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im pretty shure it could be fixed in dsdt... my reason is how the system responds to restart and shutdowns for example on d620 i need "restart fix" to be able to restart. now in my bios i have the option to not enter bios password on reboot. but because osx is not natively shutting down but rather "patched" it still asks for a password. also on restart i get a long pause before getting to "password screen". Now shut down, that happens to be "native" to osx i do not have to wait to enter password on powerup it goes really fast. thats the only time i should have to input my password. when waking from sleep i do not have to input password (there is an option for this provided in bios setup).. now the funny thing is in windows every thing works the way it should. only on a cold boot do i have to input system password so the problem is os dependent and os gets the info from dsdt and its other tables, i believe chameleon can read those tables if you have them but i dont know if they have to go in /Extra or /Extra/Modules but to be honest it really should be done in dsdt.. now for instance thund3rbolt, the d630 has opposite effect... From what you are explaning wich makes sense. (your "shutdown" is emulated and your restart is native hence you have the delay issue on cold boot. if we could narrow down what it is in dsdt that effects this then maybe a "hybrid" dsdt can be made one that takes native shutdown and add native restart or vice versa. but i do not know enough about patching dsdt to accomplish this.

d620 does not have that choice. you might confuse him. Internally it is IDE but with a SATA interface so its not true SATA it's converted from sata to IDE... it's "first generation technology"

that happens to me sometimes, but not all the time like you are experiencing... check bios and set to quick boot instead of thorough. well at least d620 has that option.

I've seen that already i think on gizmodo or lifehacker... I got one better I built about 5 years ago out of an old 1984 NES.. but it's as powerful as a smartphone is nowadays... lol but runs every game councle up to ps1 and xbox. made it out of a via epia m1000 mobo http://www.via.com.tw/en/products/embedded/ProductDetail.jsp?id=81 laptop harddrive and dvd burner, for powersupply i used a small inverter board that has an external powersupply brick like laptop and alot of free time oh and a dremel tool

what choices did you choose in build when you ran EDPtool.command as for bios it should work with a restore defaults. the only thing bios would prevent is sleep...

ok forget that... i guess that works in windows

try renaming *.exe to *.zip and see if it opens the executable as a zip file then maybe you can get acess to the bin or rom file

Well some times you do have to be creative... lol.. congradulations on your install.

nope it was not related... for some reason I had a folder named content in E/E.. it looks like voodoops2 had gotten extracted for some reason.. sometimes the scripts cause it but i dont know why

by any chance are you trying to boot arch= x86_64 in apple.boot.plist ? also are you shure of what hardware you have. and lastly what bootloader are you using?

wow..maybe dell was on drugs when they made the dsdt... lol. thats pretty bad... maybe it was intended for windows 98, or windows me? how does linux allocate irq's on the machine?

Gma 945 is Gma 950 as far as Kext is concerned.. you either need modified iondrivesupport.kext our our package with modified dsdt.aml for it to function

Well the only thing i can tell you is that you probably need to install 10.5 like previously mentioned snow is meant to run on core 2 architecture x300 is only a p4 same reason i had to go with leo on my older laptop... Here is a link to help you out.. and it happens to be the same distro i had to use. http://osx86.co/f5/post-installation-questions-ipc-10-5-6-dell-t3590/ maybe start there and try to move up. good luck

OK Slice I loaded it in S/L/E and can confirm working speakers and mic... did not try headphones or line in but i did lose my trackpad but maybe it's just a coincedence keyboard is working

your welcome

try hitting F12 while booting and having the thumbdrive in and see if usb shows as a boot device if not check bios to see if it allows usb boot... link to chameleon: http://chameleon.osx86.hu/

thanks i will try

Slice this is the one that i use in S/L/E if you want to try it but like most of theses kexts there's no source code IOPCMCIAFamily.kext.zip

is this version universal or specific to d420?

Hi Slice.. will this work in 64bit also can i use this on d620? right now im using chunan's /eurika IOPCMCIAfamily from leo in S/L/E and it works great but no 64 bit support.

http://www.osxlatitude.com/groups/d4xosx/ start there

Well that's the problem try using our package it will correct your issue... also try booting from D620SLV1 and see if the problem still occurs which i doubt, what happened is that the 10.6.6 update overwrote your graphics... so no video acceleration hence dvd error.. check the wiki link above for instructions. and the latest EDP is on this forum brows around good luck, and enjoy your new hackintosh

any luck?

look into this maybe it will help you http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=230034

The problem is graphics acceleration. but we need more info to help you... like are you you using EDP and what version.. what type of d620 intel/nvidia?