Need help disabling kext in Big Sur with Opencore

[ozamal]

Hi all!

 

To cut the story and go straight to the point... I've done a fresh install of 11.2.8 with open core 0.7.4

 

Everything works BUT I need to disable AppleGFXHDA.kext so my RX Vega 64 does not freeze intermittently...

 

I used to have the issue in Majove... which was easily fixed by moving the kext somewhere else... But that's impossible to do in Big Sur it seems..

 

What is the best way of doing this?

 

What I've tried so far:

 

Blocking the kext in the config.plist

 

Method: https://www.reddit.com/r/hackintosh/comments/dmn84u/rx_vega_64_freezes_system_during_hw_accel_encode/

Outcome:Did not work... all my screen are still coming up as audio devices in the system profile

 

This is what I added under Kernel / Block in my config.plist

 

                    <key>Arch</key>

                    <string>Any</string>

                    <key>Comment</key>

                    <string></string>

                    <key>Enabled</key>

                    <false/>

                    <key>Identifier</key>

                    <string>com.apple.driver.AppleGFXHDA</string>

                    <key>MaxKernel</key>

                    <string></string>

                    <key>MinKernel</key>

                    <string></string>

 

Renaming the AppleGFXHDA.kext to something else

 

Method:https://www.tonymacx86.com/threads/solved-how-to-disable-applegfxhda.311512/

 

Outcome:Recked my install twice... where I would start booting to recovery mode without being able to actually boot into anything else

 

Here is what I did in order to remove /S/L/E/AppleGFXHDA.kext  FYI my hard drive name is BigSur

 

1. Boot Big Sur USB installer

2. Run Terminal app

3. csrutil disable

4. csrutil authenticated-root disable

5. Reboot then back into terminal

5. mount -uw /Volumes/BigSur

6. cd /Volumes/BigSur/System/Library/Extensions

7. mv AppleGFXHDA.kext AppleGFXHDA

7. Rebuild the extensions cache using: kmutil install -u --force --volume-root /Volumes/BigSur

When doing this step I get this warning though: "Warning: com.apple.driver.KextExcludeList was not found!"

8. Create a system snapshot to take these modifications under account at next reboot:

bless --folder /Volumes/BigSur/System/Library/CoreServices --bootefi --create-snapshot

9. csrutil enable

9. Reboot

[Slice]

There is old Disabler.kext which you have to edit. For example

https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/216750-applehda-disabler-kext/

 

[ozamal]

47 minutes ago, Slice said:

There is old Disabler.kext which you have to edit. For example

https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/216750-applehda-disabler-kext/

 

Thanks! Have had a good look, and I'm not too sure how to go about editing that.. 

[etorix]

2 hours ago, ozamal said:

                    <key>Enabled</key>

 

                    <false/>

 

If you want to BLOCK the kext, this has to be
 

	<key>Enabled</key>
	<true/>

 

[ozamal]

1 hour ago, etorix said:

 

If you want to BLOCK the kext, this has to be
 

	<key>Enabled</key>
	<true/>

 

Yes you are correct, I’ve made a typo there… I did enable it and it is still not blocking the kext unfortunately 

[BTRKT]

HI Kext loading 's operating in root authenticated space. Since Big Sur and APFS it's root S/L/E s write-protected by CSR

Related to 

 

As of now I think you can try to disable SIP authenticated-root to block or force a Kext

[cccsskit]

have you try to kext mod to remove the id from the IOPCIMatch?