hijklll Posted August 13, 2010 Share Posted August 13, 2010 Hi everyone. I am a long-time Mac user. I received a Toshiba Satellite L455 laptop as a gift and was immediately excited at the prospect of hackintoshing it. It came with windows, and after a long day of futzing with norton and kaspersky - (I assumed osx86 research could lead to sketchy sites) - I decided to just format the drive and install Ubuntu. After much frustration following leads from LifeHacker and reddit - (lots of complicated business involving various modified OSX Installers) - I stumbled upon Chameleon, which allows you to use a retail Snow Leopard install disk. So I downloaded the [url="http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/"]#####[/url] image, burned it, booted it, and Snow Leopard installed like a dream! On a TOSHIBA machine! How exciting! I was surprised at how everything seemed to be working! Audio, usb ports, battery, dedicated keyboard buttons, etc, all working out of the 'box'. Two pretty big caveats, however. No wifi (Realtek 8187), and I'm stuck in 1024x768 (Intel 4500). I've actually found promising-looking solutions for both.. but have run into major roadblocks in each time. I am still completely without wifi; and as for the resolution, well... my screen is now a beautiful 1366x768, but now there's no audio, keyboard, or mouse. Not to mention I can no longer boot into my Ubuntu partition! I'm looking forward to posing my questions to the appropriate forums. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
veamon Posted August 25, 2010 Share Posted August 25, 2010 Could you tell me how you got the graphics working? Does it support QE, or did you just up the resolution? I have the same laptop and am dual booting while I try and figure this out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hijklll Posted August 25, 2010 Author Share Posted August 25, 2010 Could you tell me how you got the graphics working? Does it support QE, or did you just up the resolution? I have the same laptop and am dual booting while I try and figure this out. Right, so.. booting and installing with Chameleon [url="http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/"]#####[/url] and a retail Snow disc, you get 1024x768, no QE, no way to change the resolution. However if you download the latest release of the Chameleon RC4, it comes with some instructions to install the Chameleon bootloader via the command line which lets you boot your retail Snow install without the [url="http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/"]#####[/url] disc. After doing this, my screen was suddenly the full 1366x768, but loads of stuff that was working before ceased to work: mouse, keyboard, etc. I didn't check at the time if CI or QE was working. Our laptop has an Intel 4500 which has never been used in an Apple branded product, and therefore there are no native drivers for it. AFAIK, the community is putting off creating custom drivers for it in hopes that Apple will soon release a product using the 4500, thereby releasing native drivers simultaneously. Reply in this thread or PM me if you need links to stuff. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
veamon Posted August 25, 2010 Share Posted August 25, 2010 Does your wireless work, and did you get everything else working then? I have the latest iatkos and I have to reinstall to get my keyboard and trackpad working, but it has the low resolution and no wireless by default. I've downloaded the official ones from realtek and am going to try those later, so yea if you could send links and any instructions I might need I would appreciate it. I dont care SO much about the video having qe, I mainly plan on dual booting for iphone development, but if it did work then I would make it a more permanent solution. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oldtopman Posted August 25, 2010 Share Posted August 25, 2010 What is your bootloader? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hijklll Posted August 25, 2010 Author Share Posted August 25, 2010 Does your wireless work, and did you get everything else working then? That Realtek WLAN Client Utility has not shown any sign of working in Snow. People on the forums have mentioned that it might work if you boot Snow into 32-bit mode, but I haven't tried that yet; I don't know how to do that with the [url="http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/"]#####[/url]/Chameleon bootloader. I think I know how to do it with the normal Chameleon Boot Loader, but the combination of the keyboard, mouse, and audio not working was reason enough for me to abandon the normal Chameleon, and I went back to the [url="http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/"]#####[/url] Chameleon. (Even though the normal Chamelon seemed to solve my resolution problem.) I figured I had a better chance of getting the Realtek drivers working with the [url="http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/"]#####[/url], as well. (Still no luck though.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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