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

[sarcoptic]

I have QE/CI working on my X1400 under leopard. However no matter what resolution I try to set in boot.plist it will always come back at 1152x864. My screen should support 1440x900, however it will always default to 1152x864...any ideas?

[yozh]

PowerManagment.bundle working once again

 

http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?sho...4912&st=320

 

Now I think I messed up sound. I need the MIC to work, I got the kext in this thread, but MIC is so low, people in skype said that i was whispering very low. Anyone with suggestions ?

[devilhood]

This is nothing new yozh... I tried this already and posted about it, but the ability to set the time for Sleep does not work.

 

The only thing we get is the battery icon and a non-fully working Energy preferences panel.

[sj1069]

I am currently using Brazilpatched leopard with v8 efi and the stock kernel.

 

I found out today that if you enable both cores for the first time, you can boot into leopard, then apply the sleep-wake trick to utlize the both cores, my geekbench score reached 2700 with both cores, while only 1800 with one core.

 

However, except for the first time after enabling the second core in bios, the system keeps rebooting with both cores enabled.

 

Therefore, I tried to disable the 2nd core, then boot into system, then reboot, then enable the 2nd core. Again, I got into the system.

 

It seems that only the first time you enable the second core in bios can allow you into the system.

 

BTW, after wake up, earphone jack won't work anymore, while it works, at least having sound out even though not muting the speaker, before sleep.

[ultrano72]

I just installed JaS Mac Os X 10.4.8 SSE2 SSE3 in my Dell Inspiron 640m/E1405.

1GB DDR2 533MHz Dual Channel.

Centrino Core Duo T2300 @ 1.6 GHz, 2MB L2 Cache.

Windows Vista Capable.

 

Video Adapter GMA950 is working (aparently at 100%, it's really fast).

FireWire is being detected. (Haven't tested yet)

USB is not being detected.

Sound is not being detected.

DVD-RW is being detected.

Trackpad, and mouse buttons.

MediaDirect buttons.

Sleep doesn't work. (It apparently hangs).

Wi-Fi is not being detected.

Ethernet Adapter is being detected.

 

I had to do the "cpus=1" thing to stop graphics stuterring.

The OS is extremely fast although it is just using 1 CPU Core instead of 2.

 

Thanks to all!

I Really like this O.S, but for the moment I feel more comfortable with Vista.

[yozh]

This is nothing new yozh... I tried this already and posted about it, but the ability to set the time for Sleep does not work.

 

The only thing we get is the battery icon and a non-fully working Energy preferences panel.

 

 

Sorry didnt see your reply about that. I havent try the system sleep functions. Really focused on MIC now, seems to be so low its pretty bad. Any help would be appreciated in getting it working.

[Order2Chaos]

Sorry didnt see your reply about that. I havent try the system sleep functions. Really focused on MIC now, seems to be so low its pretty bad. Any help would be appreciated in getting it working.

I'm assuming you turned the input volume to max correct? I found this post about boosting the mic by changing a plist value which may help, Click here

 

I was wondering if there are any other GMA950 users out there with sleep working? My E1505 goes to sleep fine, but when it wakes the screen stays black. Is there any hope of fixing this? My ultimate goal of course is to kick start both cores working.

 

Thanks for any help...

[yozh]

I'm assuming you turned the input volume to max correct? I found this post about boosting the mic by changing a plist value which may help, Click here

 

I was wondering if there are any other GMA950 users out there with sleep working? My E1505 goes to sleep fine, but when it wakes the screen stays black. Is there any hope of fixing this? My ultimate goal of course is to kick start both cores working.

 

Thanks for any help...

 

I dont even see where I can turn the volume up on the input, am I blind ? Thanks for the link

[yozh]

I dont even see where I can turn the volume up on the input, am I blind ? Thanks for the link

 

 

Unfortunately that boost didnt work for me it just messed up the sound it self, made it so loud that it would be impossible to listen to, going to try to post in that forum to see what they will say. Any one with a working MIC can contribute ?

[TheGreatDeceiver]

I'm assuming you turned the input volume to max correct? I found this post about boosting the mic by changing a plist value which may help, Click here

 

I was wondering if there are any other GMA950 users out there with sleep working? My E1505 goes to sleep fine, but when it wakes the screen stays black. Is there any hope of fixing this? My ultimate goal of course is to kick start both cores working.

 

Thanks for any help...

 

so far there is no solution and I am afraid there won't be any. GMA950 uses some funky sleep function for the monitor. Paulicat and iGuru posted in various places that it's a beast and unless somebody puts all his resources into this there won't be a fix. Let's hope I am wrong.

 

 

E1505 with GMA950

[IPARO]

Hello,

I have a Dell Inspiron 6400 laptop with Core 2 Duo 2 Ghz (T7200), 1 GB RAM and ATI RADEON X1400 videocard.

I successfully install Leopard Kallyway, but after the loading screen, when the login screen should appear, it goes to a black screen and nothing happen from then...

I don't know how to add other kexts since my system is not starting. I've tried from Terminal, running DVD but I wasn't able...Also I've tried from Ubuntu live CD, but again, I wasn't able..because Leopard Volume was seen as Read-Only...

 

Any advices please?

[cdbeshore]

I am currently using Brazilpatched leopard with v8 efi and the stock kernel.

 

I found out today that if you enable both cores for the first time, you can boot into leopard, then apply the sleep-wake trick to utlize the both cores, my geekbench score reached 2700 with both cores, while only 1800 with one core.

 

However, except for the first time after enabling the second core in bios, the system keeps rebooting with both cores enabled.

 

Therefore, I tried to disable the 2nd core, then boot into system, then reboot, then enable the 2nd core. Again, I got into the system.

 

It seems that only the first time you enable the second core in bios can allow you into the system.

 

BTW, after wake up, earphone jack won't work anymore, while it works, at least having sound out even though not muting the speaker, before sleep.

 

I can confirm this is the case for my install also. During my last reinstall a few months ago, I had both cores working for a while, but then I could only boot with 1 core. It always hung on the blue screen. I kind of gave up getting both cores working, but saw this post, tried it and it worked. I'm going to experiment to see if i can shorten the process, but I would guess that as long as when you re-enable the two cores, you get the Dell splash screen and it stays on for a while while the progress bar is much slower (configuring the two cores I would assume) that it should work.

 

I have:

Uphuck 10.4.10 with 8.9.1 kernel.

7900 GS

 

I had almost forgotten how much snappier the system is with both cores enabled. It's a pain in the ass, but if you need to do processor intensive work, it is worth a try. Sleep has to work first, though. Handbrake on a ripped DVD went from 2 and a 1/2 hours to about an hour. I also have some Final Cut stuff i need to render and now maybe it will take less than 15 hours!

[sonotone]

cpus=3 worked for you?

No, i'm confused. I was lucky cause my system boot twice using this command, but there is no relations: just, sometimes, leopard wants to boot, sometimes not. I tried all commands but it seems to boot when it want. The only constant way is to use cpus=1 at the moment. If somebody find a trick...

[sj1069]

and sometimes when leopard refuses to boot with both cores enabled, you will see

"Unknown SIGFPE code 1 sub code 0" right before it reboots, as had been discussed with no solution in this thread.

http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?sho...mp;#entry527173

 

however, with only one core, this never appeared.

[Ice Man]

just installed leopard-kalyway edition 10.5.1 with the default sleep kernel and my system seems to work great

sleep works, 2 cores work after sleep and wake, i use cpus=3 to boot into the OS, at times it gives me the

"Unknown SIGFPE code 1 sub code 0" error but upon rebooting it works, i'll follow this closely and let you know what changes cause what to happen

sound works, wifi works through dlink usb dongle

xbench shows 159.59 without harddrive

QE/CI working, full resolution 1280x800, nvidia 7300go 128mb

 

can someone tell me if its possible to enable speed step? as both the cores are currently clocked at full 2.0ghz, and the laptop fan is spinning like crazy. thnx

[sj1069]

Seems that everytime it gives me SIGFPE error even with cpus=3 and rebooting ...

[sonotone]

can someone tell me if its possible to enable speed step?

Depend if you choose vanilla or not during install ( if yes, no way for speedstep). Maybe someone nows how to switch Vanilla kernel to Hacked kernel with associated kexts?

the laptop fan is spinning like crazy.

download this: http://www.bresink.com/osx/TemperatureMonitor.html , it's a temperature monitor who's working perfectly with my 9400. (same results as TaT under windows).

If your cpu is too hot, you can curb it, disabled speedstep in bios (i'm not 100% sure of that, your cpu will run at 1Gz and dicrease temp)

To dicrease temp, you can also try to remove appleacpithermal.kext in appleacpiplatform.kext.

[devilhood]

You can also open up the 9400 and clean the CPU/Heatsink then apply some AC MX-2 to reduce temps by a huge amount

[weaksauce12]

Does anyone have the Dell 1720 working flawlessly with Leopard - sleep, both cores, power monitoring, etc.? I'm considering a laptop for portable video editing and Dell's 1720 has a 1080p-capable screen and costs over $1,000 less than the 17" MacBook Pro.

[devilhood]

Just letting you all know I am currently updating the guide with all new information in-regards to Leopard and EFI users

 

weaksauce12: I think only desktop computers have that luxury atm. Laptop's tend to have one or two incompatibilites regardless of the make. Both cores will only work properly after (S3) Sleep unless someone patches the kernel with compliant ACPI information and power monitoring is explained in my updated guide.

[leorimolo]

hello and thanks for the guide!

but im having some problems, kalaway release wont get passsed loading Darwin osx86 on my 6400, i only enabled cpus=1 any ideas?

 

thanks,leo

 

Edit: Sorry I typed it from my iphone while OSX86 was booting up this is begining to stress me out, this has never happened to me it says loading OSX86 and just stays there it doesnt even go into OSX any ideas?

Edited January 5, 2008 by leorimolo

[sonotone]

Thanks Devilhood.

Do you now a way to switch from Vanilla's kernel to Toh kernel safely? (i'm using Kalyway 10.5.1)

[devilhood]

hello and thanks for the guide!

but im having some problems, kalaway release wont get passsed loading Darwin osx86 on my 6400, i only enabled cpus=1 any ideas?

 

thanks,leo

 

Edit: Sorry I typed it from my iphone while OSX86 was booting up this is begining to stress me out, this has never happened to me it says loading OSX86 and just stays there it doesnt even go into OSX any ideas?

 

I haven't used the Kalyway install myself, but it would help if you could post the log information from verbose -v boot, that way I could see what is causing the problem.

 

sonotone: you can test the ToH kernel easily by copying it into root under a different name. e.g. mach_kernel.toh and then at Darwin prompt type: mach_kernel.toh cpu=1

That way it will test the new kernel without replacing the old.

[TheGreatDeceiver]

Just letting you all know I am currently updating the guide with all new information in-regards to Leopard and EFI users

 

weaksauce12: I think only desktop computers have that luxury atm. Laptop's tend to have one or two incompatibilites regardless of the make. Both cores will only work properly after (S3) Sleep unless someone patches the kernel with compliant ACPI information and power monitoring is explained in my updated guide.

 

I see you favor iatkos over kalyway. I had no problems installing kalyway on my E1505 and I read that more people have more success with the kalyway in the "kalyway vs iatkos" threads. not sure if iatkos is really "the best" 10.5.1 install at the moment.

 

thanks for the guide

[weaksauce12]

Just letting you all know I am currently updating the guide with all new information in-regards to Leopard and EFI users

 

weaksauce12: I think only desktop computers have that luxury atm. Laptop's tend to have one or two incompatibilites regardless of the make. Both cores will only work properly after (S3) Sleep unless someone patches the kernel with compliant ACPI information and power monitoring is explained in my updated guide.

 

Yeah, unfortunately that seems to be the case. It's a small hassle to do the sleep/wake thing, but not a huge deal. Provided everything else works moderately well, it seems like a small price to pay to save $1500 over a real Mac laptop. I'll keep an eye out for when you update the guide with Leopard. Thanks!