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Hey atmark, Your name looks familiar, what forum do I know you from? Anyway, welcome to the project! As for screen rotation it used to work on macs but it was taken out a long time ago. I imagine something can be written to take advantage of the sensors, for now you can use an app that manually rotates it, so yes its rotatable but you have to do it by hand instead of it being auto.  The cintiq mode im not sure about yet. I had it connected to my macbook while both were on OSX then I turned the cintiq off and my macbook turned black then displayed the screen as a secondary screen like the cintiq was using the primary desktop. Then when I turned the cintiq back on it said that the drive had been ejected from my macbook (Which was connected to the cintiq) meaning a lot of the cintiq mode is internally hardware dependent and we might be able to hack the driver or write something up. Hopefully! I went into windows this morning and stored all the device ids, I will dig around in the ioreg files of OSX later tomorrow, unfortunately now I have to sleep, then school then work. 

 

We PM'd here at this forum :) I'm the one who desperately tries to get the cc1 working...

Good to hear the regular cintiq function is at least theoretically possible.

mactabletman
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We PM'd here at this forum :) I'm the one who desperately tries to get the cc1 working...

Good to hear the regular cintiq function is at least theoretically possible.

oh yes, of course, thats right! 

 

Sorry about the file hosting you guys.

I believe I attached them correctly this time. Also I would like to know if anyone has a cintiq companion hybrid or has access to one?

Companion2packV2.zip

cintiq2.ioreg.zip

mactabletman
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hmm, no I just made sure the internals were all disabled safe boot was off and all that.  The bios werent as picky as i first thought, it was more a matter of having a fast enough usb drive.  here is the one im using, i thought it would be garbage when I first bought it, but its pretty much booted every time.  Is your drive 3.0?

http://www.amazon.com/Lexar-JumpDrive-Flash-LJDS73-16GASBNA-Purple/dp/B007B6YPNO/ref=sr_1_5?ie=UTF8&qid=1425568329&sr=8-5&keywords=lexar+usb+3.0

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Accelerometer is possibly on an i2c sensor hub, I will need you to do some DSDT modifications and then post your IOReg again before I can confirm that.

 

Follow the guide here: http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/299021-109-on-the-surface-pro-3/?p=2092610

 

This will enable many things which are being disabled by an operating systems check, including some devices. There is one block in your wake method which is dependent on the OSYS value being the latest version of windows which could be causing some hardware not to work on OS X:

            If (LGreaterEqual (OSYS, 0x07DD))
            {
                If (CondRefOf (\_SB.PCI0.EPON))
                {
                    \_SB.PCI0.EPON ()
                }
            }

All new generation tablets (Surface Pro 3, Dell Venue 11 Pro and it looks like the Cintiq Companion 2) will require this DSDT edits for proper functionality. It may not cause hardware to work now but when drivers start coming along, you will definitely want to have this patch enabled.

 

Please post your IOReg after you have patched the DSDT as specified in the post I linked.

 

I may be wrong but it looks like, according to your IOReg, you have not implemented power management. You should really do that.

 

I can't tell from your posts but does the Cintiq have USB 3.0? Either use GenericUSBXHCI.kext or patch the DSDT with the usb patch found on rehabman's laptop dsdt repo to enable AppleUSBXHCI.kext (recommended) in order to get USB 3.0 functionality in OS X.

mactabletman
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Thanks alex, yes it has usb 3.0 ( three ports ) that all works, the only thing not working on that side is the SD card slot.  I will implement those patches in a bit and reupload the DSDT.  I cant get sleep working, you have any idea why from what you can see?  the wake reason was "wake reason glan ehc2 xhc" in the console. Also once I get the accelerometer working I dont think its going to matter, as far as I know OSX doest have a kext or any system resources to deal with that info but I could be wrong.  Thanks for the info so far! I will post some updates in a bit. 

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mactabletman
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Hey you guys sorry I was away a few days, here is the pack https://mega.co.nz/#!A5Z3kTgb!D98Z5EmLrCCibJnnSi4EumOiMvZ0gkl4m7OtyEz_rmc

Also there should be a clone on my blog, here http://thinkinginteraflops.blogspot.com/2015/03/yosemite-cintiq-companion-2-install.html

 

I got sleep working but it wont wake, only to a black screen.  I tried to get the SD working but cant seem to, i believe its a realtek pci sd slot, also the volume rockers work once then stop working. If you guys make any progress let me know.  

As far as it working on the cintiq one, I tried that when I had it, and couldnt get the pen working.  But im curious to know if it works now as well since they have updated the drivers.  Go a head and try the install if you have time and let us know. 

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Unfortunately the newest Wacom drivers won't work with Companion 1. Been there, done that. I've looked into the driver and there's nothing that refers to the Companion 1. In my opinion the only way to get the pen work is to fake the USB product-id of the pen tablet to match the Cintiq 13HD. Although, you won't get exactly the same functionality as with the CC1, but it's better than nothing.

 

However, I don't know how to fake the id as the driver seems to "read" it directly from the hardware. Maybe someone knows...

 

@Piwi83: I wouldn't suggest you to install osx if you're working daily with it. Or at least, do it on an external drive.

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Thank you for re-uploading kexts and updating installation guide.

 

However I cannot make CC2 boot from USB key which is created by using OS X's createinstallmedia and Clover EFI Bootloader 2.3 r3193.

 

In Windows 8.1, there is "Advanced startup" option in Recovery section of PC settings.

After restarting by pressing the "restart" button, I selected "Use a device".

Choosing appropriate volume of USB key should make CC2 boot from that volume.

Unfortunately, CC2 goes to Windows immediately.

 

Even setting fixed boot order priorities as shown in picture, no luck. CC2 goes to Windows.

 

Changing USB key to the fastest one that I own does not change result.  :(

 

What would be missing do you think?

 

PS. Anyway could this post be the cause of black screen after sleep?

 

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Now I found the install guide says "remove boot options except first one and disable Hard Disk Drive BBS Priorities".

Also it mentions that the USB drive should be in the top port.

After doing both, CC2 boots into Clover.  :)

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Glad you figured out the boot issue, still learning all the ins and outs myself. :D  Thanks for the suggestion on the wake, unfortunately I couldnt find those entries in the DSDT so that isnt it.  We will figure it out.  Ive been searching like crazy. 

Rino
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I'm using a Wi-Fi dongle with Ralink chip inside to connect the Internet.

According to this article, iCloud authentication requires:

[1] NVram enabled

[2] Network adapter is set to en0 and it must be have an IP and its status is active

[3] Generate a serial number, a smUUID and a board serial number. They must be valid but not used by any real Macs

[4] Obtain ROM/MLB from a real Mac

 

I've done above procedure but CC2 cannot sign in with the error "This Apple ID is valid but is not an iCloud account" for iCloud.

Or "Your device or computer could not be verified. Contact support for assistance" for the App Store.

 

Are there anybody could get iCloud to work on CC2?

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midi-sama
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I'm using a Wi-Fi dongle with Ralink chip inside to connect the Internet.

According to this article, iCloud authentication requires:

[1] NVram enabled

[2] Network adapter is set to en0 and it must be have an IP and its status is active

[3] Generate a serial number, a smUUID and a board serial number. They must be valid but not used by any real Macs

[4] Obtain ROM/MLB from a real Mac

 

I've done above procedure but CC2 cannot sign in with the error "This Apple ID is valid but is not an iCloud account" for iCloud.

Or "Your device or computer could not be verified. Contact support for assistance" for the App Store.

 

Are there anybody could get iCloud to work on CC2?

Lol dude, those requirements are pure idiocy! Believe me, I have en1 (wifi) and en5 (ethernet) and everything is working.

For AppStore, what you need:

ANY NETWORK DEVICE WITH "built-in" FLAG ON IT. how? Either a compatible wifi card, or a compatible ethernet card, since you have none, you need to check NullEthernet.kext from rehabmab https://github.com/RehabMan/OS-X-Null-Ethernet . This will fake a Ethernet device as built in, and you will get appstore AND icloud.

However for iMessage/Facetime: you need an MLB and a ROM from a real Mac, it is dangerous for you and the Mac owner, if it's yours then it's ok, OOOORRRR generate a logical combination of MLB and ROM (check MLB Pathern in Tutorials section) and call Apple for activation.

About Nvram, use AptioDrvFix2 driver for clover (comes with clover installer, just check it's there), this will unlock the built in Nvram chip and let OS X use it.

That's all :)

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mactabletman
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Awesome work you guys! Rino, how do you find the power states on the CC2? Mine seems to idle quiet but when I use zbrush or photoshop it revs up a lot and says the battery is dying fast.  I feel like the power isnt being handle the best, maybe it jumps from 8 to 24 and doesnt have any more efficiency levels in between? When I check the C states I think it said there were four, somethink like 8-21-24-29.  Let me know how yours is working out.  Going to work on it when I have time today. 

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Having the issue installing on a CC2 256GB i7. I have gone into windows and shrunk the C drive, formatted the new partition it to NTFS (default) and then booted from USB. Boots into clover and into disk utility to reformat the new partition and the try "reinstall operating system..". I get an error message that this is not an acceptable way of installing the operating system and to use a Mac recovery disk.

 

Any Ideas?

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