[Howto] Clevo M570RU Build for 10.6

[ajacocks]

Update 2009/10/30: battery and charging status now works!

Update 2009/12/28: added modified AppleHDA.kext for 10.6.2

 

There don't seem to be many folks who have tried to run OS X (any version) on Clevo (or Sager, etc.) hardware. I have a Clevo M570RU-U 17" desktop replacement laptop, and these are the kexts and config items that it took to get this beast up and running.

 

Things that worked out of the box:

1) VESA graphics

2) Realtek 8169 GigE (though, no Bonjour) Bonjour now works fine, thanks to blackosx.

3) SATA

4) PATA

5) USB UHCI and EHCI

6) bluetooth

 

Things I needed to install:

 

1) Chameleon 2.0rc2 (build 640)

2) VoodooHDA 0.2.2 for 10.6

3) VoodooPS2 1.1.0 for 10.6

4) AppleACPIPS2Nub.kext (came with VoodooPS2)

5) NullCPUPowerManagement.kext

6) OpenHaltRestart.kext

7) fakesmc.kext

8) VoodooBattery 1.3.0 for 10.6 (thanks, Superhai!)

9) modified AppleHDA.kext, for Realtek ALC883

 

Things that still don't work:

1) sleep

2) ACPI battery/power status

 

Notes:

I installed Chameleon onto the EFI partition of my HDD. Under that EFI partition, under Extra/Extensions, I installed all of the other additional kexts, except for VoodooHDA, which wouldn't work, when installed there, and VoodooBattery.

 

My com.apple.Boot.plist (from EFI/Extra):

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
 <!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple Computer//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
 <plist version="1.0">
 <dict>
	 <key>Kernel</key>
	 <string>mach_kernel</string>
	 <key>Kernel Flags</key>
	 <string>arch=i386</string>
	 <key>Legacy Logo</key>
	 <string>Yes</string>
	 <key>GraphicsEnabler</key>
	 <string>Yes</string>
	 <key>Timeout</key>
	 <string>5</string>
	 <key>ForceHPET</key>
	 <string>Yes</string>
	 <key>DSDT</key>
	 <string>/DSDT.aml</string>
	 <key>Graphics Mode</key>
	 <string>1920x1200x32</string>
 </dict>
 </plist>

 

My dsdt.dsl (and dsdt.aml) are attached.

 

Any comments, experiences, or suggestions are most welcome. Many thanks to the many folks who helped me with this system, both here, and elsewhere. You all know who you are, and you're the heart of the community.

 

Thanks!

dsdt.zip

AppleHDA.kext.zip