Dell Laptops Post-installer - XPS, Inspiron, Vostro, Lattitude

[MoonDogg]

Look in his post in reference to noobs guide... it shows you how he installed it.. I used the same guide and have SL running on my e1505 as well... Thanks GreatDeciever :-)

 

Would you mind posting a brief install guide, i got SL to instal using his boot iso (laptop is same specs as yours) just having trouble with the boot from hard drive EFI etc.

Mainly just the order in which you installed things, where they were installed too, terminal commands and any other useful bits and pieces.

 

 

Ice

[icecold]

Look in his post in reference to noobs guide... it shows you how he installed it.. I used the same guide and have SL running on my e1505 as well... Thanks GreatDeciever :-)

 

would you mind posting a link to it? Have just been through 20+ pages and can't find it.

 

 

Ice

[TheGreatDeceiver]

would you mind posting a link to it? Have just been through 20+ pages and can't find it.

 

 

Ice

 

you start with the "Hidden EFI Partition Method" here: http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=182227

you could also just click the noob link in my sig. Btw. do not get scared away by the massive contents of the guide. you only need to follow the hidden EFI stuff, which is a third of the entire guide.

[icecold]

you start with the "Hidden EFI Partition Method" here: http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=182227

you could also just click the noob link in my sig. Btw. do not get scared away by the massive contents of the guide. you only need to follow the hidden EFI stuff, which is a third of the entire guide.

 

Awesome, I've done that and am successfully booting into SL now.

The display is causing problems, i copied your EFI partition files, and applied the sleeper fix, but when i boot it flashes white then goes dead, if i plug in an external display i get my login etc on the external. How do i fix this to get the internal display to work?

 

Cheers,

 

Ice

[TheGreatDeceiver]

Awesome, I've done that and am successfully booting into SL now.

The display is causing problems, i copied your EFI partition files, and applied the sleeper fix, but when i boot it flashes white then goes dead, if i plug in an external display i get my login etc on the external. How do i fix this to get the internal display to work?

 

Cheers,

 

Ice

not sure if your hardware is actually identical, not being able to see it. I assume you have gma950 grapx card?

[snowspeeder]

I find this project so hard to deal with. Maybe someone can point me in the right direction.

 

I have a Inspiron 6400. Intel core duo, Geforce go 7300 (128), Dell wifi, bluetooth, azila audio.

 

I have tried installing Iaktos 10.5.5 and using the Post-Installer.

 

After manually having to apply some kexts I had a semi working system.

 

I was able to update to 10.5.8 successfully.

 

The things that were not working were sleep and usb.

 

USB would always work fro keyboard/mouse, but would only work for other devices (iphone, pen drive) if it were attached while the system was booting.

 

I tired to apply some fix i found for sleep and caused a kernel panic. Time machine would restore correctly so here I am reinstalling again.

 

Any Ideas where I can get the right drivers for this stuff? I have such a hard time locating what I need.

[icecold]

not sure if your hardware is actually identical, not being able to see it. I assume you have gma950 grapx card?

 

 

Got it all working now. Screen just sleeps very quick during login.

 

How did you get your sleep working? I put it to sleep and it won't wake / not sure how to wake it...

 

 

Ice

[Yuriy Havryliv]

Hi,

 

I'm ready to install Snow Leopard to my dell 6400. I want to have native Exchange support in Mail

 

Currently I'm using Leopard 10.5.7

My HDD has 2 partitions one for OS and one for Data.

 

Looks like it's not possible to install Snow Leopard with current partitions. I don't want to reformat Data partition so i need to kill Leopard split its partition into 2 parts and after install Leo again on second partition and finally Snow Leo to first.

 

Or should I try some tools to cut a live OS partotion without re installation?

 

Does it make sense? Please help.

[TheGreatDeceiver]

Got it all working now. Screen just sleeps very quick during login.

 

How did you get your sleep working? I put it to sleep and it won't wake / not sure how to wake it...

 

 

Ice

 

sleep never worked on gma950. only deep sleep will work (hibernatemode=1)

 

Hi,

 

I'm ready to install Snow Leopard to my dell 6400. I want to have native Exchange support in Mail

 

Currently I'm using Leopard 10.5.7

My HDD has 2 partitions one for OS and one for Data.

 

Looks like it's not possible to install Snow Leopard with current partitions. I don't want to reformat Data partition so i need to kill Leopard split its partition into 2 parts and after install Leo again on second partition and finally Snow Leo to first.

 

Or should I try some tools to cut a live OS partotion without re installation?

 

Does it make sense? Please help.

your job will be a piece of cake if you have a second hdd that you can put into a USB enclosure. That's how I installed mine. used extra hdd in USB enclosure, made three partitions on it. I copied (via disktutility restore) Leo to one of them and the install DVD to another, kept third one empty for SL installation. Then swapped hdds, booted into Leo and installed SL.

You could also use the second hdd as a temporary place holder and move everything back to main internal. Several ways that way and you won't loose anything via diskutility restore.

[MoonDogg]

Just noticed that I have no battery meter at the top.. any suggestions? thanks..

[TheGreatDeceiver]

Just noticed that I have no battery meter at the top.. any suggestions? thanks..

did you try this one? I have my notebook at work at the moment and can't check mine. I thought I got it. will let you know later.

[icecold]

Just noticed that I have no battery meter at the top.. any suggestions? thanks..

 

 

here use this package, credit to noob for this, its on his generic install guide.

 

 

Ice

battery.pkg.zip

[MoonDogg]

sweet thanks...

 

Edit: I installed it... battery worked... but screen stop working... completely... think it just gave up the ghost... guess I might be buying a real mac soon...

 

here use this package, credit to noob for this, its on his generic install guide.

 

 

Ice

[rohizzle121]

that battery PKG didnt work for me

i have a m1210 and it says "no batteries available"

 

what should i do?

[TheGreatDeceiver]

good news for those of use with gma950. apparently, apple will release 64bit kexts with 10.6.2, according to Netkas

[razr1983]

That's some good news! Dell Inspiron FTW!!!

BTW I am thinking of setting up a small page and uploading all the Dell Inspiron drivers there because many of the link are dead here... What do you think ?

[Yuriy Havryliv]

Hi,

 

I have successfully installed SL to USB HDD.

Thanks to noob guide and comments from TheGreatDeceiver.

 

I have several questions

 

Broadcom 440x is not working, do we have driver for SL or i should use the old one from 10.5 (which stop working from time to time)?

 

The second question is about sleep. Monitor sleep well. I tried to use Deep Sleep but it doesn't work. I tried hibernatemode 1 and 5(with secure virtual memory).

But now I'm thinking that the problem is because of USB HDD. It goes to sleep before sleep image is actually created. Am I right?

 

I don't want to replace my 10.5.8 with SL on internal HDD before it'll be 100% working

[Yuriy Havryliv]

I think that problem with my broadcon 440x is because of of problems in DSDT as other people have is out of the box.

[TheGreatDeceiver]

I think that problem with my broadcon 440x is because of of problems in DSDT as other people have is out of the box.

I thought there are still a number of ppl with this problem since sometime after 10.5.4 or so. I never tried mine so I won't be able to tell you. Deep sleep from a USB drive may be the cat biting its own tail . Make sure you have USB wake on sleep disabled in the BIOS, otherwise you have a conflict. Which graphics card do you have?

[Yuriy Havryliv]

. Which graphics card do you have?

 

I have GMA 950.

I know that it doesn't support regular sleep.

 

To tell the truth I was not able to make my dell to go to deep sleep on 10.5.x

It just turn off the monitor and when I move the mouse it turn it back normally so it's not a real sleep. And it doesn't matter what i put into hibernatemode 0 1 5 or 3. So end up with 0 and erased sleepimage file and got + 2GB of space.

 

So I'm trying to have a deep sleep on 10.6

[aperuz]

Hey everyone, what's up? :censored2:

A few days ago I've installed iAtkos 7 (10.5.7) on my Dell Vostro 1310, after installation no keys or touchpad were working, PS2 kexts helped, also I ran a Dell Laptop Post Installer 1.4.1 to get my wifi in a work state - all good, all was working then, but I cannot get him to wake up after sleep, just blank black screen and no response to any touch.

Does anyone have any idea to solve this?

Thanks in advance

[TheGreatDeceiver]

well, it's a start:

 

Type of Submission: 10.6.1 links

Dell Laptop Model: E1505/6400

Fully working? - fully, cpus=2, thanks to voodooTSCSync by cosmo1t

x32 or x64 or both? - only x32 because there are no gma950 64bit kexts

Thanks to noob766 for his guide. Note that you only need to follow instructions for the hidden EFI partition. One requirement is that you have to have OSX (e.g. Leopard) already installed on another partition.

 

Because gma950 still has wake/sleep problem at login you need to use screen sleeper solution. Use an external monitor to apply sleep/wake display activate in expose and install this script, also disable autologin.

If you have a Core2Duo the system will boot into 64bit by default. You need to add

<key>arch</key>

<string>i386</string>

to your com.apple.boot.plist (preferably on the EFI partition) to force it to 32bit. Otherwise your gma950 kexts will not load and you only get default vga, no qe, ci and only 1024x768.

 

Extra kexts I am using:

-> voodoohda for sound. Works just like under leopard

-> voodoops2controller, need to load this in Extra of EFI partition to get mouse and keyboard working from the getgo.

-> voodoosdhc allows reading/writing of SDHC cards

-> voodoopower to get speedstep

-> voodooTSCSync enables both cores on C2D

thanks to the voodoo team!

 

with noob's guide I personally do not think a postinstaller is necessary, especially since there is no distro out there at all at the moment. Noob766 has an Inspiron E1505 himself.

Noob766 made a generic 132boot iso for the E1505/6400 already: Inspiron6400.iso.zip

Note that he uses an older IOGraphics kext and Frambuffer.kext to boot without gma950 problems. You will later need to remove these (they will be located on the EFI partition) and use the stock kexts to avoid artifacts and apply the above screen sleeper patch.

attached is my com.apple.boot.plist which loads gma950 EFI string. Note that without the EFI string the system will KP before login. (if you use it remove cpus=1 unless you need it, with voodooTSCSync not necessary). If you would like to have a look at contents of my EFI partition, it's located here. including a DSDT.aml for my particular hardware config.

 

good luck

 

just updated to 10.6.2 without problems.

 

made backup of kernel and extensions, updated and worked without a problem. no need to patch anything back.

cool. now trying to figure out how to get gma950 64bit to work. just greeted with a black screen when I boot with 64bit. everything working 100% 32bit.

[jbclw2009]

Hello, noob here trying to get osx86 working on the following hardware.

Dell Insperon e1705 intel dual core t2500 @2.0 ghz

320 sata drive, nvidia geforce go 7900gs.

i got OSx86 10.5.7 initially loaded successfully however when it boots, it come up with the kernel panic to turn off and restart the computer.

i currently run Windows 7 and i downloaded the dell laptop post installer but im not sure how to deal with the .pkg or to apply the .pkg to the panic install.

only the cd boot allows F8 to specify -s or -v.

[TheGreatDeceiver]

Hello, noob here trying to get osx86 working on the following hardware.

Dell Insperon e1705 intel dual core t2500 @2.0 ghz

320 sata drive, nvidia geforce go 7900gs.

i got OSx86 10.5.7 initially loaded successfully however when it boots, it come up with the kernel panic to turn off and restart the computer.

i currently run Windows 7 and i downloaded the dell laptop post installer but im not sure how to deal with the .pkg or to apply the .pkg to the panic install.

only the cd boot allows F8 to specify -s or -v.

 

if you can't get into the os then there is no way of installing the .pkg file. Unless you unpack it with pacifist and copy the kexts over to the non booting osx from another osx or from your win7 via MacDrive v8. If you are lucky you may be able to boot with -x (safe mode). hit F8 when your system boots and at darwin prompt type -x -v.

-v will show you what causes the kernel panic in addition. you can try that by itself before you do -x. Make a note of the kernel panic (or take a picture, if it scrolls by too fast, take a movie). Then come back with specifics if -x did not help.

 

also need more specifics: which release of 10.5.7 did you install? iPC's? and which kernel, system.kext combination did you choose?

 

good luck.

 

ooohh, aahh, 777, I think this will bring luck

[jbclw2009]

iDeneb v1.5.1 with pre-applied PPF patches. i wil try to hit f8 to add -v -x so far i have not had much luck.

Im running the standard kernel that it comes with, there are some custom options to run the amd kernel, but i did not try it since i have intel. when i tried checking some of the stuff beyond the basic install, i would get a screen saying it was not possible to proceed with the install.

i will unrar macdrive 8 now and see what i can do.

 

if you can't get into the os then there is no way of installing the .pkg file. Unless you unpack it with pacifist and copy the kexts over to the non booting osx from another osx or from your win7 via MacDrive v8. If you are lucky you may be able to boot with -x (safe mode). hit F8 when your system boots and at darwin prompt type -x -v.

-v will show you what causes the kernel panic in addition. you can try that by itself before you do -x. Make a note of the kernel panic (or take a picture, if it scrolls by too fast, take a movie). Then come back with specifics if -x did not help.

 

also need more specifics: which release of 10.5.7 did you install? iPC's? and which kernel, system.kext combination did you choose?

 

good luck.

 

ooohh, aahh, 777, I think this will bring luck