Chris Thomson

Hi Hervé Are you suggesting that the dsdt file may be getting removed after EDP is run or do I need to be looking for something else? The dsdt file is definitely in /Extra on top of that my system is flashed with the custom BIOS from this site which I thought would negate the need for a dsdt file in /Extra Chris

Sorry I've not been about for a couple of days. I've checked org.chameleon.Boot.plist and there is no sign of the device injection key which is what I would expect. The Chameleon/OSX correctly detects my graphics card as a Dell Nvidia Quadro NVS 120M with 256Mb ram. I've also ran MyFix to fix problems with permissions and this hasn't made any difference. I have attached today's Kernel.log and System.log - I don't know if these will reveal anything that might suggest what the problem is. D820Kernel.rtf d820System.log.rtf

Okay...I've re-installed the D820 NVidia configuration, I still get the same black screen. However if I put the laptop to sleep then wake it up again the screen comes on just as you suggested it would. What I don't understand is why it has worked perfectly for a very long time until I upgraded to the latest version of EDP.

I didn't try a usb keyboard - for some reason I didn't even think about that I will give it a try again as I've still got the 620 /Extra folder in place at the moment. Yes I used the D620 NVidia configuration. I will let you know how I get on with a USB keyboard plugged in.

Hi Everyone Following on from my last post, I have tried rebuilding my /Extra folder using the D620 profile as someone else had tried earlier in this post and found that the display did come on at the logon screen but for what ever reason the keyboard doesn't work (caps lock does but nothing else seems to work) and therefore I cannot get logged on. Has anyone else had this issue? Thanks Chris

Hi there I have a Dell D820 with the NV120 graphics processor. After updating to EDP5 I am also experiencing the black screen issue. Interestingly when my laptop boots up I am getting the console text that you would expect to see if I have used the -v option in Chameleon. I have tried deleting the Extra folder and re-installing EDP but I still get the black screen. My laptop details are as follows Model: Dell Latitude D820 Processor: Intel T7200 RAM: 3GB Graphics: Nvidia NV120 256Mb Storage: 120Gb SSD WiFi: Dell Bluetooth BIOS - Custom OSXLatitude D820 (Nvidia) BIOS Operating System: OS X 10.7.5 Does anybody have any suggestions as to what I should be looking at to resolve this. At the moment I can work around it by using my USB stick to boot the laptop. Thanks Chris

Hi there I thought I would share this information with you. I've been running my Dell Latitude D820 as a hack for two years now and thanks to the efforts of everyone involved with the EDP package it runs really really well. One thing I had noticed but never really worried about was the fact that the only resolution available to chose from the display preferences was 1280x800 (native resolution for my screen). Apart from this and the VGA out not working right the D820 was nearly 100% perfect. Recently I've been working on a desktop hack for myself and one for a friend and found that we had to set the PCIRoot to 1 in Chameleon in order to enable hardware acceleration etc. Out of curiosity I decided to add the PCIRoot=1 setting to the com.apple.boot.plist and rebooted my Latitude and to my surprise I got a selection of resolutions to choose from for the built in display. I've not tried using VGA out yet to see if it works properly or not. Anyway, I thought you might be interested in this.... Thanks Chris

Hi I have pasted the code from my corrected /Extra/com.apple.boot.plist file below. If you scan through it you will see the opening <dict> tag on the 4th line, there should be a corresponding closing tag i.e. </dict> before the </plist> tag. For some reason the </dict> tag was missing from the code in my /Extra/com.apple.boot.plist file - this seemed to happen after I updated to EDP 1.5RC6 (i think) and didn't go away when I installed EDP 1.6. <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd"> <plist version="1.0"> <dict> <key>DSDT</key> <string>/Extra/dsdt.aml</string> <key>DropSSDT</key> <string>Yes</string> <key>EHCIacquire</key> <string>Yes</string> <key>EthernetBuiltIn</key> <string>Yes</string> <key>ForceHPET</key> <string>Yes</string> <key>GenerateCStates</key> <string>Yes</string> <key>GeneratePStates</key> <string>Yes</string> <key>GraphicsEnabler</key> <string>Yes</string> <key>Kernel Flags</key> <string>mVersion=21</string> <key>SystemType</key> <string>2</string> <key>Timeout</key> <string>2</string> <key>UHCIreset</key> <string>Yes</string> <key>USBBusFix</key> <string>Yes</string> <key>arch</key> <string>i386</string> </dict> </plist> I hope that makes sense. Chris

I have found the cause of the problem, basically the </dict> tag was missing from the com.apple.boot.plist in the /Extra folder. I don't know if perhaps the error in the file has come from the last version of EDP 1.5 and the EDP 1.6 package. Anyhow, I've added the missing tag and found that Coolbook Controller is now working correctly. Chris

Hi There Has anyone else got CoolBook Controller working on their Dxx0? I have had the full version for a while now and downloaded the updated version earlier in the week. Since upgrading to the new version (v2.22) the frequencies have all been showing as 0Mhz for both Adapter and Battery. When Coolbook Controller starts up I get the warning message saying that the default frequencies and voltages. I've tried re-installing the software but it makes no difference. I've also tried deleting the preference files for Coolbook. Has anyone got any suggestions as to what else I can try? Chris

Sorry Leon I've been away for a few days, will try out the latest EDP on my D820 this evening. Chris

Hey Leon Good question. I do have steam installed.....the only game I've downloaded so far is Flight Control HD which works nicely but doesn't exactly give the graphics much of a work out I'll get back to you. Chris

Hey Leon One note regarding EDP 1.5 RC5 - there is an EFI string in the com.apple.boot.plist for the Nvidia NV110 which I don't have on my D820. I've removed the string from the file and switched on the Graphics Enabler for now. Is it worth while having an EFI string for the NV120? Is there any advantage to having an EFI string over using the graphics enabler? Everything else seems to work ok although I've spotted a few warnings in the kernel log from when it was booting up, I don't know if they are anything to worry about. I've pasted a snippet from the log file below. =============================== an 9 12:56:35 localhost kernel[0]: BSD root: disk0s2, major 14, minor 2 Jan 9 12:56:36 localhost kernel[0]: BCM5751Enet: Ethernet address 00:15:c5:07:c4:5f Jan 9 12:56:36 localhost kernel[0]: systemShutdown false Jan 9 12:56:44 localhost kernel[0]: Waiting for DSMOS... Jan 9 12:56:50 localhost kernel[0]: Refusing new kext com.apple.iokit.IONetworkingFamily, v1.10: a loaded copy with a different executable UUID is already present. Jan 9 12:56:52: --- last message repeated 1 time --- Jan 9 12:56:52 localhost kernel[0]: Previous Shutdown Cause: 0 Jan 9 12:56:52 localhost kernel[0]: Refusing new kext com.apple.kext.OSvKernDSPLib, v1.3: a loaded copy with a different executable UUID is already present. Jan 9 12:56:52 localhost kernel[0]: Refusing new kext com.apple.iokit.IONetworkingFamily, v1.10: a loaded copy with a different executable UUID is already present. Jan 9 12:56:52 localhost kernel[0]: wl0: Broadcom BCM4312 802.11 Wireless Controller Jan 9 12:56:52 localhost kernel[0]: 5.10.91.27 Jan 9 12:56:52 localhost kernel[0]: Refusing new kext com.apple.kext.OSvKernDSPLib, v1.3: a loaded copy with a different executable UUID is already present. Jan 9 12:56:52 localhost kernel[0]: NVDANV40HAL loaded and registered. Jan 9 12:56:52 Chris-Thomsons-Mac-Pro kernel[0]: AirPort_Brcm43xx: Ethernet address 00:1a:73:eb:af:93 Jan 9 12:56:52 Chris-Thomsons-Mac-Pro kernel[0]: IO80211Controller::dataLinkLayerAttachComplete(): adding AppleEFINVRAM notification Jan 9 12:56:52 Chris-Thomsons-Mac-Pro kernel[0]: IO80211Interface::efiNVRAMPublished(): Jan 9 12:56:53 Chris-Thomsons-Mac-Pro kernel[0]: AirPort: Link Down on en1. Reason 8 (Disassociated because station leaving). Jan 9 12:56:54 Chris-Thomsons-Mac-Pro kernel[0]: Refusing new kext com.apple.kext.OSvKernDSPLib, v1.3: a loaded copy with a different executable UUID is already present. Jan 9 12:56:54 Chris-Thomsons-Mac-Pro kernel[0]: DSMOS has arrived Jan 9 12:56:54 Chris-Thomsons-Mac-Pro kernel[0]: Auth result for: 00:26:44:8e:92:77 MAC AUTH succeeded Jan 9 12:56:54 Chris-Thomsons-Mac-Pro kernel[0]: AirPort: Link Up on en1 Jan 9 12:56:55 Chris-Thomsons-Mac-Pro kernel[0]: ACPI_SMC_PlatformPlugin::pushCPU_CSTData - _CST evaluation failed Jan 9 12:56:55 Chris-Thomsons-Mac-Pro kernel[0]: ACPI_SMC_PlatformPlugin::registerLPCDriver - WARNING - LPC device initialization failed: C-state power management not initialized Jan 9 12:56:56 Chris-Thomsons-Mac-Pro kernel[0]: AirPort: RSN handshake complete on en1 Jan 9 13:03:02 unknown-00-1a-73-eb-af-93 kernel[0]: FakeSMC: key info not found CLWK, length - 6 Jan 9 13:03:02 unknown-00-1a-73-eb-af-93 kernel[0]: AirPort: Link Down on en1. Reason 8 (Disassociated because station leaving). Jan 9 13:03:02 unknown-00-1a-73-eb-af-93 kernel[0]: E:[AppleUSBBluetoothHCIController][sendHCIRequest] sending DeviceRequest returns e0004057 Jan 9 13:03:02 unknown-00-1a-73-eb-af-93 kernel[0]: SendHCIRequest failed, error (0xe0004057) Jan 9 13:03:04 unknown-00-1a-73-eb-af-93 kernel[0]: System Sleep ========================== Chris

Hey Leon I've just updated my D820 (NVidia) to 10.6.6 and added the pmVersion kernel flags to the com.apple.boot.plist. So far so good, seems to be working ok although I need to test sleep etc. Only had one KP, not sure what the cause was but I'll keep an eye on it - may have been Firefox 4 Beta 8. Cheers Chris

Hi Bronxteck I've updated my signature with the specs of my D820. I did also submit a DSDT dump from Ubuntu a few weeks ago when we were asked to contribute DSDTs. Cheers Chris

Hi everyone Ok, I've been using EDP1.5 RC4 for a while now and apart from my DVD drive not working at all I have found another issue - perhaps with power management? Could be something in the DSDT... not sure though. Basically for the first time since using EDP the screensaver works when the laptop is running on mains power and when moving the laptop out of screensaver mode I get prompted for a password as expected. However, when the laptop is running on battery power the screensaver doesn't work - the screen just goes blank. When I go to get the laptop out of screensaver mode the screen doesn't wake up. The only way I can get working again is to close the lid to put my laptop to sleep and then open the lid again - at this point I'm then able to enter a password and use the laptop. I hope that makes sense I thought it was important to report this behaviour. Thanks Chris

Hey guys Nice work on the build script, seems to do a great job of building the /extra folder for my D820. The only thing I've noticed so far is that the DVD drive is still not being picked up by the OS. I presume that this requires a small change to the dsdt? Will do more testing and report any other issues I find. Keep up the good work! Chris