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May be it's not the touchpad itself but the ribbon cable...

Your RAM modules are Ok.

D620 has Socket M and uses FSB 667MHz CPUs whereas D630 has Socket P and uses FSB 800MHz CPUs; the CPUs are not interchangeable (I just checked: a T7200 out of a D620 cannot physically fit in the socket of a D630). You really need to know what you have in there, it could just be a low-end FSB800 proc.

I'd make sure your hardware is D630, not D620. As Bronxteck said, it's pretty easy to put the button front panel of a D630 on a D620.

• T7200 is a typical D620 CPU
• laptop reset on wake is a well-known D620 GMA issue when BIOS system password is not set
• but D620 BIOS stopped at A10 version, D630 BIOS went up to A18...

A T7200 in a D630? Mmm, that sounds wrong: the T7200 is FSB667 whereas the D630 takes FSB800 CPUs. You seem to have a D630 with D620 aspects... What does your BIOS say about CPU (min and max frequency)?

If you want native SpeedStep, just don't install NullCPUPowerManagement. You can verify native SpeedStep operation with HWMonitor tool which is found in /Extra/Storage/apps after EDP is installed: you should see the CPU frequency change when you click on the icon in the menu bar. You may need a more recent version of FakeSMC, but that would need to be verified. No harm in trying "as is" anyway...

-> PM

You can select max. frequency with PState drop-down menu, but that's not really the best way to run a EIST capable laptop (for obvious heat/battery/fan reasons). I find emulated SpeedStep on-demand mode to work rather well, including manual frequency selection.

A few questions:

• which exact CPU model do you have (e.g. T7500) ?
• did you configure your BIOS settings as per recommended way, especially the CPU settings?
• do you use NullCPUPowerManagement kext in /E/E?
• what CPU settings are currently selected in your Chameleon boot plist?

You wrote you "tried to unselect the emulated speedstep", what did you do exactly? It's not that straightforward to remove emulated speedstep once it's installed...

Now, if PState is not to your liking, you could also try native SpeedStep (means no use of NullCPUPowerManagement), but that retains the on-demand CPU power functionality...

I think you need to keep GraphicsEnabler set to 'No' for the injecter (i.e. EVOenabler) to load. But try either anyway.

What's "widget ripple"?

Do you have translucent finder menu bar? If it's translucent and you can switch between resolution in the screen preference panel (or through screen icon in menu bar), you have full QE/CI.

Look here, you'll see the difference with the menu bar: https://osxlatitude.com/index.php?/topic/2032-dell-vostro-200/

It stays plain grey when hardware acceleration is not active.

Yes, do it that way, especially if your initial version is lower that 10.7.4, since that particular one would break the Hackintosh (ACPI kext issue). EDP takes care of that problem.

Just re-run the EDP system build. That can be done at any time. No need to re-install the OS from scratch!

System reset on wake is not something that normally affects the D630. Make sure your BIOS settings comply with the published recommended parameters. You would not have confused D630 with D620 by any chance? Because the D620 GMA does need a system password to avoid that particular wake problem.

I've done some checkings and tests with 64bit mode on my D630 X3100 HiRes with Lion 10.7.5:

• NullCPUPowerManagement + SleepEnabler kexts are 32/64bit
• I can boot 64bit mode kernel with "-force64" boot flag (unchecking 32bit in boot plist was not sufficient)
• in 64bit kernel mode, I have no graphics support as expected (and I loose keyboard + trackpad too -> 'have to use USB input devices)
• in 64bit kernel mode, I can put laptop to sleep and it will wake Ok, but always with a black screen (-> 'have to reboot!)
• no boot plist option changed that wake behaviour (darkwake, npci, ...) in 64bit kernel mode
• no change either, when booting with or without NullCPUPowerManagement + SleepEnabler (although I did experience the odd KP without them)

Without graphics support the laptop certainly feels sluggish (very obvious when double clicking on the HDD icon to open up the finder window).

To make sure you run in 64bit kernel mode, open About this Mac -> More info... -> System Report -> Software. Check the penultimate line that reads "64bit kernel and extensions". It'll say Yes or No. If you uncheck "32bit" option in Chameleon boot plist but do not select "force64", the D630 still boots in 32bit kernel mode.

I'm not sure about this, but maybe the SleepEnabler kext is 32bit only. You could try to run your D630 without NullCPUPowerManagement and without SleepEnabler to see if it makes any difference. In fact, I'll try it myself...

2 off-topic comments:

- I guess you're running in 64bit kernel mode without graphics support (Apple dropped 64bit X3100 kexts after 10.6.2). Yet, you find the system to run much better???

- You kind of hint you get 8GB RAM support only with 64bit kernel. I've no experience on the matter but I would have expected 8Gb to be supported regardless of the kernel mode (OS X does not operate like Windows).

Did you install the EDP package and do a system build? When in there, select VoodooPS2Controller or MyHack controller as opposed to ANV-SLice which I think is default. The system build will install the sleepenabler kext if it's required.

If you have not done your EDP system build, do it after running your 10.7.5 combo update but before the reboot.

Try Nawcom's ModCD with a retail version of SL 10.6.3. Then pray...

Try and check on the Net if your hardware is supported at all:

1) CPU, with Nawcom's legacy kernels (and/or other legacy kernels)

2) nVidia nForce chipset

3) FX4500 graphics card (I believe that card may have been fitted to some MacPro)

Good luck!

Can I use the ATI KEXTs out of the Vostro pack since they have the same Dev ID?

Since you appear to have same X1300 card as in my Vostro 200, yes, just copy the 3 related kexts from the Vostro200 SL bootpack to /E/E (EVOenabler + ATIRadeonX1000 + ATI1300Controller).

Do I still need the Chameleon GraphicsEnabler branch from Azimutz and make the associated changes. If so, where can I find it? There appear to be a few Azimutz branches at forge.voodooprojects.org.

As I said at the bottom of the Vostro 200 guide, you no longer need the Azimutz Chameleon branch because newer versions of Chameleon (r2181 for instance) support the card. Install Chameleon Wizard and you'll be able to set Chameleon boot file to particular version within a recent range.

Do KEXTs in /extra superseed those in /system/library/extensions or do those need to be removed

With the use of myHack, yes, kexts in /E/E supersede their equivalent/counterpart in /S/L/E. As such, no need to do anything to kexts in /S/L/E; they can be left as is, i.e. that folder stays totally original/vanilla.

Is there a way to write the -v boot data to a log file?

What you see on screen with verbose boot flag actually goes by default to the system log. Open up Console tool and you'll see (in Applications -> Utilities).

IOATAFamily is not seeing CD/DVD in RAID mode. checking other modes and enabling HD drives to see what happens.

IOATAFamily still not seeing the ICH8 regardless of BIOS settings.

 

I put it in /Extra/Extensions which is working for LAN.

 

Dev:2822 Ven:8086

Still can't get anything on the ICH8. Any ideas?

I lied and worked on the ICH8 some more. Drives now visible with

modified-ahciportinjector.kext

http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/186653-modified-ahciportinjectorkext-no-more-orange-hds/

info.plist edited per:

http://legacy.tonycrapx86.com/viewtopic.php?f=79&t=21704

 

Is that enough to put a drive on it and boot, or do I have to do something with Chameleon?

It sounds like a "simple" matter of device id needing to be covered by the IOATA kext. Indeed, the AppleIntelPIIXATA plugin of the IOATAFamily kext I attached above does not refer to device id 2822. If you edit the Info.plist file of the plugin and add your particular device id to the ICH sections, you'll probably get your controller detected and working... For instance, copy the 1st ICH8 SATA section, paste it, rename it ICH8R (or ICH9R or ICH10R depending on revision, although it does not really matter what you call it) and replace 0x28208086 by 0x28228086.

http://www.pcidataba...vice_search.y=0

http://www.pcidataba...ils.php?id=1302

Remember to re-run myFix (full) everytime you work on kexts in /E/E.

Do a search on the forum, the IO80211Family kext has been uploaded several times before.

For Broadcom kexts, go to the usual kext place... http://www.osx86.net/downloads.php?do=file&id=972

Yes, the BT adapter was optional on many Dell laptops, including the Latitude D Series... If present (under left screen hinge) and radio is enabled, you'd see the blue BT LED lit next to the wifi LED near the right screen hinge.

The DW1390 works OOB, the DW1395 needs the patched IO80211 kext or the BCM43xxx kext. Both work equally well far as I can tell (I have both on my D laptops).

Yes, it should work OOB, provided you have the adapter's radio enabled. Do you know the model? We can provide a patched kext to allow radio enabling from Mac OS.

Enjoy! That's a good 2nd life to have...

PS: put a decent FSB800 Core2Duo CPU (eg: T7500 or better) in that Vostro1510 and you could have a nice D830-equivalent capable to run Snow Leopard and Lion; even Mountain Lion if it has nVidia graphics.

Hi, we should be able to get this particular model fully operational. You have the desktop version of the Intel G965 with ICH8 and that works pretty well in our well-known D630 (mobile version of the chipset of course). Nothing wrong with ICH8 as far as I'm concerned, well at least on laptops...

There's a good chance you can only install OS X with AHCI mode enabled for your HDD. That may not be an available option in the BIOS, in which case, you could be forced to stick with RAID mode settings (which does not mean you have to operate a RAID array).

The ATI X1300 should be able to operate fully in SL (and in SL only). Could you try and get the device id (may be through the Windows device driver properties if you're unfamiliar with that)? You're highly likely to require a patch for that (well, I did to get mine to work on my Vostro 200).

Audio and Ethernet already work, which is good. Audio should be supported by latest VoodooHDA kexts.

What I'd recommend you to do is the following:

1) create a myHack SL installer with default/Generic /Extra

2) if it's not already installed by default, add IOATAFamily kext to /Extra/Extensions. This kext should allow you to detect your HDD through the ICH8 SATA controller

3) re-run myHack->myFix (full) afterwards on your USB installer

4) edit your boot plist to disable GraphicsEnabler

See if that installer boots (with boot option GraphicsEnabler=No initially) and allows you to perform a basic SL 10.6.3 installation. If it does, you'll hopefully be able to reboot to complete your basic SL installation. We can then add the various kexts you require for LAN, audio (if it does not work OOB), video/graphics, etc.

For LAN, you can indeed use the IntelE1000e kext but we recommend the Intel82566MM kext.

For Video, have a look at my Vostro 200 guide in the EDP -> Supported Models section. Basically, you're probably gonna need an injecter + patched kexts.

Boot with -v flag to see what happens on screen.

You say the system seems to become unresponsive if you leave it idle and that sleep does not work -> it's probably because it requires a proper DSDT table to be provided. Have a look at the DSDT section to find out how to extract it and get it patched by Dinesh. But that can be looked into once you have all hardware working.

To me, this particular desktop should be able to run SL, Lion and ML without problems and in 32/64bit kernel mode. It will require a different graphics card for ML though, possibly for Lion too...

IOATAFamily.kext.zip

Intel82566MM.kext.zip

That should work, yes. If you get it, please add it to the thread in R&D -> Hardware -> Network.

https://osxlatitude.com/index.php?/topic/2120-wireless-cards-inventory/

Hi and welcome.

Some list!

Create a thread for each machine you want help on. That Dimension e520 should be able to run SL/L/ML (but you'll find you'll have to change that graphics card for L and ML). Anyway, let's see all that in the support section.

Try this: http://www.osx86.net/downloads.php?do=file&id=2471

'may need patching with your PCI ids... If it does not work, then consider changing your wireless card.