elgranoti Posted November 30, 2020 Share Posted November 30, 2020 Hey there, I have an Acer Aspire 6930G notebook running Snow Leopard 10.6.8 (a distro), but I want to upgrade it to Yosemite or El Capitan. Based on my system info, what do you recommend ? I want to start fresh with a vanilla installation... This are my system details (hope they help). mint@mint:~$ lspci 00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile 4 Series Chipset Memory Controller Hub (rev 07) 00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile 4 Series Chipset PCI Express Graphics Port (rev 07) 00:1a.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #4 (rev 03) 00:1a.1 USB controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #5 (rev 03) 00:1a.2 USB controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #6 (rev 03) 00:1a.7 USB controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #2 (rev 03) 00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) HD Audio Controller (rev 03) 00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port 1 (rev 03) 00:1c.3 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port 4 (rev 03) 00:1c.5 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port 6 (rev 03) 00:1d.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 03) 00:1d.1 USB controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 03) 00:1d.2 USB controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 03) 00:1d.7 USB controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #1 (rev 03) 00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev 93) 00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation ICH9M LPC Interface Controller (rev 03) 00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation 82801IBM/IEM (ICH9M/ICH9M-E) 4 port SATA Controller [AHCI mode] (rev 03) 00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) SMBus Controller (rev 03) 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation G98M [GeForce 9300M GS] (rev a1) 07:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation WiFi Link 5100 09:00.0 Ethernet controller: Qualcomm Atheros AR8121/AR8113/AR8114 Gigabit or Fast Ethernet (rev b0) Specs: Core2Duo P7350 @2.00GHz Motherboard: Acer Makalu ICH9M I/O controller 4GB DDR2-667 RAM 250GB HDD GeForce 9300M GS graphics (G98M) Fingerprint reader USB2.0 multicard reader Acer Crystal Eye Webcam Atheros AR8121/AR8113/AR8114 Gigabit or Fast Ethernet Intel Wifi Link 5100 wireless card Thanks so much in advance !!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Hervé Posted November 30, 2020 Administrators Share Posted November 30, 2020 Core2Duo P7350 is Penryn-3M and GeForce 9300M GS is Tesla G98. This kind of platform should fully support El Capitan but also Sierra and High Sierra since the CPU has SSE4.1 instructions set. I'd go for the latter. You could even push for Mojave with Tesla-specific special patches and Catalina with Dosdude1's patcher. You can read about those in our Graphics section. But that's maybe for a future stage as it gets a little complicated when High Sierra will fully and natively support your graphics card. Download a copy of High Sierra off Apple (via AppStore or Apple download links) and make your USB installer with basic settings. Look at "Our Picks" side panel on forum main page for that. You can look at fine tuning your build for Ethernet, wireless, audio, card reader, etc. once you've finished the macOS installation. You may consult these old guides for general guidance in the process; obviously the pack are not for you but you can extract the core kexts from them (FakeSMC, Lilu, WEG). https://osxlatitude.com/forums/topic/12479-dell-latitude-d630-with-core2duo-nvidia-quadro-nvs-135m-el-capitansierrahigh-sierramojavecatalina/ https://osxlatitude.com/forums/topic/10370-dell-latitude-d830-with-core2duo-and-nvidia-quadro-nvs-135m-mavericksyosemiteel-capitansierrahigh-sierramojave/ The one thing that will not be supported for certain is your Intel wireless card and it'll have to be replaced by a supported model. Plenty to choose from and you may consult our inventories published in the Wifi section to that effect. Good luck. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
elgranoti Posted November 30, 2020 Author Share Posted November 30, 2020 Glad to hear all this Hervé !!!! One more thing: do you think I'm gonna have to do some DSDT patching ? Cause I have no clue about that ( no clue bout anything, but mostly about that... ) Thanks a lot !!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Hervé Posted November 30, 2020 Administrators Share Posted November 30, 2020 Maybe, no way to say for sure. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
elgranoti Posted December 3, 2020 Author Share Posted December 3, 2020 Ok Hervé, I followed your guide for Sierra on dell d830 ( https://osxlatitude.com/forums/topic/10370-dell-latitude-d830-with-core2duo-and-nvidia-quadro-nvs-135m-mavericksyosemiteel-capitansierrahigh-sierramojave/ ) When trying to boot, I get this kernel panic right at the beginning I guess I did something really wrong... any idea what might be ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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