greybaron Posted October 15, 2016 Share Posted October 15, 2016 Hello! I currently am trying to install macOS Sierra on my Lenovo Y50-70 and everything is working fine, including Wifi+Bluetooth, Display brightness, audio and power management. The only issues are: A) this is rather annoying, but can probably be fixed: using 10.9 Mavericks and Rehabmans VoodooPS2, my keyboard is working perfectly fine, FN+Arrow keys for brightness and audio control and the indicator LED on the caps lock key represents the correct status. On MacOS Sierra, this Kext does not work (KP) so I used bpedman's VoodooPS2 which does work, BUT the FN-Key has basically zero function. If I press FN+left/down/right, nothing happens, FN+Up (which should turn the brighness up) generates the letter "b". I know there is a way to modify the button mapping, but I don't know how. Problem B ) My laptop has an Alps Trackpad, but the Alps Touchpad Kext (every kext I have tried) reports an unknown trackpad and refuses to load, therefore I only can left-/right click and move my cursor, nothing more. Is there a way to force it to load or a compatible kext? I would LOVE to at least fix one of the two issues and would highly appreciate every suggestion! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bronxteck Posted October 15, 2016 Share Posted October 15, 2016 the button mappings looks like it will be resolved in the next os update since in most part it is resolved in the betas right now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
greybaron Posted October 15, 2016 Author Share Posted October 15, 2016 the button mappings looks like it will be resolved in the next os update since in most part it is resolved in the betas right now. Thank you very much, I will try installing macOS 10.12.1 Public Beta and report back. So you don't have a solution to the touchpad issue? And is it fixed in the public beta or is the developer beta 4 required? (or are they the same?) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
greybaron Posted October 15, 2016 Author Share Posted October 15, 2016 You may want to give Dr Hurt's latest Alps driver for Sierra. It support Alps touchpad V1 to V5. Audio control buttons returned to action in 10.12.1 beta3; can't say about Fn-Key. It's not something really used on the Dell laptops. I will try this Alps driver in a second, thanks! Well, semi-good news...Fn+Arrow-Keys basically works, fn+left/right turns volume up and down without an issue, also fn+up turns brightness up without a problem, but it ALSO turns volume down at the same time and fn+down just turns the brightness UP and therefore I can only raise the brightness Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
greybaron Posted October 15, 2016 Author Share Posted October 15, 2016 So, I tried about every Alps Driver from Dr Hurt, but after installing, the touchpad isn't even getting recognized anymore, nothing showing up in IORegistryExplorer. Also, alt and windows (command and option) keys are swapped on the keyboard. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
greybaron Posted October 16, 2016 Author Share Posted October 16, 2016 The ALT-Win key swap matter is easily fixed if you manually configure this through the Keyboard PrefPane. It's been known for years, nothing new here. That is also nothing new to me, but when doing that, Alt Gr is no longer defined as regular alt key and therefore Alt Gr+Spacebar no longer opens Spotlight which is rather annoying. Try and identify your exact version/model of Alps touchpad to be sure it's covered by the driver. Should be reported in syslog. I assume you talk about the system.log. I know where system.log is, but I don't know how to find my trackpad's model number in there? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
greybaron Posted October 17, 2016 Author Share Posted October 17, 2016 Then undo the Command-Option swap. I simply replaced it with the driver I have used before because this one didn't even work so why should I fix the keyboard. So you don't have a solution to the brightness keys problem in 10.12.1 Public Beta 4? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mnfesq Posted October 17, 2016 Share Posted October 17, 2016 When the first beta of macOS Sierra came out, RehabMan updated his VoodooPS2Controller.kext to resolve the KP his prior versions caused. Have you tried that one yet? Also, like others have said, keyboard mapping appears to be getting resolved in the beta versions of 10.12.1. Still, on my laptop, some of the function keys are not working as they previously did running El Capitan. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
virgosun Posted October 18, 2016 Share Posted October 18, 2016 How do I know my Alps version? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
virgosun Posted October 18, 2016 Share Posted October 18, 2016 Doesn't work. No trackpad, no mouse. Nothing. Have to revert back to origin voodoops2.kext Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
greybaron Posted October 22, 2016 Author Share Posted October 22, 2016 You can edit the Info.plist of Dr Hurt's driver and set Command-Option swap to true. Well, as I said earlier, it makes no sense to even bother doing this because my touchpad WON'T work at all using his drivers. I still don't know how to detect my Alps hardware version but at this point I start believing the touchpad is completely unsupported which is p***ing me off. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
greybaron Posted October 22, 2016 Author Share Posted October 22, 2016 When the first beta of macOS Sierra came out, RehabMan updated his VoodooPS2Controller.kext to resolve the KP his prior versions caused. Have you tried that one yet? I just tried it out and experience the same issue as always, touchpad works, but only left/right click, dragging and movement. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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