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Hi.. I've got my main Hacktop upgraded (well, clean install actually) to High Sierra but I'm having a few small probs I'm hoping someone has already had an found a solution to.. I've done searching galore and can't find anything that helped.
A little background.. I originally had El Capitan installed & working great on this machine, I did not want to screw with it until I knew I could get High Sierra running, and it is running well enough it's a keeper as is but I'm hoping to fix a few small things.. I originally installed it to a spare HD using APFS (knowing it was eventually gonna land on an SSD) and later used Carbon Copy Cloner to clone it over to a SSD, a Corsair Force GS 180GB.
This machine is essentially a Probook 4540s. Intel HD 4000 graphics, no discrete graphics or switchable crap, 8GB ram, i5-3380m cpu. I've taken the motherboard and various other components and rigged it into the case from a 4730s because I really liked the 4730s (esp the display and huge battery) but the 6-series chipset/HD3000 graphics/Sandy Bridge CPU just didn't do it for me, and I could only get it to work really well with Yosemite no matter how long I screwed around with it. The screen (w/4540 1080p dual-link cable), trackpad, and keyboard are really the only 4730 components, most everything else was transplanted out of the 4540. (Except small stuff like the re-wired power button, etc.). I left the fingerprint reader disconnected b/c I'll never use it and just tossed the webcam instead of trying to run my longer & rerouted Wifi antenna cables around it b/c I'll never use it and IT security paranoia would have me putting electrical tape over it anyway. Oh, and since audio is one of the issues (albeit minor and not important to me - see below - I used the audio/sd reader/trackpad interface board out of the 4540s, I did not rig the 4730s one up. Just wanted to throw that info in there incase the diag files show anything strange and I don't want anyone wondering "why the hell is it showing up/not showing up this on a 4540s?!"
I installed it with the guide for installing to probooks via clover UEFI hotpatch with really no problems other than I had to copy my Atheros kext to S/L/E otherwise it wouldn't fire up the wifi until I did a sleep/wake. The other problem I had - which I'm used to - was the volume using the AppleHDA patch was very low - on full barely even audible. The strange part about that is in my troubleshooting I opened up the AppleMIDISetup and when I tested the speakers the volume is fine, but the volume both for the OSX alerts and video files, web pages, etc was crazy low. It appears to be only the internal laptop speakers, if I plug in externals it's as loud as it is off my desktop, although I can't say that with 100% certainly as obviously they have a built-in amp, but I didn't turn the volume up or anything, just took the plug out of the desktop and put it in the laptop. I ended up "solving" that problem with VoodooHDA and upping the "boost" setting in info.plist as I did with El Capitan. I can also make it louder by clicking enhance stereo and turning it all the way up. (If anyone has a way to make that change permanent across reboots I'm listening lol) I'm fine using VoodooHDA, this is almost a non-issue but if anyone's seen this before and has a quick fix I'd rather use as much legit Apple stuff as possible. I can't imagine with how smoothly the install went there isn't something I'm missing to use the patched AppleHDA as I'm certainly not the only one with a 4540s Hackintosh.. BTW the older PBI and the hotpatch method are amazing pieces of work and thanks much to all the developers if you're reading - I've done coding back to Apple II's and assembly but not much on Macs so I appreciate how much work must have went it em and wish I knew more about Mac programming so I could help the community more. (that's a spare time project to learn more about Mac programming.) I've had this audio problem across two 4540s's (one stock and not rigged up at all and El Capitan, Sierra, and High Sierra - but no fixes I found with a lot of googling here and on the rest of the net did anything for the volume for me. It's an IDT92HD87B2/4 (ID 111d76d9 rev 0x0107) codec according to DPCIManager. Honestly IIRC this install is the first time audio worked at all w/o VoodooHDA, and I've always had to do some info.plist editing to get the volume up w/that (PCM=100, increase boost level I think.) Trust me, I like to figure stuff out myself if possible - it's all a learning experience even if it doesn't work, I tried!!
The main problem which is more of an annoyance than anything is a delay in booting - unless it's gonna toast my SSD. I tried enabling Trim for kicks, it made it worse as expected, disabled it. It boots real quick as you'd expect from a SSD and then pauses for about 10-15 seconds. This is where it gets a little strange.. The first thing I did was boot verbose hoping to catch what was going on and the delay went away. I added -v to the boot args in config.plist (I don't care if it boots verbose or graphics although I'd prefer the graphics) and now it does the pause about every third boot or so, the rest of the time it boots up quick like you'd expect from an SSD. I can't catch what is causing the pause because it happens right after it switches over from the verbose text to the graphics and the pause happens on a completely black screen, then 10-15 seconds later I get the progress bar flying across the screen and a login prompt. If I boot w/o verbose it does the white on black progress bar, black screen for the pause, then white on black progress bar again (quickly after the pause) and I login and everything works perfect from there. If I boot verbose it does the verbose text, then goes black and if it feels like it the pause, then does the white on grey progress bar and same deal - login and it's fine. In both cases when the second progress bar comes up its at the proper 1600x900 resolution.
I'd like to have TRIM enabled if possible, but I can't deal with that delay, it's like another 30-45 seconds when I boot. If I start over doing the clean install on the SSD and use HFS will this problem be fixed and let me turn on trim? I like some of the APFS features so I'd like to use it but I'm willing to dump it and go back to HFS+ if I can enable trim and not have the delay.. (I understand there's a way to force it not to change your drive to APFS, haven't really looked into it.. could even install to the spinner w/HFS and CCC it over to the SSD.). This is the main reason for this post - I don't want to go installing the rest of all my software and setting up everything how I like it if I'm just going to end up wiping it and starting over anyway. And if not having TRIM enabled is truly going to shorten the life of my SSD and there's no way around that delay it's a no-brainer, I'm going back to HFS+ and even Sierra if I have to. As it stands right now, if I enable trim the HD will boot faster than the SSD, and once I'm booted I don't really notice too much of a difference in speed, but downgrading to the HD is the last thing I want to do.
I also have a Intel SSD in my Elitebook 2570p running High Sierra w/APFS and TRIM enabled, and it boots a little slow (slower than Sierra or El Cap on the same box) but nowhere near as slow as this.. I don't remember how I installed that but it wasn't w/the hotpatch guide I followed for this - I think I did it vanilla or unibeast and fixed things manually. IIRC I've read Intel SSD's are just about the least likely to function OK w/HS and APFS - is this incorrect? I don't want to swap them - gonna be a process re-installing everything on both laptops but if it'll fix it I'll do it if the Corsairs are a known problem and go back to Sierra on the 2570p, I don't use that too much anyway.
The other thing is the trackpad, and I'm not even sure if this is an issue at all or if it's just not going to work and shouldn't. It works fine except all the extra gestures like pinch zoom, three finger swipe, etc don't work. Two-finger scrolling works just fine as does disabling tap-to-click which I hate so I'm fine using it as-is, it does everything it did under El Cap which I used for quite a while.
I've attached all the required troubleshooting files.. I hope.. I followed the post on doing so to a T but the reason I finally found the time to screw with this is I'm laid up in bed with a dislocated shoulder and pain killers for a few days so the head is a little cloudy.. Before I did the F2+F4 at Clover bootup I saved everything that was already in the acpi/origin folder to a "files-from-installer" folder so they didn't get mixed up. And as I don't have AppleHDA running, I ran the command for that against the backup of the kext I made before I let Voodoo screw with anything.
Oh yeah the DVD drive doesn't show up under HS but I haven't even looked into that and don't really care because I can't remember the last time I used it except to boot a linux live CD for diagnostics anyway - but again if there's a setting I've gotta toggle and someone knows it I'm listening.
The only other thing not working 100% is the battery indicator - and I mean just the indicator on the menu bar. It doesn't switch from AC to battery unless I turn battery percentage off/on - but if I open up system info and unplug/replug/refresh it recognizes current power source, battery discharge/charge amps, etc and the screen dims on battery, so the OS definitely knows what the power source is. Again, this one is a non-issue, this thing has a huge battery and I can run it heavy all day before it gets low so I'm not sweating it, I just removed the indicator off the bar.
Thanks for all your help & hard work guys, again.
A little background.. I originally had El Capitan installed & working great on this machine, I did not want to screw with it until I knew I could get High Sierra running, and it is running well enough it's a keeper as is but I'm hoping to fix a few small things.. I originally installed it to a spare HD using APFS (knowing it was eventually gonna land on an SSD) and later used Carbon Copy Cloner to clone it over to a SSD, a Corsair Force GS 180GB.
This machine is essentially a Probook 4540s. Intel HD 4000 graphics, no discrete graphics or switchable crap, 8GB ram, i5-3380m cpu. I've taken the motherboard and various other components and rigged it into the case from a 4730s because I really liked the 4730s (esp the display and huge battery) but the 6-series chipset/HD3000 graphics/Sandy Bridge CPU just didn't do it for me, and I could only get it to work really well with Yosemite no matter how long I screwed around with it. The screen (w/4540 1080p dual-link cable), trackpad, and keyboard are really the only 4730 components, most everything else was transplanted out of the 4540. (Except small stuff like the re-wired power button, etc.). I left the fingerprint reader disconnected b/c I'll never use it and just tossed the webcam instead of trying to run my longer & rerouted Wifi antenna cables around it b/c I'll never use it and IT security paranoia would have me putting electrical tape over it anyway. Oh, and since audio is one of the issues (albeit minor and not important to me - see below - I used the audio/sd reader/trackpad interface board out of the 4540s, I did not rig the 4730s one up. Just wanted to throw that info in there incase the diag files show anything strange and I don't want anyone wondering "why the hell is it showing up/not showing up this on a 4540s?!"
I installed it with the guide for installing to probooks via clover UEFI hotpatch with really no problems other than I had to copy my Atheros kext to S/L/E otherwise it wouldn't fire up the wifi until I did a sleep/wake. The other problem I had - which I'm used to - was the volume using the AppleHDA patch was very low - on full barely even audible. The strange part about that is in my troubleshooting I opened up the AppleMIDISetup and when I tested the speakers the volume is fine, but the volume both for the OSX alerts and video files, web pages, etc was crazy low. It appears to be only the internal laptop speakers, if I plug in externals it's as loud as it is off my desktop, although I can't say that with 100% certainly as obviously they have a built-in amp, but I didn't turn the volume up or anything, just took the plug out of the desktop and put it in the laptop. I ended up "solving" that problem with VoodooHDA and upping the "boost" setting in info.plist as I did with El Capitan. I can also make it louder by clicking enhance stereo and turning it all the way up. (If anyone has a way to make that change permanent across reboots I'm listening lol) I'm fine using VoodooHDA, this is almost a non-issue but if anyone's seen this before and has a quick fix I'd rather use as much legit Apple stuff as possible. I can't imagine with how smoothly the install went there isn't something I'm missing to use the patched AppleHDA as I'm certainly not the only one with a 4540s Hackintosh.. BTW the older PBI and the hotpatch method are amazing pieces of work and thanks much to all the developers if you're reading - I've done coding back to Apple II's and assembly but not much on Macs so I appreciate how much work must have went it em and wish I knew more about Mac programming so I could help the community more. (that's a spare time project to learn more about Mac programming.) I've had this audio problem across two 4540s's (one stock and not rigged up at all
and El Capitan, Sierra, and High Sierra - but no fixes I found with a lot of googling here and on the rest of the net did anything for the volume for me. It's an IDT92HD87B2/4 (ID 111d76d9 rev 0x0107) codec according to DPCIManager. Honestly IIRC this install is the first time audio worked at all w/o VoodooHDA, and I've always had to do some info.plist editing to get the volume up w/that (PCM=100, increase boost level I think.) Trust me, I like to figure stuff out myself if possible - it's all a learning experience even if it doesn't work, I tried!!The main problem which is more of an annoyance than anything is a delay in booting - unless it's gonna toast my SSD. I tried enabling Trim for kicks, it made it worse as expected, disabled it. It boots real quick as you'd expect from a SSD and then pauses for about 10-15 seconds. This is where it gets a little strange.. The first thing I did was boot verbose hoping to catch what was going on and the delay went away. I added -v to the boot args in config.plist (I don't care if it boots verbose or graphics although I'd prefer the graphics) and now it does the pause about every third boot or so, the rest of the time it boots up quick like you'd expect from an SSD. I can't catch what is causing the pause because it happens right after it switches over from the verbose text to the graphics and the pause happens on a completely black screen, then 10-15 seconds later I get the progress bar flying across the screen and a login prompt. If I boot w/o verbose it does the white on black progress bar, black screen for the pause, then white on black progress bar again (quickly after the pause) and I login and everything works perfect from there. If I boot verbose it does the verbose text, then goes black and if it feels like it the pause, then does the white on grey progress bar and same deal - login and it's fine. In both cases when the second progress bar comes up its at the proper 1600x900 resolution.
I'd like to have TRIM enabled if possible, but I can't deal with that delay, it's like another 30-45 seconds when I boot. If I start over doing the clean install on the SSD and use HFS will this problem be fixed and let me turn on trim? I like some of the APFS features so I'd like to use it but I'm willing to dump it and go back to HFS+ if I can enable trim and not have the delay.. (I understand there's a way to force it not to change your drive to APFS, haven't really looked into it.. could even install to the spinner w/HFS and CCC it over to the SSD.). This is the main reason for this post - I don't want to go installing the rest of all my software and setting up everything how I like it if I'm just going to end up wiping it and starting over anyway. And if not having TRIM enabled is truly going to shorten the life of my SSD and there's no way around that delay it's a no-brainer, I'm going back to HFS+ and even Sierra if I have to. As it stands right now, if I enable trim the HD will boot faster than the SSD, and once I'm booted I don't really notice too much of a difference in speed, but downgrading to the HD is the last thing I want to do.
I also have a Intel SSD in my Elitebook 2570p running High Sierra w/APFS and TRIM enabled, and it boots a little slow (slower than Sierra or El Cap on the same box) but nowhere near as slow as this.. I don't remember how I installed that but it wasn't w/the hotpatch guide I followed for this - I think I did it vanilla or unibeast and fixed things manually. IIRC I've read Intel SSD's are just about the least likely to function OK w/HS and APFS - is this incorrect? I don't want to swap them - gonna be a process re-installing everything on both laptops but if it'll fix it I'll do it if the Corsairs are a known problem and go back to Sierra on the 2570p, I don't use that too much anyway.
The other thing is the trackpad, and I'm not even sure if this is an issue at all or if it's just not going to work and shouldn't. It works fine except all the extra gestures like pinch zoom, three finger swipe, etc don't work. Two-finger scrolling works just fine as does disabling tap-to-click which I hate so I'm fine using it as-is, it does everything it did under El Cap which I used for quite a while.
I've attached all the required troubleshooting files.. I hope.. I followed the post on doing so to a T but the reason I finally found the time to screw with this is I'm laid up in bed with a dislocated shoulder and pain killers for a few days so the head is a little cloudy.. Before I did the F2+F4 at Clover bootup I saved everything that was already in the acpi/origin folder to a "files-from-installer" folder so they didn't get mixed up. And as I don't have AppleHDA running, I ran the command for that against the backup of the kext I made before I let Voodoo screw with anything.
Oh yeah the DVD drive doesn't show up under HS but I haven't even looked into that and don't really care because I can't remember the last time I used it except to boot a linux live CD for diagnostics anyway - but again if there's a setting I've gotta toggle and someone knows it I'm listening.
The only other thing not working 100% is the battery indicator - and I mean just the indicator on the menu bar. It doesn't switch from AC to battery unless I turn battery percentage off/on - but if I open up system info and unplug/replug/refresh it recognizes current power source, battery discharge/charge amps, etc and the screen dims on battery, so the OS definitely knows what the power source is. Again, this one is a non-issue, this thing has a huge battery and I can run it heavy all day before it gets low so I'm not sweating it, I just removed the indicator off the bar.
Thanks for all your help & hard work guys, again.
