Lenovo t400 iDeneb (not a help thread at the moment)

[GermanMafia]

I'm going to document my iDeneb install on my Lenovo T400.

 

Got the DVD, burned at x4. Booted up fine, live DVD ran. On the "pick an install location" it was blank. Go to Disk Utility, and the unallocated space that I just set in Vista was missing. I don't think it's possible to see it in iDeneb, so I had to delete another one of my partitions to get a usable space. Install went fine, but I missed the "customize" option twice That was annoying as there's no way to cancel. When I finally hit customize, the 'about a minute left' was there for about twenty minutes. Then it booted up, I tried to install my ethernet kext with the included utilities, but I accidently took the kext as a folder, instead of a kext so nothing would install it. http://techresearchinfo.blogspot.com/ That's the driver I have, other reports have said that it works.

 

iDeneb also destroyed my Vista bootloader. I tried to modify it with EasyBCD in Vista, but it was locked. So I rebooted with my Vista DVD and entered the Recovery Environment. It also wouldn't repair. Command line wouldn't repair it either. So now, my computer won't boot. Luckily, right before I installed iDeneb I got the Hiren Boot CD, so i just popped that in and used the MBR Utilities to get into my computer, and when I booted up Vista EasyBCD was working. Vista bootloader was repaired, but it won't let me boot into Mac, as it automatically selects the C:\ drive. Anyone have a better bootloader that will work with OSx86, Vista, and 7?

 

 

Resolution automatically set to 1024x768, doesn't look that weird on my widescreen.

[GermanMafia]

Okay! Got the net working using the kext I linked to earlier (I found that from someone else on the site, sorry for not giving credit where it's due).

 

Now I'm on the hunt for a widescreen kext, haven't been able to find one yet. But, as I'm on Mac at the moment, the kext is working.

 

I setup a 1 gig partition on my harddrive to share between mac and windows. Working well so far.

 

I tried to use EasyBCD, but it didn't want to boot mac osx (would just go over to windows). I tried the chain0 method, it worked but I have to jump through EasyBCD's bootloader, and then Darwin's. Darwin is currently set to boot windows, so I could potentially just remove EasyBCD and windows Vista's bootloader, but we'll see what happens, I shouldn't be rebooting too often, and it's not that much of a problem, but simplification is always nice.

 

It's a little annoying that the middle thinkpad button isn't working (the scroller) that's what I always use so it's a little weird when it doesn't do anything.

 

I'm on the search for-----

Widescreen Kext (I know there's no driver for my ATI mobility 3470 or my Intel x4500) Amazing how I have not one, but two GPUs that aren't supported.

Audio Driver- I think I know which one I need, but I need to find my disc now.

My audio buttons bring up the audio screen OSD, but they don't display anything.

Maybe a power management kext? My battery that can potentially get 10 hours in Windows is only getting 2 at the moment, and that's with better battery life selected.

[owentb]

does your t400 have the internal 3g modem? the sony erriccson f3507g? i have an lg x110 with it and osx see's it but i can't figure out how to turn the radio on. i know some of the t400's ship with that card so i thought i'd check your expeirience

 

still haven't figured out the spell check in osx - sorry

[rschultz101]

agree, need a usable bootloader !!

 

every OS thinks, their are alone on the planet ,

and think they own the disks , and formats,.....

 

so far have not hear of ati mobility driver working,...for the lenevo,

there is no kext for the 4500,.... set resolution at boot time F8

do love my R60,.... but now trying to live with my dell e6500,....

 

if it was not for the macbook,

- lost firewire port,.... no-no

- macbook pro, 15, .... glossy screen, no-no

and no higher resolution option,..... no-no

 

would had one,.... got my brother-inlaw, a 17", but he is using it as a desktop,..

 

the litle trackpad, was/is working on mine,...

take a look at the ati drivers,... and some sort of nvcap to map the ports,...

once you running on the ati,... be lot easier to change resolution and ports, then on the intel, without support,....

 

and for testing,... I use a seperate disk,... that was it's not dead, if it's not working,...

 

german mafia,.... sprichst du denn , oder ist das nur mal forums ding, mafioso ...

[chopped]

find anything that forces widescreen? i have a t500 that is in need of native resolution .

[longtom]

@GermanMafia

 

I have also a Lenovo T400, can you write how you installed the system with ideneb?

Thanks!

[cocob]

Have T400.

 

Mine too has intel 4500 gma..Is it possible to use pci express graphics card or something to get the graphics working. I googled but seriously nothing comes up...

 

Also for workaround, I tried all methods (graphics mode...) but still could not reach 1280 *800.

Anyone got in t400?

[Thomas Neerup]

find anything that forces widescreen? i have a t500 that is in need of native resolution .

I also have a T500. How did You get MACOSX installed? I tried iDeneb 1.4 and it installs without problems but when i restarts it just hangs... during startup...

[Deathlok]

Using the iDeneb 10.5.6 disc i found that this worked

【Patches 10.5.6 Ready】-【Chipset】-【ICHx Fixed】

【Patches 10.5.6 Ready】-【Network】-【Ethernet】-【Intel 82566 Series】

【Patches 10.5.6 Ready】-【Fix】-【BatteryManager】

 

I also have a T500. How did You get MACOSX installed? I tried iDeneb 1.4 and it installs without problems but when i restarts it just hangs... during startup...

[lall]

I have t500 running iDeneb 1.5.1 fine. Almost.

 

At the top: Using Intel graphics:

 

Installed Chameleon v1 bootloader, otherwise it won't boot after install AT ALL!

Then selected Ethernet 82566 driver, ICHx patch, PS2 OLD fix for trackpoint, SD fix, VoodooBattery fix also.

 

After install forced screen reso to 1680x1050x32 at com.apple.boot.plist, cause i couldn't find any kext file that won't brake the picture totally.

 

Next, audio. Found some working kexts, search for Hing Definition Audio driver, i used v2, cause v3 didn't seem to work. Also Fixed permissions with OSx86 Tool.

 

No problems except Wireless. Seems that hopeless.

Bluetooth works fine.

 

How to fix Windows 7 bootloader:

 

I used Windows 7 Recovery Disk.

The automatic way won't work!

 

Go to command prompt.

Enter "Diskpart"

Then enter "List disk"

Select your Windows 7 "system reserved disk" - if you had Win7 installed BEFORE OSx, it should be Disk 0!

Enter "Select disk 0"

Enter "List partition"

Enter "Select partition 1" - IF you selected disk 0!

Enter "Active"

You'll get "partition has been marked active"

Enter "Exit"

 

Then fix your MBR and BOOTLOADER:

Enter "bootrec /fixmbr"

Enter "bootrec /fixboot"

 

Then exit and reboot.

 

Hope that helps,

 

Martin

 

Have T400.

 

Mine too has intel 4500 gma..Is it possible to use pci express graphics card or something to get the graphics working. I googled but seriously nothing comes up...

 

Also for workaround, I tried all methods (graphics mode...) but still could not reach 1280 *800.

Anyone got in t400?

 

Edit com.apple.boot.plist manually if you can't get working kexts.

[manunited518]

I have t500 running iDeneb 1.5.1 fine. Almost.

 

At the top: Using Intel graphics:

 

Installed Chameleon v1 bootloader, otherwise it won't boot after install AT ALL!

Then selected Ethernet 82566 driver, ICHx patch, PS2 OLD fix for trackpoint, SD fix, VoodooBattery fix also.

 

After install forced screen reso to 1680x1050x32 at com.apple.boot.plist, cause i couldn't find any kext file that won't brake the picture totally.

 

Next, audio. Found some working kexts, search for Hing Definition Audio driver, i used v2, cause v3 didn't seem to work. Also Fixed permissions with OSx86 Tool.

 

No problems except Wireless. Seems that hopeless.

Bluetooth works fine.

 

How to fix Windows 7 bootloader:

 

I used Windows 7 Recovery Disk.

The automatic way won't work!

 

Go to command prompt.

Enter "Diskpart"

Then enter "List disk"

Select your Windows 7 "system reserved disk" - if you had Win7 installed BEFORE OSx, it should be Disk 0!

Enter "Select disk 0"

Enter "List partition"

Enter "Select partition 1" - IF you selected disk 0!

Enter "Active"

You'll get "partition has been marked active"

Enter "Exit"

 

Then fix your MBR and BOOTLOADER:

Enter "bootrec /fixmbr"

Enter "bootrec /fixboot"

 

Then exit and reboot.

 

Hope that helps,

 

Martin

 

 

 

Edit com.apple.boot.plist manually if you can't get working kexts.

 

forcing screen resolution worked for you?? walk me through how you did it

[lall]

forcing screen resolution worked for you?? walk me through how you did it

 

Hi,

 

open up terminal

 

enter sudo

then enter "nano /Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/com.apple.Boot.plist"

 

then you'll have to enter those two lines at the end of the file:

 

<key>Graphics Mode</key>

<string>1680x1050x32</string>

 

hit ctrl+x to save.

 

Hope that helped.

[jinp6301]

Hmm, I'm still having trouble getting the native resolution to work with either the ATI (which will never happen) and the Intel (which will probably never happen)

[lall]

Hmm, I'm still having trouble getting the native resolution to work with either the ATI (which will never happen) and the Intel (which will probably never happen)

 

Where do you get stuck at?

What have you tried to do?

[jinp6301]

I've tried the manual editing of the boot.plist to try to get 1440x900 and instead got 1154x756(?). But compared to the 1024x600 that it was in before is a big improvement. I've also tried the modified 3100 kexts that were around here before and they crashed my computer

[lall]

I've tried the manual editing of the boot.plist to try to get 1440x900 and instead got 1154x756(?). But compared to the 1024x600 that it was in before is a big improvement. I've also tried the modified 3100 kexts that were around here before and they crashed my computer

 

Try setting reso to 1680x1050. That's one reso that will fit. I know that the size you are trying to get isn't working. I had same problem.

[jinp6301]

It seems that I might have screwed around with the integrated card kexts too much since its giving me a garbled screen when I set the graphics card to integrated.

 

I can probably reinstall but is there an easier way to get everything back to default before I messed everything up?

[lall]

It seems that I might have screwed around with the integrated card kexts too much since its giving me a garbled screen when I set the graphics card to integrated.

 

I can probably reinstall but is there an easier way to get everything back to default before I messed everything up?

 

Just put back your original kexts. That'll fix your problems.

[jinp6301]

Sorry for the late reply. I've been fooling around with windows 7 and didnt need to use OS X until today

 

So, uhh, how would I put back the kexts. I've been trying to do it through the original iDeneb disk but I couldnt figure out how

 

Again, sorry for the very noob questions but I cant seem to find the answers on here or by googling

[lall]

Sorry for the late reply. I've been fooling around with windows 7 and didnt need to use OS X until today

 

So, uhh, how would I put back the kexts. I've been trying to do it through the original iDeneb disk but I couldnt figure out how

 

Again, sorry for the very noob questions but I cant seem to find the answers on here or by googling

 

Hmm. This is all I could recall. I'm using Win7 for some time now.

Try using kextloader to replace kexts or just do a clean install and change resolution without toutching the kexts at all.

 

Martin

[jinp6301]

Reloaded all the kexts and still can't get it to work. I'm thinking of doing a fresh install and pray that it doesnt kill by bootloader requiring me to reinstall win 7.

 

BTW, are we all still using ideneb 10.5.6? 10.5.7/8/9(?) are only done by upgrades right? And I shouldnt use the lite versions since they dont have all the kexts/patches?

 

Again, I know these are noob questions, sorry

[bldyxz]

Try setting reso to 1680x1050. That's one reso that will fit. I know that the size you are trying to get isn't working. I had same problem.

 

Interesting. I have been battling with this for a couple of weeks, and just finding this post, I tried exactly the resolution you state (1680x1050x32) and got 1152x864 instead of 1024x768. Same Lenovo T400 with ATI 3400 video.

 

Hm. This is better, but not the 1440x900 I had been using on the same screen in XP. I tried those values in the .plist, too (instead of 1680x1050), but still didn't get a resolution different from 1152x864.

 

Also, my goal includes using the VGA port to plug in an external, 24" monitor at 1920x1200. I am wondering if anyone has any luck with that so far, at all.

 

[i feel like I've tried half a dozen things, including a couple of kexts I thought might be related:

- ATY_init.kext by Netkas

- Natit.kext,described as GMA950 laptop

(Those did not do anything noticeable)]