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

[Lopburi]

I had success with Clover 5.1 5126 on Big Sur Beta 11.0.1 on the XPS 9360 Kaby Lake HD620 FHD 1920x1080. Set SMBios to MacBookPro 15.2, installed CPUfriend kexts and Usb wifi kexts.

Graphics, brightness, Trackpad gestures, Bluetooth, battery, sound, andUsb C (Dock and Hdmi) work. Sleep will not wake - I have disabledarkwake=0 in boot arguments. Trackpad gestures use voodooPs2.kext only - VoodooI2C.kext causes Kernel Panic on boot. SMCProcessor.kext cannot be used because of kernel panic.

Otherwise MacOS Big Sur runs well with similar Power usage to OC boot (Intel Power Gadget). Clover is a better option since I triple Boot Windows, Mac and Linux. Clover does not take over the Bios like OC.

@ebaymic60
Delete voodooinput.kext off of VoodooPS2Controller.kext plugins folder and you can add VoodooI2C.kext in without Kernel Panic.

 

[ebaymic60]

@ebaymic60
Delete voodooinput.kext off of VoodooPS2Controller.kext plugins folder and you can add VoodooI2C.kext in without Kernel Panic.

Removing voodooinput.kext from VoodooPS2Controller.kext worked. Reinstalled VoodooI2C.kext and VoodooI2CHID.kext. Trackpad Gestures good. Thanks.

 

[ebaymic60]

Removing voodooinput.kext from VoodooPS2Controller.kext worked. Reinstalled VoodooI2C.kext and VoodooI2CHID.kext. Trackpad Gestures good. Updated Clover attached. Thanks.

I spoke too soon. After removing voodooinput.kext from I am getting constant HalDmWatchdog set RF changeIn Progress=T or F for minutes before boot into MacOS. I might have to revert to original VoodooPS2Controller.kext . Tried clearing Cache without clearing this problem. A hard restart on the Power button will boot up ok.

 

[jkbuha]

I had success with Clover 5.1 5126 on Big Sur Beta 11.0.1 on the XPS 9360 Kaby Lake HD620 FHD 1920x1080. Set SMBios to MacBookPro 15.2, installed CPUfriend kexts and Usb wifi kexts.

Graphics, brightness, Trackpad gestures, Bluetooth, battery, sound, andUsb C (Dock and Hdmi) work. Sleep will not wake - I have disabledarkwake=0 in boot arguments. Trackpad gestures use voodooPs2.kext only - VoodooI2C.kext causes Kernel Panic on boot. SMCProcessor.kext cannot be used because of kernel panic.

Otherwise MacOS Big Sur runs well with similar Power usage to OC boot (Intel Power Gadget). Clover is a better option since I triple Boot Windows, Mac and Linux. Clover does not take over the Bios like OC.

I have your same triple boot config, but quite frankly using OpenCore is a breath of fresh air. No more messing about with L/E or S/L/E and temperamental boots. It just works. Also it's more Apple-esque (single user boot by pressing CMD+S, Safe using Shift, etc).

With regards to booting other OSes, Linux boots without any issues straight from OpenCore, and - whilst I haven't yet spent time looking at native Windows booting - I've inserted a CLOVER entry into OC which allows me to chainload OC->Clover->W10. That way I can still reboot into Windows quickly.

At some point I'll try and take a look at bringing CLOVER back to macOS. Just to check though - do you still put all your extra CLOVER kexts into L/E?

 

[Lopburi]

I spoke too soon. After removing voodooinput.kext from I am getting constant HalDmWatchdog set RF changeIn Progress=T or F for minutes before boot into MacOS. I might have to revert to original VoodooPS2Controller.kext . Tried clearing Cache without clearing this problem. A hard restart on the Power button will boot up ok.

Put SSDT-I2C1-SPED.aml in seems to solved the problem for me.

 

[ebaymic60]

I have your same triple boot config, but quite frankly using OpenCore is a breath of fresh air. No more messing about with L/E or S/L/E and temperamental boots. It just works. Also it's more Apple-esque (single user boot by pressing CMD+S, Safe using Shift, etc).

With regards to booting other OSes, Linux boots without any issues straight from OpenCore, and - whilst I haven't yet spent time looking at native Windows booting - I've inserted a CLOVER entry into OC which allows me to chainload OC->Clover->W10. That way I can still reboot into Windows quickly.

At some point I'll try and take a look at bringing CLOVER back to macOS. Just to check though - do you still put all your extra CLOVER kexts into L/E?

MacOS is not my main OS it is just for experimental use. As I said previously Open Core boot loader takes over the Bios and does not load windows and Linux properly. Windows 10 boots into recovery mode and Linux will not load. I realise that I could modify settings for Linux but it much easier with the Clover boot loader detecting the other OS correctly.

The latest Clover boots quick enough and MacOS runs well. I do not have kexts in L/E Folder only in the EFI Clover. folders.

 

[ebaymic60]

Put SSDT-I2C1-SPED.aml in seems to solved the problem for me.

Looked around the web just found SSDT-I2C.aml - does not work. Can you send me a copy of SSDT-I2C1-SPED.aml ?

 

[Lopburi]

Looked around the web just found SSDT-I2C.aml - does not work. Can you send me a copy of SSDT-I2C1-SPED.aml ?

Here you go.

 

[ebaymic60]

Here you go.

Thank you for the file. I still have the same problem with "HalDmWatchdog set RF changeIn Progress" .
Update: Did not need SSDT-I2C1-SPED.aml . Removed voodooinput.kext plugin from Contents of VoodooI2C.kext. Latest VoodooPS2Controller.kext kept unmodified. No errors on boot and Trackpad working well with Gestures.

 

[oli.mathieu]

Hello
I can't connect My bluetooth headset to catalina
The Bluetooth System PreferencePane List remains empty!
I use OC with those Kexts https://dortania.github.io/Wireless-Buyers-Guide/types-of-wireless-card/m2.html
In System profile information ➧Bluetooth ➧ Discoverable is Off
is it normal ?


Thanks in advance