Gigabyte GA-Z270X-Gaming 8 - No Bluetooth and Sound

[FEAM]

Hey Guys,

I need a little bit help with my first hackintosh build. As you can see in the attached screenshots, I got a working build with the following setup:

Gigabyte GA-Z270X-Gaming 8
Intel i7-7700k 4,2 GHz
G.Skill 64 GB RAM 3600 MHz
AORUS GeForce® GTX 1080 Ti Xtreme Edition 11G
2x Samsung 850 EVO 500GB SSD
WD Black 2TB

After spending the whole weekend to get it up and running I now stuck on the onboard bluetooth and sound. While configuring the setup I already read several posts about bluetooth, so I decided to buy a simple Bluetooth USB Stick to get rid of all the issues. What I have not considered is the fact that macOS ignores my USB Stick and tries to load the onboard bluetooth as you can see in the screenshot. I already tried to implement the BrcmPatchRAM and I'm sure it would work with the USB Stick, but it won't work with the onboard device.

Sound is also a problem. I tried the AppleALC and the VoodoHDA, but none of them works. I haven't any output device in the settings and the VoodoHDA returned "No VoodoHDA device found".

Any ideas or solutions on this?

I would appreciate any kind of help. Thanks in advance.

Flo

[TrustAugustus]

Nice Rig.

 

I am terrible at getting sound to work. So I'll help with the Bluetooth. Are you using a native wificard/bluetooth card or a usb Bluetooth adapter?

[FEAM]

Hi @sab4!

 

As you can see on the third screenshot, macOS tries to load drivers for the Gigabyte Onboard Wifi/BT chip. It's an Atheros Qualcomm QCA61x4 (0x0CF3, 0xE300).

Unfortunately I couldn't find any kext or workarounds for this chip and the BIOS doesn't have an entry for disabling onboard Wifi/BT-chip.

[id0x3d]

Hey mate,

 

have you tried https://github.com/toleda/audio_CloverALC for sound?

It helped me for various ALCs.

[al6042]

Hi @FEAM

 

For Audio:

Try to use the combination of AppleALC., Lilu.kext and the following settings in your config.plist:

"Acpi"->"DSDT"->"Fixes"->"FixHDA_8000"

"Devices"->"Audio"->"Inject"-> enter "1" (without quotes) directly into the selection field.

 

Make sure no residue of other Audio-related Kexts are still running on your box.

That would be any other patched AppleHDA (you must use the original one), realtekALC, cloverALC, VoodooHDA together with their HDAdisabler or any On-the-Fly-Patches in Clover.

Also make sure there is no HDAEnabler.kext running, which would interfere with the "FixHDA_8000" entry.

 

You might check this within "Systembericht"->"Software"->"Erweiterungen".

Wait until the list is completed.

Then click on the column "Erhalten von" two times, so the sort order starts with "Verifizierte Entwickler".

Within "Verifizierte Entwickler" and "Apple" you might find a couple of kexts which are marked as "Unbekannt" or "Nicht Signiert"...

 

If those are related to audio, get rid of them.

[FEAM]

Hi @al6042

 

After checking the running extensions (AppleALC 1.1.4 and Lilu 1.1.6 already there, AppleHDA original) I changed the Clover configuration and restarted the system. Now I have several devices listed on the audio tab, but sill no sound.

[al6042]

Then try "Devices"->"Audio"->"Inject"->"2" instead of "1".

[FEAM]

Then try "Devices"->"Audio"->"Inject"->"2" instead of "1".

 

The devices changed, but still ... no sound.

[marco.pisellonio80]

Try also changing jack input. In my mobo green input works.

[TrustAugustus]

Might need to resetHDA in Clover under devices for audio.

 

Did you put the BrcmPatchRAM2 (it needs to be BrcmPatchRAM2.kext not BrcmPatchRAM.kext) try in either your EFI/Clover/kexts or your /System/Library/Extensions troubleshoot to see which one works for you.

 

You also should have BrcmFirmwareRepo.kext Installed to /System/Library/Extensions  or BrcmFirmwareData.kext installed to EFI/Clover/kexts

credit rehabman

[al6042]

That would only be interesting if Audio is missing after sleep.

[Cyberdevs]

@FEAM

 

For Audio you can see this post and use darkwake=8 and install CodecCommander.kext in /S/L/E using kext utility or kext wizard or any other kext installer that you like.

There's a newer version of Lilu.kext (1.1.7) as well that you might wanna check.

[FEAM]

Thanks guys. I will have a look at the weekend if anything works.

 

@sab4: Both kexts are installed and running, but these two kexts support more Broadcom devices than any other one. I installed them for the USB dongle. But macOS ignores the dongle as long as the onboard device is enabled. I found a post about "Bluetooth Firmware Updater" with many Qualcomm Atheros devices but the onboard chip seems not to be supported again.