OS X on HP TouchSmart tx2?

[patjack]

Hi all,

 

Just got a tx2 and took the plunge and tried installing iDeneb for the first time.

I first installed 10.5.6 but couldn't get Wifi to work despite the script.

So, I tried my luck and installed the 10.5.8 combo upgrade.

Now my iDeneb boots up with a black screen, caplock/numlock LED blinking.

 

I have tried booting with -v and -x, but I didn't notice any error messages before the screen when blank..

 

Sounds like I need to re-install. :-(

 

PJ

[HunterJ]

Hi all,

 

Just got a tx2 and took the plunge and tried installing iDeneb for the first time.

I first installed 10.5.6 but couldn't get Wifi to work despite the script.

So, I tried my luck and installed the 10.5.8 combo upgrade.

Now my iDeneb boots up with a black screen, caplock/numlock LED blinking.

 

I have tried booting with -v and -x, but I didn't notice any error messages before the screen when blank..

 

Sounds like I need to re-install. :-(

 

PJ

Looks like you need to specify a kernel. Try typing "anv" at the bootloader.

 

Btw, has anyone tried snow leopard on the tx2 yet?

[bogdan_adnan]

Hello to everyone!

I am also the owner of a tx2 laptop.

A very good news for all: the latest RadeonHD driver from this post http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=190586 offers widescreen resolution (1280x800) for our laptops. Unfortunately QE/CI isn't enabled.

Thank you very much Dong for your eforts and I hope that in time we will also get QE/CI

I've successfully installed Leopard from iDeneb 1.3 and Snow Leopard (with qoopz AMD patched kernel) on it. The best result I got until now is with iDeneb 1.3 ... Snow Leopard is very sluggish.

So:

- working: audio, ethernet, wireless, widescreen resolution, touchscreen works (partial)

- not working: QE/CI, touchscreen calibration (touchscreen is still off with a couple of centimeters even with 1280x800 resolution and the difference is more obvious as you get to the margins of the screen)

The touchscreen should be easy to fix and I'll try to do that if I manage to recompile IOHIDFamily kext from the apple open source site (unfortunately there are a lot of headers missing).

[bogdan_adnan]

After a little bit of work fixing headers and other bugs I managed to recompile IOHIDFamily kext and to fix the code for the tablet pc calibration. I also added some code to disable the passive digitizer while the active digitizer is used (discrimination between touch and pen).

The touch is working perfectly, but sometimes I have problems with the pen and I need to reboot a couple of times until it works (seems HID inputs aren't handled the same at each boot for the active digitizer). But this may be a problem with the firmware from my laptop.

To install you will have to replace IOHIDFamily.kext with the modified one from the attachment. Don't forget to make a backup copy . It's the version from http://www.opensource.apple.com site for Mac OS X 10.5.5.

IOHIDFamily.kext.zip

[R0B573R]

bogdan_adnan, you are my hero. touchscreen working perfectly in leopard. i'm even posting this with ink.

[glitchbit]

After a little bit of work fixing headers and other bugs I managed to recompile IOHIDFamily kext and to fix the code for the tablet pc calibration. I also added some code to disable the passive digitizer while the active digitizer is used (discrimination between touch and pen).

The touch is working perfectly, but sometimes I have problems with the pen and I need to reboot a couple of times until it works (seems HID inputs aren't handled the same at each boot for the active digitizer). But this may be a problem with the firmware from my laptop.

To install you will have to replace IOHIDFamily.kext with the modified one from the attachment. Don't forget to make a backup copy . It's the version from http://www.opensource.apple.com site for Mac OS X 10.5.5.

 

 

Awesome! This is much appreciated! I would also appreciate it if you could help me/us get sleep working on this laptop. I have been looking over the ACPI specifications and have been comparing its dsdt.aml file to others but I have not yet found the fix to enable sleep mode. I was able to get my asus laptop to wake out of sleep mode recently but mostly because I found another dsdt for a similar asus laptop where King had fixed sleep mode..

[jsimpson746]

Yeah thanks so much. With the resolution fix and the touchscreen calibration, it is actually worth having OSX on my tx2. The things that are left to be fixed don't seem that bad but I guess are harder than I think since I know nothing about development.

 

-Sleep Mode, I have no idea what it does when it tries to sleep

 

-It would be nice if iChat didn't panic quit every time I get a video chat (probably the video driver craziness)

 

-Does anyone think it would be possible to enable trackpad gestures or even scroll? How about on the touch screen? If it is an input device that can distinguish up to four fingers, it would make since that someone it could be used in OSX to scroll, pinch, and rotate like the trackpads do no new mac laptops.

 

-It would also be nice if there were a way for the battery to last longer than an hour running OSX....

 

-Video out from VGA?

[bogdan_adnan]

Hello again.

Well, at least one point in your list is actually working. The VoodooPS2 is able to activate scroll on the trackpad (it should support double finger scroll and some other features, but it doesn't seem to work on this hardware ... it is possible that those could be fixed but simple scroll is enough for me ). About the other features, and especially the sleep problem i think it is much more complex given the fact that ACPI support is built deep inside Mac OSX and unfortunately is not open source either (i'm referring to AppleACPIPlatform.kext).

[jsimpson746]

Hello again.

Well, at least one point in your list is actually working. The VoodooPS2 is able to activate scroll on the trackpad (it should support double finger scroll and some other features, but it doesn't seem to work on this hardware ... it is possible that those could be fixed but simple scroll is enough for me ). About the other features, and especially the sleep problem i think it is much more complex given the fact that ACPI support is built deep inside Mac OSX and unfortunately is not open source either (i'm referring to AppleACPIPlatform.kext).

 

I attempted to do an "update" of the VoodooPS2 on my tx2 since you said it would enable scroll. I figured I just need to do the update since Voodoo was already installed on my tx2. Now my computer will not boot into OSX, and when it does about, which is rarely, the keyboard and mouse do not work at all, nor the touchscreen. Any idea on how to fix this without having to install all over again?

[donnelly1337]

Hey yall,

 

My cursor is just a big color block. How exactly do I fix it. I read something about editing info.plist in the kext but how do you go about that?

[bogdan_adnan]

I attempted to do an "update" of the VoodooPS2 on my tx2 since you said it would enable scroll. I figured I just need to do the update since Voodoo was already installed on my tx2. Now my computer will not boot into OSX, and when it does about, which is rarely, the keyboard and mouse do not work at all, nor the touchscreen. Any idea on how to fix this without having to install all over again?

 

Sorry for the late reply but I am not visiting the forum very often.

If you did a backup before, try starting in single user mode (-s) and using an external keyboard replace it with the old one. If you can't get it working like that boot it up from DVD and from the tools menu open terminal and replace it from there. It is quite strange it doesn't work, it works very well on mine, with scroll enabled. Is true that it usually gives KP at first boot and it starts only from the second, but i'd rather put this on AMD processor. Is it possible you have a version of ACPIPS2Nub.kext on the computer? The last version of VoodooPS2 is incompatible with ACPIPS2Nub kext, so you must delete the last one. You should find it as a plugin in AppleACPIPlatform.kext if you have it on your computer and deleting that from terminal in single user mode or from boot DVD should fix the problem.

[jsimpson746]

Sorry for the late reply but I am not visiting the forum very often.

If you did a backup before, try starting in single user mode (-s) and using an external keyboard replace it with the old one. If you can't get it working like that boot it up from DVD and from the tools menu open terminal and replace it from there. It is quite strange it doesn't work, it works very well on mine, with scroll enabled. Is true that it usually gives KP at first boot and it starts only from the second, but i'd rather put this on AMD processor. Is it possible you have a version of ACPIPS2Nub.kext on the computer? The last version of VoodooPS2 is incompatible with ACPIPS2Nub kext, so you must delete the last one. You should find it as a plugin in AppleACPIPlatform.kext if you have it on your computer and deleting that from terminal in single user mode or from boot DVD should fix the problem.

 

It's all good. I got it working again. I'm not sure how. But now my battery indicator went away, my sound will not mute, the touch part of my screen doesn't work anymore, only the pen, and I have to use the pen once in order for the mouse to work properly. Ha. It works fine for me, but I think it is funny what all it did to my computer that I do not have a clue how it happened.

[sts0286]

Absolutely wonderful news on RadeonHD 3200 driver AND HID kext. nice work everyone.

 

times are a-changing though. we need to discuss the installation of a reliable, working Snow Leopard system.

 

Another user posted b4, saying it was sluggish? how so? graphically or computationally?

 

Also, we are going backwards now? we need to Binary patch all apps? what happened to all the excellent work from the Voodoo boys with on-the-fly opCode patching? Anyone heard of a voodoo/ XNU update to get a 64 bit opcode patching kernel?

 

Input from everyone is commended.

[jupitersmoon]

Please forgive my seeming noobish. It's been a few years since I last installed osx86 i think i was during the 10.4.3 - 9 stage. I fondly remember editing plists and entering EDID's and the hours of trial and error after that i got a laptop that wouldn't even run the installation disk, so i gave up.

 

well now i have a TX2 1160ea. le04all 10.5.6 worked for me with quite a few problems. ideneb 1.5 caused a kernel panic no matter what kernels i chose and assortments of drivers. ideneb 1.6 lite has suprised me and gone without a hitch even airport is working using broadcom wifi. so i'm quite happily running a tripple boot of win7, osx10.5.8 & ubuntu.

 

My issue is that I cant for the life of me remember much about the kext process. I've downloaded

 

<LI>10.6 RadeonHD.kext10.6.zip ( 193.93K ) Number of downloads: 258

and installed using kext helper, but i'm getting no change. even if i "graphics mode"="1280x800@32" am i doing something wrong, is the 10.6 the wrong chioce, do i need to enter my EDID, what apps should i be using for kext & plists now?

 

I'm sorry if ive overlooked a thread explaining this clearly, but i only seem to come accross people saying its working for resolution change but no one explaining the process.

 

 

also out of curiosity, my tx2 seems to behaving differently to most of yours when choosing the same options. This could be to do with mine being a 1160ea, but i was wondering if anyone else has done the latest bios update. which states better win7 compatibility, I know from experience that a bios update can make a lot of difference in the osx86 world.

 

just a thought

 

If someone can help me with this last issue I can relax and start using my tx2.

 

Regards

 

Jupitersmoon

 

 

ok i feel like a {censored} now, i didn't realise snow leopard was out, 10.6???? duh. ok so ive now done the above with the 10.5 download. now ive got a black screen. so my previous questions still stand.

[sts0286]

Jupitersmoon

 

as far as i know, kext helper is all that is needed to install kexts. that's what i use and it works all the time.

 

 

Sir, the black screen can be any number of things... I'm assuming you are able to boot through chameleon? boot with -v tag to see startup messages.

 

Also, if you have the radeonHD kext, no need to set graphics mode in boot.plist or at boot prompt. just let 'er rip on its own. should work.

 

 

 

 

So, I'm trying to sort through all the Snow Leo bulls*** and find a reliable AMD install process. Its seem as though we use retail version w/ a modified installer package? I've yet to get it to work. Anyone have a reliable AMD Snow Leo install?

[jupitersmoon]

as far as i know, kext helper is all that is needed to install kexts. that's what i use and it works all the time.

 

 

Sir, the black screen can be any number of things... I'm assuming you are able to boot through chameleon? boot with -v tag to see startup messages.

 

Also, if you have the radeonHD kext, no need to set graphics mode in boot.plist or at boot prompt. just let 'er rip on its own. should work.

 

 

 

 

So, I'm trying to sort through all the Snow Leo bulls*** and find a reliable AMD install process. Its seem as though we use retail version w/ a modified installer package? I've yet to get it to work. Anyone have a reliable AMD Snow Leo install?

 

 

 

 

that was going to be another question, chameleon wasn't around last time i did any of this, its very nice for my tripple boot, but how do you get the prompt up to enter -v. it seems to just go straight to the apple logo.

 

sorry if its a silly question. prehaps mt black creen is because i'd already added graphics mode to the boot.plist, ill remove it and update.

[sts0286]

that was going to be another question, chameleon wasn't around last time i did any of this, its very nice for my tripple boot, but how do you get the prompt up to enter -v. it seems to just go straight to the apple logo.

 

sorry if its a silly question. prehaps mt black creen is because i'd already added graphics mode to the boot.plist, ill remove it and update.

 

Ok, so you get the black screen after you get the apple boot screen?

How do you boot? you say you use chameleon? When in chameleon, be sure proper OSX install is selected. Then just start typing "-v". In the lower left of chameleon screen you should see "boot: -v".

 

Hope that helps.

[jupitersmoon]

Ok, so you get the black screen after you get the apple boot screen?

How do you boot? you say you use chameleon? When in chameleon, be sure proper OSX install is selected. Then just start typing "-v". In the lower left of chameleon screen you should see "boot: -v".

 

Hope that helps.

 

Ok i'm getting somewhere now. Its all just a bit different than it used to be. i got past the black screen after the apple logo, -v was informing me of a kp at radeonhd. , sorted now. removed graphics mode from boot.plist.

 

I now have Resolution options, but my mouse cursor turned in to a big pixely square. The VoodooPS2 drivers cause a KP at boot. so im having to resort to oldappleps2, so no trackpad gestures. I'm currently doing a reload with the ideneb1.6lite. i'm gonna try some different kernels.

 

ok solved the blocky cursor, dissable hw cursor in info.plist in radeonhd.kext.

 

i'm pretty much as up and running as I'm gonna get. it seems QE & CI are almost impossible on a machine that has shared video memory. It does seem that HD3200 is an offshoot of X1600 so the is some sucess being reported of adding edid and hw id to radeonx1000 driver. But i have my doubts that it will help us shared memory folk.

 

it seems the only thing that is different to me is that I cannot use any voodoops2 with any kernel without a kernel panic.

[pegasys]

WOW! a big thank you to bogdan_adnan for the IOHIDFamily.kext

 

I'm using it on a Dell XT (also 1280x800 screen and n-trig touch/pen digitiser) and it works great

 

I'm finally able to use Quickscript and MyScript Stylus without ink jumping between pen and hand resting on the screen and to have perfect calibration.

[CrazyMacGuy]

Please forgive my seeming noobish. It's been a few years since I last installed osx86 i think i was during the 10.4.3 - 9 stage. I fondly remember editing plists and entering EDID's and the hours of trial and error after that i got a laptop that wouldn't even run the installation disk, so i gave up.

 

well now i have a TX2 1160ea. le04all 10.5.6 worked for me with quite a few problems. ideneb 1.5 caused a kernel panic no matter what kernels i chose and assortments of drivers. ideneb 1.6 lite has suprised me and gone without a hitch even airport is working using broadcom wifi. so i'm quite happily running a tripple boot of win7, osx10.5.8 & ubuntu.

 

My issue is that I cant for the life of me remember much about the kext process. I've downloaded

 

<LI>10.6 RadeonHD.kext10.6.zip ( 193.93K ) Number of downloads: 258

and installed using kext helper, but i'm getting no change. even if i "graphics mode"="1280x800@32" am i doing something wrong, is the 10.6 the wrong chioce, do i need to enter my EDID, what apps should i be using for kext & plists now?

 

I'm sorry if ive overlooked a thread explaining this clearly, but i only seem to come accross people saying its working for resolution change but no one explaining the process.

 

 

also out of curiosity, my tx2 seems to behaving differently to most of yours when choosing the same options. This could be to do with mine being a 1160ea, but i was wondering if anyone else has done the latest bios update. which states better win7 compatibility, I know from experience that a bios update can make a lot of difference in the osx86 world.

 

just a thought

 

If someone can help me with this last issue I can relax and start using my tx2.

 

Regards

 

Jupitersmoon

 

 

ok i feel like a {censored} now, i didn't realise snow leopard was out, 10.6???? duh. ok so ive now done the above with the 10.5 download. now ive got a black screen. so my previous questions still stand.

 

Hi could you please tell me what all you selected while installing iDeneb 1.6 Lite..

 

Thanks in advance.

 

Regards,

 

JEBA

[CrazyMacGuy]

I installed iDeneb 1.6 Lite in my TX2 .. But I'm not able to able to complete the installation.. These are the steps I followed.. Someone please help me!

 

1. Booted using the iDeneb disc. Selected Voodoo kernal, ATI for Video, Voodoo HDA for Audio, Broadcom for Wireless, couple of defaultly selected fixes + Seatbelt fix
   
2. Install suceeded. Reboot was not sucessful. Did a hard reset.
   
3. System was not bootable from HDD. Booted from my Windows 7 Disc and fixed MBR, boot sector and made windows partion as active.
   
4. Booted in Windows 7, using EasyBCD added a entry for Generic x86 Mac and rebooted.
   
5. Selected the new entry. Now it displayed Chameleon v2. Selected Mac. Pressed Enter
   
6. I'm now seeing the Apple logo in the center of the screen. Caps Lock and Num Lock indicators are blinking continously..
   

I've tried -anv as HunterJ has told some other user to try that.. But the same thing happens..

Any workarounds?

[jupitersmoon]

I installed iDeneb 1.6 Lite in my TX2 .. But I'm not able to able to complete the installation.. These are the steps I followed.. Someone please help me!

 

1. Booted using the iDeneb disc. Selected Voodoo kernal, ATI for Video, Voodoo HDA for Audio, Broadcom for Wireless, couple of defaultly selected fixes + Seatbelt fix
   
2. Install suceeded. Reboot was not sucessful. Did a hard reset.
   
3. System was not bootable from HDD. Booted from my Windows 7 Disc and fixed MBR, boot sector and made windows partion as active.
   
4. Booted in Windows 7, using EasyBCD added a entry for Generic x86 Mac and rebooted.
   
5. Selected the new entry. Now it displayed Chameleon v2. Selected Mac. Pressed Enter
   
6. I'm now seeing the Apple logo in the center of the screen. Caps Lock and Num Lock indicators are blinking continously..
   

I've tried -anv as HunterJ has told some other user to try that.. But the same thing happens..

Any workarounds?

 

Thanks, JEBA

 

 

this is only from memory.

 

I chose

 

voodoo kernel

 

old apple ps2

 

azalia audio (not the voodoo one, it caused my speakers to sound like they were going to explode)

 

realtek 8119 lan

 

broadcom wifi

 

and thats it, dont bother with the ati driver as the one mentioned on page 6 of this thread is the best available.

 

I did install the voodoo power manager, but it just tells me my battery is low all the time.

 

also, chameleon 2 caused me to have a blinking cursor, my way around this was to reboot form the disk, unselect everything except chameleon 1. then do the same but only select chameleon 2. my experience does seem to be a bit different to everyone elses, this maybe because i have a TX2 1160ea. chameleon 2 did nothing to my MBR but installing chameleon 1 sorted the MBR then re insatalling 2 kept the changes 1 did.

 

I haven't installed the touch driver, because i only wanted osx for the purpose of creating custom ipsw for iphones, Dev team dont seem that bothered about supporting windows.

[CrazyMacGuy]

Thanks Jupitersmoon

 

I finally figured out the mistake that I've been commiting in the installations. I was selecting any ATI video driver and this makes the kernal panic.

 

Now installed iDeneb 1.6. However, I'm facing the following issues.

 

1. In all the iDeneb installations 1.3, 1.4 and 1.6, when I install the RadeonHD driver mentioned in the 6th page, I'm able to set higher resolutions but my cursor is getting changed to rectangular block with strips of various colors. I don't know how to fix this back.

 

2. I've been using a external keyboard and mouse connected thro USB. When I tried using the trackpad and built in keyboard, they weren't functioning..

[jupitersmoon]

Thanks Jupitersmoon

 

I finally figured out the mistake that I've been commiting in the installations. I was selecting any ATI video driver and this makes the kernal panic.

 

Now installed iDeneb 1.6. However, I'm facing the following issues.

 

1. In all the iDeneb installations 1.3, 1.4 and 1.6, when I install the RadeonHD driver mentioned in the 6th page, I'm able to set higher resolutions but my cursor is getting changed to rectangular block with strips of various colors. I don't know how to fix this back.

 

2. I've been using a external keyboard and mouse connected thro USB. When I tried using the trackpad and built in keyboard, they weren't functioning..

 

Regards, JEBA

 

 

 

Sorry i shoud have added that, to fix the mouse, problem, you need to download "plist editor"

 

and edit info.plist in the radeonHD kext, and chang "hardwae cursor" to what ever it is not on now. eg. if it is set to true then change it to false and vice versa.

 

i also had the keyboard issue when i chose the voodoo ps2 driver, try the other on, old apple ps2 i think

 

hope this helps

[jdriver]

ideneb install went really well, installed RadeonHD and touchscreen kext from page 6, working perfectly then I ran system update... long :censored2: download and finally get to the point of installing updates, Reboot my tx2 and landed on blue screen instead of desktop, any idea why?

 

EDIT: nevermind, 2nd reboot seem to get through this time, werid, on the other hand, i have no sound, i even selected Apple Azalia Audio, VoodooHDA doesn't work either.