[GUIDE] Mac OS 10.8 on Sony Vaio SA/SB/SE

[MacCambodia]

How to Dual Boot Mac OS X Mountain Lion and Windows 7?

I installed Mac OS X Mountain Lion First, and then windows 7.

Thanks for your kind.

 

[yuanhaoliang]

How to Dual Boot Mac OS X Mountain Lion and Windows 7?

I installed Mac OS X Mountain Lion First, and then windows 7.

Thanks for your kind.

install the chameleon boot loader. http://chameleon.osx86.hu/

 

[MacCambodia]

"About This Mac" not working, Please try to fix as soon as possible

 

[MacCambodia]

I installed Mac OS X Mountain Lion on my Sony Vaio VPCSB36FG with VAIOPack v 8.0.2, but the battery is still not working, please help me

 

[CyberWalrus]

"About This Mac" not working, Please try to fix as soon as possible

Please read the issues list, its a known issue, cant fix it until an upstream bug is fixed.

About battery... Well, its always been an issue, and was frequently discussed in the old thread. I'm really not sure what to do about it, as there seems to be no fix that works for everyone. I will try and find the time to work on making a proper DSDT based fix, but I would appreciate it if everyone didn't bug me on that front, as its a really annoying/time consuming to do, and requires perhaps a better knowledge of ACPI code than I have.

 

[loll]

"About This Mac" not working, Please try to fix as soon as possible

Rename /S/L/E/AppleSMBIOS.kext as AppleSMBIOS.kext.unused and restart.

 

[CyberWalrus]

Rename /S/L/E/AppleSMBIOS.kext as AppleSMBIOS.kext.unused and restart.

And thats a sure way to make a really stable install unstable.
Seriously, how many times do you open about this mac in a day? a week? a year? I don't think I've ever thought "Oh darn, it totally sucks that I cant open about this mac right now"

Just to clarify why it doesn't work:

Our vaios have the first 4gb of ram soldered on the motherboard. I don't know how this ram identifies itself to the OS, but however it does it, Mac doesn't like it. This causes About This Mac to crash when it tries to read the ram info.
This was supposed to be fixable by injecting the ram information with chimera/chameleon. But as stated in this http://forge.voodooprojects.org/p/chameleon/issues/122/ ancient bug, it doesn't actually inject. I actually took a look at the code involved, and ram injection code exists, but is explicitly disabled for some reason.
Since I don't want to be distributing custom chimera/chameleon builds, I've got no real way to fix this.

 

[MacCambodia]

thanks, but it is not stable

 

[loll]

And thats a sure way to make a really stable install unstable.

You're right, it seems to be unstable under ML and AboutMyMac is not very important ;-)

Strange, i got no problem under Lion... Also, I inject ram properties in smbios.plist as follow:

	<key>SMmemspeed</key>
	<string>1066</string>
	<key>SMmemmanufacter_1</key>
	<string>0xAD00000000000000</string>
	<key>SMmemserial_1</key>
	<string>0x00001020</string>
	<key>SMmempart_1</key>
	<string>0x48594D503131325336344350362D59352020</string>
	<key>SMmemmanufacter_2</key>
	<string>0xAD00000000000000</string>
	<key>SMmemserial_2</key>
	<string>0x00003021</string>
	<key>SMmempart_2</key>
	<string>0x48594D503131325336344350362D59352020</string>
	<key>SMmemmanufacter_3</key>
	<string>0xAD00000000000000</string>
	<key>SMmemserial_3</key>
	<string>0x00003021</string>
	<key>SMmempart_3</key>
	<string>0x48594D503131325336344350362D59352020</string>
	<key>SMmemmanufacter_4</key>
	<string>0xAD00000000000000</string>
	<key>SMmemserial_4</key>
	<string>0x00003021</string>
	<key>SMmempart_4</key>
	<string>0x48594D503131325336344350362D59352020</string>

 

[Úll Mac]

hi cyberwalrus , just been reading your old posts and see you've had success with adding edid to dsdt.
Could you explain exactly how you add edid info to dsdt and where?
i've an acer 7741g with 1600x900 res. ati5470 graphics 512mb , on mountain lion I have fully acceleration with vga and hdmi but only backlight on lvds.
I have made custom display overide but it has not helped .
I've tried raw dsdt, patching with dual link etc but dsdt is guess work for me.
Can you help?
Thanks