[Guide] Dell Inspiron 6400/9400/1520/1720/E1405/E1505/E1705 Intel Core Duo

[cogombo]

I would like to get up and going is headphones muting the speakers when plugged in.

 

I'm using this attached driver that I fount one day in this topic, but I don't remember where. With this driver (that works in 10.5.7) you mute internal speakers when plugged in, but you must unplug-plug every time you restart to mute internal speakers. Audio mutes 100% when you press the "mute" button. Also it sounds very good. Mic not tested. No internal subwoofer in i9400.

You must use only these 2 kext (you must delete any related audio kext, like aclinject or others).

 

There's another solution that doesn't require to unplug-plug to mute int. speakers at restart, but I don't know what is it. But it doesn't matter to me, because what I want is enable both line out + subwoofer in 10.5.7. I'm still waiting for that...

AppleHDA_10.5.3_for_Dell_Inspiron_6400.dmg.zip

[strikrr]

I'm using this attached driver that I fount one day in this topic, but I don't remember where. With this driver (that works in 10.5.7) you mute internal speakers when plugged in, but you must unplug-plug every time you restart to mute internal speakers. Audio mutes 100% when you press the "mute" button. Also it sounds very good. Mic not tested. No internal subwoofer in i9400.

You must use only these 2 kext (you must delete any related audio kext, like aclinject or others).

 

There's another solution that doesn't require to unplug-plug to mute int. speakers at restart, but I don't know what is it. But it doesn't matter to me, because what I want is enable both line out + subwoofer in 10.5.7. I'm still waiting for that...

 

Very interesting...I will look into that I am also considering just picking up this little guy

http://www.infotechnow.com/product_info.ph...roducts_id=5652

Supposedly it is plug and play and will support headphones etc. So I may go that route the few times I want to listen to headphones.

 

Any thoughts on the wireless adapter?

[cosmo1t]

We have the same laptop, so i attah here my dsdt.aml

You should use it with chameleon 2 or PCEFI_V9.

It support graphic injection and lid sleep. (remove injector/kext to get it works)

NOTE: it also support native speedstep with appleintelcpupowermanagement.kext (if this kext is loaded), but it's experimental, only 4 steps, and this kext increase CPU temp. It's only designed for the T7200, don't use it with other CPU, frequencies ans voltages are hardcoded!!

It also load applebacklight, but wiith no effects.

Hey sonotone

 

Are each fo these how you are defining the frequencies and voltages?

 

_OSC (Buffer (0x10)

{

/* 0000 */ 0x16, 0xA6, 0x77, 0x40, 0x0C, 0x29, 0xBE, 0x47,

/* 0008 */ 0x9E, 0xBD, 0xD8, 0x70, 0x58, 0x71, 0x39, 0x53

}, REVS, SIZE, Local2)

[ViriiGuy]

I have not had a chance to try a retail install and sonotone's file yet. I hope to do this in the next day or two.

[sonotone]

Hey sonotone

 

Are each fo these how you are defining the frequencies and voltages?

 

_OSC (Buffer (0x10)

{

/* 0000 */ 0x16, 0xA6, 0x77, 0x40, 0x0C, 0x29, 0xBE, 0x47,

/* 0008 */ 0x9E, 0xBD, 0xD8, 0x70, 0x58, 0x71, 0x39, 0x53

}, REVS, SIZE, Local2)

P-states are defined via PSS package.

Informations about how calculate and write states: http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php...t&p=1034461 (post13 from roisoft)

 

What is done for each CPU in my DSDT:

Name (_PSS, Package() // Performance States
		{
			Package () { 0x7C8, 0xFDE8, 0x0A, 0x0A, 0xC22, 0xC22 }, // 2,00Ghz 12x 1,244v
			Package () { 0x67C, 0xD6D8, 0x0A, 0x0A, 0xA1C, 0xA1C }, // 1,66Ghz 10x 1,148v
			Package () { 0x530, 0xAFC8, 0x0A, 0x0A, 0x815, 0x815 }, // 1,33Ghz  8x 1,036v
			Package () { 0x3E4, 0x8CA0, 0x0A, 0x0A, 0x610, 0x610 }, // 1,00Ghz  6x 0,956v
		})

first value: processor speed in hex

second: statut (your own value to identify each step)

third-fourth: transistion and bus, a bit mysterious to me

lasts: Control value (voltage and mutiplier)

 

This can be clearly improved, cause order is not respected (as link above), and some steps are missing.

I found voltage with coolbook, witch display cpus infos. But with the voodoopower command line, i guess you can find exact values.

 

I've not investigate further, regarding CPU temp when appleintel... is loaded, i stick to voodoopower.

 

 

Another interresting add with DSDT: it's possible to display PCI cards in system profiler by adding Name (_SUN, 0x0x) under device.

 

i.e with Graphics card:

 

Device (VID)

{

Name (_SUN, 0x01)

Name (_ADR, Zero)

 

 

i.e with minipcie wireless:

 

Device (PXS2)

{

Name (_SUN, 0x02)

Name (_ADR, Zero)

}

[country1706]

We have the same laptop, so i attah here my dsdt.aml

You should use it with chameleon 2 or PCEFI_V9.

It support graphic injection and lid sleep. (remove injector/kext to get it works)

NOTE: it also support native speedstep with appleintelcpupowermanagement.kext (if this kext is loaded), but it's experimental, only 4 steps, and this kext increase CPU temp. It's only designed for the T7200, don't use it with other CPU, frequencies ans voltages are hardcoded!!

It also load applebacklight, but wiith no effects.

 

Well, I have also an Inspiron 9400 with T7200 and a GeForce Go 7900 GS.

I also have the OpenGL-Problem.

I tried cogombo's way and it didn't work.

I tried your way and it also doesn't work, my system knows now, that my videocard has OpenGL but I cannot use it (see picture).

I tried nearly everything now, I can't count how many kext's I tried before but every time it tells me, that QE is disabled.

I forced QuartzGL to work via OSX86Tools.

I have no clue what I can do else to make OpenGL work and I really need it for Aperture, CS4 and my Videos.

 

I really need help.

I apologize about my bad English, I'm German.

 

So long,

Dirk

 

Edit: Ups, forgot to say that I'm working with 10.5.6

[Edoir]

is it possible to make a retail install of leopard with boot 123 usb stick on a Dell Inspiron 6400 with an intel 945GM?

I can boot it but I can get keyboard and trackpad working.. where i have to put the kext? in the usb stick or in the installation volume?

[cogombo]

Bad news guys, I have a fatal issue: suddenly when I was on MAC, the system freezes and only I could see the death's spinning pizza wheel!!!

 

I rebooted the system and in -v loading it shows a BAD FAILURE:

 

Bsd root: disk0s2, major 14, minor 2

Disk0s2: I/O error

 

I've tried to boot with -x or -f and nothing, tried to repair disk with disk utility (from DVD install) and fails in verification.

Fortunately I can boot in XP, but if I explore my HFS partition with HFSExplorer, there are some folders that I can't access, like "system", the program says there's an error. (But fortunately I can access to my user's documents folder).

 

I have a HD Hitachi 7200rpm 80Gb (HTS721080G9SA00).

 

What happened? ¿How can I solve that? Is my hard disk broken? Can OSX86 break hard disks? Can fix it reinstalling OSX? in that case, how can I prevent this?

[TheGreatDeceiver]

Well, I have also an Inspiron 9400 with T7200 and a GeForce Go 7900 GS.

I also have the OpenGL-Problem.

I tried cogombo's way and it didn't work.

I tried your way and it also doesn't work, my system knows now, that my videocard has OpenGL but I cannot use it (see picture).

I tried nearly everything now, I can't count how many kext's I tried before but every time it tells me, that QE is disabled.

I forced QuartzGL to work via OSX86Tools.

I have no clue what I can do else to make OpenGL work and I really need it for Aperture, CS4 and my Videos.

 

I really need help.

I apologize about my bad English, I'm German.

 

So long,

Dirk

 

Edit: Ups, forgot to say that I'm working with 10.5.6

 

sorry, silence doesn't mean people are ignoring you. I have no clue how to help. Maybe you were already able to fix it by now. Your english is perfectly fine Mensch, kein Grund sich zu entschuldigen

bis spaeter

 

 

Bad news guys, I have a fatal issue: suddenly when I was on MAC, the system freezes and only I could see the death's spinning pizza wheel!!!

 

I rebooted the system and in -v loading it shows a BAD FAILURE:

 

Bsd root: disk0s2, major 14, minor 2

Disk0s2: I/O error

 

I've tried to boot with -x or -f and nothing, tried to repair disk with disk utility (from DVD install) and fails in verification.

Fortunately I can boot in XP, but if I explore my HFS partition with HFSExplorer, there are some folders that I can't access, like "system", the program says there's an error. (But fortunately I can access to my user's documents folder).

 

I have a HD Hitachi 7200rpm 80Gb (HTS721080G9SA00).

 

What happened? ¿How can I solve that? Is my hard disk broken? Can OSX86 break hard disks? Can fix it reinstalling OSX? in that case, how can I prevent this?

OSX will not break your disk per se. Here is what I would do. You say you got dual boot with XP. Use Acronis True image and make a backup image of the entire OSX partition (byte by byte, no compression). It may fail because of the same reason. It may work. If it works, go into XP Administrative Tools/disk management and delete that OSX partition you just backed up. Create a FAT32 or NTFS partition and format. Run checkdisk on it or some other disk tool that scans the surface of your drive. If there are bad sectors it will mark them and make them not usable (basically invisible to the system). This may however prevent you from putting the OSX image back onto the same partition using Acronis TrueImage. That would be the next step.

you see there are a lot of ifs. You may want to image the entire hdd, wipe it clean, scan it (Hiren's Boot CD) and put the image back using Acronis TrueImage.

good luck.

 

 

is it possible to make a retail install of leopard with boot 123 usb stick on a Dell Inspiron 6400 with an intel 945GM?

I can boot it but I can get keyboard and trackpad working.. where i have to put the kext? in the usb stick or in the installation volume?

 

Sonotone has a boot 132 for Dells already in his thread. It puts the correct kexts into the Extra folder and everything is working (at least was on mine).

[country1706]

sorry, silence doesn't mean people are ignoring you. I have no clue how to help. Maybe you were already able to fix it by now. Your english is perfectly fine Mensch, kein Grund sich zu entschuldigen

bis spaeter

 

Yep, I was able to fix it, I went back to Windows

I just gave up after three weeks

 

There was no way to fix it anyhow.

At least I had one more problem, with the new EFI from sonotone my CPU temp raised to high, so my Mac OS told me to shut down the notebook with the Powerbutton, there was no other way any more, cause I couldn't do anything with my system when this happened.

I had a Mac OS Greyscreen (don't know how it's told, but it's similar to the Windows-Bluescreen).

 

I never thought that nobody wants to help me and ignores me.

I think nobody could help me.

I know its hard to help when you're not personal at the Computer.

But I appreciate that so many members are trying

 

Ach ja, danke für das Kompliment

Ich werd mich erst mal hier ausklinken, bringt ja nichts mehr mit einem Windoofs System

 

Thanks everybody who tried to help me.

[strikrr]

I have a Dell E1505 running 10.5.6 with the Voodoo 9.5 Kernel from an iPC 10.5.6 install. I have onboard Video GMA945 and Sigmatel 9200. I have everything installed, have 2 finger scrolling working with the Voodoo PS2 fix however occasionaly now when I shut down I get a Kernal Panic:

 

Please contact the Voodoo Kernel dev-team with a photo of the

information printed below, along with a description of your

system configuration and waht you were doing at the time that

the kernel panic occurred. We apologize for the inconvenience.

 

panic(cpu 0 caller 0x003EE302): "A driver releasing a(n) AppleHDAController has corrupted the registry\n"@/VoodooKernel/xnu-1228.7.58/libkern/c++/OSOBject.cpp:241

Debugger called: <panic>

0x349d3df8 : 0x12b08c (0x45bcf0 0x349d3e2c 0x133119 0x0)

0x349d3e48 : 0x3ee302 (0x49dbf0 0x43350a0 0x440f404 0x1356f9)

0x349d3e88 : 0x3ee272 (0x440f400 0x0 0x1 0x395c8d8)

0x349d3ea8 : 0x3ee33f (0x440f400 0x0 0x349d3f18 0x136729)

0x349d3ec8 : 0x41c74d (0x440f440 0x3978b80 0x65469c 0x440f600)

0x349d3ee8 : 0x41ce8a (0x379a5c0 0x43350a0 0xf 0x440f400)

0x349d3f28 : 0x419e6c (0x440f400 0x379a5c0 0x380bf80 0x1a2369)

0x349d3f68 : 0x422622 (0x380bf80 0x395c8fc 0x395c8d4 0x13ea8d)

0x349d3f98 : 0x422302 (0x37c8280 0x0 0x0 0x36f3a78)

0x349d3fc8 : 0x19f0dc (0x37c8280 0x0 0x1a20b5 0x395c8b8)

Backtrace terminated-invalid frame pointer 0

 

BSD process name correspoinding to current theread: kernel_task

 

Mac OS version:

9G55

 

Kernel version:

Darwin Kernel Version 9.5.0: Sat Dec 6 19:39:54 IST 2008; Voodoo; Release 1.0 :xnu-1228.7.58/BUILD/obj/RELEASE_I386

System model name: MM061

 

Not sure how one would go about contacting the Voodoo Dev team, Googled and got a site:

 

http://code.google.com/p/xnu-dev/

 

Not sure who this would go to. Also I though someone here might have some insight as to what is going on to help.

Kernel_Panic.txt

[bilybrown]

anyone been able to get netflix working with instant watch. I've got an e1505 haven't been able to get netflix working because of an 8152 error code. Tried several smbios fixes nothing has worked. This hasn't worked with the voodoo kernel or any kernel i've tried from 10.5.5 till 10.5.7. I even tried the new voodoo 2 alpha 3 release. I really can't figure out what the problem might be and the netflix thread on this site hasn't been able to help me.

 

thanks

[sonotone]

panic(cpu 0 caller 0x003EE302): "A driver releasing a(n) AppleHDAController has corrupted the registry\n"@/VoodooKernel/xnu-

 

AppleHDAController: sound driver...

 

There was no way to fix it anyhow.

because you didn't removed devices properties (strings) from apple.com.boot.plist.

take a look on NVenabler: http://www.projectosx.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=370

[strikrr]

AppleHDAController: sound driver...

 

Any thoughts on how I might be able to fix that/is it related to my Sigmatel 9200 install?

[bilybrown]

surely someone has netflix working on an e1505. This has to be the most frustrating thing about this hackintosh, everything else is great.

[TheGreatDeceiver]

Yep, I was able to fix it, I went back to Windows

I just gave up after three weeks

 

There was no way to fix it anyhow.

At least I had one more problem, with the new EFI from sonotone my CPU temp raised to high, so my Mac OS told me to shut down the notebook with the Powerbutton, there was no other way any more, cause I couldn't do anything with my system when this happened.

I had a Mac OS Greyscreen (don't know how it's told, but it's similar to the Windows-Bluescreen).

 

I never thought that nobody wants to help me and ignores me.

I think nobody could help me.

I know its hard to help when you're not personal at the Computer.

But I appreciate that so many members are trying

 

Ach ja, danke für das Kompliment

Ich werd mich erst mal hier ausklinken, bringt ja nichts mehr mit einem Windoofs System :censored2:

 

Thanks everybody who tried to help me.

 

sorry you had so much trouble. your overheating is definitely related to Intelcpumanagement.kext which you still had on there. That is in 99.99% the culprit. If you stick with it just another week and make it a month you may be able to get a perfect system Never give up. it's a good challenge, especially for a German

btw. try Windows 7. it's great. I am not touching my OSX anymore. not worth it

[sonotone]

btw. try Windows 7. it's great. I am not touching my OSX anymore. not worth it

humm, "dark side of the boot"

[bathlet]

hey,

i have a 9400 (kalyway 10.5.2, cpu: T5600, graphics: gforce 7900 with Gotoh's NVinjectGO)

everything seems to work except my broadcom 3945 wlan, the touchpad and USB sticks.

 

wlan: i looked around a bit and it seems there is no hope for 3945 =). but if anyone has a clue, let me know.

 

touchpad: i used the post installer (Dell Laptop Post Installer v1.4.1.zip) but after the reboot i get an error that 'ApplePS2Controller.kext" wasn't installed correctly. perhaps the problem lies at the permissions, cause i dont really know how to fix them, last time i used the disk utility -> repair permissions, is that right?

 

usb: now something weird. after the install of mac os i could use my usb stick to get some files (kexts and so on) to the os, but since this morning the stick won't work anymore. i only installed the broadcom 440x, graphics, powermanagement and touchpad kexts. mouse and keyboard are also fine with usb, only external hdds and usb sticks don't work. so what can i do?

 

EDIT:

i could fix the appleps2controller.kext stuff repairing the permissions in the terminal:

cd /System/Library/Extensions
chmod -R 755 NAMEofKEXT.kext
chown -R 0:0 NAMEofKEXT.kext
rm /System/Library/Extensions.mkext
-> then reboot

the usb issue seems also to be fixed. have to try that today.

[cogombo]

OSX will not break your disk per se. Here is what I would do. You say you got dual boot with XP. Use Acronis True image and make a backup image of the entire OSX partition (byte by byte, no compression). It may fail because of the same reason. It may work. If it works, go into XP Administrative Tools/disk management and delete that OSX partition you just backed up. Create a FAT32 or NTFS partition and format. Run checkdisk on it or some other disk tool that scans the surface of your drive. If there are bad sectors it will mark them and make them not usable (basically invisible to the system). This may however prevent you from putting the OSX image back onto the same partition using Acronis TrueImage. That would be the next step.

you see there are a lot of ifs. You may want to image the entire hdd, wipe it clean, scan it (Hiren's Boot CD) and put the image back using Acronis TrueImage.

good luck.

Thanks a lot for your info, but finally I have reinstalled completely OSX. checkdisk found some bad sectors. Now I'm using 10.5.6 because I get internal subwoofer (but Safari 4 doesn't work). I hope that this new install doesn't crash my HD again...

[Am I Evil?]

asked in the installation section but decided to ask in here as well since this thread mentions the laptop i have...

 

i've got an e1705:

Intel Core2Duo T7200 processor

2gb ram (currently...will upgrade before installation...but this shouldn't matter)

putting in a new 320gb hdd

Dell Wireless 355 bluetooth

nVidia GeForce Go 7900GS

Sigmatel High Definition Audio

Dell Wireless 1390 WLAN Mini Card

Broadcom 440x

 

image from dell of hardware configuration: http://img35.imageshack.us/img35/8065/delld.jpg

 

i asked about what to use for installation and this "however, since you have a core2duo processor I would try a retail (boot-132 dfe-146) method" was recommended to me...

 

i've been doing research on that and i think i should be able to figure it out but any help out figuring out which kexts to use and things like that would be great...or not really a step-by-step but something close about how to do that with this laptop and get everything (or mostly everything lol) working would be great...

 

thanks

 

*the only hackintoshing i've done was on a mini9 using the runcore method (directly installed from a mac) so that was very easy...to get this working seems like it will be a lot more difficult than that hence why i'm asking for help...i will start this on wednesday and would be ecstatic if i actually got it working then...

[Am I Evil?]

well....i'm gonna be attempting my install soon...should be a interesting process if nothing else...

[Am I Evil?]

ok...stuck at the very beginning...got to "press enter to start up darwin/x86 with no options, blah blah blah...

 

so i tried enter...go to typical boot devices are 80 81...hit 80 back to the darwin thing...do it again with 81...back to the first option...do it again with -v back to the beginning...

 

any ideas...

 

edit: typed in 82 and its moving on....we shall see....

 

edit 2: installing...very slow getting there...everything is all jerky and freezing like every second...

[Am I Evil?]

ok...booted...using the cd bootloader after install "failed"...not directly from hdd....not using -v, just 80...but very slow and jittery...assuming its that one core only issue....lets see if i can figure it out...

[TheGreatDeceiver]

ok...booted...using the cd bootloader after install "failed"...not directly from hdd....not using -v, just 80...but very slow and jittery...assuming its that one core only issue....lets see if i can figure it out...

 

what are you doing? writing a story book? just edit your existing post to update.

good luck

 

jittery, looks like you have both cores running. normal unless you change it to one in the bios until you get it completely installed and have the correct kernel to run it with both.

[Am I Evil?]

what are you doing? writing a story book? just edit your existing post to update.

good luck

 

jittery, looks like you have both cores running. normal unless you change it to one in the bios until you get it completely installed and have the correct kernel to run it with both.

 

lol...sorry...just wanted to keep it towards the top of the page hoping someone would see it and offer tips...

 

but so far i've noticed: going through system info it seems to be recognizing everything...now i just need to make it quit being so damn slow (which is of course the dual core issue most likely)

 

so we'll see what happens...

 

this is my first time actually hackintoshing (not the easy mini 9 which i'm honestly not counting since it was so easy) so any tips on this...i know there's some steps in this thread but the threads huge and it would take forever to find...but i'm gonna start looking and if someone helps me out here instead then awesome...if not off to hunt i go...

 

noob questions/comments edit:

1. how do i get it to boot without the cd (using the dell 6400/9400 iso found here: http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=114834)

2. when booting from the cd i have to select the one that loads the kexts everytime...if i use "simple boot" it tells me i need to restart...

3. i turned of one of the cores for now in the BIOS...everything's seems to be good but the trackpad is superfast...using an external mouse is fine but even turning down the track speed all the way the trackpad is way too fast

 

i guess that's it for now...thanks...

 

another noob edit: looked on the cd...found the install on the harddrive thing...booting fine now...trackpad is still on fire but everything else seems to be coming along...