/AppleBacklightSmoother

A Lilu plugin that patches Apple Intel graphics drivers to get smooth backlight transition

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AppleBacklightSmoother

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A Lilu plugin that patches Apple Intel graphics drivers to get smooth backlight transition

Installation

  • Compile SSDT-PNLF.dsl.
  • Inject AppleBacklightSmoother.kext and SSDT-PNLF.aml using your favorite bootloader.
  • If you're using Coffee Lake or above, you need to turn off WhateverGreen's backlight patch by using boot argument igfxcflbklt=0.

Boot arguments

  • -applbklsmoothdbg to enable debug printing (available in DEBUG binaries).
  • -applbklsmoothbeta to enable loading on unsupported macOS versions (11.0 and below are enabled by default).
  • -applbklsmoothoff to disable kext loading.
  • igfxpwmmax=0x???? to set PWMMAX value to 0x????

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