Leopard on a Thinkpad T60

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in4m8ionman · #1 Post by **in4m8ionman** » Wed Nov 07, 2007 12:11 pm

Well,

As detailed in the following topic:

http://forum.thinkpads.com/viewtopic.php?t=50197

I have successfully migrated from Tiger to Leo on my T60.
I am using it as my main machine right now

Things that Work:
Audio - Worked out of the box
Ethernet - Worked out of the box
Wireless - Atheros (Thinkpad a/b/g) - Check this out - http://forum.thinkpads.com/viewtopic.php?t=50197
Video with 1400 x 1050 resolution - Worked out of the box
Power Management - This is now working - I did not apply the permissions and once I did - it works - I used this thread to get it working - http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showtopic=14912
working - iTunes - Now works - the latest iTunes authorizes and shows purchased movies well.

Things I Have Not Tested:
PC Card Slot

Issues:
Video/Mouse - I have some tearing going on

HOW TO

1) I made the Brazilmac 10.5 single layer DVD from my original disk (I have a mini) and used that to update - I tried my original disk and it would not do it.

2) I created a fresh install of Tiger 10.4.8 and updated it to work using the posts in this forum. Do not install additional languages, X11 or anything else - if you do - The 10.5 Brazilmac Disk will not work.

3) I put in the 10.5 BrazilMac Disk and upgraded over the tiger partition

4) Once it was installed, I booted to the dvd again, opened the terminal and modified the Postpatch Script using PICO.

What I found is that you HAVE TO EDIT THE POSTPATCH SCRIPT! I assumed that I didn't, but - the first several lines are specific to your PC - You have to change the XXX to your user directory and make sure the other directories are pointing to the right place. If you do not do this - you will have that frustrating immediate reboot problem.

5) I applied the newly modified Brazilmac patch and rebooted.

6) I performed all the typical first boot stuff

7) I fixed wireless with mfbernstein's suggestions at the bottom of this post - http://forum.thinkpads.com/viewtopic.php?t=50197

That is it.

Any suggestions on things not working would be good.

Thanks

j

mfbernstein · #2 Post by **mfbernstein** » Fri Nov 09, 2007 2:22 pm

Are you sure you're using iTunes 7.2? Current version is 7.5. I just tried, and I have no problem authorizing...

in4m8ionman · #3 Post by **in4m8ionman** » Fri Nov 09, 2007 2:53 pm

Hey,

I checked - looks like I am running 7.2 (34).

Are you saying that you are running 7.5 and it is authorizing?

j

mfbernstein · #4 Post by **mfbernstein** » Fri Nov 09, 2007 3:28 pm

Yes. iTunes 7.5 (19) and QuickTime 7.3 (on a ThinkPad X61). You can use Apple's Software Updater to do the update, or download it from Apple's site. IIRC, iTunes 7.4.3 (the version on the Leopard install disk) works too.

My guess would be that version 7.2 of iTunes is too old for Leopard, hence the authorization process goes awry.

mike20030405 · #5 Post by **mike20030405** » Fri Nov 09, 2007 6:03 pm

Cool! very attempting!!
Are the dual core working?
What is your machine's spec?

in4m8ionman · #6 Post by **in4m8ionman** » Fri Nov 09, 2007 10:27 pm

mfbernstein,

Thanks Again - 7.5 and 7.3 are working great!

mike,

Yes - Both cores are working.

I have a T60 with a 200GB Hitatchi Sata Disk, 2 GB of RAM, a Thinkpad a/b/g wireless card and the plain old intel 950 video card.

It is really working well.

j

michaelknauth · #7 Post by **michaelknauth** » Mon Nov 12, 2007 12:55 am

Ok, I have a question - it may be dumb.

I had OS X 10.4.10 installed on a T60 and then installed 10.5 over the top of it. I assume it performed an upgrade. I used the version of Leopard packed by ToH.

The good news is that it worked without issue. There were no additional patches that were needed to make it work better of even to boot - I find this odd as other posters seem to be needing an array of fixes to get their installs to work.

Here comes the ignorant part. The packed version of Leopard from ToH mentions RC2 during the install. Does this mean that I've installed a Release Candidate on the device? Is that possibly the reason why I have had the sane issues as other users? Or do the letters RC2 have absolutely nothing to do with the release level of the install?

in4m8ionman · #8 Post by **in4m8ionman** » Mon Nov 12, 2007 12:37 pm

I think you can check on the "about this mac" application - mine shows Mac OS X 10.5 (9A581) under the software twisty near the bottom.

j

michaelknauth · #9 Post by **michaelknauth** » Tue Nov 13, 2007 5:55 am

Ok, I've had a look, and all it says is "Version 10.5". There isn't a build version present in the "About this Mac" dialog.

nandaiyo · #10 Post by **nandaiyo** » Tue Nov 13, 2007 5:51 pm

A few issues left for Leopard and T60p's:

- (carried over from 10.4) Still doesn't support widescreen thinkpad resolutions. 1400x1050 is the highest resolution I can get. Unfortunately this is skewed on my screen, which has a native res of 1680x1050. I tried multiple workarounds, including editing the boot.plist, with no avail.

- Networking (ethernet) doesn't seem to work. It seems to recognize the presence of the ethernet hardware, but I cannot get it to work, even after trying the solutions on insanelymac. I'll keep trying.

- (carried over from 10.4) no wifi for Intel 3945ABG

milstein · #11 Post by **milstein** » Wed Dec 12, 2007 1:14 am

For "power management", does it mean the battery power monitoring?

How about sleep and suspend to disk function? How can one make that function of OSX work on a Thinkpad?

BOBSONATOR · #12 Post by **BOBSONATOR** » Wed Jan 30, 2008 7:39 pm

Does sleep work, if so,

I plan on doing this installation

1. Getting an Atheros Thinkpad 11a/b/g
2. iATKOS + EFI
3. Patch Kexts myself,

I Just want to know if anyone has gotten sleep to work

in4m8ionman · #13 Post by **in4m8ionman** » Mon Feb 04, 2008 4:23 pm

Sleep does not work for me - I have tried it a few times - but never spent a lot of time on it.

I understand that with EFI - faux sleep works - but I have not messed with that either.

As for Power Management - that works pretty well - I know when my laptop is plugged in and when my battery is really low...

yada yada yada.

j

TylerDurden70 · #14 Post by **TylerDurden70** » Tue Feb 12, 2008 3:22 pm

BOBSONATOR wrote:Does sleep work, if so,

I plan on doing this installation

1. Getting an Atheros Thinkpad 11a/b/g
2. iATKOS + EFI
3. Patch Kexts myself,

I Just want to know if anyone has gotten sleep to work

Please let me know if you can get your Atheros wireless to work, if so how. I have followed every guide but still not luck.

milstein · #15 Post by **milstein** » Sat Feb 16, 2008 10:48 pm

in4m8ionman wrote:...
Things that Work:
...
Video with 1400 x 1050 resolution - Worked out of the box
...
Things I Have Not Tested:

Hi in4m8ionman

What graphic card / chipset is on your T60?
Do you have to do modify the boot.plist?

minhi · #16 Post by **minhi** » Sat Feb 23, 2008 3:21 pm

TylerDurden70 wrote:
BOBSONATOR wrote:Does sleep work, if so,

I plan on doing this installation

1. Getting an Atheros Thinkpad 11a/b/g
2. iATKOS + EFI
3. Patch Kexts myself,

I Just want to know if anyone has gotten sleep to work
Please let me know if you can get your Atheros wireless to work, if so how. I have followed every guide but still not luck.

I just put an Atheros card into mine and it works (use the steps above from mfbernstein), what step are you stuck at? does leopard detect the airport card?

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