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I played around with my T61 (model 6458-W4B/6458-CTO, 15.4", Nvidia 140m, 1680x1050, Core2Duo T7300 2.00GHz, firewire, card reader, fingerprint reader) and nearly everything is working in Mountain Lion 10.8.3. Of course, the Intel WiFi is not supported, you have to flash a BIOS without whitelist and replace the card with an Atheros or something compatible with ML. I put together a ZIP file with my Extensions and the DSDT I patched.

The machine replaced my old T60p with 10.6.8. It really feels faster than the old setup and works well for my everyday computer scientist use.

What is working:

• GPU (QE/Cl, brightness slider through DSDT edit, resolution control, no graphics glitches with special version of VoodoTSCSync)
• Touchpad, Trackpoint (VoodooPS2Controller with UltraNav)
• Automatic fan control (press ThinkVantage button for turbo mode, press again to switch back to automatic mode)
• Sound (even microphone works, some VoodooHDA configuration changed in kext, AppleHDA disabled in DSDT)
• Card Reader (VoodooSDHC)
• Bluetooth (DSDT edit to power on Bluetooth on every boot and resume)
• Battery (with VoodooBattery and alternative versions of AppleACPIPlatform and IOPCIFamily)
• No CMOS reset (only with patched AppleRTC)
• Second HDD in Ultrabay adapter (I use two SSD, works like a charm)
• Fingerprint reader (use AuthenTec TrueSuite)
• Native SpeedStep appears to be working including C-States (some DSDT edits)-set Speedstep to automatic in BIOS!

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Working with minor problems:

• GPU power management is a bit slow. Sometimes it takes half a second for the GPU to throttle up. I tried patching AGPM.kext, but it doesn't seem to change anything. AGPM loads fine and pops up in console from time to time, but it doesn't seem to influence GPU clock speed - you can use HWMonitor to monitor frequencies. They do change, but my guess is that this is done by the BIOS. UPDATE: I think I found a solution, see updated AGPM.kext below.
• Sleep sometimes crashed on my machine but is still pretty usable on my system
• USB ports are powered off during sleep, so the Fingerprint reader needs a couple of seconds after wakeup which is quite annoying (I edited DSDT already, but can't get the ports to stay on or initialize faster after sleep)
• Connected VGA cable is only detected after sleep or reboot
• Ethernet (cable detection is quirky, Intel 1000e kext)
• CPU speed is detected as 1.81Ghz by some tools. I can't tell if it's really running at that speed (FSB/multiplier detected wrong by Chameleon maybe?)
• Keyboard including volume buttons, most Fn-combinations not working (Some DSDT edits, but couldn't get everything to work properly)
• iMessage (only with credit card in apple account, use current Chameleon)

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What is not working:

• Intel WiFi (get Atheros/Broadcom card and patched BIOS)
• Modem

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Not yet tested:

• Docking station
• Firewire (but shows up in system profiler)
• Cardbus

Instructions:
Install contents of SLE.zip to /System/Library/Extensions using some kext utility. Install latest Chameleon with iMessage fix. Copy DSDT, SMBios.plist and chameleon configuration to /Extra. I hope I did not forget anything. If something is missing, please let me know. Unfortunately I don't have time to help you if you encounter any problems with the files but I wanted to share them anyway to give others a starting point. I'm not sure if IOPlatformPluginFamily and JMicronATA are needed.

Download:
Download, Mirror,Mirror 2
Edit: I Forgot to include Intel E1000 for ethernet: Download E1000e only, put in /S/L/E with files from other package. I also added an updated AppleGraphicsPowerManagement.kext. Please download this as well, install it in S/L/E and change the Mac version in /Extra/smbios.plist to MacBookPro6,1 (you can use champlist oder Chameleon Wizard).

Please let everyone know if this works for your system - include model number and/or your system specs. If you have a solution to the problems mentioned above, please share your thoughts.

Used your DSDT etc and so far it is working really well. I have noticed the little bit of lag time on the GPU while it cranks up but that is minor. For a machine of it's age I am very impressed. Great work on the DSDT, I got close but could never actually get sleep to work but now it is perfect!

I'm glad it works for you. I think I found a solution to the AGPM problems: Change Mac version to MacBookPro6,1 in smbios.plist and use this AppleGraphicsPowerManagement.kext. This seems to improve throttling for me. Let me know if it works for you!

I'm not sure yet if this is due to the placebo effect, but I think that removing the blocks Threshold_High_v and Threshold_Low_v (only the ones with _v at the end) from the MacBookPro6,1 --> Vendor10deDevice0429 section makes the GPU a bit faster. I will experiment with the threshold a bit more, but wanted to give a quick update nevertheless in case anyone else is also playing around with it. I will create an updated package once I'm more confident I found the correct values. As it is, AGPM at least seems to switch between G/P-States 0,1 and 2.

I'm curious: did you get Fn+Home and Fn+End working for brightness? I currently have a T61 on Lion 10.7.5 and I use ScrLk and Pause to change brightness.

No big deal, but wondering if you have a DSDT edit for it.

No, I tried editing the DSDT to achieve that, but to no avail. I also tried editing the forked VoodooPS2Controller, but those key combinations do not seem to produce any key code. And I have yet to figure out how to react to ACPI events on OS X. There is one more DSDT edit that I want to try: from the Qxx method for Fn-Home and Fn-End I will call the methods I added for native brightness slider. Right now, I don't have a lot of time on my hands, but when my procrastination phase starts again, this will be the first thing on my todo list.

unbehagen wrote:No, I tried editing the DSDT to achieve that, but to no avail. I also tried editing the forked VoodooPS2Controller, but those key combinations do not seem to produce any key code. And I have yet to figure out how to react to ACPI events on OS X. There is one more DSDT edit that I want to try: from the Qxx method for Fn-Home and Fn-End I will call the methods I added for native brightness slider. Right now, I don't have a lot of time on my hands, but when my procrastination phase starts again, this will be the first thing on my todo list.

Awesome man. I'm also looking to get this on my hack, as now that I have a stable system, I'm just trying to perfect it. I haven't messed with the DSDT for editing keys, but I'm going to investigate that next time I find myself also in a procrastination stage. lol

You said sleep sometimes crashes. Have you ever noticed that when you sleep while on battery power, and then wake (also on battery power) that Speedstep sometimes gets "stuck" at a lower speed? This is the last, very annoying side affect to my system. To try to remedy it, I switched from Generate P/C States to creating my SSDT tables in Windows. That seemed to help, but not completely fix the problem. Have you ever seen this?

I really want ML on my machine. Since I'm using the X3100 graphics I don't think this will ever be possible I'm tempted to buy a new motherboard with the Nvidia graphics, but I'm not sure how stable it would be. My machine is literally like 99% stable now that I've found the right kext combinations. I've gone a week now without ever restarting or powering down, just using sleep and wake.

One last annoyance I have - my internal microphone stops working when I sleep. Also if I plug in a microphone to the front port, it simply doesn't work, and also makes it so that the internal mic doesn't work until I reboot. I'm using VoodooHDA 2.8.2 I believe.

Also, if you didn't know, the docks work with our machines. I can't believe when I docked it, everything just worked. Battery charging, VGA output, Audio out, and USB. I haven't tested DVI, microphone port, or ethernet yet on the dock, but I'm assuming they work since everything else does. I was astounded when I found out it did.

Alright, I think that's enough for one post. Thanks for your help!

I'm needing some help getting OSX10.8 to even start installing unto my T61, I have successfully gotten 10.7 many many times and am currently using it. I got it to even run the full client update from 10.7 to 10.7.5 once ... can't seem to be able to update again.

To load up and start installer on OSX10.7 I pass the options of "-v npci=0x2000 (and0x3000) GraphicsEnabler=No cpus=1" and it starts up every time and runs installer and completes fine. All I have ever gotten with OSX10.8 is reboots, on both my x200 and t61, I have created many different types of installers (unibeast, myhack, raw + chameleon, etc) with no luck whatsoever.

I have tried redownloading sources, recreating USB drives (purchased a new one) all sorts of different switches to boot up and still the same rebooting and rebooting...

I would REALLY love to be using 10.8x on my T61 and I have read many many successful stories, I would like the same.

Hm, I would try installing myHack and using my Extras folder on the installation medium. If that doesn't work, put all my Kexts that go into /S/L/E to /S/L/E on the installation disk- Sorry, I probably won't be able to assist you further. I used an existing 10.8 installation and modified it to work with the T61.

unbehagen wrote:No, I tried editing the DSDT to achieve that, but to no avail. I also tried editing the forked VoodooPS2Controller, but those key combinations do not seem to produce any key code. And I have yet to figure out how to react to ACPI events on OS X. There is one more DSDT edit that I want to try: from the Qxx method for Fn-Home and Fn-End I will call the methods I added for native brightness slider. Right now, I don't have a lot of time on my hands, but when my procrastination phase starts again, this will be the first thing on my todo list.

Any luck yet with the FN keys for brightness? I've tried various DSDT edits with no luck.

Also, do you ever notice that on battery power, the CPU throttling is sometimes "incorrect"? Like on battery, I will try to do something CPU intensive, but the CPU will stay underclocked and run very sluggish? I don't notice this when plugged in. I extracted my SSDT tables from Windows and this helped a bit, but not completely.

I'm using Macbook5,1 SMBios by the way.

CoBrA2168 wrote: Any luck yet with the FN keys for brightness? I've tried various DSDT edits with no luck.

no, not yet.

CoBrA2168 wrote: Like on battery, I will try to do something CPU intensive, but the CPU will stay underclocked and run very sluggish? I don't notice this when plugged in.

Please take a look at your BIOS speedstep settings, set everything to automatic. This did the trick for me.

unbehagen wrote: Please take a look at your BIOS speedstep settings, set everything to automatic. This did the trick for me.

Thanks for the quick answer. I will check my BIOS settings later tonight.

One more question - are you using SSDT tables (i.e. "DropSSDT" in Chameleon) or simply using the C and P states generated by Chameleon (i.e. "Generate P-States" and "Generate C-States" in Chameleon)?

Thanks!

CoBrA2168 wrote: One more question - are you using SSDT tables (i.e. "DropSSDT" in Chameleon) or simply using the C and P states generated by Chameleon (i.e. "Generate P-States" and "Generate C-States" in Chameleon)?

None of that. DropSSDT doesn't seem to make a difference with this DSDT and Generate C-States/Generate P-States are disabled. I followed some of the hints from other DSDT guides. I don't want to spread misinformation here, but I believe it started working after I got AppleLPC to load? Sorry, I can't remember. The secret must be hidden somewhere in the DSDT.

unbehagen wrote:None of that. DropSSDT doesn't seem to make a difference with this DSDT and Generate C-States/Generate P-States are disabled. I followed some of the hints from other DSDT guides. I don't want to spread misinformation here, but I believe it started working after I got AppleLPC to load? Sorry, I can't remember. The secret must be hidden somewhere in the DSDT.

Hmm...interesting. So I took your suggestion and made the changes in BIOS (from default, I had to change the Battery mode to "Automatic" and also another option to use "maximum performance" under battery) I also removed my SSDT tables, and got rid of the DropSSDT option in my boot plist. This seems to fix any issues I was having with under-throttling on battery mode! For reference, I'm still using the MacBook5,1 SMBios.

The last CPU issue I seem to have is the fact that it's being recognized as a T9300 @ 2.3Ghz (my CPU is a T9500 @ 2.5 Ghz). Not sure if this is a cosmetic thing, or if it's actually running that slow. This is a problem for another thread (unless you have an answer of course!)

Oh yeah, and the Fn keys. I'm going to try some things this weekend with the DSDT and will report back.

Hi. I am very interested in your post and am also wanting to install OS X 10.8.3 onto my Thinkpad T61 with nvidia quadro.

I haven't tried installing OS X in a very long time. The last time I did it, it was probably 2008 or so. Sound and graphics drivers were not working.

I saw that you responded to Yeppers saying that you used an existing install of 10.8. What did you mean? You had it installed under a different laptop and then put it into the thinkpad?

I'm looking for a way to install OS X 10.8 onto the Thinkpad. Any links or references to guides would be helpful.

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Ok. I found some starting location. I'll update this to inform you how well your drivers work once I reach a point where mountain lion is installed.

Actually, I used an existing desktop installation. Just cloned the drive, restored vanilla /S/L/E and then replaced /S/L/E and /Extra with something more suitable step by step. I believe I had the install disk running as well on a T61.

yeppers wrote:I'm needing some help getting OSX10.8 to even start installing unto my T61, I have successfully gotten 10.7 many many times and am currently using it. I got it to even run the full client update from 10.7 to 10.7.5 once ... can't seem to be able to update again.

To load up and start installer on OSX10.7 I pass the options of "-v npci=0x2000 (and0x3000) GraphicsEnabler=No cpus=1" and it starts up every time and runs installer and completes fine. All I have ever gotten with OSX10.8 is reboots, on both my x200 and t61, I have created many different types of installers (unibeast, myhack, raw + chameleon, etc) with no luck whatsoever.

I have tried redownloading sources, recreating USB drives (purchased a new one) all sorts of different switches to boot up and still the same rebooting and rebooting...

I would REALLY love to be using 10.8x on my T61 and I have read many many successful stories, I would like the same.

Hi Yeppers, I have successfully installed OSX 10.8.3 on my Thinkpad T61 (Product ID 7662CTO, 14.1", Nvidia 140m, 1440x900, Core2Duo T8300 2.4 GHz. I still have things to fix (ultranav, battery icon, bluetooth (?). For the most part, it runs with graphics acceleration.

I used a real mac to install Mountain Lion on a USB Drive via MyHack. I used the boot option "cpus=1" to be able to boot into and install 10.8.3. I partitioned my drive to be GUID with 2 partitions. Towards the end, myHack will prompt you to install Extras and delete Kexts. I chose Generic and only deleted the first Kext (the first time I deleted all three and my Thinkpad froze up).

This would allow me a fairly bootable state for OS X 10.8.3.

I then installed some of the attached files from unbehagen. I think at least the GFX drivers and Sound works for me. I will investigate further later on. I'll look into editing some of the files for my specific machine. Sleep is broken (and I don't plan to fix that.)


Weird. Reading your post again, you were able to install OS X, but not able to boot into it. Have you tried formatting the whole drive GUID?

Hello again people, it seems that I enabled the following in my T61 BIOS and I got 10.8.3 to boot up and install (read about it in another post) along with these boot up options "-v cpus=1 npci=0x2000".

Select F1 when booting up to goto into Thinkpad BIOS and into > Security > Memory Protection > Execution Prevention [Enabled] in ThinkPad Setup .

I used the same boot options to fire it up and configured some things before I installed the kexts from unbehagen's 10.8.3 setup on T61. The PS2controller kext isn't working with my pointing stick or upper mouse buttons, I have another here somewhere that is. Good new so far.

Hey there, it's me again.

I decided to pick up a T61 with the Nvidia NVS 140m graphics so that I can run ML natively in 64-bit. I've tried using a combination of your kexts/guide along with some of the stuff I have.

There are a few issues I'm running into, that I'm hoping you could provide some guidance on. First of all, how did you get brightness working on you DSDT? With the X3100 graphics, all we needed to do was add "PLNF" device. That simply doesn't work on this graphics. However, if I use your DSDT, I get the brightness slider. I can't figure out what is in your DSDT that is missing from mine that enables this.

Also, do you have any issues with the SD card reader freezing the mouse after inserting an SD card? also, it doesn't seem to actually read the SD card.

Finally my sleep mode is not working, but I think it could be related to my video issues. Thanks again for your guide, and especially the AGPM - that helped a lot!

EDIT: I fixed the problem regarding brightness (I was putting the added section in VID in the wrong section). This also fixed sleep! Also, with this setting, I notice that the GPU will clock down to 168Mhz, and under load go up to 400Mhz. This makes it run much cooler, however graphics will lag a bit before getting smooth (i.e. using Launchpad). Do you notice that? If I add GraphicsEnabler=Yes to my boot.plist, this goes away, but the GPU stays at 275Mhz, making it run VERY hot even at idle.

Still having issues with the SD card reader too.

EDIT 2: I forgot to mention, that when I was going through your DSDT, I noticed that your USB sections are bit funky. It seems you've completely removed the PSW methods. Instead, use this patch with those sections untouched: http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/ ... id-eg-usb/ This will make sure that sleep works every time, and all USB will work when you come back from sleep. It should auto remount drives too.

If sleep no longer works, post the DSDT here and I'll fix that

Using unbehagen's work (THANK YOU!!!), & kexts, I installed MAC OSX 10.8.3 on my Thinkpad T61p (6547 AK7) Core 2 Duo T7500 / 2.2 GHz, 4GB ram, 250GB HDD, NVIDIA Quadro FX 570M 256 MB. I installed the white-list patched bios and a Broadcom WiFi card - which works like a charm.

Things that work:
1. Firewire
2. Wifi and Ethernet connectors
3. GPU QE/CI - used iMovie - very fast.
4. Volume, Sleep and Screen brightness all work.
5. Fingerprint scanner (I really like TrueSuite)
6. iMessage in Voice Dictation work well.
7. Trackpad works, but not the Trackpoint
8. Ultra Bay works but as a ATA drive not a Serial ATA - (patched bios)
9. SD Card works, though the light is on all the time.


I am very satisfied how it works, though a number of things don't work yet. This is a list of issues I need to resolve.

1. Sleep only works with Sleepenabler installed, otherwise it hangs and I get a "Corrupt Image" on reboot.
2. Using the Sleepenabler.kext, my laptop cycles 3 to 5 times before finally going to sleep.
3. When coming out of Sleep, the microphone and Bluetooth no longer work until reboot.
4. Plug in microphone won't work.
5. CARDBUS slot is not recognized. Not a high priority.
6. I am concerned about heat related issues. The T61p has a history of heat problems with the nVidia GPU. I had to replace the motherboard last fall.
7. The HWMonitor shows the GPU2 running between 145 to 160F - then I hit the turbo
8. The System will not SHUTDOWN, it just goes through the restart sequence and I have to manually hold the button until shutoff.

Any ideas will be most welcome. BTW, I upgraded to 10.8.4 via the App Store -- no problems.

CoBrA2168 wrote:Hey there, it's me again.

I decided to pick up a T61 with the Nvidia NVS 140m graphics so that I can run ML natively in 64-bit. I've tried using a combination of your kexts/guide along with some of the stuff I have.

There are a few issues I'm running into, that I'm hoping you could provide some guidance on. First of all, how did you get brightness working on you DSDT? With the X3100 graphics, all we needed to do was add "PLNF" device. That simply doesn't work on this graphics. However, if I use your DSDT, I get the brightness slider. I can't figure out what is in your DSDT that is missing from mine that enables this.

Also, do you have any issues with the SD card reader freezing the mouse after inserting an SD card? also, it doesn't seem to actually read the SD card.

Finally my sleep mode is not working, but I think it could be related to my video issues. Thanks again for your guide, and especially the AGPM - that helped a lot!

EDIT: I fixed the problem regarding brightness (I was putting the added section in VID in the wrong section). This also fixed sleep! Also, with this setting, I notice that the GPU will clock down to 168Mhz, and under load go up to 400Mhz. This makes it run much cooler, however graphics will lag a bit before getting smooth (i.e. using Launchpad). Do you notice that? If I add GraphicsEnabler=Yes to my boot.plist, this goes away, but the GPU stays at 275Mhz, making it run VERY hot even at idle.

Still having issues with the SD card reader too.

EDIT 2: I forgot to mention, that when I was going through your DSDT, I noticed that your USB sections are bit funky. It seems you've completely removed the PSW methods. Instead, use this patch with those sections untouched: http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/ ... id-eg-usb/ This will make sure that sleep works every time, and all USB will work when you come back from sleep. It should auto remount drives too.

If sleep no longer works, post the DSDT here and I'll fix that

CoBrA2168,
Can you post your DSDT? I've been beating my head against the wall trying to get sleep to work.

Or can you provide the steps you used to get sleep to work?

Thank you,

-Pete

mirtec001 wrote:
CoBrA2168,
Can you post your DSDT? I've been beating my head against the wall trying to get sleep to work.

Or can you provide the steps you used to get sleep to work?

Thank you,

-Pete

It's not recommended to use another person's DSDT, but here's mine for this system: http://www.mediafire.com/download/cbopx ... 10.8.3.zip

I'd be willing to help you fix sleep manually using your own DSDT. First off, what is "not working" with sleep? Does it crash? Or wake itself automatically? Let's start from there, and then I can show you which edits you need in the DSDT to get it working (hint: it deals with making sure the USB ports are not being powered during sleep mode).

Right now the screen goes black and the moon will blink. There's no waking it up from there. Where should I start looking to fix it?

mirtec001 wrote:Right now the screen goes black and the moon will blink. There's no waking it up from there. Where should I start looking to fix it?

Try running this in Terminal: sudo pmset -a hibernatemode 0

Then sleep. It will likely crash again. Restart and then try it again.

CoBrA2168 wrote:
Try running this in Terminal: sudo pmset -a hibernatemode 0

Then sleep. It will likely crash again. Restart and then try it again.

Tried it twice and it crashed both times. Where can I go from here?

EDIT: It plays a two tone sound before it locks up and the fan keep running. I hope this helps.

mirtec001 wrote:
Tried it twice and it crashed both times. Where can I go from here?

EDIT: It plays a two tone sound before it locks up and the fan keep running. I hope this helps.

Which SMBios are you using? Also are you using someone's DSDT?

I've found that the SMBios and DSDT both play a major role in getting sleep working properly.

EDIT: Would be best to take this to Skype or something. Then once we get a solution, we post it here, so we don't clutter.

Good point. PM me with your details and we'll try to set something up.

Any update on getting sleep working?

To get sleep working, try changing some of the settings in the BIOS if you haven't already. I don't have time to look up the correct settings right now, but if I remember correctly, the setting for the modem is important for some reason - I think it has to be enabled. Some of the other device settings might play a role, too. Also set your thermal management to automatic.

Updating to 10.8.4 (from .2) seemed to do the trick. Now the only thing I have left is trying to get usb working after sleep. I have a usb wifi adapter. It works when booting, and can shutdown fine, but devices arent recognized after awaking from sleep.
Any ideas how to get usb devices recognized after sleep?
Thanks