leopard intalled, issues remain

[eucrow]

This is my first post here and i'd like to say hello and thank you to the community for all the work it has done to date and will continue to do.

 

That being said, i installed leopard from the 2.5gb demon*** rar onto a sony vaio TZ90. I've managed to get it running and am dual booting it with my vista installation. Things that i can't seem for the life of me to figure out are:

 

Ethernet: I've got a yukon 88E8055, and i've tried to edit the appropriate kext (apple2yukon) but what's weird is that the kext already HAS an entry for the 55series, which makes me feel like it should work out of the box but alas...no.

 

Wireless: I've got an intel card and don't expect it to work, unfortunately upon taking apart the laptop i can't seem to find a mini-pci slot so i can't substitute it with any of the dell cards that do work.

 

I've also got a linksys wusb54gsc which held some promise but also didn't seem to work, im afraid the 54gsc doesn't have the ralink chipset

 

Display: It recognizes the display though when it initially booted up it was at 640x480res and there were tons of artifacts on the screen as well as...well the best way to describe it was as if my screen were divided into a 2x2 grid and there were four copies of the same 640x480 screen filling up my available screen space. Either way once i got to the desktop i was able to get the resolution back to 1280x768 which made everything look okay, except that my screen's res is actually 1366x768. I tried using SwitchresX but even though it says its working my resolution doesn't seem to change.

 

Does anyone out there have any thoughts? Does it have to do with the fact that i used the flat image? I'd be estatic if i could just get the ethernet working. I'm pretty new to this and have tried to search as best i can, though i do have a question about repairing permissions. How long does that usually take? i went into disk utility and chose repair permissions and it ran for about 15-20mins and showed no sign of finishing.

[outZider]

I bought a Sony Vaio TZ150, which is similar to your Japanese model, as an OS X laptop. It sucks as one, and I'm going to be selling it.

 

But, to answer your questions:

 

The new AppleYukon driver doesn't seem to like our chipset. Moving AppleYukon.kext from a 10.4 install and editing the plist results in a working network driver. If you don't have a 10.4 install available, let me know, and I'll get it to you somehow.

 

To change the wireless card, open the vaio. In the lower left hand corner is a little board lifted slightly above, held down with two philips screws. Remove the two screws, and it sorta hinges up by the ribbon cable attached to it. Below that is the intel card with three wires connected to it (black, grey, white). Connect the black and white connectors to the dell wireless card you have on hand.

 

The display is the real {censored}. It appears the lcd doesn't like the default 640x480 resolution OS X likes, and that's why you get the artifacted screen. It has to do with the requested refresh rate. The Vaio seems to have a semi broken EDID response, at least to Apple's driver, so half the time, OS X can't get a valid display or video type out of it. SwitchResX works great when OS X does pull the right ID, but once it goes back to 'Generic Monitor', SwitchResX doesn't seem to be able to add a valid resolution to it, even though it says it can. The answer to this question is "*shrug*". Sometimes it works for me, sometimes it doesn't.

 

Now, I could get into the fact that Sony's Power Management is semi proprietary, so even with all of the power management and sleep hacks that were available for 10.4.9, the TZ was unable to sleep properly. Speedstep worked okay, and now that's back with the new Leopard kernel. Even so, I don't see anything really improving here, and while I could attempt to trap all of the event responses of Sony's drivers in Windows, and then attempt to write drivers against the OS X kernel, I feel that it might be a waste of my time, as there are about 3 of us TZ users on here. I'm thinking of trying the Toshiba R500 to see how it compares. That, or wait for Apple to wake up and realize that a 12" ultra-thin laptop might actually sell.

 

Good luck. Let me know if you have any questions.

[eucrow]

Thanks for all the info.

 

I already had a TZ on hand and form factor wise it seemed like a great choice for an osx86 laptop. Hopefully apple might catch up with the form factor as they did with the macbooks' 13.3" screen which used to be standard on the old vaio s-series. if you don't mind, send me the old appleyukon.kext, i'll PM you my email address.

 

I thought that the TZ's used a mini-pci for their wireless cards as opposed to the mini-PCIe (smaller) size. Either way post your experiments with the toshiba should you get it, i had toyed with the idea of getting that one before buying the TZ.

[outZider]

I'm pretty sure the TZ90 and TZ150 are the same in that they both use MiniPCIe. The only real difference is that the TZ150 is Santa Rosa based, except with the GMA950 instead of the GMA3100 video chipset. I used a Dell 1500 Draft n PCIe card, and it worked okay, but man, did Vista get angry with that.

 

I will keep you updated, and get you the old AppleYukon kext asap.

[eucrow]

Cool. thanks, i need to go in there to replace/add a hard drive so i'll switch out the wireless cards then. I didn't realzie they were santa rosa based i remember when i was buying the thing i saw gma950 and figured they had skipped out on santa rosa for this iteration.

[eucrow]

So pulled out an older IONetworkingFamily.kext from 10.4.9 (uphuck) using pacifist, pulled out AppleYukon.kext form that and dropped it into a an IONetworkingFamily.kext that i had taken from my leopard install. The dropping in of the kext was done in windows. Back in OSX i repaired permissions on the file, reloaded the kext and rebuilt the cache. The problem is it doesn't seem to accept my modified kext as a vaild kext. I'm not sure where i'm going wrong here. Any thoughts? I also tried writing in an AppleYukon.kext file into IONetworkingFamily but i kept on getting "Bus Error" when trying to save the new file. I figure that has to do with the file being actively loaded at the time but my experience with OSX only goes back at most a month. Anyone have an idea as to what i'm doing wrong?

[eucrow]

Well...this is probably the dumbest thing ever but i thought i'd give modifying the AppleYukon2.kext one last shot before trying something else (i've been at it for 2days with this thing mind you) So when i go in there i go to change the sting to 436311ab (my device and vendor ID) an i realize that IN WINDOWS my device and vendor read as 4363 and "11AB" not "11ab" notice the case difference. So i change the lowercase ab to uppercase AB and low and behold i have a working ethernet port. My adapter is the Yukon 88E8055 by the way. I hope this goes on to help someone else.

 

 

Also, as to my display issues in the first post, i was able to get it to work reliably with DisplayConfigx.

[outZider]

That's really weird that it would make a difference. I'll have to give that a shot.

 

You have me back to playing with this damn thing again. Still no luck with sleep, but speedstep seems to be working well. I wonder how we can get the kernel hackers to help us get sleep working on these machines.

[eucrow]

Hell, i don't want to think that was all there is to it either. I spent half that evening messing with kexts trying to get the lan to work and it could be that i made some sort of serendipitous mistake along the way, but who knows.

[eucrow]

couldn't get the dell wireless card to work under windows. Vista saw it as a broadcom device and loaded the driver for it but for some reason the tz90 wouldn't power it up. I gave installing the dell software a shot but it wouldn't let me install it caliming that a compatible device hadn't been found. OutZider, which dell card are you using and were you able to enable it under windows correctly?

[Anawrahta]

Questions for the fellow TZ users:

 

Did anyone manage to get real brightness control working on the screen in Leopard?

 

Has audio support improved?

 

In tiger brightness control didn't work at all, and audio was either speakers only, or nothing at all and it looks like Tauruga has stopped working on the ALC kexts that were close to being functional.

[peninha]

Hi,

 

I've got a TZ21. I am running leo 10.5.1 with EFI.

 

To get the ethernet card to work just change AppleYukon2 such that for Yukon-88E8055:

 

<key>IOPCIPrimaryMatch</key>

<string>0x436311ab</string>

<key>IOPCISecondaryMatch</key>

<string>0x900e104d</string>

 

Does anyone got sleep to work? That's what's prevnting me of using the laptop.

 

Ciao,

Peninha

[PhilippKo]

I have a problem with CPU on my TZ. System detects my CPU as Core Solo.

 

 

Questions for the fellow TZ users:

 

Did anyone manage to get real brightness control working on the screen in Leopard?

 

I use Shades

 

Has audio support improved?

 

Headphones and speakers work together. In Sound System Preferences there are two devices Internal speakers and Headphones but only first device works.

[ccarrieta]

Hi,

 

I've got a TZ21. I am running leo 10.5.1 with EFI.

 

did you ever get sleep to work?

[skippy911]

Ive got a tz-370n, I used kalyway and got everything working except sound in, and wireless. I tried the beta 4965agn drivers but they did nothing. I also tried to boot using boot 132 but all I get is a bluescreen. I tried iatkos and it crashed, so I think kalyway is the only way to go. One time when installing kalyway I got the webcam to work but ive never got it to work again. DId you guys get webcam? Thanks