CLOVER for ACPI hotpatch

[tobia97]

Hello, I am trying to get hot patch to work on my laptop, and I am following RehabMan's guides:

https://www.tonymacx86.com/threads/guide-using-clover-to-hotpatch-acpi.200137/
http://www.tonymacx86.com/threads/guide-patching-laptop-dsdt-ssdts.152573/

This is the first timeI try to implement hotpatch so I opened this thread to ask for help.
As advised from the guide I am trying to get to work my patches one at a time and I thought it would have been a good idea to start with the "SSDT-XOSI.dsl" patch.
I think I set it up correctly except for the last step where I need to check the return status for each version of windows in order to pick the right one to uncomment in the patch. Could anybody help me with this? Where doI find the return values of those methods?

 

[RehabMan]

Hello, I am trying to get hot patch to work on my laptop, and I am following RehabMan's guides:

https://www.tonymacx86.com/threads/guide-using-clover-to-hotpatch-acpi.200137/
http://www.tonymacx86.com/threads/guide-patching-laptop-dsdt-ssdts.152573/

This is the first timeI try to implement hotpatch so I opened this thread to ask for help.
As advised from the guide I am trying to get to work my patches one at a time and I thought it would have been a good idea to start with the "SSDT-XOSI.dsl" patch.
I think I set it up correctly except for the last step where I need to check the return status for each version of windows in order to pick the right one to uncomment in the patch. Could anybody help me with this? Where doI find the return values of those methods?

You have implemented SSDT-XOSI.aml correctly.
It is emulating "Windows 2012"

 

[tobia97]

You have implemented SSDT-XOSI.aml correctly.
It is emulating "Windows 2012"

You mean all the return values are true? how did you check that? should I try and emulate later versions of windows or stick to this one?
what would you advice as next step for my ACPI patching?

 

[RehabMan]

You mean all the return values are true? how did you check that?

I don't know what you're referring to.

should I try and emulate later versions of windows or stick to this one?

Your choice.

what would you advice as next step for my ACPI patching?

Depends on the problem you're trying to solve.

 

[tobia97]

I am trying to understand how I should pick the version of windows I am emulating. How do I pick one over the others?

 

[tobia97]

I don't know what you're referring to.



Your choice.



Depends on the problem you're trying to solve.

Now I am trying to map the keys for back light control and I am following your guide here:
https://www.tonymacx86.com/threads/guide-patching-dsdt-ssdt-for-laptop-backlight-control.152659/

I can't get an output to my system.log with neither of the two methods. I have read that:

If your trackpad is Synaptics and you're using my fork VoodooPS2Controller.kext (https://github.com/RehabMan/OS-X-Voodoo-PS2-Controller), you can make either case work.

That is the kext I am using, can you help me with this?

 

[RehabMan]

I am trying to understand how I should pick the version of windows I am emulating. How do I pick one over the others?

Trial/error.
Process of determining which one provides the best result.

Now I am trying to map the keys for back light control and I am following your guide here:
https://www.tonymacx86.com/threads/guide-patching-dsdt-ssdt-for-laptop-backlight-control.152659/

I can't get an output to my system.log with neither of the two methods. I have read that:

system.log not used for kernel logs.
Read here:
https://www.tonymacx86.com/threads/readme-common-problems-in-10-13-high-sierra.233582/

 

[tobia97]

Trial/error.
Process of determining which one provides the best result.



system.log not used for kernel logs.
Read here:
https://www.tonymacx86.com/threads/readme-common-problems-in-10-13-high-sierra.233582/

I have tried to remap them as the guide says but it doesn't work. I have a DELL Inspiron 15 3567 and my backlight keys are on F11/F12 I don't even have F14 F15 on the keyboard
Debug files attached

 

[RehabMan]

I have tried to remap them as the guide says but it doesn't work. I have a DELL Inspiron 15 3567 and my backlight keys are on F11/F12 I don't even have F14 F15 on the keyboard
Debug files attached

Your brightness keys are handled in method BRT6.
You did not patch BRT6 as per guide.

 

[tobia97]

Your brightness keys are handled in method BRT6.
You did not patch BRT6 as per guide.

Sorry, what guide are you referring to?