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Acer Aspire V5 571P Touchscreen works!


Bob Loblaw
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I just successfuly installed El Capitan Vanilla on my Acer Aspire V5-571P and to my surprise and delight, the touchscreen works correctly.

What works:
Keyboard, Touchpad -- using Rehabman's latest VoodooPS2Controller.

Touchscreen (!!) Tap and hold to drag, tap to select, etc. even handwriting "ink" works great!

Sound - using VoodooPS2. Had to set input volume to minimum.
CD, DVD, Webcam, USB

On-screen audio controls, brightness keys, backlit KB

Intel HD4000 graphics
Wi-Fi

Sleep, restart

 

What's not working:

Built-in WiFi - I'm using an Edimax AC600 Wireless Dual-Band Mini USB Adapter (model EW-7811UTC), which is fully supported under El Capitan.

Built-in Bluetooth - I plugged in a cheapo "GT Max" USB Bluetooth dongle, which worked.

Built-in Ethernet

 

Not yet tested

HDMI

burning discs (About this Mac says burning is supported)

 

How I installed:

1. on 8GB USB (using an existing Mac OS X computer): Used MacPwn to create El Capitan USB installer.

Removed Bluetooth Kexts, used Enoch (rev 2773) on MBR-formatted USB.

Booted with GraphicsEnabler=No

2. Followed guide "How to Vanilla Install El Capitan on Hackintosh with MacPwn.docx."

 

Used Install Chameleon options as follows: 

Patches > KernelBooter_kexts,

Settings > Intel Capri xxxxxxx004,

Resolution > 1366x768x32.  

 

Not sure if it's all necessary, but here is the entire <dict> section of my org.chameleon.Boot.plist:
<dict>

<key>Graphics Mode</key>
<string>1366x768x32</string>

<key>IntelCapriFB</key>

<string>4</string>
<key>Kernel Flags</key>
<string>ahcidisk=1 debug 8</string>
<key>CsrActiveConfig</key>
<string>3></string>

</dict>

 

3. Installed El Capitan on 32GB USB using installer made in step 1, above. This time, I formatted the 32GB USB as GUID Partition Map, Mac OS X Journaled.

Once complete, I removed Bluetooth kexts from S/L/E and plugged in an external keyboard.

4. Installed the kexts from the bootloader made with MacPwn to the S/L/E folder, using KextWizard.

5. Installed VoodooPS2controller, this made the laptop's built-in keyboard work.

6. Installed VoodooHDA, this made the sound work.

 

Overall, I'm very happy with how this turned out! I previously had been running Mountain Lion on this notebook, but I couldn't get internet working.

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