[Guide] Laptop backlight control using AppleBacklightFixup.kext

[indexx]

hello rehab man, thx a lot for this guide.
also i read and committed all steps carefully unfortunately no backlight control sliders.

can you help me figuring out, what is wrong?
thx

 

[cdqrain]

hi rehabman, I had copied SSDT-PNLF.aml in ACPI/patched, and AppleBacklightFixup.kext installed to /L/E.
Brightness Slidebar showed, but it has no effect when sliding that bar.
the macOS version is 10.12.6

 

[Feartech]

hi rehabman, I had copied SSDT-PNLF.aml in ACPI/patched, and AppleBacklightFixup.kext installed to /L/E.
Brightness Slidebar showed, but it has no effect when sliding that bar.
the macOS version is 10.12.6

you seem to have forgotten to install FakeSMC.kext to /Library/Extensions
How and where to install kexts:

[GUIDE] Installing 3rd Party Kexts - El Capitan, Sierra, High Sierra, Mojave, Catalina

Installing 3rd Party Kexts in /Library/Extensions 1. What Versions of MacOS does this guide cover ? The methods detailed in this guide will work on the following versions of MacOS MacOS 10.11.X - El Capitan MacOS 10.12.X - Sierra MacOS 10.13.X - High Sierra MacOS 10.14.X - Mojave MacOS...

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[cdqrain]

you seem to have forgotten to install FakeSMC.kext to /Library/Extensions
How and where to install kexts:

[GUIDE] Installing 3rd Party Kexts - El Capitan, Sierra, High Sierra, Mojave, Catalina

Installing 3rd Party Kexts in /Library/Extensions 1. What Versions of MacOS does this guide cover ? The methods detailed in this guide will work on the following versions of MacOS MacOS 10.11.X - El Capitan MacOS 10.12.X - Sierra MacOS 10.13.X - High Sierra MacOS 10.14.X - Mojave MacOS...

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I had tried. But still no effect, so I removed it again.

 

[Feartech]

I had tried. But still no effect, so I removed it again.

still needs to be in there along with all your kexts

 

[Careless]

Does this guide work for a laptop running Mojave in conjunction with an nVidia GK104 Kepler card (Quadro K4100M) and the nVidia Optimus turned OFF so that only the dGPU is being used?

The GPU is detected in my system profile using the included apple nvidia driver within Mojave, but I can't seem to get backlight control to work (intel only?).

EDIT: I should mention that it was working in 10.13.6 High Sierra and I had Optimus turned off as well as the keyboard fn keys working to adjust the brightness, however it was using the nVidia webdrivers. but those are not compatible with 10.14.x.

I don't seem to see the brightness slider anymore, so perhaps once I get that working it may start to function again. Has anyone with a K4100M or similar GTX type GK104 card managed to get the brightness slider back?

 

[AFE3]

anyway to control backlight with this a shortcut or something for this

 

[AlBeast]

Hiya, I have some trouble while using the latest Lilu + Whatevergreen + AddPNLF in Clover. The maximum brightness is very low (say 50% or less of what it should be). The slider does work, but only to darker.

When I use the PNLF.ssdt instead of AddPFNL in Clover, there is no brightness slider. When I use IntelBacklightFixup.kext (with or without PNLF.ssdt) separately it doesn't work either. I now assume IBF.kext is ncluded in Whatevergreen anyway.

I tried in Clover:
- enable_cfl_backlight_fix (boot-arg)
- Graphics/InjectEDID + ProductID: 9c7c
- SetIntelBacklight + SetIntelMaxBacklight (no value, not needed according to Whatevergreen Wiki)

I tried looking into using SSDT-RMCF but honestly I don't know where to go with it.

Hopefully you can help me find a fix!

 

[fireCat]

problem with coofeelike processors has been solved Feartech

@Feartech ,

Please can you elaborate on what you mean with problem solved on coffeecake ?

If you do have a way to enable "Laptop backlight control using AppleBacklightFixup.kext" kindly share with us.

Regards

 

[Feartech]

@Feartech ,

Please can you elaborate on what you mean with problem solved on coffeecake ?

If you do have a way to enable "Laptop backlight control using AppleBacklightFixup.kext" kindly share with us.

Regards

maybe ask @Nokrato ? as it wasn't me that solved it