[tonythemedaiguy]

First of all thank you for all of your hard work.

The problem I'm having is now that the Fn 8 thing is disabled, I have no way to turn off the main lcd and only use the externally attached monitor. Ideally it should work like a real mac so if you have a mouse/monitor/keyboard and you shut yoru lid, it just switches everything over to the external monitor.

This is for my kids and I got them a 21" 1080p monitor which looks great with the mini. I just want to close the lid and let the laptop act like a mac mini or something.

Any advise on how to turn off lcd when external is hooked up?

[bmaltais]

Originally Posted by meklort

The only time I've actually seen it say 10:00 is when I plug it in after being fully discharged. I haven't extensively tested the time to charge yet (and as such, has at least one or two minor bugs that I know of), however It does take a while longer to calculate than the time to discharge.
What version of DellEFI did you have previously (one of the betas or 1.07.1)? If you had 1.07.1, the reason why it takes a while to calculate is because 1.07.1 never actually reads information from the battery and just guesses a number quickly.

And just a though about the dsdt, Why don't we make a copy of the unpatched dsdt file and put it at /dsdt.orig.aml or /.dellefi/dsdt.orig.aml so that a reboot it not required to recover (if the file exists)? We would need to verify that the dsdt file wasn't patched to begin with, but that shouldn't be too hard to do (I can modify the patcher to detect if its been patched or not).

That would be doable. I guess we could introduce this feature in the next release ;-)

[pr6srm]

Works great - not that I had problems with the last one, but all is good

[bmaltais]

Originally Posted by tonythemedaiguy

First of all thank you for all of your hard work.

The problem I'm having is now that the Fn 8 thing is disabled, I have no way to turn off the main lcd and only use the externally attached monitor. Ideally it should work like a real mac so if you have a mouse/monitor/keyboard and you shut yoru lid, it just switches everything over to the external monitor.

This is for my kids and I got them a 21" 1080p monitor which looks great with the mini. I just want to close the lid and let the laptop act like a mac mini or something.

Any advise on how to turn off lcd when external is hooked up?

This is one thing the dsdt.aml patcher work. There is a way to bring it back but will involve some mod to the dsdtpatcher config file. I will keep this in mind to provide a way around... but I need to go for the day right now.

[lancorp]

Having read what was changed in the DellEFI 1.1 app, and the fact that 1.07.1 seems to be running beautifully on the Mini 9's I setup with MacOSX, what is there to gain by going to 1.1? By that, I mean is there any substantial changes or features that I gain by upating to 1.1? I fear I will lose something or, as others have had happen, my Mini 9 won't boot anymore.

Although I'm always the one of the first to upgrade to a new version of something, but since I'm no master of OSX, I just want to know that there is some gain to be had.

Thanks to ALL for everything here. It's a marvelous group and a marvelous machine!

[NoBugsOnMe]

This is working so great. Thank you very much!

It would be nice to see SpeedStep working in the next release.

[meklort]

Originally Posted by lancorp

Having read what was changed in the DellEFI 1.1 app, and the fact that 1.07.1 seems to be running beautifully on the Mini 9's I setup with MacOSX, what is there to gain by going to 1.1? By that, I mean is there any substantial changes or features that I gain by upating to 1.1? I fear I will lose something or, as others have had happen, my Mini 9 won't boot anymore.

Although I'm always the one of the first to upgrade to a new version of something, but since I'm no master of OSX, I just want to know that there is some gain to be had.

Thanks to ALL for everything here. It's a marvelous group and a marvelous machine!

The two main things (as far as I'm concerned) are the following:
- This versions reads the charge / discharge rate from the battery, so it can calculate an accurate time remaining. The old one guesses.
- The next thing I would say is that if you use the network driver (not wan), this one is a bit faster. The only drawback is it nolonger reports the speed and duplex mode to the os (which is not important for most people).

Everything else is basically under the hood such as a smaller install size (2.4mb instead of 6mb), EFI Strings instead of kexts to enable hardware (should speed it up a very tiny bit, but thats about it), and a few other things.

About SpeedStep: Its not a priority for me. But if someone wants to look into it and gets something semi usable, I'll help (such as trying the voodoo kext and if it almost works right i'll look into modifying the source code).

[es-de-we]

Thank you very much for all the hard work with this.
Very very well done.
Installation and reinstalling the drivers and kexts was easy.
But I still have one problem: The Battery-Indicator-Icon in the Status-Bar is not working properly.
After installing 1.1b3 it was totally wrong: Always 1% Charge, 1 Min time remaining, red empty Icon.
Then, after reinstalling the bootloader and the kexts with 1.1b4 it was the same it is now:
The Percent and the Time is correct, but the battery-icon still remains "full" and does not get more empty

Is there a way to fix it?

With 1.07 it worked perfect.

Thanks.

[khetan]

Originally Posted by lugesm

Sleep works ! ! ! ! . . . . LID sleep, True SLEEP.
Everything else checks out.

Can you explain what you mean by True SLEEP ? Do you mean deep sleep ?

[mmjaeger]

Originally Posted by piano08man

Okay, so... DellEFI 1.1 told you that you needed to delete the dsdt.aml file... you said okay... and then it rebooted your computer and it crashed? That's odd. It should prompt you like this:

You need to delete your dsdt.aml file - okay - reboot. After reboot, you have to run DellEFI again and tell it to replace everything, and create a custom dsdt.aml file. It'll do it's thing and reboot again... at this point you should have a happy go lucky dell mini 9 running the latest 1.1 version of DellEFI.

Where specifically during this process, did your computer crash? If it's crashing upon reboot after just deleting your dsdt.aml file, that would be really strange, but I'd say give it a shot without deleting the dsdt.aml file... if you can.

Yes, that's exactly what's happening, it is crashing upon reboot after just deleting the dsdt.aml file??!!