[michaelcly]

zcream... you are right! I show 1hr 56 min on a full battery. when I boot in 10.6.7 I get 3hr 16 min. on the same battery using the same mini. Although watching a hulu video depletes the battery just as fast in 10.6.7. Im thinking about going back to 10.6.7.

[zcream]

I got cpu-i installed and it shows all P-states. I enabled throttle.
However, the CPU speed does not change.
Voodoopowermini causes a KP..

[michaelcly]

Originally Posted by zcream

I got cpu-i installed and it shows all P-states. I enabled throttle.
However, the CPU speed does not change.
Voodoopowermini causes a KP..

I'm going back to 10.6.7 this weekend and using rminor's method of updating java. I miss the battery life.

I wonder though... will using the fake 10.6.8 allow software updates other than Java?
For example, Safari gives you extensions with 10.6.8. I'll miss that, especially ad blocker.

[frank1002us]

i updated to 10.6.8 and everything works. thanks to everyone here.
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But i have one problem. i want to use hide partition key and the chameleon does not respond. it used to work with the 0.8.5 nbi. is there a way to just change the chameleon in the NBI special?

[Eligos]

For you STEC users out there that can't get your mini 9 to sleep on 10.6.8, here is the fix!

This is how I did it:
Locate /System/Library/Extensions/IOATAFamily.kext and delete it. Now go into Extra/GeneralExtensions and notice that you already have IOATAFamily.kext in there. That's the conflict, I had two of them loading at startup causing a problem. Now for the sleepenabler.kext, I simply put it in AdditionalExtensions and ran UpdateExtra. Wait until it has finished and then reboot.

Done, that's it. Now my mini 9 sleeps perfectly. ;-)

In my AdditionalExtensions folder I have the following items:

ALC268.kext
AppleHDA.kext
CPUi.kext
SleepEnabler.kext

As of now:

• Sleep works
• Sound Works
• Microphone Works
• Camera Works
• Bluetooth Works
• Speed Step Works*

* Freq, Volt and Temp change automatically with cpu load

PS. For those wondering, on a full charge my mini says 3 hours remaining on the battery!

[michaelcly]

Is anyone successfully using a WWAN card with 10.6.8?

[skyraven]

@Eligos:

I know this is one year after your post, but I still can't get sleep to work on my 10.6.8 Dell Mini 9 even after I deleted that IOAta extension that was being loaded aside from the /Extra one.

I mean, the mini goes to sleep, the white light flashes....
I only get it to come out of sleep by pressing the power button shortly, then I see my desktop image but all is dead (keyboard, mouse, nothing works..it's like having a static wallpaper in front of your eyes).

Any idea what else I could try ?

[alienbiker99]

http://www.mydellmini.com/forum/dell...utorial-3.html
see my post... did you remember to disable hibernation? ...used the tutorial from the beginning of thread along with new kernel. I dont use this mini much but my install used to do that freezing after sleep. But after starting from scratch, i rarely see it when using it.

[igzabier]

updated by accident.
got stuck in reboot. held shift on boot to chameleon, got into safe mode by typing recovery=y. ran Disk Utility repaired permissions. ran NBI..351
terminal chmod… command didn't work(said legacy kernel not found though it was sitting in / ). got the files in dchao's post from osx86 dot com.

ran legacy kernel installer. ran NBI..351 again.
terminal sysctl says Inspiron1011 still.
then after reboots it reads Macbook4,1
so I changed NBI..351 plist to Macbook4,1
still no after couple reboots. couple more reboots and working 10.6.8 with normal boot time! yay [no Bluetooth even though enabled in BIOS]
all seems to work, sleep was fine without SleepEnabler kext

…but

no sound. reboots don't fix. tried Kext helper

I had read Sleep enabler kext might fix sound, nope. if kexts aren't getting installed, something may need permission?

I dunno maybe someone does?

[Dan_Shane]

Originally Posted by igzabier

updated by accident.
got stuck in reboot. held shift on boot to chameleon, got into safe mode by typing recovery=y. ran Disk Utility repaired permissions. ran NBI..351
terminal chmod… command didn't work(said legacy kernel not found though it was sitting in / ). got the files in dchao's post from osx86 dot com.
ran legacy kernel installer. ran NBI..351 again. still no after couple reboots. couple more reboots and working 10.6.8 with normal boot time! yay [no Bluetooth even though enabled in BIOS]
all seems to work, sleep was fine without SleepEnabler kext

…but

no sound. reboots don't fix. tried Kext helper

I had read Sleep enabler kext might fix sound, nope. if kexts aren't getting installed, something may need permission?

I dunno maybe someone does?

I would recommend installing the VoodooHDA kext to enable audio. Use the UpdateExtra app inside /Extra after placing the kext inside the /Extra/UpdateExtensions folder.