Resumé of my 10.4.8 installation on T60

[Nebzar]

Since I recently reordered and wrote down all the successful patches I found during the long activity of searching and trying various solutions, I hope to make a useful thing by posting a sort of guide, summarizing all the steps which led my T60 to be a quite usable (and fast) Mac OS X workstation. These infos (especially for video and pcmcia) are rather scattered through a lot of different threads on this and on the InsanelyMac (http://forum.insanelymac.com/) forum, so having all the instructions in a single place may be useful, at least for those of you which have a T60 similar to mine.

Please keep in mind that these solutions are strictly related to the specific components listed below, thus they may not be applicable for components with different Ven IDs or even Dev IDs.

Regards

Hardware

Thinkpad T60 2007-77G

Processor: Core Duo T2600 (2.16 GHz) Works out of the box, with both cores
Graphics: Ati Radeon Mobility X1400 (Ven ID=1002, Dev ID=7145) with 15" 1400x1050 FlexView Display See point 2) below
Audio: SoundMAX Integrated Digital HD Audio (VenID=11D4, DevID=1981) See point 3) below
Ethernet: Intel Pro/1000PL (Ven ID=8086, Dev ID=109A) Works out of the box
Wireless: Intel PRO/Wireless 3945ABG (Ven ID=8086, Dev ID=4227) Does not work, no solution for the time being
PCMCIA Cardbus Controller: TI PCI-1510 (Ven ID=104C, Dev ID=AC56) See point 4) below
Bluetooth: Hardware ID {95C7A0A0-3094-11D7-A202-00508B9D7D5A}\BTKRNL Works out of the box

1) Installation

1.1) Install from JaS 10.4.8 Intel Only SSE3 Only reseeded DVD

Select "Custom" installation, and among the JaS packages choose ONLY these to be installed:

Jas.10.4.8.Combo.Update
10.4.4.LoginWindow

1.2) After installation, BEFORE REBOOTING, launch Terminal and delete IOPCCardFamily.kext

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rm -R /Volumes/<YourBootVolume>/System/Library/Extensions/IOPCCardFamily.kext

If you don't remove this kext the boot process will produce a kernel panic and system won't boot, not even with the -s option.
Important: if your system reboots before you had the chance to delete that file, leave the cd inside and boot from there. As you get the menu bar, launch Terminal and type the above command from there.

1.3) Reboot

You should boot successfully into gui, with 1024x768 resolution.

2) Video fix
Hardware:
ATI Radeon Mobility X1400 (Ven ID=1002, Dev ID=7145)

2.1) Hardcode your native resolution (1400x1050 in my case)

Edit /System/Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/com.apple.Boot.plist, adding the following lines:

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<key>Boot Graphics</key>
<string>Yes</string>
<key>Graphics Mode</key>
<string>1400x1050x32</string>

Reboot. You should boot successfully into gui, with 1400x1050 resolution.

2.2) Get CI/QE support


Edit /System/Library/Extensions/ATIRadeonX1000.kext/Contents/Info.plist, adding Dev ID of your card (7145 for X1400)

Search for:

<key>IOPCIMatch</key>
<string>0x71461002 0x71421002 0x71091002 … </string>

Change to:

<key>IOPCIMatch</key>
<string>0x71451002</string>

2.3) Fix permissions and clear kext cache

As root, type in terminal window:

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chown -R root:wheel /System/Library/Extensions
chmod -R 755 /System/Library/Extensions
rm /System/Library/Extensions.mkext
rm /System/Library/Extensions.kextcache

2.4) Reboot

You should have native resolution and CI/QE support.
Note: as of now, installing ATIinject or Natit doesn't add anything more than CI/QE support. You won't get neither res switching nor dual screen support, so for the moment in my opinion it's useless to try them with the ATI Mobility X1400 (chances are that you easily end up with a black screen at boot...).

2.5) Fix mouse tearings

As soon as you get CI/QE support, you also get some annoying mouse tearings. This can mitigated by downloading and installing MouseLocator and an associated pointer image. Remember fo configure MouseLocator as “always on”.

Links and instructions are here:

http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php? ... st&p=89236

3) Audio fix (for audio out only)
Hardware:
SoundMAX Integrated Digital HD Audio (Ven ID=11D4, Dev ID=1981)
UUA bus for HD Audio (Ven ID=8086, Dev ID=27d8)

3.1) Delete /System/Library/Extensions/AppleHDA.kext

3.2) Download AzaliaAudio.pkg.zip

Grab the zip file from here (link is in first post):

http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showtopic=36520

Unzip it and install AzaliaAudio.pkg.

3.3) Fix permissions and clear kext cache
3.4) Reboot

You should have stereo audio out working.

4) PCMCIA fix
Hardware:
Cardbus Controller TI PCI-1510 (Ven ID=104C, Dev ID=AC56)

4.1) Download this set ot working kexts

Grab the Extensions.zip file posted by glitchman:

http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showtopic=36437

Unzip it, and copy all the kexts you obtain to:

/System/Library/Extensions

replacing the pre-existing ones.

4.2) Fix permissions and clear kext cache
4.3) Reboot

You should have the PC Card slot working properly.

5) Battery meter indicator fix

Download and install this PowerManagement.bundle. Download link and instructions here:

http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showtopic=14912

6) Useful files

Property list editor (to edit Info.plist files):

http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php? ... st&id=5288

Pacifist (to extract kexts and other files from installation packages):

http://www.macupdate.com/download.php/6812/Pacifist.dmg

[andyM]

Thanks for the writeup! I've been using Ubuntu on my T60 and it works great. I have been hoping/looking to switch to OS X in hopes of wireless support. Looks like I'll have to stick with Ubuntu and hope I can figure out my wireless issue.

Any idea why the 3945ABG is such a pain in anything besides Windows??

[Nebzar]

Any idea why the 3945ABG is such a pain in anything besides Windows??

As far as I understand, absolutely no Mac OS X driver exists for it

[SlayerX]

Great work man.
How does OSx86 work for you? Good performance? Is it "useable"?

I have a ATi X1300 graphic card, do you know what i need to do to get that one working in OSx86?

[andyM]

Ay!

The beauty of a laptop is wireless internet, so that's gonna make OS X a tough sell

Looks like I'll have to figure out wireless on Edgy.

I don't suppose you know if you can dual boot Linux/OS X?[/url]

[Nebzar]

Great work man.
How does OSx86 work for you? Good performance? Is it "useable"?

Thanks

Yes, it is REALLY fast and usable: my colleagues using real macs are surprised by its performance, which is definitely on par with that of a similarly cpu-equipped mac. The downside is, of course, the lack of consolidated solutions, thus it may be a little bit risky as a platform for day-to-day work...

I have a ATi X1300 graphic card, do you know what i need to do to get that one working in OSx86?

I am not completely sure, but the technique I listed for X1400 may be applicable to X1300 too, since chips have the same internal architecture, they just differ in speed (at least, this is what is being said on various posts on ATi video card problems).

I don't suppose you know if you can dual boot Linux/OS X?

Well, I don't have any direct experience on that, but there are various guides on InsanelyMac covering many different dual boot scenarios, among which if I remember correctly some are Linux-OSX.

Regards

[ms]

Thanks for the very nice tutorial, I will check it out on my T60p

[andyM]

Yes, thanks again!
I'll look into that dual boot when I have some free time and report back!

[SlayerX]

Hey again.
Im trying to install OSX86, but i get the panic exception even before the install.

I put the DVD in the drive, start up and all I get is a message that i have to restart the computer.

If i load the installer with -v i get an PANIC exception in IOPCCardFamily.kext.

Any ideas why? or how im gonna install it?

[kulivontot]

I am not completely sure, but the technique I listed for X1400 may be applicable to X1300 too, since chips have the same internal architecture, they just differ in speed (at least, this is what is being said on various posts on ATi video card problems).

To my knowledge, this assumption is correct since they're basically the same hardware... The only difference is that you would need to put in a different hardware ID instead of the one you listed. My x1300 is listed as MODEL ID = 0x7149...
So it would be

<key>IOPCIMatch</key>
<string>0x71491002 </string>

[Nebzar]

Hey again.
Im trying to install OSX86, but i get the panic exception even before the install.

I put the DVD in the drive, start up and all I get is a message that i have to restart the computer.

If i load the installer with -v i get an PANIC exception in IOPCCardFamily.kext.

Any ideas why? or how im gonna install it?

Ouch! This sounds really bad... since you obvoiusly can't delete IOPCCardFamily.kext from the installation cd.

The only workaround that comes to my mind could be (if it is possible) to disable the PC Card slot in bios: in this way Mac OS X shouldn't try to load the kext upon booting.

[SlayerX]

I solved it! Downloaded another DVD and now am in OSx86!

The sound is still a little bit strange... small sounds cause the speakers to sound strange but music/movies are ok...

[ceUs]

Is the PowerManagement fully working, including sleep?

[Nebzar]

I solved it! Downloaded another DVD and now am in OSx86!

The sound is still a little bit strange... small sounds cause the speakers to sound strange but music/movies are ok...

This depends on the kernel version you use. The one which comes with the dvd is an early one, if you upgrade to the latest one sound will be ok.

To upgrade, you must go here with an irc client:

irc://irc.macspeak.net

then, join channel #kernel

once in the channel, verify the messages, look for "kernelbot is up" or something similar. If it is, type:

!kernel

and you will receive two links for sse2 and sse3 latest kernel respectively; you can subsequently download the sse3 kernel and install it.

To install it simply unzip it, copy it to /mach_kernel and fix its owner and permissions as usual. Just to be safe, rename the old kernel to e.g. mach_kernel_old so, in case of troubles, you will be able to boot with the old one by passing

mach_kernel_old

as parameter at boot time.

Is the PowerManagement fully working, including sleep?

Unfortunately sleep is not working at all, this is related to incomplete support in the video driver.

Regards

[SlayerX]

Gonna check that kernel update later this week.

Have you guys seen that some dude almost ported an linux driver for the 3945ABG Wireless card?

http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showtopic=36976

Its currently on v.7 and need some work but it´s a great project and he´s making alot of progress. So hopefully soon we will have a 100% working driver for the 3945ABG, and then its good bye Windows Vista

[SlayerX]

The sound now works super!

About the graphics, is there any development in the scene?
Will the support for sleep ever come?

Does it support external displays?

[Nebzar]

Have you guys seen that some dude almost ported an linux driver for the 3945ABG Wireless card?

http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showtopic=36976

Its currently on v.7 and need some work but it´s a great project and he´s making alot of progress.

Great, tnx SlayerX (and I'm happy sound works now for you!).

Regarding wireless... did you understand which versions of IO80211Family.kext and Apple80211.framework should be used with version 0.8 of the 3945ABG driver? As I understand from this rather cryptic post of Javaloui:

you have to get the 10.4.5

the 10.4.6

and the 10.4.7

extract all files from 10.4.5 to a folder

overwrite with files from 10.4.6 and 10.4.7

this gives some work

better to use the files from 10.4.8 - extract only once and it's done

i've explain all this in previous posts

10.4.8 kexts should be ok for the driver, but I get a kernel panic instead, even if I manually kexload the iwi3945.kext after the system has successfully booted into gui...

Regards

[SlayerX]

Then im not the only one how thinks he´s strange.
He´s says different things in different posts.

But i think you need the files from 1.4.7

[Nebzar]

Right... judging from the posts, we are not alone either: many people have the panic problem it seems.

I tried both sets of kekts, from 10.4.7 and 10.4.8, reporting results here:

http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php? ... t&p=307437

Basically only combination which loads is 0.7 driver with 10.4.8 kexts...

I'll wait for more precise indications, let's hope they will come.

Regards

[SlayerX]

Im looking in to getting dual-screen support, or at least external display support.

The thing is that the Natit drivers give you the best solution, you get resolution change, screen flip, and the profiler can identify your card.
But then the internal display does not work...
So im looking for a way to get the Natit to support my Internal display too, or a simple you to change between Natit and not Natit on startup.

[Nebzar]

Im looking in to getting dual-screen support, or at least external display support.

Sorry i can't give you any help along this path: I don't have an external monitor to experiment with, so every time I managed to actually have Natit (and also ATIinject, for that matter) entering into play at boot time I was left with black LCD screen ...

Regards

[pezpaul]

First off, thanks for the concise guide to getting OSX working! The directions worked wonderfully, and I am up and running JaS 10.4.8 @ 1400x1050, wireless support (I have a Atheros/Thinkpad 802.11b/g card), sound, and the battery meter.

Unfortunately, I am having trouble with the CI/QE support--I modded the plist file to only have the dev id info for the x1400, but it's just not going.

Is there a thread on the InsanelyMac forums that anyone has (Nebzar?) bookmarked that has a discussion of getting this working?

Alternatively, is there a place to look up Ven ID and Dev ID? I'd assume they're the same as Nebzar's though...

My laptop is a 14'' T60, ATI x1400, Core 2 Duo, 1400x1050 etc...

[ms]

I am having the same prob. I found the device ID in Windows Hardware Manager.

VenID: 1002
DevID: 71D4
Rev: 00

But I don't know how to convert the hex Value into the format OSX uses... I have the fireGL5250

edit: or maybe you just have to enter it as it is here. will test it on the weekend.

[pezpaul]

Hrm, alright, nevermind, got it working! Had to refresh my kextcache and it worked. Good deal!

Thanks!

[ms]

What Code did you finally enter to get it working?

[Nebzar]

I am having the same prob. I found the device ID in Windows Hardware Manager.

VenID: 1002
DevID: 71D4
Rev: 00

But I don't know how to convert the hex Value into the format OSX uses... I have the fireGL5250

edit: or maybe you just have to enter it as it is here. will test it on the weekend.

No need to convert in hex, just enter the value with TexEdit in /System/Library/Extensions/ATIRadeonX1000.kext/Contents/Info.plist:

<key>IOPCIMatch</key>
<string>0x71D41002</string>

Data have to be converted only if their declared data type is:

<data>.........</data>

as (for example) is the case with the EDID data. In such a case it is mandatory to use Property List Editor, which takes care of hex conversion.

With the

<string>.........</string>

tag, instead, TextEdid can be used to handle the editing.

Regards

[SlayerX]

Hello, Nebzar i saw you where investigating allot with solutions for res. change and such.

Did you ever get it to work?
I just want res. change! =) ALL I EVERED ASKED FOR WAS RES CHANGE!!! AND WLAN... AND...

Did np_ ever release an AtiEFI?? I tried to use his LaptopDisplay.kext but i didnt help me at all...

[censored] i been at this EDID and Settings [censored] all day, gonna kill myself now but please post any progress for the afterlife.

Peace out ThinkPad bros

[Nebzar]

Hello, Nebzar i saw you where investigating allot with solutions for res. change and such.

Did you ever get it to work?

Unfortunately not I tried all solutions I was aware of, at no avail. Basically, one of two things happens: either nothing changes, or all I get is a black screen after loginWindow starts.

Did np_ ever release an AtiEFI?? I tried to use his LaptopDisplay.kext but i didnt help me at all...

Not yet, as far as I can see... but the hope is last thing to die! I'll certainly report here any news on the AtiEFI driver.

Regards

[SlayerX]

Ok, but did you ever get LaptopDisplay.kext to load properly? In -v i see that it loads in three steps but it doesn´t look a think different in System profiler. I just need to figure out where they set the display type to external in Natit, because they load and work great on an external display.

[Nebzar]

According to np_, the root of the problem grounds on the fact that real macs boot from EFI instead of bios, and many drivers get fundamental infos from there.

For this reason, I could never get mac os to load the display description file I created with the DisplayUtility made by np_. In fact, even if LaptopDisplay loads successfully, it can't do anything useful, since it receives infos on a "default" Apple display, not the actual one. Those infos are loaded by mac os at an early boot stage, they do not get overriden at a later moment and they constitute the base for all subsequent wrong ideas that mac os has about our graphics environment.

Regards