Alienware 17 R3

[Bozmantate]

sorry its here....
CLOVER.zip

 

[RehabMan]

sorry its here....
CLOVER.zip

You may need to drop one or more SSDTs (the one that might have XHC stuff in it...)

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Mobo: manufacturer/model + bootloader(Clover/Chameleon/Chimera)
CPU: detailed CPU model + motherboard chipset
Graphics: all graphics devices + laptop internal screen resolution

For example, typical Ivy laptop:
Mobo: HP ProBook 4540s (Clover)
CPU: i5-3320m/HM76
Graphics: HD4000, 1366x768

Use CPU-Z on Windows to find CPU (Core iX-xxx) and motherboard chipset (HMxx), and graphics capabilities. For a laptop, these details are important and affect critical installation procedures.

Note: When specifying your bootloader, if using Clover legacy, please be sure to specify "Clover legacy"). Specifying "Clover" will be assumed as "Clover UEFI"

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Also, provide output from 'lspci -nn' in Linux Terminal.

 

[Bozmantate]

My specs don't seem to be selectable in signature choices.

here they are (from CPU Z) for the record.
Mobo : Alienware 17r3 A00 Bios Alienware 1.2.15
Chipset : Skylake -H
CPU : Intel Core i7-6820HK
GFX : Intel HD Graphics 530
GFX2: Geforce GTX980M 8GB
Clover : UEFI 2.3K r3726

 

[RehabMan]

My specs don't seem to be selectable in signature choices.

here they are (from CPU Z) for the record.
Mobo : Alienware 17r3 A00 Bios Alienware 1.2.15
Chipset : Skylake -H
CPU : Intel Core i7-6820HK
GFX : Intel HD Graphics 530
GFX2: Geforce GTX980M 8GB
Clover : UEFI 2.3K r3726

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[Bozmantate]

i managed to extract SSDT's using Clover F4 (attached) ACPI.zip

is the purpose of this to eliminate backlight etc

 

[RehabMan]

i managed to extract SSDT's using Clover F4 (attached) ACPI.zip

is the purpose of this to eliminate backlight etc

http://www.tonymacx86.com/threads/guide-patching-laptop-dsdt-ssdts.152573/

 

[Bozmantate]

ok so I copied just the SSDT/DSDT named files to a directory and disassembled them. Then looked at all of the disassembled SSDT files and determined that SSDT3.DSL refers to XHC (USB port capabilities).

you mentioned dropping this SSDT but does that mean i simply omit it from the 'Origin' folder or do i create a duplicate set in 'patched'
also do i need to patch the DSDT where it references XHC?

 

[Bozmantate]

ok so now I'm thinking you mean to drop the SSDT from config.plist so i duplicated another key and replaced the TableId as below

<dict>
<key>Signature</key>
<string>SSDT</string>
<key>TableId</key>
<string>xh_rvp10</string>
</dict>

is this what you meant?

 

[RehabMan]

ok so now I'm thinking you mean to drop the SSDT from config.plist so i duplicated another key and replaced the TableId as below

<dict>
<key>Signature</key>
<string>SSDT</string>
<key>TableId</key>
<string>xh_rvp10</string>
</dict>

is this what you meant?

If you are patching ACPI, all the SSDTs will go in ACPI/patched (and DropOem=true, SortedOrder to specify order). If you have an SSDT that causes a problem (only you can know that), don't include it in ACPI/patched.

 

[Bozmantate]

i jumped the gun slightly and found some guys who were making progress with very similar systems so i borrowed their EFI folder on a whim and managed to install 10.11.6.

Works great from USB in safe mode (but no wifi/sound or GTX980M...........expected)
but goes into a loop without safe mode (verbose => reaches apple logo =>then black screen and unreadable (fast) flash of text every 5secs and no progress.

in clover i choose verbose and nv_disable=1 (set by config.plist)

I've attached the efi folder here EFI.zip

in the meantime i will re read the info about 'if you've already installed OS X' in patching guide