Can't boot and no camera

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Can't boot and no camera

lersy opened this issue 6 years ago · comments

First of all, thanks for providing these needed kexts, patches in a single .zip file.
I have a Dell 7577 but I gave a go to your tutorial. I did post installation steps as others but having the same problem. Can't boot into MacOS. I think it is an issue with that trackpad thing. Eventhough I updated both of kexts from GitHub repository, it didn't change the situation. I can boot with installation usb anyway and it is ok for now. Will you have a work around for this anytime soon?

And I can't use my pc camera. In high Sierra, my smbios was something like MacBook Air 6,2 and camera was fine. Do you think is it related something to it? Is there anyone else having this problem or is it just me because mine is a 7577.

Sorry for my English I will be glad if you look into this. Thanks in advance.

Nihhaar_RC · Answer 1 · Tue Oct 30 2018 17:17:37 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

Hi,
Try the following:

Remove DSDT.aml, SSDT-I2C.aml from your patched folder
Remove VoodooI2C.kext, VoodooI2CHID.kext from Clover/Other Kexts
Replace your the config.plist with the attached one here:
config.plist.zip

Not sure for camera, try this first and tell me the result.

lersy · Answer 2 · Wed Oct 31 2018 02:32:38 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

Hi,
I did as you wrote and it booted directly. I can't use my camera. It is very important for me because I use FaceTime so much. Does your webcam work? Could you lead me to fix this problem?
Thanks so much again for your effort.

Nihhaar_RC · Answer 3 · Wed Oct 31 2018 03:55:58 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

Hi,
Camera is working fine (since mine is 7567)

Yours will need a custom SSDT-UIAC different from mine for injecting USB ports for 7577.
I really can't help here but either you have to follow this guide and prepare your own or see if anyone already did this.
https://www.tonymacx86.com/threads/guide-creating-a-custom-ssdt-for-usbinjectall-kext.211311/

Nihhaar_RC · Answer 4 · Wed Oct 31 2018 04:02:47 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

Since you are here, try this:

Remove SSDT-UIAC.aml from patched folder and replace it with the attached one
SSDT-UIAC.aml.zip

lersy · Answer 5 · Wed Oct 31 2018 04:27:54 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

I removed and copy the one you provided but it still says there is no connected camera both in Photoboth and FaceTime
I can follow the guide but it can mess up things for me since I am not good at that stuff. Is this something related to dsdt patches?

Here is a copy of my patched ACPI folder which I use with High Sierra. I didn't patch it , I found on internet but I don't remember exactly on which page now. I can use webcam with these ones but I am not sure what to do. Can you help me ?

It is smooth really now, better than high Sierra. I don't want to lose purity as much as possible. Thanks to you it feels ok now.

https://drive.google.com/open?id=15MW3J9bLZnwLqzlMJFfm_seq7sCTPlOy

I wish you are around and see this post

Nihhaar_RC · Answer 6 · Wed Oct 31 2018 04:38:23 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

Remove SSDT-UIAC.aml and add DSDT.aml you attached in the drive to patched folder and check.

lersy · Answer 7 · Wed Oct 31 2018 04:59:04 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

Nihhaar,
I removed SSDT-UIAC.aml and add DSDT.aml I have but the result is same. It still says there is no connected camera.

May I ask another question? In previous build I have only 4 patches in my folder. But you provided much more. Why did you do that? Did you patch them separately? Is this a safe way to patch? I am not sure of course but I thought that my patches were combined so there are less .aml files.

I should find a way to patch this on my own but thanks for others. If you can help me it means a lot while I am trying to figure it out.

lersy · Answer 8 · Wed Oct 31 2018 05:08:28 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

With my DSDT.aml brightness function started working. I should definitely patch my system entirely. How can I check which part is working which part is not? Is there a list for it?

Nihhaar_RC · Answer 9 · Wed Oct 31 2018 05:10:37 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

SSDT-256.aml -> SSDT for Audio (your sound card- Realtek ALC 256)
SSDT-Nvidia-Disable.aml -> Disablling nvidia card
SSDT-PNLF.aml -> For brightness

All these SSDTs and the DSDT is compiled into a single binary finally. SSDTs are like add-ons to DSDT: they finally merge anyway. Patching DSDT can be done in two ways:

Patching DSDT directly and including it in the patched folder (called injection of DSDT).
Add these "patches" as SSDTs so that at runtime, clover loads DSDT from your system firmware and merges it with these SSDTs.

Not about safest way to patch but (2) is cleaner since each SSDT has a purpose of its own. Also, when you update your BIOS, DSDT may be changed by your vendor: so you have to patch again if your are using (1). Using (2), we need not worry about updates.

Read more here (a very good and recommended read):
https://www.tonymacx86.com/threads/guide-patching-laptop-dsdt-ssdts.152573/

Nihhaar_RC · Answer 10 · Wed Oct 31 2018 05:14:56 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

Yes, you can't expect everything working with files from a different laptop. Not a detailed list, but here are some:

Audio
Backlight
USB Injection (Includes camera)
Disabling Discrete GPU
PS2Controller: keyboard and mouse
Native Power Management

If you are interested in learning, read all the pinned guides from here:
https://www.tonymacx86.com/forums/high-sierra-laptop-support.192/

starting from FAQ and "Booting the OS X installer on LAPTOPS with Clover".

lersy · Answer 11 · Wed Oct 31 2018 05:19:19 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

Thanks for replying. This gives me an opinion to find my way.
I will read guides you shared as soon as possible in near future. Now it works nearly thanks to you.
I am sorry if I am violated rules here as I use it like a forum.
Have a good day.

Nihhaar_RC · Answer 12 · Wed Oct 31 2018 05:23:10 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

No problem.
If you are interested, I can give files for probably working camera but it is just a hack. Also, you have to use the SSDT-Nvidia-Disable.aml instead of my SSDT-DGPU.aml for properly disabling nvidia card. This leads to significant battery life.

lersy · Answer 13 · Wed Oct 31 2018 05:27:12 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

I turned off my pc but if you give me files I can try them tomorrow.
I noticed battery drains so fast. What is the difference between mine and yours? Doesn’t your pc have a Nvidia 1050ti dgpu?

Nihhaar_RC · Answer 14 · Wed Oct 31 2018 05:29:02 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

Yes, same GPU but internal connection of the GPU to motherboard is different.

lersy · Answer 15 · Wed Oct 31 2018 19:40:09 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

Nihhaar,
will you provide me files you mentioned? Anyway here is a folder which contains my original and patched ACPI and an AIDA64 report which was taken by windows 10 operating system.
Maybe you can check it if you have a free time and tell me what to do.
ACPI.zip

Nihhaar_RC · Answer 16 · Thu Nov 01 2018 04:10:31 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

Hi,

Replace SSDT-Disable_DGPU.aml with your High Sierra's "SSDT-Nvidia-Disable.aml"
Remove SSDT-UIAC.aml from patched folder (if it is there)
Update config.plist with the attached one
config.plist.zip

lersy · Answer 17 · Thu Nov 01 2018 05:05:23 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

Hey Nihhaar,

Replaced SSDT_Disable_DGPU.aml with mine previous one.
There is no SSDT-UIAC.aml in patched folder and I removed VoodooI2C.kext, and VoodooI2CHID.kext from Clover/kexts/other
Replaced with latest config.plist but I still can't access to my usb 3 ports. However usb2 port has worked since I installed Mojave.

Thanks for your effort so far. I wish there is someone who has usb function working with 7577.

lersy · Answer 18 · Wed Nov 28 2018 23:05:34 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

Hey there,

I nearly built my hackintosh. I appreciate your efforts. I know this page is not a forum but you are one of the friendliest one in the community. I don’t open another issue page because my pc is not 7567. Yet I would like to ask you a question about trackpads.

First of all, if I use your ssdt-iac.aml along with other kexts related to trackpad , when I boot up my pc, I can’t use my trackpad.

As far as I have learned so far, there are trackpad manufacturers which are synaptics, elan or als. My question is ;

How could you identify your trackpad model? I can boot into windows 10 and mac os mojave.
Can you use gestures with your trackpad like 3 fingers or 4 fingers things? Right now I can use, tap to click with two fingers to click and scrooling with two fingers. I only use voodoops2.kext now

If you provide me knowledge about trackpad I would be glad.

Thanks for everything you have done so far. When I figure out everything I will have suggestions for you also to update your guide but can’t be sure because models are different

Nihhaar_RC · Answer 19 · Fri Nov 30 2018 00:59:12 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

Sorry for the late response (little busy),
You can start from here:

Trackpad model can be found from device manager in windows, something like this:

For I2C (precision touchpads), it would be shown as I2C-HID device.
Yes, 3 & 4 finger gestures work (little buggy but works ;))

Nihhaar_RC · Answer 20 · Tue Dec 11 2018 08:03:18 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

Closing issue because I am archiving this repo.