Installing Snow Leopard on ThinkPad X61

[mightycrown]

Originally Posted by vampyrex13 It took several hours of trial and error, but I managed to get a fully working X61-7675 working with all hardware in 32-bit mode on 10.6.3 and 10.6.4, including a fully functioning fingerprint scanner and the MC5725 Verizon wireless card. Sleep also fully works and I managed to make some changes in the DSDT code to prevent the system from waking up immediately after going to sleep. Sleep when closing and wake when opening the lid work. The screen auto dims when idle and will dim when switching from AC to battery. CPU and drive temp works in iStats and native speed stepping is enabled. Bluetooth also wakes up from sleep, although it may take 30-45 seconds to become responsive. Make sure the wireless radio switch it turned on before booting, otherwise bluetooth may not be available unless you reboot. AD1984 audio is fully functional via an EFI string in the boot file. These are all the drivers you will need to install. You will need to use the asereBLN bootloader, otherwise shutdown and reboot may not work properly. Remove any other drivers you already have, otherwise you will get a kernel panic. http://www.mediafire.com/vampyrex13

Hi. I am running SL on this machine as well, got most of the things working. Can you please explain how you achieved native speedstep and all the temp reading? BTW which way did you enable your graphic card, by bootloader? or DSDT injection or patched kext?
Appriciated

[mightycrown]

Originally Posted by ibelic Hi all, I have X61 tablet and 10.6.4 installed and more or less, everything is working except bluetooth. I don't know why, but I can't turn on bluetooth in windows to keep it turned on for mac os x. Every time it just turns off. I have newest bios installed and there is no option such as 'keep it turned on all the time'. Chipset is Broadcom (vendor ID: hex 0A5C) and product ID is hex 2110 (rev hex 0100). I tried to mess with \System\Library\Extensions\IOBluetoothFamily.kext\ Contents\PlugIns\BroadcomUSBBluetoothHCIController .kext\Contents\Info.plist ut with no success. Is there anybody who can point me out to the right direction of fixing this problem in dsdt? Regards, Ivan

You have to fix the HPET section. The example is in sammy's uploads

[vampyrex13]

Originally Posted by mightycrown Hi. I am running SL on this machine as well, got most of the things working. Can you please explain how you achieved native speedstep and all the temp reading? BTW which way did you enable your graphic card, by bootloader? or DSDT injection or patched kext? Appriciated

I used a combination of DSDT and injected info into the IOPlatformPluginFamily.kext. I think what I have currently on MediaFire might be the wrong revision of my kext file. I'll attach my corrected files to this post and will redo my zip files on MediaFire sometime tomorrow. As for the graphics, I'm using GrandFlash's X3100 kext with an EFI string. I'll also attach my EFI strings in xml format. I've also included IOSDHCIBlockDevice.kext to replace VoodooSDHC.kext.

[xinweix]

Hi, does anyone encounter such problem on vanilla 10.6.3.
When my X61 goes to sleep, everything is fine. While it wakes up, it seems that the USB ports don't work any more. For example, the USB disk will be ejected when the system is going to sleep and the USB mouse is inactive after wakeup. How to fix this problem. Thanks.

[mightycrown]

Originally Posted by vampyrex13 I used a combination of DSDT and injected info into the IOPlatformPluginFamily.kext. I think what I have currently on MediaFire might be the wrong revision of my kext file. I'll attach my corrected files to this post and will redo my zip files on MediaFire sometime tomorrow. As for the graphics, I'm using GrandFlash's X3100 kext with an EFI string. I'll also attach my EFI strings in xml format. I've also included IOSDHCIBlockDevice.kext to replace VoodooSDHC.kext.

Hello
Thanks for the files.
I will try them out this weekend and let you know the result.

[junmac]

Originally Posted by grandflash I use an EFI String combined with the AppleIntelX3100FB.kext vers. 1.5.18 and i have proper brightness control. Links: http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/ind...howtopic=87574 see attached files: X61_BrightnessPack.zip By the way, i got Vanilla speedstepping working too, and many other fixes in my dsdt.

Hi, Grandflash, I couldn't find your dsdt.aml anywhere. Would it be possible for you to post it? I assume it is for x61s? I have pretty everything else working except speedstep, sleep and restart. Thanks a lot.

Jun

[vampyrex13]

Ok, I finally updated my files at http://www.mediafire.com/vampyrex13. I have everything working with this setup, although I still need to confirm that the PCIMCIA card slot works (I have no external laptop cards to test with). The External display works great when attached to the docking base. I'm also succesfully using bluetooth PAN to share 3G Internet from my HTC Touch Pro 2. I have also updated the bootloader I'm using to restore Theme support.

[mightycrown]

Hey i m just wondering which processor does your x61 have? 2Ghz or 2.2

[vampyrex13]

I have the 2.4Ghz T8300 processor.

[xinweix]

Originally Posted by vampyrex13 Ok, I finally updated my files at http://www.mediafire.com/vampyrex13. I have everything working with this setup, although I still need to confirm that the PCIMCIA card slot works (I have no external laptop cards to test with). The External display works great when attached to the docking base. I'm also succesfully using bluetooth PAN to share 3G Internet from my HTC Touch Pro 2. I have also updated the bootloader I'm using to restore Theme support.

Hi vampyrex13, according to your package, does it fully work? for example, when machine wakeups, the usb ports are still working.