Nostalgic trip - Acer Aspire 4930G (macOS Mojave/Legacy)

[onemanosx]

What started as a personal joke, came to reality! An ancient laptop running OSX!

Special shout out to [ref]MaLd0n[/ref] for the first round of DSDT patches!

This nostalgic laptop was my first when I bought it about a decade ago and reviving the faithful gave me that bit of a nice good feeling. Of course, its barely capable of doing modern duties. But for some light office work, web browsing and watching youtube content, it is still able to do so.

What works:

1. Native Graphics – GeForce 9300M GS

2. ALC888 sound – Speaker, headphones, built-in microphone (digital out and line-in not tested although detected)

3. JMicron SD card reader

4. Brightness slider and hotkeys control

5. Battery status

6. Stock Bluetooth module

7. HDMI video out

8. Night shift

What doesn’t work:

1. Stock Intel wifi

2. Trackpad gestures (works as a normal mousepad)

3. HDMI audio

How – to

*Note: all kexts mentioned below are installed in clover/kexts/other folder

 

• Graphics[/b]
  
  a. Whatevergreen.kext
  
  b. Lilu.kext

• Sound[/b]
  
  a. AppleALC.kext
  
  b. Lilu.kext
  
  c. Layout id=27

• JMicron card reader[/b]
  
  a. Use attached kext here

Archive.zip

• Brightness hotkeys[/b] -

https://Olarila.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=28&t=8396

• HDMI video out[/b]
  
  a. Inject NVCAP values below into clover

 

"NVCAP",
Buffer ()
{
/* 0000 */ 0x04, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x01, 0x00,
/* 0008 */ 0x06, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x07,
/* 0010 */ 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00
}

 

But how did I get these values? (Credits to Hervé at Insanelymac.com)

 

• Boot a Sierra USB installer with:
  
  a. Lilu + WEG injected by Clover
  
  b. Connect HDMI output to a monitor
  
  c. At the Sierra main installation screen, open up Terminal and type: ioreg -l
  
  d. Look up the NVCAP value by using the search function
  
  e. You may also save the terminal output as a .txt file unto the USB installer and use the info later

 

 

• Power Management[/b]
  
  -

https://github.com/acidanthera/CPUFriend/blob/master/Instructions.md

- https://Olarila.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=28&t=8268

 

This, to me is the most interesting part. What I did was to use CPUFriend kext and Pike’s PM generated ssdt.

I figured, since I am using an SMBIOS not meant for my specific CPU (I use smbios macbookpro7,1 instead of macbook5,1) I needed CPUFriend to override Apple’s ACPI_SMC_PlatformPlugin and use my generated ssdt for my CPU make instead.

But why do I choose macbookpro7,1? Because all USB ports on this laptop are supported in MBP7,1 but not MB5,1.

Exception:

Native Power for Core 2 Duo does not load X86PlatformPlugin hence, do not use plugin-type=1 either in clover or SSDT.

More info on how I created my SSDT in post 2, below.

 

• AppleGraphicsPowerManagement (AGPM) for nVidia[/b]
  
  - A gem not to be missed from this old post
  
  

https://Olarila.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=28&t=1839

- Attached is the modded kext I use for my laptop Archive.zip

 

Battery Status - https://github.com/RehabMan/OS-X-ACPI-Battery-Driver[/color]

Or SMCBatteryManager if you use VirtualSMC instead of FakeSMC

- https://github.com/acidanthera/VirtualSMC/releases

 

• Nighshift mode [/b]
  
  - The challenging way

https://pikeralpha.wordpress.com/2017/01/30/4398/

- The quick easy way https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/323844-nightshiftunlocker-dynamically-unlock-night-shift-for-all-macs/

 

This laptop was also tested to run High Sierra and the current Mojave 10.14.3 (google for Mojave installer by DosDude1).

Edited February 18, 2019 by Guest

[onemanosx]

Generate SSDT for Core 2 Duo using Pike's PM script

1. Download SSDTGenerator folder SSDTGenerator.zip

2. Extract folder to desktop

3. Open Terminal

4. Type

cd Desktop

Press enter

5. Type

cd SSDTGenerator

Press enter

6. Drag the file called ssdtPRGen.sh into Terminal

7. Add CPU base clock frequency and TDP value

My CPU is P7350 with base clock of 2Ghz and TDP value of 25W

More info here https://ark.intel.com/products/36750/Intel-Core-2-Duo-Processor-P7350-3M-Cache-2-00-GHz-1066-MHz-FSB-

So my Terminal will look like this

 

onemanosxs-MBP:SSDTGenerator onemanosx$ /Users/onemanosx/Desktop/SSDTGenerator/ssdtPRGen.sh 2000 25

 

Press Enter

8. Terminal will ask a question if you want to continue, just enter Y

9. Terminal will prompt for password

10. SSDT.dsl will be created inside SSDTGenerator folder

Follow the next steps from this link to create CPUfriend ssdt-data.dsl https://Olarila.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=28&t=8268

11. This is how my final ssdt looks like. Note that I had disabled plugin-type=1 for core 2 duo support.

 

DefinitionBlock ("ssdt.aml", "SSDT", 1, "APPLE ", "CpuPm", 0x00010500)
{
   External (\_SB.CPU0, DeviceObj)
   External (\_SB.CPU1, DeviceObj)

   Scope (\_SB.CPU0)
   {
       Name (APLF, Zero)
       Name (APSN, Zero)
       Name (APSS, Package (0x05)
       {
           Package (0x06) { 0x07D0, 0x0061A8, 0x0A, 0x0A, 0x1400, 0x1400 },
           Package (0x06) { 0x076C, 0x005B77, 0x0A, 0x0A, 0x1300, 0x1300 },
           Package (0x06) { 0x0708, 0x005566, 0x0A, 0x0A, 0x1200, 0x1200 },
           Package (0x06) { 0x06A4, 0x004F75, 0x0A, 0x0A, 0x1100, 0x1100 },
           /* Low Frequency Mode */
           Package (0x06) { 0x0640, 0x0049A1, 0x0A, 0x0A, 0x1000, 0x1000 }
       })

       Method (_DSM, 4, NotSerialized)
			{
					If (LEqual (Arg2, Zero))
					{
							Return (Buffer (One)
							{
									 0x03                                           
							})
					}

					Return (Package ()
					{
							//
							// Inject plugin-type = 0x01 to load X86*.kext
							//
							//"plugin-type", 
							//One, 

							//
							// Power management data file to replace.
							//
							"cf-frequency-data", 
							Buffer ()
							{
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					})
			}        
   }
}

 

[erroruser]

[MaLd0n]

[onemanosx]

I guess someone will find this useful. Or maybe not!

A working USB injector kext for ICH9 chipset. USBInjectAll works well for its all rounded purpose. But having a specific kext that calls the correct drivers is better I think.

Read here on how you can make your own custom usb kext https://www.hackintosh-forum.de/forum/thread/33300-kext-as-kext-can-oder-usb-3-0-ohne-usbinjectall/

 

ICH9-USB.kext.zip

[ajiboot]

how to set up clover in bios legacy sir ?

[onemanosx]

how to set up clover in bios legacy sir ?

Watch this video tutorial to set up clover

[ajiboot]

I mean setting at instal sir hehe

[onemanosx]

[ref]ajiboot[/ref], If you meant how to install clover in legacy, then the video shows you how to do it. The video shows the settings required for legacy boot.