Lenovo Yoga 2 Pro HD4400 QHD+ QE/CI working

[emueller]

Success!!! I finally made it (just by putting together the efforts of others to be honest)
I now have QE/CI on a Yoga 2 Pro with QHD+ 3200x1800 including working touchscreen (out-of-the-box)
(without directly moding the bios, just doing it by UEFI setup_var)

A short collection of what I had to put together (only directly valid for Yoga 2 Pro owners!):
- I am using bootloader Clover with Yosemite 10.10.3
- I found, nearly 10 month ago, the needed steps by the godfather of the solution the_darkvoid
http://www.tonymacx86.com/yosemite-laptop-guides/144351-guide-dell-xps-9530-using-clover-uefi.html
- On Yoga 2 Pro the problem was that you couldn't change the DVMT Pre-Allocated to 96MB, because you cannot "easily" flash a modded bios to the Y2P
- but I found an alternative solution from Austere.J by using a custom EFI-Shell based on grub
http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/305710-guide-intel-hd-graphics-5500-on-os-x-yosemite-10103/
- thanks also to donovan6000 for his tools and excellent explanations
http://donovan6000.blogspot.de/2014/02/universal-ifr-extractor.html
- thanks to FireWolf for his EFI Shell function setup_var
http://www.firewolf.science/

To change the DVMT Parameter on Y2P you have to use "setup_var 0x18c 0x03" (for 96MB)
(this may also apply for other Insyde BIOS)
Under Windows it shows 64MB (+32MB) as dedicated video memory

- To patch the maximum pixel clock for QHD+ I patched the IOKit (that sadly cannot be done by Clover)
- Thanks to the_darkvoid again
http://www.tonymacx86.com/yosemite-...ll-xps-9530-using-clover-uefi.html#post905621
https://code.google.com/r/darkvoid-mac-pixel-clock/source/browse

Just execute macPixelClockPatcher.command

- I used FakePCIID for HD4400 to have the best graphics results, thanks to Rehabman and the_darkvoid
https://github.com/RehabMan/OS-X-Fake-PCI-ID

- Finally the hint of RehabMan #1275 to use 0xa2e0008 an patch to 96MB was the final solution
I recommand to use his config_HD4600_4400_4200.plist as a basis
https://github.com/RehabMan/OS-X-Clover-Laptop-Config/blob/master/config_HD4600_4400_4200.plist

!!These are just exerpts of the main important setting you have to add in your config.plist!!
<key>Graphics</key>
<dict>
<key>Inject</key>
<dict>
<key>ATI</key>
<false/>
<key>Intel</key>
<true/>
<key>NVidia</key>
<false/>
</dict>
<key>InjectEDID</key>
<false/>
<key>ig-platform-id</key>
<string>0xa2e0008</string>
</dict>

<key>KernelAndKextPatches</key>
<dict>
<key>KextsToPatch</key>
<array>
<dict>
<key>Comment</key>
<string>HD4400 Azul Framebuffer Size 96MB</string>
<key>Find</key>
<string>
08002e0a01030303000000040000200200005001
</string>
<key>Name</key>
<string>AppleIntelFramebufferAzul</string>
<key>Replace</key>
<string>
08002e0a01030303000000060000200200005001
</string>
</dict>
</array>
</dict>

I hope this brief compilation is of any help to other Yoga 2 Pro Owners.

 

[RehabMan]

Moved to separate thread. (was here: http://www.tonymacx86.com/yosemite-...tel-hd4200-hd4400-hd4600-mobile-yosemite.html)

Please do not write duplicate posts. I have removed the dups.

It is a good idea to reply to those threads, but simply provide the link.

 

[iHackMyStuff]

Awesome work!
Do you mind uploading your config.plist? I think I can learn a lot from it.

 

[RehabMan]

Awesome work!
Do you mind uploading your config.plist? I think I can learn a lot from it.

You should be able to use the config.plist from my guide: http://www.tonymacx86.com/yosemite-...oting-os-x-installer-laptops-clover-uefi.html

Set config.plist/Graphics/Inject/Intel=false for installation, then enable the necessary patches (they are already in my config.plist files), set ig-platform-id=0xa2e0008, set DVMT-prealloc in BIOS, patch IOKit, and try to boot with Inject/Intel=true.

 

[ryman95]

The patch in grub does not work for me. I got the following message:

Looking for Setup variables
var Name: Setup, var size: 12, var guid: a04e27f4-df00-4d42 - b5-52-39-51-13-02-11-3d
->GUID matches expected GUID
expected a different size oft the Setup variables (got 1200 (0x4b0) bytes) Continue with care....
succesfully obtained "Setup" variable from VSS (got 1200 (0x4b0) bytes.
offset 0x18c: is 0x01
setting offset 0x18c to 0x03
error: can't set variable using EFI (error: 0x000000000000001a).

Yoga 2 Pro - i7 - HD4400

Thanks in advance!

 

[RehabMan]

The patch in grub does not work for me. I got the following message:

Looking for Setup variables
var Name: Setup, var size: 12, var guid: a04e27f4-df00-4d42 - b5-52-39-51-13-02-11-3d
->GUID matches expected GUID
expected a different size oft the Setup variables (got 1200 (0x4b0) bytes) Continue with care....
succesfully obtained "Setup" variable from VSS (got 1200 (0x4b0) bytes.
offset 0x18c: is 0x01
setting offset 0x18c to 0x03
error: can't set variable using EFI (error: 0x000000000000001a).

Yoga 2 Pro - i7 - HD4400

Thanks in advance!

Did you extract your BIOS and check that your BIOS uses the same offset?

 

[ryman95]

Did you extract your BIOS and check that your BIOS uses the same offset?

I created a BIOS-Dump Universal BIOS Backup ToolKit 2.0, but there is no Setup module, just SetupUtility.

Edit: I found it in SetupUtility:

0x9AFBF Setting: IGD - DVMT Pre-Allocated, Variable: 0x18C {05 A6 F7 01 F8 01 00 0A 34 12 8C 01 04 10 00 11 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00}
0x9AFE5 Option: 0 MB, Value: 0x0 {09 0E 30 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00}
0x9AFF3 Option: 32 MB, Value: 0x1 (default) {09 0E 33 01 10 00 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00}
0x9B001 Option: 64 MB, Value: 0x2 {09 0E 34 01 00 00 02 00 00 00 00 00 00 00}
0x9B00F Option: 96 MB, Value: 0x3 {09 0E 37 01 00 00 03 00 00 00 00 00 00 00}

Looks like 0x18C 0x3 is correct.

 

[RehabMan]

I created a BIOS-Dump Universal BIOS Backup ToolKit 2.0, but there is no Setup module, just SetupUtility.

Edit: I found it in SetupUtility:

0x9AFBF Setting: IGD - DVMT Pre-Allocated, Variable: 0x18C {05 A6 F7 01 F8 01 00 0A 34 12 8C 01 04 10 00 11 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00}
0x9AFE5 Option: 0 MB, Value: 0x0 {09 0E 30 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00}
0x9AFF3 Option: 32 MB, Value: 0x1 (default) {09 0E 33 01 10 00 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00}
0x9B001 Option: 64 MB, Value: 0x2 {09 0E 34 01 00 00 02 00 00 00 00 00 00 00}
0x9B00F Option: 96 MB, Value: 0x3 {09 0E 37 01 00 00 03 00 00 00 00 00 00 00}

Looks like 0x18C 0x3 is correct.

Yup.

Make sure you're using the same UEFI shell.

 

[ryman95]

I used the one from Insanely.
http://www.firewolf.science/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/EFI-shell.zip

My BIOS Settings are attached

 

[RehabMan]

I used the one from Insanely.
http://www.firewolf.science/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/EFI-shell.zip

Seems like the same suggested in post #1.

Do you have up-to-date BIOS?

Something is strange with the 1200 vs. 12.