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[Solved Wifi & HD 520 Graphics] MacOS Sierra booted successfully, help configuring hardware

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You should read the backlight guide carefully. IntelBacklight.kext is not expected to do anything without the appropriate ACPI patch.
Yes I understand now, Its seems like a very long process and it's been a long 4 days for me, I'm going to take some time off and pick it back up when I'm relaxed again. Thanks for all your help :) You've probably provided the best support I've ever gotten online so far ^^ btw do you take donations? Seems like a lot of hard work and should be rewarded :D

Just, can you please tell me a software to map the keys? (Since Karbiner is not workng in Sierra). I need to map the command key to something and I will be able to live with this for a while.
 
Yes I understand now, Its seems like a very long process and it's been a long 4 days for me, I'm going to take some time off and pick it back up when I'm relaxed again. Thanks for all your help :) You've probably provided the best support I've ever gotten online so far ^^ btw do you take donations? Seems like a lot of hard work and should be rewarded :D

Just, can you please tell me a software to map the keys? (Since Karbiner is not workng in Sierra). I need to map the command key to something and I will be able to live with this for a while.

Karabiner Elements. Or wait for a while and maybe Apple will fix their stuff so Karabiner still works...
 
Karabiner Elements. Or wait for a while and maybe Apple will fix their stuff so Karabiner still works...
Thanks I will give that a try :) You didn't answer me about the donations :p Seriously, Can I atleast buy your a beer man?

Also I will write up a guide once I have everything figured out. Or shall I start a guide and make it work in progress, and list out the stuff that doesn't work?
 
Maybe it will help others, so I will leave the info here. If you are missing VoodooHDA prefpane in System Preferences on macOS Sierra and thus cannot setup your mic, you can just add VoodooHDASettingsLoader.app to the "Login Objects" in SysPrefs. After reboot your mic will work.
 
Maybe it will help others, so I will leave the info here. If you are missing VoodooHDA prefpane in System Preferences on macOS Sierra and thus cannot setup your mic, you can just add VoodooHDASettingsLoader.app to the "Login Objects" in SysPrefs. After reboot your mic will work.
Yeah, that's a good idea. Will you leave an update if you figure something out? I will do the same and let's try to perfectly configure the laptop with Sierra :D

One big questions i have right now is, if it's possible to have mac like multi-touch gesture controls on the track pad. Please let me know if you figure anything out :) Cheers!
 
Maybe it will help others, so I will leave the info here. If you are missing VoodooHDA prefpane in System Preferences on macOS Sierra and thus cannot setup your mic, you can just add VoodooHDASettingsLoader.app to the "Login Objects" in SysPrefs. After reboot your mic will work.
Update! I've managed to set the DVMT-prealloc in our laptop and successfully boot into Sierra without the MinStolenSize Patch. All Credits go to @cappicard who figured it out. Here are the steps:

Use the following at your own risk. I assume no responsibility. This is for information only.

I extracted the BIOS using the Universal BIOS Backup Toolkit (https://forums.lenovo.com/t5/Lenovo...niversal-BIOS-Backup-ToolKit-2-0/td-p/1205920).

https://github.com/LongSoft/UEFITool/releases. I used UEFI Tool NE. I looked for the entry that's labelled Setup (In my case, it's the GUID of 899407D7-99FE-43D8-9A21-79EC328CAC51 and toward the bottom of the tree). I expanded that. Right-clicked on PE32, and hit Extract Body. That gave me an EFI file.

I then used Universal IFR Extractor (http://donovan6000.blogspot.ca/2014/02/universal-ifr-extractor.html) to convert said EFI file into a text file.

That text file should now have the DVMT values. Just do a text search for "DVMT".

For example:
0x3849A Setting: DVMT Pre-Allocated, Variable: 0x426 {05 91 E3 06 06 07 70 27 01 00 26 04 10 10 01 FE 00}
0x384AB Option: 32M, Value: 0x1 {09 07 E4 06 30 00 01}
0x384B2 Option: 64M, Value: 0x2 {09 07 E5 06 00 00 02}
0x384B9 Option: 96M, Value: 0x3 {09 07 E6 06 00 00 03}
0x384C0 Option: 128M, Value: 0x4 {09 07 E7 06 00 00 04}

The EFI variable is 0x426, and the values are those in blue.

Then, finally you can then boot with EFI Shell (https://www.firewolf.science/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/EFI-shell.zip). Just stick it onto a FAT32 formatted USB stick. In my case, I added a Boot Option via the BIOS to boot to the included bootx64.efi file.

Upon booting to the USB stick, just type in: setup_var 0x426 0x3 (to set DVMT Preallocated to 96MB).

And voila. (Hope it works for you as well. Cheers!)
 
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One big questions i have right now is, if it's possible to have mac like multi-touch gesture controls on the track pad. Please let me know if you figure anything out :) Cheers!

For me some trackpad gestures worked in El Capitan with Rehabman's VoodooPS2Controller.kext https://bitbucket.org/RehabMan/os-x-voodoo-ps2-controller/downloads. So you should install that kext in Sierra too. In order to get trackpad working in Sierra you must copy Trackpad.prefpane from ElCapitan to /S/L/PreferencePanes/ of Sierra. Then you'll be able to open Trackpad settings from SysPrefs.

I've managed to set the DVMT-prealloc in our laptop and successfully boot into Sierra without the MinStolenSize Patch

So what benefits did it give to you? Does it kill that annoying blinking line in the menu bar? Did you check your default DVMT-prealloc value? Was it 32 mb?
 
For me some trackpad gestures worked in El Capitan with Rehabman's VoodooPS2Controller.kext https://bitbucket.org/RehabMan/os-x-voodoo-ps2-controller/downloads. So you should install that kext in Sierra too. In order to get trackpad working in Sierra you must copy Trackpad.prefpane from ElCapitan to /S/L/PreferencePanes/ of Sierra. Then you'll be able to open Trackpad settings from SysPrefs.

So what benefits did it give to you? Does it kill that annoying blinking line in the menu bar? Did you check your default DVMT-prealloc value? Was it 32 mb?
Got it about the trackpad, I'll give it a try. Two finger scroll works for me now, but that's about it.

No added benefits I guess, The blinking bar is still there. But I have the peace of mind that I'm running with one less patch. Rehabman said that the minStolensize patch is not recommended. So I'm glad I was able to resolve it :)
 
Update! I've managed to set the DVMT-prealloc in our laptop and successfully boot into Sierra without the MinStolenSize Patch. All Credits go to @cappicard who figured it out. Here are the steps:
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And voila. (Hope it works for you as well. Cheers!)
Thank FireWolf for this information. He had it figured out too for the HD 5500 on Yosemite. I used the same procedure for my HD 520.
 
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