[Guide] Lenovo Y50 (UHD or 1080p) using Clover UEFI (10.11)

[midnightcodr]

Thanks again for another excellent guide Rehabman. I have successfully installed 10.11.2 onto my Lenovo Y50-70 alongside windows 10 (stock) with two minor issues:

1) HWmonitor only shows harddrive information, no cpu information can be found
2) (not sure this is a real issue) In displays setting I can see the available options under Scaled, but when I choose any options other than the default, the screen goes black and it's very difficult to bring back the normal settings (even reboot can't fix it sometimes, I tried with connecting to an external HDMI display to bring back the display once). You can also see from the attached screenshots there are a few resolutions available (by holding options key while clicking the Scaled option). But all resolutions top at 1080p, is that the expected result? I can live with having 1080p only but it would be really nice that I can make retina scaling truly working on this beast.


Notes:
a. I changed the DMVT setting by downgrading BIOS to 1.4, booting into UEFI shell and ran
setup_var 0x18C 0x4 , upgrading BIOS back to the original 2.0.1 version
b. I use EasyUEFI for dualbooting the (stock) Windows 10
c. HWMonitor Version 6.14-291-g6b4497f.1655

 

[kikoloko]

I can't patch my DSDT
Every time I try i get the following error message:

iasl -vw 2095 -p build/SSDT-HACK.aml SSDT-HACK.dsl
make: iasl: No such file or directory
make: *** [build/SSDT-HACK.aml] Error 1

View attachment CLOVER.zip
View attachment ioreg.ioreg
View attachment kextcache.txt
View attachment kextstat.txt
View attachment RehabMan.zip

 

[RehabMan]

Thanks again for another excellent guide Rehabman. I have successfully installed 10.11.2 onto my Lenovo Y50-70 alongside windows 10 (stock) with two minor issues:

1) HWmonitor only shows harddrive information, no cpu information can be found

By design. FakeSMC sensors are not installed by default. They are not power efficient.

If you want them, install manually: https://github.com/RehabMan/OS-X-FakeSMC-kozlek/

2) (not sure this is a real issue) In displays setting I can see the available options under Scaled, but when I choose any options other than the default, the screen goes black and it's very difficult to bring back the normal settings (even reboot can't fix it sometimes, I tried with connecting to an external HDMI display to bring back the display once). You can also see from the attached screenshots there are a few resolutions available (by holding options key while clicking the Scaled option). But all resolutions top at 1080p, is that the expected result? I can live with having 1080p only but it would be really nice that I can make retina scaling truly working on this beast.

Additional scale resolutions can be added with a custom display override.

http://www.tonymacx86.com/mavericks-laptop-support/133254-adding-using-hidpi-custom-resolutions.html

 

[RehabMan]

I can't patch my DSDT
Every time I try i get the following error message:

iasl -vw 2095 -p build/SSDT-HACK.aml SSDT-HACK.dsl
make: iasl: No such file or directory
make: *** [build/SSDT-HACK.aml] Error 1

You forgot to run download.sh and/or install_downloads.sh.

Follow the guide exactly as written.

 

[MGames]

My Windows partition isn't booting up when I hit enter on it on the bootloader. When I hit enter to the windows partition, the bootloader freezes then unfreezes and does nothing.

 

[RehabMan]

My Windows partition isn't booting up when I hit enter on it on the bootloader. When I hit enter to the windows partition, the bootloader freezes then unfreezes and does nothing.

Regenerate \EFI\Microsoft on the EFI partition with BCDBOOT.EXE from a WinRE (eg. installer command line).

Make sure you follow post #2 (dual boot instructions) exactly as written: http://www.tonymacx86.com/el-capita...de-booting-os-x-installer-laptops-clover.html

 

[midnightcodr]

Additional scale resolutions can be added with a custom display override.

http://www.tonymacx86.com/mavericks-laptop-support/133254-adding-using-hidpi-custom-resolutions.html

Thanks RehabMan but it doesn't seem to work. The two resolutions that I want to add (available under windows 10) are:
a. 3840x2160 (00000f00 00000870)
b. 2048x1152 (00000800 00000480)

Steps I took:
1) enable HiDPI mode (both commands)

2) find out product id an vendor id as follows:


3) sudo mkdir -p /System/Library/Displays/Overrides/DisplayVendorID-4c83

4) create ~/Desktop/DisplayProductID-4852.plist, file is attached and screenshot of it opened with Xcode is here:


5) sudo cp DisplayProductID-4852.plist /System/Library/Displays/Overrides/DisplayVendorID-4c83/DisplayProductID-4852, followed by a reboot

6) Final result (same as before)

 

[RehabMan]

Thanks RehabMan but it doesn't seem to work. The two resolutions that I want to add (available under windows 10) are:
a. 3840x2160 (00000f00 00000870)
b. 2048x1152 (00000800 00000480)

Steps I took:
1) enable HiDPI mode (both commands)

2) find out product id an vendor id as follows:
View attachment 170232

3) sudo mkdir -p /System/Library/Displays/Overrides/DisplayVendorID-4c83

4) create ~/Desktop/DisplayProductID-4852.plist, file is attached and screenshot of it opened with Xcode is here:
View attachment 170234

5) sudo cp DisplayProductID-4852.plist /System/Library/Displays/Overrides/DisplayVendorID-4c83/DisplayProductID-4852, followed by a reboot

6) Final result (same as before)
View attachment 170235

Keep in mind that in 10.11, the display overrides are in a different folder. Read the entire thread to find out where they moved to.

(I haven't written a 10.11 guide yet)

 

[midnightcodr]

Keep in mind that in 10.11, the display overrides are in a different folder. Read the entire thread to find out where they moved to.

(I haven't written a 10.11 guide yet)

Found it in page 14, post #140 of that guide, so I copied to a new location instead

sudo cp ~/DisplayProductID-4852.plist /System/Library/Displays/Contents/Resources/Overrides/DisplayVendorID-4c83/DisplayProductID-4852

However I still can't see the new higher resolutions than 1080p. In the guide there are a few places mention about value 00000001 (which I tried as well) but I can't seem to figure out when to add. Also I can confirm (by checking config.plist) SIP is completely disabled in my 10.11.2 installation.

 

[RehabMan]

Found it in page 14, post #140 of that guide, so I copied to a new location instead

sudo cp ~/DisplayProductID-4852.plist /System/Library/Displays/Contents/Resources/Overrides/DisplayVendorID-4c83/DisplayProductID-4852

However I still can't see the new higher resolutions than 1080p. In the guide there are a few places mention about value 00000001 (which I tried as well) but I can't seem to figure out when to add. Also I can confirm (by checking config.plist) SIP is completely disabled in my 10.11.2 installation.

Don't forget that you need to add a resolution for your target resolution and one that is double (both X/Y).

Additional clues may be obtained by looking at the overrides for actual Retina Macs.