Dell inspiron 1520 ipc
Dell Inspiron 1520, Specs relevant to OSx86 hacking
Sound: Sigmatel 9202
Ethernet: Broadcom 440x
WiFi: Intel 4965AGN
Video: NVidia GeForce 8600M GT, 256M
1. clear all partitions from HD, using pmagic-3.5 .
2. change BIOS to SATA ACHI mode.
3. boot from iPC OSx86 10.5.6 Leopard, this step is tricky, sometimes the boot process will panic without apparent reasons. Try another time sometimes will work. if not, try to boot from iATKOS OSx86 10.5.5 Leopard and create HPS+ volume using Disk Utility, and then reboot with iPC.
4. Install Leopard, partition the HD to HPS+ format, carefully choose the customization options, especially PS/2 keyboard and mouse, otherwise the built-in keyboard and trackpad will not work.
5. if correct options are chosen, then video and ethernet should work right out of the box.
6. apply the patch for Sigmatel 9502 from fix_sound directory, and the sound should work.
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