alerphjuan

Ok I reloaded the original VoodooBattery.kext from my 10.8.2 install and rebooted and it is working fine now. Before I did this I had found and used Applesmartbatterymanager.kext and it worked but did not seem like it was giving accurate readings at all. It was reading as if my battery was draining and charging at a faster than usual rate. So i'm not sure if it's just me or if it was inaccurate with its readings. Thanks for the quick response and helpful hand as always Patel.

Well I have finally gotten around to updating my ML to 10.8.3 due to the new Final Cut needing it to run. I was really afraid of rocking the boat since everything worked fine on my 10.8.2 install. After updating the only noticable problem I have encountered is I have lost all battery indicators. This includes the battery icon in the bar as well as the battery light on the actual laptop itself. Has anyone else come across this problem by chance? I'm trying a couple of battery kexts out that I have found and will report back if they remedy the problem.

I am using Chameleon 2.1 on an i7 mobo w/ the Nvidia graphics

Yessir, Chameleon 2.1 is what fixed my VGA problems. Sleep worked for me OOTB.

Sure can =), I have attached the files you asked for on this post. What seems to be the problem that you are running into? I have gotten all of my issues ironed out so I can probably (hopefully lol) be of some help to you. This rar file contains copies of my org.chameleon.boot.plist DSDT.aml smbios.plist ML 10_8_2.rar

I have an i7 running 10.8.2 and it gives me no problems whatsoever =)

This is the same problem I was having early on with the install failing at the end and not prompting for the extras. I had posted what worked for me in post #181 of this thread located on page 10. I simply removed steps 22-38 for creating the installer and it installed fine and prompted for the extras as well. I then just used kext wizard to do those steps after booting into the new installation (only needing to use the 10.8.2 files).

Sorry for the confusion. I had used chimera (chameleon, stolen and rebranded) 1.11.1 from the guide initially. Then I just installed Chameleon 2.1. I got them confused for the same thing lol. I had been doing a lot of googling and did not realize that these pertained to video in any way. I saw the chimera (chameleon, stolen and rebranded) version was at 1.11.1 and somehow got it confused with Chameleon and saw that the version of Chameleon was at 2.1. So I installed and it fixed it. Total blind luck of a fix for me considering it was because of a mix up.

UPDATE: I have finally been successful in getting my external monitor via the VGA port working!!! All I needed to do was update my Chameleon to version 2.1 and that did the trick. Everything is fully functional minus the SD card reader.

@ Patel , Do you possibly have any more ideas or know of other threads that might be able to help me with the external monitor problem? It is able to switch to external when I am booting when I select fn+f8 and runs up until the apple logo with spinning wheel but cuts off into power save mode whenever it gets ready to go to login screen. So it has to be something with the installation, maybe a kext or something?

I checked my BIOS, couldn't find anything along those lines. I'm pretty much stuck at a standstill at the moment. Hopefully something comes up. =)

Ok, I've made a little headway in identifying the problem. So I used the fn+f8 display option I hadn't really tried yet, and I feel really stupid for not thinking of it sooner. I think at one point in time I had this problem with a Windows installation. So here are the results for using it so far. When I use fn+f8 while booted into Lion the box freezes and the mouse arrow disappears resulting in needing to be rebooted to regain functionality. So I tried the fn+f8 at boot up and it actually goes to the external display. I see the drive in Chameleon and boot into It. It then goes into the Apple logo with the spinning wheel and everything is fine. After that the monitor shuts off and goes into power saving mode as it moves to the Lion login screen (before it actually gets to it though). Both screens remain black at this point and I need to reboot. So I'm thinking that my problem may lie in not having the use of my FN key while in Lion. If I did I could possibly switch between displays. I'm not sure what is making the external lose its connection at the login screen though, but hey it's a step in the right direction. So the good fight continues lol... EDIT: It seems that the fn button is working for other options. It is only freezing when I use the fn+f8 display combo. (the mouse disappears and cannot do anything through keyboard)

Thanks, I just downloaded and installed. I have a dumb question though. What exactly do I do? If I select detect displays my laptop screen goes black and I cant get back to it without rebooting and If I don't use detect displays then the external monitor isn't picked up by the laptop at all.

I think we are. Im on v. A13

I've actually tried it both ways, with the lid up and the lid down.