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Report: Toshiba Portege R30-A + Yosemite 10.10.5


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With very little work, a basic Yosemite works on this Toshiba laptop http://www.toshiba.fr/laptops/portege/portege-r30/portege-r30-a-19m/

Some glitches are to be expected, and I still haven't solved them yet. See below.

 

Two major points:

 

* USB 3.0 must be disabled in BIOS for the installation to take place, stuck on "waiting for root device" otherwise

* KernelPM patch must be applied, instant reboot otherwise

 

Installation method:

 

* OS X Yosemite 10.10 bootable USB for Intel PCs upgraded via Software Update to 10.10.5

* Must claim USB ownership in Clover

* Must check fix USB, fix SATA, KernelPM patch

 

Components:

 

* Intel core i5 4210M

* Intel HD 4600 PCIID 8086:0416

* Changed the internal intel WiFi card for a DW1510

* Intel Gbe ethernet controller PCIID 8086:153b

 

What works:

 

* QE/CI through RehabMan's FakePCIID_HD4600_HD4400.kext

* WiFi, a DW1510 card costs $5 in eBay, original Intel WiFi card is unsupported

* Intel Gbe ethernet controller through AppleIntelE1000e.kext

* Sound through VoodooHDA 2.8.8

* SpeedStep through Clover Generate PStates & CStates + SSDT.aml generated via ssdtPRGen.sh script, verified with Intel Power Gadget

* Battery status via RehabMan's RehabMan-Battery (give that man many beers please!)

 

What does not work:

 

* Touchpad is working as a basic PS/2 mouse with RehabMan's VoodooPS2Controller, no 2-finger scroll, trackpad not recognized by system preferences. Tried MacPois0n ALPS kext without success.

* Suspend to RAM / sleep: when system goes "sleeping", it only turns the screen black, CPU still working, fan still spinning. Tried many options here without success

 

Any help appreciated on those 2.

 

HTH

 

Edit 1

 

Suspend to RAM now "kind of" works: had to remove GenericUSBXHCI.kext and activate USB / AddClockID in order not for instant-resume after sleep. Issues remaining with the sleep function, it takes ages to happen, even with hibernatemode and autopoweroff set to 0 (I checked, no more image file is created). S3 mode works only when it's manually triggered, sleep triggered from inactivity has the laptop reboot.

 

Edit 2

 

About the trackpad, simple analysis: the touchpad is an ALPS using protocol v7, which has not been implemented in any VoodooPS2Controller ALPS forks (notably bpedman nor DrHurt). This could be done by merging Linux's alps.c/h. Not a hard task, but tedious one.

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 Hi,

 

This quiet thread had helped me in the past, now I got to know more about PS2 so I am reporting.

 

My machine is R30 + i7 4710MQ ( The same laptop is called Dynabook R73 in Japan.), running ElCaptain 10.11.6. Almost everything are working, including graphics, wifi(replaced), battery level indication, etc.

 

For Touchpad, I've found this following driver works. That enabled 2 finger scrolling and other functions. Options appeared on the stock trackpad preference pane. I couldn't find binary builds but it was straight forward to compile with xcode8. If you are still on this, please give it a try.

 

 https://github.com/DrHurt/OS-X-ALPS-DRIVER

 

Screen brightness is the only one which is not working. I have not patched DSDT/SSDT, yet. Have you tried anything around it?

 

Cheers,

 

Takashi 

 

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 Hi,

 

This quiet thread had helped me in the past, now I got to know more about PS2 so I am reporting.

 

My machine is R30 + i7 4710MQ ( The same laptop is called Dynabook R73 in Japan.), running ElCaptain 10.11.6. Almost everything are working, including graphics, wifi(replaced), battery level indication, etc.

 

For Touchpad, I've found this following driver works. That enabled 2 finger scrolling and other functions. Options appeared on the stock trackpad preference pane. I couldn't find binary builds but it was straight forward to compile with xcode8. If you are still on this, please give it a try.

 

 https://github.com/DrHurt/OS-X-ALPS-DRIVER

 

Screen brightness is the only one which is not working. I have not patched DSDT/SSDT, yet. Have you tried anything around it?

 

Cheers,

 

Takashi 

if mac app store works you can download an app called "brightness slider"  to partly fix brightness and be able to adjust it. 

 

on my lenovo g505s this is what worked for me, as the screen was way too bright and the function keys did not work. 

 

https://itunes.apple.com/ie/app/brightness-slider/id456624497?mt=12

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