README.md

Acer A515 51G 51D3 Hackintosh

What's Working...

• Audio & headphone jack
• CPU Speedstep (XCPM)
• iGPU with disabled dGPU
• Fully Functional QE/CI Enabled Graphics
• Battery Management
• Ethernet
• HDMI + Audio
• Smart Touchpad + Gestures (using I2C)
• WebCam
• Usb 3.0 + Type C
• WiFi
• Native hotkey support with Fn keys
• Sleep + Wake
• Brightness + Brightness Keys

What's not Working

• Probably AirDrop and Handoff since the Intel card are not fully compatible with macOS

Installation

Basic Installation

• Create a Bootable USB for MacOS by using USB Installation Guide
• Copy ALL the Contains of this Repo inside the EFI partition of USB

Post Installation

• Copy ALL the Contains of this Repo inside the EFI partition of Hard Drive where you installed the OS
• In case of black screen make sure to set ProvideConsoleGop to false

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Laptop configuration

• Audio : The Sound Card is Realtek ALC255, which is driven by AppleALC on layout-id 30. It supported using AppleALC.kext

• CPU : The CPU model is i5-8250U and XCPM power management is natively supported.

• Graphics : The iGPU is Intel UHD Graphics 620, and its enabled using Ig-Platform-id=0x191E0000.

• Battery : Battery Management using SMCBatteryManager.kext.

• Touchpad : Elan Touchpad. Supported using VoodooI2C.kext + VoodooI2CHID.kext

• Keyboard : PS2. Supported using VoodooPS2Controller.kext

• USBs : Custom generated. Supported using USBToolBox.kext + UTBMap.kext

• Ethernet : Gigabit Ethernet using RealtekRTL8111.kext.

• HDMI : Working using WhateverGreen.kext.

• Wi-Fi : Stock WiFi Card is Intel Wireless AC 3168. It supported using AirportItlwm.kext

• Bluetooth : Stock Intel Wireless AC 3168. Supported using IntelBluetoothFirmware.kext + IntelBTPatcher.kext + BlueToolFixup.kext

Credits

• Special Thanks to gabrielcasag from where I've forked it.