[Guide] Clover EFI Guide for G580 (20157)

[bartandophone]

Thank you so much, I didn't expect it to be so easy. About that CPU, I swapped it. I had unsupported Intel CPU, so I changed it to this one from my other laptop to get Mac OS X on this one.

Now all I need is to make work the FN buttons and the touchpad. I have no idea where to find the model, if its synpse or elan. Maybe you could give me a hint where to find it ?

Thank you very much for your help. This is my best Mac OS X port so far, out of 4.

 

[theandy94]

That's probably the first time that I heard of someone swapping the CPU on a Laptop

FN Buttons is something I didn't need to completely work.
As seen in my original Post you can use FN+Pos1 and FN+Insert to change the Brightness.
Some of the other FN Combos will work too, Volume, Play/Pause and I think one other Combo worked for me. All OOB.
I know that there is a way to change key behavior (change what function the key has) by editing some part of the DSDT, but I had no need for this.

Concerning the Touchpad, you could, if you have a windows installation on your laptop, search for the touchpad driver used and by these determine if you have Synaptics or Elan.

Or you could just try VoodooPS2Controller from rehabman (I'm not sure if it works for Elan, but for Synaptic, which I have, it works perfectly, you can even activate 3 Finger gestures).
Sources: https://github.com/RehabMan/OS-X-Voodoo-PS2-Controller
Newest version: https://bitbucket.org/RehabMan/os-x-voodoo-ps2-controller/downloads

If VoodooPS2Controller won't work you probably have Elan.

greets
-theandy

P.S.: I have currently 10 PCs/Laptops running OS X, 2 of which are mine, and 8 others I did for some friends.

 

[RehabMan]

Thank you so much, I didn't expect it to be so easy. About that CPU, I swapped it. I had unsupported Intel CPU, so I changed it to this one from my other laptop to get Mac OS X on this one.

Now all I need is to make work the FN buttons and the touchpad. I have no idea where to find the model, if its synpse or elan. Maybe you could give me a hint where to find it ?

Thank you very much for your help. This is my best Mac OS X port so far, out of 4.

Trackpad manufacturer can usually be determined from ioreg content...

Post ioreg as ZIP: http://www.tonymacx86.com/audio/58368-guide-how-make-copy-ioreg.html. Please, use the IORegistryExplorer v2.1 attached to the post! DO NOT reply with an ioreg from any other version of IORegistryExplorer.app.