Dell Latitude E6400

[mizino]

So I got a dell from the school at which I work and since I'm not much on windows I followed this tutorial:

http://forum.osxlatitude.com/index.php?/topic/6118-osx-mavericks-install-on-dell-latitude-e6400/

And got it running mac OS 10.9.5. The tutorial doesn't cover doing anything about Power Management thus the laptop runs a bit hot, short on battery life, and doesn't resume from sleep (it actually doesn't go completely to sleep when you close the lid).

I got everything else working (even the Wifi though thats not perfect) thus this is the last thing I need to fix to get this to be a completely viable portable.

I was wondering what I'd have to do in order to actually fix the power management (I'm figuring a DSDT), and if installing things like a DSDT and SMBIOS are even possible from this part of the install.

 

[RehabMan]

So I got a dell from the school at which I work and since I'm not much on windows I followed this tutorial:

http://forum.osxlatitude.com/index.php?/topic/6118-osx-mavericks-install-on-dell-latitude-e6400/

And got it running mac OS 10.9.5. The tutorial doesn't cover doing anything about Power Management thus the laptop runs a bit hot, short on battery life, and doesn't resume from sleep (it actually doesn't go completely to sleep when you close the lid).

I got everything else working (even the Wifi though thats not perfect) thus this is the last thing I need to fix to get this to be a completely viable portable.

I was wondering what I'd have to do in order to actually fix the power management (I'm figuring a DSDT), and if installing things like a DSDT and SMBIOS are even possible from this part of the install.

http://www.tonymacx86.com/mavericks...-bridge-ivy-bridge-haswell-other-laptops.html

 

[mizino]

Yeah that post is useless since it assumes that the person using it knows where everything goes. I'm not entirely sure where everything goes. I think I got it correct and it still didn't work. I added these lines to org.chameleon.boot.plist:

<key>GeneratePStates</key>
<string>Yes</string>
<key>GenerateCStates</key>
<string>Yes</string>
<key>DropSSDT</key>
<string>Yes</string>

This still didn't work seeing as the lid on the laptop closing still doesn't get the machine completely into sleep mode. did I perhaps put these lines in the wrong place or put them in incorrectly?

 

[RehabMan]

Yeah that post is useless since it assumes that the person using it knows where everything goes. I'm not entirely sure where everything goes. I think I got it correct and it still didn't work. I added these lines to org.chameleon.boot.plist:

<key>GeneratePStates</key>
<string>Yes</string>
<key>GenerateCStates</key>
<string>Yes</string>
<key>DropSSDT</key>
<string>Yes</string>

This still didn't work seeing as the lid on the laptop closing still doesn't get the machine completely into sleep mode. did I perhaps put these lines in the wrong place or put them in incorrectly?

No idea without hardware details. The post completely describes 'where things go...'


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System: manufacturer/model + bootloader(Clover/Chameleon/Chimera)
CPU: detailed CPU model + motherboard chipset
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[mizino]

Plus I'm not sure that the smbios is set right. SMBIOS.plist says it is giving the system a Macbookpro 5,3 but the dell seems to have a core 2 duo derived centrino 2. I think the 5,3 was the first with a Core i based processor. Should I change it over to a regular macbook early itteration? or what?

 

[mizino]

There now can you help me?

 

[mizino]

sorry better now?

 

[mizino]

Anyone got any help out there?

 

[RehabMan]

Plus I'm not sure that the smbios is set right. SMBIOS.plist says it is giving the system a Macbookpro 5,3 but the dell seems to have a core 2 duo derived centrino 2. I think the 5,3 was the first with a Core i based processor. Should I change it over to a regular macbook early itteration? or what?

You can use everymac.com to get information on actual Macs.

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[mizino]

I think this is what you are asking for. Let me know if its not.