I just upgraded this exact hardware to el capitan. I initially tried Sierra but ran into issues and settled on trying to get el capitan working. I got everything working on el capitan (and think it will work fine with sierra now) so I thought I'd share what I had to do to get everything. I followed the initial guide to get Lion up and running when I 1st made this build back in 2011.
Here's what you should know upgrading from the initial build to the new OS:
- Upgrade the bios to F9
- Select reload optimized settings
- Turn off USB3
Using the unibeast installer, follow the guide, I used Legacy UEFI but I don't think it matters if you turn off USB3 in bios.
Once you're booted into the new OS, install the latest Clover on your boot drive.
So this is what got me, there are 2 different DSDT's. One is in the Downloads -> DSDTs -> Gigabyte -> H67 -> F9 with HDMI
There's also a DSDT on this page on the second post by Toleda:
https://www.tonymacx86.com/threads/official-customac-mini-2011-guide-and-notes-in-progress.29817/
Both of them are different.
First let me say that a big problem (for me) was that I was putting the DSDT.aml file (for clover) in the wrong place. I was putting it in /Volumes/EFI/EFI/CLOVER/ACPI/Patched
It should go in /Volumes/EFI/EFI/
Where the "boot" file is located. That caused me about 16 hours of un-needed frustration.
Second, I combined the DSDT's from the Downloads (area of the site) and the one from Toledas post. Had I to do it over again, I would start with the DSDT from Toledas post #2 here:
https://www.tonymacx86.com/threads/official-customac-mini-2011-guide-and-notes-in-progress.29817/
If memory serves me right, as of yosemite the layout Id's changed from
0x85, 0x01, 0x00, 0x00
to
0x03, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00
Or the other way around, forgive me I gave this hackintosh to a friend and it's at his house or else I'd just pull it up and upload the DSDT. (Next time I'm there, I'll just upload it here)
Then use the config.plist on the 1st page of this post.
With just the DSDT, you'll see audio devices in Apple -> About This Mac -> System Report -> Audio
There will be a bunch of devices under Intels high def audio. But there wont be anything in System Configuration under Audio.
This is what I had to do to get HDMI audio to work:
Run Multi-beast for El Capitan, chose the options from Tonys post on the 1st page:
FakeSMC
Drivers -> Network -> Realtek -> RealtekRTL8111 v2.0.0
Drivers -> Graphics -> Intel HD 3000
I also had to add this one:
Drivers -> Audio -> ALC889 and choose the HD3000 HDMI audio
Once that was done, I saw audio devices in the System Configuration area but no HDMI
Then I ran the command from
https://github.com/toleda/audio_CloverALC
Chose the default options, rebooted and had HDMI audio working
Hope this helps anyone else... I don't know if either of the DSDT's (without touching them) from either toledas post or from the dsdt downloads area work alone with the config that tony posted in the 1st post on this without having to add the ALC889 drivers in multibeast and using the hdmi audio linker command from github. But that's what i had to do.
Jason
