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Acer Aspire E5-575G-53VG | What is Working? |
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This laptop is actually decently friendly for beginners so far (I'm fairly familiar with desktop hackintoshing, but this is my first laptop that actually "made it" to the finish line).
So, let's talk about some specs this laptop has for Google Fu purposes:
- Acer Aspire E5-575G-53VG
- Intel Core i5-6200U 2.3Ghz~2.8Ghz
- Nvidia GeForce 940mx 2GB (not used, but hey, dual booting is VERY easy on this laptop too!)
- 8GB DDR4 Memory
- 256GB M.2 Sata LiteOn Drive (came with the machine).
- Ethernet Realtek 10EC 8168
- M.2 Wireless Atheros QCNFA435
- Touchpad, Keyboard
- LCD (non-touch), 1080p, Intel HD 520
- USB 3.1 C
- VGA, HDMI Outputs (USB 3.1 C as well!)
- 2nd Drive, 2.5 Sata
- Backlit Keyboard
- Fn Functions
DPCI Manager Image (prior to replacing WiFi card):
All in all... holy crap! This has been smoother than some desktop builds I've done in the past. Very pleased!
Summarized Instructions:
- Follow Rehabman's Laptop Guide First. This gets you 88% of the way to the finish line. Near the end of that guide, Rehabman states the following checklist to start hammering out:
After installing the bootloader, you should take an inventory of things working and not working. Typically, at this point you will have:
- working bootloader via Clover (system should boot relatively quickly from the HDD)
- graphics QE/CI working via Clover's config.plist settings
- PS2 keyboard/trackpad (although perhaps not optimal if you don't have a Synaptics trackpad)
- audio not working
- ethernet not working
- WiFi not working
- brightness controls not working
- certain function keys may not work
- battery status not working
- etc - Install VooDooHDA2.8.8 for audio to work. FN keys naturally work after this is installed as well.
- Install the Realtek 8111 kext for Ethernet to function. I used version 2.2.1
- Battery Indicator: Install the ACPIBatteryManager.kext from here, per Rehabmans recommendation
- Brightness Controls: Follow Rehabman's Laptop Backlight Injection Guide Here
- Completely disable discrete graphics card for 4x+ battery life and almost no heat output: [Disabling discrete graphics guide]
- Wifi: Replace with BCM94352Z, and follow Krandy's wifi-instructions found on Krandy's guide here: https://www.tonymacx86.com/threads/guide-acer-travelmate-x349-m-535l.214810/
Thanks for reading!
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