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

[Anastasius]

I can't wait to try that !!!

Here are some updates that work for my X61T 7767:
I have modified VoodooHDA, now it doesn't produce scary sounds: http://www.mediafire.com/?8d004ouy4s4ywj3
New DSDT: http://www.mediafire.com/?hg03t46v88fc6d9

And finally my modified package for PS/2 keyboard mapping through the prefPane, called SpecialKeys. It can remap almost any tablet button and combination like Fn+X to the Mac OS action.
I made a topic here on how to install and use it

[dkrizic]

2. WHen I type "su" in terminal and type in my password, I get GetHostUUIDString: unable to determine UUID for host. Error: 35

This is an very important issue. I solved it by adding this entry to Boot.plist:

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	<key>EthernetBuiltIn</key>
	<string>Yes</string>

[dkrizic]

Hello,

first many many thanks to everybody in this thread, because I am also running OS X 10.6.5 on the X60s which is a perfect system for me since it is light, powerful and has integrated UMTS (3G). My state is as follows:

* Graphics works
* Sound works (basically)
* 3G works(!)
* Wifi works with an exchanged Wifi card (removed Intel and added Atheros)
* Ethernet works, but on some switches I needed to configure 1GBit instead of automatic, but a minor issue for me
* Speedstep works, although my CPU temperature quickly reaches 80 degress
* Middle-button-scroll works with "Smart Scroll" without any special drivers, costs a few $, but that is absolutely ok for me

Here are a few tweaks I did:

* I copied IOAudioFamily.kext and OSvKernDSPLib.kext from /S/L/E to /E/E. This solved the problem that the sound works directly after boot. Unfortunately I have to press "Loudspeaker up" a few times (without any feedback) in order to actually hear something, but this is a minor issue for me.
* I added EthernetBuildIn=Yes to Boot.plist (see previous post) to get rid (of most) of the UUID errors (35)

Sleep works with hibernatemode 1 like this:

* Turn Wifi-Switch (in front of keyboard) to the left
* Fn-F4
* Screen goes off, moon blinks, sleepfile is written (about 5 seconds) and the notebooks turns physically off
* When I press the power button I see Chameleon and quickly a light gray screenshot of my last screen and a dottet bar filling from left to right, then again black "Wake kernel" and the desktop appears again. This all lasts about 30 seconds. This is ok for me.
* Then I turn on the switch again and I can work

I still have some "Cannot unload kext" messages in my log, but obviously this is no big problem. I will continue testing with hibernatemode 0.

Regards,

Darko

[dkrizic]

Hi,

just tested hibernatemode 0 and it works also if the Wifi-Switch is to the left. What happens:

* Switch to the left
* Fn-F4
* About 5s harddisk activity
* Screen goes black, moon starts blinking, harddisk stops, fan stops (seems to be sleeping)
* Moon continues blinking forever
* Fn and it instantly wakes up
* Wifi continues working (despite the switch!), but bluetooth does not work, which again is ok for me

So for all you guys with insomnia: Check the switch and keep it left (black, green is not visible) and try sleep again.

Regards,

Darko

[omanik]

Updated to 10.6.6 - no problems, everything seems to work

[Sebinouse]

@ dkrizic
Thanks a lot for your investigations on sleep, I will try that later on !

@ omanik
I do confirm 10.6.6 update is OK !

[CP-Geek]

I can confirm 10.6.6 also, alltho i had to patch IO8211Family.kext again.

Also, I still have to boot in 32-bit mode in order to get hardware acceleration to screen. VoodooPS2 dpn't work in 64-bit either so I'm without keyboard and trackpoint in 64-bit mode.

[Sebinouse]

I can confirm 10.6.6 also, alltho i had to patch IO8211Family.kext again.

Also, I still have to boot in 32-bit mode in order to get hardware acceleration to screen. VoodooPS2 dpn't work in 64-bit either so I'm without keyboard and trackpoint in 64-bit mode.

You can edit LegacyX60t.kext instead of IO8211Family.kext so you wont have to patch the kext at the next update ...

My X60 is only 32-bit so I can't help about 64 bit issues ...

[deevin9]

Hi

First of all, many thanks to sebinouse and all who have helped out with getting this to work.

So my machine is an X61 (7676, Core2Duo, X3100, AR5BXB72) and I have successfully installed 10.6.6, however there seems to be some problems with the /Extra folder.

If I don't touch anything, the system boots into 64-bit mode and according to the logs a bunch of kexts fail to load, resulting in no keyboard or wifi. If I type arch=i386 at the bootloader, then i get keyboard and wifi. It seems as if the boot.plist in /Extra is not getting picked up by the bootloader.

I didn't test everything but so far what works (in 32bit mode)
- C and P steps
- QE/CI
- Wifi
- Keyboard / Mouse
- Sleep

What doesn't work
- sound
- ethernet (didn't try it, but the card isn't being picked up)
- bluetooth (same)
- wifi light

I tried manually loading the voodooHDA kext but it gave me a kernel panic.
Also, shutdown is super fast, but restart doesnt work, it just hangs either at a blue screen with a wheel or the screen goes black but the power stays on.

I've run pfix a bunch of times, didn't fix anything, let me know if you have any other suggestions.

Thanks

[Sebinouse]

What doesn't work
- sound
- ethernet (didn't try it, but the card isn't being picked up)
- bluetooth (same)
- wifi light

Sound : try this version of VoodooHDA made by Anastasius
Ethernet : try this version of Intel82566MM.kext.zip from Insanelymac
Bluetooth : Should be OK. Activate bluetooth during chameleon boot (switch at the front and Fn+F5 ... till the BT light is ON ... then resume normal boot). LegacyX61T.kext should do the rest.
Wifi Light : don't work ...

You can also use this DSDT (made by anastasisus)

Do you know which kexts are not 64 bits ?

For me the there is only VoodooPS2Keyboard.kext ... @Anastasius could you compile it once again with i386 and x86_64 ?

[deevin9]

thanks a bunch.

do you have any ideas on why chameleon isn't picking up the boot.plist? I see it has a kernel flag for 32 bit mode, but i still need to type it in...

EDIT: I just read somewhere that it may be due to me using the windows bootloader first. Possible?

[big_kitch]

Successfully updated to 10.6.6. After update had to reboot with HDD in cradle and then run Kext Utility - fine after that.
Nick

[jzhang18]

First of all, thanks to this thread and the people (Sebinouse, Anastasius and so on) for their excellent tutorial.
my laptop is Lenovo X61t (7764CTO)
1024x768 non-multitouch screen
Formerly I have leopard 10.5.8 running on it.
tablet works fine for me.
(I update Apple16X50Serial.kext to use "WACF004", using TabletEnabler.kext v1.1 and TabletMagic)
setup seems very straightforward.

I installed snow leopard on it now. with Sebinouse's package -- BootCD_MacPNT
Most of hardware works fine except Tablet
I also tried Anastasius's DSDT , Tablet still not work for me.

Could someone point out what is wrong in my configuration
Extra folder --
DSDT.aml
smbos.plist

E/E --
LegacyX61T.kext (checked, it uses "WACF004")
TabletEnabler.kext v1.1

S/L/E --
Apple16X50Serial.kext (set to "WACF004")

TabletMagic 2.0b17d2 installed
I still got "Tablet not found" error.

Any instruction, suggestion will be really appreicated,

-Jack

[olof]

I successfully installed Snow Leopard 10.6.6 through Sebinouse's tutorial. Big thanks for that!!

I am using an external monitor. Is it possible to dissable the extended mode and just use the external monitor? (That is not mirror-mode, but instead the desktop only covering the external monitor)

If I boot up with my monitor connected, the boot up process is showed in the external display only, but then when the desktop should show, it only displays an lightblue screen, with a cursor that I can move, but nothing else.

Any thougts on this?

[Great Gatsby]

I successfully installed Snow Leopard 10.6.6 through Sebinouse's tutorial. Big thanks for that!!

I am using an external monitor. [...]

I currently can't reproduce your scenario due to the lack of an external display with VGA-in, but did you already try this or this?

Oh, and by the way: Would you mind telling us what kind of ThinkPad you have? It would be nice keeping track of machines that work with this guide.

[Sebinouse]

E/E --
LegacyX61T.kext (checked, it uses "WACF004")
TabletEnabler.kext v1.1

S/L/E --
Apple16X50Serial.kext (set to "WACF004")

TabletMagic 2.0b17d2 installed
I still got "Tablet not found" error.

Any instruction, suggestion will be really appreicated,

-Jack

Try "WACF008" there are two sort of tablet in our thinkpads.
You just have to modify the file in E/E ... you don't have to touch S/L/E/ at all.

[olof]

I currently can't reproduce your scenario due to the lack of an external display with VGA-in, but did you already try this or this?

Oh, and by the way: Would you mind telling us what kind of ThinkPad you have? It would be nice keeping track of machines that work with this guide.

I've tried it now, and it kind of works. It jumps back to sleep after a few seconds, but I can prevent that with directly running InsomniaX (prevents sleep mode). But this mode still seem to use extended mode (the internal view is still avtive, but not shown). Dont know if this is the appropiate mac os x behaviour.

My biggest concern right now, is that I cannot boot with the external monitor connected. It boots but stops just before the desktop is shown, sometimes it fills half the screen with the osx desktop background, otherwise it just shows a light blue screen in the external monitor.

I've tried to edit the /Extra/DSDT.aml and changed places of the values in the _DOD method, as described by LatinMcGyver75 here .

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Method (_DOD, 0, NotSerialized)
{
Return (Package (0x02)
{
0x00010400, /* LCD AKA PNLF FIRST */
0x00010100 /* VGA CRT SECOND */
})
}

But it doesent have any effect for me. Any thoughts? Am I on the right track? Are people able to boot up with the external monitor connected on their x60/x61?

PS. I have a thinkpad X60, core duo 1.66 GHz.

[jzhang18]

Try "WACF008" there are two sort of tablet in our thinkpads.
You just have to modify the file in E/E ... you don't have to touch S/L/E/ at all.

Sebinouse -- Could you post your Apple16X50Serial.kext file?
That's the only different file I used from your package.

It seems no sense, But I really cannot figure it out.
thanks a lot,

[Sebinouse]

it is the genuine/stock/unmodified file ...

[jzhang18]

it is the genuine/stock/unmodified file ...

I see the problem, I still follow this guide which is good to run leopard on my x61 tablet.
http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index. ... opic=87574
"you have to edit Apple16X50Serial.kext/Contents/PlugIns/Apple16X50ACPI.kext/Contents/Info.plist, and replace the PNP0501 with WACF004".

for snow leopard --
Your DSDT + LegacyX61T.kext has replaced the functionality from Apple16X50Serial.kext
so TabletEnabler.kext v1.1 + TabletMagic can talk to hardware correctly.

thank you very much to point out this, otherwise I am still in the darkness of searching and testing.

[Anastasius]

Sebinouse
Here's my new DSDT (http://www.mediafire.com/?g093x8nbxcqnwqv) and AppleHDA.kext (http://www.mediafire.com/?b7gzr2c2yr4k66b)

I added the HDEF device to my previous DSDT, and the new patched AppleHDA works better than VoodooHDA (which was giving me KPs and sound delays sometimes). It seems to me, the AppleHDA works faster than VoodooHDA - I had some delays editing source code in XCode, and now they vanished away.

Credits for AppleHDA go to vampyrex13 from osx86 forum for the files and to grandflash who pointed the link to that post.

P.S. It seems to me we need some kind of Wiki for all these hacks we made.

[grandflash]

And this my DSDT. Two versions:

dsdt cst usb fix FAN SSDT.dsl - with SSDT tables for Core2Duo with 1.6 GHz.

dsdt cst usb fix FAN cst3.dsl - only CST fix without SSDT tables - i use it in combination of COOLBOOK.se - cause I can set a certain cpu-speed with it then

http://www.sendspace.com/file/7curnl

My Extra folder:

http://www.sendspace.com/file/o2wtb1

Additional Kext files in System/Library/Extensions: (without AppleHDA.kext + AppleSerial for Tablet)

http://www.sendspace.com/file/wrikkp

[Sebinouse]

Thanks for your files ... I will be out for two weeks. But as soon as I am back I will include then in the package !

[thinkpad4me]

Sebinouse
Here's my new DSDT (http://www.mediafire.com/?g093x8nbxcqnwqv) and AppleHDA.kext (http://www.mediafire.com/?b7gzr2c2yr4k66b)

I added the HDEF device to my previous DSDT, and the new patched AppleHDA works better than VoodooHDA (which was giving me KPs and sound delays sometimes). It seems to me, the AppleHDA works faster than VoodooHDA - I had some delays editing source code in XCode, and now they vanished away.

Credits for AppleHDA go to vampyrex13 from osx86 forum for the files and to grandflash who pointed the link to that post.

P.S. It seems to me we need some kind of Wiki for all these hacks we made.

Anastasius,

I got my x61s finally working great, with sound too! I did a new install and used your previous dsdt.aml file and voodhooHDA.kext. I occasionaly loose sound after installing some applications but after running pfix and rebooting sounds seems to be fine. Where would this AppleHDA go into? Extra\Extensions? or somewhere else? And are you supposed to delete the existing VoodhooHDA?

[Anastasius]

Anastasius,

I got my x61s finally working great, with sound too! I did a new install and used your previous dsdt.aml file and voodhooHDA.kext. I occasionaly loose sound after installing some applications but after running pfix and rebooting sounds seems to be fine. Where would this AppleHDA go into? Extra\Extensions? or somewhere else? And are you supposed to delete the existing VoodhooHDA?

Great to hear it! Yep, you have to delete the VoodooHDA and copy AppleHDA into /S/L/E
I didn't try the Extra\Extensions - you can try it yourself and tell if it works

[grandflash]

Hi Anastasius,
thanks for the tablet driver. Working great. Can you tell me, if your screen can rotated by 90 ° ? If i do it, my screen shows artifacts.

[kwiatki]

Hi All

i have a lenovo x61 type 7763
i try to install osx on this machine and i have a trouble.
After installation , (1st boot) i have a gray screen and nothing more is happening.

i use dsdt and all the kext from 1st post.

any suggestion?

[phubai]

Try booting again from USB; then when you see the HD appear in the middle of the screen, hit any key, and choose the HD where you installed OS X. Once there, run the kext utility again, then reboot. It's not at all unusual to have a bit of a problem 1st boot.

--phubai

[kwiatki]

Try booting again from USB; then when you see the HD appear in the middle of the screen, hit any key, and choose the HD where you installed OS X. Once there, run the kext utility again, then reboot. It's not at all unusual to have a bit of a problem 1st boot.

--phubai

I tried this, but the unfortunately the problem is with DSDT file (gma3100) , because i hear sound (volume up and down) but i don't see anything




edit:
after 100 restarts system I finally found a method to boot - I have to enter the DSDT=/Extra/DSDTstable.aml and wait until run circle stops, then starts normally


very strange

[und3rf0rce]

I've had the same grey screen after installation on my T60.
You need to add to your /Extra/com.apple.boot.plist this code:

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<key>device-properties</key>
<string>6d0000000100000001000000610000000200000002010c00d041030a000000000101060000027fff0400100000006d006f00640065006c0000000b000000474d4120393530200000004100410050004c002c00480061007300500061006e0065006c0000000800000001000000</string>

To do that, i've used my external monitor (connect it before turning on your thinkpad).

Maybe in "Single user mode" you can use some kind of "vim"-editor, but i dont know if it exist (or if you know what are you doing - try to boot into ubuntu, install hfsutils, hfsprogs, hfsplus packages, check for errors with fsck_hfs, then mount hfs+ partition, and add those strings to plist file)

Or, maybe, you can patch your DSDT, but i don't know how