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Thanks Bronxteck. As long as I know it wont epically brick my install, I'm cool with it. Patching wasn't hard, and is definitely doable again.

Quick question, this one. I'm almost completely updated. But Software Update keeps saying that there's a new AirPort updated (version 5.5.7). Can I safely apply this update? Will it break wireless? Cause KP's? Thanks guys. Also, thanks for the Chromium reccomendation! Superb browser guys!

Yes I have tried the FFScroll driver that works in Leopard. Doesn't work in Snow Leopard. (Can't make it load. I don't know why. Also throws "Insecure StartupItems" in the StartupItems folder.) Slice's trackpad.prefpane gives me errors about not having a Synaptics trackpad, then closes System Preferences. EDP fixes prefpane gives the same error as Slice's. Also, Flash Player problem was resolved with a reinstall of Safari 5.0.4.

HAHAHAHAHAHA! BetterTouchTool gave me back/forward gestures! Setup BTT with mouse gestures and it works great! I used "top of trackpad" with a "left/right movement" for forward, and "top of trackpad" with a "right/left" movement for backwards. Works a treat. Every bit as good as the ALPS Windows driver!

1. I know you are aware of most of the bugs I have reported. I know its still a Dell, but in Leopard I had two-finger scroll. Can we perhaps rework the FFScroll driver? I'm more than willing to help with that! 2. I will not install Google Chrome on my computer. Last thing I need is a Google datamine on my computer. Plus, I like using the native applications with the OS. Oddly enough, I was using the ApplePS2 driver with a USB keyboard/mouse so that I could actually use the computer. But, I decided to try the Slice driver again. Seems to be working fairly well. I found a VoodooPS2 preference pane over at InsanelyMac that seems to work with Slice's driver. While using a USB keyboard/mouse combo, I opened the prefpane and enabled edgescrolling and tap-click. Everything seems to be working now. Driver is almost as good as the Windows ALPS driver. Edgescrolling is a little fast, but with the prefpane I was able to slow it down. Was also able to slow down the mouse cursor while in the prefpane. (It has a daemon that will allow you to save your preferences, but according to Insanelymac, it doesn't work for ALPS drivers. I can confirm that it doesn't work.) If you guys would like, I can upload it here. (It may be the one already in EDP, but I'm doubting it because that one gives me "Synaptics not found" errors. Really, the only thing missing would be "back/forward" gestures! (I'm hoping BetterTouchTool will fix that!)

Also, I keep getting "Flash Player has quit unexpectedly" while using Safari. It doesn't hinder web browsing, however I cannot install it from Adobe either. It just keeps quitting unexpectedly.

Doesn't work that way for me. When I use the AnV kext, I get erratic movement on the mouse cursor when using the trackpad. Trackpad prefpane shows "No trackpad detected". Slice's doesn't work at all. ApplePS2 works, but no right-click, tap-click, and the 7 key repeats. No way to stop it. Trackpad is the only thing I haven't gotten to work properly in OS X.

Ok, I've now done two fresh installs. Plan was to test all mouse drivers in EDP. VoodooPS2 now causes erratic mouse movements. When I use the trackpad, its like I'm pushing the right-click/left-click buttons at the same time. Mouse jumps all over the place, and moving up/down on the trackpad causes left/right movement on the mouse cursor. Left/right movement on the trackpad causes left/right movement of the mouse cursor. USB mouse works just fine. Slice's driver no longer works. Doesn't do anything, and plugging a USB mouse gives me nothing. ApplePS2 gives me normal trackpad usage, however I cannot tap-click, scroll, right-click, and the "7" key repeats and I cannot figure out how to stop it. This is pissing me off enough to drop OS X. Seriously. I don't want to have to carry a mouse with me in order to use my D520.

Managed to get the "Insecure Startup Items" message to quit. Instead of "root:wheel"ing the StartupItems folder, I root:wheel"ed everything inside. That stopped the error messages, but its still not loading the FFScroll driver. Even loading the Daemon (sudo /usr/local/bin/FFScrollDaemon) doesn't load the driver. I have a feeling its due to the fact that OS X cannot detect a working trackpad.

Still no luck with the 2-Finger Scroll/FFS package. Still get the "Insecure StartUp items" message, even after changing ownership on those files to root:wheel. On the positive side, it no longer causes kernel panics and I figured out how to remove it manually. I would love for this to work on Snow Leopard, and am certainly willing to help get this working properly. Because both VoodooPS2 and Slice's PS2 drivers are buggy on my ALPS trackpad, I've gone back to Apple's default. It doesn't enable two finger scroll, and it won't detect a trackpad in the preference pane. (Both Voodoo and Slice's drivers give me erratic mouse movement, as well as SUPER FAST edge scrolling.) Still can't make I8kfan.kext load on start up. It will load manually though. Coolbook Controller gave me speedstep support. D520 is currently running at a whopping 40*C, which is dead on par with Windows 7.

Ok, I installed OS X today. I must say, it was pretty painless. Major thanks to everyone who contributed to the EDP package (SUPER AWESOME!!!), and everyone involved in helping out in making this as simple as it could be. (Special thanks to vanginger for finding the Broadcom Wifi fix, and outlining how to use it!) I do have a few quirks however. I installed the VoodooPS2 driver, and while edgescrolling is great, I cannot enable two-finger scrolling. Nor can I enable trackapd tapping. (I MUST have that.) There is a "Trackpad" preference pane, however it doesn't detect any trackpad. Any way I can resolve this? (I have an ALPS trackpad, sadly.) Slice's driver gives me tapping and a working Trackpad preference pane. Can deal with edge scrolling, but I would love two-finger scrolling. Worked in Leopard with FFScroll package from InsanelyMac. Can be found here: http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=88811. Don't know if it works for Snow Leopard. (Some report that it works in 10.6.3, but no further.) {edit: I attempted this two-finger scroll on 10.6.7. Causes "Insecure Start Up Items" in /Library/StartupItems. Does not appear to load, FFScroll preference pane will load, but nothing I change makes a difference. Will cause random after-boot KP. Don't know how to remove manually, so starting a clean install. Should be up and running in about 30 minutes.} Sleep works after enabling the BIOS password. Hibernation works thanks to SleepEnabler. After sleep, trackpad tapping is disabled with Slice's driver, and left trackpad buttons gets quirky. I have to click the button, then click the trackpad in order to make a left-click button. I'm not sure if I'm booting 32-bit or 64-bit. I assume 64-bit, because Activity Monitor is labeling everything as a 64-bit process. That doesn't make sense to me though, because last I knew the GMA 950 did not have a 64-bit kext. Mine seems to be working great, however. No artifacts, no scree-sleep trick required. Picked up properly in System Profiler, with full QE/CI support. Anyone wanna fill me in? Working on getting the I8kfanGUI app working. Worked great in Leopard. (PS: Slice, if you go to that insanelymac page for the Dell Fan Control, I am "ilovebooze420" from that thread.) Can get utility to work if I manually load the kext every boot, but kext will not load from /S/L/E by itself. Edit: definitely running 32-bit. Computer lags badly on startup. I have to wait about 2 minutes before I can fully use my computer without seeing the spinning beachball every 10 seconds for thirty seconds. I kind of laughed when I looked in System Profiler and found that my D520 was picked up as a MacBook Pro. If anything, its closer to the GMA 950 MacBook's. Eventually, I'll get around to modifying that.

Can't say as I disagree with being simple and clean. Straight forward? I guess. Took me a few looks to find what I was after, but I found it.

Wiki's kinda vague. (edit) Ok, so no it really isn't. I'm just stupid and didn't find the page you guys were referencing. My bad. The EDP edptool explination is epic! Guess I'll just give it a whirl. Most that will happen is it doesn't work.

Actually, I'm currently in the process of attempting that. We'll see how it goes. {Edit} Well, the D620SLV1.iso bootdisk that someone linked me to worked first, and works properly. It booted my USB drive just fine. Now my question is whether or not drivers are going to be loaded into OS X from the bootdisk? Or, can I add the drivers from the /Extra package that was on the wiki to the USB drive? Or is OS X going to install with the default settings, and I have to run EDP afterwords? What about DSDT? Oh boy. It seems I have more questions than answers.

Instead of starting a new thread (I like clean forums. I see you guys do too!) I figured I'd continue in here. I'm not sure why, but I just can not get Chameleon to install on my USB stick from Leopard in a virtual machine. I started installing Chameleon this morning around 9am, and had to do some running for work. I figured by the time I get back, it would be finished. Nope. Its currently 1pm and its still sitting in the same spot I left it. According to the logs, it gets stuck extracting the BOM Archive from the Chameleon package. Just won't go any further, and the installer display says "Installing i386 package" and estimated time remaining is 5 minutes. Well, its been a little over 4 hours, and its not going anywhere. Any ideas?

Because I originally didn't intend on doing it that way. I was going to use a bootdisk, until I started thinking about the implications of having a USB stick tailored specifically to my Latitude and OS X. DSDT dump coming very shortly. OS X is finally done restoring the DVD to the USB stick. {EDIT} DSDT is up on the DSDT page for my Latitude D520 BIOS A08.

Yeah, I know. I just don't have any DL DVD's, DVD's or CD's at the time lol. Thats why I'm trying to avoid having a bootdisk. It may take a little longer, but when I'm done I'm hoping to have a flash drive thats tailored to my machine for booting/installing OS X. Just incase I manage to brick my install, ya know? Just trying to make things a little less expensive, and easier later.

Can do on the linux dump. Soon as OS X finishes restoring the SL DVD to my flash drive, I will definitely get you a linux DSDT dump. (Coming from Backtrack 4 R2, which is based on Debian.) Will post it in the "Native DSDT.aml files" thread for you guys, with all the proper documentation about my machine. I think I'll hold off on the BIOS then. I've purchased Windows 7 Ultimate, so I'm not too worried about SLIC injection. Plus, the laptop will only be running OS X, so if I don't need the BIOS mod, I wont use it.

Thanks Zeppo! I had read that wiki article. Even have it bookmarked, just wasn't sure if this is how its still done. My VMWare build of Leopard works, albeit slowly. Its currently booted to the desktop, and I'm in the process of restoring the DVD to the USB stick. (The USB stick in question is a 32Gb SanDisk U3 Cruizer. I have an 8Gb Cruizer, but I'm currently using it for hosting Backtrack 4 R2 with persistance+nessus and I really don't want to FUBAR that setup.) I'm really just waiting for now. I don't expect Leopard in a VM to restore my OS X SL DVD very quickly, so I'm expecting it to take a few hours. In the meantime... Anyone have any idea whether or not a Revision A05 DSDT.aml from your D520 will work with my Revision A08 Latitude D520? I'm not sure if I can downgrade, however I can certainly get you guys an A08 DSDT.aml file from linux if you would like. Also, are the BIOS mods worth it? Am I going to lose any functionality, or do they just change cosmetics?

Thanks for the replies guys! CRC, is there a way I can boot from the USB stick? Would installing Chameleon on the USB stick enable me to boot from it and also install OS X? I saw Bronx answered some of my questions in the "Hey there..." forum. Thanks Bronx! A lot of those minor questions have been annoying me and having them answered helps out a lot. I'm in the process of making a VMWare install of OS X Leopard. Minus the install, I'm done. Its currently installing inside of VMWare Workstation, and as soon as I get that accomplished, I plan on preparing a USB stick for installation. Knowing to stick with the version of Chameleon you guys reccomend is a huge help. I spent quite a while last night downloading multiple versions of Chameleon, but for now I will stick with rev655. Leon, I have read the wiki, especially all that covers my D520. However the latest BIOS revision that one of your contributers have is A05. I'm currently on A08. I don't know if this makes a difference in DSDT or not. Thanks guys. I'm just trying to make my transition back into OS X as smooth as possible. You guys have been a great help.

I planned on giving it a shot. I just would like to understand how this works. I have a Snow Leopard 10.6 DVD I plan on installing from. But I want to do it without using the DVD if I can because it requires another boot CD. So I'm in the process of attempting to create an OS X bootable USB drive. Just have to wait until I get back to work and ask a coworker if I can borrow his Macbook. I wasn't discrediting your work making each individual Latitude series computer work at all! I was merely commenting on my experiences with premade driver packs. I was certainly going to attempt! Should I update OS X before running EDP? After? Am I finding FakeSMC, or does EDP have it? I've got a copy of Chameleon RC5 rev 655, but is there a benefit to using a later revision? How about SleepEnabler.kext? This was the only way I could get "sleep" to work in Leopard, albeit it was really hibernation. Is this the way I am to set up again, or is there a S3 sleep fix? Thanks Bronxteck for being patient.

I stumbled upon this website about a month ago. Forums seem to be decently active, and the members seem to be respectful. Not like a few of the other OS X homebrew sites I used to frequent. Thanks for making me feel welcome! I'm interested in a few things being done here. Particularly the Latitude BIOS modding, DSDT modding, and the EDP package. I have a few questions. I'll stick to the EDP package for now though. I've downloaded the EDP package, but not having a Mac (or a "hack"), I really don't have any way to open the package. I'm not one for pirating software (which is why I purchased Snow Leopard 10.6) so please don't recommend stealing "MacDrive". As of now, I'm not even sure MacDrive can open a package file. Plus, I really don't want to pay for software I'm only going to use to open a package file once. So please forgive these questions. First, I'm not exactly sure what the EDP is about. Is it like the Dell Post Installer? Or is it like pre-made "driver packs" that you find online that are a zip file containing E/E with kexts and /S/L/E with kexts you should drop in there? I only ask because most of the time the "driver packs" you find online "SPECIFICALLY FOR YOUR COMPUTER!!!11ONE!!" don't end up being for my specific Latitude, on top of not being properly documented and damn confusing to figure out. And while the Dell Post Installer was great, there never was proper support for my specific machine. I only used it to make the external speakers shut up when I plugged headphones into my STAC9200. Patch Leopard with Taruga's HDAPatcher, run the Post installer for sound, reboot, and it would enable mute and muting of the external speakers when you plugged something into the headphone jack. Mic has never ever worked for me. (No big deal.) Even though the Post installer had "drivers" for my machine, none of them worked. I ended up collecting a huge collection of drivers, kexts, how-to's, and utilities that ended up making installing OS X Leopard a real pain in the butt that took a full 24 hours with no guaranteed results. Sometimes you could get it all to flow together properly, but most times the same procedure you did the last time to get OS X installed properly and working to your liking wouldn't work and you'd brick your install. Its the single reason I dumped OS X and everything regarding it from my computer and external drive. Also, does the EDP contain DSDT.aml files for each machine? If so, wouldn't it just be easier to write a tutorial on how to modify your own DSDT? Not having any DSDT modifying experience other than using the DSDT patcher or having a pre-made distro patch my DSDT for me, I'm unsure how daunting a task modding a DSDT would be. I also ask this because I've gotten other Latitude D520 users DSDT.aml files where they've modified it to make the GMA 950 (27a2) work and they've made my build kernel panic. So I wonder if you can really use a "generic" DSDT.aml file made to work on *all* Latitude DXXX machines. (Forgive me if I'm wrong. I really don't know, and am trying to learn. Eventually I would love to get into DSDT modding, if its not something thats outrageously hard.) Thanks for reading, responding, and helping if you can!