- Joined
- Jan 24, 2013
- Messages
- 6
- Motherboard
- HP Envy 17t m7-n101dx
- CPU
- i7-5500U
- Graphics
- Intel HD 5500, nVidia Geforce 940M
- Mac
- Classic Mac
- Mobile Phone
Hello,
First of all, here are the specs of my HP Envy 17t m7-n101dx:
The only problem that I encounter for the moment, is that I only get 7MB of VRAM when I'm at this installer screen (I simply don't follow the installation process because I don't want to run El Capitan with 7MB VRAM; nothing will change after install if I don't fix it before, right?).
In order to get the amount of VRAM I used this command in Terminal "system_profiler | grep VRAM'". Getting to the installer screen was easy, as I only had to use the config for Intel HD 5500 that RehabMan provided on his GitHub.
I read every single thread that had anything to do with Intel HD 5500 and El Capitan support and the only thing that I couldn't manage to do was to change my DVMT pre-allocation size as my BIOS is locked and I can't use EFI to change variables (tried all BIOS versions from HP). In Windows I see 128MB allocated but, as I saw, this is not the proper way to get the actual DVMT pre-allocated size.
However, the interesting fact is that I don't have to enable the minStolenSize patch from RehabMan's config in order to get to the installer screen. It simply gets there by using 0x16260002 or 0x16260006 as FakeID for graphics. I also tried using the patch but still 7MB of VRAM.
Now, I'm asking you guys, after going through all these steps, should I simply give up? Is there anything I can try to get my graphics working properly? Is there any possibility that in a future release of Mac OS X (like the next major one) this compatibility issue with HD 5500 to be fixed?
Thank you!
First of all, here are the specs of my HP Envy 17t m7-n101dx:
- Intel i7-5500U processor
- 16GB RAM
- 1TB 5400rpm HDD, 256GB M.2 Samsung EVO 850 SSD
- Intel HD 5500 internal graphics, nVidia GeForce 940M 2GB
- 17.3 Full HD IPS touchscreen display
The only problem that I encounter for the moment, is that I only get 7MB of VRAM when I'm at this installer screen (I simply don't follow the installation process because I don't want to run El Capitan with 7MB VRAM; nothing will change after install if I don't fix it before, right?).
In order to get the amount of VRAM I used this command in Terminal "system_profiler | grep VRAM'". Getting to the installer screen was easy, as I only had to use the config for Intel HD 5500 that RehabMan provided on his GitHub.
I read every single thread that had anything to do with Intel HD 5500 and El Capitan support and the only thing that I couldn't manage to do was to change my DVMT pre-allocation size as my BIOS is locked and I can't use EFI to change variables (tried all BIOS versions from HP). In Windows I see 128MB allocated but, as I saw, this is not the proper way to get the actual DVMT pre-allocated size.
However, the interesting fact is that I don't have to enable the minStolenSize patch from RehabMan's config in order to get to the installer screen. It simply gets there by using 0x16260002 or 0x16260006 as FakeID for graphics. I also tried using the patch but still 7MB of VRAM.
Now, I'm asking you guys, after going through all these steps, should I simply give up? Is there anything I can try to get my graphics working properly? Is there any possibility that in a future release of Mac OS X (like the next major one) this compatibility issue with HD 5500 to be fixed?
Thank you!