panpedro Posted March 14, 2019 Share Posted March 14, 2019 Hello, I'd like to ask for help regarding post installation patching of Dell Inspiron Gaming 7577. Hardware: Intel Core i5-7300HQ, Nvidia GTX 1060 Max-Q, Crucial MX500 SATA SSD (dual booting Windows 10 and MacOS from the same drive), 8GB RAM, 1920x1080 screen. I have successfully installed Mojave 10.14.3 on third partition (after Windows' EFI/ESP and Windows 10 OS partition) using https://osxlatitude.com/forums/topic/10389-help-dell-inspiron-15-7577/?tab=comments#comment-85984 and latest Rehabman's Clover, then installed Clover and the same files into ESP partition. Most topics I've found regard installation only. What's working: system, audio, integrated display, backlight dimming, keyboard, touchpad (poorly), USB 2.0 devices What's not working: - wifi: it's obvious as I have not yet replaced the stock card. Currently I'm using WIFI USB dongle or Android phone with HoRNDIS (until I buy new card, but it's not going to be easy to get it in Poland) - sleep: when I'm clicking "sleep" in macos, the screen goes black but keyboard is still lit, so obviously the laptop is not asleep - USB 3 devices: when I plug in my USB 3 pendrive it doesn't get mounted. It's formatted in MBR exFAT (but was in GPT HFS+J before and didn't work either, it is not visible in Disk Utility under all devices either) - HDMI/Thunderbolt: I know that this laptop's HDMI port is connected to dGPU which is/should be disabled, however I need to use external display. I have read that USB C to HDMI adapter could work somehow, so could you maybe suggest what kind of adapter should I buy? I currently have no Thunderbolt device so I don't know if it works or not. Bought USB-C to HDMI adapter (Thunderbolt compatible) and it works without any further patches etc. - Battery life: It is poor, apparently under 3 hours (on Windows I get around 6). I don't exactly know the reason as I can see that I have ACPI/patched/SSDT-DDGPU.aml in Clover so I suppose it's not the dGPU's fault. - Touchpad: Is kinda poor. Currently it's working thanks to VoodooPS2 kext but this implementation is somewhat weird. Sometimes when I tap, the pointer jumps to other place on screen. Two-finger scrolling is hard to "begin" (just feels odd) and afaik three finger scroll uses workaround that inserts Ctrl+Alt+arrow instead of scroll. I'd be really grateful for help. If I get everything to work I'd like to compile it all into guide for this laptop for other people to use. I don't know much about ACPI patching, however I do have some programming background and am willing to learn (it's just that all the topics about DSDT patching are a bit confisung for a newbie). I have attached my current Clover folder. CLOVER.zip Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yakim Posted July 17, 2019 Share Posted July 17, 2019 On 3/14/2019 at 11:05 PM, panpedro said: Bought USB-C to HDMI adapter (Thunderbolt compatible) and it works without any further patches etc. Hotplug works, or only if the adapter was plugged in before turning laptop on? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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