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[gumman]

Hey guys,

I’m trying to get native Lion support for my HP8530p:

Intel Core 2 Duo T9400 (2,53GHz)
NVidia FX770m (9600GTm)
4GB DDR2-800
Intel ICH9

In the next few weeks I’m going to explain every step I’ve made with my HP8530p to get an almost vanilla installation of 10.7.3.
Also I’m going to share my experience and my findings.

If you are on an Hp8530w, the most of those patches will also apply for you.

The following chapters will be:   

• Modifying the HP8530p/w
  
  
  
• Install Lion 10.7.x
  
  
  
• Dual Booting Lion and Windows 7 on GUID Partition
  
  
  
• Obtain DSDT and repair it
  
  
  
• DSDT Fixing to achieve almost Vanilla
  
  
  
• Other Fixes…

At this point of writing, I’m not fully succeeded in enabling all of the hardware inside my hp8530p.

What’s working so far (last update 02-02-2012):

• Ambient Sensor (DSDT)
  
• Brightness (DSDT)
  
• Bluetooth (OOB)
  
• DTGP (DSDT)
  
• EHCI ICH10 (DSDT)
  
• Firewire (DSDT)
  
• FN-Keys (DSDT)
  
• Touchpad (OOB)
  
• Native Speedstepping (DSDT)
  
• NVidia FX770m QE/CI (DSDT)
  
• Intel 82567LM (KEXT)
  
• SATA ICH10 (DSDT)
  
• SMBUS (DSDT)
  
• USB ICH10 (DSDT)
  
• VGA (DSDT)
  
• Webcam (OOB)
  
• WLAN (OOB)

What’s *not* working so far:

• Audio – AD1984A: Maybe VoodooHDA works, but my approach is to get DSDT  + AppleHDA.kext working
  
• Battery/AC – Notebook Battery Status etc.
  
• Brightness Control via FN-Keys
  
• Cardreader (Ricoh 5-in-1)
  
• DVD-RW Drive is not detected and initialized (Maybe IRQ)
  
• Fingerprint Sensor  - (if supported by lion)
  
• HDMI, HDMI-Audio
  
• LID ( Sleep when Closing LID)
  
• Sleep – black screen while going to sleep

So if you’r interested so far, my current DSDT is attached

 dsdt_hp8530p_24-01-12.zip   62.06K   192 downloads

Currently I'm trying to enable the HDMI Port (is always created where my internal display is -> conflicting)... and afterwards I'll try to enable HDMI-Audio.
Also I'm trying to write my own AppleHDA.kext... only a few steps missing *crossingfingers*

Update to 10.7.3 works fine, but breaks Atheros AR9280.
You need to use old IO80211Family.kext from 10.7.2 ... then everything's fine..

Stay tuned, for my next updates.

Cheers,
Gumman

[yeuthem]

Can you give us a guide, instruction, or direction of how to start?  I am new, any help will be appreciated.  Thanks

[gumman]

Hi yeuthem,

if you need help for your VAIO, then you'll have to look up the forums
I can and will only help users that have a hp 8530p/w, but if I look at  your specs,
i'm pretty sure that you won't get your ATI HD 3650 with 3D acceleration working. Also that WIFI 5100 seems to be a hopeless case.

So the options for you will be:

Check if your notebook support switching of graphic cards (MXM-Slot) - and check if you can install another wifi pci express card into your notebook (and if you need to hack your bios to enable it).

If I was wrong, and you also have a hp 8530p, then wait until i wrote the first chapters of my guide
They will follow soon....

Cheers,
Gumman

[gumman]

--- Chapter 1 - Modifiying the HP8530p ---

Hey Guys, here's the first part of my guide. This is not about installing Mac OS X, this is about modifiying your hp8530p/w, to achieve full hardware support afterwards. In short words, it is about changing the graphic card, wifi card and enabling them.

** Short Note: I'am not responsible for any damages that you do to your notebook!

In my case, my hp8530p got an ATI HD 3650 inside, which has no support after Leopard 10.5.
I've googled a lot, but I've didn't found any solution. So I decided to switch graphic cards.

Also my Intel Wifi 5300bgn has no support under Mac OS X, so it needs to be switched, too.

After reading a lot on changing hardware on the hp8530, i found out, that only hardware which was built in stock hp 8530p notebooks will work.

So i looked at the original maintenance and service guide from HP.
Get it here -> http://h10032.www1.h...l/c02030275.pdf

If you look on Page 23, there you'll see all wlan cards that are supported in the hp8530p/w, and none of them has support for Lion - what a bummer!
So you need to hack the bios to allow other wlan cards to work. But someone already did that for us

After digging a lot on the mydigitallife.info forums, i've found a link to a nice site with bios patches for hp notebooks without wlan whitelisting.

Get your Bios there:

http://forum.noteboo...7x0p-25x0p.html

If you're on a hp8530w, you need to install the bios of the hp8530p - they are the same.

Flash this Bios from Windows on your Notebook.
(My advice is to better have a running windows to check that you've changed your hardware properly, before beginning to use mac os x)

If you look on Page 24, there you'll see all graphics that are supported by your hp8530p/w. For graphic cards there is NO Whitelisting patch or something like this. You'll need to use on of the graphic cards listed there. Look at the nVidia NB9P-GLM2 there. It's a NVidia Quadro FX 770m which is also known as NVidia 9600GTm and has support for Lion! (and hopefully above... )

So you'll need to try to get your hands on that graphic card. Search ebay for "502338-001" if you want to keep sure, you get the original one used by hp.

If you'll buy a standard 9600GTm MXM (maybe from a Acer notebook) or from "not-an-HP-book" you'll proably need to flash the right VBIOS to the MXM Card. I know that this is possible, but it's not easy.
To get the idea, you'll need a bootable usb stick, which starts the vbios patching automatically, because you won't be able to see anything on your display... . I can't help you with that process, so my approach would be googling "MXM Flash VBios".

Where to get that VBIOS? Someone uploaded it here:
http://www.techpower...face=&memSize=0

In my case I bought the right FX770m with the right bios inside on ebay from a guy from Lithuania
http://myworld.ebay....sid=p4340.l2559

It seems that he's selling more of these video cards, so if you think it's worth the money, get one...

Now, the WLAN Module, after you've flashed the whitelisting bios, your able to install a wifi card of your choice. I bought an Atheros AR5BXB92 from an original macbook, which seems to work very fine in Lion. But it's your choice, lookup the forums, and install a wifi card which is working properly under lion

How to change the hardware?

This process is far from easy. It's not like changing graphic cards in an standard pc.
You'll have to nearly disassembly the complete notebook, to be able to switch the graphic card.
Don't do it, if you really *need* the notebook, the chance to brick it is high!

Still reading here? Okay. The process of changing graphic cards is described in the original maintenance and service guide from HP, which I posted the link to above. If you're carefull and do anything as described there, you can't go wrong.
If you read the guide very accurate, you'll maybe noticed, that HP uses an other Headsink for the NVidia Graphic Card (maybe a better one). In my case, i still used the Heatsink from the ATI Graphic Card for the NVidia Graphic Card - without any problems. I used an thermal conductor from Arctic Cooling, and the temps seems to be better than with the ATI Graphic Card before!



"bad" ATI 3650


"good" NVidia FX770m (9600GTm)


Changing the Wifi card is quite easy and is described in the service manual


If you're done changing your hardware, boot up windows, check if everythings working properly. Install new graphic card drivers / wlan drivers.... and head up to Chapter 2 !


Cheers,
Gumman

--- if you'll find any Typo's or misspelling, I'm not a native speaker --

[gumman]

--- Chapter 2 - Installing Lion 10.7.x ---

Hey Guys,

this is Chapter 2 of my guide, it's on how to install lion 10.7.x, in my case 10.7.2.
This guide is based on many of those guides flowing around in these forums,
so i won't describe *every* step i did, i only write about the ones you'll need to care about or the steps you have to add, to get it working on your hp 8530p/w.

Basically you can use the guide posted by mald0n here:
http://www.insanelym...pic=256729&st=0

Mainly all guides are depending on an running mac os x somewhere... but what do you do if you don't have a running mac os x?
There are some solutions, maybe you can try to put the Lion Install dmg to your USB Drive using a windows tool or something like that....

But my way was to install Mac OS X to a VMware device and putting the Install.dmg from there to my usb stick (as shown my mald0n).
There are plenty of tutorials out there, how you can install a Mac OS X in VMware, google it!
Okay in my case I had an old installation of Leopard in VMware, so i didn't have to figure out how to install it to a vmware anymore

But it's easier to follow those guides, if you have a working mac os installation somewhere...

So basically, follow the guide from mald0n, and stop after you installed the extra pkg and the chameleon pkg to your usb drive.

Then open your Finder, go to your Lion Install USB Drive, go to /System/Library/Extensions. Locate the "IOFireWireFamily.kext" there and delete it!

If you won't delete this kext, you'll get a kernel panic after installation. We add the IOFireWireFamily.kext in a later chapter again, after we fixed the Firewire IRQs using DSDT

The Installation Process:

Boot your HP8530p/w, go to Bios, reset everything to default (you don't need to set specific options for running Lion on an hp8530p/w )
Boot your USB Drive, Lion Installation should appear but it may wan't you to add a USB Keyboard to start Installation.
I was lucky to have a usb keyboard flying around... so no problem (there are also other ways to fix this problem, lookup the forums)

In Lion Installation format your Harddisk Drive to a 2 Partition Layout (GUID) - 2 in case you want install Windows 7 afterwards, if you don't want to,
just create one partition. I partitioned my 250gb drive with the first partition (lion) (125gb - Mac OS Extended (Journaled) and the second partition for seven (125gb) (MS-DOS FAT).

I'm sorry that I didn't make any pictures of this process, but it's far more easier than it sounds;)!

After you properly formatted your harddrive start installation. It should install fine and boot hopefully lion afterwards

Now you need to install a Chameleon Bootloader to your harddrive, if you don't, you'll need to boot your usb installation stick everytime,
you want to boot up mac from your harddrive.

In Lion Install Chameleon to your harddrive using Chameleon Wizard by janek202:
http://www.insanelym...howtopic=257464

If you want to install Windows 7 now, see the next Chapter. If you don't need to install Windows 7 head over to Chapter 4

Cheers,
Gumman

[macintoshy]

Hi gunman,

thank you for such a nice guide. My problem is to fix a dsdt problem for a real HP 8530w with Nvidia FX 770 and 2.8 GHz T9600 CPU.
I never managed to fix all compiler errors even with the ICH09 Patches from oldnapalm

http://www.insanelym...howtopic=223205

What has be changed to fix my battery indication and my 2.8 Ghz CPU to your DSDT File?
When I try make use of VoodooBattery.kext in /S/L/E, battery is not recognized.
My Cpu seems run 300 Mhz less than possible: 2.5 instead of 2.8 Ghz.

Which Extensions do you have in /Extra and additionally in /S/L/E?
Without your DSDT File, I wouldn't be able make use of the display and sound.

Attached Files

•  hp8530w_unmodifed_dsdt.zip   60.4K   25 downloads

[gumman]

Hey macintoshy,

I've modified your dsdt with the patches that I applied to my dsdt to get it to compile in first place!
So i didn't add any other patches ICH etc.. but all of your compiler errors are fixed. So you can start doing some DSDT patches by yourself !

Don't use my DSDT if your using another CPU than my T9400.
My DSDT has Speedstepping for the T9400 inside. If you use my dsdt, you'll probably kill your CPU...

At the moment i'm very busy at work, so I don't have time to play around with my hackbook
But as soon as it's getting better, i'll finish my tutorials and explain the other dsdt patches i've been using.

I also don't have battery indication working yet, so I can't help you at this point.

If you want to get your FX770 working, have a look at the "PEGP.DGFX" part in my DSDT. I think you can copy that exactly to your DSDT and it *should* work!

But, did I understand you correctly? You have sound working on your 8530w? Using AppleHDA.kext or VoodooHDA?

Cheers,
Gumman

Attached Files

•  hp8530w_modifed_dsdt.zip   60.42K   52 downloads

[macintoshy]

Hi Gunman,

thank you for the fix of my dsdt file !

Yes I do use Voodoohda.kext in /S/L/E and AppleHDADisabler in /E/E. Now I will try the finalize the dsdt file and will report after testing.

CPU is still working with your Speedstep settings. Most important to me is the missing HDMi output and DVI output via docking station.

Attached Files

•  Extensions in Extra.zip   236.18K   98 downloads

[gumman]

Nice .. I think I try VoodooHDA next time. The last days I made some progress with the Original AppleHDA, but didn't get it to work so far.

Macintoshy.. if you'll made some progress in enabling hardware that i've didn't enabled yet, would you please so kind to post your dsdt solution here?

Thanks

[macintoshy]

Hi Gunman,

of course, I will do so. I think I will test out some DSDT NVCAP values next week for HDMI out.

[Hank]

Hi gumman,

I have one 8530p almost as same as yours, i changed the video card to FX770 and Wireless card to AR5008.
Thanks for your dsdt file which solve 80% of the issues of mine in Lion OSX.
But another big issue for me is i would like to output the screen to bigger monitor, such as 24" monitor for home use.
Unfortunately it won't work when i connected it to my HP notebook hub. (It works great in windows system.)
Do you know how to solve it?
Since you are busy now, i will waiting for your futher articles for this topic and new dsdt file later.

Thanks and have a good one!

[gumman]

Macintoshy, the funny thing is that the hdmi port is working! If you use my NVCAP Values - you'll clearly see OS X notifying that there is another display.
But the problem is, the new monitor is created in the same device where the internal display is created. You can see this in IORegExplorer.
I didn't found a solution for this problem yet, but I'm not sure if it's just the NVCAP Values. Maybe you'll have to declare it as a third device in DSDT.

Hank. Very nice! Nice to see that someone really used this guide I don't have HP Notebook Hub for my 8530p, so I can't help you with that.
If you're using my dsdt you should have VGA Output Support under Lion - so this will be the first workaround for you until we get HDMI working.

Maybe if HDMI works, your HP notebook hub also will ...

Cheers,
Gumman

[robertoSTUDIOS]

macintoshy, on 22 February 2012 - 09:23 PM, said:

Hi Gunman,

thank you for the fix of my dsdt file !

Yes I do use Voodoohda.kext in /S/L/E and AppleHDADisabler in /E/E. Now I will try the finalize the dsdt file and will report after testing.

CPU is still working with your Speedstep settings. Most important to me is the missing HDMi output and DVI output via docking station.

Hi!

Can you share your voodooHDA kext? I not found a vorking kext Please help me!

[macintoshy]

robertoSTUDIOS, on 24 February 2012 - 02:22 PM, said:

Hi!

Can you share your voodooHDA kext? I not found a vorking kext Please help me!

There you are:

Attached Files

•  VoodooHDA.kext_10.7.3.zip   158.88K   258 downloads

[robertoSTUDIOS]

macintoshy, on 27 February 2012 - 04:34 PM, said:

There you are:

Many Thanks!!!!

macintoshy, on 27 February 2012 - 04:34 PM, said:

There you are:

Battery meter works for you? If yes, you can post the battery kext?
Pls

Thanks!

[qdt9999]

Hi Gumman,

I have a Hp EliteBook 8530w, i'm use your DSDT and smbios MacBook Pro 6,1 (in MultiBea*st 4.2.1)
Brightness control via FN key work with me.
But the SpeedStep look seem not work. I'm use app CPU-X to monitor, CPU always running at max speed.
May i know which smbios are you using ?

Thanks.

[macintoshy]

Hi qdt9999,

CPU-X is only capable to show the maximum cpu frequency. Make use of SMCMonitor to find out at what speed your cpu might run.

robertoSTUDIOS, on 29 February 2012 - 01:27 PM, said:

Battery meter works for you? If yes, you can post the battery kext?
Pls

It won't help to install an older AppleACPI..kext, because there is an issue on DSDT battery syntax. I did not find time the read out the whole story here:

http://www.insanelym...howtopic=272459

Attached Files

•  Cpu-x_SMC_Monitor.tiff   272.06K   22 downloads

[qdt9999]

Hi macintoshy,

Thanks you for your info. i'm use your app SMCMonitor, the speedstep working but min speed is 1.6GHz (in Win7 CPU T9400 min is 800MHz).
About battery, i found a kext working under Lion, but sometimes KP
Remember backup your orginal kext AppleACPIPlatform.kext

Attached Files

•  Battery Lion.zip   450.44K   24 downloads

[macintoshy]

Hi qdt9999,

did you try out speed_stepper? MSRDumper will help to find out P-States.

http://www.insanelym...c=258611&st=280

[macintoshy]

Trackpad and Keyboard enhancement?

http://www.osx86.net..._ps2_32-64.html

I'll try....

After removing all old PS2 keyboard related kexts, I installed the gesture package, but I doesn't seem to work after sleep mode. Trackpad is out of function. But the PreferencePane is nice.