madmatt Posted August 9, 2011 Share Posted August 9, 2011 Hi Guys, just finished installing Lion and migrating data from snow leopard on a Dell Precision T1500 (Intel Corei7@2.83Ghz, 16GB Ram, Nvidia Quadro FX 580) I followed Maldon's procedure, except that in order to successfully boot the installer (and the os once installed) I had to use x64_EmpireEfi (otherwise with chameleon it would endlessly reboot) found here: http://x64bitdimension.jimdo.com/uilit%C3%...ownload/bootcd/ Once booted into Lion, I installed chameleon rc5 (as per Maldon's guide) but then substituted /boot with the one from netkas: http://mirror.netkas.org/Lion/boot With this boot file I can boot without issues What works: - Nvidia Quadro FX-580 Full CE/QI dual monitors - Sound with VoodooHDA (any version that supports 64bit SL should do) - DVD Writer with JMicron*ATA - Ethernet with non embedded Realtek RTL8169 with additional IONEtworkingFamily in /E/E What doesn't work: - Embedded NIC (broadcom of some sort) What could be improved: - At the moment the Quadro isn't fully recognized (Shows up as unknown Nvidia in System Info) but since it works .... - No DSDT, haven't tried sleep/hibernate, it probably wouldn't work anyway - Have to manually shut down Cheers Extra.zip Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
madmatt Posted August 10, 2011 Author Share Posted August 10, 2011 What doesn't work:- Embedded NIC (broadcom of some sort) I managed to adapt a driver written by adlan ( http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=247470 ) for the embedded broadcom nic: pci id: 14e4:1692 description: 02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetLink BCM57780 Gigabit Ethernet PCIe (rev 01) BCM5722D.kext.zip Cheers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mathieu Posted December 13, 2011 Share Posted December 13, 2011 I have a DELL Precision T1500 as well (Core i7 @2.93, 8 GB). I followed the [url="http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/"]#####[/url] install method and got Lion running. However, I am unable to enable QE/CI on the graphic card NVIDIA Quadro FX 580 (0x0659 / 0x00A1). The card is recognised by "Graphic Enabler" and I get the correct screen resolution, but not accelerated. How did you solve this? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
madmatt Posted January 9, 2012 Author Share Posted January 9, 2012 Hi mathieu, sorry for the late answer .... This is the info I get from lspci: 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation G96 [Quadro FX 580] (rev a1) 01:00.0 0300: 10de:0659 (rev a1) .. and the info from System Information->Graphics Display: [b]Unknown:[/b] Chipset Model: Unknown Type: GPU Bus: PCIe Slot: Slot-1 PCIe Lane Width: x16 VRAM (Total): 512 MB Vendor: NVIDIA (0x10de) Device ID: 0x0659 Revision ID: 0x00a1 ROM Revision: 62.94.7F.00.0A In my com.apple.boot.plist I have set GraphicsEnabler to yes and that's about it .... as far as I know (translucent menu bar, DVD app working, flash working) QE/CI is enabled. What makes you think QE/CI isn't working for you ? Regards Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FrancoisL Posted December 10, 2016 Share Posted December 10, 2016 Hello I have a t1500 and i didn't succeeded un booting it on OS X. I tried the link you mentionned but seems to be no more available : http://x64bitdimension.jimdo.com/uilit%C3%A0-osx86/software-utili-download/bootcd/ Is there another link or perhaps can you detail the method Tanks un advance Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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