[Guide] Dell XPS 9560 Mojave VirtualSMC, I2C Trackpad, Clover UEFI Hotpatch

[ChielB]

It sounds like you are using USBInjectA.kext from Rehabman to populate the USB ports on a TB dock. I would very much like to see the IOreg on that when all the USB ports are in use on the TB device.

All that kext does is populate as many USB ports as possible for the system. Which is why it's used to map ports out on desktop rigs, etc. Meant to be used with a custom SSDT to only inject mapped ports. Unsafe and could cause instability of the system in the long run. Now if I could see the IOreg and confirm what is being mapped if that is truly what is happening, I could prossibly implement them into our current USBPorts.kext. That way you don't cause unnecessary system instability issues.

I find it a bit hard to believe that kext makes it work as the our ACPI TB tree has it's own USB tree, I actually had a short discussion before with Rehabman about it and he verified TB ACPI devices may have the same name for USB devices but are apart of a different tree and have no correlation to standard USB ports. As far as I know Rehabman's kext is not intended to expose those ports to macOS but may be you discovered something or something has changed in macOS since then. If you and others can provide the IOReg for this state of the system, I'll be glad to take some time to see what I can do.

Current setup: XPS 15 9560 1080p 512GB DW1560
OSX 10.15.1
Default clover folder (No USBInjectAll)
Dell TB16 Dock
7 Port USB-Hub connected to the dock.
Using MacBookPro14,3 in clover

As stated before, the USB ports, video ports and audio port now work on the dock on MBP14,3 whereas with MBP14,1 only the video outputs worked. However, using 14,3, my bluetooth is now dead (It says not available in the menu bar), and the onboard USB ports no longer work. I have provided my IOReg using 14,3 (I hope this is OK I've not done this before). I will be reverting to 14,1 for now, as bluetooth and USB ports are more important to me for now. Thanks for all the work so far!

 

[Sammy1881]

Current setup: XPS 15 9560 1080p 512GB DW1560
OSX 10.15.1
Default clover folder (No USBInjectAll)
Dell TB16 Dock
7 Port USB-Hub connected to the dock.
Using MacBookPro14,3 in clover

As stated before, the USB ports, video ports and audio port now work on the dock on MBP14,3 whereas with MBP14,1 only the video outputs worked. However, using 14,3, my bluetooth is now dead (It says not available in the menu bar), and the onboard USB ports no longer work. I have provided my IOReg using 14,3 (I hope this is OK I've not done this before). I will be reverting to 14,1 for now, as bluetooth and USB ports are more important to me for now. Thanks for all the work so far!

That's interesting because I'm using 14,3 and all my ports including USBC port works. Wifi works too and I'm able to see devices and connect to them and use.

I will be able to test TB16 dock next week but yeah if you want to give my clover folder a try. I've posted it above.

Update 1:

I am able to see all the ports on my TB16 dock without using USBInjectAll.kext. Here's my new ioreg.

 

[roganjoshd]

hey! (noob alert)

I am hoping to attempt to install macos on my Dell Precision 5520, which I believe is the same hardware as XPS 5560 and have landed at this very informative and detailed guide.

Using my wife's old late 2011 macbook pro I can download and create a High Sierra installer, but it is too old to go above macos 10.13, so I cannot download Mojave from the Apple Store (and I have tried joining the beta programme but no luck there).

Can I still follow this guide for my Dell but install High Sierra instead?
Or is it best to get a hold of Mojave before proceeding?

Apologies if this has been asked already somewhere else (this thread is 81 pages long, so possibly the answer is buried in here somewhere)

 

[auguzanellato]

http://dosdude1.com/mojave/ you can use this tool to download a Mojave setup file in order to make a bootable usb drive, there’s also a Catalina version if you’d like to give it a try

 

[roganjoshd]

http://dosdude1.com/mojave/ you can use this tool to download a Mojave setup file in order to make a bootable usb drive, there’s also a Catalina version if you’d like to give it a try

awesome! thanks

 

[bbst]

hey! (noob alert)

I am hoping to attempt to install macos on my Dell Precision 5520, which I believe is the same hardware as XPS 5560 and have landed at this very informative and detailed guide.

Using my wife's old late 2011 macbook pro I can download and create a High Sierra installer, but it is too old to go above macos 10.13, so I cannot download Mojave from the Apple Store (and I have tried joining the beta programme but no luck there).

Can I still follow this guide for my Dell but install High Sierra instead?
Or is it best to get a hold of Mojave before proceeding?

Apologies if this has been asked already somewhere else (this thread is 81 pages long, so possibly the answer is buried in here somewhere)

Hi! I would be very interested to see how it works for you - I also have Precision 5520. Most everything works with the setups listed here, but I can't figure out sleep in in Cat, although it did work in Mojave.

 

[nikoel]

Current setup: XPS 15 9560 1080p 512GB DW1560
OSX 10.15.1
Default clover folder (No USBInjectAll)
Dell TB16 Dock
7 Port USB-Hub connected to the dock.
Using MacBookPro14,3 in clover

As stated before, the USB ports, video ports and audio port now work on the dock on MBP14,3 whereas with MBP14,1 only the video outputs worked. However, using 14,3, my bluetooth is now dead (It says not available in the menu bar), and the onboard USB ports no longer work. I have provided my IOReg using 14,3 (I hope this is OK I've not done this before). I will be reverting to 14,1 for now, as bluetooth and USB ports are more important to me for now. Thanks for all the work so far!

Confirm that you have read and use this patch instead of previous bluetooth method

#767

 

[roganjoshd]

Hi! I would be very interested to see how it works for you - I also have Precision 5520. Most everything works with the setups listed here, but I can't figure out sleep in in Cat, although it did work in Mojave.

hey @bbst (or anyone else):
within your bios have you had to disable TPM? (which results in a Dell screen nagging you at every reboot about this?)

as suggested on this page:

[Guide] Booting the OS X installer on LAPTOPS with Clover

Overview One of the first challenges you'll face in installing OS X to your laptop will involve getting the OS X installer to boot from USB. This guide is for those wishing to use Clover (and in fact the only bootloader supported here). Both installing using Clover UEFI and Clover legacy are...

www.tonymacx86.com

In order to boot the Clover from the USB, you should visit your BIOS settings:
- "VT-d" (virtualization for directed i/o) should be disabled if possible (the config.plist includes dart=0 in case you can't do this)
- "DEP" (data execution prevention) should be enabled for OS X
- "secure boot " should be disabled
- "legacy boot" optional (recommend enabled, but boot UEFI if you have it)
- "CSM" (compatibility support module) enabled or disabled (varies) (recommend enabled, but boot UEFI)
- "fast boot" (if available) should be disabled.
- "boot from USB" or "boot from external" enabled
- SATA mode (if available) should be AHCI
- TPM should be disabled


back on the first page of this thread is the mention of following the bios setup here:

[Guide] Dell XPS 15 9560: 4K Touch, 1TB SSD, 32GB RAM, 100% AdobeRGB

https://www.tonymacx86.com/threads/guide-dell-xps-15-9560-4k-touch-1tb-ssd-32gb-ram-100-adobergb.224486/page-44#post-1957240

www.tonymacx86.com

so I will re-enable TPM and do as the second link says...

 

[bbst]

hey @bbst (or anyone else):
within your bios have you had to disable TPM? (which results in a Dell screen nagging you at every reboot about this?)

as suggested on this page:

[Guide] Booting the OS X installer on LAPTOPS with Clover

Overview One of the first challenges you'll face in installing OS X to your laptop will involve getting the OS X installer to boot from USB. This guide is for those wishing to use Clover (and in fact the only bootloader supported here). Both installing using Clover UEFI and Clover legacy are...

www.tonymacx86.com

In order to boot the Clover from the USB, you should visit your BIOS settings:
- "VT-d" (virtualization for directed i/o) should be disabled if possible (the config.plist includes dart=0 in case you can't do this)
- "DEP" (data execution prevention) should be enabled for OS X
- "secure boot " should be disabled
- "legacy boot" optional (recommend enabled, but boot UEFI if you have it)
- "CSM" (compatibility support module) enabled or disabled (varies) (recommend enabled, but boot UEFI)
- "fast boot" (if available) should be disabled.
- "boot from USB" or "boot from external" enabled
- SATA mode (if available) should be AHCI
- TPM should be disabled


back on the first page of this thread is the mention of following the bios setup here:

[Guide] Dell XPS 15 9560: 4K Touch, 1TB SSD, 32GB RAM, 100% AdobeRGB

https://www.tonymacx86.com/threads/guide-dell-xps-15-9560-4k-touch-1tb-ssd-32gb-ram-100-adobergb.224486/page-44#post-1957240

www.tonymacx86.com

so I will re-enable TPM and do as the second link says...

Thanks. I can't disable TPM, as it dual boots to Windows where i need it. So I assume the second option is better for me.

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5. Enable Intel SpeedShift (setup_var 0x4BC 0x1)
a. To enable Kaby Lake hardware P-states, which Dell has decided it wouldn’t add an option to do in the GUI (http://en.community.dell.com/support-forums/laptop/f/3518/t/20007733), requires a command-line setting. It's a setting just like any other, so resetting BIOS to default settings will clear this bit and it would then need to be reapplied.
b. Rockstar75 made a nice tutorial: http://forum.notebookreview.com/threads/dell-xps-speed-shift.796891/page-14#post-10454342
i. Don’t re-enable Secure Boot, obviously.
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Have you done it yourself? I am a bit concerned to try on 5520 as this is specifically listed for XPS 9560...

 

[nikoel]

Here is Clover version bluetooth functioning, TB16 USB2/3 Enabled, with Realtek native audio (Make sure that you've installed the 4 files in windows for TB16 if it doesnt work). It's very slightly modified version from Sammy. I still need to plug in during Clover Bootscreen, but it's 1am and I cant be stuffed trying to get it to work from bootscreen. I'll live with this handicap for the rest of my dell days unless one of you fine folks knows the secret.

The 16" MBP has just been released and it's finally the laptop that I was waiting for (pending thermal results)

P.S. Why are we using CodecCommander, ladies? I thought it was super-seeded. I left it there but I don't think it belongs in there