[Whiskey Lake UHD620] "Steppy" blurs and gradients, lines around dock

[hacker1024]

I have a Dell Inspiron 15 7000 (2-in-1), model 7586.
It has a Whiskey Lake i7-8565U with Intel UHD 620 Graphics.
I've got full QE/CI, and the backlight works fine with the new WhateverGreen CFL patches and SSDT-PNLFCFL.aml.

I'm getting some weird graphical glitches. For a start, blur effects like the launchpad background look horrendous, like I have 16-bit colour or something (macOS reports 24-bit, and I'm pretty sure Windows does 32 or something). A picture is below. Next, gradients have stripes of shades instead of a smooth blend. This was to hard to get in a photo, though. The last thing is the weird lines surrounding the dock. A photo is below. None of these things show up in screenshots. All-in-all, it looks like I'm remoting into my desktop via a highly compressed VNC connection rather than the display being actually connected, like it is. One last thing to note is that macOS says the built-in display's connected via DisplayPort, but I don't think that's the issue - I just need to add the right connector device properties?

 

[Feartech]

I have a Dell Inspiron 15 7000 (2-in-1), model 7586.
It has a Whiskey Lake i7-8565U with Intel UHD 620 Graphics.
I've got full QE/CI, and the backlight works fine with the new WhateverGreen CFL patches and SSDT-PNLFCFL.aml.

I'm getting some weird graphical glitches. For a start, blur effects like the launchpad background look horrendous, like I have 16-bit colour or something (macOS reports 24-bit, and I'm pretty sure Windows does 32 or something). A picture is below. Next, gradients have stripes of shades instead of a smooth blend. This was to hard to get in a photo, though. The last thing is the weird lines surrounding the dock. A photo is below. None of these things show up in screenshots. All-in-all, it looks like I'm remoting into my desktop via a highly compressed VNC connection rather than the display being actually connected, like it is. One last thing to note is that macOS says the built-in display's connected via DisplayPort, but I don't think that's the issue - I just need to add the right connector device properties?

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update your config.plist to something more suitable, check the laptop guide:

[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...

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also you need to install all your kexts to /L/E

How and where to install kexts:

[GUIDE] Installing 3rd Party Kexts - El Capitan, Sierra, High Sierra, Mojave, Catalina

Installing 3rd Party Kexts in /Library/Extensions Note: This guide was originally written to support MacOS Mojave and older versions (< r5200) of the Clover boot-loader. The methods detailed here are now considered legacy methods and should only used with older versions of MacOS as detailed...

www.tonymacx86.com

 

[hacker1024]

update your config.plist to something more suitable, check the laptop guide:

[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

also you need to install all your kexts to /L/E

How and where to install kexts:

[GUIDE] Installing 3rd Party Kexts - El Capitan, Sierra, High Sierra, Mojave, Catalina

Installing 3rd Party Kexts in /Library/Extensions Note: This guide was originally written to support MacOS Mojave and older versions (< r5200) of the Clover boot-loader. The methods detailed here are now considered legacy methods and should only used with older versions of MacOS as detailed...

www.tonymacx86.com

What do you mean, something more suitable?
I prefer to put my kexts in Clover so they don't get deleted with upgrades. Is there a major reason why I should put them in L/E? I've never had any problems before, and I doubt that's what's causing this.

 

[Feartech]

What do you mean, something more suitable?
I prefer to put my kexts in Clover so they don't get deleted with upgrades. Is there a major reason why I should put them in L/E? I've never had any problems before, and I doubt that's what's causing this.

something more suitable would be something like:

OS-X-Clover-Laptop-Config/config_HD615_620_630_640_650.plist at master · RehabMan/OS-X-Clover-Laptop-Config

Some Clover config.plist files for common Intel graphics configurations - RehabMan/OS-X-Clover-Laptop-Config

github.com

kexts don't get deleted by upgrades, not sure where you heard that from

 

[hacker1024]

something more suitable would be something like:

OS-X-Clover-Laptop-Config/config_HD615_620_630_640_650.plist at master · RehabMan/OS-X-Clover-Laptop-Config

Some Clover config.plist files for common Intel graphics configurations - RehabMan/OS-X-Clover-Laptop-Config

github.com

kexts don't get deleted by upgrades, not sure where you heard that from

I have UHD 620 graphics on Whiskey Lake, not HD620 on Kaby Lake. That config doesn't work. My current one has QE/CI and Metal working - that's not the issue.

 

[Feartech]

I have UHD 620 graphics on Whiskey Lake, not HD620 on Kaby Lake. That config doesn't work. My current one has QE/CI and Metal working - that's not the issue.

have you tried to use MacBookPro15,2 definition in SMBIOS?

you have so much "junk" in your config.plist, difficult it sift through, maybe you should try and tidy it up a little, make it look more like:

OS-X-Clover-Laptop-Config/config_UHD630.plist at master · RehabMan/OS-X-Clover-Laptop-Config

Some Clover config.plist files for common Intel graphics configurations - RehabMan/OS-X-Clover-Laptop-Config

github.com

 

[hacker1024]

have you tried to use MacBookPro15,2 definition in SMBIOS?

you have so much "junk" in your config.plist, difficult it sift through, maybe you should try and tidy it up a little, make it look more like:

OS-X-Clover-Laptop-Config/config_UHD630.plist at master · RehabMan/OS-X-Clover-Laptop-Config

Some Clover config.plist files for common Intel graphics configurations - RehabMan/OS-X-Clover-Laptop-Config

github.com

I tried MacBookPro15,2. Problem still persists. I'll clean up my config.plist later today.

 

[pikitriks99]

@hacker1024 did you ever managed to fix this? Please if you did post link something here.

Thank you very much!

 

[hacker1024]

@pikitriks99
I got a display replacement from Dell due to unrelated reasons, and the problem disappeared. The new panel has different vendor and hardware IDs.