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[Guide] Dell XPS 13 9360 on MacOS Sierra 10.12.x - LTS (Long-Term Support) Guide

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Hi All,

I am up and running on 10.13.4 using @the_darkvoid's files. I purchase a Dell 4k monitor (u2718q) and a Plugable USB-C > DP cable (https://www.amazon.ca/gp/product/B01EXKDRAC/?tag=tonymacx86c0c-20) which supports "DisplayPort Alternate Mode".

However, when I plug in the monitor I am not able to get anything on screen.

- Double checked that I correctly selected "DP" as input source
- Tried with hotplugging
- Tried with it plugged in from powered off

Interestingly when I get into System Preferences > Displays, the u2718q does show up as a second display, however no signal appears to be getting through.

Any ideas?
Here are my support files for post #2218

Your ig-platorm-id has the 0105 and 0204 ports enabled. The USB-C/DP may be connected to the 0306.
Refer to the guide plist for possible patches:
https://www.tonymacx86.com/threads/guide-booting-the-os-x-installer-on-laptops-with-clover.148093/
 
Your ig-platorm-id has the 0105 and 0204 ports enabled. The USB-C/DP may be connected to the 0306.
Refer to the guide plist for possible patches:
https://www.tonymacx86.com/threads/guide-booting-the-os-x-installer-on-laptops-with-clover.148093/

I use USB-C DP-Alt mode on a daily basis with my setup, so the frame buffer configuration should work as-is.

Haven't tried a 4K monitor but its operating fine on a HP EliteDisplay E273q, using HDMI.
I did try USB-C video directly, but the HP display pops up an error about my USB-C cable being "unqualified".

I have a USB 3.1 Gen 2 cable on order from Amazon, so I'll be trying that when it comes in.
 
It's one of the stock SSDs comes with the xps 9360
Toshiba 512GB PCIe NVMe

I have a Western Digital Black 512GB PCIe NMVe SSD (WDC WDS512G1X0C-00ENX0) formatted natively with 4K sectors running APFS in my Dell XPS 9360.
 
@the-darkvoid is there any possibility to get back the "switch off touchpad with the print key" with your wonderful GitHub guide, like it was with @bozma88 ´s. That would be awesome.
Thank you.
Edit: Seems that this feature comes from the RM VodooPS2Controller.

Good question. You might have to fall back to VoodooPS2Trackpad instead of the I2C implementation.
Either that or VoodooP2Controller needs to talk to the I2C kext on key-press, which requires code changes on both sides.
 
I decided to go back to 10.12 and now Wifi doesn't seem to work. It wasn't available during install, either. I think I have all brcm*.kext's loaded, but maybe not. I attached the Clover directory, just in case. I have Win10 installed and WiFi works there.
 

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I decided to go back to 10.12 and now Wifi doesn't seem to work. It wasn't available during install, either. I think I have all brcm*.kext's loaded, but maybe not. I attached the Clover directory, just in case. I have Win10 installed and WiFi works there.
the newer versions of clover require you to call out the entire name of the wifi kext, so 'com.apple.driver.AirPort.Brcm4360' instead of just AirPortBrcm4360 in your config plist
 
I decided to go back to 10.12 and now Wifi doesn't seem to work. It wasn't available during install, either. I think I have all brcm*.kext's loaded, but maybe not. I attached the Clover directory, just in case. I have Win10 installed and WiFi works there.

Your patch for WiFi with Name=AirPortBrcm4360 is wrong. Should be Name=com.apple.driver.AirPort.Brcm4360. Because "AirPortBrcm4360" does not match (is not a substring) against the kext bundle ID of com.apple.driver.AirPort.Brcm4360.
 
the newer versions of clover require you to call out the entire name of the wifi kext, so 'com.apple.driver.AirPort.Brcm4360' instead of just AirPortBrcm4360 in your config plist

Actually, not correct...
Clover still allows a substring of the bundle identifier.
But 'AirPortBrcm4360' is not a substring of 'com.apple.driver.AirPort.Brcm4360'.

Note: If you plan on specifying a substring, it must NOT contain any '.' characters. Name strings containing a '.' character must match the bundle-id exactly.
 
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Actually, not correct...
Clover still allows a substring of the bundle identifier.
But 'AirPortBrcm4360' is not a substring of 'com.apple.driver.AirPort.Brcm4360'.

Good to know. Thanks for correction
 
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