Mavericks 10.9 on a T61(p)

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JaavrOS · #151 Post by **JaavrOS** » Sat Mar 29, 2014 11:20 pm

I'm having the same sleep issues with 10.9.2 on my T61P. Removing the rollback AppleACPIPlatform.kext fixes sleep, but causes those other issues (battery meter is broken, the "moon" stays lit, etc).

On the verge of erasing the disk and reverting to 10.9.1.
Please let us know, if anyone finds a solution.

Thanks!

CoBrA2168 · #152 Post by **CoBrA2168** » Sun Mar 30, 2014 9:41 pm

jzhang18 wrote:Please try this -
http://www.tonymacx86.com/customization ... tly-2.html
It improve the performance for Intel HD Graphics card (such as x3100 in X61) , also Nvidia graphics card (used in T61 and T61p)
It makes windows popup and switching much smoothly. From "About this Mac" to show "System Report", just watch "Profiler Windows" showing up.
Recommended for everyone.

Hey jzhang18 - any updates on the sound issues with your modified bootloader?

I'm using the one you posted to your site (boot.zip) on the previous page and I'm noticing the distorted sound issue. Is this indeed the version with IDA disabled?

EDIT: Nevermind - the distortion I was hearing was actually from a botched Voodoo configuration. No distortion here!

jzhang18 · #153 Post by **jzhang18** » Mon Mar 31, 2014 11:17 am

CoBrA2168 wrote:Hey jzhang18 - any updates on the sound issues with your modified bootloader?

Using xcode 4.6, I can recompile the whole VoodooHDA project on my Mavericks 10.9.2 (cannot use xcode 5 or 5.1, because GCC is removed)
fixed some minor issues, but not pinpoint the major issue yet. (I can dump any message I want in console windows from my modified VoodooHDA.kext at run-time, but still need some analysis) .
Recently I moved on to Lenovo X201 with Mavericks 10.9.2 -- almost perfectly running. (internal camera, pci-express slot, graphics, sound, SD reader etc. sleeping is also good!)
It is light with just 3.2lbs and an i5 processor (M540, 2.53Ghz), so I can replace my x61 which just stuck at 10.7.5 due to Intel X3100.
Gaming on x201 is not as fast as T61 with Nvidia, but processor benchmark is far better. I hardly see the Apple Spin during booting with SSD.

manu89ft · #154 Post by **manu89ft** » Tue Apr 01, 2014 2:04 am

News for sleep issues with 10.9.2?

CoBrA2168 · #155 Post by **CoBrA2168** » Tue Apr 01, 2014 11:14 am

jzhang18 wrote:
CoBrA2168 wrote:Hey jzhang18 - any updates on the sound issues with your modified bootloader?
Using xcode 4.6, I can recompile the whole VoodooHDA project on my Mavericks 10.9.2 (cannot use xcode 5 or 5.1, because GCC is removed)
fixed some minor issues, but not pinpoint the major issue yet. (I can dump any message I want in console windows from my modified VoodooHDA.kext at run-time, but still need some analysis) .
Recently I moved on to Lenovo X201 with Mavericks 10.9.2 -- almost perfectly running. (internal camera, pci-express slot, graphics, sound, SD reader etc. sleeping is also good!)
It is light with just 3.2lbs and an i5 processor (M540, 2.53Ghz), so I can replace my x61 which just stuck at 10.7.5 due to Intel X3100.
Gaming on x201 is not as fast as T61 with Nvidia, but processor benchmark is far better. I hardly see the Apple Spin during booting with SSD.

Thanks for the update.

Personally I run Mountain Lion 10.8.5 on my T61 with X3100 graphics. How you ask? Someone made a tool that uses a hacked kernel that can load ML in 32-bit mode. The tool is called MLPF (http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=1325709). It was designed for real Macs, but works great on my hack.

Performance is even better than Lion. I also have everything working (sleep, sound, TRIM, brightness, trackpad, USB, Bluetooth, battery info, etc.). If you need more information or help, I'm happy to give it.

jzhang18 · #156 Post by **jzhang18** » Wed Apr 02, 2014 9:17 am

CoBrA2168 wrote: Personally I run Mountain Lion 10.8.5 on my T61 with X3100 graphics. How you ask? Someone made a tool that uses a hacked kernel that can load ML in 32-bit mode. The tool is called MLPF (http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=1325709). It was designed for real Macs, but works great on my hack.
Performance is even better than Lion. I also have everything working (sleep, sound, TRIM, brightness, trackpad, USB, Bluetooth, battery info, etc.). If you need more information or help, I'm happy to give it.

Wow, that's an amazing job!

Can I just clone a disk from a clean 10.8.5 disk, put you E/E (clean up the duplicate KEXTs from S/L/E). run a full myFIX, then put cloned disk into X61 to see if that works?

Please attach your E/E package, I am so excited to give that a shot!

JaavrOS · #157 Post by **JaavrOS** » Wed Apr 02, 2014 7:32 pm

I had Mountain Lion running on X61 tablet. Everything worked including QE, the tablet and native audio, but there are problems because of the "jumpy mouse" issue that was also a problem for Lion. That made it unusable.
It's a specific hack, You cannot simply put an E/E folder to make it work. You need to create an installer disk with MLPostFactor. Then use the MLPF tool from the installer disk to modify an already installed ML system. (MLPF was designed for real macs, that's why it's not well developed for hackintosh.)

The MLPF tool modifies kexts in S/L/E.
That's the problem... it modifies the AppleIntelX3100FB.kext. So when you replace that kext with the AppleIntelX3100FB.kext that fixes "jumpy mouse"... then you lose QE and the graphics run very slow.

However, I haven't noticed the "jumpy mouse" issue on Intel Graphics (X3100) T61. So ML would work on that.
But it might be easier to just find a cheap T61P or T61 with NVIDIA graphics and install 10.9.1 Mavericks. Just saying.

Anyway, good luck. Hope you have better success with ML on X61 than I had with it. Let me know if there is anything I can do to help.

(any solutions for 10.9.2 on T61P yet? Please?)

jzhang18 · #158 Post by **jzhang18** » Thu Apr 03, 2014 9:28 am

JaavrOS wrote:I had Mountain Lion running on X61 tablet. Everything worked including QE, the tablet and native audio, but there are problems because of the "jumpy mouse" issue that was also a problem for Lion. That made it unusable.
It's a specific hack, You cannot simply put an E/E folder to make it work. You need to create an installer disk with MLPostFactor. Then use the MLPF tool from the installer disk to modify an already installed ML system. (MLPF was designed for real macs, that's why it's not well developed for hackintosh.)

The MLPF tool modifies kexts in S/L/E.
That's the problem... it modifies the AppleIntelX3100FB.kext. So when you replace that kext with the AppleIntelX3100FB.kext that fixes "jumpy mouse"... then you lose QE and the graphics run very slow.

However, I haven't noticed the "jumpy mouse" issue on Intel Graphics (X3100) T61. So ML would work on that.
But it might be easier to just find a cheap T61P or T61 with NVIDIA graphics and install 10.9.1 Mavericks. Just saying.

Anyway, good luck. Hope you have better success with ML on X61 than I had with it. Let me know if there is anything I can do to help.

(any solutions for 10.9.2 on T61P yet? Please?)

I see, "jumpy mouse" is my most concern, so you have the same issue on X61 tablet with ML. so I do not want to spend time on it because I have T61 with NVidia, running both ML 10.8.5 and Mavericks 10.9.1 pretty well.
T61 is just too heavy to take it around. that is why I choose X-series Thinkpad.

I have X200(C2D, P8600), there is no way to make GMA4500 QE/CL, so I give it up
Then X201(i5, 1st-gen). Lucky to have GMA 5700mhd QE/CL from some genius hacking job. and all other hardware is also working as expected.

Maybe I can use some KEXTs from X201 to solve sleeping issue on T61 for 10.9.2, because X201 sleeping pretty well with 10.9.2, I will test it when I get some free time and let you know the result.

skeletor · #159 Post by **skeletor** » Thu Apr 03, 2014 10:32 pm

Just registered to say THANK YOU to everyone, especially Madara-Sans!

I just performed an installation of 10.9.2 on my T61P using Madara-Sans' /Extras on my T61P. Everything is working except, as noted above, sleep.

Madara-Sans - in regards to your new DSDT, are you going to be trying to get fan control working? If not, I'd be willing to take a crack at it, as I prefer to have the fan running at max speed at all times. I don't mind the noise, I just prefer the laptop to be cool.

Big thanks to all contributors in this forum section.

CoBrA2168 · #160 Post by **CoBrA2168** » Fri Apr 04, 2014 8:39 am

jzhang18 wrote:
CoBrA2168 wrote: Personally I run Mountain Lion 10.8.5 on my T61 with X3100 graphics. How you ask? Someone made a tool that uses a hacked kernel that can load ML in 32-bit mode. The tool is called MLPF (http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=1325709). It was designed for real Macs, but works great on my hack.
Performance is even better than Lion. I also have everything working (sleep, sound, TRIM, brightness, trackpad, USB, Bluetooth, battery info, etc.). If you need more information or help, I'm happy to give it.
Wow, that's an amazing job! Can I just clone a disk from a clean 10.8.5 disk, put you E/E (clean up the duplicate KEXTs from S/L/E). run a full myFIX, then put cloned disk into X61 to see if that works?

Please attach your E/E package, I am so excited to give that a shot!

As someone else noted above, you cannot simply take a clean ML install and put it on there. The MLPF tool modifies a lot of the kexts and binaries to make it work.

What I did was run the MLPF tool and then afterward copy over all of my custom kexts for my hackintosh. Doing so in that order didn't present me with any problems.

I noticed you said you were no longer interested since you will also have a "jumpy mouse" problem (I've never seen this on my T61, by the way). However, if you would like, I can still upload some of my files that I used to get it working. Just let me know if you're still interested in those.

Madara-san · #161 Post by **Madara-san** » Tue Apr 08, 2014 6:14 am

skeletor wrote: Madara-Sans - in regards to your new DSDT, are you going to be trying to get fan control working? If not, I'd be willing to take a crack at it, as I prefer to have the fan running at max speed at all times. I don't mind the noise, I just prefer the laptop to be cool.

The current DSDT have this option too: just have to press the blue ThinkVantage button, and the fan will speed up to it's max RPM.

jzhang18 · #162 Post by **jzhang18** » Wed Apr 09, 2014 9:02 am

skeletor wrote:Just registered to say THANK YOU to everyone, especially Madara-Sans!

I just performed an installation of 10.9.2 on my T61P using Madara-Sans' /Extras on my T61P. Everything is working except, as noted above, sleep.

Madara-Sans - in regards to your new DSDT, are you going to be trying to get fan control working? If not, I'd be willing to take a crack at it, as I prefer to have the fan running at max speed at all times. I don't mind the noise, I just prefer the laptop to be cool.

Big thanks to all contributors in this forum section.

I cleaned my T61p cooling fan, replace the dried thermal compound with Arctic Silver 5 ($6.99). running pretty cool now. -- formerly when I started StarCraft II for 10 minutes, it turned off automatically. now I tested for 2 hours, no issue at all.
Whole clean process, took me 30 minutes, need to pay attention to all screws, the difference location for difference size on the cooling fan and pipe.
http://forums.lenovo.com/t5/T61-and-pri ... a-p/247953

jzhang18 · #163 Post by **jzhang18** » Wed Apr 09, 2014 9:16 am

CoBrA2168 wrote: I noticed you said you were no longer interested since you will also have a "jumpy mouse" problem (I've never seen this on my T61, by the way). However, if you would like, I can still upload some of my files that I used to get it working. Just let me know if you're still interested in those.

Thank you, CoBrA2168 -- I keep my x61 with 10.7.5, I just installed a software called SmoothMouse from smoothmouse.com. improved 50%. so far it is OK to me.
I moved on to x201, then x220.
I cannot make internal webcam working on my T61, but on x201, everything is working. I also found and tested 2 USB3 ExpressCards on x201, working with Mavericks
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0045B ... UTF8&psc=1
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B008CE ... UTF8&psc=1
one is based on ASMedia 1042 chipset, the other is NEC uPD720202, both work flawless with GenericUSBXHCI.kext from MultiBeast - Mavericks 6.2.1, http://www.tonymacx86.com/downloads.php?do=file&id=219

If anyone have T61(p) comes with ExpressCard slot (not PCMCIA). then using above card to get USB3 ports, it should work. 2.5Gbps is really fast for clone or backup purpose.

JaavrOS · #164 Post by **JaavrOS** » Wed Apr 09, 2014 9:12 pm

Yes. Removing those gobs of dried thermal has definitely lowered temps on my T61's and T61P. Lenovo added way too much thermal grease when they built these. I clean the old thermal off, and upgrade the cpu to T8300 or T9300's. Then add a small amount of Arctic Silver 5 to the CPU and GPU. Temps are much lower as a result. (I just use 91% isopropyl and q-tips or coffee filters to remove the old dry grease).

Also a good idea when the laptop is disassembled to blow compressed air thru the fan. And blow air from the outside into the fan vents (while it's disassembled). You'll likely see lots of dust fly out.

jzhang18 · #165 Post by **jzhang18** » Thu Apr 10, 2014 8:39 am

JaavrOS wrote: (I just use 91% isopropyl and q-tips or coffee filters to remove the old dry grease).

I use those 2 bottle of liquid (also $6.99), Arctic Silver Arcticlean Thermal material Remover & Surface Purifier ACN-60ML (2-PC-SET)
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6835100010
The same function as 91% isopropyl which can be easily found in any pharmacy store , but the smell is more like Acetone which is used for paint remover or nail cleaner. q-tips is always needed.

Sieglinde Festkochend · #166 Post by **Sieglinde Festkochend** » Fri Apr 11, 2014 10:26 am

Hey everybody, this is my first post and my english is not good...

now my frankenpad speacs macintosh! Everything is working (one exception) with full gaphicspower

)
my Laptop is a little bit different from yours: Quadro FX 570M with 128 MB Vram. So i edited ma dsdt and SystemInformation shows up 128 MB

not working: DVI

to my confusion in setup installation of mavericks the DVI-Port ist working!

Is there any solution for the DVI-Port? The Backlight is going down if i put the DVI-Kable in DockingStation. Just unplug the Kable and Backlight is going on.

Thank you all for your great work

jzhang18 · #167 Post by **jzhang18** » Fri Apr 11, 2014 12:02 pm

Sieglinde Festkochend wrote: to my confusion in setup installation of mavericks the DVI-Port ist working!

During setup, you did not use any DSDT.aml, Normal boot, it starts to use DSDT.aml (made from T61).
So if you boot your laptop without DSDT.aml (just rename it as DSDT.bak for testing once). Could you get your DVI working? -- mostly it will, but you lose other features.

If that is true, you need to create your own DSDT from (for) your machine(T60p). not borrow it from T61.

JaavrOS · #168 Post by **JaavrOS** » Fri Apr 11, 2014 7:36 pm

jzhang18 wrote:
JaavrOS wrote: (I just use 91% isopropyl and q-tips or coffee filters to remove the old dry grease).
I use those 2 bottle of liquid (also $6.99), Arctic Silver Arcticlean Thermal material Remover & Surface Purifier ACN-60ML (2-PC-SET)
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6835100010
The same function as 91% isopropyl which can be easily found in any pharmacy store , but the smell is more like Acetone which is used for paint remover or nail cleaner. q-tips is always needed.

It says they're non-toxic. That's always better. I'll look for those before I do the next take-apart. Thanks.

Sieglinde Festkochend · #169 Post by **Sieglinde Festkochend** » Sat Apr 12, 2014 2:34 am

Hello jzhang18,

just tested with DSDT=No and DVI is working!

I think, the DSDT ist a patched version for working with VGA (i found a thread in a different forum, can't remember where it was)

my Mainboard is original from T61p 14" 4:3 with FX 570 and 128 MB Vram. Only the Case (Body) is T60 because i want to use a very good Panel (IPS). There is one different thing: 128 instead 256 MB.
I have another T61p with FX 570 and 256 MB (original build from Lenovo) The DVI issue is just the same.

Edit: Sleep is working without DSDT

Maybe it helps to optimize the DSDT

Sieglinde Festkochend · #170 Post by **Sieglinde Festkochend** » Sat Apr 12, 2014 3:14 am

Tested with Advanced Dock and second Graphics-Card GT 640 1 GB Vram: full working with Luxmark Ball 1183 score and DVI

the second Card in Advanced Dock has only 1 PCI-E Lane but is okay for Video-Editing with Cuda

musashiz · #171 Post by **musashiz** » Mon Apr 14, 2014 2:00 am

Hey all. Anyone have madara-san's extra package they would like to share?? id be much appreciated.

Sieglinde Festkochend · #172 Post by **Sieglinde Festkochend** » Mon Apr 14, 2014 3:07 am

Hello musashiz,

have a look at the first posting of this thread

Madara-san · #173 Post by **Madara-san** » Mon Apr 14, 2014 11:04 am

Hey there folks!

Updated kexts, and new link because old ones were deleted:

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/290 ... Extra2.zip

Happy modding

manu89ft · #174 Post by **manu89ft** » Mon Apr 14, 2014 2:57 pm

Thank you very much Madara-san!

JaavrOS · #175 Post by **JaavrOS** » Mon Apr 14, 2014 4:18 pm

Thanks Madara-san!
Testing the new kit now.

edit: The DSDT is working nicely. Thanks!!

The rest of the kit is also working well. Thanks for that.
Just to mention, I replaced the trackpad kext with RehabMan's kext. You might want to try it. It has nice scrolling accelerations and some gestures.
It's available here:
https://bitbucket.org/RehabMan/os-x-voo ... 4-0121.zip

Sieglinde Festkochend · #176 Post by **Sieglinde Festkochend** » Tue Apr 15, 2014 1:39 pm

Thank you Madara-san!

It´s possible to get some informations about the different DSDT´s in your Package?

Madara-san · #177 Post by **Madara-san** » Tue Apr 15, 2014 3:19 pm

Well, they are different "revisions" as I got throgh the patching process. The best is the main DSDT.aml. If there's a request, I'll release a version for the nVidia 140M too.

... but if you really want, I can write a changelog

JaavrOS · #178 Post by **JaavrOS** » Tue Apr 15, 2014 7:45 pm

Madara-san wrote: If there's a request, I'll release a version for the nVidia 140M too.

Can you, please? THANKS!!!

Sieglinde Festkochend · #179 Post by **Sieglinde Festkochend** » Wed Apr 16, 2014 6:33 am

Hey Madara-san,

i am using an T61P with Nvidia Quadro FX 570M and DVI is still not working with this DSDT. Do you think there will be any solution? VGA is working, but not very good for my Display with 1080. Booting with DSDT=No works with DVI, but If i use this Flag there is no shutdown and many other Problems.

Thank you for your help!

jzhang18 · #180 Post by **jzhang18** » Thu Apr 17, 2014 8:41 am

Sieglinde Festkochend wrote:Tested with Advanced Dock and second Graphics-Card GT 640 1 GB Vram: full working with Luxmark Ball 1183 score and DVI
the second Card in Advanced Dock has only 1 PCI-E Lane but is okay for Video-Editing with Cuda

I have Advanced Dock and NVIDIA GT 640 2 GB card, But I cannot make it working. Do you use DSDT or not while putting on Advanced Dock? Any change in BIOS settings?

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