By fully functional, I mean other than onboard WiFi, VGA, card reader, and brightness control, but who's counting.
Based on kartoffelsalat's El Capitan guide, however with modifications to provide NVS5400M support.
My aim with this guide is to leave nothing to the imagination. I feel like there's a certain subset of the internet such as DD-WRT and Hackintoshing where 90% of the information is cryptic bullshit. This guide should be trivial to follow if you have basic experience installing operating systems and using bash.
It was not possible to boot whatsoever on MacbookPro9,2
SMBIOS with discrete graphics. iMac13,1
(iMac, Late 2012) SMBIOS is necessary. It was chosen due to the GT640M being standard on that generation, the nearest relative I could find to the NVS5400M (effectively a rebadged GT630M) on stock Apple hardware.
Go through the standard UniBeast process to create a bootable OSX installer. Keep in mind that this guide targets a 10.11.5 El Capitan installation. Other versions will likely require some additional work.
Replace /EFI/CLOVER/config.plist
with the one included in this repo.
Patch dsdt.aml
as per kartoffelsalat's guide and place at /EFI/CLOVER/ACPI/patched
Replace /EFI/CLOVER/drivers64UEFI/VBoxHfs-64.efi
with HFSPlus.efi
(HFSPlus is Apple's proprietary filesystem driver. It will not be supplied in this repo.)
Move kexts from /EFI/CLOVER/kext/10.11
to /EFI/CLOVER/kext/other
Delete all folders in /EFI/CLOVER/kext/
except other
Copy Clover installer, Kext Wizard, and any needed drivers to root of USB drive for post-installation. USB WiFi is a good start; I am using this as it fits very nicely into the recessed USB3.0 slots on the left of the computer.
Copy kexts included in this repo to root of USB drive
Copy any needed drivers
Boot to BIOS, [F1]
Set Config > Display > Graphics Device
to Discrete Graphics
and disable OS Detection
. Switchable graphics are not supported with Hackintosh. The special sauce in this particular machine, and perhaps the only way discrete graphics will work on any modern laptop, is that there is a hard setting in the BIOS to override Optimus.
Ensure Startup > Boot > Boot Mode
is set to Both
, UEFI First
and CSM Enabled
Enable Security > Memory Protection
Boot to startup menu, [F12]
, and choose your USB drive
Choose Mac OS partition in Clover
Open Disk Utility
from menubar, formatting target drive to Mac OS Journaled
.
Install Mac OS
Boot from USB once more, however this time choosing your hard drive installation in Clover
Install Clover on boot drive
Drivers64UEFI > OsxAptioFix2Drv-64
Mount EFI partition
mkdir /Volumes/efi
diskutil list
, taking note of the EFI partition on the Mac OS hard drive (not the USB drive)sudo mount -t msdos
/dev/[EFI partition]
/Volumes/efi
Copy config.plist
to /EFI/CLOVER
Copy DSDT.aml
to /EFI/CLOVER/ACPI/patched
Replace /EFI/CLOVER/drivers64UEFI/VBoxHfs-64.efi
with HFSPlus.efi
Use Kext Wizard to install kexts included in this repo
Copy org.rehabman.voodoo.driver.Daemon.plist
to /Library/LaunchDaemons
Copy VoodooPS2Daemon
to /usr/bin
Install USB WiFi driver
Repair permissions and update cache: sudo touch /System/Library/Extensions && sudo kextcache -u /
Reboot
macOS unsurprisingly has very Unix shortcut key configuration that makes you wonder why something like this is so hard for Microsoft to figure out.
It's legitimately as simple as opening a System Preferences > Keyboard
dialogue, and manually typing in ANY menu bar command you want executed when you type a certain key combination in an application or globally. The fact that Automator can add its scripts to your menubar under "Services" means you can effectively bind a key combination to do literally anything.
VoodooPS2 also binds three-finger-swipe to ctrl-cmd-[DIRECTION]
, so we can bind it to back and forward (and whatever you want up and down to do) in our web browser.
Here's a cheatsheet (keep in mind that I already created the "launch terminal" Service in Automator):
You now have a fully functional Thinkpad T430 Hackintosh to install Google web apps and Microsoft text editors on.
The ideal scenario for me is having a Unix or Unix-like operating system on my laptop that still has an attractive, user-friendly desktop environment. macOS fits the bill. Dual booting Windows offers unlimited versatility, even when I'm not at home with my main Windows computer.
I feel like the computer throttles itself significantly when it's booted on battery? But then plugging it in doesn't seem to change anything. It has to be booted on AC power. I'm pretty sure this is all real, but it could also be psychosomatic.
The iMac SMBIOS configuration removes "on battery" Energy Saver preferences. This is easily resolved with the pmset
command line utility. sudo pmset -g disk
to view all current Energy Saver configuration. sudo pmset -b displaysleep 15
is what I needed, which sets the display sleep timeout to 15 minutes on battery [-b
].
You will have a 3rd party WiFi manager in your menu bar to configure your USB WiFi.
If you want to use the trackpoint, you have to set the cursor sensitivity to minimum which effectively renders your touchpad useless. You can press PrtSc
to disable the touchpad.
Slightly related -- I had a Corsair M65 laying around that I wanted to use at work. Obviously, Mac is no place for epic sniper high DPI LED gaming mice, therefore there is no built-in support for the back and forward buttons. ckb didn't work for this mouse, even after adjusting macro definitions, so I created my own back, forward, and mission control buttons in Karabiner using the existing maps for the touchpad: https://gist.github.com/david-cako/666773eb84133aa348266e871a27a2ce
To be continued...