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Old 11-21-2009, 09:56 PM
msingh msingh is offline
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Originally Posted by s0nykus View Post
Hey slic!

First things first, thanks for the great work of putting all this stuff together.

People *should* understand that there are often slight differences between laptops even under the same model name. There might be several different revisions, bringing on subtle differences between hardware platforms. Thus, not everything that works for one of us perfectly, will also work for the other. Dsdt files may even differ from one bios version to the other, amount of ram, etc., on the same platform, not to mention subtle revision changes and different production lots on various components, made by the manufacturer. Therefore, getting everything right is a long and often frustrating process, and it requires a lot of patience.

And you're always much better off extracting, editing, and recompiling *your own* dsdt file, instead of randomly trying out stuff that comes from others, not necessailly / completely matching your system's hardware specs.

I'm still in the pre-install phase, putting together everything I need for my first try. I have a D830 with Nvidia Quadro NVS140M, and hopefully, it will soon run SL if I'm lucky. The final target I have on my mind will be a triple boot SL / Win7 / Ubuntu installation, but let's just take it one step at the time.

The problem I've noticed in your first post is that you have the same link posted under "Download NVIDIA installer here" and "NVIDIA Sources", they both go the installer package. I would really like to have the nVidia source package instead, as I'm trying to install Chameleon to a small 200MB EFI partition, with kekxts and everything, and then vanilla SL to a different partition.

I've found this install method posted by r0m30 on the Chameleon / VodooLabs forums, and I'd like to give it a shot.
http://forum.voodooprojects.org/inde...pic,911.0.html

I'll keep you guys posted with the results as they show up
You can use my guide for Dell D830 SL install. All vanilla, except for one kext. See my sig.

Dell Optiplex 745 Q965 Chipset
10.5.5 retail /boot-132/ EFI.
System.plist edited to 10.5.6 (needed for iWork'09)
Intel HD Audio ADI1983.
1152x864@32bit ATI (0x1002 0x7187 0x0000) Radeon X1300. Hardware accelerated. QE supported. Can't get my monitor's 1440x900 resolution as in Linux
Network : Atheros 5005G (0x168c, 0x3A1D) card aka Atheros 2413.
Dell Latitude D830 Nvidia Quadro NVS 140M, Suspend works, hibernate/shutdown/reboot don't Snow Leopard
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