ThinkPad W510 hackintosh

[ss4rob]

The issue I have is the the installation GUI and the main SL OS GUI are incredibly unresponsive, takes minutes to show a single drop down menu and no screen refresh. it took me 2 hours to format the disk!!!

I had this problem with an older 10.6.0 Snow Leopard installation disc. It was maddening, minutes to click on things. I got a newer 10.6.3 Snow Leopard retail disc and it worked perfectly so.. I suggest that. I used Tony Mac's iBoot BTW. Good luck!

[thinkpad916]

Someone post a of Options to use with Multi-Beast? I got my W510 up and running and don't want to KP it.

Please help. Or if someone can post the drivers. Thanks!

[myki2000]

Hello,

Thanks for all informations given in this topics.

I installed this night OSX on my W510 and update to Lion (10.7) this morning succesfully.
There is my experience with my very bad english:

Workin very nice:

- Sound
- VGA
- WebCam
- Keyboard
- TouchPad
- USB 2 and 3
- Bluetooth
- Reboot/Halt

NOT working:
- Sleep (I realy need a solution )
- Wifi (Need to bye a new adapter)

NOT TESTED:
- Speedstep
- Card reader.
- Mic

Installation methode (Easy):

10.6.3 installation with iboot 3.1.1 and official 10.6.3 retail DVD. I used this procedure": http://tonymacx86.blogspot.com/2010/04/ ... -x-on.html
Notes:
Boot option needed when i launch installation: busratio=20 without this option i had a kernel panic.
Sometimes during installation I received the message: "The installer could not copy the necessary support files ..."
Solution: Try install any more until it finish without error ... 3 times for me (Strange solution found on google )
Kexts (http://wiki.osx86project.org/wiki/index ... nkpad_W510) installed after update to 10.6.8 but before Multibeast and first reboot.
For MultiBeast I selected only easybeast.

10.6.8 to 10.7 (lion): http://tonymacx86.blogspot.com/2011/07/ ... -lion.html
Notes:
Usb mouse needed but only during the installation of lion.
Lion installed on the same partition then Snow leopard.

Just one question:

What wireless card you advise me ?

Thanks in advance.

[deftsp]

Hi, myki2000,

ATHEROS AR9280 is fine, and you have to flash your BIOS.

I can sleep, but after wake, the bluetooth seems not work.

[thinkpad916]

Thanks. I am going to try the above steps on W520.

[mrwilby]

I have a W510 620M with a Quadro FX 880M, running Lion with X86 kernel. I believe I have native power management working (including sleep).

I've been working on a DSDT to try and get the machine to be more 'native'. So far I have most things working on Lion, but I'm struggling with a few

1. Backlight - despite all my efforts I cannot seem to find a way to get Lion to enable backlight control. From investigating, it appears as though the DSDT is missing all the backlight related methods that one would typically expect to find. My assumption is that the backlight is instead managed by the graphics chip. The best info I found so far is here: https://raw.github.com/gist/451904/ecdf ... vidia_bl.c which is the source to a linux backlight control module. Has anybody else got working backlight control on this kind of machine?

2. Power - I had AC/Battery information working fine in Snow Leopard but I've yet to work out how to get it working in Lion. I believe it is possible to revert some of the Lion KEXTs back to Snow Leopard versions, but I'm really trying to avoid this. Does anybody have working AC/Battery information in Lion?

3. Shutdown - sleep is working fine, but shutdown powers "everything" off except the CPU/Fans. Sleep, however, shuts everything down correctly. I'm sure this can be rectified with further DSDT tweaks, but I've yet to find the right magic. Anybody else have this working?

4. Wireless - oh, and of course, wireless (WLAN) is not working. To my knowledge there is no driver for Mac that supports our chipset. I've purchased an ALink 101 usb dongle, but once inserted this causes the keyboard and mouse trackpad to be disabled. I believe the problem is caused by insufficient IRQs. This laptop seems to use a bunch and once the wireless USB driver is inserted, the OS presumably steals the PS2 keyboard & mouse (shared) IRQs hence they are inactive. I've purchased a PCI Express internal card, but it hasn't arrived yet, and installing it will require reflashing the bios which is a bit scary. I'm using the 1.38 bios and I don't believe there is a version of this BIOS that disables the WLAN card blacklisting... so I'll probably have to request that on another forum.

5. HPET - whilst not a problem per se, I believe this may be related to #4 above. The MacBookPro6,2 model that is close to our W510 Core i7 devices has 4 IRQs assigned to the HPET device. The best I can do right now is 3. I am wondering whether this is causing problems with USB.

I can post my DSDT (modified & original for comparison) and my IOReg if anybody is interested. I've modelled the machine on MacBookPro6,2, for which I found a single DSDT and a couple of IORegistry dumps.

Thanks!

[swithdrawn]

I can post my DSDT (modified & original for comparison) and my IOReg if anybody is interested. I've modelled the machine on MacBookPro6,2, for which I found a single DSDT and a couple of IORegistry dumps.

I'd definitely be interested, if even just for the sleep functionality!

[marksoccer105]

I'd love to test out your modified DSDT file. Please post it.

[decowgomoo]