Asus ROG STRIX GL503VS (High Sierra)

animator013 · May 9, 2019

Hello,

so I tried to create a hackintosh from this nice laptop, I think i got far but still there are some things i don't know how to fix.

Specs:

- Intel Core i7 7700HQ Kaby Lake

- 1920x1080 IPS 144Hz G-sync

- NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 8GB GDDR5 (has only dedicated card)

- NVMe SSD 256GB PCIe PM961

- TB3/USB-C port

What works:

- Battery (ASUS-N55SL/Vivobook patch)

- CPU Power Management (XCPM)

- Audio - Speakers/Headphones/Internal Mic (AppleALC + CodecCommander + JackFix)

- Graphics (Nvidia drivers)

- Sleep (usb_prw_0x6d_xhc Skylake patch)

- TouchPad with gestures - ELAN1203 (VoodooI2C + DSDT patch) - an issue with buttons (https://github.com/alexandred/VoodooI2C/issues/190)

- Ethernet (with RealtekRTL8111.kext)

- HDMI

- DisplayPort

- SD Card reader

- WebCam

- NVMe - works OOB without patches

- Wi-Fi - DW1560 replacement (BrcmFirmwareRepo.kext, BrcmPatchRAM2.kext)

- USB-C - external monitors used usb-c to 2 HDMI monitors, worked OOB

What is not working:

- Brightness Control

- Keyboard Backlight - this does not work also under linux i can live with that

- Fn-keys except volume control and multimedia keys

Semi-working ?

- HDMI/DP Audio - seems only mini-displayport<->displayport cable works OOB with audio, mdp<->hdmi doesn't work also hdmi<->hdmi doesn't work, don't know if this is correct behaviour on mac or not

Not yet tested:

- Thunderbolt 3 (but i don't think this will work OOB)

SMBIOS: MacBookPro 13,1

Kexts in L/E: AppleALC, FakePCIID, Lilu, CodecCommander

So my primary problem is the brightness control. I tried this patching by onejay09, great finding! https://github.com/onejay09/osx/issues/1.

I patched my DSDT with PNLF and added that _DSM method. Nothing break and I had my internal display detected as built-in and also I have brightness slider in system prefs. But when I move the slider, it doesn't work. I tried also the AppleBacklight injector to no avail. If someone can help me with this I would appreciate it. Also tried with WhateverGreen.kext and without it. I didn't see any difference only the kext shows up in kextstat when I had it included in my setup. Nightshift is working if that is somehow important.

Also I would like to kindly ask you if someone can look at my setup and tell me if there is something what can be improved. For example don't know if I have to use USBInjectAll.kext or it can be done better.

Also if anyone can assist with the FN-Keys and HDMI audio i will be very grateful.

I am attaching ioreg, clover folder, kext stat.

If there is something else I should provide, please tell me and i will do so.

Thank you for your help.

EDIT:

Found this in verbose boot log:

Code:

2019-05-08 04:39:33.047727-0700 0x71       Default     0x0                  0      0    kernel: (AppleACPIPlatform) ACPI Error:
2019-05-08 04:39:33.047728-0700 0x71       Default     0x0                  0      0    kernel: (AppleACPIPlatform) ACPI Error:
2019-05-08 04:39:33.047991-0700 0x71       Default     0x0                  0      0    kernel: (AppleACPIPlatform) [_DSM]
2019-05-08 04:39:33.047992-0700 0x71       Default     0x0                  0      0    kernel: (AppleACPIPlatform) [_DSM]
2019-05-08 04:39:33.048124-0700 0x71       Default     0x0                  0      0    kernel: (AppleACPIPlatform)  Namespace lookup failure, AE_ALREADY_EXISTS
2019-05-08 04:39:33.048125-0700 0x71       Default     0x0                  0      0    kernel: (AppleACPIPlatform)  Namespace lookup failure, AE_ALREADY_EXISTS
2019-05-08 04:39:33.049086-0700 0x71       Default     0x0                  0      0    kernel: (AppleACPIPlatform)  (20160930/dswload-462)
2019-05-08 04:39:33.049086-0700 0x71       Default     0x0                  0      0    kernel: (AppleACPIPlatform)  (20160930/dswload-462)
2019-05-08 04:39:33.055376-0700 0x71       Default     0x0                  0      0    kernel: (AppleACPIPlatform) ACPI Exception: AE_ALREADY_EXISTS,
2019-05-08 04:39:33.055376-0700 0x71       Default     0x0                  0      0    kernel: (AppleACPIPlatform) ACPI Exception: AE_ALREADY_EXISTS,
2019-05-08 04:39:33.056141-0700 0x71       Default     0x0                  0      0    kernel: (AppleACPIPlatform) During name lookup/catalog
2019-05-08 04:39:33.056141-0700 0x71       Default     0x0                  0      0    kernel: (AppleACPIPlatform) During name lookup/catalog
2019-05-08 04:39:33.056709-0700 0x71       Default     0x0                  0      0    kernel: (AppleACPIPlatform)  (20160930/psobject-310)
2019-05-08 04:39:33.056710-0700 0x71       Default     0x0                  0      0    kernel: (AppleACPIPlatform)  (20160930/psobject-310)
2019-05-08 04:39:33.063162-0700 0x71       Default     0x0                  0      0    kernel: (AppleACPIPlatform) ACPI Exception: AE_ALREADY_EXISTS,
2019-05-08 04:39:33.063163-0700 0x71       Default     0x0                  0      0    kernel: (AppleACPIPlatform) ACPI Exception: AE_ALREADY_EXISTS,
2019-05-08 04:39:33.063928-0700 0x71       Default     0x0                  0      0    kernel: (AppleACPIPlatform) (SSDT:  OemNvT) while loading table
2019-05-08 04:39:33.063929-0700 0x71       Default     0x0                  0      0    kernel: (AppleACPIPlatform) (SSDT:  OemNvT) while loading table

This is coming from OemNvT -> my oem ssdt where nvidia pegp brightness methods are stored. Not really sure how to fix this or if this is even an error to fix.

ROGGL503VS.zip