RiShiE

I never had any scrambled display on startup on Z51, but I used to have it on my Lenovo T430 earlier, and I had to live with that. Wired connection sometimes works, when I plug-in the cable while booting up, but if I disconnect or connection drops, it won't work again. I tried different Realtek ethernet kexts and all have the same issue. Does anyone have a link for extracting the Bluetooth firmware from windows and using it here?

I had mixed (mostly negative) results with Realtek based adapters, but the Ralink one is working without any issue since mountain lion. Try sourcing a Ralink based card. Also for ethernet, I am using a trendnet usb-ethernet adapter, as the built-in realtek adapter is not working (same problem as yours, detects the cable but doesnot get the IP address, nor transmit / receive anything)

For wireless I am using Buffalo (WLI-UC-GNM) usb wifi adapter, which is ralink 2870 chipset. Using with Bearextender latest driver and its working without much issue.

It has an atheros chipset (168c:0041), checking that says its Qualcomm Rome chipset, which is not supported yet on Mac. [/size]

Finally got some time to look into the DSDT issue, I had replaced the config.plist with the one similar to EDP bootpack and used the DSDT from the bootpack itself. Laptop booted fine without much issue after I removed the npci and PCIRootUID flags from the bootargs. after applying some more patches for the brightness toggles, and sleep fixes, things are better working now. Following are the list of items not working: 1. Bluetooth : Atheros 61xx chipset (0xE300 0x0CF3) might not work at all, as its not supported. It worked randomly some time earlier (couple of times to be exact), but not working now. 2. Lid changes : laptop does not go to sleep immediately after I close the lid. (this is working fine with DSDT in the EDP bootpack) 3. Built-in ethernet port is detected (Realtek 8111) but I don't get an IP address when I connect the cable, it always gets the self-assigned IP address, even though it detects that cable plugged in. 4. Sleep : even though it works, USB ports are not working, need some more time to experiment on this. 5. Shutdown / Restart: does not power down or restart automatically, I have to long press the power button to power off and then power on. Anyhow, Thanks much Jake for the help. Hope I would be solving the remaining issues as well soon. If anyone has any pointers to solve the above issues, please let me know.

Grab some EFI folder upload, and copy all the files into your EFI partition into proper locations. Right now I don't have access to my laptop, to extract and upload it. better bet is to use your install usb key to copy the files from.

Try replacing the AppleIntelBDWGraphicsFrameBuffer inside AppleIntelBDWGraphicsFrameBuffer.kext/Contents/MacOS/ with the one I uploaded. The hex patch above is for Yosemite, not for El Capitan.

Hi, As of now, I could get only Graphics working, and remaining all I am managing only with the alternatives, 1. Wifi - I have a Buffalo usb wifi adapter, as built in wifi is not working 2. Intel BDW Graphics - Use my kext attached in the previous page. 3. Lan - Gets detected but not working when I plugin the cable. need to look into this later 4. Audio - Using the latest VoodooHDA (2.8.8) 5. Disable Switchable graphics in bios, also saves a lot of battery.

Thanks very much for the fixes Jake, but this DSDT is hanging on PCI configuration begin part. I could not get past that message, if I am using my modified DSDT. I also tried the DSDT from the bootpack, but its giving a kernel panic even before. (Something around ACPI). Let me know if something else I can try? The only DSDT that works at the moment is my extracted DSDT or no DSDT at all (clover extracting the DSDT on its own).

SSDT files go into EFI partition: EFI/CLOVER/ACPI/patched folder, you may need to generate SSDT.aml according to your processor as it differs from mine. Attached is the AppleIntelBDWGraphicsFrameBuffer.kext. I did not patch the bios, but only patched the BDWGraphicsFramebuffer binary to skip the DVMT check. AppleIntelBDWGraphicsFramebuffer.kext.zip

I am running latest clover (3276). Make sure, you remove OsxAptioFix2Drv-64.efi from drivers64UEFI folder, to get rid of the error. I am also attaching my config.plist with this post, but first try removing the AptioFix2 from drivers64UEFI folder. I am running El Capitan GM Candidate, and I am on Bios 2.00 as well. Only difference is that I have an i5 Broadwell. I patched AppleIntelBDWGraphicsFramebuffer manually and replaced in SLE, disabled Switchable graphics in bios, and also enabled legacy to avoid display garbage issue (I followed firewolf's guide). Thanks Jake, I was not able to attach the files yesterday, for some reason. Please find attached DSDT and SSDT extracted using linux. Z51-70-DSDT.zip config.plist.zip

Hi Everyone, Can someone fix the extracted DSDT for my Z51-70 (i5-Broadwell, with AMD R9 M375x graphics + Intel HD 5500 graphics)? I am currently running El Capitan, and everything except Sleep and Bluetooth is working fine. Thanks in advance. RiShiE Edit: Removed google drive link, Please refer to Post #4 for the DSDT and config.plist files.