Lenovo W530 Help

[sergeydgr8]

Did u ever figure out how to get the wifi or network card in the laptop to work?

unfortunately, no. I'm still waiting on technifighter to make that tutorial.

 

[pip11]

@Mattfrox
I tried the things that TheFreeman suggested and was able to get brightness control (not with function keys), sleep, and SpeedStep (I think). I wasn't able to get AppleHDA to work. I could post my DSDT and SSDT later if anyone wants to try them.

I'd definitely like to try your DSDT and SSDT! I just added an SSDT and my geekbench score went up by 2500 points, I assume because turbo boost now works.
I'll make another post later with my other findings

 

[sergeydgr8]

Anybody still alive here? It's been a few months and nobody has responded on how to get this beast of a machine to run Mountain Lion.

Tecnifighter, can you post that guide you were talking about or tell us how you managed to get to where you are at?

 

[pip11]

Anybody still alive here? It's been a few months and nobody has responded on how to get this beast of a machine to run Mountain Lion.

Tecnifighter, can you post that guide you were talking about or tell us how you managed to get to where you are at?

I had Mountain Lion running on my W530, it ran pretty well!

Install: I added a mSATA SSD, so I could leave the Windows install on the HDD untouched. I installed OS X with UniBeast ML (with Laptop Support checked). I had to boot in safe mode (hold shift) once OS X was installed, I think I had to remove some kext that was causing boot to hang. Maybe OemSmbios.kext?
CPU: I added a DSDT patch to enable turbo mode/c-states
Graphics: I switched to "Integrated Graphics only" in the BIOS, didn't try using the NVIDIA chip. "NVIDIA only" might work but I didn't test it.
Ethernet: Worked great with the IntelE1000e driver included in MultiBeast
WiFi: Using the built-in WiFi isn't gonna happen. The BIOS has a whitelist of allowed WiFi cards, none of which have driver support under OS X. And (unlike on the W520/earlier ThinkPads) the BIOS is now signed and can't be hacked. I bought a tiny cheap USB WiFi adapter and used that, it's not as nice as real Apple-supported WiFi but it's the best we can do.
Audio: I tried to hack AppleHDA but gave up, and VoodooHDA worked great
Brightness control: Added DSDT mod to get brightness slider, it worked pretty well. After booting the brightness would be low though, I had to go to sleep and resume to get brightness at full.
Battery: VoodooBattery worked great.
Sleep/resume: Worked well, I think I had to add a DSDT patch otherwise it would instantly wake up.
Trackpad: I had to install something to get this working (including two-finger scrolling), maybe VoodooPS2Controller?
TrackPoint nub: I didn't spend any time trying to get this working but it's probably possible

I don't have my W530 any more (left the job), so this is all coming from memory and I'm probably forgetting some things. I still have the SSD with the install on it though, so I might be able to check on things if I get an adapter.

 

[albm88]

I pretty much did the same thing, ill go into more depth in a bit, just been insanely busy.

If you run into errors during install, try changing the USB port you boot from. I know it sounds odd, but the USB 3.0 ports seem to cause errors during install even if 3.0

A lot of the suggestions early in this forum helped out a lot, such as the boot settings to use the intel graphics card etc...

I had Mountain Lion running on my W530, it ran pretty well!

Install: I added a mSATA SSD, so I could leave the Windows install on the HDD untouched. I installed OS X with UniBeast ML (with Laptop Support checked). I had to boot in safe mode (hold shift) once OS X was installed, I think I had to remove some kext that was causing boot to hang. Maybe OemSmbios.kext?
CPU: I added a DSDT patch to enable turbo mode/c-states
Graphics: I switched to "Integrated Graphics only" in the BIOS, didn't try using the NVIDIA chip. "NVIDIA only" might work but I didn't test it.
Ethernet: Worked great with the IntelE1000e driver included in MultiBeast
WiFi: Using the built-in WiFi isn't gonna happen. The BIOS has a whitelist of allowed WiFi cards, none of which have driver support under OS X. And (unlike on the W520/earlier ThinkPads) the BIOS is now signed and can't be hacked. I bought a tiny cheap USB WiFi adapter and used that, it's not as nice as real Apple-supported WiFi but it's the best we can do.
Audio: I tried to hack AppleHDA but gave up, and VoodooHDA worked great
Brightness control: Added DSDT mod to get brightness slider, it worked pretty well. After booting the brightness would be low though, I had to go to sleep and resume to get brightness at full.
Battery: VoodooBattery worked great.
Sleep/resume: Worked well, I think I had to add a DSDT patch otherwise it would instantly wake up.
Trackpad: I had to install something to get this working (including two-finger scrolling), maybe VoodooPS2Controller?
TrackPoint nub: I didn't spend any time trying to get this working but it's probably possible

I don't have my W530 any more (left the job), so this is all coming from memory and I'm probably forgetting some things. I still have the SSD with the install on it though, so I might be able to check on things if I get an adapter.

 

[albm88]

also the trackpad and track-nub can work, again theres a guide really early in this thread that someone linked to, and it tells you which kexts to install

 

[sergeydgr8]

Thanks man. So I got ML running on the machine, now onto getting the right DSDT and kexts. So, I can't get it to boot without Safe Mode and GraphicsEnabler=No (making it a 1024x768 resolution). Any ideas on that?

And again thanks for the help guys!

 

[Tecnifighter]

To fix the booting and graphics problems go to /Extra/org.chameleon.boot.plist

Open that and look for:

[COLOR=#000000]<key>GraphicsEnabler</key>[/COLOR]

and change the next line to:

[COLOR=#000000]<string>No<string>[/COLOR]

Below that line, add:

[COLOR=#000000]<key>device-properties</key>
[/COLOR][COLOR=#000000]<string>7f0000000100000001000000730000000200000002010c00d041030a000000000101060000027fff04002c0000004100410050004c002c00690067002d0070006c006100740066006f0072006d002d006900640000000800000004006601140000006800640061002d0067006600780000000d0000006f6e626f6172642d31</string>
[/COLOR]

Attached is a picture of the MultiBeast options I used and additional kexts that can be installed with KextBeast.

 

[sergeydgr8]

Go to /Extra/org.chameleon.boot.plist

Open that and look for:

[COLOR=#000000]<key>GraphicsEnabler</key>[/COLOR]

and change the next line to:

[COLOR=#000000]<string>No<string>[/COLOR]

Below that line, add:

[COLOR=#000000]<key>device-properties</key>
[/COLOR][COLOR=#000000]<string>7f0000000100000001000000730000000200000002010c00d041030a000000000101060000027fff04002c0000004100410050004c002c00690067002d0070006c006100740066006f0072006d002d006900640000000800000004006601140000006800640061002d0067006600780000000d0000006f6e626f6172642d31</string>[/COLOR]

Will that fix the resolution and graphic shearing? Here's what I had last night (currently I'm running on a different HDD, I'll try adding the above tonight when I get home):

 

[Tecnifighter]

Yeah, that will enable the Intel HD 4000 graphics with acceleration and will allow you to set the resolution normally.

Also, I updated my last post with a few more things.