jaymonkey
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Confirmed working on 15" 2017 HP Spectre X360
I switched to Lilu and its plugins (whatevergreen, AppleALC & AirportBrcmFixup) some time ago ... having read that all of these plugins are now working with Mojave I decided it was time to give Mojave a go.
For those users who are new to Lilu i've written a new guide :-
https://www.tonymacx86.com/threads/an-idiots-guide-to-lilu-and-its-plug-ins.260063/
As i have a very complicated partition map on the internal NVMe i wanted to keep HFS+ as the MacOS file system, as Apple have removed the option to skip APFS conversion in the Mojave Installer/Updater I used the cone method.
Method:
Had to remove VoodooIC2 kexts as currently it will cause a KP (Known issue and will be fixed in next release)
Surprising just what a difference the new Dark Mode makes to the feel of the OS, going back to Light Mode on High Sierra seems like a major step backwards ... I know its only cosmetic but i really does make Mojave fell like an all new OS.
Shame there is no way to install without apfs conversion but i guess Apple was was going to make APFS the new standard at some point.
Cheers
Jay
Update-1: Sound (ALC295 Codec) now working with AppleHDA 10.13.3 rollback and AppleALC version 1.2.7, Thanks to @MacPeet for the workaround, I am working with him on trying to understand why AppleALC version 1.3.0+ has issues with certain Codec's and hopefully get the problem sorted for the next public release.
Update-2: Latest version of AppleALC 1.3.1 is now working with Layout 3, the issue was not with AppleALC but with Lilu that was failing to detect/set the HDEF class-code correctly on some systems, I worked with vlt (one of Lilu's developers) to identify the problem which is now resolved in Lilu version 1.2.7 so no need for AppleHDA Rollback now.
Update-3: Touchscreen and Pen now working with latest version of VoodooIC2 .. see this post for more info.
Update-4: Am now running the latest version of Mojave 10.14.2 with no issues, I installed all updates to Mojave using the clone method above .... also detailed in this post.
Update-5: As reported by @ShortFormErnie, using AppleALC with layout 1 may help to avoid the distorted audio that i was experiencing on some macOS boot-ups, it only occurred rarely (maybe 1 in 6 boots) and was easily resolved with a quick sleep/wake which would force AppleALC to refresh the wake verbs. So far I have not experienced the issue when using layout 1.
I switched to Lilu and its plugins (whatevergreen, AppleALC & AirportBrcmFixup) some time ago ... having read that all of these plugins are now working with Mojave I decided it was time to give Mojave a go.
For those users who are new to Lilu i've written a new guide :-
https://www.tonymacx86.com/threads/an-idiots-guide-to-lilu-and-its-plug-ins.260063/
As i have a very complicated partition map on the internal NVMe i wanted to keep HFS+ as the MacOS file system, as Apple have removed the option to skip APFS conversion in the Mojave Installer/Updater I used the cone method.
Method:
- Updated Clover and installed ApfsDriverLoader-64.efi & AppleImageLoader-64.efi in /EFI/Clover/DriversUEFI
- Using Carbon Copy Cloner I cloned the MacOS system internal NVMe SSD to a USB-C SSD
- Manually copied the and EFI partition from the NVMe to the USB-C SSD to make it bootable.
- Rebooted and boot from USB-C SSD Clone
- Performed direct update to Mojave from App Store (for 10.14.1 & 10.14.2 updates I used the Combo Update)
- laptop rebooted 3 or 4 times during the install/update.
- Once Install/Update was complete on USB-C SSD I checked and tested that everything worked ok.
- Final step is to clone MacOS form the USB-C SSD (now APFS formatted) back to HFS+ System partition on NVMe
Had to remove VoodooIC2 kexts as currently it will cause a KP (Known issue and will be fixed in next release)
Surprising just what a difference the new Dark Mode makes to the feel of the OS, going back to Light Mode on High Sierra seems like a major step backwards ... I know its only cosmetic but i really does make Mojave fell like an all new OS.
Shame there is no way to install without apfs conversion but i guess Apple was was going to make APFS the new standard at some point.
Cheers
Jay
Update-1: Sound (ALC295 Codec) now working with AppleHDA 10.13.3 rollback and AppleALC version 1.2.7, Thanks to @MacPeet for the workaround, I am working with him on trying to understand why AppleALC version 1.3.0+ has issues with certain Codec's and hopefully get the problem sorted for the next public release.
Update-2: Latest version of AppleALC 1.3.1 is now working with Layout 3, the issue was not with AppleALC but with Lilu that was failing to detect/set the HDEF class-code correctly on some systems, I worked with vlt (one of Lilu's developers) to identify the problem which is now resolved in Lilu version 1.2.7 so no need for AppleHDA Rollback now.
Update-3: Touchscreen and Pen now working with latest version of VoodooIC2 .. see this post for more info.
Update-4: Am now running the latest version of Mojave 10.14.2 with no issues, I installed all updates to Mojave using the clone method above .... also detailed in this post.
Update-5: As reported by @ShortFormErnie, using AppleALC with layout 1 may help to avoid the distorted audio that i was experiencing on some macOS boot-ups, it only occurred rarely (maybe 1 in 6 boots) and was easily resolved with a quick sleep/wake which would force AppleALC to refresh the wake verbs. So far I have not experienced the issue when using layout 1.
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