two clarification questions

[antgeth]

hello! (again) i am very very close to buying an X1 extreme (gen 1). but there are two matters i wish to clarify beforehand.

1. do external monitors work with all of the official Lenovo USB docks?

2. which is the best wireless card to buy? i plan to run 10.14, if that makes a difference.

[wu-hongjun]

hello! (again) i am very very close to buying an X1 extreme (gen 1). but there are two matters i wish to clarify beforehand.

1. do external monitors work with all of the official Lenovo USB docks?
2. which is the best wireless card to buy? i plan to run 10.14, if that makes a difference.

1. Official Dock support depends on whether it uses displaylink chip. If not then probably no

2. Read "Wifi" and "Bluetooth" section, it is very complicated

[antgeth]

1. Official Dock support depends on whether it uses displaylink chip. If not then probably no

2. Read "Wifi" and "Bluetooth" section, it is very complicated

thanks, i will look for displaylink docks.

i did read those sections, it was confusing! i don't care about bluetooth... would BCM943602CS work ok in 10.14?

[wu-hongjun]

1. Official Dock support depends on whether it uses displaylink chip. If not then probably no

2. Read "Wifi" and "Bluetooth" section, it is very complicated

thanks, i will look for displaylink docks.

i did read those sections, it was confusing! i don't care about bluetooth... would BCM943602CS work ok in 10.14?

If u don't care about bt then a simple DW1830 should work out of the box without much hassle

[antgeth]

many thanks, i will get a DW1830!

displaylink's website lists the "ThinkPad Hybrid USB-C with USB-A Dock" (40AF0135US) product. lenovo's site does not say that it is compatible with the X1E, but i see this on Amazon:

: Will this work for Thinkpad 1X Extreme?
A: Yes, model number 40af0135us will work with the Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Extreme.
By Lenovo Representative on December 10, 2018 

so i am hopeful it will!

my X1E is on the way.

[antgeth]

wow, it looks like the DW1830 is outrageously expensive! (~$100) i might get a DW1510 instead, at least until 1830 prices go down.

[wu-hongjun]

wow, it looks like the DW1830 is outrageously expensive! (~$100) i might get a DW1510 instead, at least until 1830 prices go down.

Wtf isn’t it like 20-30 dollars

[antgeth]

Wtf isn’t it like 20-30 dollars

please let me know if you can find one for that price!

[wu-hongjun]

Wtf isn’t it like 20-30 dollars

please let me know if you can find one for that price!

idk I bought it three years ago on ebay

[antgeth]

it looks like i can get a DW1820A card for free, so i will try to use that.

[wu-hongjun]

glhf!

[antgeth]

sorry to bother you, but i'm trying to boot the installer and it's quite frustrating. i'm getting the garbled text screen with "waiting for root device" error. i've tried different ports. it is a USB 3.0 stick but i have a USB 2.0 extension cord and i have tried that in multiple ports as well. i've included the USBInjectAll.kext and XHCI-unsupported.kext files, and tried the cpus=1 argument, but still no luck. do you have any tips?

~~(at this time i don't have any USB 2.0 sticks that are large enough to fit the installer on)~~ i found one, and tried it. still nothing : /

i'm trying to install 10.14.6.

[wu-hongjun]

sorry to bother you, but i'm trying to boot the installer and it's quite frustrating. i'm getting the garbled text screen with "waiting for root device" error. i've tried different ports. it is a USB 3.0 stick but i have a USB 2.0 extension cord and i have tried that in multiple ports as well. i've included the USBInjectAll.kext and XHCI-unsupported.kext files, and tried the cpus=1 argument, but still no luck. do you have any tips?

~(at this time i don't have any USB 2.0 sticks that are large enough to fit the installer on)~ i found one, and tried it. still nothing : /

i'm trying to install 10.14.6.

try 10.13 see if it will work?

[antgeth]

would it then be easy to upgrade to 10.14 from there?

[wu-hongjun]

would it then be easy to upgrade to 10.14 from there?

That's what I did, I did not start with a fresh install of 10.14 but instead installed 10.13 first and then updated it. Therefore, I don't know if this will solve your problem but doesn't hurt to try

[antgeth]

thank you, i will try that!

[wu-hongjun]

thank you, i will try that!

You can see all the iterations of EFI files in my repo, so probably just try one of those...? I don't know I sold this laptop for half a year now.

[antgeth]

i tried with the final update of high sierra, but i get a "this version of os x is not supported on this platform" message. i'll try an earlier build...

[antgeth]

no luck with that one either...

Reason: Mac-937A206F2EE63C01

it looks like that's just a specific MBP model. why wouldn't the kernel support it? i've tried the various config.plist files in the 10.13 folder.

[antgeth]

ok so i turned on -no_compat_check which helped me get past that error. however, i seem to be stuck in some sort of loop, with the following two sets of errors being generated every ~30 seconds. i'll see what i can find in the morning.

[antgeth]

oh wow, the installer actually booted! it just took about half an hour to boot! i am not sure why...

needless to say, i will continue later.

[wu-hongjun]

oh wow, the installer actually booted! it just took about half an hour to boot! i am not sure why...

needless to say, i will continue later.

once you are done with installing you can actually save your USB drive and copy my release (Maybe without all the ACPI files to avoid panic) to the system partition's EFI and see if that will boot, if that works, go ahead and upgrade to catalina.

[antgeth]

this is very peculiar! i wipe the drive with disk utility, then i go to install, but it won't let me because it says a newer version is already installed on the drive!

edit: changed the model in SMBIOS from MacBookPro15,1 to MacBookPro14,1 and so far it's working

[antgeth]

successfully installed high sierra! however it still takes about 30 minutes to boot. should i run multibeast or just try to copy your EFI config to the EFI partition? i assume either way i should do that before attempting to upgrade to mojave.

[wu-hongjun]

successfully installed high sierra! however it still takes about 30 minutes to boot. should i run multibeast or just try to copy your EFI config to the EFI partition? i assume either way i should do that before attempting to upgrade to mojave.

I have no idea, hackintosh is essentially just a lot of trial and error and patience (which will pay off! Finishing my X1E was a time span of over a year). Do what you think is right.

[antgeth]

i copied your high sierra EFI folder to the boot disk's EFI partition, but for some reason the only thing that is working is sound. not sure why that is! i will try upgrading to mojave now.

[wu-hongjun]

i copied your high sierra EFI folder to the boot disk's EFI partition, but for some reason the only thing that is working is sound. not sure why that is! i will try upgrading to mojave now.

Well, they improve over time...and features are added slowly, so stuff not working in earlier versions is expected.

[antgeth]

tried to use the mojave install app, but i'm unable to boot it properly. looks like a cpu issue? i copied your 10.14.5 EFI folder.

[wu-hongjun]

tried to use the mojave install app, but i'm unable to boot it properly. looks like a cpu issue? i copied your 10.14.5 EFI folder.

idk

[antgeth]

maybe it is because i have the 8750 instead of the 8850?

would it be worthwhile to obtain my own SSDTs and use those instead?

[wu-hongjun]

maybe it is because i have the 8750 instead of the 8850?

would it be worthwhile to obtain my own SSDTs and use those instead?

That might as well be the issue. I recommend you try out some of the 8750 machines which I linked their repo in the reader.MD.