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Why are you booting with -x flag??? That is safe mode! There is absolutely no reason for you to do that. Safe mode does not permit graphics kexts to be loaded so you'll have no graphics acceleration. When you create your USB installer, you should just use my /Extra folder instead of the OSXL bootpack. So redo your "Install Extra" again, pointing to my /Extra folder provided above. Then boot your installer normally. To reflect your AR5B91 wireless card, copy the DSDT table found in the /Extra folder I provided above to your desktop. Assuming you have Chameleon Wizard installed (and not any other EDST editor tool), double click on the dsdt.aml file to decompile it and open the resulting .dsl file in TextEditor. Then replace the whole device (ARPT) section with the following code: Device (ARPT) { Name (_ADR, Zero) Name (_PRW, Package (0x02) { 0x09, 0x03 }) Method (_DSM, 4, NotSerialized) { Store (Package (0x0C) { "model", Buffer (0x26) { "Atheros AR928x 802.11a/b/g/n Wireless" }, "device_type", Buffer (0x08) { "AirPort" }, "built-in", Buffer (One) { 0x00 }, "name", Buffer (0x10) { "AirPort Extreme" }, "AAPL,slot-name", Buffer (0x09) { "Internal" }, "compatible", Buffer (0x0B) { "pci168c,30" } }, Local0) DTGP (Arg0, Arg1, Arg2, Arg3, RefOf (Local0)) Return (Local0) } } Save the edited .dsl file then double click on it to compile it with Chameleon Wizard DSDT compiler. Place the resulting dsdt.aml to /Extra and reboot. You should then see the Atheros card being properly reported in System Report.

Ok, that's perfect. A regular D630 nVidia with DW1390 Wireless card. I'll prepare a tuned-up /Extra for you to try...

P & C States in Chameleon boot plist are useless with NullCPUPowerManagement. You need to use PState kext + PSMenu app to obtain (emulated) SpeedStep on your CPU.

Sure, I'll send you the necessary DSDT patch.

There's a non-exhaustive list of supported/unsuported wireless cards in R&D->Hardware->Wifi/Bluetooth section of the forum. Did you try patching the Broadcom kext or the BCM43xxFamily kext? BCM4322 cards are supported, so may be a card based on BCM43228 could be too. PS: don't tell your mother-in-law, change the card discreetly! In fact, one should NEVER tell anything to a mother-in-law...

nVidia GeForce 8400GS should be natively supported by the vanilla kexts, so you have nothing to do at all, just boot with GE set to Yes. That card uses the same GPU family (G86) as that used in Quadro NVS 135M/140M or FX 360M (G86M chip - mobile version of G86) found in Latitude D630/D830 or Precision M2300/M4300 laptops to name a few and these enjoy full native graphics support from SL to Mav. nVidia even lists drivers for that card up to 10.8.5...

Well, it all depends on your ability to have a Mac or a Hack system at your disposal at the moment. If you do, then just use myHack to make your USB installer, knowing that an older version such as v3.1.2 is better suited for SL than subsequent releases (v3.2/v3.3). You can point myHack to your SL .dmg image without a problem, although it probably will ask you to mount it first. If you do not have a Mac or a Hack, then you can consider Nawcom's ModCD as a bootable installer (it comes as a downloadable .iso image that you restore to CD/DVD) but that normally requires a retail SL DVD or a USB key with a restored image of retail SL. Since you say you have the imaged .dmg package on your USB key, that probably won't do for ModCD. You'd have to find a way to restore that image to a key and that requires a Mac or a Hack too!

I would try without patched AppleIntelCPUPowerManagement, i.e. the regular Vanilla kext (which means no NullCPUPowerManagement either) + Kozlek's FakeSMC + P&C States enabled in Chameleon boot plist. Regarding sleep, try without SleepEnabler but set the Hibernate mode to 0 through sudo pmset hibernatemode 0 Terminal command, i.e. plain old sleep mode.

Indeed, EDP/myHack will do that in Safe mode. To rebuild permissions and caches, you have to open up Terminal and use "myfix -qt /". Answer "Y" when prompted.

Indeed, that's a bit of a problem so we need to review our bootpack. You should however find the generic PS2 kexts on the USB installer: - either in /ExtraBackups - or in /Applications/Utilities, right click on myHack to open its contents, then browse to Contents/Resources/Extra These normally contain the kexts that are part of myHack's Generic bootpack.

I would suggest 2 different things to try with your USB installer: 1) try and boot with option cpus=1 in case it's the QuadCore CPU that's causing the issue 2) in /E/E, remove NullCPUPowerManagement and replace FakeSMC v4.0 by one of Kozlek's recent FakeSMC versions (latest being v6.0.1042 at time of writing: http://sourceforge.net/projects/hwsensors/ -> download one of the binaries zip further down the page on the right side under "Recent releases", then place the plugin kexts inside the PlugIns subfolder of the FakeSMC kext). The Chameleon boot plist then needs to be modified so that P & C states are selected. Finally re-run myFix (quick) on the USB installer before attempting to boot it.

You can only run Snow Leopard 10.6 with that 32bit Core Duo CPU. Just read up the EDP pages above, they contain the step by step guide, then follow the process. Upgrade your CPU to a 64bit Core 2 Duo (strictly FSB667) and you'll be able to install and run Lion 10.7, even ML with the MLPF hack, in which case head over to the EDP->Supported Models with Guide forum section for a detailed guide. Regular 64bit ML and Mavericks are off mark for the D620, whatever the model.

If you've done a proper myHack installation, the /Extra folder I attached will get you going in a fully tuned mode. Just remember to run myFix (full) and update Chameleon (to r2283 at the moment) through the Wizard. Again, make sure you run BIOS A15 and that it is setup according to the recommended parameters listed in the pinned thread. If you follows those instructions, you cannot go wrong, I guarantee successful results.

Can you please confirm in your BIOS that the audio is Sigmatel 9205 and that lspci -nn Terminal returns the following? 00:1b.0 Audio device [0403]: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) HD Audio Controller [8086:284b] (rev 02) Thanks.

How did you install ML on your system? Which method? You CPU could be unrecognised because of the boot loader you use. Which is it, which version? Regarding audio, which version of VoodooHDA do you use? Did you try to edit the kext's plist to increase parameter iGain to say 90 or 100?

No. If you don't use myHack, don't use myFix but proceed with your usual method (kext wizard, manual installation or other).

Only Qualcomm or Apple write these kexts... Conclusion: it's not supported in Mavericks since it's not compatible with 10.9's Atheros40 kext. It might have been compatible with Atheros/Atheros21/Atheros40 kexts of SL, L but it's not with ML and Mavericks -> change your card.

Please use EDP to do a System Build, this model has been supported for years and years now. This assumes a myHack installation with retail SL copy of course (10.6.0/10.6.3/10.6.8), if not you know what to do. We don't support distros here. For wireless, it'll depend on the card you have; by now everyone should be aware that Intel cards are unsupported... If in any doubts, look at the non-exhaustive wireless cards inventory in R&D->Hardware->wifi section of the forum.

If VoodooHDA does not work, try the patched STAC9205 audio pack.

No idea, you try it and tell us!

You don't need kext wizard and you should avoid that tool on a myHack installation as they can conflict. Copy the Atheros40 kext to Desktop, edit it to add your PCI entry (if missing), then move it to /E/E and run myFix (quick). That way, your patch will always be kept even after an OS X update. Otherwise, the kext is likely to be overwritten and your patch lost. Basically, do as explained in post 2#! I can't be clearer than that... PS: the kext I attached already contains the PCI id 168c,2b. Didn't you see that ?

1st of all, start by identifying the model of trackpad your laptop is fitted with: ALPS or other. Then you can use the relevant pack.

Well, it seems it does not like the PS2 kexts you're currently using. You should try another PS2 pack.

Mm, which output port are you using on the GT610? I know DVI + VGA work ok (and simultaneously for dual screen mode) but never tried the HDMI.

Erm… we do not write Qualcomm Atheros kexts, no. Try to patch the Atheros40 as shown in the EDP google source code you found: copy the original kext to Desktop, edit its Info.plist file then place the edited kext in /E/E and run myFix (quick). You should always try and leave vanilla kexts "as is" in /S/L/E. If patching remains ineffective, then that card could prove to be unsupported. Or maybe it'll work, but only on clear networks.