Experience on my machine with almost exact same specs

mfischl commented 3 years ago

Experience report

...the only difference is I have 16 gigs of ram.

Things that work

4k/Screen/Graphics: Flawless, just perfect as far as I can tell
Touch screen: Flawless, even with gestures
Trackpad: Flawless with gestures
Keyboard: I don't know what layout you have, but on German one I cannot get any keys that require Alt-Gr to work yet. But that might be solvable with the correct keyboard layout settings in plain macOS.
Speaker sound: Works but sounds poorly
Bluetooth: Works and is discoverable, only tried connecting Sennheiser 4.40BT but that worked flawlessly. Also reconnecting on its own worked perfectly. Only microphone on it didn't work.
Second screen with USB C: Flawless
Camera: Flawless
Internal microphone: Flawless
Battery info: Flawless

Things that don't work

Airdrop: Does not work, not discoverable by other original macbook and vice versa
Microphone on bluetooth headset: Does not work, just silent
Same black screen issue after boot, though I think everything is initialized since on install on the same issue I got visually impaired help to automatically talk to me
Airplay: Does not discover Samsung TV, did not try any other device, but Samsung works with original macbook
FN keys: Only volume and play/skip buttons work, brightness and others don't
Hard clicking triggers same action as three finger swipe up
- Hard clicking on applications/icons opens their preview
- That seems to be the lookup feature, can be disabled and makes it a little better, but still doesn't allow dragging dock icons for example
USB hot plug does not work
SD card hot plug does not work
Second screen with hdmi crashes and reboots on plugging in
Wifi doesn't automatically reconnect on boot, even though automatic reconnect is enabled

Man this is awesome though, I am beyond happy! That is like a 300% upgrade from Windows, thank you for your work! I was really lost for making open core stuff work but I hope I can help on runtime issues a little bit now 🙌 Tell me if I need to watch out for something else.

mfischl commented 3 years ago

Some corrections:

USB hot plugging works for 3.0 devices on one port only, but on that one it does work
WIFI is reconnecting automatically if added to the list of known networks manually

merken commented 3 years ago

Found a post on Tonyx86mac that might fix the the 3 minute black screen, will try tomorrow...

mfischl commented 3 years ago

Also, with https://github.com/hacker1024/Dell-Inspiron-7586-Hackintosh/blob/big_sur/EFI/OC/Kexts/USBMap.kext/Contents/Info.plist I got all two USB ports to work with both USB 2.0 and 3.0 devices fully. Maybe you could add that.

hacker1024 commented 3 years ago

@mfischl Damn, none of my 3.0 ports can be hot-plugged with my own map on my laptop with identical specs. Lucky.

As for your hard-clicking issues, this is actually a new feature of VoodooI2C, intended to simulate the force click feature from real MacBook trackpads. Disable "Force Click and haptic feedback" in the trackpad preferences and you should be good to go.

merken commented 3 years ago

Brightness keys work with FN+S and FN+B (Tip: Screen Brightness) 😃 I've updated the repo (new kexts, and a possible black screen fix).

Please report your findings

mfischl commented 3 years ago

That is amazing news! 🎉 I will try and report back as soon as I can

mfischl commented 3 years ago

I got around to trying this now. 4 out of 4 times it booted directly without a black screen, which is great success 🎉 But, there is a major caveat: Wifi doesn't work anymore at all. It shows in the top bar as greyed out and after booting I can not click it. After some time I can but it just doesn't work. It doesn't show any SSIDs to connect to and also when going to Network settings, the WIFI adapter doesn't even show. I tried putting the old Airport and itlwm kexts instead of the updated ones but that yielded the same result. Did you change any other configuration related to WIFI? EDIT: I should mention I am still on Catalina. Did you create that configuration now for BigSur?

merken commented 3 years ago

@mfischl Yes, I changed it to itlwm instead of Airport, please install and use the Heliport app included in this repo to connect to wifi: https://github.com/merken/Inspiron7586/blob/main/tools/HeliPort.dmg

hacker1024 commented 3 years ago

Has anyone tried AirportItlwm? I've found it makes Bluetooth quite unstable, with devices disconnecting frequently. Regular itlwm reduces the disconnections, but doesn't completely fix the issue either.

mfischl commented 3 years ago

@merken Just wow... This update now made booting super fast, without a single black screen yet, plus sleep is working now! I close the lid, I open the lid and its there within a split second. Not a single kernel panic or anything yet. Absolutely great work!

Something I noticed is that battery percentage would sometimes jump great lengths. Like, I opened it now with 38% and suddenly it jumped to 6%.

mfischl commented 3 years ago

Small correction now: After a reboot sleep is broken again. Subsequent reboots didn't solve the issue. I did reboot before also, but at a certain point it broke. Still not sure what caused it.

merken commented 3 years ago

Updated for Big Sur (new Kexts + config.plist changes)

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