10.9.5_Pack.zip D630_NV135m_10.10.5_Pack.zip D630_NV135m_10.11_Pack.zip D630 nVidia Quadro NVS 135M + Penryn C2D CPUs (all res): D630_NV135m_10.12_and_10.13_Pack.zip NB: MyHack highly recommended for installation of Snow Leopard, Lion, Mountain Lion and Mavericks. Use myHack v3.3.1, except for SL which requires v3.1.2 (there's a bug related to SL in v3.3.1). For Yosemite and beyond, we recommend manual USB installer creation using instructions that have been detailed in numerous guides posted here. NB: For Chameleon-based Yosemite installations (i.e. no Clover or otherwise), not all kexts load from /E/E. Eg: VoodooHDA + HDADisabler or lspcidrv. In such cases, copy the kexts to /L/E, repair permissions and rebuild the cache with the following Terminal commands: sudo chmod -R 755 /Library/Extensions sudo chown -R 0:0 /Library/Extensions sudo touch /Library/Extensions sudo kextcache -Boot -U / Update to Chameleon r2468 is recommended for proper hardware support such as good CPU detection. Chameleon-2.3svn-r2468.pkg.zip NB: For Enoch-based Yos/EC/Sierra installations (recent Enoch versions such as r2795 and beyond for instance), you may use a kernel.plist file in /Extra with parameter KernelBooter_kexts set to Yes to load kexts from /E/E directly. Those kexts will not natively be considered for prelinked kernel/kext cache generation so boot time will be a little slower. To maximise boot time, you can either move kexts from /E/E to /L/E or copy them from /E/E to /L/E and set KernelBooter_kexts to No. You will then repair permissions and rebuild the cache as detailed above. macOS Sierra and later can only be installed on D630 nVidia models fitted with a Penryn FSB800 C2D CPU (e.g.: T6xxx, T8xxx, T9xxx). Enoch-rev.2839.pkg.zip

Here you'll find a full SL 10.6.8 pack for the LoRes (1280x800) D620 GMA950. Should also work for 10.6.0/10.6.3 installation base prior to update to 10.6.8. This need no further EDP tuning, it provides a fully working system, wifi support excluded depending on installed card. Refer to the Performance tuning thread for details and copy of HWMonitor app if you want to monitor CPU speed and T°.

https://osxlatitude.com/index.php?/topic/7853-yosemite-kernels/ Having tested them, you can use Chameleon r2395, r2401 or r2468 safely with Yosemite.

M4600 is based on SandyBridge like the E6420 so both are of exact same generation... E6430 is based on IvyBridge so the following generation. True, the M4600 will have a better graphics card (and possibly higher screen res depending on the model) but I would say that's where the better specs stop.

RampageDev's guide seems up-to-date enough to me. What do you think is missing? Did you try booting with only 1 card?

Did you make a myHack-based installation? 10.9.5 (build 13F1077) uses AppleACPIPlatform v2.0 and IOPCIFamily v2.9.

You don't need to re-install the Extra or run EDP to update to 10.6.8. Run the Combo update and before reboot, re-run myFix (quick) to rebuild cache. That should suffice.

CPU seems to be incorrectly detected too...

With Mavericks, you should be using the vanilla AppleACPIPlatform kext, not the rolled back versions used for Lion or ML (v1.3.5 or v1.3.6 of SL origin). I've never experienced any issue with the Mavericks version on any systems I've hackintoshed. Did you check your BIOS settings for HDD mode? Ideally, it should be set to AHCI. I assume the SSD is connected to one of the SATA HDD connectors, not a SAS or SATA optical one. You could also try a slightly older version of Chameleon. For instance, I recently updated Chameleon to r2468 on my E6440 and whilst it would boot Yosemite Ok, it would not boot Mavericks. Everything was Ok again once I reverted to r2401.

EDP is being updated, though should be available for download as far as I understood. Failing that, I can easily post a complete D620 GMA950 LoRes bootpack that will not require subsequent EDP tuning...

Indeed, you'll need a 64bit C2D CPU to be able to run Lion on your D620.

Intel cards are unsupported, Apple does not use them and there are no drivers. You'll have to replace yours by a supported model (Broadcom, Atheros or other, but no Intel) or use a USB dongle. See the non-exhaustive list of supported models in R&D->Hardware->Wifi section.

Or VoodooHDA for built-in speakers only...

If you're talking about Preview, there's a binary patch to fix the Haswell-related problem. See my E6440 guide. Jake linked to it on p40.

What's the Hackintosh Zone screen with an axe going through the Apple? Are you using a distro?

They're not dead, the whole chart is being updated following new EDP revamp. Things will get back to normal within a few weeks.

The D830 Yosemite thread lists the kexts used to get 10.10 running on the D830. It's no different to the D630. https://osxlatitude.com/index.php?/topic/7055-d830-nvidia-yosemite/ https://osxlatitude.com/index.php?/topic/6731-d630-nvidia-yosemite/ I'll load up my D630 Yos /Extra folder; I'm using Chameleon, Clover too complicated for my liking... I'll have to edit my DSDT though because I tuned it to match the specific HW fitted to my D630...

Or the fact that Enable DualLink / Enable Backlight options are not selected...

Intel GMA 4500MHD is not supported by any OS X versions, so laptops based on that Intel GPU will never get graphics acceleration. Your desktop should be Ok on the other hand. Please open a separate thread in the desktop section for that system if required.

Haswell-patched kernel is usually required on Haswell-Based laptops...

Without graphics acceleration, a Hackintosh is not really usable: overall performance is severely degraded, you'll experience lots of graphics artefact, many web sites won't be useable and the same will go for several graphics apps such as DVDPlayer or VLC. Don't bother with Yosemite on the E6400 with Intel GPU.

Same pack as Mavericks... Same as ML without the ACPIPlatform rollback to SL version (v1.3.5/1.3.6). You can probably use the D630 pack too. Chameleon config is same as for all previous OS X versions, with the added option kext-dev-mode=1.

How about when you boot without cache? Do the ports work then?

Assuming you've partitioned your disk under GPT/GUID scheme (not MBR), format your target Windows partition as exFAT from Disk Utility. Then boot your Windows installation DVD and install Win on that partition, reformatting it NTFS. If, at reboot, you seem to have lost your Lion partition, simply boot it via your USB installer and re-install Chameleon bootloader on it. Chameleon should then see both the Lion and Windows partition and offer them for potential selection at boot time.

You can only achieve max resolution if you have full graphics support/acceleration, otherwise OS X will limit the screen res. 1333x720 is not what I call a normal/regular screen resolution, so one can presume you do not actually have full QE/CI. Re: SSDT, you would not normally patch the extracted files. That's not normally required. You would only use a patched DSDT and generate a SSDT via the generator script tool to manage CPU SpeedStep. As such, you would not re-use or patch the extracted DSDT files.