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- Feb 8, 2018
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- Motherboard
- Asus Z370-A Prime
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- i7-8700K
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- Vega 56
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Hello everybody,
after uncountable hours I have succesfully configured and booted macOS High Sierra 10.13.4 on the machine reported in my profile (and thread title).
I started from this post and went down through the rabbit hole. I used a Vanilla install (with Clover r4458) with minimal amount of kexts, and I could get rid of bad graphic glitches by setting Product Name to iMac15,1. I must say I am a little bit skeptical of the iMac15,1 identifier since I have seen similar builds using iMac18,3, iMac18,1 or iMac17,1. Please note, none of these identifiers worked for me, and all resulted in heavy graphical glitches.
N.B.: all the kexts have been updated to the latest available version.
Unfortunately I have still problems with the rig.
If you need me to produce more data, don't hesitate to ask. If I did something wrong, please tell me where.
Thank you for reading!
after uncountable hours I have succesfully configured and booted macOS High Sierra 10.13.4 on the machine reported in my profile (and thread title).
I started from this post and went down through the rabbit hole. I used a Vanilla install (with Clover r4458) with minimal amount of kexts, and I could get rid of bad graphic glitches by setting Product Name to iMac15,1. I must say I am a little bit skeptical of the iMac15,1 identifier since I have seen similar builds using iMac18,3, iMac18,1 or iMac17,1. Please note, none of these identifiers worked for me, and all resulted in heavy graphical glitches.
N.B.: all the kexts have been updated to the latest available version.
Unfortunately I have still problems with the rig.
- Sleep/Wake
This is very weird and I pinpointed what's wrong, but I can't solve it.
If I use USBInjectAll.kext + XHCI-300-series-injector.kext with "change 15 port limit to 26 in XHCI kext" for HS 10.13.4, sleep/wake is broken: 20 sec after display shuts down, computer shuts down as well but immediately spins up again, stays on for 2 minutes and the cycle repeats. This could also be very harmful to my hardware.
Now, if I remove all the mentioned kexts and patches, sleep/wake works flawlessly BUT if I attach external hard drives, they are recognised as internal drives (not a big deal, but I suspect something is wrong and I wouldn't like to play my chances).
By inspecting log show | fgrep -1 "Wake reason" I have found this:
2018-05-20 TIME 0x74 Default 0x0 0 0 kernel: (AppleACPIPlatform) Facs->OspmFlags: 0x0
2018-05-20 TIME 0x74 Default 0x0 0 0 kernel: (AppleACPIPlatform) AppleACPIPlatformPower Wake reason: XDCI XHC
2018-05-20 TIME 0x74 Default 0x0 0 0 kernel: (AppleACPIPlatform) AppleACPIPlatformPower Wake reason: XDCI XHC
2018-05-20 TIME 0x74 Default 0x0 0 0 kernel: IOPlatformWakeAction -> AppleRTC
The motherboard in question has 6+6 USB directly on the Z370 chipset, + 2 USB on the ASMedia controller, so the total number of USB ports is 14. I have tried different combinations but didn't get any result.
This problem is the most critical and all the help would be much appreciated. - Screen Resolution
I use a Dell P2415Q (3840x2160 4k IPS) with a DVI --> HDMI cable from the MB. I tried @RehabMan method detailed here, manually and using this tool, to no avail. My goal is to get 2560x1440 HiDPI resolution, using the full 3840x2160 baseline resolution. One thing I can't understand is when RehabMan says one should put two resolution, one with intended dimensions and the other with doubled dimensions. The ratio for what I want to accomplish is 1.5 and I am scratching my head on how to implement it. - Menu graphical glitch
Although I solved heavy glitches with my iGPU by setting the Product Name in the SMBIOS to iMac15,1, I still see a minor one (luckily enough just one for now) when I hover on menus items in the MenuBar. You can see this here. I have tried many combinations of kexts, like IntelKLBGraphics..., IntelDVMTFixUp, but this glitch remains. My DVMT size in BIOS is set to 96MB. - Thunderbolt 3
It works under Windows 10, I can plug USB-C external drive to the USB-C TB3 port (falling back from TB to USB protocol)
and also my LaCie 5Big Thunderbolt works. Once in macOS, nothing works. Not LaCie, nor USB drives. The instructions contained in the ****** post I mentioned didn't gave any results. I am going to modify some BIOS parameters, but from here it looks grim.
If you need me to produce more data, don't hesitate to ask. If I did something wrong, please tell me where.
Thank you for reading!
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