Jays MonkeyBook Pro - The Ultimate Sony VPC-SE CustoMac Build

[jaymonkey]

Hi CyberWalrus,

Thanks for checking out the guide and the link to the new touchpad drivers. I was already aware that RehabMans touchpad kext supported Alps but did not know of that particular branch. I use his main trunk on my SE and its fantastic, works better than the official windows drivers.

I'm working on a DSDT patching guide for Sony Laptops for beginners, I will then extend the guide to completely cover SA & SB and include it in the Post Install Archive. Most of the DSDT patches are new and half are from RehabMan although i still have a few which are from your original lion DSDT.

The new build is awesome, light years from where we started two and half years ago, almost everything works now except for discreet graphics and SD card, almost as good as a real MBP now but i wouldn't have bought a SE if it wasn't for your original guide so thanks again for all your help, i would not have got this far with out it.

Cheers Buddy, Live long And Prosper
Jay

 

[RehabMan]

Hi CyberWalrus,

Thanks for checking out the guide and the link to the new touchpad drivers. I was already aware that RehabMans touchpad kext supported Alps but did not know of that particular branch. I use his main trunk on my SE and its fantastic, works better than the official windows drivers.

I'm working on a DSDT patching guide for Sony Laptops for beginners, I will then extend the guide to completely cover SA & SB and include it in the Post Install Archive.

Cheers Buddy, Live long And Prosper
Jay

It is possible that he has ALPS, but you have Synaptics...

 

[jaymonkey]

It is possible that he has ALPS, but you have Synaptics...

Yes I am aware of that, but I am going to expand the guide to cover the Sony SA SB and SC models which have Alps touchpad pad. Does your current main build support Apls now or should i use the trunk in the link posted by Cyberwalrus ?

Cheers
Jay

 

[RehabMan]

Yes I am aware of that, but I am going to expand the guide to cover the Sony SA SB and SC models which have Alps touchpad pad. Does your current main build support Apls now or should i use the trunk in the link posted by Cyberwalrus ?

Cheers
Jay

My main build does not support ALPS. I have merged bpedman's code into my repo as a test, but there was a shortage of testers. That work is the bpedman_merge branch at my github repo. As there was no one willing to test the code, and the changes are potentially destabilizing to the Synaptics, I have, so far, decided not to release it as an official build. If that situation were to change, I could certainly change that decision.

 

[jaymonkey]

My main build does not support ALPS. I have merged bpedman's code into my repo as a test, but there was a shortage of testers. That work is the bpedman_merge branch at my github repo. As there was no one willing to test the code, and the changes are potentially destabilizing to the Synaptics, I have, so far, decided not to release it as an official build. If that situation were to change, I could certainly change that decision.

Fair enough, I know there where a lot of followers on the Lion & ML build threads that have Sony SA SB & SC (alps touchpad) so once my guide covers those we should be able to get a few more testers for you.

Will try and keep you advised on that when it happens, for the moment the synaptics support is awesome, like i said in my post to Cyberwalrus I think your driver works better than the windows drivers. The pad feels much more natural and responsive, almost as good as MBP with the glide scrolling.

Cheers
Jay

 

[CyberWalrus]

I've been attempting to test things out again on my SA, and for some reason I cant even get a booting install. After installing, copying over most of your kexts (minus ones for wifi) etc, I reboot and get stuck at waiting for DSMOS with a bit of debug output after that. Strange, as I've never encountered that before. Safe mode doesn't help either.

Any ideas? Havent got the time to spend hours messing around.

 

[RehabMan]

I've been attempting to test things out again on my SA, and for some reason I cant even get a booting install. After installing, copying over most of your kexts (minus ones for wifi) etc, I reboot and get stuck at waiting for DSMOS with a bit of debug output after that. Strange, as I've never encountered that before. Safe mode doesn't help either.

Any ideas? Havent got the time to spend hours messing around.

You forgot FakeSMC.

 

[CyberWalrus]

You forgot FakeSMC.

Its definitely installed, I selected it in multibeast and its present in /S/L/E

Ok scratch that. It seems somehow multibeast installed just the plugins and not the rest of fakeSMC. Or maybe I just screwed up there. I'll reinstall now :L

 

[RehabMan]

Its definitely installed, I selected it in multibeast and its present in /S/L/E

Ok scratch that. It seems somehow multibeast installed just the plugins and not the rest of fakeSMC. Or maybe I just screwed up there. I'll reinstall now :L

Or you installed some things along with it that caused kernel cache build failure, so your kernel cache is without FakeSMC and therefore not loading even though it is in /S/L/E.

 

[CyberWalrus]

Ok, everythings working great on the SA for me now, including the alps trackpad drivers. (using the Rehabman merge version from http://forum.osxlatitude.com/index.php?/topic/2545-new-touchpad-driver-for-e6520-alps/)

Some remarks:

1.) Sleep seems to take a really long time to happen. I don't remember it being this slow previously.
2.) Swipes work, which is really cool. Is there a way to change the keys the swipes are mapped to though? I had a peek through the kext Info.plist, but it looks pretty complicated.
3.) Trackpad works nicely, and can be configured from the trackpad prefpane. It also seems to be configurable from the synaptics prefpane included with the kext, but these changes seem not to persist across reboots?
4.) This is an odd one: With the 2 finger scolling, it seems coasting is inverted. So if I flick upwards, it will scroll down while my fingers are in contact with the pad, but then it will coast upwards afterwards.
5.) Win key and alt are reversed. This used to happen, but there was a key in the PS2 keyboard kext Info.plist that changed it back. Doesnt seem to be present in this version. It can be changed within mac OS, but it makes more sense to me to do it in the kext.

Not sure if the trackpad stuff is exclusive to the alps version, or within rehabmans domain at all.