Release for Toshiba Satellite P10x users: modded BIOS to try and activate Conexant sound chip, already working on three moddels Options

[mentorek]

Please, tell me from where can I download newest Chameleon and how to install it.

http://tinyurl.com/cjoxak

If you use case-sensitive filesystem you will have to use different boot1h than from the package. Let me know and I'll help you with that.

[jazzminos]

I've used Your DSDT.aml. I have no boot problems, graphics and network work fine. I've got additional information about HDA in System Profiler. But fan doesn't work...

[jazzminos]

Now my fan works in normal mode!!! Chameleon does wonderful thing... How to enable -v verbose mode in it? I am completely new to this boot loader. Now my temperature with no load is about 53-54 degrees and with heavy load (permissions repair) njt higher than 62-63 degrees Wonderful! Thanks.

I'm going to update to 10.5.7 now and check if it works.

Thanks again.

With great respect, jazzminos.

[jazzminos]

Success on 10.5.7!!! I've noticed that fan stops at USB controller detection! When I downloaded and installed newest USBFamily drivers from here - http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showtopic=117029 my fans began to work absolutely fine. 49-50 degrees when slightly loaded. That is absolutely clear! USB is greatly involved in ACPI sleep-weakup functions... And thus if there is no driver loaded ACPI doesn't work correctly.

With great respect, jazzminos.

[mentorek]

Unfortunately it doesn't work in 10.5.7.

I don't know how to boot with verbose mode... Frankly I didn't need it.

I'm on 10.5.7 now. Try to downgrade do 4.20 BIOS and see what happens...

Gotta check those USB kexts. Thanks for a hint.

Success on 10.5.7!!! I've noticed that fan stops at USB controller detection! When I downloaded and installed newest USBFamily drivers from here - http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showtopic=117029 my fans began to work absolutely fine. 49-50 degrees when slightly loaded. That is absolutely clear! USB is greatly involved in ACPI sleep-weakup functions... And thus if there is no driver loaded ACPI doesn't work correctly.

With great respect, jazzminos.

Could you please upload this kext somewhere (rapidshare/mediafire/...)? I cannot download it from the link provided by Slice.
Thanks

[jazzminos]

Hi. To enter verbose mode simply enter -v on OS selection screen ))))))

Here's the kext http://rapidshare.com/files/237347865/IOUS...y.kext.zip.html

I noticed that my method works but not every time I boot... And my ethernet work not always too... Sometimes kext is not loaded. There are some errors.

With great respect, jazzminos.

[jazzminos]

On Bluetooth - http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=316358
On Fan Speed Control in Linux - http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/How_to_control_fan_speed

[mentorek]

Hi. To enter verbose mode simply enter -v on OS selection screen ))))))

Here's the kext http://rapidshare.com/files/237347865/IOUS...y.kext.zip.html

I noticed that my method works but not every time I boot... And my ethernet work not always too... Sometimes kext is not loaded. There are some errors.

With great respect, jazzminos.

Hey,

Thanks for the kext, I've already installed it. No difference for me (I've been using PCGenUSBsomething.kext) for quite some time.

I'm not using ethernet so I cannot tell. I haven't had any issues with it whatsoever.

As for verbose mode... I have only a white progress bar during OS loading. No usual console messages.
Maybe I need to enable themes and stuff...

cheers,
mentorek

[mentorek]

Hey,

Thanks for the kext, I've already installed it. No difference for me (I've been using PCGenUSBsomething.kext) for quite some time.

I'm not using ethernet so I cannot tell. I haven't had any issues with it whatsoever.

As for verbose mode... I have only a white progress bar during OS loading. No usual console messages.
Maybe I need to enable themes and stuff...

cheers,
mentorek

I've managed to get Bluetooth to work. Don't know for how long though...



Anyway, I've tried probably most of the different settings with regards to our beloved Conexant and I've minimized "Sound assertion" errors down to 4. Interestingly, when AppleHDA is being loaded during boot I cannot unload it later. It's complaining that some parts of it do have some instances - I assume those are busy or something.

[jazzminos]

Please write Your install configuration... I use:
1. iAtkos 5i 10.5.5 as install DVD with:
a) EFI 9 bootloader (I install Chameleon 2 RC1 later)
Apple Decrypt
c) SMBIOSEfi MacBook Air 1.1 by ChunNanh
d) Disabler.kext
e) OpenHalt Restart. But it seems that it is needed.
f) stock kernel
g) fully stock ACPI
j) efi string for GMA950
i) Your DSDT.aml to get graphics work

2. Original 10.5.6 Combo Update.

BUT the last time I installed... My system start to fall with no root device error just after installing of IOPCFamily and IOPCIFamily. It says that there is error with ACPIPCI.

And I can't understand Chameleon options... Do we need to change something? Do we need to to use South Bridge kexts?

With great respect, jazzminos.

[mentorek]

Please write Your install configuration... I use:
1. iAtkos 5i 10.5.5 as install DVD with:
a) EFI 9 bootloader (I install Chameleon 2 RC1 later)
Apple Decrypt
c) SMBIOSEfi MacBook Air 1.1 by ChunNanh
d) Disabler.kext
e) OpenHalt Restart. But it seems that it is needed.
f) stock kernel
g) fully stock ACPI
j) efi string for GMA950
i) Your DSDT.aml to get graphics work

2. Original 10.5.6 Combo Update.

BUT the last time I installed... My system start to fall with no root device error just after installing of IOPCFamily and IOPCIFamily. It says that there is error with ACPIPCI.

And I can't understand Chameleon options... Do we need to change something? Do we need to to use South Bridge kexts?

With great respect, jazzminos.

Kalyway 10.5.1 + Apple 10.5.6 Combo Update & Apple 10.5.7 Combo Update

IOPCIFamily.kext + IOPCCardFamily.kext + Disabler.kext
VoodooPower.kext + VoodooBatter.kext

Chameleon 2.0 rc1 + DSDT.aml

I think I have SMBIOS kext changed - not sure though.

Only problem I have nowadays is that I've lost sleep functionality.

[mentorek]

Hi guys,

I've found this little guide to enable devices using retail drivers. It involves messing with DSDT but might be worth to try. I haven't check if that would work with 0x14f15047 but you never know...

Here is the link:

http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=168014

Cheers,
mentorek

[jazzminos]

Hi, Mentorek. I'd like to ask You if You can pack with zip or rar and upload Your Extensions and Extra folders from 10.5.7. This will help me to find out what is wrong with my system... with my fans.

Thanks beforehands.

With great respect, jazzminos.

[jazzminos]

Hi... I suppose that it is possible to change the sensors info in i8k driver kext. Here is the source code: http://i8kfan.googlecode.com/files/I8kfan_....0d1-source.zip . And here's my P100 sensors info... If we can find an experienced coder...

Do You have any ideas on this?

With great respect, jazzminos.

Attached File(s)

 Sensors_Info.txt ( 15.38K ) Number of downloads: 2

 

[mentorek]

Hi... I suppose that it is possible to change the sensors info in i8k driver kext. Here is the source code: http://i8kfan.googlecode.com/files/I8kfan_....0d1-source.zip . And here's my P100 sensors info... If we can find an experienced coder...

Do You have any ideas in this?

With great respect, jazzminos.

Hi Jazzminos,

These are my Extensions: http://rapidshare.com/files/242368270/Extensions.rar

Check them out, hopefully it will work for you properly.

Cheers,
mentorek

[jazzminos]

I've installed Your extensions... Now there is no boot device... Do You use Chameleon 2 bootloader? Share Your Extra folder, please. It seems that I lost some ATA driver.

[jazzminos]

It seems that it works! I can hear my fans... But the boot process is somewhat strange... At first system says that it can't find the root device... Then it say something about Bluetooth... Then after 15-20 seconds it begins to boot from HDD... Very strange. My previous configuration boot was MUCH faster. I also found significant defferences between my and yours Extensions... A lot of kexts have different sizes... There some kexts that I didn't have in my folder. Why do You use Disabler.kext... As I understand we don't need it as long as we use DSDT Override... You didn't delete Don't Steal MacOSX.kext... Questions

Please, share Your Extra folder... I think that when I use it my boot will be faster...

Thanks... I'm not sure that this was successful... I need to test further.

AND I get some problems with VoodooPower... Now it recognizes my LOWES CPU frequency as 1600MHz instead of 800MHz... That is a problem... I have CoreDuo 1.73.

With great respect, jazzminos.

[mentorek]

...

Hmm... glad to see that your fans are spinning now.

As for all the extensions, those are messy because I've used Kalyway 10.5.1 as base and had installed at least 10.5.6 and 10.5.7. It's quite old installation so do not expect it to be tidy

EDIT:
I'm not using Extra. My boot is ok... at least acceptable.
And as for VoodooPower.kext it's saying my lowest freq is 1002 MHz. I think that I had a similar value in Linux.

[jazzminos]

It seems that there is no success Fans are not stable... Today I had to use a great fan that stands on the floor... It makes my laptop cool! I think that there is a problem with SMBIOS. It has a great influence on SMCPlatformPlugin... And this plugin contains thermal profiles...

And I got another problem... I get console messages EVERY time like this:
10.06.09 20:12:42 com.apple.launchd[1] (com.uphuck.speedstep2[766]) posix_spawnp("/Library/SpeedStep2/IntelEnhancedSpeedStep", ...): No such file or directory

That began after dleting SpeedStep2 directory from \Library\StartupItems

Do You know how to fix this?

Thanks.

With great respect, jazzminos.

[geiman]

This post is way off topic, but since most of us in this thread have the same or extremely similar laptops, I figured it was as good of a place as any to post. I've been playing with snow leopard for most of the day, and I have to say it is awesome. Right now, I'm typing this on my new snow leopard install, with sound, power management, battery recognition, gfx acceleration, both cores working, etc. (Vanilla kernel as well!) I think this is going to replace Leopard for me now!

Just thought you'd like to know our laptops will play very nicely with Snow Leopard

-matt