DELL E6320 touchpad and backlight problems

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Hi guys.

I have installed 10.13.6 on DELL E6320, and got help from Jake Lo and Hervé about freeze problem. I got two other issues now, one is when I move one finger on touchpad, the cursor moves unsmoothly. When one finger moves on web page, the whole page scrolls sometimes. The other issue is the display backlight changs down when hit Fn + DOWN,  but in 15 seconds turns back. I notice the "sun' icon does not showup also. Can somebody give me some advice?  

Thanks in advance.

CLOVER.zip

[Jake Lo]

Replace DSDT with this one

DSDT.aml.zip

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Thanks Jake Lo. I have replaced the old DSDT. But the FN + DOWN do not work till now. The backlight does not change totally. Today, I pressed the power button to wake up laptop from sleep, found the keyboard and touchpad did not work, the usb mouse still works. I left the laptop to sleep. Several hours later,  the keyboard and touchpad works again when I pressed the power button.

I posted a "ask for help" thread  earlier https://osxlatitude.com/forums/topic/13009-solved-dell-e6320-freezes/page/2/?tab=comments#comment-98684. You pattched the old DSDT for me before. Hope the information would be useful for figuring out the issue. Thanks again for your help.

[Jake Lo]

Replace SSDT-PNLF.aml with this one

Upgrade the following kexts:

Lilu.kext

Whatevergreen.kext

AppleALC.kext

SSDT-PNLF.aml.zip

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Thanks Jake Lo. I replaced SSDT-PNLF.aml  and 3 kexts, then reboot. The backlight still does not work normally. I attached the kexts and new clover. 

CLOVER.zip WhateverGreen-1.3.7-RELEASE.zip AppleALC-1.4.7-RELEASE.zip Lilu-1.4.2-RELEASE.zip

[Hervé]

The DSDT Patch required to get brightness control out of the legacy BIOS E6x20 is available in my E6220 High Sierra guide. Have a look.

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Sorry Hervé, you mean this guide  https://osxlatitude.com/forums/topic/7914-dell-latitude-e6220-with-i5-2520m-hd3000-and-1366x768-lcd-mavericksyosemiteel-capitansierrahigh-sierra/? I have used your patched DSDT in this thread, but got freeze problem. Did you mean I should add brightness control patch to current DSDT?

[Hervé]

That's exactly what I meant.

 

1) In method _Q66, add this code between the 2 x lines NEVT () and Return (Zero):

                ^^^^AMW0.WED0 (One)
                Mid (^^^^AMW0._WED (0xD0), Zero, 0x06, Local2)
                If (LEqual (Local2, Buffer (0x06)
                        {
                             0x02, 0x00, 0x10, 0x00, 0x50, 0x00             
                        }))
                {
                    Notify (PS2K, 0x0365)
                }

                If (LEqual (Local2, Buffer (0x06)
                        {
                             0x02, 0x00, 0x10, 0x00, 0x48, 0x00             
                        }))
                {
                    Notify (PS2K, 0x0366)
                }

 

2) In method _BCM of IGPU->LCD device , add this code before the Name (BRT3, ...) line:

                    If (LGreater (OSID (), 0x10)){}

 

3) in method BRT6, all the 2 x LPVB.PS2K notifications under the LCD notifications as follows :

                    Notify (LCD, 0x86)
                    Notify (^^LPCB.PS2K, 0x0366)

and

                    Notify (LCD, 0x87)
                    Notify (^^LPCB.PS2K, 0x0365)

 

That should do it.

 

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Yes, Hervé. I downloaded the MACiasl tool, opened the DSDT.aml file, compiled  3  errors, then did what you told above, and saved the DSDT.aml. Reboot, now the brightness control works well.

Thank you very much, and I also found the mute key does not work. When I press mute, display shows up the mute icon but sound does not stop, do you have any idea about this problem?

DSDT.zip

[Hervé]

No, audio control normally works OOB with keyboard buttons on those E6x20 models.