Flymin's Hackintosh profile on Thinkpad X1E

❗️Announcement

The Hackintosh accidentally woke my computer up during mid-night and got stuck (this happened in 2020.08 when I first trying to use opencore). The cpu kept working and caused a very high temperature for the whole night. After that my hardware is so unstable that after a few months, I cannot open it again. I reached several places trying to have someone fixed my motherboard IC. However, they all failed. Therefore, I decided to bought a real Macbook in order to not lose track of my research work.

Therefore, sorry for all of you following this project. I will not update in the future. Hope your machine can work well and enjoy your hackintosh.

Goodbye.

Update

Recent | Changelog Archive

[20210105] Update opencore to 0.6.5 and kexts.
[20201219] I encounter various kinds of problems (hibernation & system stuck) everyday after I updated OC to 0.6.4. I tried to update BIOS to the latest version (1.33). My hackintosh just stays alive for two days. Hope it will keep fine for longer time.
[20201103] Update opencore to 0.6.3 and kexts.

ATTENTION

Opencore is way too convenient for hackintosher to make their own EFI !!! see vanilla's guide
The opencore version of my project mostly refer to zysuper's repo
You need to fill out the PlatformInfo part to use my config of opencore

Hardware: Thinkpad X1 Extreme Gen 1

CPU: Core i7-8750H 2.2GHz
Memory: 16G 2667MHz DDR4
SSD1: intel 7600P SSDPEKKF256G8L
SSD2: Intel 760P SSDPEKKW256G8
Display: 1080p, non-touch
Graphics: Intel UHD Graphics 630
Wireless: Broadcom BCM943602CS
Sound card: Realtek ALC285
BIOS: v1.33
OS: OS X Catalina 10.15.7

Result

What works

Base OS
Sleep, wakeup, hibernation
Brightness, function keys for brightness control, NightShift
Intel Ethernet LAN (mini RJ45) and WIFI
Touchpad and TrackPoint
Audio, function keys for volume control, headphone jack
USB 3.1 ports, USB-C ports (only can be connected to USB 3.0 devices)

What doesn't work

Function keys Fn+F4, Fn+F7-F12
Smooth brightness adjustment
Nvidia Graphics Card 1050Ti
Thunderbolt 3 (not tested, have no usable eGPU)
HDMI output to external display

Known Issue

[Fixed] For releases prior to commit #f1fc8ce, I used a auto-reload script to make audio card available everytime I log in. However, this may cause a Kernal Panic when wake up from sleep. Layout 31 do not need this.
[Fixed] ~~Sometiimes headphone may not work after sleep (however, internal speaker can always work well). The ALCPlugFix can be used to fix the issue, see my modified version~~. For Catalina, you need to reinstall this if you have installed before.
[Fixed] Fan control by wdde in this issue#45, see here for instructions.
[Solved for now] AirPods may not work smmothly after waking up from sleep. I don't think it is the problem of AppleALC, but possibly BlueTooth. You can avoid this by turn off Automatic Ear Detection, see.

Add-ons

DSDT patch

~~Battery level display (directly use RehabMan/thinkpad x230i patch)~~
~~Keyboard function keys, volume and screen brightness (DSDT EC _Q14, _Q15 patch), see.~~
~~Audio Layout (change any one of the patches and change layout id to 31, this may remain rudimentary with alcid=31 in conflg.plist)~~

kext modifications

Customized AppleALC.kext

Set alcid=31 in E/C/config.plist. I made a custom version to ALC285 with layout 31, see pull #442 and my codec#0 paths
Deleted VoodooI2C*.kext

kexts above will cause about 5min boot lag for machines have no I2C devices
[2019.9.10] Use acidanthera's version of VoodooPS2

This is the first version that makes trick point, gesture and buttons on the track pad all usable. Thanks to wdde in this issue.

Acknowledgements

zysuper's Hackintosh
我认为最详细的 Opencore 配置解读：独行秀才的老窝
Opencore 补丁库 OC-little
This repo previously is a fork repo of Errrneist's repo. Since we have different hardwares, I reconsider configurarions in this repo as a standalone version.
[20191109] older release details and fork information could be found in the Archived version for this repo, here. (I cannot import those to this new repo)
darkal's Hackintosh
- same 8750H version, works fine on mine. See Release 10.14.6 v1.0
xuzhao9's Hackintosh
- we have very similiar hardware configs, but his DSDT table won't work on mine. You can try it out if there are some problems with my version.
RehabMan's DSDT patches
Telegram Hackintosh Group

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