[Guide] Dell XPS 13 9343 Sierra

[Akshunhiro]

could it be related to the ssd or the APFS?

I'd try a different SSD. I replaced mine as soon as I got it mainly because I couldn't configure it with more than 256GB during checkout. I'm running a Samsung 850 Evo.

 

[vrondena]

a greeting to all, bring my clover folder for those who want to try. my 9343 is i7 but I think it can work with i5 too. everything works fine with Mojave (volume f2-f3 ,bright fnf11-fnf12,sleep fnins)and also tested with catalina beta .good luck, ciao

 

[ramalamadingdong]

a greeting to all, bring my clover folder for those who want to try. my 9343 is i7 but I think it can work with i5 too. everything works fine with Mojave (volume f2-f3 ,bright fnf11-fnf12,sleep fnins)and also tested with catalina beta .good luck, ciao

Is this your complete Clover folder ? With this Clover won´t boot at all for me. Did you installed the catalina beta on an hfs+ or on an afps formated drive ?

 

[vrondena]

this clover is for Mojave on hfs+, for Catalina apfs and replace kext smcvirtual with fakesmc and enjoy

 

[holypaulie]

Well, I thought I was good but audio keeps dropping off.

I thought it may have been an issue with VoodooHDA so swapped to AppleALC and injected 23 as others have.

I didn't realise I still needed to probe it with a linux live usb so booted into that and Mojave was fine. This lasted a couple of reboots then dropped out again. Rather than mess with my config, I tried Ubuntu 18.04 live usb but it's not coming back.

I had removed CodecCommander incase that was messing with it (and saw avatecer wasn't using it).

Also tried the AFGlowPowerState and ResetHDA options with no luck (turned them back off afterward).

<key>Audio</key>
        <dict>
            <key>AFGLowPowerState</key>
            <false/>
            <key>Inject</key>
            <integer>23</integer>
            <key>ResetHDA</key>
            <false/>

I've attached IOReg and Audio details from when it was last working.

We are on the same boat. I have the same issue and I don't know how to fix it besides booting with live ubuntu usb. Check my files for comparison.

 

[vrondena]

config.plist devices id inject 13 no 23,other folder insert applealc.kext, if you have 23 on dsdt replace 13

 

[holypaulie]

config.plist devices id inject 13 no 23,other folder insert applealc.kext, if you have 23 on dsdt replace 13

layout-id 23 is for our model as per apleALC change log

• Added ALC288 layout-id 23 for Dell XPS 9343 by yyfn

 

[ramalamadingdong]

a greeting to all, bring my clover folder for those who want to try. my 9343 is i7 but I think it can work with i5 too. everything works fine with Mojave (volume f2-f3 ,bright fnf11-fnf12,sleep fnins)and also tested with catalina beta .good luck, ciao

The APFS drivers are a problem. Colver doesn't boot if i have them in my folder. After a little bit of research it seems like more people with our device have this problem. Dont know whats the problem right now.

 

[da_beidl]

I'm running a QHD 9343 with an i7 and none of the EFI dumps provided seems to work. I'm running out of ideas, only the older Sierra-era Clover bootloaders seem to bring up a GUI. Any suggestions? Are APFS drivers a cause for this?

 

[da_beidl]

I managed to load the APFS driver manually:
1) Change file extension of the ApfsDriverLoader to something other than .efi (like "nonefi")
2) Boot into Clover
3) Start the shell
4) fs0:
5) cd EFI/CLOVER/drivers64UEFI
6) load ApfsDriverLoader.nonefi
7) exit

This way the after exiting the shell Clover will show the APFS drives.

A way this could work in the long run and keeping a vanilla installation:
1) Use the shell as the bootloader (add entry in the BIOS setup)
2) set up a startup.nsh startup script to load the driver and then clover