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asus-tuf-15-opencore

OpenCore files for Asus TUF 15

Asus TUF 15 FX506L OpenCore OSX EFI

This repo was created after I was able to boot with the desktop files for Comet Lake platform. Most of the work to get this to work was done by MaLd0n, which can be found here: https://www.olarila.com/topic/12233-eblogexitbsstart-error-opencore-big-sur-111/?tab=comments#comment-138034 All credits for the DSDT file go to him.

**macOS Version: 11.1 Big Sur **

OpenCore Version: 0.6.9 Offical

MacOS on Asus FX506L

Updates

• 2021-06-03 Upgraded to MacOS 11.4 - USBports kext added - needed to make USB work Updated OpenCore to 0.6.9 , Lilu 1.5.3 and WhateverGreen - modified config.plist for black screen delay

• 2021-01-16 Change layout id to 17 - headphones + headphones mic now work

• 2021-01-15 (later :) ) Added older WhateverGreen to fix backlight black for 3 minutes.

• 2021-01-15:

  • Initial release .

Guide

• Go to GUIDE(Official Guide)

## System Information 💻

Perfectly Working Features

• Native Hardware NVRAM

• Intel UHD630

• Screen Brightness Control

• Screen Brightness Memoriztion After Reboot

• Native Screen Refresh Rate Settings

• USB 3.1 Gen 1

• Web Camera

• Battery Percentage

• Sleep & Wake

• ...

## Issues & Solutions

macOS

• Hackintool: The Swiss army knife of vanilla Hackintoshing.
• How to download a full ‘Install macOS’ app with software update in TERMINAL

Generate your own SMbios

Platforminfo

For setting up the SMBIOS info, we'll use CorpNewt's GenSMBIOS and ProperTree application. https://github.com/corpnewt/GenSMBIOS https://github.com/corpnewt/ProperTree

Because of the Comet Lake (10th Gen), we'll choose the MacBookPro16,4 SMBIOS:

Run GenSMBIOS, pick option 1 for downloading MacSerial and Option 3 for selecting out SMBIOS. This will give us an output similar to the following: (do not use these values, they are unvalid - use your own so you will have unique values) Type: MacBookPro16,4

Serial: C02WXXX2HV2B

Board Serial: C02826303CDHXXC8B

SmUUID: 88AA1336-8DF9-477A-A39F-03D016ED0807

The order is Product | Serial | Board Serial (MLB)

The Type part gets copied to Generic -> SystemProductName.

The Serial part gets copied to Generic -> SystemSerialNumber.

The Board Serial part gets copied to Generic -> MLB.

The SmUUID part gets copied toto Generic -> SystemUUID.

We set Generic -> ROM to either an Apple ROM (dumped from a real Mac), your NIC MAC address, or any random MAC address (could be just 6 random bytes, for this guide we'll use 11223300 0000. After install follow the Fixing iServices page on how to find your real MAC Address)

Reminder that you want either an invalid serial or valid serial numbers but those not in use, you want to get a message back like: "Invalid Serial" or "Purchase Date not Validated"

Apple Check Coverage page https://checkcoverage.apple.com/cn/zh/

Monitor

• Intel® Power Gadget
• IO Registry Explorer
• iStat Menus
• HWSensors

NTFS Writer

• Mounty

Audio

• KEXT required to enable Audio support : AppleALC.kext
• Make sure you inject audio layout-id = 17 in OpenCore - this is in the current config.plist

ELAN Trackpad (TPAD)

• Using the latest VoodooI2C as of now 2.6.3 with VoodooI2CHID
• The touchpad works mostly fine, but the buttons only work when the tochpad is touched. both buttons work as left button, so can be used for drag and drop.
• occassionally there is some delay/tear, right click works by enabling double finger click

Wifi & Bluetooth

• In order to get Bluetooth and Wifi working, you can use the drivers from https://github.com/OpenIntelWireless/itlwm for wifi
• For bluetooth https://github.com/OpenIntelWireless/IntelBluetoothFirmware
• For the UI, there is HeliPort: https://github.com/OpenIntelWireless/HeliPort
• I like to hide the wireless icon for the builtin card, dozer is a great tool for that: https://github.com/Mortennn/Dozer
• add heliport to your startup items under login and hide the orginal with dozer and it's hard to see the difference

GPU

iGPU

• HDMI Port :
  • Long story short, it won't work. Why? Because all display output is hard wired to the NVIDIA GPU. You can confirm this by going into NVIDIA controler panel in Windows and see PhysX, and you can see all display output is wired to the NVIDIA card, while the eDP in screen display is wired to the iGPU. Therefore, since NVIDIA card won't work, also Optimus won't work, the HDMI port or USB-C display output just won't work because the display output is not wired to the iGPU ( and dGPU is disabled) - note this works fine with a USB-c dock that has HDMI/display port on board

dGPU

• NVIDIA GTX1650 is not supported (for now only in High Sierra it seems) and is disabled
• Apple and Nvidia Are Over: NVIDIA drops CUDA support for macOS.
• Currently, there is nothing we can do. Let's hope Apple and NVIDIA work together again.

Power Management

• seems ok, can be improved by CPUFriendFriend

  Instructions on how to build a power management profile for any other CPU types can be found here:

  https://github.com/PMheart/CPUFriend/blob/master/Instructions.md

Sleep script

To have the laptop go to sleep when the battery is low, try: https://www.tonymacx86.com/threads/release-sleeponlowbattery-solb.264785/

Credits

• acidanthera for providing almost all kexts and drivers
• alexandred for providing VoodooI2C
• headkaze for providing the very useful Hackintool
• daliansky for providing the awesome hotpatch guide OC-little and the always up-to-date hackintosh solutions XiaoMi-Pro-Hackintosh 黑果小兵的部落阁
• RehabMan for providing numbers of hotpatches and hotpatch guides
• corpnewt for CPUFriendFriend
• And all other authors that mentioned or not mentioned in this repo

License

• This work is issued under the 996 License and MIT License.