Dell Inspiron 3x37 - 5x37 -7x37 Clover Install Guide

[hydrasworld]

Dell Inspiron 7000 Clover Installation Guide

You still do not have QE/CI due to missing AppleIntelHD* right?

correct.

EDIT: Hope that 10.9.2 will fix your problem.

10.9.2 didn't fix it.

The only way I can boot is if I move the AppleIntelFramebufferAzul and AppleIntelHD* out of the way first.

Do you think there might also be something in the DSDT/SSDT files to do with the GFX0/IGPU. I looked in the the highest numbered SSTD file that I dumped and noticed some other references to GFX0.

Any other combinations or boot flags that I might need?

 

[hydrasworld]

Dell Inspiron 7000 Clover Installation Guide

Also, if the AppleIntelHD* files ARE present, but the AppleIntelFramebufferAzul.kext is NOT present then the result is a spinning gear on a grey background under the apple logo which never goes away.

I tried a few combinations of the DualLink 0/1 and Inject Intel/Nvidia true/false but no combination work when the AppleIntelHD* files are present. I re-verified I was used the latest files from the post you made were on my USB stick and I ensured that I was using clover from the USB via an extra boot entry (I have two, Clover, and Clover-USB). Clover USB is at the top of the list so it boots from USB when the USB is present otherwise it boots from the SSD.

 

[nguyenmac]

Dell Inspiron 7000 Clover Installation Guide

Use the latest files here on USB for testing.

If it does not work with AppleIntelHD* installed, open config.plist and look for ig-platform-id, change its value to one of those IntelAzulFB values:
http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/291614-intel-hd4000-and-haswell-inject-aaplig-platform-id/

Note that you have to flip bits, for example IntelAzulFB 12 = 0600260a -> 0x0a260006.

 

[hydrasworld]

Dell Inspiron 7000 Clover Installation Guide

I will test each one with the files you sent and with all the AppleIntel HD and Framebuffer kexts present and report back. Thanks again for the suggestions and help, *really* appreciated.

 

[hydrasworld]

Dell Inspiron 7000 Clover Installation Guide

Ok, results of testing, some interesting results with 13:

Framebuffer test values with DualLink set to '1'
FrameBuffer, Chameleon, Clover, Result
0 = 00000604 0x04060000 Black Screen
1 = 0000060c 0x0c060000 Black Screen
2 = 00001604 0x04160000 Black Screen
3 = 0000160a 0x0a160000 Black Screen
4 = 0000160c 0x0c160000 Black Screen
5 = 00002604 0x04260000 Black Screen
6 = 0000260a 0x0a260000 Black Screen
7 = 0000260c 0x0c260000 Black Screen
8 = 0000260d 0x0d260000 Black Screen
9 = 02001604 0x04160002 Spinning Gear
10 = 0300220d 0x0d22003 Spinning Gear that stops when black screen usually appears, SSD activity continues
11 = 0500260a 0x0a260005 Black Screen
12 = 0600260a 0x0a260006 Black Screen
13 = 0700260d 0x0d260007 Desktop with QI/CE but bad flashing, flickering and artifacts
14 = 0800260a 0x0a260008 Desktop but no QI/CE
15 = 08002e0a 0x0a2e0008 Flickering, then black screen

With 15, booting the installation partition on USB resulted in smooth scrolling text on the installer and a stable picture. The AppleIntelFramebufferAzul and the AppleIntelHD* kexts are present on my installation media created with Unibeast.

Framebuffer test values with DualLink set to '0'
13 = 0700260d 0x0d260007 Desktop with QI/CE but bad flashing, flickering and artifacts
15 = 0700260d 0x0d260007 Flickering, then black screen

 

[hydrasworld]

Dell Inspiron 7000 Clover Installation Guide

ok, so this is interesting....

Sometimes, when using 13 from the list above, i just get a few flickers, then the display goes off. Once, when it gave me the login prompt, while still flickering and displaying artifacts, I was able to login and have a look around. QE/CI definately OK - translucent menu bar, etc..

Anyway, while it was still flickering I thought about having a look at the screensavers to see if they work. Now as soon as I clicked 'Screen Saver' tab on the Desktop and Screen Savers preference pane the flickering stopped!

All the screensavers run just fine, and it's currently displaying a normal looking desktop with no flickering or artifacts. No idea what it'll do if I reboot it though.

EDIT: Actually, as soon as the 'Screen Saver' preview running in the preference pane is closed or hidden the flickering and artifacts return.

Here's a video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mm2Y1wqtRvs

 

[nguyenmac]

Dell Inspiron 7000 Clover Installation Guide

Try changing SMBIOS in config.plist from MacBook Air to MacBook Pro 11,x

You can also change UEFI to Legacy for a try.

Download latest Chameleon and install it to a Mac OS X Extended USB.

Backup mach_kernel in the root of your mac, replace it by this, then use Kext Wizard to rebuild cache.
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/dogcgje65kthyqy/e4l5stTweC

Use Chameleon Wizard to create a smbios.plist MacBook Pro 11,2 and copy it to /Extra/

Go to BIOS, turn off UEFI, enable Legacy boot, then boot to Chameleon USB, then boot with this

-v -f GraphcisEnabler=Yes IntelAzulFB=x  (x is from 1 to 13)

 

[hydrasworld]

Dell Inspiron 7000 Clover Installation Guide

I already tried changing to MacBook Pro 11,2 already so it comes up as 'Mackbook Pro Retina'. That's what it was set to when i made the video. I used the wizard in Clover Configurator to do it.

I'll try the other suggestions tomorrow, it's late now and I need some sleep!

 

[RehabMan]

Dell Inspiron 7000 Clover Installation Guide

ok, so this is interesting....

Sometimes, when using 13 from the list above, i just get a few flickers, then the display goes off. Once, when it gave me the login prompt, while still flickering and displaying artifacts, I was able to login and have a look around. QE/CI definately OK - translucent menu bar, etc..

Anyway, while it was still flickering I thought about having a look at the screensavers to see if they work. Now as soon as I clicked 'Screen Saver' tab on the Desktop and Screen Savers preference pane the flickering stopped!

All the screensavers run just fine, and it's currently displaying a normal looking desktop with no flickering or artifacts. No idea what it'll do if I reboot it though.

EDIT: Actually, as soon as the 'Screen Saver' preview running in the preference pane is closed or hidden the flickering and artifacts return.

Here's a video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mm2Y1wqtRvs

Did you set screen resolution to your native resolution via config.plist? This really only affects the resolution used by the bootloader, but sometimes it is helpful in eliminating glitches.

 

[hydrasworld]

Dell Inspiron 7000 Clover Installation Guide

Ok, so I got a fresh USB stick, GUID, HFS partition and installed latest chameleon on it and popped the patched kernel on my HDD as mach_kernel_patched. I created an SMBIOS.plist for a MacBookPro11,2, popped it in /Extra and used chameleon wizard to generate a configuration file.

When I boot, regardless of any flags, I always get a kernel panic shortly after mounting the boot device.

If i use boot arguments on the command line to use the non-patched kernel it reboots immediately after loading the kexts at the point where the text resolution would change so I know my setting to choose the patched kernel is correct.

EDIT: The last messages before the panic are usually something to do with IO80211Interface::efiNVRAMPublished(). The panic starts on the next line, usually with 'kernel trap' 'type 13=general protection'

EDIT: I also tried installed my DSDT and SSDT files in /Extra (the SSDT had no framebuffer configuration but DO disable the NVidia card) and that made no difference - i used DropSSDT option.

EDIT: Using -s i am able to boot into single User mode using Chameleon and the patched kernel.

EDIT: I tried moving all the 7537 specific kexts out of the way (battery, backlight, wifi injector, etc, etc) and still get a kernel panic.