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10.6.X on X60/T60/X61 (CoreDuo, Core2Duo / GMA950, GMA3100)

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Re: 10.6.X on X60/T60/X61 (CoreDuo, Core2Duo / GMA950, GMA3100)

#421 Post by Anastasius » Thu Mar 24, 2011 3:47 pm

Unfortunately I was wrong the second time. The 10.6.7 update kills C-States and my processor is 10-12 degree hotter :(
But I managed to fix it (thanks to Time Machine). I replaced the following kexts inside System.kext (PlugIns):
AppleNMI.kext
ApplePlatformFamily.kext
BSDKernel.kext
BSDKernel6.0.kext

and cleared the cache. (If I replace only one of these the C-States don't work either, I had to replace all of them). Maybe it's my config, maybe it's Core2Duo. If someone is experiencing the same I can upload these kexts (taken from the previous Mac OSX)
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Re: 10.6.X on X60/T60/X61 (CoreDuo, Core2Duo / GMA950, GMA3100)

#422 Post by mightycrown » Thu Mar 24, 2011 5:08 pm

Anastasius wrote:Unfortunately I was wrong the second time. The 10.6.7 update kills C-States and my processor is 10-12 degree hotter :(
But I managed to fix it (thanks to Time Machine). I replaced the following kexts inside System.kext (PlugIns):
AppleNMI.kext
ApplePlatformFamily.kext
BSDKernel.kext
BSDKernel6.0.kext

and cleared the cache. (If I replace only one of these the C-States don't work either, I had to replace all of them). Maybe it's my config, maybe it's Core2Duo. If someone is experiencing the same I can upload these kexts (taken from the previous Mac OSX)
hey , I have a x61s and updated to 10.6.7. However I have not noticed anything wrong with Ctates. Is there a utility to monitor how often our machine resides at C3 C4?

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Re: 10.6.X on X60/T60/X61 (CoreDuo, Core2Duo / GMA950, GMA3100)

#423 Post by Anastasius » Thu Mar 24, 2011 9:16 pm

mightycrown wrote: hey , I have a x61s and updated to 10.6.7. However I have not noticed anything wrong with Ctates. Is there a utility to monitor how often our machine resides at C3 C4?
Do you measure your processor's temperature? I'm using iStat menus, modified by Silencer and DSDT patch for controlling and measuring fan speed. After the update the temperature doesn't go below 71 degree (Celsius) - the CPU heatsink temperature. After bringing back the kexts it's around 59-62 (as it was with 10.6.6). Can you also try running "ioreg -lw0 | grep CSTInfo" in terminal - does it say anything?
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Re: 10.6.X on X60/T60/X61 (CoreDuo, Core2Duo / GMA950, GMA3100)

#424 Post by mightycrown » Fri Mar 25, 2011 4:24 am

Hi. IOreg gave me "CSTInfo" = 19136773

Which means my x61s has Cstates. But what i m wondering is that how often our X61 resides C3 or C4 states. The temp has not changed dramatically like yours. I undervolt the cpu with coolbook so it runs below 56 if no heavy duty.
I will report back if i found anything. I checked ur CST section in DSDT, it recalls C1M3. I m not 100% sure if C1M3 should be the only method to return.

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Re: 10.6.X on X60/T60/X61 (CoreDuo, Core2Duo / GMA950, GMA3100)

#425 Post by crashnburn » Fri Mar 25, 2011 9:20 am

Anastasius - I am posting some questions / clarifications inline with your reply.. in RED.
crashnburn wrote:
Anastasius - Looks like I have the same X61 as you. Can you please advise what would be the best WAY to get going for me if I start to install Snow Leopard now?

10.6.3 Retail ? or other way?

What tweaks to apply in what order?
Anastasius wrote:
I used the Sebinouse's guide (using my customized DSDT and some kexts, which Sebinouse now includes in his package).

But the first and the hardest step - was replacing the internal Intel's Wi-Fi with supported Dell 1394. I had to modify it physically - opening tablet, getting out the WiFi card taping out the 20th pin - because my BIOS didn't like this idea. There are a lot of guides on replacing the card with the supported by MacOS. Or you can use an external USB WiFi adapter. After that step all went smooth and clean.

1) Installed from retail DVD (any Mac OS version will go, the newer the better - I don't recommend 10.6.0, it has the outdated SATA drivers which can cause kernel panic on start)
// Which version did you start with?

2) Rebooted from DVD and replaced all /S/L/E files etc., fixed boot sectors, applied patches....
/S/L/E .. ?? What are the S/L/E files? Is this all detailed out in Sebinhouse "Guide" at the start of this thread? Or something else beyond whats written? How does one do all of this..??

3) Rebooted into a fully working MacOSX61 :)
Nice! :) I am looking at ordering/ getting an Atheros card that works. Besides the wireless issues.. will the rest work for me? I might not get the card for a few weeks. Will popping it in later on be okay?

4*) I also created a prefPane panel for remapping the tablet and other non-standard keys. It works perfectly on my 7767 hardware, but there are reports, that it doesn't work for other hardware. It may work for you, if not, hopefully I will fix it soon
Is this mapping config a part of the Download Zip file linked at start of thread? Could you share it?

Then I wanted a dual boot with Windows 7, but it's another story, not quite straight... Though I don't remember the last time I booted into my Windows partition. Mac OS X is very stable and much more faster, convenient and reliable.
I need a dual boot with Win764. Question.. which should be installed first.. Mac OS Snow Leopard or Win7x64.. due to the partitioning and formatting issues?

ALSO:
I am going to start with 100GB Drive for starters on my X61T. What would you recommend as the Partition sizes & Partitions in which order? for..
- Mac OS SL + apps
- Win7x64 + apps
- Common Data for both
T61 8892-02U: 14.1"SXGA+/2.2C2D/4G/XP|Adv Mini Dock|30" Gateway XHD3000 WQXGA via Dual-link DVI
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Re: 10.6.X on X60/T60/X61 (CoreDuo, Core2Duo / GMA950, GMA3100)

#426 Post by Anastasius » Sat Mar 26, 2011 3:06 pm

mightycrown wrote:Hi. IOreg gave me "CSTInfo" = 19136773

Which means my x61s has Cstates. But what i m wondering is that how often our X61 resides C3 or C4 states. The temp has not changed dramatically like yours. I undervolt the cpu with coolbook so it runs below 56 if no heavy duty.
I will report back if i found anything. I checked ur CST section in DSDT, it recalls C1M3. I m not 100% sure if C1M3 should be the only method to return.
Yep, mine gives me the same value. I'm not sure what was wrong - I replaced the kexts back to the 10.6.7 natives and rebuild cache. And now it all seems to work fine. :)
And in my DSDT I have the same C-States activated - C1M3. Seems it somehow fixed itself.......
crashnburn wrote:Anastasius - I am posting some questions / clarifications inline with your reply..
1)Which version did you start with?
I started with 10.6.0, but I don't recommend it.

2) /S/L/E .. ?? What are the S/L/E files?
/System/Library/Extensions

3) Besides the wireless issues.. will the rest work for me? I
I have all the hardware working correctly

4*) Is this mapping config a part of the Download Zip file linked at start of thread? Could you share it?
You can download the package and sources at specialkeys.googlecode.com

5) I need a dual boot with Win764. Question.. which should be installed first.. Mac OS Snow Leopard or Win7x64.. due to the partitioning and formatting issues?
My way: Install Mac OS fully, Install Windows on a second partition (it will kill Mac bootloader), reboot to Mac installation DVD and install bootloader again, make Mac partition active with diskpart, Reboot to Windows installation DVD, use repair (but not from pop-up dialog), reboot again to WIndows partition, choose "repair and restart", do this again (reboot, then repair and restart), make Mac partition active with diskpart, reboot - you must be able to choose which partition you want to boot to and it should work ok. Sorry - I don't remember anything more. It wasn't a clear process and that's all I can say about it.

6) I am going to start with 100GB Drive for starters on my X61T. What would you recommend as the Partition sizes & Partitions in which order?
I have allocated (GUID partition) 123 GB to Mac (Mac Journaled) and 20 to Windows (MS-DOS FAT).
Mac OS X 10.6.7, 10.6.8 and 10.7.2 Lion on X61 7767 tablet.

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Re: 10.6.X on X60/T60/X61 (CoreDuo, Core2Duo / GMA950, GMA3100)

#427 Post by mightycrown » Sun Mar 27, 2011 8:10 am

Hi
I tried with your special key package, However it does not work with my X61s. But it does detect my ACPI keyboard input when i press a key. So remapping probably needed but i do not know how to link those key combinations to function. Did u modify the source of VoodooPS2?

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Re: 10.6.X on X60/T60/X61 (CoreDuo, Core2Duo / GMA950, GMA3100)

#428 Post by Anastasius » Sun Mar 27, 2011 8:05 pm

mightycrown wrote:Hi
I tried with your special key package, However it does not work with my X61s. But it does detect my ACPI keyboard input when i press a key. So remapping probably needed but i do not know how to link those key combinations to function. Did u modify the source of VoodooPS2?
Yes, of course you have to use the modified version of VoodooPS2Keyboard. You have to copy VoodooPS2Controller.kext (from SpecialKeys archive) replacing your old one. Or you can copy VoodooPS2Keyboard.kext from inside VoodooPS2Controller to your own VoodooPS2Controller, replacing the old files
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Re: 10.6.X on X60/T60/X61 (CoreDuo, Core2Duo / GMA950, GMA3100)

#429 Post by crashnburn » Mon Mar 28, 2011 3:53 am

crashnburn wrote:Anastasius - I am posting some questions / clarifications inline with your reply..
Some more questions.
- Can I boot off the Snow Leopard Retail on X61T? I remember reading that we cant just boot off it. I am thinking of exporting the downloaded Retail .DMG to a USB pen drive

Anastasius wrote: 1)Which version did you start with?
I started with 10.6.0, but I don't recommend it.
Which Retail version would you use / recommend now?

2) /S/L/E .. ?? What are the S/L/E files?
/System/Library/Extensions
I am guessing this is a particular path or set of paths where the kexts have to be dropped? Inserted?
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Re: 10.6.X on X60/T60/X61 (CoreDuo, Core2Duo / GMA950, GMA3100)

#430 Post by Anastasius » Mon Mar 28, 2011 11:04 pm

- Can I boot off the Snow Leopard Retail on X61T? I remember reading that we cant just boot off it. I am thinking of exporting the downloaded Retail .DMG to a USB pen drive
I used an external DVD drive with DVD-rewritable that has all tools on it

Which Retail version would you use / recommend now?
Try the latest you can find

/System/Library/Extensions
It's a path containing all .kexts. You have to replace the kexts in there with the provided by Sebinouse. Though he recommends to place most of them
to /Extra/Extensions - it didn't work for me
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Re: 10.6.X on X60/T60/X61 (CoreDuo, Core2Duo / GMA950, GMA3100)

#431 Post by crashnburn » Tue Mar 29, 2011 2:58 am

Anastasius wrote:- Can I boot off the Snow Leopard Retail on X61T? I remember reading that we cant just boot off it. I am thinking of exporting the downloaded Retail .DMG to a USB pen drive
I used an external DVD drive with DVD-rewritable that has all tools on it

Which Retail version would you use / recommend now?
Try the latest you can find

/System/Library/Extensions
It's a path containing all .kexts. You have to replace the kexts in there with the provided by Sebinouse. Though he recommends to place most of them
to /Extra/Extensions - it didn't work for me
// This replacement is after the first install right?
I do have the X61T Ultrabase with DVD so thats not an issue. What I meant was that the Mac / EFI Snow Leopard Retail DVDs do not boot on Non-Mac machines without some kind of Booter / Boot Loader thingy? I thought SL Retail DVDs dont boot on PCs without DSDT / AML /EFI etc?

So when you say you used an external DVD with DVD-RW ... with all tools on it..
- Did you burn a Retail version on a Dual-Layer DVD-RW (Single layer cant hold SL Retail) and / or added Additional Tools on to the same DVD / other DVD/CD/ Storage?
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Re: 10.6.X on X60/T60/X61 (CoreDuo, Core2Duo / GMA950, GMA3100)

#432 Post by jzhang18 » Thu Apr 21, 2011 10:42 am

Anyone got x61t or x60t rotation working successfully? only heard some successful story, but no detail instructions.
really appreciated if someone could share his experience here.
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T61 T9300 4GB Mavericks 10.9.3
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Re: 10.6.X on X60/T60/X61 (CoreDuo, Core2Duo / GMA950, GMA3100)

#433 Post by Anastasius » Fri Apr 22, 2011 8:36 pm

Do you mean screen rotation?
I've got screen rotation 180 degree working perfectly with SwitchResX and my own c-command line tool.
You can try SwitchResX it has a trial version on their site
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Re: 10.6.X on X60/T60/X61 (CoreDuo, Core2Duo / GMA950, GMA3100)

#434 Post by crashnburn » Sat Apr 23, 2011 1:23 am

Anastasius wrote:Do you mean screen rotation?
I've got screen rotation 180 degree working perfectly with SwitchResX and my own c-command line tool.
You can try SwitchResX it has a trial version on their site
What commandline tool? Do share.
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Re: 10.6.X on X60/T60/X61 (CoreDuo, Core2Duo / GMA950, GMA3100)

#435 Post by Anastasius » Sat Apr 23, 2011 4:25 pm

Anastasius wrote:Do you mean screen rotation?
I've got screen rotation 180 degree working perfectly with SwitchResX and my own c-command line tool.
You can try SwitchResX it has a trial version on their site
crashnburn wrote: What commandline tool? Do share.
It probably won't work on anything except my system - as it does much more than rotation. I wrote it for myself as a companion for TabletMagic and my own software. So use SwitchResX, I bought it and been using it myself for a long time, it's reliable. And author is very responsible - I did a long conversation with him and he incorporated my wishes in to the latest version of his prog. All I wanted to say that rotation works on X61t.
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Re: 10.6.X on X60/T60/X61 (CoreDuo, Core2Duo / GMA950, GMA3100)

#436 Post by layla » Mon Apr 25, 2011 2:49 am

Hi Anastasius,
do you know if in the future, with SwitchResX, will be possible to rotate our X61 tablet screen of 90 degrees without problems? Are you testing it already?

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Re: 10.6.X on X60/T60/X61 (CoreDuo, Core2Duo / GMA950, GMA3100)

#437 Post by kage » Mon Apr 25, 2011 4:55 pm

Has any one gotten a T60 with ATI Mobility X1300 to work with QE/CI? The install from the MacPNT package went great, I'm just trying to get this last part to work (trying Natit, RadeonHD, various other kext modifications). What parts of the DSDT will I need to change if I'm on an X1300 (since there are GMA950 patches applied)?

Any advice would be much appreciated.

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Re: 10.6.X on X60/T60/X61 (CoreDuo, Core2Duo / GMA950, GMA3100)

#438 Post by Anastasius » Mon Apr 25, 2011 5:03 pm

layla wrote:Hi Anastasius,
do you know if in the future, with SwitchResX, will be possible to rotate our X61 tablet screen of 90 degrees without problems? Are you testing it already?
It seems the rotation depends on native Mac OS X drivers. I checked and I wasn't able to rotate my X61t on 90 degrees using standard Mac OS X's functions - only 180. So it seems to me someone has to hack Framebuffer kext.
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Re: 10.6.X on X60/T60/X61 (CoreDuo, Core2Duo / GMA950, GMA3100)

#439 Post by nz0 » Wed Apr 27, 2011 9:57 am

Hi Anastasius,

first off, thanks for all the help you've been offering to run mac os on thinkpad x6x.
I followed the instructions in the first post to install Snow Leopard on my x61t.
I also updated the operating system to 10.6.7, and pretty much everything works
(I will have to change the intel wireless card, but that's another problem).

Now I've been trying to get the tablet/digitiser working. I made sure the
TabletEnabler kext was indeed present in my /Extra/Extension folder. I then
installed TabletMagic (the latest version I could find). Now, running TabletMagic
preference pane without rebooting, it seems it can find a tablet on a port, but if
I enable it (ticking the Enabled checkbox in the upper right), and go to the Testing
tab, no data is transmitted it seems. If I go to the tabletPC tab, and choose 'Enable digitizer',
it will reboot the machine, and after reboot TabletMagic doesn't see any tablet (status
is 'No tablet found').

I googled a bit here and there and could not find any obvious mistake I may have made,
so I'd appreciate it if you could give any advice or guidance to get the tablet part
working.

Thanks in advance !

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Re: 10.6.X on X60/T60/X61 (CoreDuo, Core2Duo / GMA950, GMA3100)

#440 Post by jzhang18 » Wed Apr 27, 2011 1:05 pm

Anastasius wrote:Do you mean screen rotation?
I've got screen rotation 180 degree working perfectly with SwitchResX and my own c-command line tool.
You can try SwitchResX it has a trial version on their site
Yes, Screen Rotation, I mean 90 and 270 degree. 180 degree seems not that useful to me.

Windows 7 make it working perfectly, -- that's the reason I hope my Snow Leopard can do the same on it so that I can put Windows 7 away from my x61T.

thanks for the information.
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T61 T9300 4GB Mavericks 10.9.3
T61 T8300 4GB Mavericks 10.9.3
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Re: 10.6.X on X60/T60/X61 (CoreDuo, Core2Duo / GMA950, GMA3100)

#441 Post by jzhang18 » Wed Apr 27, 2011 1:14 pm

Anastasius wrote:It seems the rotation depends on native Mac OS X drivers. I checked and I wasn't able to rotate my X61t on 90 degrees using standard Mac OS X's functions - only 180. So it seems to me someone has to hack Framebuffer kext.
You are right, I guess this is pretty hard to decode and understand native MAC OS X drivers. it is the same story that people try to get intel GMA4500 working with QE/CI from modifying native Mac OSX X3100 driver. so far no success.
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T61 T9300 4GB Mavericks 10.9.3
T61 T8300 4GB Mavericks 10.9.3
T61 T7500 4GB Mountain Lion 10.8.5
T61p T7700 4GB Mavericks 10.9.1
T61p T7500 8GB Mavericks 10.9.3
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Re: 10.6.X on X60/T60/X61 (CoreDuo, Core2Duo / GMA950, GMA3100)

#442 Post by nz0 » Thu Apr 28, 2011 3:23 am

Just a quick followup if someone encounters the same issues as I did, it seems to work now.

In the TabletPC pane, I suspect the 'Enable' button (which will modify the system and initiate
a reboot) changes the Apple16x50serial.kext, setting the proper string WACF004. It is
my understanding this is necessary only for 10.5, not for Snow Leopard.

I think my problem was that the serial port was not really properly seen: the listbox
contained just 'Automatic', 'Modem' and a 3rd entry, but nothing like 'Serial0'. What
was very strange was that just after installing TabletMagic, it would still properly identify
the tablet but that was all, i.e. the stylus did not have any effect.

The solution was simple though, just run again pfix, and, voila, upon reboot 'Serial0'
appeared in the TabletMagic ports listbox, and everything was fine.

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Re: 10.6.X on X60/T60/X61 (CoreDuo, Core2Duo / GMA950, GMA3100)

#443 Post by und3rf0rce » Thu May 05, 2011 6:30 am

Hi Sebinouse!

Want to say thanks to ur guide. I've successfully installed (5 times already) MacOS 10.6.7, and everything seems to work now, except for:

- sleep won't work - my laptop goes to sleep, but never wakes up (black screen, blinking sleep light and i have to power off). I havent find any solution for this issue atm.
- the temperature of "Heatsink A" (in iStat) is about 70 degrees, and laptop is very hot. Im using DSDT, and kexts from ur posts (kexts from this thread, and dsdt from "Controlling fan under OSX..."). Ive used different kexts/dsdt, but temperature is always around 70 degrees (65 sometimes). The CPU A/B temperature is about 52-57 degrees. I dont really think that this temperatures is normal :)

My laptop is T60 (1953-e4u): coreDuo 1.8, 2 gb, gma950, hacked bios and swapped wifi card (bcm4311)
E: yours dsdt, boot.plist and smbios.plist
E/E: appleacpibatterymanager, appleacpips2nub, fakesmc, legacyx60t, voodoohda, voodoops2, voodotscsync
S/L/E: nothing changed, except removed applehda

Can advice me something? Thx :)
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Re: 10.6.X on X60/T60/X61 (CoreDuo, Core2Duo / GMA950, GMA3100)

#444 Post by Great Gatsby » Sun May 08, 2011 2:55 pm

Great Gatsby wrote:[...] Here's what happens: My ThinkPad often already crashes with a kernel panic a few seconds after I have chosen the partition to boot from in AsereBLN 1.1.9. When it has once booted up successfully, the fan is cooling much more than under Windows, it runs with speeds up to 4400 rpm. The CPU Heatsink temperature also gets very high, sometimes up to 85° C, which causes the ThinkPad to power-down immediately. :(
Sebinouse wrote:That's a real problem ! ... But I don't understand why you have it ! There is almost no difference with the previous package and the new DSDT I provided in the "Controling Fan Speed" Thread ...
Thanks for your answers, Sebinouse, and sorry for the delay: The update from Mac OS X 10.6.6 to 10.6.7 went completely wrong on my ThinkPad and I was temporarily stuck with a corrupted FileVault user account preventing me from logging into my machine. Unfortunately it really took me some time to fix this (fortunately successfully).

Anyway ... now the current situation: Following your advice, I've changed my config to Chameleon RC5 + a modified SMBios.plist and I now get exactly the same values for BusClock and SMB that you've predicted here.

The overheating problem still occurs
from time to time though, and I am starting to think that it might be related to two new hardware components I built into my ThinkPad X60 Tablet in exchange for the standard ones during the time when I changed to your new DSDT package including the Fan control: Could one of them be the "heater" which lets my ThinkPad run significantly hotter?
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Re: 10.6.X on X60/T60/X61 (CoreDuo, Core2Duo / GMA950, GMA3100)

#445 Post by Great Gatsby » Sun May 08, 2011 3:26 pm

jzhang18 wrote:As I remember (if I am wrong, please correct me), 1) Chameleon RC5 + modified smbios.plist , just makes some cosmetic correction in Profiler. does not make the machine running with the requested speed (Frequency).
I don't have any insight if this is true or not: Updating my ThinkPad's Snow Leopard installation to Chameleon RC5 + a modified SMBios.plist did change the displayed values, but the overheating problem remained the same more or less (see my post above). Which at least does not contradict your theory ...

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Re: 10.6.X on X60/T60/X61 (CoreDuo, Core2Duo / GMA950, GMA3100)

#446 Post by Great Gatsby » Sun May 08, 2011 3:36 pm

Great Gatsby wrote: Here's what happens: My ThinkPad often already crashes with a kernel panic a few seconds after I have chosen the partition to boot from in AsereBLN 1.1.9. When it has once booted up successfully, the fan is cooling much more than under Windows, it runs with speeds up to 4400 rpm. The CPU Heatsink temperature also gets very high, sometimes up to 85° C, which causes the ThinkPad to power-down immediately. :(
chinaski wrote:We might experience the same problem, although I don't have temperature problems
I described it here: http://forum.thinkpads.com/viewtopic.ph ... 78#p618278
Do you experience the kernel panics also with speedstep disabled in BIOS or with bootparam "cpus=1"?
I haven't tried yet, but I hope to have some time for this the up-coming week.
chinaski wrote:And which configuration (/Extra-package, snow leopard version) did work for you?
As I also changed hardware components in-between, I can't say for sure that the problem is related to a specific of Sebinouse's "/Extra-packages".
chinaski wrote:I get the strange FSB/busclock values as you do! The suggested fix using chameleon rc5 and a modified smbios.plist didn't work for me. Still hangups and completely wrong FSB.
Chameleon RC5 + a modified SMBios.plist (filename cAsE-senSiTiVe according to earlier posts! :-)) at least did change the displayed values on my machine; I still have to determine if these changes are more than just 'cosmetic'.

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Re: 10.6.X on X60/T60/X61 (CoreDuo, Core2Duo / GMA950, GMA3100)

#447 Post by jzhang18 » Wed May 18, 2011 4:33 pm

Great Gatsby wrote: Chameleon RC5 + a modified SMBios.plist (filename cAsE-senSiTiVe according to earlier posts! :-)) at least did change the displayed values on my machine; I still have to determine if these changes are more than just 'cosmetic'.
You can download -- kext utility to rebuild your snow leopard kexts cache, it will also show you the base frequency, FSB frequency. "base frequency = 200Mhz FSB =800Mhz" are the correct values.
http://www.kexts.com/view/447-kext_util ... opard.html
SMBios.plist only change the values cosmetically.

I have snow leopard 10.6.6 installed on my Dell mini 9 --the most easiest installation of snow leopard on PC laptop. then I clone the hard drive, replace the dsdt file from Sebinouse latest package in the first post. insert the cloned Hard drive into my x61t. I got the correct values "base frequency = 200Mhz FSB =800Mhz". I never got those values with other installation methods posted on internet, included the way in this thread.

So far I have no idea of which kext file made my x61t to use that correct frequency values. I can check the kext one by one from /Extra/Extensions folder to find it out.
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Re: 10.6.X on X60/T60/X61 (CoreDuo, Core2Duo / GMA950, GMA3100)

#448 Post by rockstar » Mon May 23, 2011 3:11 pm

Sebinouse, this is really great work and it is so darn close, but ...................

I have tried on a X61T and a X61S and get the same problem. Using the 12/15/2011 package, I get a kernel panic on ACPIBatteryManager. If I remove the ACPIBatteryManager kext, it will boot, but there is no monitor for the battery. Since it's a laptop, I'd like to know when I'm going to lose my work.


I suspect a problem in the DSDT.aml, but I really have no idea how to troubleshoot this file.

I've been so busy lately I had to put this aside, but I would really like to knock this out. What info can I provide that might help the cause ?

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Re: 10.6.X on X60/T60/X61 (CoreDuo, Core2Duo / GMA950, GMA3100)

#449 Post by phubai » Sat Jun 18, 2011 8:03 am

I just thought I'd add my experience with the X61 and OS X as well. This will be probably the fifth time I've installed it, and while I've met with much greater success, I don't have a stable system at all. It was fine all day yesterday, with numerous reboots, and not one kp. Today, it won't boot at all. I've removed the drive and replaced the AppleHDA.kext and reset permissions, so I'll be re-installing the drive momentarily. One thing I've noticed with this, is when I fix the permissions with the Disk Utility, there are a lot of repairs necessary, every time. Other hacks I've done, have had surprisingly few. I don't know if that's indicative of anything, but it's one of the obvious differences with this X61.

The SD card reader has only worked once, and then the system froze.
Ethernet works most of the time, but not always.
The USB ports either work on boot, or don't work at all.
At times I have no mouse or trackpoint.
I decided not to replace the wireless miniPCI card, and opted for the D-Link USB mentioned previously, which works well by the way.
Graphics are just ok at 1024x768. Screen refresh is poor to the extent that streaming video is not really acceptable at all.

I'm still working with it, but it's certainly not something I would come close to depending on at this point. However, I sincerely appreciate all of the work and information everyone, and especially Sebinouse has provided here. It's been fun as a result, even though I've not achieved a stable system as of yet (I was spoiled by my experience with the Dell mini10v I'm afraid, and had great luck with my Asus 1201n as well). Thanks everyone!

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Re: 10.6.X on X60/T60/X61 (CoreDuo, Core2Duo / GMA950, GMA3100)

#450 Post by phubai » Sun Jun 19, 2011 10:20 am

I'm back in business by replacing the AppleHDA.kext in S/L/E with that provided in the package. I must have forgotten to do that after an update somehow and that is what was causing the kp I believe. Since yesterday, it has been solid. I've had no problems with either sound or the USB ports. I haven't tried ethernet since moving to the D-Link wireless USB, so I don't know whether that is still a problem or not.
If I choose sleep from the Apple menu, it's doing that nicely AND, waking up as well! That's important to me because my intention is to use this machine primarily when traveling, waiting at airports, etc. I've not had success with simply closing the lid as of yet. It does go to sleep, but never wakes up unfortunately. I can live with that however.

Problems:

Has anyone re-mapped the keyboard? I would like to be able to use the dipthong or whatever the uppercase key is to the left of the number 1 key. I use it in scripts to ensure I get to home of user or root, and that's giving me a "±" key right now.

I'm still not having any luck with the SD cardreader. It will work if I have an SD card in the slot at boot, but otherwise, not. Suggestions?

When the screen dims, powersave, it only does so on the left half of the screen for some reason and not the entire screen.

A GUID exception when trying to use Airplay via iTunes on occasion, which requires me to remove a file and then reboot, but I attribute that to the D-Link dongle. I'm not sure about that, but it's suspect for now, although it works beautifully otherwise.

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