m1nkeh Posted March 29, 2015 Share Posted March 29, 2015 Hi, Bit of an open ended query really... Is it possible to follow the E7x40 guide for this machine... does anyone have any idea on how big the differences are between the two? I am willing to be a guinea pig if not Thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Jake Lo Posted March 29, 2015 Moderators Share Posted March 29, 2015 Huge difference. For one, E7x40 models have Haswell CPUs with Intel HD 4400, E7x50 models have Broadwell CPUs with Intel HD 5500. Chameleon loader so far is not supporting, but Clover with some adjustment can but no support for Intel HD 5500 yet. You will have to be patient and wait until more support are available by the developers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
m1nkeh Posted April 7, 2015 Author Share Posted April 7, 2015 Ok, I suspected as much.. patience it is, machine not arrived yet anyway. Cheers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Jake Lo Posted April 17, 2015 Moderators Share Posted April 17, 2015 Here is some progress to get HD 5500 working. http://www.firewolf.science/2015/04/guide-intel-hd-graphics-5500-on-os-x-yosemite-10-10-3/ 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
m1nkeh Posted April 20, 2015 Author Share Posted April 20, 2015 Excellent, this looks promising, but insanely complex... i've read it twice already, so hopefully will make a bit more sense by the 8th or 9th read through Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Jake Lo Posted April 20, 2015 Moderators Share Posted April 20, 2015 If you have an i5-5300U like I do, then you're already set. The Dedicated Video Memory = 64MB. Just need to patch the DSDT. Here's proof. There's more to be done, but this is progress. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
m1nkeh Posted April 21, 2015 Author Share Posted April 21, 2015 Ok, so i read the page a few more times and it's pretty clear what needs to happen now. Yes i do have a i5-5300U (if it ever arrives), one thing though I'm really unclear on how to Patch a DSDT (or even get a DSDT for my machine tbh) to inject ig-platform-id, or should i be using clover? which is the 'best' method.. i appreciate best is relative, but I'm still gathering data at this point.. thanks for you're help so far Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Jake Lo Posted April 21, 2015 Moderators Share Posted April 21, 2015 I couldn't get E7x50 to boot with Chameleon, so for now Clover is the only choice. You don't need the DSDT to boot if you have it patched in Clover config. But you might need to later to fix other stuff. To extract DSDT/SSDT, boot to Clover screen and hit F4, files will be extracted to /EFI/Clover/ACPI/origin. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
m1nkeh Posted April 28, 2015 Author Share Posted April 28, 2015 slightly altering my post as i've done a bit more work off my own back now what do you mean in this post by "you don't need the DSDT to boot if you have it patched in the Clover config" ? could you please elaborate on the 'patching' required? Ty. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
m1nkeh Posted April 30, 2015 Author Share Posted April 30, 2015 oh also, was there a replacement wifi card for the 7x50 ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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