<< Solved >> Whatevergreen + Intel HD 630 = Thunderbolt Display stuck on blue logo

[crendore]

Hello,

Previously I have had this setup working in 10.14.2, but not with Whatevergreen. After upgrading to 10.14.6, It became clear to me that all the intel patches/kexts had been merged into Whatevergreen. So I did my best to follow the instructions, and removed all the old kexts/patches from the CLOVER folder.

When I boot, I get working graphics a Cinema Display which is connected to a Displayport on the Radeon RX 580. On the Thunderbolt Display, which is connected to the GA-Z270X-Gaming 7's thunderbolt port, I get it stuck on a blue apple logo. Strangely enough the screen sort of works, I can see the mouse move over it, and can even see the pointer change when I hover over the password input box.

I have worked my way through every possible framebuffer listed here:

WhateverGreen/Manual/FAQ.IntelHD.en.md at master · acidanthera/WhateverGreen

Various patches necessary for certain ATI/AMD/Intel/Nvidia GPUs - acidanthera/WhateverGreen

github.com

Out of desperation I have even tried a number of the different whatever green flags, such as igfxnohdmi and igfxhdmidivs, but that probably doesn't make much sense. Additionally it would take me forever to test each one of these flags in combination with each one of the frame buffers.

Most of the frame buffers produce the same result as described above (blue logo, with mouse). Some of them cause full on kernel panics, and a few of them result in a completely disabled secondary screen.

I am attaching some photos of system report of when it does the blue logo + mouse.

Additionally I am attaching some photos of my current BIOS configuration.

I have also attached the gen_debug output. (p.s. man thats a wee bit sketch asking people to blindly run all those shell scripts, i'm glad you guys are honest, but it took me quite a while to read it all first).

Please for the love of all that is holy will someone tell me what the heck i'm overlooking here? Maybe @RehabMan might have some ideas?

Much love,
crendore

 

[crendore]

Well if anyone else with matching hardware stumbles into this pitfall, the fix is really really simple:

STOP USING WHATEVERGREEN.

Well technically you've also gotta stop using the iMac18,3 definition and switch to iMac14,2 or you'll get a black screen on the monitor connected to the Radeon RX 580.

Stick to one of the main 2 choices for frame buffer, either 0x59160000 or 0x59120000. I did try to do the 0x591B0006 (because it says its for the HD 630) but this results in a boot to a frozen screen.

 

[crendore]

Some more notes for people who have this setup, you want the following kexts, eventually install them all into /Library/Extensions:

AppleALC.kext
AtherosE2200Ethernet.kext
IntelMausiEthernet.kext
Lilu.kext
USBInjectAll.kext