Mac OS X Mountain Lion on Alienware?

Yeap, but I've seen someone on tonymacx86 that managed to patch "buri's framebuffer" (via clover I guess) to get the 7970m working on hdmi and also internal screen of his sager ! that's why I wanted to give it a try. But since it freezes my touchpad and keyboard... not sure lol

yeap you're right, I've seen that non legacy version; but the audio patch link on that page still send me on the legacy forum

okay I'll try to do it with unibeast, as I did it last year ^^

if you have a good DSDT i'd like to see it

 

Sorry bout it not linking to the right post, here [GUIDE] Alienware M17xR3 : It's almost there! - Page 18.

I'll post up my DSDT but you'll have to make your own, the one from my system will screw things up on your system (DSDT is system and bios specific), but it should give you an idea of what a working DSDT looks like.

 

oh thanks for the link, finally ! I'll try it ! Hum concerning the dsdt, I have no idea of how I'm going to make my own ...

 

I am testing Mac OS X 10.9 mavericks on the Alienware as of right now. I have a 80% fixed DSDT, still need to figure out how to fix lid sleep and get the power button to activate the pop up menu, but intel hd 4000 now WORKS, as it was broken before I found and applied correct patches to DSDT. Sleep works from menu or power button. All USB ports work , including Usb 3.0 ports, both before and after sleep. Wifi works after replacing card + dsdt edit (have extra card for sale if anybody wants, PM me). Things that remain to fix:

1. ATI Mobility Radeon 7970m - ONE user in the past, has gotten the 6990M to work on the Alienware M18x R1 with a personality edit + dsdt patch. I messaged him for advice, pray for a response!
2. Audio. I have no idea how to patch appleHDA, and voodoohda is not a proper fix. I am still investigating this.
3. Card reader, I am working on an injection method.

What does work:
1. Shutdown/Restart
2. Sleep
3. Intel HD 4000 full qe/ci/resolution
4. Webcam
5. Wifi (after replacing card with AR9285 + DSDT patch)

 

I'm not sure if anyone is interested my progress running 10.8.4 on a M17x ("R1" even though there isnt really an R1) with QX9300, GTX280M SLI. Or if its already something people have figured out (if so I'd love help with my two outstanding issues !)

I've got some issues left with the battery and the audio but everything else is running great. The dual GTX280M's are working well with an EFI string, acceleration etc, Wifi and Ethernet are working well also.

In the BIOS turn off Hybrid Graphics and disable the integrated graphics.
If your OS X installer wont see your internal drives its probably because you are using RAID which it cant see, so either switch to the standard mode or install to external USB drive and just velcro it to the monitor .

My basic approach was installing via standard install iAtkos ML2 then Booting with -x -v to get to finder.
From S/L/E Removing all the Intel GPU and ATI kexts.
Installing Chimera, then in Chameleon Wizard setting EthernetBuilt In, System Type Laptop, GraphicsEnabler=Yes, EFI Hex string from a Dual GTX280M.plist i cobbled together https://www.dropbox.com/s/aidt6sd0hf7o1f6/GTX280M.plist, PCIRoot=1, Graphics Mode 1920x1200x32, Restart Fix.I used an SMBIOS.plist for a MBP5,2. Additionally I installed the VooDooTSCSync.kext and the VooDooPS2Controller.kext for the single CPU Core2Duo Extreme (1cpu / 4cores) and the Trackpad and Keyboard respectively.

So far this has gotten me a system that is running well, with the exception of the Audio and the Battery troubles which I'm hoping to dial in next.

As I muddle my way through I'm guessing I'm going to need to just suck it up and solve everything via DSDT but, this is a step along the way.

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Hi! i've tried to hackintosh my m17xr3 but can't manage to do so since lots of jim 898's threads disapeared; i'm searching for a as full as possible method too; could you help me somehow? (sorry for my english, i'm french.)

 

Oh goodness its been a while. Umm sure so exactly what are your specs and how much progress have you made so far etc. I'm on vacation until Monday so maybe someone else can help you quicker but if not I'll be back then. just post something Monday to remind me to help ya haha

 

DEAR Technos! What are the exact steps taken to ensure Mavericks works on my alienware m18x r2 i have been trying to get mavericks just to even boot on my m18x and with the Niresh Mavericks USB os i havnt gotten to! each time after selecting diffrent settings each time it would load the apple logo and then go to a grey screen. and when i would command it to post diagnostics it would show up stuff like appleintelcpu or somthing like that!

i would love to have Yosemite on the machine even if its just the preview it would be cool! i want to try somthing new!


if you can help me please do! i want mavericks or yosemite to boot on my m18x

my specs


Windows 8.1 Pro 64-bit
CPU
Intel Core i7 3610QM @ 2.30GHz 58 °C
Ivy Bridge 22nm Technology
RAM
16.0GB Dual-Channel DDR3 @ 665MHz (9-9-9-24)
Motherboard
Alienware M18xR2 (U3E1) 28 °C HM77
Graphics
Generic PnP Monitor (1920x1080@60Hz)
Intel HD Graphics 4000 (Dell)
Storage
465GB Western Digital WDC WD5000BEVT-55A0RT0 (SATA) 35 °C
298GB Hitachi HTS545032B9A300 (SATA) 33 °C
Optical Drives
PLDS DVD+-RW DL-8A4SH
Audio
Sound Blaster Recon3Di

 

What is your graphics card?

Also, you probably have a kernel panic from AppleIntelCPUPowerManager. MSR 0xE2 is locked by default, but lucky for us, we don't need to patch the kext. Just download intel XTU (in windows of course), and you should see and option to disable package c state limit or control or something like that, which would unlock MSR 0xE2 to prevent kernel panics. You also need a patched DSDT to allow for intel HD 4000 to be recognized, or you can boot -x -f -v

 

I have 2 gpus one being the Intel HD4000 And the other Being Nvidia GTX 660M Im currently engaged in Integrated mode

Please provide me the steps on how to get the operating system going. also in the options to choose there arent any laptop catagories to choose from that match my specs so what should i do.... what did you do,

 

is there another way to get intouch with you so i can do this with you voice chat or somthing instant chat wise?

 

Eh....it takes a lot of my time, time I don't have. Hackintosh is a try/learn on your own deal, PC hardware is so varied, especially on laptops. Your best hopes are posting on InsanelyMac or OS X project.

 

I just found this thread. I have an M17xR4 and want to boot Mac OS X (current version) through a USB 3.0 flash drive, any suggestions? or guides on how to do it?

 

Definitely need the DSDT patch I had made earlier somewhere....google my thread for 7970M M17x R4. Should give a copy of my /Extra/ folder that I used, should include the DSDT and kexts for keyboard/mouse, battery. I have not figured out audio yet outside of voodooHDA, but that approach is less than favorable. I hope you are not using a distro, vanilla USB with chameleon is the most reliable. Also, plug into the esata/usb combo port and NOT the USB 3.0 ports or else it won't find the root device (HDD) due to USB 3.0 problems in OS X