lenovo g50: mapping brightness keys F11-F12

[zeratul75]

hi all, very very newbie here.
I have a Lenovo g50-80 and tried to install Mac OS. Read many many guides and came here.
Basically, I found a thread where a user explained his successful story.
Here what I am speaking about:

[Guide] Lenovo G50-80 post-installation, macOS Mojave 10.14.3

This guide is originally posted on GitHub , now I'm sharing it here and hoping more people can learn something from this post. Warning: Please read this guide carefully. Simply copying my configuration file is very likely to not work (because there are many different Lenovo G50-80 according to...

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So, I used exactly its clover efi folder and everything went basically fine. Now I am on Mojave.
Managed to add wifi for intel ac3160 card, very happy!!!

But of course some problems also: trackpad was literally crazy. further investigation on it and found that that guy has a synaptic trackpad, while mine is elan. sure of this, windows confirmed.
So i deleted voodoo kext in clover/kext/other folder and used ApplePS2SmartTouchPad.kext
Now trackpad is working fine, including gestures, but with this kext I loose the F11-F12 brightness control, which I have if I use voodoo kext.

So, my question is: is there a way to have now F keys to control brightness, using ApplePS2SmartTouchPad.kext? Is it normal that after having changed from voodoo kext to ApplePS2SmartTouchPad.kext I lost F brightness control keys? That guy already mapped the keys, and actually they are fully working with voodoo kext.

Brightness control is fully working on monitor pref panel.

 

[Feartech]

hi all, very very newbie here.
I have a Lenovo g50-80 and tried to install Mac OS. Read many many guides and came here.
Basically, I found a thread where a user explained his successful story.
Here what I am speaking about:

[Guide] Lenovo G50-80 post-installation, macOS Mojave 10.14.3

This guide is originally posted on GitHub , now I'm sharing it here and hoping more people can learn something from this post. Warning: Please read this guide carefully. Simply copying my configuration file is very likely to not work (because there are many different Lenovo G50-80 according to...

www.tonymacx86.com

So, I used exactly its clover efi folder and everything went basically fine. Now I am on Mojave.
Managed to add wifi for intel ac3160 card, very happy!!!

But of course some problems also: trackpad was literally crazy. further investigation on it and found that that guy has a synaptic trackpad, while mine is elan. sure of this, windows confirmed.
So i deleted voodoo kext in clover/kext/other folder and used ApplePS2SmartTouchPad.kext
Now trackpad is working fine, including gestures, but with this kext I loose the F11-F12 brightness control, which I have if I use voodoo kext.

So, my question is: is there a way to have now F keys to control brightness, using ApplePS2SmartTouchPad.kext? Is it normal that after having changed from voodoo kext to ApplePS2SmartTouchPad.kext I lost F brightness control keys? That guy already mapped the keys, and actually they are fully working with voodoo kext.

Brightness control is fully working on monitor pref panel.

maybe this:

GitHub - acidanthera/BrightnessKeys: Handler for brightness keys without DSDT patches

Handler for brightness keys without DSDT patches. Contribute to acidanthera/BrightnessKeys development by creating an account on GitHub.

github.com

 

[zeratul75]

nope.
put the kext in clover folder and reboot. still no keys control the brightness

 

[Feartech]

nope.
put the kext in clover folder and reboot. still no keys control the brightness

hopefully you didn't use the DSDT.aml from that guide but rather you patched your own?

 

[zeratul75]

hopefully you didn't use the DSDT.aml from that guide but rather you patched your own?

I used every single file from that guide.
Then, since voodoo kext gave me problems with trackpad, I replaced it with Appleps2smartouchpad.kext.
But didn't touch anything else, so I suppose I still am using that file.....
Sorry, but really newbie here.....

 

[Feartech]

I used every single file from that guide.
Then, since voodoo kext gave me problems with trackpad, I replaced it with Appleps2smartouchpad.kext.
But didn't touch anything else, so I suppose I still am using that file.....
Sorry, but really newbie here.....

more info on DSDT patching here:

[Guide] Patching LAPTOP DSDT/SSDTs

Overview In order to make many OS X features work well on a laptop, you will always need a properly patched DSDT (and maybe some of the SSDTs). The purpose of this guide is to provide a foundation for proper patching of your OEM DSDT/SSDTs. Advanced users may wish to implement hotpatching via...

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