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Overview
The purpose of this guide is to provide a step-by-step guide to installing, not dual booting, the El Capitan/Yosemite on the ASUS U36SG using Clover EFI. I’ve used this laptop with Mavericks (Chimera/Chameleon) and Yosemite (Chimera/Chameleon).
Hardware configuration of ASUS U36SG model RX007D :
Note: This guide is based mostly on RehabMan’s guides, patches, scripts and kexts, I take no credit for them.
What’s working
Everything is working except:
What you need
BIOS settings
Bios version : U36SGAS.204
Because the bios of ASUS U36SG is simple there are very few things that can be changed. For start of a Restore Defaults and then make sure you have the following settings :
Preparing USB and initial Installation
Using RehaMan’s [Guide] Booting the OS X installer on LAPTOPS with Clover create USB stick. I’ve used the following informations from the guide taking in consideration the limitation of UEFI boot from ASUS U36SG BIOS (BIOS is unable to read GPT partition schemes):
NOTE: Due to the previous mentioned limitation, of the laptop BIOS, when installing OS X you must partition your hard drive using MBR partition scheme with 2 partitions, one 200Mb FAT formatted for EFI and the rest for OS X partition.
Post Installation
Install Clover UEFI using the Clover legacy mode (copied from the guide linked in previous section):
Note: As mentioned in previous guide. Please DO NOT FORGET to copy HFSPlus.efi to your Clover install directory.
Now to finalize the booting process.
Copy attached config.plist as it contains MacBook Pro 8.1 SMBIOS and patch on the fly for:
Copy attached DSDT.aml and ssdt.aml to EFI Partition in EFI/CLOVER/ACPI/patched. I the next sections I will explain the process of creating DSDT and SSDT for this laptop.
Next, using your preferred kext installer (I’m using Kext Wizard) install the linked/attached kexts (most of them are from RehabMan) into /System/Library/Extensions. The kexts are:
For final touches you can install iGlasses or CamTwist to fix the upside down image from webcam.
Informations for DIY
Create SSDT for CPU
This step is easy as 1 2 3.
Using Quick Guide to Generate a SSDT for CPU Power Management as reference, I’ve created ssdt.aml using the following command :
The script detected the i5 2450M and generated the proper speed steps and power management code.
Copy the generated ssdt.aml to EFI partition in folder EFI/CLOVER/ACPI/patched/
Extract and Patch DSDT
NOTE: The result of this section is not a final DSDT as I still have to fix the southdown/sleep issues and USB3.
Once again RhabMan’s [Guide] Patching LAPTOP DSDT/SSDTs is the reference for how to do it.
I’ve used Clover F4 method to get native ACPI files. The extracted files can be found on EFI partition in EFI/Clover/ACPI/origin folder.
Using MaciASL I’ve applied the following patches (the patches are from RehabMan's Laptop DSDT Patch Repository except the ones specified or given as patch code):
And this is how I’ve created the DSDT I use.
Audio Kext Patch on the fly
After reading a lot of threads/posts, on how to configure Clover to patch AppleHDA on the fly so I can keep the OS X up to date without the need to replace kexts every time there is a new update, I’ve found Xjoe thread Asus X450JF - El Capitan using Clover UEFI where he describe how to create the Clover patch :
But instead of downloading the ALC269VC, as he said, I’ve downloaded and tested all 3 versions for ALC269VB present in ASUS U36SG. The only working version was AppleHDA-272.18.1-ALC269VB_v1.
So this is how I’ve made the DummyHDA I use and the Clover patches present in config.plist
Thanks to RehabMan, EMlyDinEsH and to OSXlatitude, TonyMax86 and Insanelymac users for informations used to make this Hachintosh possible.
Any informations the can make this build better or can help in solving the remaining issues with shutdown/sleep, usb3.0 and Ethernet low speed are welcome.
Update: 11/18/2015
Today I needed to use the HDMI audio (did not have an HDMI Monitor with audio output at the time of guide creation) and discovered that it did not work.
Doing some research I've found this Guide for enabling VGA and HDMI in Intel HD3000 GPU and helped me to find the solution to this problem.
The problem was that the all the external display connectors were of type Display Port.
But, every time there is an OS X update the kext has to be patched, again and again, or replaced with the patched one. So I've converted the patch to Clover patch on the fly to avoid this tedious task.
Attached is the new config.plist(config_u1.plist.zip) containing this new patch.
The purpose of this guide is to provide a step-by-step guide to installing, not dual booting, the El Capitan/Yosemite on the ASUS U36SG using Clover EFI. I’ve used this laptop with Mavericks (Chimera/Chameleon) and Yosemite (Chimera/Chameleon).
Hardware configuration of ASUS U36SG model RX007D :
- CPU: Intel i5 Sandy Brdige 2450M 2.50GHz (3.10GHz Turbo)
- Chipset: Intel HM65 Express
- LCD: 13.3" 16:9 HD (1366x768) LED Backlight
- GPU: Integrated Intel HD Graphics 3000 + NVIDIA GeForce 610M with 1GB DDR3 VRAM
- Storage: 120Gb SSD
- Card Reader: 5 -in-1 ( SD/ MS/ MS Pro/ xD/ MMC)
- Webcam: 0.3 Mega Pixel
- WiFi: Integrated 802.11 a/b/g/n or 802.11 b/g/n (AR9285)
- Bluetooth: Built-in Bluetooth V3.0+HS (AR3011)
- Ethernet: 10/100/1000 Base T (AR8151)
- Audio: Built-in Speakers And Microphone - 2 External Jacks for Microphone and Headset (ALC269VB)
- USB: 2x USB2.0 + 1xUSB3.0 (Fresco Logic FL1000G 1b73:1000)
- Battery: 4Cells 3100 mAh 44 Whrs
Note: This guide is based mostly on RehabMan’s guides, patches, scripts and kexts, I take no credit for them.
What’s working
Everything is working except:
- NVIDIA Optimus (not supported by Apple OsX)
- USB3 (work in progress as the GenericUSBXHCI is no longer working with EL Capitan) - Worked till Yosemite
- Sleep/Shutdown (work in progress) - the DSDT used with Mavericks and Yosemite is not working for EL Capitan. The Reboot is working properly.
- Ethernet card is working at 100Mb instead of 1000Mb (work in progress) - Worked till Mavericks with ALXEthernet driver
What you need
- Working Mac or Hackintosh
- OS X El Capitan of Yosemite downloaded from the Mac App Store
- 8GB/16Gb USB2.0 stick
BIOS settings
Bios version : U36SGAS.204
Because the bios of ASUS U36SG is simple there are very few things that can be changed. For start of a Restore Defaults and then make sure you have the following settings :
- Advanced -> Internal Pointing Device = Enabled
- Advanced -> Legacy USB Support = Enabled
- Advanced -> SATA Configuration -> SATA Mode Selection = AHCI
- Boot -> UWFI Boot = Enabled
- Boot -> PXE ROM = Disabled
Preparing USB and initial Installation
Using RehaMan’s [Guide] Booting the OS X installer on LAPTOPS with Clover create USB stick. I’ve used the following informations from the guide taking in consideration the limitation of UEFI boot from ASUS U36SG BIOS (BIOS is unable to read GPT partition schemes):
- from section Installing Clover to USB use Option 1: MBR with a FAT32 partition for Clover and a separate HFS+J partition for the OS X installer
- MUST add VoodooPS2Controller.kext of be able to use laptop keyboard and trackpad
- for cpnfig.plist use the config_HD3000_1366x768.plist from RehabMan’s Clover Laptop Config repository
- from section Building the OS X installer use BaseBinaries clone method
- apply El Capitan MBR Patch from InsanelyMac Forum
NOTE: Due to the previous mentioned limitation, of the laptop BIOS, when installing OS X you must partition your hard drive using MBR partition scheme with 2 partitions, one 200Mb FAT formatted for EFI and the rest for OS X partition.
Post Installation
Install Clover UEFI using the Clover legacy mode (copied from the guide linked in previous section):
- select the target of the install to <FAT EFI Partition> using "Change Install Location"
- select "Customize" (we need to change some of the default options)
- "Install for UEFI booting only" will be unchecked
- "Install Clover in the ESP" will be checked
- in "Bootloader", check "Install boot0af in MBR"
- "CloverEFI" should be checked
- check "Bluemac" from Themes (the config.plist files provided by RehabMan use this theme)
- select "Install RC scripts on target volume" and/or "Install all RC scripts on all other boot volumes", but not for USB
- selecting "Install Clover Preference Pane" is optional
Note: As mentioned in previous guide. Please DO NOT FORGET to copy HFSPlus.efi to your Clover install directory.
Now to finalize the booting process.
Copy attached config.plist as it contains MacBook Pro 8.1 SMBIOS and patch on the fly for:
- Audio
- WiFi
- HD3000 glich
- Bluetooth
Copy attached DSDT.aml and ssdt.aml to EFI Partition in EFI/CLOVER/ACPI/patched. I the next sections I will explain the process of creating DSDT and SSDT for this laptop.
Next, using your preferred kext installer (I’m using Kext Wizard) install the linked/attached kexts (most of them are from RehabMan) into /System/Library/Extensions. The kexts are:
- AsusNBFnKeys.kext - enable ASUS Function keys - thanks to EMlyDinEsH
- CodecCommander.kext and DummyHDA.kext - to enable audio for ALC269VB - created them using RehabMan’s posts in different threads (detailed how to in the next sections)
- IntelBacklight.kext - to enable smooth LCD Backlight transitions
- ACPIBatteryManager.kext - Access battery status
- IOath3kfrmwr.kext - Bluetooth firmware
- AtherosL1cEthernet.kext - AR8151 Ethernet driver
- FakeSMC.kext and ACPISensors.kext,CPUSensors.kext and LPCSensors.kext - Interface to different types of sensors
- VoodooPS2Controller.kext - Laptop keyboard and touchpad driver
For final touches you can install iGlasses or CamTwist to fix the upside down image from webcam.
Informations for DIY
Create SSDT for CPU
This step is easy as 1 2 3.
Using Quick Guide to Generate a SSDT for CPU Power Management as reference, I’ve created ssdt.aml using the following command :
Code:
ssdtPRGen.shCopy the generated ssdt.aml to EFI partition in folder EFI/CLOVER/ACPI/patched/
Extract and Patch DSDT
NOTE: The result of this section is not a final DSDT as I still have to fix the southdown/sleep issues and USB3.
Once again RhabMan’s [Guide] Patching LAPTOP DSDT/SSDTs is the reference for how to do it.
I’ve used Clover F4 method to get native ACPI files. The extracted files can be found on EFI partition in EFI/Clover/ACPI/origin folder.
Using MaciASL I’ve applied the following patches (the patches are from RehabMan's Laptop DSDT Patch Repository except the ones specified or given as patch code):
- Insert DTGP (found in MaciASL Patch panel under SourceForge)
- Rename _T_x
Code:into_all all code_regex _T_0 replaceall_matched begin T_0 end; into_all all code_regex _T_1 replaceall_matched begin T_1 end; into_all all code_regex _T_2 replaceall_matched begin T_2 end; into_all all code_regex _T_3 replaceall_matched begin T_3 end; into_all all code_regex _T_4 replaceall_matched begin T_4 end; into_all all code_regex _T_5 replaceall_matched begin T_5 end; into_all all code_regex _T_6 replaceall_matched begin T_6 end; - from system folder in RehabMan’s repository:
- system_WAK2
- system_HPET
- system_IMEI
- system_IRQ
- system_MCHC
- system_OSYS_win7
- system_PNOT
- system_RTC
- system_Shutdown
- system_SMBUS
- wifi_AR9285-RP02-WLAN - found in wifi folder in RehabMan’s repository
- WiFi BT Toggle Patch (2 toggles) - from EMlyDinEsH post (see previous sections for link)
Code:# Patch by EMlyDinEsH (www.osxlatitude.com) # Enables Asus WiFi/BT Fn key to work with two toggles of on/off # Use this patch only if its not working. # Replacing method _Q0B with only WiFi/BT on and off toggle into Method label _Q0B replace_content begin If (LEqual (WBTS, One))\n {\n OWLD (Zero)\n ^^^^ATKD.IANE (0x5F)\n Sleep (0x0DAC)\n OBTD (Zero)\n ^^^^ATKD.IANE (0x7E)\n Store (Zero, WBTS)\n }\n Else\n {\n OWLD (One)\n ^^^^ATKD.IANE (0x5E)\n Sleep (0x0DAC)\n OBTD (One)\n ^^^^ATKD.IANE (0x7D)\n Store (One, WBTS)\n } end; # Inserting a field to maintain WiFi/BT state into device label EC0 code_regex Name\s\(WBTS,\sOne\) remove_matched; into device label EC0 insert begin Name (WBTS, One) end; - from usb folder in RehabMan’s repository:
- usb_prw_0x0d_xhc
- usb_6-series
- from graphics folder in RehabMan’s repository:
- graphics_HD3K_low
- graphics_Rename-PCI0_GFX0
- graphics_PNLF_ivy_sandy
- Disable NVIDIA Optimus - manual edited DSDT
Added PINI function is Scope _SB before _WAK
and added call for PINI() in Scope _SB at the beginning of function _WAK and in Scope _SB.PCI0 at the beginning of function _INICode:Method (PINI, 0, NotSerialized) { \_SB.PCI0.PEG0.GFX0._OFF () \_SB.PCI0.PEG0.GFX0._PS0 () } - Patch to display the WiFi status using the WiFi LED - manual edit
The code is added at the end of PINI function defined at the previous patch point.
Code:If (LEqual (\_SB.WRST, One)) { OBTD (One) }
And this is how I’ve created the DSDT I use.
Audio Kext Patch on the fly
After reading a lot of threads/posts, on how to configure Clover to patch AppleHDA on the fly so I can keep the OS X up to date without the need to replace kexts every time there is a new update, I’ve found Xjoe thread Asus X450JF - El Capitan using Clover UEFI where he describe how to create the Clover patch :
But instead of downloading the ALC269VC, as he said, I’ve downloaded and tested all 3 versions for ALC269VB present in ASUS U36SG. The only working version was AppleHDA-272.18.1-ALC269VB_v1.
So this is how I’ve made the DummyHDA I use and the Clover patches present in config.plist
Thanks to RehabMan, EMlyDinEsH and to OSXlatitude, TonyMax86 and Insanelymac users for informations used to make this Hachintosh possible.
Any informations the can make this build better or can help in solving the remaining issues with shutdown/sleep, usb3.0 and Ethernet low speed are welcome.
Update: 11/18/2015
Today I needed to use the HDMI audio (did not have an HDMI Monitor with audio output at the time of guide creation) and discovered that it did not work.
Doing some research I've found this Guide for enabling VGA and HDMI in Intel HD3000 GPU and helped me to find the solution to this problem.
The problem was that the all the external display connectors were of type Display Port.
But, every time there is an OS X update the kext has to be patched, again and again, or replaced with the patched one. So I've converted the patch to Clover patch on the fly to avoid this tedious task.
Attached is the new config.plist(config_u1.plist.zip) containing this new patch.
