[Compilation] Dell XPS M1330, M1530, Vostro 1400, 1700, Inspiron 1420, 1520, 1720

[Abhishek376]

Hello ,

 

Thanks a lot Bret for the wonder guide and Dsdt and other files . [ I used your extensions to install SL on DELL XPS with out formating the HD to GUID ]

 

I sucessfully installed Snow Leopard on DELL XPS 1530 on MBR with out formating the disc .

 

Sound not working [Edit : Sound Speakers Working Vodoo kext from BRET ]

 

FingerPrint reader : working

 

 

Shutdown/Restart Not working

 

Battery Showing : Condition Replace Soon

 

Bluetooth Not working

 

PS2/Media Keys Not working

 

2 finger Scroll Not working

 

Please Help with the kexts or files if any of them is working ..

 

I installed a raw SL on my DELL XPS Please let me know if they are any other available kexts I have to load to enchance the exprience . Im new to the hackintosh world

 

 

If anybody needs a guide without formating Let me know I will post a detailed guide

 

Thanks

[haraldschmidt]

Did some changes to the preboot disk, should run a bit better now. Changes are new VoodooHDA from Slice and TSCSync from cosmo1t. There is a DSDT.aml (same also in 0.3) that I added, it is from this board, not sure who contributed with it. But I am in the work to edit it somewhat. It might be the reason why USB is not working from the preboot cd.

 

If you use it tell me which work better for you. And if you need more hw-support, I just added the basics to make the install run.

 

Also remember only on a proper disk utility created GPT disk will you get install complete.

 

You find the new v 0.4 here http://www.superhai.com/dell-test.html

 

Yet to do:

Fix the DSDT.

Remove disabler.

Add the nodes to VoodooHDA.

 

 

Hello Superhai,

 

having SL 10.6.1 running on a DELL XPS M1330 / nVidia GeForce 8400M GS / Sigmatel 9228 / 1505 Wireless-N / 4 GB RAM. Installed using your v0.2 bootcd. Great work, thanks so far.

 

 

Not yet tested but going to try the v0.4 files soon.

 

 

--- Enrichment to the USB discussion:

 

I'm also getting those USBF Errors (EHCI and UHCI devices mixed up or not initialized). Cameleon USBFixes won't do the trick. My current workaround is just a reboot. After rebooting my system starts correctly no errors at all (weird).

 

The source of evil seems to be the DSDT, because without it no problems (I have to use it for external VGA issues).

 

VoodooHDA is somehow tricky to load at startup (maybe interferes with the DSDT). Sometimes after a kextcache it loads sometimes not (weird). Error: "couldn't allocate class". Is this one somehow edited? Cause it's the only one that makes the internal mic working. Great!

 

Right now I'm using the DSDT from "immo" (it's the on on cd and posted here) to get graphics going. With Cameleon graphics enabler I had the issue with a blank screen while syncing an external LCD via VGA-out.

 

 

 

 

--- Question:

 

The DSDT provides vanilla speedstepping? But my XPS is getting quite hot and checking with msr tools or cpu-i shows that the cores are burning at 2.4 GHz. How to get a cool XPS in Snow Leo?

 

My workaround at the moment is: since I currently have to stick to 32 bit mode (as long as novamedia / vodafone doesn't come out with Vodafone Mobile Broadband R4 with 64 bit support for my Huawei E180 3G USB Modem) I use the good old VoodooPower.kext. Getting control of voltages and ability to check clocks/volts/temps. BTW since Leo 10.5.8 I couldn't move the sliders in the Generic CPU M Control Tool. But it's not a biggie since Auto-Throttle is just fine.

 

Will there be a VoodooPower 32/64 Bit Version for Snow Leopard? BTW: VoodooBattery gives me a warning to do a battery maintenace with a caution sign in the menu bar.

 

 

 

 

Thanks a lot superhai ... keep on rocking...

[Superhai]

--- Question:

 

I think it is the immo one that I added to the CD. VoodooBattery will get an update sometime in the future. VoodooPower needs some rewrite for Snow, so not sure when I will have time.

[Abhishek376]

Hello superhai ,

 

 

Thanks a lot for the awesome guides and support

 

 

Regarding the shutdown issue .. Is it due to that the shutdown process couldnt kill some drivers / process ? If yes can we manually kill them by activity monitor and then shut down ? Just some thougths..

 

 

2) Im using a DELL XPS m1530 . I see my hd running at 110 C How can i controll this ?

 

3) Battery backup is very poor

 

4) How can i create a dsdt file for my own processor T7250 @ 2.00Ghz . How can i enable intel speedstep ..?

 

 

5) Any solution around for internal mic ?

 

 

Thanks a lot ... You rock ... !

[southcentral]

Could I use this as a retail dvd, or do I have to use this?

 

And can I still install everything that is mac only if I did this? Like install Final Cut and stuff like that?

 

 

Did you find the answer to this? Was in the apple store today and they said the one that is just MAC OS X snow leopard can only upgrade from an existing leopard. Thanks in advance.

[jvilla]

Thanks superhai! I used your boot cd to install retail snow leopard on a GPT drive. then rebooted with boot cd and selected the snow install to boot up and install chameleon and my kexts. then reboot and now i have a vanilla install of snow with out a working leopard or snow to install from. My laptop is a dell xps m1530 and everything works except 2-finger scrolling and shutdown and reboot. i dunno if my speedstep is working but i am learning how to manually edit my dsdt file.

[Moogles]

I'm curious. I can't seem to get the sound to work at all. Everything else works perfectly but the sound.

 

My m1330 is nothing special. 8400M, 2GB RAM, 320GB WD Black in AHCI, NO BT, 1490 Wifi. Any insight? oh yea T7250 @ 2.0Ghz.

 

Any insight would be helpful.

[immo]

Did some changes to the preboot disk, should run a bit better now. Changes are new VoodooHDA from Slice and TSCSync from cosmo1t. There is a DSDT.aml (same also in 0.3) that I added, it is from this board, not sure who contributed with it. But I am in the work to edit it somewhat. It might be the reason why USB is not working from the preboot cd.

 

If you use it tell me which work better for you. And if you need more hw-support, I just added the basics to make the install run.

 

Also remember only on a proper disk utility created GPT disk will you get install complete.

 

You find the new v 0.4 here http://www.superhai.com/dell-test.html

 

Yet to do:

Fix the DSDT.

Remove disabler.

Add the nodes to VoodooHDA.

 

 

The DSDT.aml on the CD is the one I posted in wingrunr's thread:

 

http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php...654&st=700#

 

and as I said when I posted it, it is specific to the T8300 CPU (2.4ghz). It contains voltage/frequency combinations specific to only that CPU (specifically in the _PSS section). Everyone do not this DSDT.aml unless you have a T8300 CPU! It wouldn't surprise me if it could cause damage to the wrong CPU.

[Superhai]

It wouldn't surprise me if it could cause damage to the wrong CPU.

 

I know it contains a specific p-state table, but it is not dangerous to the CPU. Intel's core CPU's and newer are designed safe as it won't accept P-states outside its operating limits.

What it might do is not be able to run at a max or min p-state.

[piraya]

Hello.

I finally suceeded to install Snow leopard on my xps m1330 using Superhai boot cd v4. Very nice indeed!

Some minor issues atm, im missing usb, audio and ofcourse (wlan/eth). How do I proceed from here?

I have a 2200bg minipci wireless card, will it work? I also have a usb 3g modem? Wont work unless i get usb working i guess?

 

Thanks for the great guides and all help!

[dentifritz]

By any chance, would anyone have a proper DSDT.aml for a T7500 (2.2ghz) CPU with the Nvidia 8400m driver ? I don't understand anything about making my own DSDT file, I've tried the patcher but it gives pretty bad results (I'm obviously missing something).

Right now, I'm using the one from superhai boot disk v0.4 *as it is* and of course it comes with some problems...

 

BTW superhai, thanks a lot for your boot disk it saved me from hours and hours of installing and re-installing things. I finally managed to get Snow Leopard running and I hope you will update your new tutorial soon with more details. I just installed an Apple Airport wireless card it works as fine as the Dell one btw. (both under osx and winxp).

 

However I still have some stuff reported as working (from what I understood) which are not working for me.

-sound do not work (VoodooHDA.kext installed, but still no device detected).

-bluetooth unavailable (comes from the DSDT?)

-usb & -trackpad do not work (I've installed ApplePS2Controller.kext)

 

Maybe those problems were reported already but I didn't have the courage to read all last 30 or 40 pages.

[E-XD]

Any news on how to resolve the shutdown/restart/sleep problem on Dell XPS M1330? Any help would be appreciated

[Urthwhyte]

Any news on how to resolve the shutdown/restart/sleep problem on Dell XPS M1330? Any help would be appreciated

 

Superhai is working on it, if anyone is going to solve it it will be him, just be patient.

[haraldschmidt]

Superhai is working on it, if anyone is going to solve it it will be him, just be patient.

 

I got sleep working on my dell xps m1330. As I said earlier I'm stuck in 32 bit mode due to 3G USB Wireless Modem drivers.

 

Currently I use the DSDT (bootcdv4), VoodooPower(superhai), VoodooTSCSync in 32 bit mode. Sleep works - awake via Powerbutton within a quater of a second.

 

 

 

Issues:

 

- VoodooHDA not working in 64-bit (sometimes tricky even in 32 bit)

- randomly but only in 32 bit mode USB issues resulting in mixed up EHCI & UHCI device (effect: ext. optical mouse, integrated web cam not working / not visible)

- VoodooPower - just in 32 bit mode - shows just one core, no slider movement in PowerCPUM.app

- to me it seems the DSDT alone doesn't perform a power management (cpu-i showing P-States but running at full power 2,4 GHz all the time...)

 

Has someone an idea, where to start patching the DSDT for USB issues? It drives me crazy - sometimes just a simple reboot helps to solve this... sometimes not - weird !!!

 

Ciao,

 

Daniel

[Urthwhyte]

I got sleep working on my dell xps m1330. As I said earlier I'm stuck in 32 bit mode due to 3G USB Wireless Modem drivers.

 

I was referring to shutdown/restart rather than sleep, which hasn't been an issue in quite some time.

[E-XD]

I was referring to shutdown/restart rather than sleep, which hasn't been an issue in quite some time.

 

Thanks for the quick reply Urthwhyte and haraldschmidt, but if sleep has not been an issue for quite some time, how come I can't sleep my M1330 ? I have iPC 10.5.6 on my Dell, how can I solve the sleep issue while Superhai comes to the rescue? It keeps waking up after a few seconds, sleep will really come in handy meanwhile. (I'm afraid that hard shutdown with the power button will damage my hard drive).

[casw1000]

Hi there. Thanks to everyone for keeping this alive, I have longed to get OSX on my XPS M1330, it seems we are so close.

I have downloaded Superhai's 10.6 v0.4 DellSnowCD, I boot from this and I can see DellSnowCD in the middle of the screen, when I press enter to load, I get "Can't find Mach_kernel"

 

I have used the search here and on the big G search engine, and I by all accounts it looks like something is missing somewhere. I used GParted to create 2 new partitions, first 130gb fat32, 2nd 130gb for SL, I have 44gb unallocated.

 

I am unsure what I am missing and having seen another member here with as near as damn it the same specs, I am lost at to why I cannot get past this, do I need to change some bios settings or something else?

 

My specs.

XPS-M1330, T7500 (2.2ghz), 4gb, 8400m video, Intel wi-fi (already bought Del1505 from a auction place).

anyway, any guidance will be very welcome, thanks again for the hard work done by those in the know.

 

Colin.

[MichaGue]

I have downloaded Superhai's 10.6 v0.4 DellSnowCD, I boot from this and I can see DellSnowCD in the middle of the screen, when I press enter to load, I get "Can't find Mach_kernel"

 

I'm not sure if you did it. Bevor pressing enter on the DellSnowCD button, you have to remove Superhais's boot cd and put in a Mac OS Snow Leopard DVD.

 

Best regards,

Michael

[oSxFr33k]

I created a preboot cd for installing snow, and decided to share it with you. It is in its infancy and specifically designed for my Dell XPS M1330. It is straighforward, insert and boot from it - when chameleon screen completes loading, eject the cd and insert the Snow Leopard dvd and wait for approx one minute. Then press F5 and if all goes well you will see the DVD as an icon. Choose it and off you go.

 

TODO:

-Use 64 bit (it is 32 bit due to the AppleIntelPIIXATA.kext from 10.5)

-Use DSDT.aml, some issues with chameleon still prevails

-Fix gfx and audio

-Other minor fixes

 

Dell Preboot ISO

 

 

Superhai,

 

Here is my Dell M1530 Configuration. Will that boot CD version 4 work for me and are we moving forward to a DSDT.aml for the different hardware? Guide on how to Tweak you processor and Graphics card? Doesn't the New RC3 support the graphics now so it does not have to go into the DSDT?

 

Would any of the USB patching in the DSDT fix the sleep/wake right? Also SATA patching might help with the restart and shutdown right? I know that USB patching and SATA patching for the desktops fixes restart/shutdown/sleep/wake

along with the Usual kexts.

 

 

 

My Dell Laptop:

 

M1530

 

T9500 Processor 2.6GHZ

4GIG ram DDR2 667MHZ but I have the 800MGZ as well just not installed yet

8600M GT Graphics

1505 Wireless

High Resolution,Black glossy widescreen 15.4 inch LCD(1920x1200)&2MP Ca

integrated Sound Blaster Audigy HD Software Edition

 

 

WHat areas of the DSDT would I need to Mod to get most of this hardware to work properly?

 

Thanks

[casw1000]

I'm not sure if you did it. Bevor pressing enter on the DellSnowCD button, you have to remove Superhais's boot cd and put in a Mac OS Snow Leopard DVD.

 

Best regards,

Michael

 

 

Thanks Michael, maybe this is my complete oversight. When I noticed the DellSnowCD in the middle of the screen, I thought it was going to load a disk partition app or something, I didnt realise thats the point when I need to insert my SL dvd. I will try this after work later today and see if I can progress. However,

 

I am sure there was a point where the instructions read something like, "select the bits you want to install"... I might be getting mixed up. If I insert the SL DVD and press F5 to refresh, and things still dont go smoothly, I will re-read the instructions. I might be back here again later.

 

Cheers,

Colin.

[casw1000]

ok, so I made some progress this evening. I inserted the retail 10.6 dvd once I booted from my DellsnowCD v0.4, followed through with the install, at the end of the install (28mins roughly later) the installation failed, with the message cannot boot from hard disk.

 

ok, I knew roughly why, not I have to fix it. Along with some other things as well.

 

Here's the layout of the hard disk.

 

160gb fat GPUID partition formated to NTFS during Windows 7 x64U install, laptop boots into Windows 7 by default with no CD inserted in drive. To boot into OSX I have to Press F12 for one time boot option, then select the OSX partition then it loads up fine. Not ideal, but I can live with that for now.

 

Things that work: 8400m graphics.

Things that DONT work : sound, usb, network, wi-fi (I accept this as I have bought a new 1505 card).

 

Things that partially work : Webcam, the light comes on, but I get just a blacked out display. Weird.

 

I have not installed any kexts as I could not find them on the Dellsnowcd. I am also not sure exactly where I should be putting said kexts.

 

If you have anything that would help me perfect the boot up process, ideally a boot manager that would be great, it would also be great to get my usb working so that I can use external mouse etc.

 

Thanks for your help in adv.

Colin.

[gonzoph]

I've got the same problem.

My usb is not working properly. When I boot up with the Dell preboot DVD usb will work sometimes, but i could not find any regularity. To boot up with Macloader installt in the SL partition will cause in KP. ( it says only "one cpu installt. should be 2" what can i do to fix it.? ) adding some kexts to the extra folder on the SL partition could fix this problem, but i think its not a perfect solution.

 

but my main problem is how to get usb working. I hope someone could write a shot guide how to fix ist.

I allready googled sone hours but did not find the right and simple solution for it.

 

I hope someone could help me.

 

 

 

So far

 

Have a nice day.

[piraya]

Hello.

I had the same problem with my usb when booting with the boot CD. When I installed chameleon on my SL partition and booted from that USB works all the time. After Chameleon was installed I copied the kext files and DSDT from the boot cd to my chameleon installation (/Extra/ i think).

After refreshing with kext utility I (http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=140647) I got the sound working too with VoodooHDA.

Shutdown works too but not reboot and sleep.

 

I'm not sure if that did help

I will try to recall all the steps I made during installation and write a little walkthrough if i get the time.

Atm I am only missing WLAN and Ethernet. Will it ever work?

[overshoot]

Shutdown works too but not reboot and sleep.

 

Woooot!!!!

 

Shutdown works???!!!

 

You means sleep works, right?

[siriuxs]

Hi to all, I have buyed the Dell Studio XPS 13 and I want know if is possible install snow leopard with this guide. Thanks and excuse me for my bad english but I'm italian...