- Joined
- Sep 19, 2019
- Messages
- 14
- Motherboard
- Dell XPS 13 9380
- CPU
- i7-8565U
- Graphics
- UHD 620
- Mac
Thanks to all of the awesome posts and guides on this site, after weeks of on and off attempts, I have my Dell XPS 9380 up and running Mojave.
Hardware:
Posting here to hopefully help others. I am also curious if anyone has a suggestion for the external monitor issue. I also see i have some kernel panics in my debug file but i have no idea what those mean. macOS has not crashed or shutdown on me once since getting to this final stage of my config.
Thanks for this awesome community!
Hardware:
- Dell XPS 13 9380
- Processor: i7-8565U
- Graphics: Intel UHD 620
- SSD - Samsung SSD 970 EVO 1TB, replaced stock nvme to try to resolve some issues during installation. not 100% sure this was required but from what i found online the PM981 was going to be trouble.
- 16 GB RAM
- Full graphics acceleration
- External monitor work after putting the computer to sleep and waking back up
- Audio - works with VoodooHDA after struggling with AppleALC for a bit. Speakers work, but headphone jack does not. I will come back to this when i have time as I'm sure i just need to do some more research
- Sleep/Shutdown seems to work without issue. I usually just shutdown so haven't tested extensively.
- Wake from sleep works via laptop lid.
- Have not tried putting to sleep by closing laptop lid
- Dual boot with windows 10 on the same SSD, haven't had any issues with this except for time sync. No biggie. And I believe I saw this is fixable with something in the bios or windows settings. Will come back to when I have time
- Bluetooth seems to work. Have paired a bloothtooth keyboard
- iMessage via nullethernet
- I am using Parallels to virtualize Windows, running SQL server and some other heavy duty stuff in Windows for work. It's handling it all great.
- Wifi - killer wifi card. So I am either using ethernet via USB-C hub or a wifi dongle. Kind of annoying but its liveable.
- Headphone jack
- External monitor without first putting computer to sleep
- I'm sure there is more broken here that I just don't realize yet.
- Trackpad gestures - I haven't even looked into this yet. All I know is its an I2C device. Will get to this later.
- I struggled for weeks on getting graphics to work properly.
- See attached files for config, but the key was defining platform/device in config as well as SSDT-PNLFCFL SSDT patch to get the internal laptop monitor working with brightness controls
- Could only get my correct platform/device to work with the -igfxmlr boot flag
- AppleALC - can't get it to work
Posting here to hopefully help others. I am also curious if anyone has a suggestion for the external monitor issue. I also see i have some kernel panics in my debug file but i have no idea what those mean. macOS has not crashed or shutdown on me once since getting to this final stage of my config.
Thanks for this awesome community!
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