macOS Ventura on Dell XPS 17 L702x Optimus

[mackyreddy]

Intel HD 3000 Graphics Acceleration has been enabled by Open Core Legacy Patcher team but with lots of menu bar & settings app glitches. Lets wait for a stable release, as this one is a nightly release.

 

[mackyreddy]

All done updated first post with a new installation guide along with all files required for smooth running of macOS Ventura.

 

cheers have a great day

[Panos12]

On 1/26/2023 at 1:30 PM, mackyreddy said:

All done updated first post with a new installation guide along with all files required for smooth running of macOS Ventura.

 

cheers have a great day

I have dell 702x 3d and i cannot enable hd3000. I make the installation fine but it only recognize the nvidia gt 555m.

Is there any solution to enable hd3000.

Thanks in advance

[mackyreddy]

On 3/6/2023 at 12:08 PM, Panos12 said:

I have dell 702x 3d and i cannot enable hd3000. I make the installation fine but it only recognize the nvidia gt 555m.

Is there any solution to enable hd3000.

Thanks in advance

 

xps l702x 3d has only nvidia gt 555m, it doesnt has intel hd 3000.

 

better follow the thread related to your laptop in ton*mac*86

[01tt0ly]

Hi, @mackyreddy,

 

thanks for all the work.

 

Mine screen is 1600x900,I just tried your latest 0.9.1 version.

 

added the driver BiosVideo,efi and changed UEFI-output to max and leave blank in the field of resolution.

 

Now boots up the USB normally,but after choosing Install, after some verbose lines( I turen it on),then it reboots.

the last one is like the

CPU i7-2630QM,1600x900.Captain Kasar's unlocked bios, SATA-AHCI, UEFI boot enable,legacy boot disabled,pre-allocate-DVMT-128MB,

what other critical settings? Shall I flash a more customized bios like this one? 

 

Need your help,thanks.

Edited April 25, 2023 by 01tt0ly

[Allen Cai]

On 3/5/2023 at 10:38 PM, Panos12 said:

I have dell 702x 3d and i cannot enable hd3000. I make the installation fine but it only recognize the nvidia gt 555m.

Is there any solution to enable hd3000.

Thanks in advance

Hi there,

I came across your post from 2023 about the Dell XPS 17 L702X 3D — interesting to see someone else working on the same rare 3D variant!

I wanted to follow up because I've recently picked up my own L702X 3D again after it sat in storage for years.

 

Back then I was running macOS 10.9 Mavericks + Clover, and I'm now in the process of upgrading it all the way to macOS Ventura 13.7.8 + OpenCore.

The machine is going to be a programming learning laptop for my son, so I need reasonably modern app support — that's why I'm skipping the entire 10.x line and pushing straight to Ventura.

 

I actually have some positive progress to share since I last checked: on Ventura 13.7.8,

I've managed to get the display running at 1600×900 resolution, up from the default 800×600 @ 1MB VRAM right after installation.

It's now showing 5MB VRAM with basic framebuffer output — no acceleration of course (Fermi has zero Metal/QE-CI on Ventura), but the desktop is usable for coding, SSH, and light tasks.

 

I read that you couldn't enable the Intel HD 3000 on your 3D unit,

which matches what I understand about the hardware — the 3D variant has the display hard-wired directly to the GT 555M with no Optimus,

so the iGPU is disabled at the BIOS/mux level. That part hasn't changed.

 

Since you were working on this in 2023, I'd love to compare notes.

Could you please clarify a few things when you have a moment?

1. GT 555M status on Ventura: Were you able to get the GT 555M recognized with the correct VRAM size (e.g. 3 GB), or was it stuck at a small value like 5 MB / 256 MB with no acceleration?

2. Which Ventura build?: Which exact macOS Ventura version were you running back then? (e.g. 13.4, 13.5, or something else?)

3. EFI & ACPI sharing: If you still have it, would you be willing to share your EFI folder and any ACPI patches (DSDT/SSDT) you used? Even if HD 3000 couldn't be enabled, your GT 555M configuration from 2023 might give me useful pointers for my current OpenCore setup.

 

Thanks in advance for any info you can share — and good luck with whatever you're running on your L702X these days!

Edited 1 hour ago by Allen Cai