DELL D620/630/830 kext pack

[mialemat]

Originally Posted by JulKeZ Hi all Yesterday I installed MacOs following partially mialemat guide and in the end I installed 10.6.3 update and lost sound, usb support, bluetooth... Finally, I decided to install again, and I installed the 10.6.2 combo update. The system works perfectly now. Not without troubles, as after the 10.6.2 update I had a kernel panic that didn't let me boot my system... I want to comment the way I used to install. I think it could be interesting for those that do not have access to a real Mac like me. What I did was install SL on a Physical hard disk using VMWare. After the install, I followed the mialemat manual, and ended with a fully functional SL. If someone is interested in more details about how to install SL in a physical disk with Vmware, please ask. If wou google it, there is a guide to install in Vmware, the basics are the same, changing the virtual disk with a physical one. What I was unable to do was a dual boot with Windows 7 and SL. I ended using 2 hard drives. One for Windows, one for SL. I have installed Windows and SL about 10 times in the last 2 days... And it was enough for me... The next thing I want to do is create a ghost of SL and try to update to 10.6.3 (when someone publishes a guide, as I am a newbie...) And I also would like to learn how chameleon works, as I think that was my problem trying to dual boot Windows 7 and SL... If someone has any url for me to learn about it... Thankyou for all your help. Without your work I would have never installed SL...

Try as written at:

http://byteco.de/2009/12/06/successf...1/#comment-646

[NIpsmG]

Originally Posted by nonamevr Dear Everybody! My friend sells Dell D830 ( Core 2 Duo T9300 2x2.5Ghz 800Mhz FSB, 2Gb RAM 667 Mhz, Quadro 140M 512MB) Can i install Snow Leopard 10.6 on this laptop, and I'm a editor, i usually use Final cut pro so i want to ouput external monitor. Graphic card Quadro 140M 512MB can do that? I need it for my job, so can i buy it? Sorry for my bad english! Please help me! Thanks a lot!

Yes, you can. External monitors work at up to 1900x1200. The only thing stock that doens't work with that machine is the wireless card. I;d suggest getting a Dell 1390 card which is a drop-in replacement for the existing card:

http://cgi.ebay.com/Dell-DW-1390-b-g...item5188edd5e7

$9.95 US + free shpping.

I'm running 10.6.2 and Windows 7 side by side, NVS140M works fully including live resolution change through display preferences with chameleon RC4 using GraphicsEnabler.

Parallels 5 works, run Win7 in both Coherence mode and natively boot through chameleon. Everything else works. It's an amazing MAC laptop.

[nonamevr]

Originally Posted by NIpsmG Yes, you can. External monitors work at up to 1900x1200. The only thing stock that doens't work with that machine is the wireless card. I;d suggest getting a Dell 1390 card which is a drop-in replacement for the existing card: http://cgi.ebay.com/Dell-DW-1390-b-g...item5188edd5e7 $9.95 US + free shpping. I'm running 10.6.2 and Windows 7 side by side, NVS140M works fully including live resolution change through display preferences with chameleon RC4 using GraphicsEnabler. Parallels 5 works, run Win7 in both Coherence mode and natively boot through chameleon. Everything else works. It's an amazing MAC laptop.

Thank you NIpsmG so much!
You're my hero.

[Adrenaline1965]

Originally Posted by NIpsmG Yes, you can. External monitors work at up to 1900x1200. The only thing stock that doens't work with that machine is the wireless card. I;d suggest getting a Dell 1390 card which is a drop-in replacement for the existing card: http://cgi.ebay.com/Dell-DW-1390-b-g...item5188edd5e7 $9.95 US + free shpping. I'm running 10.6.2 and Windows 7 side by side, NVS140M works fully including live resolution change through display preferences with chameleon RC4 using GraphicsEnabler. Parallels 5 works, run Win7 in both Coherence mode and natively boot through chameleon. Everything else works. It's an amazing MAC laptop.

Replacing my original WiFi Card with a DELL 1390 Card did the trick to get the wireless working on my Latitude D830! Thanks a lot NIpsmG!

The only issue was that the original WiFi Card was connected to three internal antenna's (via white, grey and black wires), while the DELL 1390 Card only has two connector. So I only connected two of the three antenna's/wires (white and black) and I seem to have excellent connectivity. Does anybody know which combination is actually the best (white + black, white + grey or grey + black)?

The only remaining issue with my mobo is the unability to properly shut down or restart. I can get it to log out and shut down the complete Mac OS, but the machine itself does not switch off so I have to switch it off manually by pressing the on/off button for 5 seconds or so. Does anyone have a solution for this one? Thanks in advance!

Greetz,

Bruno

[twistacatz]

I have everything working great on my D630 but I have one issue I can't figure out. My FSB is set to 181 even thought in my smbios.plist file I have SMexternalclock set to 200. I've also tried to force the FSB to 200 at the command line before the computer boots but I've been unsuccessful. Can anyone point me in the right direction.

Thanks!

[cnone]

Hi everyone.. i installed universal snow leopard 3.6 distro on my d630 when i have a nvdia chip… now my mobo burnt with famous nvidia bug and i bought an intel version of the mobo. i tried to plug my working install to new setup with an intel graphics and encountered black screen as well.. is there any way to get it working without installing a new instance?

[cnone]

tried everything, fresh install and after then screen goes black.. when i removed gma kexts osx finally shows it's face but only in 1024x768... even with the various dsdt.aml files i got this far.. but nothing more... just the screen resolution doesn't work.. everything ok except that.. any solutions?

[cnone]

when i plug an external monitorit works.. but i want to work with my internal panel.. any suggestions?

[monkie]

Originally Posted by cnone when i plug an external monitorit works.. but i want to work with my internal panel.. any suggestions?

The way I do it is that I use a docking station, at the boot prompt from Chameleon press the Fn key and F8 together, this switches to my external display and my laptop display will go black. I then boot and when it loads the driver it automatically switches back to the laptop display and I am able to use the laptop from there onwards.

[cnone]

Solved with a dsdt fix search and apply: dsdt dual data link for wxga+
now everything on my d630 including x3100 with all properities (QE/CI, sleep, wake-up) at 1440x900... just mirroring doesn't work but i don't need it...
used universal snow leopard 3.6 and not done a fresh install.. i used my old installation with nvidia graphics.. just removed natit and used provided kexts from distro