Dell XPS 410 Resource Extravaganza

[peart75]

I've been beating my damned head against the wall for two and a half weeks trying to get Leopard to boot on my XPS 410!!!

 

Could someone be so kind as to check my thread

http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showtopic=74215

 

... and respond there or here?

 

THANKS IN ADVANCE!

 

I've already posted a fairly thorough instruction set previously on this thread for 10.5. You may want to check it out.

 

Thanks,

Drew

[timeshifter]

I've already posted a fairly thorough instruction set previously on this thread for 10.5. You may want to check it out.

 

Thanks,

Drew

I can't get past step 3 of your instructions. The install DVDs I've tried do not show me the hard drives on this system. Would you mind having a look at my thread (for the details)? Thanks.

[peart75]

I can't get past step 3 of your instructions. The install DVDs I've tried do not show me the hard drives on this system. Would you mind having a look at my thread (for the details)? Thanks.

 

I used the ToH release. I see you tried it, but were you booting off a SATA DVD drive?

 

As far as seeing the hard drives. From 10.4.8 I remember I set my RAID to off in the bios. I suggest doing the same. Also, there are two SATA ports that do not show up in OS X. I could take a picture of mine if you'd like.

[timeshifter]

I tried a SATA DVD drive first. Then a USB-IDE converter hooked up to an IDE drive. Could boot all the way to the installer but then it wouldn't see my hard drive. ToH RC2.

 

Which two SATA ports don't show up? A picture would be great, but if you know the numbers that would be fine too.

[peart75]

see attached image.

 

I believe the bottom 2 are the ones that do not show up. The orange cables go to my DVD drives, one doesn't show up in OS X. The red goes to the HD that I boot from.

 

Hope this helps,

Drew

[Xenn0X]

peart75.

 

using port 4 and 5 results here in my system that i cannot use them in osx.

 

i have 2 hd's on blue like you. then on port 2 and 3 have my both optical drives.

on 4 i have my windows disc. so apple cannot use it and windows boots fine

5 is empty.

 

so do not use port 4 and 5 in osx cause they wil not work without edditing some stuff in apple ahci.

[b:z]

RELEASE COMING. HOLD TIGHT.

It's true! bigdaddyrob2g is releasing it. He already sent a PM to me, asking whether I want to beta-test it or not! So hold tight. He has one beta-tester so far though, if you want to beta-test contact him!

 

Is there anyone make Intel 82566 ethernet card works successfully under Leopard?

 

I am still looking the solution for it

 

Thank you.

[timeshifter]

Ran the post-install scripts and i'm still in a loop of the Welcome - Before You Begin, etc.

[mrjoe]

This is REALLY good news!

[AnthonyA]

you bet it is!!! What are the issuses though? I will get it regardless, but i just want to know

[mrjoe]

I see that you're reading this thread, bigdaddyrob2g. Why don't you please answer AnthonyA's question (if you want to ...) and upload the driver? I understand if it's not ready yet...

[mrjoe]

Everyone's pretty happy you did this

 

So where's the kext?

[b:z]

BETA NIC KEXT RELEASE LATE TONIGHT it still needs some work but it works, Thanks In Advane for testing it. Let Me know of any Issues so they can be fix promptly.

 

Where can i download this kext file, bigdaddyrob2g?

 

Please show me

Thanks.

[plmqaz]

I have some trouble things:

When I finally updated to 10.5.1 I've got "About this Mac" with "4.30GHz Intel Core 2 Duo" report!

An other {censored} is unable shutdown, in that case, power is always keeping its light.

What can i do for it. Any idea? Do I need to modify or change some kext?

 

By the way, I'm eager to wait 82566DC NIC kext patch.

[b:z]

here's an update guys its 1:28 am here and I'm still working hard I'm not sleeping till I have released this damn kext I have been working at this today from 2 pm till I get it done thanks for the understanding and support. Its all worth the wait I promise

 

Great thanks bigdaddyrob2 !

I bet it will be no useless for all users who are getting trouble with intel 82566DC ethernet card, really useful.

 

Please tell me when it is ready for patching?

 

Thanks for your working

[Xenn0X]

keep up the work bigdaddyrob2g

for now i'll leave in my realtek pci card works without a hitch.

[plmqaz]

This is my xbench, "About This Mac" reports "Processor 4.30 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo", some thing wrong?

 

Results 140.23

System Info

Xbench Version 1.3

System Version 10.5.1 (9B18)

Physical RAM 3072 MB

Model Dell DXP061

Drive Type Hitachi HDS721616PLA380

CPU Test 107.52

GCD Loop 219.64 11.58 Mops/sec

Floating Point Basic 106.17 2.52 Gflop/sec

vecLib FFT 85.76 2.83 Gflop/sec

Floating Point Library 86.42 15.05 Mops/sec

Thread Test 175.32

Computation 164.93 3.34 Mops/sec, 4 threads

Lock Contention 187.10 8.05 Mlocks/sec, 4 threads

Memory Test 156.52

System 172.94

Allocate 202.74 744.51 Kalloc/sec

Fill 151.53 7367.86 MB/sec

Copy 171.97 3552.02 MB/sec

Stream 142.95

Copy 133.42 2755.78 MB/sec

Scale 133.60 2760.03 MB/sec

Add 154.27 3286.32 MB/sec

Triad 153.38 3281.18 MB/sec

Quartz Graphics Test 169.87

Line 131.96 8.79 Klines/sec [50% alpha]

Rectangle 180.91 54.01 Krects/sec [50% alpha]

Circle 146.61 11.95 Kcircles/sec [50% alpha]

Bezier 141.36 3.57 Kbeziers/sec [50% alpha]

Text 410.89 25.70 Kchars/sec

OpenGL Graphics Test 158.31

Spinning Squares 158.31 200.82 frames/sec

User Interface Test 257.19

Elements 257.19 1.18 Krefresh/sec

Disk Test 57.05

Sequential 98.72

Uncached Write 99.64 61.18 MB/sec [4K blocks]

Uncached Write 100.63 56.94 MB/sec [256K blocks]

Uncached Read 83.65 24.48 MB/sec [4K blocks]

Uncached Read 116.42 58.51 MB/sec [256K blocks]

Random 40.12

Uncached Write 14.60 1.55 MB/sec [4K blocks]

Uncached Write 86.06 27.55 MB/sec [256K blocks]

Uncached Read 84.98 0.60 MB/sec [4K blocks]

Uncached Read 127.89 23.73 MB/sec [256K blocks]

[hpbrown]

here's my XBench result on my Dimension 9200 using EFI

 

Results 154.05

System Info

Xbench Version 1.3

System Version 10.5.1 (9B18)

Physical RAM 3072 MB

Model Mac Pro

Drive Type ST3320620AS ST3320620AS

CPU Test 154.43

GCD Loop 314.40 16.57 Mops/sec

Floating Point Basic 153.23 3.64 Gflop/sec

vecLib FFT 123.05 4.06 Gflop/sec

Floating Point Library 123.95 21.58 Mops/sec

Thread Test 419.80

Computation 387.62 7.85 Mops/sec, 4 threads

Lock Contention 457.81 19.69 Mlocks/sec, 4 threads

Memory Test 167.40

System 203.08

Allocate 287.04 1.05 Malloc/sec

Fill 169.40 8236.83 MB/sec

Copy 185.67 3834.99 MB/sec

Stream 142.39

Copy 135.76 2804.03 MB/sec

Scale 140.85 2909.93 MB/sec

Add 147.12 3133.98 MB/sec

Triad 146.43 3132.56 MB/sec

Quartz Graphics Test 213.97

Line 175.37 11.68 Klines/sec [50% alpha]

Rectangle 226.85 67.73 Krects/sec [50% alpha]

Circle 179.91 14.66 Kcircles/sec [50% alpha]

Bezier 185.40 4.68 Kbeziers/sec [50% alpha]

Text 433.93 27.14 Kchars/sec

OpenGL Graphics Test 166.81

Spinning Squares 166.81 211.60 frames/sec

User Interface Test 412.87

Elements 412.87 1.89 Krefresh/sec

Disk Test 57.08

Sequential 84.33

Uncached Write 126.83 77.87 MB/sec [4K blocks]

Uncached Write 136.94 77.48 MB/sec [256K blocks]

Uncached Read 38.88 11.38 MB/sec [4K blocks]

Uncached Read 153.18 76.99 MB/sec [256K blocks]

Random 43.14

Uncached Write 15.66 1.66 MB/sec [4K blocks]

Uncached Write 92.38 29.57 MB/sec [256K blocks]

Uncached Read 89.38 0.63 MB/sec [4K blocks]

Uncached Read 146.28 27.14 MB/sec [256K blocks]

[mrjoe]

@bigdaddyrob2g:

 

We would be glad to even receive the beta driver

[plmqaz]

Hi, hpbrown

Why are you getting "Model Mac Pro" but "Model Dell DXP061"?

How do I modify my kext?

Are you partition HDD with GUID? What are about your system and bios settings?

Can you share?

[hpbrown]

it's because I'm using the EFI patch v5.1

see http://netkas.org/?p=13

 

I just bought a cheap Netgear Ethernet PCI card and use now Leopard as my primary OS on my Dell!

 

has anyone been able to fix the shut down problem? I think that I read in another forum that it's the ACPI kext which does not suport properly the Quad Core CPUs and the OS only turns off 2 cores..

[frantisheq]

it's because I'm using the EFI patch v5.1see http://netkas.org/?p=13I just bought a cheap Netgear Ethernet PCI card and use now Leopard as my primary OS on my Dell!has anyone been able to fix the shut down problem? I think that I read in another forum that it's the ACPI kext which does not suport properly the Quad Core CPUs and the OS only turns off 2 cores..

The same on C2D but after i reinstalled patched ACPI kext with vanilla looks like sleep and shutdown works. But my comp is running 24/7 so i haven't tested it well.And it says DELL DXP... because of different AppleSMBIOS.kext in 5.1. I think that 5.2 was patched to say Mac ProAnd I agree with mrjoe. Beta would be better than nothing. I'm getting a little bit nervous

[frantisheq]

well i was playing a little bit with sleep and shutdown and it looks like this:

Turn ON -> Shutdown -> Turn ON -> Shutdown works

but

Turn ON -> Sleep –> Wake UP -> Shutdown no go

[mrjoe]

So I'm wondering:

 

I'm going to get a new 750GB hard drive to complement my 160GB and get 910GB in a RAID 0 array. Is there any way to get this RAID working?

[frantisheq]

So I'm wondering:

 

I'm going to get a new 750GB hard drive to complement my 160GB and get 910GB in a RAID 0 array. Is there any way to get this RAID working?

 

should work but i'm not sure. better ask on IRC: server - irc.osx86.hu, channel - #leopard