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Fix Coffee Lake Dim Backlight On Sonoma and Sequoia

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The Coffee Lake IGPU was broken since Sonoma and Sequoia. The symptom is booting up to a dimmed backlight. If put it to sleep then wake, it will come back with full brightness backlight or wait for about 3 minutes it will come back full brightness. Thanks to hackintosh community, I found the fix here.

Dell Latitude 5401 Hackintosh

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I got a Dell Latitude 5401 with i7-9850H for my hackintosh because it has 6 cores and 12 threads, it’s light and has matte screen. Most Dell laptops has some problems for hackintosh, this one also has problems with HDMI. The first one is Micron NVME which prevent any boot without Kernel Panic. This one

How To Fix Low Backlight Level with BacklightFixup.kext

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Clover boot loader seems NOT to handle Lilu.kext, WhateverGreen.kext and SSDT-PNLF.aml well when it comes to setting the backlight level on Hackintosh while OpenCore boot loader sets the maximum brightness every time. In the case of low backlight with Clover, we can use and its SSDT-PNLF.aml to set the brightness to maximum.