iATKOS 5i on an Acer Travelmate 5720

[chrono807]

My laptop has the following specs:

 

GM965 chipset

GMA x3100

Core 2 Duo 1.8GHz

2GB of DDR2

Dell 1390 Broadcom card

 

I have two partitions, both primary with an MBR table. The first partition contains Vista Business. I installed iATKOS to the 2nd partition using the default options except for the following:

 

X86 Patches / SMBIOS Drivers / SMBIOS Enablers / SMBIOS-EFI Air checked (Default: SMBIOS-EFI)

X86 Patches / ACPI / Stock ACPI Modified checked (Default: None)

X86 Patches / PS/2 checked (Default: Unchecked)

X86 Patches / OHR checked (Default: Unchecked)

Drivers / VGA / Intel / EFI String for Intel checked (Default: Unchecked)

Drivers / System / SATA/IDE / Intel SATA and Intel AHCI SATA checked (Default: None)

Drivers / System / Speedstep / Intel Speedstep a checked (Default: None)

Drivers / System / Laptop Battery checked (Default: Unchecked)

Drivers / System / NTFS-3G checked (Default: Unchecked)

 

The result was the following on first boot:

 

Working dual-boot with Vista

Graphics: QE/CI enabled, 1280x800 resolution (correct), didn't try changing resolution

Audio: Works, didn't try headphones or mic

Touchpad: Works

Keyboard: Works, including Fn shortcuts for volume, mute, and brightness

Ethernet: Heard of problems with the BCM gigabit ethernet chipsets so didn't even try

Wi-Fi: Dell 1390 card online out of the box as expected

Shutdown/Reboot: Works, no errors yet

Sleep: WORKS!!!!!! Power LED flashes as expected, and system doesn't wake up unless I press the power button (normal for this laptop).

Speedstep: Works, status menu in menu bar shows CPU clocks ranging from 800mhz to 1800mhz as expected.

Battery Gauge: Works, and with Speedstep enabled the laptop shows 4 hours remaining with a full charge (up from 3:15 in Vista)

CPU Cores: Did NOT have to enter Cores=1; SysProfiler shows 2 cores.

 

In addition, I installed ALL updates, including 10.5.6, through the following steps:

 

1) sudo /Applications/TextEdit.app/Contents/MacOS/TextEdit

2) Open /System/Library/Extensions/ACPIPS2Nub.kext/Info.plist

3) Change ACPIPlatform dependency from 1.2.1 to 1.2.4 (found new ACPI version in a post on another forum - can't find link)

4) Save

5) Repair permissions

6) Apple / Software Update

7) Check all, and install!

 

On reboot after the update, everything still worked - no problems whatsoever. Sleep/Shutdown/Reboot still work.

[iX315]

it works with iAtkos v7 too... thanks!

 

EDIT: for ethernet u can use AppleBCM5787MEthernet.kext

[korgzero]

it works with iAtkos v7 too... thanks!

 

EDIT: for ethernet u can use AppleBCM5787MEthernet.kext

 

Hi,

any problems in video resolution ? i can see several resolutions but no 1280x800.... the nearest one is 1280x768 with strange "pixel replication" at the bottom of the screen

 

Any suggestion ?

 

Thanks a lot!! :-)

 

Fixed : Changed in bios disk type from "IDE" to "AHCI"