DELL D620/630/830 kext pack

[achtung]

Hi,

thanks to slic and little toying around I have a nice running D630 with Snow Leopard. (I figured that my 1440x900 just needs Natit.kext with old AppleIntelGMAX3100FB.kext, I wish I could find the sources for this kernel extensions to build a 64bit version. I found some newer Natit.kext sources which doesn't include the intel graphics anymore. The kernel extension is not very complicated...)

But now my main issue:

Sleep works fine after a fresh startup. But after some time of usage it just doesn't work anymore. The laptop starts up immediatly after going to sleep. Does somebody have the same issue or even better a solution/suggestion?

I think it has something to do with heat/fan activity. Maybe the bios somehow prevents the laptop from going to sleep (it also has control over the fan speed). Also sleep only works only after a new start when the laptop was inactive for a while, again most likely because of a cooler system?

There is a "ThermalZone" Scope in the dsdt.dsl. Could this be a way to modify the behaviour?

And by the way: I used hibernate as a work around in leopard for a while. But with SL the bootloader(netkas,chameleon) always says the hibernate image file is corrupted. Any solution for this issue?

[blacklabelsktr2]

Anyone Else get this when they run ps -ef in terminal? Is there a fix for this? I know it's to do with the mouse.. I dont think making a new User Daemon will fix this.. After using the system for about an hour it will no longer let me open applications, giving me the error "unknown error -10810" Maybe 64bit mouse drivers/Touchpad drivers would fix?

monitor.app/Contents/MacOS/Activity Monitor -psn_0_98328
0 265 1 0 0:07.31 ?? 0:11.24 /Applications/Utilities/Activity Monitor.app/Contents/MacOS/activitymonitord
0 267 1 0 0:00.00 ?? 0:00.01 /usr/sbin/ffscrolldaemon
0 270 1 0 0:00.00 ?? 0:00.01 /usr/sbin/ffscrolldaemon
0 273 1 0 0:00.01 ?? 0:00.01 /usr/sbin/ffscrolldaemon
0 277 1 0 0:00.00 ?? 0:00.01 /usr/sbin/ffscrolldaemon
0 280 1 0 0:00.00 ?? 0:00.01 /usr/sbin/ffscrolldaemon
0 283 1 0 0:00.00 ?? 0:00.01 /usr/sbin/ffscrolldaemon
0 290 1 0 0:00.00 ?? 0:00.01 /usr/sbin/ffscrolldaemon
0 293 1 0 0:00.00 ?? 0:00.01 /usr/sbin/ffscrolldaemon
0 296 1 0 0:00.00 ?? 0:00.01 /usr/sbin/ffscrolldaemon
0 299 1 0 0:00.00 ?? 0:00.01 /usr/sbin/ffscrolldaemon
0 302 1 0 0:00.00 ?? 0:00.01 /usr/sbin/ffscrolldaemon
0 305 1 0 0:00.00 ?? 0:00.01 /usr/sbin/ffscrolldaemon
0 308 1 0 0:00.00 ?? 0:00.01 /usr/sbin/ffscrolldaemon
0 311 1 0 0:00.00 ?? 0:00.01 /usr/sbin/ffscrolldaemon
0 314 1 0 0:00.00 ?? 0:00.01 /usr/sbin/ffscrolldaemon
0 317 1 0 0:00.00 ?? 0:00.01 /usr/sbin/ffscrolldaemon
0 320 1 0 0:00.00 ?? 0:00.01 /usr/sbin/ffscrolldaemon
0 323 1 0 0:00.00 ?? 0:00.01 /usr/sbin/ffscrolldaemon
0 326 1 0 0:00.00 ?? 0:00.01 /usr/sbin/ffscrolldaemon
0 329 1 0 0:00.00 ?? 0:00.01 /usr/sbin/ffscrolldaemon
0 332 1 0 0:00.00 ?? 0:00.01 /usr/sbin/ffscrolldaemon
0 335 1 0 0:00.00 ?? 0:00.01 /usr/sbin/ffscrolldaemon
//------REMOVED rest of the enteries.. there are about 30 more...you get the idea*************** <-
0 512 195 0 0:00.05 ttys000 0:00.08 login -pf xxxxx
501 513 512 0 0:00.01 ttys000 0:00.01 -bash
0 516 513 0 0:00.00 ttys000 0:00.00 ps -ef

[eXpresion]

Hi blacklabelsktr2,
I have this issue too ! Its because of the ffscrolldaemon, its getting started many many times so the system gets out of memory. If I type "killall -9 ffscrolldaemon" in the terminal I can use the system again....

Does anybody knows how to fix this ?

[blacklabelsktr2]

Originally Posted by eXpresion Hi blacklabelsktr2, I have this issue too ! Its because of the ffscrolldaemon, its getting started many many times so the system gets out of memory. If I type "killall -9 ffscrolldaemon" in the terminal I can use the system again.... Does anybody knows how to fix this ?

As picture shown here: http://img382.imageshack.us/img382/6...91013at170.png
I'm beginning to wonder if unchecking "Keep it running at all times" would be a fix, or if that would cause your keyboard and mouse stop functioning all together. I'm too afraid to try things like this out. Somewhere on google I thought I saw a page in reference to the -10810 error, where someone came up with a solution to limit the process to only running 5 active processes (I forget where I saw this.) But this could also be a solution.
Maybe another way could be to rewrite FFScroll completely, but I won't think that would solve the issue really. If interested in trying though see here: http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/ind...howtopic=88811

Like I said, I haven't actually tried any of them out. Just trying to research to find best solution.

[achtung]

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple Computer//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
<key>Label</key>
<string>ffscroll</string>
<key>Program</key>
<string>/usr/local/bin/FFScrollDaemon</string>
<key>RunAtLoad</key>
<true/>
</dict>
</plist>

works for me. The problem with the original one is the <key>KeepAlive</key> key. Its obvious that the daemon only has to be started once at startup. Just modify the path to the executable if you've installed it somewhere different.

[blacklabelsktr2]

Originally Posted by achtung <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple Computer//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd"> <plist version="1.0"> <dict> <key>Label</key> <string>ffscroll</string> <key>Program</key> <string>/usr/local/bin/FFScrollDaemon</string> <key>RunAtLoad</key> <true/> </dict> </plist> works for me. The problem with the original one is the <key>KeepAlive</key> key. Its obvious that the daemon only has to be started once at startup. Just modify the path to the executable if you've installed it somewhere different.

Thanks thought this could be it. I just used the Ligon application in first post to edit the file. I'll try it out and see if I still have issues.

[joot]

Originally Posted by achtung <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple Computer//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd"> <plist version="1.0"> <dict> <key>Label</key> <string>ffscroll</string> <key>Program</key> <string>/usr/local/bin/FFScrollDaemon</string> <key>RunAtLoad</key> <true/> </dict> </plist> works for me. The problem with the original one is the <key>KeepAlive</key> key. Its obvious that the daemon only has to be started once at startup. Just modify the path to the executable if you've installed it somewhere different.

Thank you for the above recommendation !! Been trying for almost a week to fix my 10810 error. Came upon this and tried it and it WORKED !! THANK YOU !!

[xover]

I forgot to say also that, when I copied the SL install disk over to a USB nerdstick, the D630 refused to boot from it. It was therefore necessary to first install Snow Leopard on the main hard disk using a USB enclosure and nearby Mac Mini (which I also used for terminal work). Then I could transfer the drive over to the D630 for further work.

Note also that when I subsequently used Migration Assistant to transfer from the old Leopard hackintosh setup, it hosed the SL installation. I restored from backup and avoided making that mistake a second time.

[xover]

Some people asked for my DSDT. You can find it attached:

[howoarang]

Originally Posted by xover Some people asked for my DSDT. You can find it attached:

OK, but this is the same as from Dell d630 pack, and with this dsdt.aml, I have problem with recognize USB devices