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[Guide] Razer Blade 2017

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Props to RehabMan and ben9923. The Razer is doing OK now. I'm not going to do any more work on it as it's been relatively stable for the last couple of weeks. I will start from scratch again in a few weeks when my BCom M.2 Wifi card turns up and is installed. :)
 
FFS....

OK, so the card turned up sooner and is installed (yay!), but now I'm having issues with my DSDT...

So, I dump (tried Clover F4 and patchmatic - yes without and DSDT's before someone mentions the PNLF)

I decompile - get no errors. Open up in MaciASL then hit compile (without applying any patched, something I do as a sanity check) and get a bunch of "Object does not exist" messages :(

All I've done is fit a new WiFi card and re-installed from scratch and applied the backlight fix (from this guide).

Could someone have a look before I remove this Broadcom card and start again? :)

TIA
 

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Scorch404 said:
FFS....

OK, so the card turned up sooner and is installed (yay!), but now I'm having issues with my DSDT...

So, I dump (tried Clover F4 and patchmatic - yes without and DSDT's before someone mentions the PNLF)

I decompile - get no errors. Open up in MaciASL then hit compile (without applying any patched, something I do as a sanity check) and get a bunch of "Object does not exist" messages :(

All I've done is fit a new WiFi card and re-installed from scratch and applied the backlight fix (from this guide).

Could someone have a look before I remove this Broadcom card and start again? :)

TIA
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See guide for ACPI patching:
https://www.tonymacx86.com/threads/guide-patching-laptop-dsdt-ssdts.152573/

Note: Your PR files are missing EFI/Clover. Please read FAQ, "problem reporting" carefully for next time.
 
Scorch404 said:
FFS....

OK, so the card turned up sooner and is installed (yay!), but now I'm having issues with my DSDT...

So, I dump (tried Clover F4 and patchmatic - yes without and DSDT's before someone mentions the PNLF)

I decompile - get no errors. Open up in MaciASL then hit compile (without applying any patched, something I do as a sanity check) and get a bunch of "Object does not exist" messages :(

All I've done is fit a new WiFi card and re-installed from scratch and applied the backlight fix (from this guide).

Could someone have a look before I remove this Broadcom card and start again? :)

TIA
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Are you sure that you have added the following to your config.plist? Not sure it will address the compiling issues but might be worth a shot. Ill check my config.plist later to see if I can spot any differences. If you don't mind uploading your whole clover file I can check it against mine. I also had to add the BRCMRAM kext to get mine to work. I am a noob, so in not sure if this is your exact issue, but it might help point you in the right direction. My wifi card works beautifully with on my system. Good luck.

  • Add the KextToPatch values in config.plist:
  • Name:
    Code (Text):
    com.apple.driver.AirPort.Brcm4360
  • Find [HEX]:
    Code (Text):
    81F952AA 00007529
  • Replace [HEX]:
    Code (Text):
    81F952AA 00006690
 
Hi razer-razer,

Yep, all done. I was able to get a network connection via WiFi, I just needed to be able to patch the DSDT's for all the other bits (backlight, battery, trackpad, etc).

I started from scratch again over the weekend. I just couldn't understand why, on a fresh build, I wasn't extracting a clean set of DSDT's. So, reset the bios and started again with a fresh install of High Sierra. Lo and behold, a clean set of extracted DSDT's (which doesn't make sense, but I'll roll with it - probably the Bios reset, TBH).

So I now have a working Razer, Wifi, backlight, battery and trackpad (I needed GPIO pinning). Multitouch on the trackpad would be the holy grail, but for now I need to sort the sleep/wake issues :)

Thanks all for your help!
 
Glad to hear it! I haven't figured out the sleep issues yet, but might try this week. I have attempted several of the know patches for fixing sleep issues, (like setting different darkwake values), but to no avail. I also recently got the Nvidia graphics card working no HDMI audio though. As far as the trackpad goes, Voodoo I2C recently pushed an update with I2C-HID device support, so there might be hope. Ill let you know if I make any progress.
 
OK, so oddly, my wake from sleep seems to be working?!?!? I installed the Bluetooth kexts for the new Broadcom card i installed and also reinstalled RehabMan's version of Clover as I needed to add EmuVariableUEFI-64 for iMessage and FaceTime support (ROM and Board numbers would not persist without this). Gonna try the Nvidia graphics later today :)
 
Nvidia =success! :)
 

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Nvidia =success! :)
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I've just followed this guide and got a Razer Blade Pro 2018 FHD working (except battery so far). How did you get the Nvidia card working?
 
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