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you need a mac or a working hackintosh to create the installer
guess i have to postpone it for now as i dont have a working mac or hackintosh system as of now
you need a mac or a working hackintosh to create the installer
Are all gestures working?Thank you for this! I am up and running on a Dell 7378 i5 Kaby Lake.
Going to make an attempt to get mine up to Catalina. Feel like a weekend project. I am concerned that most of the drivers for this laptop are massively out of date and unmaintained. I did find an updated driver for bluetooth (uncompiled) and a binary for i2c. My guess is we might have some sound issues as I had before.
First things first I'll try to get it installed and get a new version of clover.
I just set mine up with Catalina + OpenCore. It's working flawlessly for me. The only thing I have not yet set up is brightness control via the F11 and F12 keys. I also experience very slight static on the headphone jack, though audio through the speakers works fine, as well as over Bluetooth. I recommend using OpenCore instead of Clover.
I've attached the EFI that I am using. I have removed the serial numbers. Note that this EFI is using the debug version of OpenCore, so it seems to take a while to boot.
I would recommend that you follow the step by step OpenCore Laptop Guide, rather than simply using my EFI. It's possible that our hardware is not identical. Either way, I learned a lot from the (relatively) organized documentation from OpenCore.
Well awesome, great to see there is a working end goal. I'll definitely read the laptop guide. I've been interested in OpenCore and wanted to give that a try.
For the most part I believe what's in mine is normal stuff from what I've read mines a better wifi (I replaced myself from the Intel card.) It's a better AC-compatible wifi card (broadcom.) I don't know if there is a newer driver for it. It also has i2c devices for the keyboard, trackpad, and touch screen. The Audio card is a poor one (business class ) forget he exact chipset but it's not supported by anything other than the patched HDA driver. My fighting with it is on this thread somewhere.
I've replaced my Wifi with a DW1560 for Wifi+BT. The Broadcom kexts in my EFI have both Wifi and BT working.
I believe the audio chipset is the ALC225. With this install there is no patching of the HDA driver - at least, not by the user. Instead, the AppleALC kext is installed and the layout ID is passed to it, either through config.plist or through a boot argument (which can be specified in config.plist).
I think the keyboard and maybe the trackpad are PS2, rather than I2C. Touchscreen I believe is I2C. Multitouch gestures are working on both trackpad and touchscreen.
Opencore 0.58 came out today, so my EFI is now out of date, three days after I finished making it... All the more reason to make your own, I guess.