Asus G73SW Mavericks Install with Clover - Ironing out kinks

[bob2001]

I am trying to get it working on Mavericks to start, when I get this working I will move to Yosemite. I already have a partition set aside for this.

The battery meter and the wifi work fine. I will have a look at the AppleHDAALC269... I cannot remember if I transferred it on an NTFS key drive... where is the symbolic link, and where does it point to? I can always download your zip again and reinstall. I'll report back in a bit. Thanks for the help so far.

[oldnapalm]

Symlink is AppleHDAALC269.kext/Contents/MacOS/AppleHDA and points to /System/Library/Extensions/AppleHDA.kext/Contents/MacOS/AppleHDA.

If you extracted on NTFS it was probably lost.

[bob2001]

Yes you are right, it was lost. I have replaced it but no audio... I am going to try rebooting in a sec after deleting caches.

Btw, my backlit keys have started working.... I am very pleased.

I did a quick Geekbench score in 64-bit... it took 2 mins 13 seconds, does this look similar to what you get?

EDIT: Still no sound... I refuse to fall at the last hurdle Could our dev ID's be different? Or is there something else here that I am missing?

[oldnapalm]

Try with this kext

http://Olarila.com/files/10.9/Audio/AppleHDA_10.9.4/Laptop/AppleHDA-2.6.3f4-ALC269-AsusG73S.zip

BTW I got audio working on 10.10 beta with AppleHDAALC269 (thanks Pike)

AppleHDAALC269.kext-Yosemite.zip

 

My test results on 10.10

[bob2001]

Nice, looks like a slight multicore increase to look forward to. I replaced the AppleHDA.kext with the one you linked to, but still no luck I didn't make any DSDT edits that were suggested because I thought you would have already done those? Plus whenever I try to edit a DSDT it fails to compile :-/ Do I need to remove the AppleHDAALC269.kext when using this AppleHDA? I had a thought... I replaced the wifi card with a better one some time back that is actually from a MBP.. Do you think this may be causing a conflict? I know it's not likely but thought I would ask. It's this:

Atheros AR5008X Wireless Network Adapter

PCI\VEN_168C&DEV_0024&SUBSYS_0087106B&REV_01

It's not a perfect fit because it's not half height, but it has MUCH better performance than the one that comes with the G73SW because it can use the 5GHz band. I tend to grab content on my hack first and sort it, then send it off to my NAS.

[oldnapalm]

Yes, my DSDT has the needed patch for audio.

Did you turn the laptop off and on again?

AppleHDAALC269 should not make difference when using the patched kext, but try removing it.

I don't think it has relation with the wireless card, but you should remove the AR9285 patch from DSDT

DSDT.aml.zip

 

My Mavericks results

[bob2001]

Hrm... frustrating... I have replaced the DSDT but still no audio... Yes, I shut down completely. I even removed the battery and power cable for 10 seconds. I also tried removing the AppleHDAAL kext. No change. I will boot into Windows and use AIDA64 to get dev ID's to compare.

EDIT: Odd.... it seems to be detected...

But no sound....

[bob2001]

I've had a look at some logs and config files....

Here is the boot log: http://pastebin.com/fDQi8Z92

Here is the install log (after reinstalling this morning): http://pastebin.com/JJR7FwSA

Here are some screenshots of the clover configurator after mounting EFI partition:

http://imgur.com/u3v3VDq

http://imgur.com/zzcJ35q

http://imgur.com/4zvtrJm

http://imgur.com/hvpeapZ

http://imgur.com/V87JcnH

http://imgur.com/IWq2fRs

http://imgur.com/Hmx0fQd

http://imgur.com/I9NoZHU

http://imgur.com/N2T5jMD

http://imgur.com/vIbD5xf

http://imgur.com/yAqvCYE

To me, the clover configurator looks distinctly devoid of any settings.... also, there is a line in the boot log at the end... "19:392 0:000 FSInjection: skipping kext injection (not requested)"

How does this compare to yours? I do not think Clover is picking up my config settings properly, hence the issues with audio.

[oldnapalm]

Looks like config.plist is being loaded

16:272  0:000  Injected EFIString of length 2145
16:272  0:000  KextToPatch 0: AppleHDA Kext bin patch, data len: 4
16:272  0:000  KextToPatch 1: AppleHDA Kext bin patch, data len: 4
16:272  0:000  KextToPatch 2: AppleHDA Kext bin patch, data len: 4

 

I never used Clover Configurator.

Try copying my config.plist, edit the theme setting using a text editor and do not use Clover Configurator, maybe it's doing something it shouldn't.

I see no difference other than that and the fact that I'm still on Clover v2703 (should not be a problem).

Search your system log for AppleHDA, you should see messages like this, it's normal

kernel[0]: Sound assertion in AppleHDAEngine at line 578

 

Also check if AppleHDA is being loaded

kextstat | grep AppleHDA

[bob2001]

That's what I have done.. I just opened the configurator to see if it picked up the settings.

Maybe I have installed Clover incorrectly.

Once I installed Mavericks, I booted to desktop and ran the Clover installer using these options:

Then I copied your kexts to S/L/E, replaced the config.plist, added the DSDT.aml, added the HFSPlus-64.efi and deleted the Vbox, added Shell64U.efi to tools and added the MBP plist. I also patched the graphics control to prevent black screen. I am not sure what else I have done wrong? One thing I would note... When the EFI chains to clover, I get the flashing '|' in the top right, but I have to press enter to load clover. Then there are two options... The Mavericks partition and another .. something like UEFI from hard drive... Have I installed clover incorrectly?

EDIT:

Kextstat output..

 

   82    1 0xffffff7f82168000 0x1a000    0x1a000    com.apple.driver.AppleHDAController (2.6.3f4) <81 76 11 7 6 5 4 3 1>
 109    0 0xffffff7f822d0000 0x94000    0x94000    com.apple.driver.AppleHDA (2.6.3f4) <108 106 91 82 81 76 6 5 4 3 1>
 110    0 0xffffff7f82164000 0x2000     0x2000     com.apple.driver.AppleHDAHardwareConfigDriver (2.6.3f4) <4 3>

 

I see this in the log:

Is it the same?

[oldnapalm]

All looks fine.

The need to press enter, maybe it's because you didn't install a theme (my config sets BGM).

Maybe our codecs are different. Try making a dump from Linux using commands from this topic

http://Olarila.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=28&t=2676

Here's mine

card0-codec#0.txt.zip

[bob2001]

I don't understand this...

Here's mine: codec-dump.txt.zip

 

Your MD5: 9e68d5d638b1fbfdb3ec462bc50b149d

My MD5: 9e68d5d638b1fbfdb3ec462bc50b149d

WTF is going on lol.

[oldnapalm]

Codecs are exactly the same.

Run this app and attach the resulting file, I'll take a look if there's something wrong

http://Olarila.com/apps/RunMe.zip

[bob2001]

Thanks. Here it is: https://mega.co.nz/#!xAQQlJ5J!Y8GhXXwXPp9Z8seu9IGJkAmX41nmOLDqiCodPLFdqH4

[oldnapalm]

Try using my EFI folder

https://www.sendspace.com/file/l91m33

If it still does not work, the problem should not be in the boot loader.

Edit: I forgot one detail, I updated the EAPDFix kext. I think it's not the problem, but just in case...

EAPDFix.kext.zip

[bob2001]

*sigh* nothing.

1. I can only assume at this point that there is a bug in the version of clover I am using... or

2. I have still installed clover incorrectly... I have set the theme and I still get a pause.

How did you add the boot entry?

I did this:

BOOT > Add New Boot Option >

name: clover

drive: (only one available)

path: \efi\boot\bootx64.efi

Is this how you did it?

Also I read somewhere that for Aptio you need to rename cloverx64.efi in the Clover folder to bootx64.efi and put it in boot, replacing the one that is there. Did you do this?

Could you upload your clover version installer to sendspace please

[oldnapalm]

I uploaded my Clover version in previous post. I don't have the installer anymore. Just copy the EFI folder to your EFI partition.

To add the boot option I did as described in this topic

http://Olarila.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=28&t=3405

[bob2001]

That's what I did to add my boot option... Then I have no idea what has happened. There's always VoodooHDA I guess. :-/

[oldnapalm]

Did you test with my EFI folder?

If you use EFI/BOOT you have to copy EFI/CLOVER/CLOVERX64.efi to EFI/BOOT/BOOTX64.efi

[bob2001]

Ok, I've just been playing around with things here... I have tried with your EFI folder and with mine. Can't boot with just yours because I need to use the /EFI/BOOT folder... I have used clover to add the UEFI option as that guide suggests just to make sure and there is no change. I must be booting in EFI though, because I have not installed Clover to MBR.

One thing I just wanted to check... when you tap the escape key to bring up the boot options menu, do you have "UEFI:" prefixed on your HDD just like when booting from the Olarila USB drive? I don't...

You can see the that USB drive has the UEFI option, but not the HDD, could this be the issue?

I have formatted the EFI partition and tried again, but I do not seem to be able to get the system to boot just using /EFI/CLOVER.. I need to have the /EFI/BOOT in order to chain Clover.

Am I doing something really wrong here?