- #Acer monitor drivers mac os x driver#
- #Acer monitor drivers mac os x Patch#
- #Acer monitor drivers mac os x pro#
- #Acer monitor drivers mac os x password#
- #Acer monitor drivers mac os x Pc#
I know this will probably mean trying to reverse engineer whatever protocol they're using for the touch events (is it possible this will be entirely custom?).
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I know at some level I need to read data from USB. I have never ventured into any kind of hardware programming, so from the surface this feels like an interesting while intimidating challenge.
#Acer monitor drivers mac os x driver#
So here's my question: what exactly am I in for if I wanted to write a driver for this thing? I'm mostly a web developer with years of experience with Ruby, Objective-C (and a little C), Javascript, etc. There's also mt4j but best I could tell after running their examples, it doesn't support this device at all. There's at least one 3rd party driver for OS X that looked sort of promising, but it doesn't seem to support multitouch from this device, it's expensive, and generally was a pain to get working to the small degree it was. OS X doesn't support this monitor in any way, so as you can see in the screenshot I'm actually running Windows 8 through VMware, which proxies the USB connection to Windows perfectly where the touch events are supported.
#Acer monitor drivers mac os x pro#
"Q.OK, so I recently purchased an Acer T232HL touch screen display to hook up to my Macbook Pro as a secondary monitor. The required files and data are fully detailed in the last question in the FAQ: Always attach "Problem Reporting" files as per FAQ. All seven details requested are equally important.Īnd if you have an issue (after following the guide), or on any other problem, you must provide a detailed description of the problem including information that helps us understand what you're doing. Where do I start?", just after the bold face " Clover Guide".Īlso, your profile must be filled out with complete details as requested in the FAQ, again under " Q. Run it, now it's the same procedure than mentioned before, just change the installation directory to the disk you installed macOS onĭon't enjoy just yet, you should do other things to make your Acer completely usable.įollow the Clover guide linked from the FAQ.Īlthough you should read the FAQ for an overview of issues, the Clover guide is linked from the first question: " Q.
#Acer monitor drivers mac os x Pc#
You have to plug your PC to an Ethernet cable (it should work since you installed the appropriate kext for that), or connect to the Wi-Fi if you have a compatible card plugged in your laptop
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It might take a while to boot to the installer, so be patient. If it doesn't show up, make sure that you have HFSPlus.efi under your EFI/Clover/drivers64uefi folder Now you should see the Clover menu, select the macOS option. Change boot order and put "USB HDD" on top of all the options.
#Acer monitor drivers mac os x password#
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#Acer monitor drivers mac os x Patch#
If you have a compatible Wi-Fi chip, also add the appropriate kextĬist (import this one here) and enable the minStolenSize patch in it (everything is explained in the guide linked above) You should also add other patches and kexts, you can find them in the thread linked above. In the Clover installer, select UEFI mode, then choose AptioFixDriver 2, EMUVariable, FatBinaryDrv and RC scripts as well. But it was worth it!Ī USB drive with Sierra 10.12.5 on it, I followed this guide to do it. Overall, the OS runs pretty smooth on this PC, I'm satisfied with this laptop as a hackintosh, beside the time I spent for patching stuff like battery status, brightness, audio etc. Obviously Wi-Fi (must be replaced by a compatible chip, I personally use a USB wireless dongle) Building a CustoMac Hackintosh: Buyer's Guide