Mavericks 10.9 on a T61(p)

[Sieglinde Festkochend]

Thank you very much, jzhang18

Best regards
Sieglinde Festkochend

[jzhang18]

Thank you very much, jzhang18

Best regards
Sieglinde Festkochend

Could you test new boot loader: http://yaodi.zzl.org/boot and post your bdmesg?
(It should correct wrong T9500 frequency to 2.6Ghz)

[meetpatty]

I am currently running 10.9.1 with Madara-san's Extras on a T61p (Big thanks btw). Currently having issues with the fan, once the fan is on it will not turn off. I have tried a few fan control utilities without success (fan control and fmcfancontrol). Any suggestions?

[dev_null]

Big thanks to all of you guys for the great work you're doing here! Thanks to you I'm now running OS X 10.9.2 on my beloved T61. Everything works as advertised apart from one annoyance ... sleep. I've tried every single DSDT file I could get my hands on but sadly sleep works on neither.

My spec is T61 14.1" widescreen, 1440x900 nVidia nv140 128MB, Core2Duo T7100, 4GB RAM. When I close the lid laptop appears to be entering sleep mode but it never actually manages it - the power is on and CPU fan is spinning. When I open the lid, screen is off and nothing happens. At this point I need to force the machine off and start it again.

One observation I made is that when entering sleep mode the "half moon" LED is not blinking at all when DSDT files from this thread are used. If I boot my system with DSDT=no and try to enter sleep mode the "half moon" LED is blinking but CPU fan and power stays on. Would you have any suggestions on what could I do to fix that?

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Cheers,
/dev/null

[Sieglinde Festkochend]

Could you test new boot loader: http://yaodi.zzl.org/boot and post your bdmesg?
(It should correct wrong T9500 frequency to 2.6Ghz)

Chameleon 2.2svn (svn-r2362) [2014-01-30 20:18:31]
msr(486): ia32_perf_stat 0x06000e29
IDA is detected as enabled in BIOS
We disable IDA during Chameleon booting...
Correct wrong FSB frequency due to IDA
max: 14 current: 14
CPU: Brand String: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU T9500 @ 2.60GHz
CPU: Vendor/Family/ExtFamily: 0x756e6547/0x6/0x0
CPU: Model/ExtModel/Stepping: 0x17/0x1/0x6
CPU: MaxCoef/CurrCoef: 0xe/0xe
CPU: MaxDiv/CurrDiv: 0x0/0x0
CPU: TSCFreq: 2593MHz
CPU: FSBFreq: 199MHz
CPU: CPUFreq: 2593MHz

HWMonitor says 2,59 GHz
Geekbench 2.x goes up to 2987

so the result is OK, but multiplication 14x ist not OK. CPU-Z with windows: FSB must be 199,5 MHz 13x 2593,4Mhz

maybe this is a "cosmetic" problem

best regards
Sieglinde Festkochend

[Sieglinde Festkochend]

Big thanks to all of you guys for the great work you're doing here! Thanks to you I'm now running OS X 10.9.2 on my beloved T61. Everything works as advertised apart from one annoyance ... sleep. I've tried every single DSDT file I could get my hands on but sadly sleep works on neither.
/dev/null

Sleep is not working with 10.9.2.
You have to go pack to 10.9.1. if you want to use sleep

for details read this tread once more, you will find an information on page 7: "patched AppleACPIPlatform.kext"

[dev_null]

Yes, I saw that post. I'm particularly interested in this line:

with vanilla AppleACPIPlatform.kext in 10.9.2, sleeping works, but wake up with dead USB.

I might have read it incorrectly but my understanding is that sleep does work in 10.9.2 (for certain definition of word "work") but on wake up USB is dead. It would be good enough for me. Sadly I'm unable to reproduce this behaviour with DSDT published in this thread.

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Cheers,
/dev/null

[jzhang18]

Chameleon 2.2svn (svn-r2362) [2014-01-30 20:18:31]
msr(486): ia32_perf_stat 0x06000e29
IDA is detected as enabled in BIOS
We disable IDA during Chameleon booting...
Correct wrong FSB frequency due to IDA
max: 14 current: 14
CPU: Brand String: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU T9500 @ 2.60GHz
CPU: Vendor/Family/ExtFamily: 0x756e6547/0x6/0x0
CPU: Model/ExtModel/Stepping: 0x17/0x1/0x6
CPU: MaxCoef/CurrCoef: 0xe/0xe
CPU: MaxDiv/CurrDiv: 0x0/0x0
CPU: TSCFreq: 2593MHz
CPU: FSBFreq: 199MHz
CPU: CPUFreq: 2593MHz

HWMonitor says 2,59 GHz
Geekbench 2.x goes up to 2987

so the result is OK, but multiplication 14x ist not OK. CPU-Z with windows: FSB must be 199,5 MHz 13x 2593,4Mhz

maybe this is a "cosmetic" problem

best regards
Sieglinde Festkochend

Everything is working as expected, I show multiplier "14x" on purpose, I can easily calculate multiplier which I modified. so I decided to show original one before modification which you see as 14x. it does not affect anything afterward, just pure informative message. - no worry about it. if you want everything looks consistently, I can update "boot" to show the modified value 13x.

[jzhang18]

Yes, I saw that post. I'm particularly interested in this line:

with vanilla AppleACPIPlatform.kext in 10.9.2, sleeping works, but wake up with dead USB.

I might have read it incorrectly but my understanding is that sleep does work in 10.9.2 (for certain definition of word "work") but on wake up USB is dead. It would be good enough for me. Sadly I'm unable to reproduce this behaviour with DSDT published in this thread.

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Cheers,
/dev/null

Yes, you can reproduce it by these steps:
1. after you apply 10.9.2 patch, you see new version of vanilla AppleACPIPlatform.kext in S/L/E
2. delete your AppleACPIPlatform.kext from E/E (backup it)
3. Run myFix, Full Fix on your \
4. Reboot and Test sleep. - you will find sleep works and wake-up with dead USB.
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5. Put your old AppleACPIPlatform.kext into E/E again.
6. Run myFix, Full Fix on your \
7. Delete vanilla AppleACPIPlatform.kext from S/L/E (backup it in case someday you still need it)
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You have a stable 10.9.2 , but sleeping does not work. restore back to start point

[Sieglinde Festkochend]

Everything is working as expected, I show multiplier "14x" on purpose, I can easily calculate multiplier which I modified. so I decided to show original one before modification which you see as 14x. it does not affect anything afterward, just pure informative message. - no worry about it. if you want everything looks consistently, I can update "boot" to show the modified value 13x.

Thank you very much, no need to update. Same results of cpu-tests (Geekbench) in windows and Mac OS, so the "14" is not a really problem. very good work!

Next question: I am astonished about the results of openGL: Cinebench 15 nVidia GT640 Windows with 44 fps and Mac OS with 33 fps. Maybe it´s the powermanagement? Same differences with onboard FX 570M in percent. opencl (Luxmark) is even the same problem: Win/Mac 1688/1267

[jzhang18]

Next question: I am astonished about the results of openGL: Cinebench 15 nVidia GT640 Windows with 44 fps and Mac OS with 33 fps. Maybe it´s the powermanagement? Same differences with onboard FX 570M in percent. opencl (Luxmark) is even the same problem: Win/Mac 1688/1267

That is pretty common "issue" in Mac world with openGL, Apple focus on its own standard -OpenCL, which becomes another industry standard to replace OpenGL. OpenGL is more hardware oriented implementation. When Apple integrates OpenGL feature with Mavericks, it chose a conservative (stable) way to do it. Apple has no idea about Mavericks will run on AMD, Nvidia or Intel Graphics. it needs to guarantee working on all. On Windows side, Microsoft does not know either if Windows will run on AMD, Nvidia or Intel Graphics, but AMD, Nvidia or Intel will supply their own software (driver) for their graphics card to end-user with MS Windows which (the driver) also includes OpenGL functions.

That is the reason you almost always get high OpenGL benchmark on Windows than on MAC OSX. no matter with AMD, Nvidia or Intel graphics card.

[Sieglinde Festkochend]

Next question: I am astonished about the results of openGL: Cinebench 15 nVidia GT640 Windows with 44 fps and Mac OS with 33 fps. Maybe it´s the powermanagement? Same differences with onboard FX 570M in percent. opencl (Luxmark) is even the same problem: Win/Mac 1688/1267

That is pretty common "issue" in Mac world with openGL, Apple focus on its own standard -OpenCL, which becomes another industry standard to replace OpenGL. OpenGL is more hardware oriented implementation. When Apple integrates OpenGL feature with Mavericks, it chose a conservative (stable) way to do it. Apple has no idea about Mavericks will run on AMD, Nvidia or Intel Graphics. it needs to guarantee working on all. On Windows side, Microsoft does not know either if Windows will run on AMD, Nvidia or Intel Graphics, but AMD, Nvidia or Intel will supply their own software (driver) for their graphics card to end-user with MS Windows which (the driver) also includes OpenGL functions.

That is the reason you almost always get high OpenGL benchmark on Windows than on MAC OSX. no matter with AMD, Nvidia or Intel graphics card.

Okay, but with Luxmark, which is using OpenCL, it´s just the same: Windows is 1,3x faster

[jzhang18]

Okay, but with Luxmark, which is using OpenCL, it´s just the same: Windows is 1,3x faster

Even OpenCL standard comes from Apple. To utilize graphics hardware feature. Apple can never beat NVidia for Nvidia Graphics Card, AMD if using AMD Graphics card, or Intel.
All Nvidia, AMD and Intel latest drivers support both OpenGL and OpenCL.
Unless someday Apple allows those companies to support their products in MAC OSX which is almost impossible.
So for gaming purpose, Windows is the winner (actually those Graphics Card Vendors are winners). But Windows itself does not depend too much on GPU, almost totally on CPU. so for regular usage. MAC OSX is winner. feel faster than Windows because it balance the load across both CPU and GPU.

[reZ]

Hi everyone,

This seems like a good thread.

I currently have a T61p and looking to experiment with OSX on it.

I've also read that Intel Wireless cards are not compatible with OSX, what internal cards does everyone recommend to upgrade to?


Cheers,
John

[jzhang18]

I've also read that Intel Wireless cards are not compatible with OSX, what internal cards does everyone recommend to upgrade to?

Full-Size:
APPLE AirPort Extreme Atheros AR5BXB112 Dual-Band (The best with long range signal, need 3 connectors)
Broadcom 4322AGN BCM94322MC bcm4322 802.11agn dual band

Half-Size:
Dell DW1510 Half Mini PCI-E Wireles ABGN BCM94322HM8L dual band (firmware can be easily flushed to Apple Brand with Ubuntu Linux Live CD)
Dell DW1515 AR9280 Wireless Wlan N Half Mini pci-e Card dual band
AzureWave/Atheros AW-NE773 AR5BHB92 WiFi Mini-PCI-E dual band

I own above 5 kinds of Mavericks compatible wifi card, $7 - $20 from eBay. they all work great. if you have 3x3 antenna on your T61p. The first one is the best! (I can see a long list of APs around me)

[manu89ft]

Has anyone tried osx 10.9.3?

[jzhang18]

Has anyone tried osx 10.9.3?

No major problem to update online directly. minor issue - battery cannot be recognized due to new AppleACPIPlatform.kext in S/L/E from 10.9.3

Running 10.9.3 on my T61p since last night, I hope Multibeast will release a patched AppleAcpiplatform.kext for 10.9.3

[CoBrA2168]

Thank you very much, jzhang18

Best regards
Sieglinde Festkochend

Could you test new boot loader: http://yaodi.zzl.org/boot and post your bdmesg?
(It should correct wrong T9500 frequency to 2.6Ghz)

Is it recommended for users of the T9300 also upgrade to this bootloader? I'm using the one you posted a few pages back.

[jzhang18]

Is it recommended for users of the T9300 also upgrade to this bootloader? I'm using the one you posted a few pages back.

Not necessary, I own T9300 - T61 (14 inch model), so I tested the boot loader by myself at the beginning when I publish it.
I have overwritten the old link with the new boot loader (supporting T9500 now, but no enhancement for T9300).

[topan]

Hi, everybody, i'm now on OS X 10.9.2 with madara-san package + jzhang boot file. Thanks so much to both of you. =)
I have couples of issue here. The processor is T8100 and showed as 2.093 GHz instead of 2.1 GHz. Is it normal? Then, my T61 produces cracky sound while scrolling. How to fix it? Bluetooth is also doesn't work. The bluetooth is actually from T60p, because my unit is a frankenpad. Is that the problem? Or i have to use other kext? Which one is it? Then about the display (nvs 140m 128mb), it is sometimes laggy while showing animation like transition to launchpad or desktop or app windows using hot corner or keyboard shortcut. Also while typing on MS PowerPoint, the characters I type is typed slowly on the screen. About CPU temperature, it is about 48-52 Celcius most of the time while browsing and watching youtube, is that normal or too high? My geekbench 64bit multicore score is 2289, it is far from jhzang's score. Did I have mistaken something so it can't get score as high as jzhang's score? Or it is a good score for T8100, nvs 140m 128mb, Sata 2 SSD, and 8GB RAM?

Thanks guys. =)

[jzhang18]

Hi, everybody, i'm now on OS X 10.9.2 with madara-san package + jzhang boot file. Thanks so much to both of you. =)
I have couples of issue here. The processor is T8100 and showed as 2.093 GHz instead of 2.1 GHz. Is it normal? Then, my T61 produces cracky sound while scrolling. How to fix it? Bluetooth is also doesn't work. The bluetooth is actually from T60p, because my unit is a frankenpad. Is that the problem? Or i have to use other kext? Which one is it? Then about the display (nvs 140m 128mb), it is sometimes laggy while showing animation like transition to launchpad or desktop or app windows using hot corner or keyboard shortcut. Also while typing on MS PowerPoint, the characters I type is typed slowly on the screen. About CPU temperature, it is about 48-52 Celcius most of the time while browsing and watching youtube, is that normal or too high? My geekbench 64bit multicore score is 2289, it is far from jhzang's score. Did I have mistaken something so it can't get score as high as jzhang's score? Or it is a good score for T8100, nvs 140m 128mb, Sata 2 SSD, and 8GB R
Thanks guys. =)

1.The processor is T8100 and showed as 2.093 GHz instead of 2.1 GHz. Is it normal?
Absolutely correct. The same as front bus: 199Mhz instead of 200Mhz, 2.093Ghz is just rounded as 2.1Ghz
2.my T61 produces cracky sound while scrolling. How to fix it?
Have you tried to install my latest boot loader: http://yaodi.zzl.org/boot. with the latest VoodooHDA?
3.it is sometimes laggy while showing animation like transition to launchpad or desktop or app windows using hot corner or keyboard shortcut.
Try to disable BeamSync from this: It improves a lot for Windows Animation
http://www.tonymacx86.com/customization ... tly-2.html
4.About CPU temperature, it is about 48-52 Celcius most of the time while browsing and watching youtube,
A little bit higher, 35-47 Celcius is my expectation. clean dust of CPU cooling fan (easy), if possible, replace thermal compound (1 hour careful job)
5.Bluetooth doesn't work either.
Download Ubuntu 12.0.4 (any version) Desktop ISO, burn into a DVD. boot from it, you do not need to install it, select "Try it" -- run it as a live CD. once Ubuntu is running on your laptop. Ctrl +Alt + T to open terminal window, type these commands without quotes:
"rfkill unblock all"
"sudo hciconfig hci0 up"
"sudo hciconfig hci0 reset"
Next time, when you boot into Mavericks, Bluetooth is on.

I owned T8100 X61 machine, Lion 10.7.3 is running just fine on my other 2 X61 (T8300) and X61 Tablet (L7500). But it is hard to boot on X61 with T8100 sometime. Intel T8100 is the most tricky (unstable) CPU with OSX. But Windows 8.1 and Ubuntu 14.04LTS runs on T8100 without any issue.

[CoBrA2168]

Is it recommended for users of the T9300 also upgrade to this bootloader? I'm using the one you posted a few pages back.

Not necessary, I own T9300 - T61 (14 inch model), so I tested the boot loader by myself at the beginning when I publish it.
I have overwritten the old link with the new boot loader (supporting T9500 now, but no enhancement for T9300).

Thanks for the quick response. That's good to know.

In regards to your comment above about temperature, my T61 (w/X3100 graphics) idles around 48-50 C and will hit 80-90 on load. I've already taken it apart and applied AS5 to try to reduce these temps, but it didn't help.

Granted, I'm running a T9300 which is a more powerful processor.

[topan]

Wow, Jzhang, thanks for your fast response. I will do all of your advices.

About the processor, I've just ordered a T9500 for replacement of the T8100. I will tell about the improvement gain later, after I replace the processor and do Jzhang's advices of course.

ps: Sorry for my bad english. English is not my native language.

[JaavrOS]

I've also read that Intel Wireless cards are not compatible with OSX, what internal cards does everyone recommend to upgrade to?

Full-Size:
APPLE AirPort Extreme Atheros AR5BXB112 Dual-Band (The best with long range signal, need 3 connectors)
Broadcom 4322AGN BCM94322MC bcm4322 802.11agn dual band

Half-Size:
Dell DW1510 Half Mini PCI-E Wireles ABGN BCM94322HM8L dual band (firmware can be easily flushed to Apple Brand with Ubuntu Linux Live CD)
Dell DW1515 AR9280 Wireless Wlan N Half Mini pci-e Card dual band
AzureWave/Atheros AW-NE773 AR5BHB92 WiFi Mini-PCI-E dual band

I own above 5 kinds of Mavericks compatible wifi card, $7 - $20 from eBay. they all work great. if you have 3x3 antenna on your T61p. The first one is the best! (I can see a long list of APs around me)

Thanks, that's a nice WIFI card list. Just wanted to add, don't forget to flash your bios with Middleton Bios before you install any of those wifi cards. It will remove the "whitelist".

Also wondering, what's the deal with 10.9.3? You mentioned that battery meter is still broken? That's not a minor issue... do we still have to stay on 10.9.1 to have a fully functioning hack?

Thanks!

[jzhang18]

In regards to your comment above about temperature, my T61 (w/X3100 graphics) idles around 48-50 C and will hit 80-90 on load. I've already taken it apart and applied AS5 to try to reduce these temps, but it didn't help.

Very possible for CPU with integrated GPU. GPU seems always much hotter than CPU with MAC OSX. So if they are both inside one chip. no doubt about the temperature being going up a lot more.

---5/27/2014----
Tested Mavericks 10.9.3 with my T420 (Intel HD 3000 Integrated Graphics). Play StarCraft II:Wings of Liberty online for 2 hours, CPU: Intel i5-2520m (2.5Ghz). temperature went up 90+ °C always. Cooling fan keeps full speed spinning. that seems OK. The same behavior as MS Windows.

[jzhang18]

Also wondering, what's the deal with 10.9.3? You mentioned that battery meter is still broken? That's not a minor issue... do we still have to stay on 10.9.1 to have a fully functioning hack?

10.9.3 supports 4K monitor now. if you need to connect to an external 4K monitor(T61p graphics card cannot even handle 4K monitor). otherwise really not a big deal.
By the way, I removed new AppleACPIPlatform.kext from S/L/E in 10.9.3 (backup it). now battery is recognized. sleeping does not work, the same issue as 10.9.2.

Other news: sleeping is working on my X201 (Intel i5-540M), T410(Intel i5-560M), T420 (Intel i5 2520M) with the same AppleACPIPlatform.kext as T61(p) on Mavericks 10.9.1, 10.9.2, 10.9.3, but not with Intel T7x00, T8x00, T9x00 CPU.

[JaavrOS]

Yup, that's the same as issue as 10.9.2. You can either have battery meter workin, or sleep. So, think I'll stay with 10.9.1... don't have any 4K monitors anyway.

Thanks for the info.

Also wondering, what's the deal with 10.9.3? You mentioned that battery meter is still broken? That's not a minor issue... do we still have to stay on 10.9.1 to have a fully functioning hack?

10.9.3 supports 4K monitor now. if you need to connect to an external 4K monitor. otherwise really not a big deal.
By the way, I removed new AppleACPIPlatform.kext from S/L/E in 10.9.3 (backup it). now battery is recognized. sleeping does not work, the same issue as 10.9.2.

[Madara-san]

What if we put AppleACPIPlatform.kext from 10.9.1 to /S/L/E and leave the ACPI kext in E/E? Haven't tried this method, I am in a reinstall now and setting up a fully working config again in 10.9.1.

Sieglinde Festkochend: What did you modified in the DSDT to get working DVI on the dock? Just asking because I don't have a dock.

[Laberlohe]

'hoi!
At first I'd like to thank you for making the install of Mavericks on my Thinkpad such a pleasure.
But I'm possibly having an error with graphics power management - according to HWSensors the FX 570M stays constantly at 475/702 MHz. Is this related to the display resolution of 1920x1200?
Best regards

Edit: T61p 15" Type 6457-A26 with T7700, 4 GB RAM, FX570M 256MB, WUXGA, Firewire, SD card reader, 64 GB SSD. Installation was done with latest myHack and Madra-San's kext pack v2 (including the IDA corrected boot file). I tried all the DSDTs in the kext pack, but all result in the console message "kernel: [AGPM Controller] unknownPlatform" and a graphics card running constantly full power...

What if we put AppleACPIPlatform.kext from 10.9.1 to /S/L/E and leave the ACPI kext in E/E? Haven't tried this method, I am in a reinstall now and setting up a fully working config again in 10.9.1.

I don't think this will have any effect, because from 10.9.2 on all sleep related things are directly in the kernel itself and AppleACPIPlatform.kext is ignored - at least on my my two desktop Hacks.

[jzhang18]

Started from Mavericks 10.9.2, sleeping is only working for 1st gen i3,i5,i7, 2nd gen i3,i5,i7 (Sandy Bridge) and going forwards (Ivy Bridge, Haswell). Apple does not think too much of compatibility with old C2D processors - very reasonable result.
To my feeling, Mavericks sleeping code starts to use some new register bit which does not exist in old C2D processor.

I am wondering if someone owns an old C2D Apple MacBook (or Pro) with Mavericks installed can test sleeping function with 10.9.2 or 10.9.3