JahStories Posted September 17, 2014 Author Share Posted September 17, 2014 hi thoimis, i've mailed Dave recently, i always knew that the volume buttons were part of the pen digitizer, but TouchBase seems to don't care about it, pointing to some useless suggestions on "how to install VoodooHDA to prevent this situation" while we are not even using voodoo anymore. I personally like the TouchBase driver, and Dave was always helpful, but these issue alongside, the new version's one (pen do not work on yosemite with 5.X tb driver) are extremely unpleasant. i hope they find a fix soon... 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Svenator Posted September 17, 2014 Share Posted September 17, 2014 Hey guys n gals, Long time listener, first time caller. I have a pretty sweet setup going on, working perfectly on 10.9.0 with the touch-base drivers. One thing that bothers me is the fact that the volume buttons no longer work. I know this has been an accepted 'limitation', but I may have stumbled upon something that will help... If you use the surface pro pen in proximity mode and hover it over the screen (without actually tapping it), and push the volume down button on the side of the surface pro, the right click context menu comes up. To me this means that the driver for the touch base pen is also taking control of the volume buttons, thinking it is part of the pen. I have read a great deal of the forum, and haven't come across this yet. Is this known, or something we can all talk to Dave about? TL; DR: volume down button acts as pen "right click" button when pen is in proximity. Cheers, Thoimis Funny Jah, .... He's right, you know whats even funnier .... using it as a tablet on its own... i cant use the volume buttons.. Using the volume down with the pen hovering over it like Thoimis suggested. Gives you the right click menu. Attaching my power cover to my tablet however. Makes it use the volume buttons in the propper way .... volume up works for volume up and volume down works for volume down Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edude03 Posted September 18, 2014 Share Posted September 18, 2014 I have a surface pro 1 (HD4000, i5, 64GB SSD) that I'm trying this guide on. I got up to installing Mavericks on the SSD (doing the full disk install) but my SP reboots during the installation (back to Clover). Any ideas what causes this? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
modacular Posted September 19, 2014 Share Posted September 19, 2014 Any brave souls to install 10.9.5? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cfb44 Posted September 20, 2014 Share Posted September 20, 2014 Any brave souls to install 10.9.5? (Surface Pro 2 64GB) Just installed 10.9.5 via Software Update. Reinstalled AppleHDA, repaired permissions, and everything works as expected 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shadx7 Posted September 20, 2014 Share Posted September 20, 2014 how to the updated 10.9.5 ? for me does not work , I copy mach_kernel I hang at boot Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JahStories Posted September 20, 2014 Author Share Posted September 20, 2014 @shadx7 update your signature please. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shadx7 Posted September 20, 2014 Share Posted September 20, 2014 I'm sorry I forgot ,surface pro 2 10.9.4 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
munakib Posted September 21, 2014 Share Posted September 21, 2014 I am still on 10.9.2 with my SP2, I am not sure how you guys are on 10.9.4 with the graphical glitches (especially the menubar)...is there a solution for that? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cfb44 Posted September 22, 2014 Share Posted September 22, 2014 I only get graphical glitches when SwitchResX boots to HIDPI mode. So as long as I switch to a normal resolution before shutting down, I am fine. Then after booting, I switch back to HIDPI mode... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mac33 Posted September 22, 2014 Share Posted September 22, 2014 First, thanks to everyone involved in this project. Does anyone have a working battery status on the SP2? I have tried the method listed in the guides (for sp1 I think) but was not successful. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cfb44 Posted September 23, 2014 Share Posted September 23, 2014 Battery status working fine on my SP2. Installed using the SP2 guide... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StefanoMacOSX Posted September 23, 2014 Share Posted September 23, 2014 Have you tried 10.9.5 on Surface Pro 2? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mac33 Posted September 23, 2014 Share Posted September 23, 2014 Battery status working fine on my SP2. Installed using the SP2 guide... I tried the guide for sp2 first. Are you using the exact files from the pack? Are you using a newer ACPIBatteryManager? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cfb44 Posted September 23, 2014 Share Posted September 23, 2014 I have used only the files from the pack. battery works on both versions of my installs (two different micros cards) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StefanoMacOSX Posted September 24, 2014 Share Posted September 24, 2014 Have you tried 10.9.5 on Surface Pro 2? I had try the combo update 10.9.5 but crash the startup system! Don't update to 10.9.5! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mac33 Posted September 24, 2014 Share Posted September 24, 2014 I had try the combo update 10.9.5 but crash the startup system! Don't update to 10.9.5! Are you using VoodooHDA? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
modacular Posted September 24, 2014 Share Posted September 24, 2014 Just updated to 10.9.5 and managed to make my system work just as before. Initially I had audio and bluetooth issues.I think it's high time I learnt how (and why) to patch DSDTs. Can any experienced user point me to the right direction? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JahStories Posted September 24, 2014 Author Share Posted September 24, 2014 Feel free to use the dsdt section if you need help or want to know something in particular 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gkarg Posted September 24, 2014 Share Posted September 24, 2014 Here is a new version. The sources are in the tarball, the kext is in the .zip file. Please delete the old one (/System/Library/Extensions/Avastar.kext) before upgrading! I've cleaned up the kext, removed the "gibberish" and separated it from the Wlan stuff which may have caused issues. So now the kext is named "AvastarFwLoader.kext". Additionally, the kext should now automatically unload itself once the firmware is uploaded. License is GPLv2 except for Marvell's firmware, which is proprietary but freely redistributable. On the Wlan side... well, the source tar ball now contains a partially reverse engineered IO80211Controller.h header that is compatible with Mavericks, which is a first step.... I now think that porting the Avastar driver from Linux should be easier than e.g. the Intel Wi-Fi driver, because the Avastar driver doesn't call into the Linux 802.11 stack or anything like that. Still, it's probably a month's work just to get scanning working, and a year or so for a driver that can actually connect to anything. So I'm stopping there, I just don't have that much time. HiI'm trying to get this bluetooth kext to work on Surface Pro 3. I have two questions: 1. What is the best way to get the correct product id for the bluetooth device ? Currently I'm getting different product ids - 8267 (Windows) 8260 (found on Internet) ? 2. For the Surface Pro 2 users - i have a question: is the bluetooth device listened In the System Profiler usb device tree also if the .kext is not loaded or only when a matching kext is loaded ? I'm just not sure, why OS X is not trying to load my kext - so ether my product id is wrong or it is a usb problem (since not shown bei System Profiler) Many Thanks gkarg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JahStories Posted September 24, 2014 Author Share Posted September 24, 2014 jape's kext is not working cause the surface pro 3 have a completely different bt chipset you guys need a totally new driver... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gkarg Posted September 25, 2014 Share Posted September 25, 2014 jape's kext is not working cause the surface pro 3 have a completely different bt chipset you guys need a totally new driver...Hi Yes, i know it is a different chipset. Therefore I have already replaced the firmware binary in fw.c with the correct one. As far as i understood the driver is just loading the firmware to activate the bleutooth device - so no chipset specific functonality - the firmware is doing the logic. But more interesting for me is the question, if somebody if the Surface Pro 2 users could check, if the Surface Pro 2 is showing the bluetooth device with vendor / product id In the System Profiler usb device tree, if the avastar firmware .kext is not active ? Many thanks Gkarg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StefanoMacOSX Posted September 25, 2014 Share Posted September 25, 2014 Are you using VoodooHDA? No, I don't use it! I use only AppleHDA working for SP2! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mirone Posted September 26, 2014 Share Posted September 26, 2014 I wonder if the sound is working, as expected. please let me know. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aardvark23 Posted September 26, 2014 Share Posted September 26, 2014 I am still on 10.9.2 with my SP2, I am not sure how you guys are on 10.9.4 with the graphical glitches (especially the menubar)...is there a solution for that? @Munakib, The solution for me was to go into System Preferences -> Displays -> Color and check the box "Show profiles for this display only", then select sRGB IE61966-2.1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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