Hi everybody,
I have just successfully installed Snow Leopard on my ThinkPad X61s, from which I'm writing right now. I think this should also work with 10.5 vanilla too. Also, should be the same as with ThinkPads X61 Tablet and T61 (version with GMA X3100).
What you need:
1. another computer running Snow Leopard (Leopard is probably okay too)
2. a screwdriver
3. a couple of .kexts (listed below)
4. about 2 hours or your time
My ThinkPad X61 Pack
Here are the steps:
1. backup all your data from your X61
2. take out the hard disk from your X61 (there only one screw, then pull out the HDD)
3. install the 2.5" disk from X61 to an external enclosure or a desktop PC
4. format the disk using GUID Partition Table (if you want to multiboot later then make a more then one partition)
5. install Snow Leopard onto the X61's disk by directly opening the OSInstall.mpkg from
/System/Installation/Packages on the SL's image
6. when installation completes, copy the provided dsdt.aml to root directory of your new SN
7. install latest
fakesmc.kext from netkas.org (or you can try the newest dsmos.kext - a bit slower but shutdown and reboot works)
8. add the ID of Atheros card to
IO80211Family.kext (see the link on bottom on how to do that)
9. remove the kexts:
AppleIntelCPUPowerManagement and
AppleIntelCPUPowerManagementClient and
AppleHDA.kext
10. replace the FrameBuffer kext with the one provided -
AppleIntelGMAX3100FB.kext
11. install
VoodooHDA (for audio),
VoodooPS2Controller (for keyboard and Trackpoint) and
IOSDHCIBlockDevice.kext (for SDHC card reader) and
Intel82566MM.kext (for LAN)
12. repair permissions:
Code:
chown -R root:wheel /Volumes/YOUR_PARTITIONS_NAME/System/Library/Extensions/*
chmod -R 755 /Volumes/YOUR_PARTITIONS_NAME/System/Library/Extensions/*
13. install
Chameleon 1.0.12 on that partition and replace the /boot file (added in pack)
14. add the following code to
com.apple.Boot.plist on the X61's partition:
Code:
<key>Timeout</key>
<string>4</string>
<key>device-properties</key>
<string>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</string>
15. unmount/eject the disk, insert it back into your ThinkPad
16. you should see the chameleon loading, boot with flag
-f
Summary
What's working:
- Ethernet
- WiFi (shows as Airport)
- Graphics (X3100) full support
- Display brightness control (use Pause and ScrLk to change the backlight)
- Firewire
- Keyboard and trackpoint
- SDHC card reader
- Audio (with mic and headphones jack)
What's not working:
- Battery meter / power settings
- FSB and multiplier is wrong (same problem as with 10.5.7-10.5.8) - injecting via smbios.plist doesn't help
- No SpeedStep
- Sleep/Wake
- Shutdown/Reboot (probably because of FakeSMC)
Didn't try the PCMCIA driver yet, but it should also work.
Most of the credit goes to people from this thread:
http://insanelymac.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=87574
I've only adapted some things in order for it to work with Snow Leopard.
I'll upload the kext+DSDT pack in a moment and edit this post to add a link.
Note on running the 64 bit kernel:
It works, but no LAN, no WiFi, no audio and no internal keyboard or trackpoint. If somebody can compile the 64 bit versions of Intel82566MM, VoodooHDA and VoodooPS2 then that would be cool.
EDIT:
You can also use Chameleon RC1 with replaced boot file for netkas's EFI 10.2. It works, but for some reason it defaults to x64 so you must manually boot to 32-bit by this flag: -x32
DSMOS.kext + OpenHaltRestart.kext also work and there's reboot and shutdown capability.
EDIT2:
Battery meter and power management works with Superhai's VoodooPower.kext