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ASUS ROG GL551JK fully working on Mavericks

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Last day, i made a backup of my acpi files (patched and originals) my kexts and i decided to swap my internal 1TB HDD by a 256GB SSD (i will use the 1TB disk as an data disk later when i'll buy a ssd caddy adaptater) and i restart the installation.
Everything goes right, i installed Clover, the acpi files, the kext, rebooted and fixed permission then rebooted again.
I thought everything is OK, but i found something doesn't working : my trackpad don't work like my previous install. In fact i don't have the scroll (up or down) using 2 fingers. In my previous installation it was working.
I try to search where is my mistake, and then i booted to my previous partition (using it as an external drive) and on this partition it's work!!! i looked at the 2 /System/Library/Extensions folders (the new install and the previous) but it's identical : same kexts.
Does Ioreg can tell me the difference betwen these 2 installations (and found how to make my trackpad scroll working)???
 
Mac Pro ASUS P8Z68 Deluxe Gen 3
P8Z68 DELUXE GEN3 |  i7 2600K |  GeForce GTX 680
iskamyra said:
Last day, i made a backup of my acpi files (patched and originals) my kexts and i decided to swap my internal 1TB HDD by a 256GB SSD (i will use the 1TB disk as an data disk later when i'll buy a ssd caddy adaptater) and i restart the installation.
Everything goes right, i installed Clover, the acpi files, the kext, rebooted and fixed permission then rebooted again.
I thought everything is OK, but i found something doesn't working : my trackpad don't work like my previous install. In fact i don't have the scroll (up or down) using 2 fingers. In my previous installation it was working.
I try to search where is my mistake, and then i booted to my previous partition (using it as an external drive) and on this partition it's work!!! i looked at the 2 /System/Library/Extensions folders (the new install and the previous) but it's identical : same kexts.
Does Ioreg can tell me the difference betwen these 2 installations (and found how to make my trackpad scroll working)???
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You probably have different or duplicate kexts for PS2 (check your EFI partition).
 
RehabMan said:
You probably have different or duplicate kexts for PS2 (check your EFI partition).
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Thanks Rehabman but it was not a problem of kexts. I finally found after many hours of research and by the merest chance : I was going to System Preferences >Trackpad but everything was checked normally. I simply moved the scroll speed slider one notch to the right and it unlocked the function!
 
Mac Pro ASUS P8Z68 Deluxe Gen 3
P8Z68 DELUXE GEN3 |  i7 2600K |  GeForce GTX 680
I just read your success story with installing yosemite on your Asus G551. I am receiving this laptop as well in a few days. Would you be so kind to create a guide on how you got everything to work?

I know it's a lot of work but it would be mich appreciated.
 
Still waiting patiently for the guide ;)

@iskamyra ; could you please update your latest kext, ACPI folders and the config file?
 
I finally got my hands on the N551JQ. Luckily it has almost exact the same specifications as the GL551JK, except for the nvidia gpu.

I got a very stable system, with virtually everything working; intel 4600, audio, keyboard FN keys, ethernet, elan touchpad with gestures, battery indicator, HDMI dual screen. The only issues I have is sleep and booting the laptop when HDMI is connected.

Sleep; laptop enters sleep but automatically shuts down after a while. Can likely be fixed by proper cpu powermanagement patching.
HDMI: Laptop keeps restarting with the HDMI cable connected; it works fine when the cable is (re)connected when OS X has started up.
 
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Sleep; laptop enters sleep but automatically shuts down after a while. Can likely be fixed by proper cpu powermanagement patching.
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http://www.tonymacx86.com/yosemite-laptop-support/146870-guide-native-power-management-laptops.html

http://www.tonymacx86.com/yosemite-laptop-support/152573-guide-patching-laptop-dsdt-ssdts.html

HDMI: Laptop keeps restarting with the HDMI cable connected; it works fine when the cable is (re)connected when OS X has started up.
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Likely related to incorrectly implemented HDMI-audio.

HDMI-audio on Haswell has several requirements:
- the device at address 0x00030000, usually called B0D3, must be renamed to HDAU
- the resulting HDAU device must be recognized by AppleHDAController (config.plist patches required if not natively recognized... or you can use FakePCIID_Intel_HDMI_Audio.kext)
- your framebuffer must be patched for HDMI-audio (there are patches in my default config.plist (disabled) files: https://github.com/RehabMan/OS-X-Clover-Laptop-Config). It is trial/error to determine which port your HDMI is connected (actually, they are positional and you can tell by looking at ioreg).
- patched AppleHDA is required (sometimes VoodooHDA works, but my experience has been not good)
- you have to inject "hda-gfx"="onboard-1" for IGPU and HDAU objects. This is usually done with DSDT/SSDT edits (_DSM methods)
 
Thanks, sleep is working now, and I successfully disabled the discrete GPU. I used your laptop patches in MaciASL to disable the Nvdia GPU. Battery life has increased drastically :)

I will follow your advise next for getting HDMI to work during boot.
 
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