- Joined
- Mar 6, 2013
- Messages
- 266
- Motherboard
- Gigabyte X299X Designare 10G
- CPU
- i9-10980XE
- Graphics
- AMD 6900XT
- Mobile Phone
Firstly: do you have the Designare X299X 10G motherboard? Your profile lists the Designare Ex, which I think is an earlier version. There could well be differences between the Ex and the 10G, so I wouldn't assume that everything would work fine on yours using the EFI from the 10G. Things like Thunderbolt could definitely be different, though I don't know for sure.Hello Bloke,
I have done some studies and was impressed the number of ssdt you have in your EFI/ACPI folder.
I was wondering you have one that is Thunderbolt specific. I was trying to adopt yours exactly, but it didn't do anything for me. Also, the audio, I got my headset parameters working, but the speakers from the back side of the motherboard do produce sound, but with a loud buzz, like the cable is touching the ground sound. Do you have your sound working too? If so, how did you make it work?
Please advise, I really appreciate any advise/direction you could give me.
Thank you so much.
If you do want to continue with using a Designare 10G EFI then I've just posted an updated OpenCore 0.6.7 EFI for that MB; you can find it in this post: https://www.tonymacx86.com/threads/gigabyte-x299x-catalina-support.288625/page-70#post-2235527
It uses a lot less SSDTs as I've moved most of the cosmetic stuff to DeviceProperties.
I don't use onboard audio as I have a USB sound card, but I just tested my onboard microphone and headphone ports and both seemed to work fine. That's using AppleALC with ALC ID = 7. Again, I have no idea if that would be the same for your MB or not.
As for Thunderbolt - firstly, I'm afraid I know very little about this, as that's the one feature I'm yet to try. I don't have any Thunderbolt devices at all yet. I have used the TB3 ports as USB ports and that works fine, but that's all I can test. The Thunderbolt SSDT included in the EFI you've seen - and also included in the updated EFI I linked above - was written by @dolgarrenan .
His work is described in quite a lot of detail in the first post of that thread I linked above. Note that he patches his Thunderbolt ROM to get full functionality, a process that's also described in that thread. Though I believe that many TB3 devices should work without patching - stuff like sound cards for example. I believe it's mostly TB3 networking that require the firmware flashing in order to work. And again, this is something that may differ a little or a lot between your MB and the Designare 10. But it's not something I can help with at this time I'm afraid, as it's the one area I'm still not able to do any testing on.