catmater

@Jake Lo i have two question:

1. when notebook wakeup from sleep (just open lid) screen and action are freezing or hang for some time (about 20-30 sec) and screen may by black, or mouse freezing, or no login window, etc. After 20-30 sec all working normal. 

2. from time to time when i power off notebook, and power on - got KP (VoodooGPIO kext). It seems to me that this happens when the power is different when turned off and on, for example, turned off when powered by the AC, and turned on when powered by the battery and backward. 

Do you have any idea what i can read 'bout it?  

Can't work with two monitor in any mode. Only one can display information. Trying different variants: DP + DP, DP + HDMI , e.t.c. 

Never mind, i use one 27 2K monitor

Dell Precision Tower 3620

CPU: QuadCore Intel Xeon E3-1245 v5, 3700 MHz (37 x 100)

Motherboard:  Intel Sunrise Point C236, Intel Skylake-S WS

Video: Intel HD Graphics P530 (two DP port and one HDMI)

Audio: Realtek ALC899 

Network: Intel I219-LM

Display: 2560 x 1440

 

So , 2 day on Catalina - work great!

Work almost all: 

CPU stepping, thermosensor, sleep, etc.

Video with HDMI/DP output,  2560 x 1440

Sound speaker stereo, loud and quality. 

Headphones sound in jack.

Mic (Siri also work)

Ethernet card

USB port (all 12 usb)

Cardreader

Not working

Two monitor mode. 

 

Config: 

v2 EFI_T3620_catmater_v2.zip

 

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DELL Precision Tower 3620 - High sierra

DELL Precision Tower 3620 - Mojave

 

Very-very grateful for the support to @Jake Lo!

Success upgrade to catalina 10.15

Work almost all: 

• CPU scaling
• Video with HDMI output 2560 x 1440
• Sound speaker stereo
• Headphones sound in jack
• Mic (Siri also work)
• Touchpad with some two fingers gesture 
• Full level backlight
• Wifi and bluetooth (wifi card replace with dw1560 - BCM94352Z)
• Ethernet card
• USB ports
• Sleep
• Touchscreen

Not working

• fingerprint sensor (no kext support yet)
• cardreader (no kext support yet)
• NFC (no kext support yet)

Glitch

• Slow wakeup from sleep mode (about 30-40 sec), and no reason why.  Kaspersky for mac!

 

Don't forget after install or upgrade to Catalina 10.15 to copy files from Copy2LE folder to /L/E  and change permission / rebuild cache

 sudo cp -r Copy2LE/* /L*/E*/

 sudo chmod -Rf 755 /L*/E*

 sudo chown -Rf 0:0 /L*/E*

 sudo kextcache -i /

 

 

And of course don't forget completely turn off hibernate for a quick wakeup after lid open. 

sudo pmset hibernatemode 0

sudo rm -f /var/vm/sleepimage

sudo pmset hibernatefile /dev/null

 

History release

v2: 

• Fix for bluetooth

v3

• Watevergreen kext update to version 1.3.3

V4

• Many kext updated to latest
• Some kext moving to LE
• Clover update to latest version 5097
• Fully fix for some KP while boot (VoodooGPIO reason). 

 

 

 

7480-catalina-catmat_v3.zip

7480_2019_10_20_catmat_v4.zip

Well, no more ideas 

 

P.S.

Fix my last bug - my DW1560 lost BT after sleep. 

Thx @GridH for solution.

Fixed BrcmFirmwareRepo and BrcmPatchRAM2 kexts here (add to SLE and rebuild cache): BrcmPatchRAM-20190818.zip

And of course don't forget completely turn off hibernate for a quick wakeup after lid open. 

sudo pmset hibernatemode 0

sudo rm -f /var/vm/sleepimage

sudo pmset hibernatefile /dev/null

 

 

try to update bios to latest (if you sure what you have same model - Latitude 7480)

latest - ver 1.15.1 from 18 Sep 2019

https://downloads.dell.com/FOLDER05813127M/1/Latitude_7x80_1.15.1.exe

This package contains the Dell system BIOS update. BIOS is a firmware that is embedded on a small memory chip on the system board. It controls the keyboard, monitor, disk drives, and other devices. This update addresses the Intel security advisories INTEL-SA-00213 and INTEL-SA-00233. The security advisory is a statement when a product is impacted by a security vulnerability and a remedy is available.

Don't need to make USB boot flash, just load this file (yes, exe) right from BIOS and update. 

And check bios setting as wrote here 

 

 

with v2.2-beta - all work fine for me, KP are gone!

try to use my last config for Mojave 10.14.6

EFI_7480_v6_catmat_2019_09_30.zip

 

You are not alone: https://github.com/alexandred/VoodooI2C/issues/201 , https://github.com/coolstar/VoodooGPIO/issues/5 

 

Try to replace kext to beta https://github.com/Erictoby/VoodooI2C/releases/tag/v2.2-beta.L

What new:

This beta version included v2.2 plus several fixes; It's compiled for MacOS 10.13+ (10.13, 10.14, 10.15).

1 Lagging or jumping of cursor movement since 2.1.4+.

2 Kernel panic caused by early GPIO interrupt calls during system boot.

3 Touchpad become unresponsive sometimes after waking up from sleep.

4 I2C timeout.

5 High CPU load in some systems.

VoodooI2C-2.2-Beta-L.zip

i have sometimes KP in VoodooI2C kext, then change power type (from battery into AC, and reverse) between reboot or power off (for example - work onto batteries, and power off. after that then i power on onto AC,  i'll have KP into VoodooI2C kext on booting. after KP and reboot - booting normal. always reason KP VoodooI2C kext

 

Another one question. It possible to use this wifi/bt card with High Sierra 10.13.6:

Atheros AR5B225 (802.11 b/g/n +802.15 BT) ? 

IO80211Family.kext  or AirPortAtheros40.kext  better?

Nothing changed from this post (i ask for that about year ago) ? 

Now i on AR5BHB92 , OOB, But i havn't bluetooth. 

 

Then i trying to install Mojave - get error for incompatible processor in log.

Mayby model notebook in clover wrong? 

Thank you for config - kext working nice - F5/F6 now changed brightness! But volume stop chnage volume by F11/F12 and start change only by Fn+F11/F12

You DSDT broke Wifi card functionality - card exist in system, but can't detect any one wifi network. When i revert to my DSDT - Wifi work fine.

hello again!

Upgrade my wife Asus X202e to latest High Sierra 10.13.6 (Mojave 10.14 not supported because Ivy bridge ) 

So, renew clover to latest 5018 and all kext to actual.

What work:

CPU Stepping/temp

Sleep (DSDT Patching)

Battery level (ACPI DSDT Patching)

Touchpad / Keyboard and etc.

Video with HDMI Out

Sound in Speaker an Headphones

Wifi (changed to broadcrom)

 

What not work as wished:

1. Can't change brightness level by press F5-F6 key. 

Karabiner detect this key as a brightness key (dec/inc) but nothing happends after pressing.   

Volume key change ok by F11-F12 key

Brightness change ok by slider in monitor option.

 

2. Touchpad work as mouse (no touchpad option and no gestures)

3. FileValut2 - start crypting, but reboot system while crypt process running in 3% and after reboot in clover don't see system partition. this is config mistakes or therefore i drop crypting process?

 

What wrong? Here is my last config

10.13.6_asus_x202-catmat.v2.zip

I have absolutely the same device ... 

Success update to 10.14.5 Mojave. work fine 

Just replace kexts in EFI  to new https://github.com/alexandred/VoodooI2C/releases

 

successful upgrade today to Mojave 10.14.4 - all work fine.

this is kexts-sensivity things, not OS. Nothing changes.

successful upgrade today to Mojave 10.14.4 - all work fine.

 

Remap keys into keyboard settings.

Is not full support realised yet.

Cant understand. Touchpad work fine, but only some two-finger gestures work.

Great!

5 - mic not working , headphones not working , speaker work.

11,13,56  - mic working , headphones not working , speaker work.

21 -  mic working , headphones working , speaker work!

Thank you! 

1.3.6 version - unofficial ? 

Here is my config: catmat-7480-v7.zip

But now i broke sound in headphones. cant find reason why, try layout 13,56 , but no luck

SSDT-ALC256.aml in ACPI/Patched , CodecCommander.kext in S/L/E , layout 13 , and no sound in phones. Then i plug phones in jack, sound off (speaker) but no sound in phones. 

@Jake Lo, did you have any advise ? 

@Jake Lo, not actual, fixit by myself.

But not all TV detected   Fix it too.

 

Before the migrate to Mojave worked, and after the migration, this is the only thing that I did not check. I apologize for being misleading.

remove this key, but after plug HDMI have hang and KP report after reboot