Comments on: Snow Leopard on Dell Inspiron 640m/e1405 UPDATED

By: Matthieu

Matthieu — Mon, 04 Jul 2011 17:36:12 +0000

No, as far as I know there’s no support for PCI/HDA modems in OSX Intel. The general consensus seems to be to purchase an Apple USB modem….

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By: M.Y.

M.Y. — Mon, 04 Jul 2011 17:04:25 +0000

Hope you are well, first I want to tell you big thanks for your posts about installing Mac on Dell inspiron!
Now I run on Snow Leopard 10.6.6 with almost all running fine.
Last one thing I want from it to have my conexant v92 built-in dial up modem to work=). Is it possible at all? Have any of you working this on Mac?

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By: M.Y.

M.Y. — Tue, 11 Jan 2011 09:11:46 +0000

Hi,
I’ve managed to install Mac OS X Snow Leopard 10.6.4 with only addition to mg’s instruction with replacing SleepEnabler Kext https://github.com/shao1555/xnu-sleep-enabler after installing combo update from 10.6.2 to 10.6.4 and before rebooting. For some other computers maybe helpful option arch=i386.

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By: Glitz

Glitz — Sat, 30 Oct 2010 18:29:40 +0000

Hi Matthieu,
Thanks for your tutorial. It worked great on my dell 640m.
However I still have a little problem which is kind of annoying. The system doesn’t detect an external display without a reboot. It seems to detect that a new display is connected (screen turns blue for a second) but nothing happens. I tried with different combination of AppleIntelGMA950, AppleIntelIntegratedFramebuffer, … kexts but no luck.
Does anybody knows the solution?
Thanks

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By: Mark

Mark — Mon, 25 Oct 2010 00:01:04 +0000

I can confirm 10.6.4 works on a Dell Inspiron 640m (everything but sleep). I have installed OSX using the posted procedure, upgraded to 10.6.2, everything worked great.

Recently I accidentally upgraded to 10.6.4 and noticed that video playback and Exposé became choppy, couldn’t open Plex or Front Row, all of which indicated an issue with QE/CI. I downloaded the earlier IONDRVSupport.kext version 2.0 (10.6.2) from http://matthieu.yiptong.ca/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/10.6.2-IONDRVSupport.kext_.zip and installed it with Kext helper b7. All problems gone, video is smooth again. Thanks.

Next: to get a working solution for 640m’s SHDC card reader.

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By: Onire

Onire — Sat, 07 Aug 2010 09:21:03 +0000

Any one have tried this http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=201034&st=20 on 10.6.4?

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By: pasgabriele

pasgabriele — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 12:19:08 +0000

i followed the guide by MG for the update to 10.6.4. My SL work “perfectly”, but i noticed that there is any problem. I have installed on my SL eyetv 3.4, with 10.6.2 it worked fine, the cpu usage was around 27-30% for the SD stream and 70-80% with HD stream. Now with 10.6.4 my cpu usage is around 40-50% for SD stream and 120-140%!!!!! with HD stream!!!!!!!
my question: are we sure that with the update to 10.6.4 all work same 10.6.2??????
anyone has my same problem????

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By: vince

vince — Sun, 27 Jun 2010 16:16:47 +0000

Hi Matthieu, can teach me which snow leopard i install on my Dell 640m? Saw alot of package like ideneb , ipc etc.

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By: mg

mg — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 20:12:40 +0000

Not a problem Matthieu. Just trying to give back a bit of help after receiving so much

Check out http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=178411&pid=1493015&st=1100&#entry1493015 as well for a slightly different method for dell’s. I like using your kexts, but it’s interesting to see other approaches for similar models. Looks like folks are starting to have 10.6.4 success with both approaches.

@Malbin – I recommend you jump to the 10.6.x version installs Matthieu is describing. Distros, kexts, etc change between versions a lot and the nice thing about this is you’re basically starting with a retail version of OSX and should have basics like keyboard, mouse, trackpad, display, etc working ootb. The only necessary hardward mod I recommend is swapping out an intel wireless card for a supported one like the dell 1397, 1395, 1390, 1505 models. I have a 1397 I got on ebay for $9 dollars and the few dollars will dave you lots of heartburn down the road.

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By: Matthieu

Matthieu — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 05:35:37 +0000

Hi MG,
Thanks for the clear updated instructions for 10.6.4. I’ve actually been putting off the update myself, but since you have it working I’ll try it soon.

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