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

[mentorek]

download this or this

dump should differ from yours,- it can explain (clear) something
VoodooHDA supplements the data received from Linux dump.
Helps to build sequence nodes.
It can help.

Well, it took some time to download this DVD but finally I've got it.

Check out the attachments. There are Vista verbs, verbs modified for use with OSX and codec dump.

I hope that you could find those information useful.

cheers,
mentorek

Attached File(s)

 codec_dump_cx20551.txt ( 4.79K ) Number of downloads: 5
 verbs.rtf ( 888bytes ) Number of downloads: 2

 

[Silo]

Hello
I'm reading this forum for over years but till now I didn't need to ask questions.
I'm getting problem that my graphics card fan stops working under leopard (10.5.7).
Fan is spinning till reading kexts during start and then it stops working.
It's getting very hot so I have to reboot every 20 min. so it can cool during booting.
Is there any way that my fan will ever work.
Till now I haven't activate QE/CI so graphics was quite cool, but now when it's running, I'm getting serious problem with hot.

Thanks for any advice and sorry for my English

[mentorek]

Hello
I'm reading this forum for over years but till now I didn't need to ask questions.
I'm getting problem that my graphics card fan stops working under leopard (10.5.7).
Fan is spinning till reading kexts during start and then it stops working.
It's getting very hot so I have to reboot every 20 min. so it can cool during booting.
Is there any way that my fan will ever work.
Till now I haven't activate QE/CI so graphics was quite cool, but now when it's running, I'm getting serious problem with hot.

Thanks for any advice and sorry for my English

Did you try to use DSDT override? It should help solving your issue.

[jazzminos]

Hi, mentorek! Do You have any success on sound?

To Silo. About fans - open laptop and connect fan power cord to the nearest USB port, You can also attach a regulator. This was the only way for me to get my fan work. I can't help You with graphics, because my graphics is GMA950. It work absolutely normal after DSDT override.

[mentorek]

Hi, mentorek! Do You have any success on sound?

Well, just the microphone and headphone port are working with the driver from clubber_77 work.
I would like to experiment further but I have no reference (i.e. linux dump used to create this driver) and I cannot find a good tutorial anymore.
Would love to have external speakers working and line-in would be great as well...

[Silo]

Did you try to use DSDT override? It should help solving your issue.

Yes.
My DSDT was made with DSDT Patcher GUI with -f cause had 2 errors and 16 warnings.
I was trying with "New HPET option" and without but with same result.
Maybe I'll attach my DSDT.aml and lspci so you can see if it will work.
I also don't know if to apply patch I need just to put file in / or I have to put th in boot.plist?
I'm using latest Chameleon 2.0 rc1.

Thanks

Attached File(s)

 DSDT.aml.zip ( 13.52K ) Number of downloads: 2
 lspci.txt.zip ( 923bytes ) Number of downloads: 1

 

[geiman]

Yes.
My DSDT was made with DSDT Patcher GUI with -f cause had 2 errors and 16 warnings.
I was trying with "New HPET option" and without but with same result.
Maybe I'll attach my DSDT.aml and lspci so you can see if it will work.
I also don't know if to apply patch I need just to put file in / or I have to put th in boot.plist?
I'm using latest Chameleon 2.0 rc1.

Thanks

You're going to want to look into those errors; I had the same issue, and ended up having to edit it myself to get it to compile correctly. When I would force compile, the DSDT never did anything good for me, in fact if I remember correctly I think it made things worse. But, after successfully editing it myself it has solved a host of problems, and made my laptop very stable.

And yes, to install you simply need to place it in "/" however make sure your boot loader supports loading DSDT.

[mentorek]

Yes.
My DSDT was made with DSDT Patcher GUI with -f cause had 2 errors and 16 warnings.
I was trying with "New HPET option" and without but with same result.
Maybe I'll attach my DSDT.aml and lspci so you can see if it will work.
I also don't know if to apply patch I need just to put file in / or I have to put th in boot.plist?
I'm using latest Chameleon 2.0 rc1.

Thanks

Check out my fixed and compiled DSDT.aml's. One has been made with 1gig and the second with 4gigs.

cheers,
mentorek

Attached File(s)

 DSDTs.zip ( 27.44K ) Number of downloads: 4

 

[jazzminos]

Hi, friends... It seems that we have good new with sound Can I help You somehow?

[Silo]

Check out my fixed and compiled DSDT.aml's. One has been made with 1gig and the second with 4gigs.

cheers,
mentorek

MEN !!!! You ROCK )))
Thank you for your DSDT
My GPU Fan started to sinning.
It spin now for over 2 min, but I don't care, even if i will spin all the time, I'm glad that you made it for me.

It doesn't spin full speed and I don't know what will be in 2 hours, but for now it is better than have to every 30 min reboot and waiting in bios to gpu chill down

Thanks again and good luck with our audio

[jazzminos]

Hi, mentorek! It is very strange, but with Your new DSDT.aml (4 Gigs) I loose my DVD drive. Although with this .aml I have all information about my sound in System Profiler (line in, mic, speakers). But there is no real sound. With Your OLD DSDT.aml, that You have posted few pages back my DVD drive works fine. With this OLD file I have less info in SP (speaker & CD ONLY). In this case I have no real sound either.

With great respect, jazzminos.

[mentorek]

Hi, mentorek! It is very strange, but with Your new DSDT.aml (4 Gigs) I loose my DVD drive. Although with this .aml I have all information about my sound in System Profiler (line in, mic, speakers). But there is no real sound. With Your OLD DSDT.aml, that You have posted few pages back my DVD drive works fine. With this OLD file I have less info in SP (speaker & CD ONLY). In this case I have no real sound either.

With great respect, jazzminos.

Those informations in SystemPrefs are not of any use. It's just a simple representation taken from codec verbs and put in the DSDT. To get a real sound one should put correct information in PathMaps of the AppleHDA.kext. I have tried but with no results. The only (partially) working kext I've found is the one linked by Clubber_77.

As for DVD - I have no clue why it's missing for you with different aml files as both consist the same data inside. Maybe it has something to do with memory size or being reserved in the DSDT. You can also diff your aml file against mine and update yours wherever it needs to be updated.

[Silo]

Those informations in SystemPrefs are not of any use. It's just a simple representation taken from codec verbs and put in the DSDT. To get a real sound one should put correct information in PathMaps of the AppleHDA.kext. I have tried but with no results. The only (partially) working kext I've found is the one linked by Clubber_77.

As for DVD - I have no clue why it's missing for you with different aml files as both consist the same data inside. Maybe it has something to do with memory size or being reserved in the DSDT. You can also diff your aml file against mine and update yours wherever it needs to be updated.

Hi Strange thing occurred.

First after applying your dsdt (1gb) my gpu fan started to working.
Then I noticed, that my wifi card that is in pcmcia slot become unstable, and cause random shutdown.
So I changed do DSDT (4GB), but then I couldn't even boot my computer - it stuck on sth about IRQ's
So I have to boot with Leo DVD, start Terminal, delete DSDT(4gb) from root, and after booting again my gpu fan still working (as it was with DSDT(1gb))...but now my wifi card doesn't make random shutdown any more.
The onyly lag I noticed is that boot time takes a LOT longer, and mouse "jitter" so I have to work with TouchPad.
And any graphics animations like "show desktop", or bouncing application in dock whet it starts is just "jitter" like QE/CI was not working...
Still thank you for your help guys.

Silo

[mentorek]

So I have to boot with Leo DVD, start Terminal, delete DSDT(4gb) from root...

In this case you can always boot with

CODE

DSDT=whateveryouwant.aml

boot option and do the magic you want.

And the jitter problems - I advise you to create your own DSDT. Use DSDTPatcher and correct the lines that might still be a problem and compile the file yourself. There is a big chance that each DSDT has some specific parts of code here and there that might cause your lappy to behave unstable.
I cannot test PCMCIA slot as I haven't any hardware using it anymore.

For me, it's still a mystery how is it possible to boot OSX without Disabler.kext on Toshiba.

EDIT #1:
Looks like the RC2 of Chameleon fixes that issue. I can now boot without Disabler.kext.

I will try out iPC during the weekend.

EDIT #2:
Never happened.

Hopefully it will allow me to enjoy firewire connection at full speed...

EDIT #3:
Using all NVRAM kexts didn't change a thing as it's supposed to, but... "full-secure" warning went away!

[jazzminos]

I don't use Disabler.kext... I even have CPUPM.kext loaded

[mentorek]

Slightly off topic:

I have managed to get speedstep and fans running without VoodooPower.kext!

What I did was a change in smbios.plist from MacbookPro4,1 to MacbookPro1,1. (you will have to use Chameleon/EFI10 to use smbios.plist).
Make sure that you have ACPI_SMC_PlatformPlugin loaded. (Disabler.kext might prevent it to be loaded).

At the moment I'm running my Tosh with ca. 64 deg. C on both cores (when idle) and 1000 MHz and going up when needed.

I know that the temperature is still a bit high... maybe there is a room for improvement.

What I've just noticed is that when I plug in my FireWire hardware the CPU clock goes up to 2gigs and hardly ever goes down to 1gig... I still don't know how those two might be related - I thought that FireWire should not use CPU power.

Anyway, it's a nice thing to have speedstep and fans running. Maybe you will be able to use this to enable yours.

[mentorek]

Small howto:

Prerequisites: OSX 10.5.7, No Disabler.kext, DSDT.aml, some software to check CPU temperature and frequency (I have used Hardware Monitor)

0. REMEMBER ABOUT BACKUPS!!! Use this guide at your own risk, I do not take any responsibility for any harm for you and/or your hardware or any inconvenience caused by following this guide.

1. Install Chameleon 2 RC2

2. Create smbios.plist file in

CODE

/Extra

folder (use mine as reference)

3. Edit Info.plist in

CODE

/System/Library/Extensions/IOPlatformPluginFamily.kext/Contents/PlugIns/ACPI_SMC_PlatformPlugin.kext/Contents

4. Find a key PLimitDict and add two nodes as follows:

CODE

<key>MacBookPro1,1</key>
<integer>0</integer>

Note: MacBookPro1,1 should have to match your SMproductname from smbios.plist (see step 1).

5. Clear the Extensions caches and touch Extensions folder (I used to do this by hand but recently I've went back to OSX86Tools app with excellent results).
6. Reboot your machine and check if your fans and speedstep are working.

Enjoy!

Attached File(s)

 smbios.plist.zip ( 913bytes ) Number of downloads: 2

 

[magnat2]

Could anyone swap the Intel wireless card for a broadcom on toshiba p100 and get it working? I bought a mini-PCI broadcom 4311 and when I put it on my toshi it just doesnt boot! Any solutions? Any help would be appreciated

By the way, sound only works for me with 1 GB ram, I had 2 before and was about to give up of getting sound to work, then I read this somewere and took 1 GB of and bam, sound working
Thanks guys

[Silo]

Could anyone swap the Intel wireless card for a broadcom on toshiba p100 and get it working? I bought a mini-PCI broadcom 4311 and when I put it on my toshi it just doesnt boot! Any solutions? Any help would be appreciated

By the way, sound only works for me with 1 GB ram, I had 2 before and was about to give up of getting sound to work, then I read this somewere and took 1 GB of and bam, sound working
Thanks guys

I've got the same problem with the same card.
It's recognized as airport in my second asus laptop but toshiba doesn't boot at all.
I've made some loooong test and teped (covered) all pins on my broadcom card,and then uncovered pin after pin until my laptop stopped to boot. What I've discovered is that only covering 45th pin made my laptop to boot, but then it doesn't discover usb and my built-in keyboard, so I cannot boot in Leo, cause my boot loader wait for "enter" key to boot into.
I had no time yet to try what will be if I'll boot into but maybe this weekend I'll try.
Hope that ill hope someone to discover something about f....n toshiba bios.

[mentorek]

I've got the same problem with the same card.
It's recognized as airport in my second asus laptop but toshiba doesn't boot at all.
I've made some loooong test and teped (covered) all pins on my broadcom card,and then uncovered pin after pin until my laptop stopped to boot. What I've discovered is that only covering 45th pin made my laptop to boot, but then it doesn't discover usb and my built-in keyboard, so I cannot boot in Leo, cause my boot loader wait for "enter" key to boot into.
I had no time yet to try what will be if I'll boot into but maybe this weekend I'll try.
Hope that ill hope someone to discover something about f....n toshiba bios.

I had swapped Intel to Atheros based card by Gigabyte. Working flawlessly! Don't matter if using 1gig (2x512MB) or 4 gigs (2x2gigs).