hahutzy Posted March 17, 2015 Share Posted March 17, 2015 Just quick notes for now, will expand to a comprehensive guide later 1. Format harddrive to MBR 2. Use Yosemite Zone by niresh, default settings except SMBIOS is MacbookPro 8,1 3. BIOS: fastboot off, secureboot off, launchCSM ON 4. Boot from USB by spamming Esc on boot 5. Let it install and end in a Undefined Error:0 and then click Restart 6. Spam Esc and boot back onto USB, select the new installed OSX and boot with flag -v -x GraphicsEnabler=No 7. Let all the Yosemite Zone automated updates finish (say yes to Appstore fix and remove the network interfaces) 8. Download the dsdt.aml below, put it into Extra folder 9. Open Chameleon Wizard, change SMBIOS to premade 9,2 10. If this is single-boot OSX, go to Chameleon Wizard's Boot setting, check the Timeout option, slide it all the way to the left for "Quiet Boot" 11. Reboot from localdisk, no boot flags. 12. Open appstore and update all the Software Updates (and XCode if you use it) 13. Navigate to SLE, delete all kexts that start with AMD and ATI 14. Download the Drivers below, open Kext Wizard, install all the kexts (Fn keys not working yet figuring out why) 15. Go back to Kext Wizard, maintenance -> repair and rebuild SLE 16. Reboot from localdisk, no boot flags. Done. EDIT: Interestingly and annoyingly, Fn+pause break is Brightness+, and Fn+delete is Brightness- dsdt.aml.zip Drivers.zip Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Allan Posted March 17, 2015 Share Posted March 17, 2015 Nice, thanks for share this with us, I'm sure that will be useful to many members. One tip: Post the hardware specs of your Laptop, and include some pics will be better! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WaldMeister Posted March 27, 2015 Share Posted March 27, 2015 Instead of deleting the ati kexts, you could disable the card in dsdt. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Allan Posted March 28, 2015 Share Posted March 28, 2015 EDIT: Interestingly and annoyingly, Fn+pause break is Brightness+, and Fn+delete is Brightness- Hey Bro, look this: GUIDE: How to Fix Brightness hotkeys in DSDT Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
etienneS Posted March 29, 2015 Share Posted March 29, 2015 (edited) Hi, I'm glad that you have posted these notes. :-) I've bought a second-hand G46VW and I will receive it soon. I'll let you know what is and isn't working after the install. Here are the specifications of my version : Full name : Asus ROG G46VW-W3064H CPU : Intel Core i7-3630QM (2,40 GHz up to 3.4 GHz) Chipset : Intel HM77 GPU 1 : Intel HD 4000 GPU 2 : NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660M (2048 Mb) (working with Optimus technology) ( ) RAM : 4 GB up to 16 GB (DDR3) Storage : HD 750 GB, 1 place for a mSATA SSD available Connections : Microphone input, Headphone/SPDIF combo jack, 3 x USB 3.0, HDMI, Mini DisplayPort, VGA, SD card reader Networking : Ethernet : Qualcomm Atheros AR8151 PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet Controller (NDIS 6.30) Wi-Fi 802.11n : Qualcomm Atheros AR9485WB-EG Wireless Network Adapter Bluetooth 4.0 : RFCOMM Protocol TDI OS : WINDOWS 8.1 Screen size : 14", res. 1366 X 768 Edited April 1, 2015 by etienneS 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Allan Posted March 29, 2015 Share Posted March 29, 2015 Your hardware is very good. Just GTX 660M don't work. Post what is your WiFi and Bluetooth controller too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
etienneS Posted April 1, 2015 Share Posted April 1, 2015 Yes it's a good computer, I received it today. I think it's a good ratio with price/finish/performances. I've done some research for the 660m, and I don't expect it to work but I'm puzzled with the tiny differences between the mac edition and the pc edition : http://www.techpowerup.com/gpudb/2318/geforce-gtx-660m-mac-edition.html http://www.techpowerup.com/gpudb/345/geforce-gtx-660m.html But I won't need the 660m for Yosemite. The only thing is that I've read somewhere that the HDMI port is controlled by the 660m, it will be clarified soon. Anyway, I'm going to order a SSD (msata) and I'll let you know just after that. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
etienneS Posted September 10, 2015 Share Posted September 10, 2015 Well, well, well, hello eveyone ! It's been a long time I didn't give a reply because I was sort of busy, but I've made it working (with the help of your great forum and more generally the entire Internet) and seems almost stable for 4 months now ! So I'm dual booting on the SSD with Yosemite and W10, using clover. I had to change the Wi-Fi card because it wasn't compatible. I've also upgraded with 16gb of RAM. Previously I said "almost stable" because there are just some minor things which are not working properly, like VGA out which works in the clover menu but gives some artifacts and weird lines in the OS. I haven't tested the HDMI and DP yet. CPU power management is working fine with the ssdtPRGen script. But I can't choose the base frequency which could be nice in addition to the kext which disables TurboBoost on the battery (in order to gain some battery time of course). Anyway, I'll post a complete message next week about what is working, not working, and I'll post the files, maybe some picture too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Allan Posted September 11, 2015 Share Posted September 11, 2015 For battery you can use this kext: DisableTurboBoostBattery Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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