Need help with HD4000 QE/CI on Yosemite 10.10.1 (E6530)

[infamousgeek2]

Hello everyone.  I've been using Mavericks on my E6530 for a while now and recently decided to try upgrading to Yosemite

10.10.1.  

 

After many hours of fine tuning I finally managed to have it to fully boot to desktop.  The only thing left to fix is HD4000 QE/CE as it currently doesn't work (shows as generic with only 4MB of memory).

 

Getting the HD4000 to work was a pain when I originally installed Mavericks, I just don't remember how exactly I finally got it to work back then.

 

Important facts about my original Maverick installation:

- it did not use any DSDT or SSDT files.

- It was using Chameleon for a bootloader

- In org.chameleon.Boot.plist, I had GraphicsEnabler set to yes and IntelCapriFB set to 3

 

About my Yosemite upgrade:

- I used Niresh's Yosemite distro that was burned to a DVD (USB installer kept giving errors)

- I used the Extra folder from bootback found here: https://osxlatitude.com/index.php?/topic/7478-dell-latitude-yosemite-install-guide/

- I also installed the kexts from Extra/Extensions/SLE

- I installed the IOGraphicsFamily.kext version suggested in the guide previously mentioned

- I had to remove the IOBluetoothFamily.kext as it was making it crash during boot (don't use Bluetooth anyway)

- Installed Chameleon-2.3svn-r2437

- I had to remove the GraphicsEnabler and IntelCapriFB mentions from org.chameleon.Boot.plist (hence no more QE/CE) or it would freeze halfway during boot

 

Here is what my org.chameleon.Boot.plist looks like now:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
	<key>EthernetBuiltIn</key>
	<string>Yes</string>
	<key>Graphics Mode</key>
	<string>1366x768x32</string>
	<key>Instant Menu</key>
	<string>Yes</string>
	<key>Kernel</key>
	<string>/System/Library/Kernels/kernel</string>
	<key>Kernel Flags</key>
	<string>-gux_defer_usb2 npci=0x2000 kext-dev-mode=1 dart=0</string>
	<key>SMBIOS</key>
	<string>/Extra/smbios.plist</string>
	<key>SystemType</key>
	<string>2</string>
	<key>UseKernelCache</key>
	<string>Yes</string>
</dict>
</plist>

Hopefully there is a way to make HD4000 work in Yosemite without the use of DSDT/SSDT since it was the case with Mavericks.  Any help at this point would be greatly appreciated.

 

Thanks

PS, my E6530 doesn't have the Optimus option

[Bronxteck]

did you try it before replacing IOGraphicsFamily.kext? 

[Jake Lo]

You can safely use this DSDT, rename it to DSDT.aml

E6430 HD4000 1366x768 = DSDT-E6430.aml 

 

If you don't want to use DSDT, then you'll need to have GraphicsEnabler=Yes and IntelCapriFB=3 in org.chameleon.boot.plist to get QE/CI

Try booting with -v -f and post where it hangs with the above added.

[infamousgeek2]

Thank you for your quick answers.

 

 

did you try it before replacing IOGraphicsFamily.kext? 

 

Yes, same result.

 

You can safely use this DSDT, rename it to DSDT.aml

E6430 HD4000 1366x768 = DSDT-E6430.aml 

 

If you don't want to use DSDT, then you'll need to have GraphicsEnabler=Yes and IntelCapriFB=3 in org.chameleon.boot.plist to get QE/CI

Try booting with -v -f and post where it hangs with the above added.

 

Ok, I tried booting with -f -v and to my great surprise QE/CE worked for the first time!  The weirdest thing is that I did try booting with those parameters before without success.  But I tried so many different configs that I probably forgot to try the -f -v recently...

 

Anyway, after seeing that it worked I tried booting without any parameters and it froze as usual, around 1/3 of the progress bar.  Then I tried just with -f, same result.  So the only way I can get it to boot with full QE/CE support is with -f -v.

 

Any suggestion to fix this?

[Jake Lo]

rebuild cache

 

       sudo chmod -R 755 /S*/L*/E*

      sudo chown -R 0:0 /S*/L*/E* 

      sudo touch /S*/L*/E*

      sudo kextcache -Boot -U /

 

boot with just -v to see where it's holding up

[infamousgeek2]

rebuild cache

 

       sudo chmod -R 755 /S*/L*/E*

      sudo chown -R 0:0 /S*/L*/E* 

      sudo touch /S*/L*/E*

      sudo kextcache -Boot -U /

 

boot with just -v to see where it's holding up

 

Ok I will try this.  Is this the exact same as doing a repair permissions & rebuild cache in Kext Wizard? 

[infamousgeek2]

Ok, I manually rebuilt the cache and it still does the same thing.  Then I tried with -v argument only and to my surprise it booted fine.  Weird, I always thought the -v argument did not have any other effect than displaying textually what was going on...!

 

Now, I may have spoken too fast when I said that I got QE/CE working... What I actually got is a proper display property in About This Mac (Intel HD Graphics 4000 1024MB).  I am not convinced that QE/CE is actually working because I still have the logon screen graphic flicker glitches (witch I thought IOGraphicsFamily.kext was going to fix) and those glitches are also apparent in some apps like Google Chrome.

 

I also found out I have another problem to fix with the PS2 driver.  I'm using a PS2 mouse and I can't drag anything with it, it's like when I hold the mouse button down it mimics multiple clicks.  I have the same problem with the trackpad buttons.  If I use a USB mouse, it works ok.  I'm currently using VoodooPS2Controller.kext (I had to remove ApplePS2Controller or i would not have either a working mouse or keyboard).  Any suggestion on which proper kext to use?

[Jake Lo]

All working kexts for E6x30 are in post #3 of the link in your 1st post which include voodoops2controller for the Alps touchpad.

Perhaps you might want to rebuild your system clean from the guide instead of using a distro like Niresh.

[infamousgeek2]

Yes I thought about it, but I'm trying to avoid having to reinstall and reconfigure all my apps...

[infamousgeek2]

So I followed your original advice, Jake, and I used the DSDT.aml you mentioned, created both the SSDT.asl and SSDT.dsl using the ssdtPRGen script provided, and removed the  GraphicsEnabler=Yes and IntelCapriFB=3 in org.chameleon.boot.plist.  I also added this to it: 

<key>DSDT</key>
<string>/Extra/DSDT.aml</string>
<key>DropSSDT</key>
<string>Yes</string>

 

 

I booted with -f -v argments and the strangest thing happened, just before making it to the logon page the computer went to sleep on its own (and it now does that everytime I boot).  I pressed the power button to wake it and made my way to the desktop.  My graphic adapter still shows as it should in About This Mac, but the flickering is a bit worse than before.  

 

A new problem arises now, my 4 CPU threads are at 100% in menu meter, and according to Activity Monitor the process responsible would be ReportCrash.

 

One thing that seem to be improved is that the PS2 mouse is responding almost normally now.