Gateway NV53

[otacon6530]

Ok I started my installation of Mac OSX on this laptop 6 months ago and found unpleasant results, so I am going to try again and see where I can get.

 

 

N5378U Specs.

 

Processor1 AMD Turion™ II Ultra dual-core mobile processor M660 (2.70 GHz, 2 MB L2 cache, DDR2 800 MHz, 35 W)

AMD Turion™ II Ultra dual-core mobile processor M640 (2.60 GHz, 2 MB L2 cache, DDR2 800 MHz, 35 W)

AMD Turion™ II Ultra dual-core mobile processor M620 (2.50 GHz, 2 MB L2 cache, DDR2 800 MHz, 35 W)

AMD Turion™ II Ultra dual-core mobile processor M600 (2.40 GHz, 2 MB L2 cache, DDR2 800 MHz, 35 W)

AMD Turion™ II dual-core mobile processor M540 (2.40 GHz, 1 MB L2 cache, DDR2 800 MHz, 35 W)

AMD Turion™ II dual-core mobile processor M520 (2.30 GHz, 1 MB L2 cache, DDR2 800 MHz, 35 W)

AMD Turion™ II dual-core mobile processor M500 (2.20 GHz, 1 MB L2 cache, DDR2 800 MHz, 35 W)

AMD Athlon™ II X2 dual-core processor M340 (2.20 GHz, 1 MB L2 cache, DDR2 667 MHz, 35 W)

AMD Athlon™ II X2 dual-core processor M320 (2.10 GHz, 1 MB L2 cache, DDR2 667 MHz, 35 W)

AMD Athlon™ II X2 dual-core processor M300 (2.00 GHz, 1 MB L2 cache, 2DDR2 667 MHz, 35 W)

AMD Sempron™ processor M120 (2.10 GHz, 512 KB L2 cache, DDR2 667 MHz, 25 W)

AMD Sempron™ processor M100 (2.00 GHz, 512 KB L2 cache, DDR2 667 MHz, 25 W)

Supporting AMD HyperTransport™ 3.0 technology

 

Not Sure on the processor ***************************************

 

Chipset AMD M880G Chipset

Memory1, 4, 5, Up to 2 GB of dual-channel DDR2 667 MHz memory, upgradeable to 4 GB using two soDIMM modules6

Graphics1

ATI Mobility Radeon™ HD 4200 Graphics9 with up to 19198 MB of HyperMemory™ (256 MB of dedicated system memory, up to 1663 MB of shared system memory), supporting Unified Video Decoder 2(UVD2), OpenEXR High Dynamic-Range (HDR) technology, Shader Model 4.0, Microsoft® DirectX® 10.1

 

External resolution/refresh rate:

2048 x 1536: 75/60 Hz

1920 x 1440: 85/75/60 Hz

1920 x 1200: 75/60 Hz

1920 x 1080: 100/85/75/60 Hz

1680 x 945: 100/85/75/60 Hz

1600 x 1200: 120/100/85/75/60 Hz

1600 x 900: 120/100/85/75/60 Hz

1400 x 1050: 85/75/60 Hz

1366 x 768: 85/75/60 Hz ************************Best resolution for NV5378U screen

1280 x 1024: 120/100/85/75/60 Hz

1280 x 960: 85/75/60 Hz

1280 x 768: 85/75/60 Hz

1280 x 720: 100/85/75/60 Hz

1024 x 768: 120/100/85/75/60 Hz

800 x 600: 120/100/85/72/60 Hz

Dual independent display support

16.7 million colors

MPEG-2/DVD decoding

WMV9 (VC-1) and H.264 (AVC) decoding

HDMI™ (High-Definition Multimedia Interface) with HDCP (High-bandwidth Digital Content Protection) support

Display 15.6" HD 1366 x 768 pixel resolution

High-brightness (220-nit) with Gateway Ultrabright™ TFT LCD

Supporting simultaneous multi-window viewing

16:9 aspect ratio

8 ms response time

Hard Drive1, 12, 160, 250, 320, 500 GB, or larger hard disk drive

Media Card Reader Media card reader supporting:

Secure Digital™ (SD) Card

MultiMediaCard (MMC)

Memory Stick® (MS)

Memory Stick PRO™ (MS PRO)

xD-Picture Card™ (xD)

Optical Drive 4X Blu-ray Disc™/DVD SuperMulti double-layer combo drive:

Read: 24X CD-ROM, 24X CD-R, 24X CD-RW, 8X DVD-ROM, 8X DVD-R, 8X DVD+R, 8X DVD-ROM DL (double-layer), 6X DVD-R DL (double-layer), 6X DVD+R DL (double-layer), 8X DVD-RW, 8X DVD+RW, 5X DVD-RAM, 4X BD-ROM, 4X BD-R, 2X BD-RE, 4X BD-ROM DL (double-layer), 4X BD-R DL (double-layer), 2X BD-RE DL (double-layer)

Write: 24X CD-R, 16X CD-RW, 8X DVD-R, 8X DVD+R, 6X DVD-RW, 6X DVD+RW, 5X DVD-RAM, 4X DVD+R DL (double-layer), 4X DVD-R DL (double-layer)

8X DVD-Super Multi double-layer drive:

Read: 24X CD-ROM, 24X CD-R, 24X CD-RW, 8X DVD-ROM, 8X DVD-R, 8X DVD+R, 6X DVD-ROM DL (double-layer), 6X DVD-R DL (double-layer), 6X DVD+R DL (double-layer), 6X DVD-RW, 6X DVD+RW, 5X DVD-RAM

Write: 24X CD-R, 16X CD-RW, 8X DVD-R, 8X DVD+R, 4X DVD-R DL (double-layer), 4X DVD+R DL (double-layer), 6X DVD-RW, 8X DVD+RW, 5X DVD-RAM

Audio Optimized 2nd Generation Dolby Sound Room®10 audio enhancement, featuring:

Dolby® Headphone

Dolby® Natural Bass

Dolby® Sound Space Expander

Two built-in stereo speakers

High-definition audio support

S/PDIF (Sony/Philips Digital Interface)11 support for digital speakers

Built-in microphone

MS-Sound compatible

External Ports 5-in-1 card reader , supporting MMC, SD, xD, MS, and MS PRO cards

Built-in microphone

Four USB 2.0 ports

HDMI™ port with HDCP support

External display (VGA) port

Headphone/speaker/line-out jack with S/PDIF support

Microphone-in jack

Ethernet (RJ-45) port

DC-in jack for AC adapter

Webcam Integrated high-def webcam

Communication Wi-Fi: Integrated Gateway 802.11b/g/Draft-N Wi-Fi CERTIFIED® network connection, featuring MIMO technology 1, 2, 3,

Bluetooth: Bluetooth® 2.1+EDR (Enhanced Data Rate) 1

 

Ethernet: Gigabit Ethernet, Wake-on-LAN ready

 

Modem: 56K ITU V.92 with PTT approval13

 

Keyboard and Mouse 99, 100, or 103-key keyboard

Nine function keys, four cursor keys, Windows® key, international language support

Capacitive-touch launch keys:

Gateway MyBackup

Programmable Key

Touchpad lock toggle

Wi-Fi® toggle

Volume controls (up, down, and mute)

Touchpad pointing device, featuring vertical scroll and single button design (left/right mouse), supporting:

 

Two-finger scroll

Pinch-action zoom

Page flip

Power1 AC Adapter: 3-pin 90 W AC adapter7

3-pin 65 W AC adapter9

Battery: 48.8 W 4400 mAh 6-cell Li-ion battery pack with 3-hour battery life14 with integrated graphics or 2-hour, 40-minute battery life14 with discrete graphics

 

Power Features: ACPI 3.0 CPU power management standard

Supports Standby and Hibernation power-saving modes

ENERGY STAR®

 

Dimensions

(W × D × H) 14.66 × 9.85 × 1.12/1.46 inches (372 × 250 × 28.5/37.0 mm)

5.84 lbs. (2.65 kg) with 6-cell battery

Software1 Gateway Games

Gateway Identity Card

Gateway Launch Manager

Gateway MyBackup Solution1

Gateway Recovery Management

Gateway Updater

Adobe® Flash® Player

Adobe® Reader®

Best Buy Software Installer

Cyberlink® Power2Go®

Cyberlink® PowerDVD®

EarthLink®1

Google™ Desktop

Google™ Toolbar

Microsoft® Works with Office Home and Student 2007 Trial

NetZero® Internet1

Norton™ Internet Security 2009 Trial (60 days)

Norton™ Online Backup

Accessories1 Accessories:

Bluetooth® 2.1 module

1 GB DDR2 667 MHz soDIMM module

2 GB DDR2 667 MHz soDIMM module

4400 mAh 6-cell Li-ion battery pack

3-pin 90 W AC adapter7

3-pin 65 W AC adapter9

External USB 56K modem

 

 

 

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Goals

 

1. Install Snow Leopard on the computer bootable without a disc. *WORKING

2. Get Graphics working With QE at the highest resolution. *PARTIAL No QE yet due to no Kext for ATIHD at this time.

3. Get Conexant Audio working. *PARTIAL (needs a work around that may be annoying to you.)

4. Wireless Card *Automatically working after installation

5. Battery Recognition *WORKING

6. Sleep *Working from MyHack 1.0, but when waking from sleep trackpad and mouse stop working.

7. HDMI/VGA out working.

8. Dual boot with windows 7

9. Get SD card reader *WORKING (After installing the MyHack 1.0 program)

10. Ethernet Port.

11. Modem

12. Trackpad and keyboard. *WORKING (installed kext from MyHack program)

 

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Ok So How to I get Started? Google is your best friend.

 

I found a wonderful program call Empire EFI

 

Installing Snow leopard

 

1. On my mac I Burned empire efi to a cd, but you can also use a usb drive.

2. After that I change my bios to enable AHCI

3. Boot to Empire EFI CD.

4. When it is booted up Eject the Empire Efi CD and insert your 10.6 install DVD.

5. Press F5 and the install disk should appear, select the disk.

6. After 6 minutes of booting you reach the select your language screen.

7. Go to the top of the screen and click Utilities > Disk Utility

8. Select your HDD and open the "Partition" Tab.

9. Click options on the bottom and select GUID partition, and partition the drive.

10. Get out of Disk Utility and Continue with the installation. ( You may want to change the installation options so as to deselect all the extra software.)

11. Your installation may fail... This is ok.

12. Restart your computer.

13. Put Empire Efi back in the CD drive and boot to it.

14. You Should see your Hard drive when Empire Efi boots.

15. Click on your hard drive to start booting.

 

Now Snow Leopard is installed.

 

Boot from the hard drive

 

1. Use MyHack 1.0 (1.1 never worked for me) and chose options.

2. Go through the list and select everything you will need, just read the descriptions, but you will need the chocolate kernal since we have AMD processor.

3. Once installed restart the computer.

4. If it boots up then it worked if not go through MyHack 1.0 and see if you missed something.

 

Congrats We just got it to boot up by itself.

 

*I have not looked into the different kernals yet and don't know what they would or would not do for me so if anyone has a suggestion I would gladly try it out.

 

Sound

 

The best Kext I know for our audio is AzaliaAudio.Kext.

 

Install the kext With Kext Helper and restart the computer.

 

Now audio output works, but you will notice it is VERY CHOPPY.

 

I have not found a solution for this, but if you open photo booth at login and keep it up while you do things on the computer the sound is not choppy anymore.

 

While looking at activity monitor I see photo booth taking 100% of one of my CPUs.

 

*Further testing implies that if CPU usage is 60% or greater the sound works perfectly, but if it is lower than that the sound is horribly choppy

 

My recommendation for now is to have photo booth open at startup and assign it to a space and then have finder open after in a different space so you never need to see photo booth.

 

 

Congrats Audio Kinda works.

 

****Working on Audio.

 

Currently trying to get all audio jacks working through VoodooHDA.kext.

Attached to post is all my dumps for the audio card... including the codec dump

 

*******Audio update

 

Now I know I said I was working on VoodooHDA.kext, and I am, but I found how to resolve the Azalia issue.

 

1. Open /Extra/com.apple.boot.plist in text edit

2. add

 

<key>Kernel Flags</key>

<string>idlehalt=0</string>

 

3. Save to desktop then drag in to /Extra/ folder and authenticate.

 

4. Restart

 

Congrats we have audio out working.

 

Battery

 

1. Using Kext Helper b7 install VoodooBattery.kext.

2. restart

 

Now we can see our battery life.

 

Resolution Fix

 

1. Using Kext Helper b7 install RadeonHD.kext.

2. restart

 

Now We have Full Resolution, but unfortunately I have found no support for the Radeon HD 4200. So no QE, HDMI or VGA

Myhack.zip

[dan the man with the plan]

hey great guide!

 

I have a NV53 too and same stats, however when i installed the ihack and booted through it, it did the little count down then it flashed the osx boot screen for a second and went to restart and it keeps doing it. do you have any ideas or tricks?

 

 

Thanks in advance

Dan

[otacon6530]

When installing Myhack 1.0 be sure to customize it and select pretty most all kext. Just look at the descriptions and decide if you need it.

 

One you definitely need is the chocolate kernel, but most are required

[dan the man with the plan]

When installing Myhack 1.0 be sure to customize it and select pretty most all kext. Just look at the descriptions and decide if you need it.

 

One you definitely need is the chocolate kernel, but most are required

 

I re tryed with the chocolate selected any everything else but it still didn't work... but i heard about something like mach_kernal does that effect this?

[otacon6530]

If you try the Mach_kernel instead of chocolate, tell me how it goes but myhack 1.0 worked for me...

 

I have attached to my first post the exact program I used.. make sure it is the same one.

[dan the man with the plan]

THANK YOU SO MUCH!

 

The version of myhack you gave me was alot different then the other one i got, not only did it work but now that i am booting directly instead of empire efi it found the other 3 gigs of ram efi missed.

 

Thanks again your guide has been so great it is now permanently bookmarked in my new osx nv53!

[dan the man with the plan]

sorry to be a double poster but do you know if I can update to 10.6.5, i am on 10.6.3, but I heard the kernal will not work do you know?

[otacon6530]

I am currently on 10.6.5 and everything works great. The only loss of functionality I have seen it the webcam.

 

I am sure this is an easy fix since it technically runs through usb, but I have been working on the audio driver since I thought it more important, otherwise 10.6.5 is great.