clockrun Posted October 15, 2008 Share Posted October 15, 2008 I got a fresh "Stock 10.5.4" install on a T61 model 7663-BR1, and installed 82566mm driver and batterymeter driver, the final thing i want to do is to enable QE/CI on the NVS140m chipset. I extract the video rom from Lenovo Bios, but it do not contain any NVCAP value in it. Somehow, there is another file named Display0.rom, can be scaned by NVCAP_Maker.app, but i got a strang value: 040000000000ff00000000000000000700000000 After trying a lot of NVCAP value, i read a thread of a user who use NV140m on DELL D830 successfully enabled QE/CI, I decide to use original kext without any injector. and then i found: when i delete the GeforceGA.plugin, system can boot, some graphics kext can be loaded, but with no QE/CI and Resolution support. In About this Mac, it said Display: Type: Display Bus: PCIe PCIe Lane Width: x16 VRAM (Total): 32 MB Vendor: NVIDIA (0x10de) Device ID: 0x0429 Revision ID: 0x00a1 Displays: Display: Resolution: 1280 x 800 Depth: 32-bit Color Core Image: Software Main Display: Yes Mirror: Off Online: Yes Quartz Extreme: Not Supported then i use "ioreg -l -w0" to locate the problem, several lines attract me: | | | +-o .Display_boot <class IONDRVFramebuffer, registered, matched, active, busy 0, retain 10> | | | | | { | | | | | "CFBundleIdentifier" = "com.apple.iokit.IONDRVSupport" | | | | | "IOPMStrictTreeOrder" = Yes | | | | | "IOMatchCategory" = "IOFramebuffer" | | | | | "IOAccelRevision" = 2 | | | | | "IOFBGammaWidth" = 8 | | | | | "IOFBTransform" = 0 | | | | | "IOFBWaitCursorPeriod" = 33333333 | | | | | "IONameMatched" = "display" | | | | | "IONameMatch" = "display" | | | | | "IOFBWaitCursorFrames" = 15 | | | | | "IOFBCursorInfo" = () | | | | | "IOProbeScore" = 20000 | | | | | "IOAccelTypes" = "IOService:/AppleACPIPlatformExpert/PCI0@0/AppleACPIPCI/AGP@1/IOPCI2PCIBridge/VID@0/NVKernel" | | | | | "IOFBGammaHeaderSize" = 12 | | | | | "IOAccelIndex" = 0 | | | | | "graphic-options" = 0 | | | | | "IOFBConfig" = {"dims"=<ffffffffffffffff0000000000000000>,"IODisplayConnectFlags"=0,"IOFBModes"=({"AID"=870640396,"DM"=<000500002003000000000000000000000300000000000000000000000000000000000000>,"DF"=3,"ID"=100}),"IOFB0Hz"=Yes} | | | | | "IOPowerManagement" = {"ChildrenPowerState"=2,"CurrentPowerState"=2,"DriverChangePowerState"=1} | | | | | "IOProviderClass" = "IOPCIDevice" | | | | | "IOCFPlugInTypes" = {"ACCF0000-0000-0000-0000-000a2789904e"="GeForceGA.plugin"} | | | | | "IOFramebufferOpenGLIndex" = 0 | | | | | "IODisplayParameters" = "IOFramebufferParameterHandler is not serializable" | | | | | "IOFBMemorySize" = 33554432 | | | | | "IOGeneralInterest" = "IOCommand is not serializable" | | | | | "IONDRVFramebufferGeneration" = <0100000001000000> | | | | | "IOClass" = "IONDRVFramebuffer" | | | | | "IOFBGammaCount" = 256 | | | | | } | | +-o AGP@1 <class IOPCIDevice, registered, matched, active, busy 0, retain 10> | | | | { | | | | "IOPCIResourced" = Yes | | | | "#address-cells" = <03000000> | | | | "IOName" = "pci-bridge" | | | | "IOInterruptControllers" = ("io-apic-0","IOPCIMessagedInterruptController") | | | | "IOPCIExpressLinkCapabilities" = 33631489 | | | | "class-code" = <00040600> | | | | "IOPowerManagement" = {"ChildrenPowerState"=2,"CurrentPowerState"=2} | | | | "revision-id" = <0c000000> | | | | "IOInterruptSpecifiers" = (<1000000007000000>,<0000000000000100>) | | | | "built-in" = <00> | | | | "acpi-device" = "IOACPIPlatformDevice is not serializable" | | | | "device-id" = <012a0000> | | | | "vendor-id" = <86800000> | | | | "acpi-path" = "IOACPIPlane:/_SB/PCI0@0/AGP@10000" | | | | "ranges" = <0000008200000000000000d00000008200000000000000d00000000000000003000000c200000 00000000e0000000c200000000000000e00000000000000010000000810000000000200000000000 100000000002000000000000000100000> | | | | "name" = "pci-bridge" | | | | "IOPCIExpressLinkStatus" = 4353 | | | | "reg" = <0008000000000000000000000000000000000000> | | | | "compatible" = <"pci8086,2a01","pciclass,060400"> | | | | "IODTPersist" = <780afb2dc00afb2d> | | | | "#size-cells" = <02000000> | | | | "IOPCIConfigured" = Yes | | | | } personally i believed this is the problem, where the graphics card were recognise as using an AGP bus but not PCI bus. Then I try to upgrade my iopcifamily.kext from 2.4.1 to 2.4.4, but it could not help. I will continue my research, anyone who can give me some advice?? Thank you very much. Attach is my ioreg result ioreg.txt Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kytzu Posted October 15, 2008 Share Posted October 15, 2008 good news, thread bookmarked what I just discovered is that T61 140M is incompatible with 10.5.5 Nvidia drivers (I had to use Geforce* and NVD* kexts from 10.5.3 to make the upgrade functional). Since they are changed, it can be a chance to make it work by "tunning" the new drivers also. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
macfan888 Posted October 18, 2008 Share Posted October 18, 2008 Guys, Keep up with the good work! There will be a solution! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
krueger Posted October 24, 2008 Share Posted October 24, 2008 Hi guys! A week has past since this discovery! Is there any news on the subject??? Cheers, Fred Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oldirty Posted November 11, 2008 Share Posted November 11, 2008 I found this on linux kernel site that might be useful for NVS140 solution: http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/peo.../git-acpi.patch Search for this: video.c~git-acpi drivers/acpi/video.c Lots of values for video card that you might be able to decipher. Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
clockrun Posted December 8, 2008 Author Share Posted December 8, 2008 I was totally wrong. Sorry i haven't update this post in time. The new discovery is, the problem could due to the memory detect. i think maybe the video bios was integrated into MB bios, the remap address could be changed but Mac OS fail to detect video bios. this could explain when i delete GeforceGA.Plugin but keep NVDARESMAN.kext in my system, it can boot up normally but report only 32m memory, which means it worked on VESA mode. thanks for giving me the useful link. i will read it after my exam. following is the information Lenovo gave: Reserved Area The following conventional memory addresses are reserved by the BIOS and others. (When Intel Turbo Memory is installed in your system, conventional memory addresses are reserved 12k bytes more.) nVIDIA Quadro NVS 140M models C0000-CEFFF : Reserved for Video BIOS CF000-D0FFF : Reserved for Option ROM of Ethernet (*1) E0000-FFFFF : Reserved for System BIOS nVIDIA Quadro FX 570M models C0000-CF7FF : Reserved for Video BIOS CF800-D17FF : Reserved for Option ROM of Ethernet (*1) E0000-FFFFF : Reserved for System BIOS Intel Graphics Media Accelerator GM965 models C0000-CFFFF : Reserved for Video BIOS D0000-D1FFF : Reserved for Option ROM of Ethernet (*1) E0000-FFFFF : Reserved for System BIOS Note: (*1) This area becomes free by disabling the Internal Network Option ROM option under Config and Network in BIOS Setup Utility. This choice will disable PXE and WOL features. Usable Area The following memory address can be used by the memory manager such as EMM386. nVIDIA Quadro NVS 140M models D1000-DFFFF nVIDIA Quadro FX 570M models D1800-DFFFF Intel Graphics Media Accelerator GM965 models D2000-DFFFF Note: Certain addresses in this area will be reserved for CardBus Controllers or others by Operating Systems. The addresses vary and depend on the design of each Operating System. I am curious what will happened if i do COPY memory content from C0000-CEFFF to other place. will the video card work then? can anyone please tell me some information about this? thank you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nicus Posted December 11, 2008 Share Posted December 11, 2008 keep up your work! would be great to have the 140m working! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Takuro Posted December 14, 2008 Share Posted December 14, 2008 It's been a full year since people have been messing with Thinkpads with 140m's trying to get QE and CI working in Leopard. I think this problem is long over-do for a solution, so I'll definitely cheer you on. I'd like to go back to college in my spring semester with one of the only fully functional installation of Leopard on the Thinkpads my school gave us. Hehe... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nicus Posted December 23, 2008 Share Posted December 23, 2008 are there any news? hope someone get this thing to work Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Defender666 Posted January 1, 2009 Share Posted January 1, 2009 any progress to this? I'm also really desperate with my nvs140m Anyone tried the new 10.5.6 ?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kabal74 Posted January 2, 2009 Share Posted January 2, 2009 any progress to this? I'm also really desperate with my nvs140m Anyone tried the new 10.5.6 ?? I'm a T61 (7663) owner and I tried this morning with IPC OSX86 10.5.6 but it doesn't work !! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Defender666 Posted January 2, 2009 Share Posted January 2, 2009 I'm a T61 (7663) owner and I tried this morning with IPC OSX86 10.5.6 but it doesn't work !! :-( Thank you for your feedback Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeezoflip Posted January 16, 2009 Share Posted January 16, 2009 guys......... please get this to work. i took leopard off my t61 for now because the sound kext would always {censored} out, no sleep support, and the graphics obviously. if you could get the graphics to work, i would most likely put 10.5.6 on and just learn to live without sound and sleep support for now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nicus Posted January 19, 2009 Share Posted January 19, 2009 i would like to help but i think i don't have enough knowledge i have a t61 with the graphic-chip mentioned above. i have no idea where to start building a driver for a graphics card. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pfor Posted March 25, 2009 Share Posted March 25, 2009 Any progress in this problem? Is there any information? Many Thinkpad users are on the same boat Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
f0rcegr0wn Posted April 23, 2010 Share Posted April 23, 2010 Again, any news guys? I managed to install Snow Leopard 10.6.2 on T61p. Back in 10.5.7 even with the framebuffer I was getting acceptable performance opening and closing windows. Now it's dragging quite a bit. How can I determine how much memory is reported to OS X ? Any ideas how to speed things up even in framebuffer? Currently screen is running slower than in a vmware image... Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hiqu Posted April 26, 2010 Share Posted April 26, 2010 Again, any news guys? I managed to install Snow Leopard 10.6.2 on T61p. Back in 10.5.7 even with the framebuffer I was getting acceptable performance opening and closing windows. Now it's dragging quite a bit. How can I determine how much memory is reported to OS X ? Any ideas how to speed things up even in framebuffer? Currently screen is running slower than in a vmware image... Thanks Just use vanilla kexts and remove NVDAResman.kext. Then use any method (efi, injectors) for 8600GT or something and set NVRAM to 256MB. You should get good performance. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cdyFlorian Posted February 19, 2012 Share Posted February 19, 2012 Good News! Install mountain Lion and you have full Graphics Support on a T61p with Nvidia Quadro 570m! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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