Notes for macOS 12.0 (Monterey) #167

golimpio · 2021-07-22T02:18:16Z

This is for keeping tracking of what has to be changed in order to upgrade to Monterey.

I've done it myself, the update was simple and it can be done through the normal macOS Software Update (it takes a while though).

On my first attempt (Beta 3), the system was constantly freezing, but as per @dnsdk comment, this seems to be an issue with FakePCIID*. Without FakePCIID* the system seems to be stable (for a beta version anyway).

Back to the upgrade:

In order to upgrade to Monterey, we just need a couple of changes, and that's because bluetooth can't be injected the same way it is in Big Sur, and FakePCIID is currently not compatible with Monterey:

Replace BrcmBluetoothInjector kext by BlueToolFixup (DO NOT use BrcmBluetoothInjector for Monterey).
Disable FakePCIID* (all FakePCIID related kexts)

For reference:

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golimpio · 2021-07-22T02:24:37Z

To make it simple, here's the config bit for BlueToolFixup (Kernel > Add):

    <dict>
        <key>Arch</key>
        <string>x86_64</string>
        <key>BundlePath</key>
        <string>BlueToolFixup.kext</string>
        <key>Comment</key>
        <string></string>
        <key>Enabled</key>
        <true/>
        <key>ExecutablePath</key>
        <string>Contents/MacOS/BlueToolFixup</string>
        <key>MaxKernel</key>
        <string></string>
        <key>MinKernel</key>
        <string></string>
        <key>PlistPath</key>
        <string>Contents/Info.plist</string>
    </dict>

** Remember to remove BrcmBluetoothInjector

BlueToolFixup is part of BrcmPatchRAM, so just grab the kext from the official repository:

https://github.com/acidanthera/BrcmPatchRAM

dnsdk · 2021-07-26T06:30:48Z

The freezes problem is FakePCIID

golimpio · 2021-07-26T06:35:26Z

The freezes problem is FakePCIID

Thanks for letting me know, when I have a chance, I'll try it again without FakePCIID and see how it goes.

golimpio · 2021-07-26T13:07:28Z

Removing FakePCIID fixed the freezing issue.

Ruud-C · 2021-07-29T08:47:55Z

Monterey beta is working for me as well after disabling FakePCIID, which is nice (with FakePCIID it crashed for me as well). Unfortunately as a consequence sound is not working anymore.

golimpio · 2021-07-30T02:40:42Z

Monterey beta is working for me as well after disabling FakePCIID, which is nice (with FakePCIID it crashed for me as well). Unfortunately as a consequence sound is not working anymore.

I haven't tested beta 4 yet, but on beta 3, sound/mic were working fine here. I'm not sure if you're talking about HDMI audio (I haven't tested this one).

Also, I didn't test if audio was still working after sleeping.

golimpio · 2021-07-30T02:55:38Z

About the freezing issue I've experienced before, it's still there unfortunately. I've tried to update my test SSD to beta 4 and it froze a couple of times already while browsing the internet and waiting for the beta 4 download.

FakePCIID was a main issue, but unfortunately for me, it wasn't the only one.

Ruud-C · 2021-07-30T07:33:45Z

Monterey beta is working for me as well after disabling FakePCIID, which is nice (with FakePCIID it crashed for me as well). Unfortunately as a consequence sound is not working anymore.

I haven't tested beta 4 yet, but on beta 3, sound/mic were working fine here. I'm not sure if you're talking about HDMI audio (I haven't tested this one).

I'm running beta 4. I meant built-in audio, i.e. not via HDMI (haven't tried that). If I open sound settings it says that there are no input or output devices.

What I did to install Monterey was get the latest version of the files here from GitHub, so the latest config.plist, Open Core, kexts etc. In config.plist I disabled FakePCIID and BrcmBluetoothInjector but did not add BlueToolFixup yet since I don't use bluetooth. I also added itlwm since wifi didn't work without it. Other than that I did not change anything, so I am surprised to see that audio is working for you and not for me.

My system is not freezing, it froze once with FakePCIID enabled after which I disabled it and it has been running fine ever since.

nmhendriks75 · 2021-07-30T11:01:31Z

Notes on Monterey
I'm running Beta 4 on XPS9550 almost everything works after

Disable FakePCIID
Disable FAKEPCID_Intel_HDMI_Audio
Disable BrcmBluetoothInjector
Enable BluetoolFixup

What does not work is

External Monitor via HDMI port
Solved that by using USB-C to HDMI Adapter
Webcam sort of works but the image is really dark, not usable for online meetings

Ruud-C · 2021-07-30T11:40:12Z

@nmhendriks75 I had not disabled FakePCIID_Intel_HDMI_Audio, did that just now and now audio is working. Cool, thanks for the heads up

golimpio · 2021-07-31T00:17:09Z

Webcam sort of works but the image is really dark, not usable for online meetings

I couldn't notice the difference between Big Sur and Monterey, for me, the webcam image looks bad in both.

Have you notice any difference on Monterey? Or is it just as bad as it was in Big Sur?

nmhendriks75 · 2021-07-31T07:49:17Z

Using a dualboot now (Big Sur and Monterey).

The webcam always worked great on Catalina and Big Sur(first image below).
On Monterey the image(below) is almost completly dark but when actualy using the cam you can see some movement).

golimpio · 2021-07-31T07:59:20Z

Using a dualboot now (Big Sur and Monterey).

The webcam always worked great on Catalina and Big Sur(first image below).
On Monterey the image(below) is almost completly dark but when actualy using the cam you can see some movement).

That's really bad. I don't have this issue in Monterey, the image is fine compared to your.

Both images are from Monterey (beta 4):

I no longer have Big Sur to compare, but I've tested the webcam on both before replacing Big Sur, the images from both systems were the same over here.

golimpio · 2021-08-04T04:46:20Z

I've updated to OC 0.7.2 and the latest kexts, but I don't think there is anything relevant for this setup. Anyway, I've been using Monterey Beta 4 as my only OS and so far, it's fine, not bad for a beta.

A few things that I've noticed:

Waking up from sleep isn't too stable, a couple of times macOS became too slow after sleep and one time there was no sound;
Bluetooth isn't too bad, it works fine most of the time, but a couple of times it just turned off and wouldn't turn on until rebooting;
I haven't experienced any camera issues so far, but as related a couple of comments above, it's not stable yet;
The first time I've installed this Monterey, there was no sound, and then, after a few reboots, the sound was back, now, after upgrading OC and kexts, sound is gone again. I'll wait a bit longer to see if it comes back with the following reboots (like the last time).

It looks promising so far!

Edit: Sound is back and working again after a couple of reboots.

aaronjrodrigues · 2021-08-25T09:11:43Z

What does the Fake PCIID kext (or kexts) do? Like what function did they serve in Big Sur for it to be part of the kexts?

golimpio · 2021-08-26T00:25:37Z

What does the Fake PCIID kext (or kexts) do? Like what function did they serve in Big Sur for it to be part of the kexts?

Someone else might be more helpful in answering your question, until then, have a look at the readme file for the FakePCIID project, it explains why this kext exists:

https://github.com/RehabMan/OS-X-Fake-PCI-ID

Also, there are a few discussions about FakePCIID out there, for example:

https://www.reddit.com/r/hackintosh/comments/77d94h/can_someone_explain_fakepciid_and_fakeid_to_me/

For this specific project, we rely on FakePCIID + FakePCIID_Intel_HDMI_Audio.kext, to provide HDMI audio support for our laptop, which is also better explained in the first link above (from RehabMan repository).

It seems that AppleALC added controller patch for 100 Series, and in theory we no longer need FakePCIID_Intel_HDMI_Audio.kext, but I don't have an HDMI audio device to test/confirm it. More here: #152

golimpio · 2021-08-26T00:33:54Z

I've been running Monterey Beta 5 for a while and it performs a lot better than Beta 4. Unfortunately it introduced some compatibility issues with some apps I have (i.e. Photoshop, DaisyDisk). On the good side, it fixed issues with Chrome, which used to freeze every single day in Beta 4.

aaronjrodrigues · 2021-08-29T20:21:17Z

To make it simple, here's the config bit for BlueToolFixup (Kernel > Add):

    <dict>
        <key>Arch</key>
        <string>x86_64</string>
        <key>BundlePath</key>
        <string>BlueToolFixup.kext</string>
        <key>Comment</key>
        <string></string>
        <key>Enabled</key>
        <true/>
        <key>ExecutablePath</key>
        <string>Contents/MacOS/BlueToolFixup</string>
        <key>MaxKernel</key>
        <string></string>
        <key>MinKernel</key>
        <string></string>
        <key>PlistPath</key>
        <string>Contents/Info.plist</string>
    </dict>

** Remember to remove BrcmBluetoothInjector

BlueToolFixup is part of BrcmPatchRAM, so just grab the kext from the official repository:

* https://github.com/acidanthera/BrcmPatchRAM

Is it necessary to add that config bit from your post

All I did was just remove the FakePCIID kexts, replaced the bluetooth kext and did an OC Snapshot. That should be okay, right?

golimpio · 2021-08-29T22:11:54Z

Is it necessary to add that config bit from your post

All I did was just remove the FakePCIID kexts, replaced the bluetooth kext and did an OC Snapshot. That should be okay, right?

Edit: Sorry, I missed the part of the OC Snapshot, I haven't done it myself, but I think you're right, it should work and you don't need the bit from my post.

(I removed part of my reply, since it wasn't related to what you've asked)

aaronjrodrigues · 2021-08-30T06:47:51Z

Anyway, I got monterey installed (With FakePCIID and the Fake PCIID for HDMI audio and can confirm that HDMI Display nor Audio works but isnt an issue for me as I barely use it)

aaronjrodrigues · 2021-08-30T06:49:17Z

Normal audio is working fine, bluetooth audio is also working fine upon replacing BrcmBluetoothInjector with BlueToolFixup.

golimpio · 2021-09-01T05:54:06Z

Starting beta 6 (21A5506j) tests.

I've tried to install it via normal Software Update, but it didn't work for me. I had no issues during the installation, but when it finished, it got stuck after I've entered the filevault password: the progress bar (boot) only showed like 5% progress and then stayed there forever - at least a couple of hours before I rebooted it.

On the next reboot, I've entered in the recovery mode and ran "Reinstall macOS 12 Beta", it automatically downloaded the latest beta and reinstalled it.

It took some time, but it was the easiest hackintosh installation I've ever done, I've just sat down and watched the whole installation process, the only thing I had to do was to enter the filevault password. This time it booted without any issues and everything went back to normal (so far).

aaronjrodrigues · 2021-09-01T09:23:31Z

Thats wierd, because it worked perfectly fine for me. I do not use FileVault though. I noticed that in the Software updates tab in System Preferences that after downloading it takes a while where it shows 30 minutes remaining but it takes longer than that after rebooting to update everything went very smooth for me.

aaronjrodrigues · 2021-09-01T09:26:06Z

Also, forgot to mention that when I installed monterey a few days ago that the webcam also works perfectly fine. This beta has been really stable so far, hopefully it would continue this way for me.

golimpio · 2021-09-23T00:00:36Z

The last Beta 7 update was a bit tricky to install, for what I've read, quite a few people were having issues as well.

The issue I was having was that when the system tried to update, it rebooted into a loop. Some people reported that they could install it successfully after temporarily changing the SMBIOS to iMac17,1, but I haven't tried it as it's not a good workaround IMO.

It seems that OC 0.7.3 isn't compatible with this update and there is already a change in 0.7.4 that solves the issue with the Beta 7 update. I can confirm that in my case, using the trunk version of OC 0.7.4 did the trick.

After the Beta 7 update is installed, the latest stable version (OC 0.7.3) can be used again to boot the system (the issue was with the install software only).

The change made in OC 0.7.4 is described here (Added large BaseSystem support in AdviseFeatures):

acidanthera/OpenCorePkg@1cb8490

golimpio · 2021-09-30T04:12:07Z

Beta 8 (21A5534d) updated successfully. I'm using OC 0.7.4 and I haven't tested it with the current stable version 0.7.3.

golimpio · 2021-10-11T06:22:18Z

Beta 9 (21A5543b) updated successfully. It needs the latest stable OC 0.7.4.

Some people have reported that external monitor wasn't working before Beta 9, but I couldn't verify it (note: these reports weren't for this laptop).

golimpio · 2021-10-14T04:13:58Z

Beta 10 (21A5552a) update was successful as well.

golimpio · 2021-10-19T04:14:31Z

Almost there... The macOS Monterey version 12.0.1 RC (21A558) was updated successfully.

golimpio · 2021-10-20T11:14:45Z

I've started testing the relatively new kext for the SD card reader: RealtekCardReader (so far it seems to work well).

RealtekCardReaderFriend was also installed, as it seems to be required for macOS to recognise it as a built-in card reader device.

krim404 · 2021-10-20T16:37:40Z

is the card reader still draining the battery very fast?

golimpio · 2021-10-20T21:13:40Z

is the card reader still draining the battery very fast?

I haven't tested it.

TBH, the battery on my laptop doesn't last long nowadays and I use it always plugged. Until this week, I had the SD card disabled in BIOS, so this is actually the first time I'm using it.

I've unplugged the laptop from the power for a simple test and I can see in coconutBattery that it's draining fast, it went from 98% to 91% in about 5 minutes (display is ~ 90% bright). Unfortunately I don't have the numbers to compare with the sd-card disabled, but it was already draining fast before enabling the card.

Although I didn't have any major issues so far, I'm still not confident that this new kext is stable enough, if I have a sd-card inserted, the coconutBattery app won't start and it will crash, which is odd but I hope it's just an isolated issue.

I'll keep using it and will see if it's at least stable to read/write to sd cards.

golimpio · 2021-10-22T08:27:43Z

Another RC installed without any issues: 12.0.1 (21A559).

At this point I think it's safe to say that Monterey works well with this laptop. There are more tests to do though, like external monitors. Hopefully I might be able to test it soon.

I'm waiting to the final release before sharing my OC config. But if anyone need it, just ask.

aaronjrodrigues · 2021-10-26T10:14:30Z

Is it just me but I am trying to update to 0.7.4 from 0.7.1 to update to Monterey but it just doesnt work.

After replacing boot64, opencore.efi and openruntime my gui for the boot selector goes and when booting into macos i get the ocb error.

golimpio · 2021-10-26T19:55:30Z

Is it just me but I am trying to update to 0.7.4 from 0.7.1 to update to Monterey but it just doesnt work.

OC 0.7.4 is working fine here. I've attached my OC folder:

OC.zip

golimpio · 2021-10-27T03:50:43Z

After replacing boot64, opencore.efi and openruntime my gui for the boot selector goes and when booting into macos i get the ocb error.

About the GUI, have you updated OpenCanopy.efi?

It usually has to be the same version from the OC you're running as a general rule, but sometimes they don't change anything, in that case, it doesn't make any difference, but when there are changes it might break your GUI if you don't use the same version.

aaronjrodrigues · 2021-10-28T06:57:19Z

After replacing boot64, opencore.efi and openruntime my gui for the boot selector goes and when booting into macos i get the ocb error.

About the GUI, have you updated OpenCanopy.efi?

It usually has to be the same version from the OC you're running as a general rule, but sometimes they don't change anything, in that case, it doesn't make any difference, but when there are changes it might break your GUI if you don't use the same version.

I had tried doing that when someone in the hackintosh discord recommended me to, But it didn't get fixed unfortunately.

aaronjrodrigues · 2021-10-28T06:58:51Z

Is it just me but I am trying to update to 0.7.4 from 0.7.1 to update to Monterey but it just doesnt work.

OC 0.7.4 is working fine here. I've attached my OC folder:
* [OC.zip](https://github.com/krim404/DellXPS15-9550-OSX/files/7421122/OC.zip)

After using your EFI and putting in my iMessage serials and stuff and I was able to successfully able to update to Monterey - Thank you so much, I also love the theme that you have in there.

golimpio · 2021-10-30T21:27:31Z

@krim404 sorry, I only saw your msg now.

I noticed that the 12 branch is created already, thanks!
Can I close this issue? Did it work fine or did you need to do some modifications?

krim404 · 2021-10-30T23:38:39Z

it worked out of the box for me. so we can close this :)

nmnobre mentioned this issue Oct 30, 2021

Can this repository be used for macOS monterey? jardenliu/XPS15-9560-Ventura#208

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krim404 closed this as completed Oct 30, 2021

Notes for macOS 12.0 (Monterey) #167

Notes for macOS 12.0 (Monterey) #167

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