ASUS-GL503GE-Hackintosh

Discussion, necessary configurations and instructions to get ASUS ROG GL503GE laptop working with macOS Mojave 10.14.x. Mojave is strongly recommended. The following should also work with all ASUS GL503GE.

Notes

1. 128 GB NVMe SSD is used for installing macOS
2. APFS partition format has to be used
3. If you are upgrading from the previous version and your partition is HFS+, better boot the installer, unmount the partition and convert it to APFS

Pre-installation

Get yourself a Mojave USB installer with Clover installed. Important Clover settings (via Clover Configurator) are:

1. Acpi SSDT PluginType checked
2. Graphics: Inject Intel checked
3. Kernel Patches Kernel LAPIC, KernelPM and AppleRTC enabled
4. SMBIOS: MacBookPro15,2
5. UEFI Drivers

Kexts installed to /EFI/CLOVER/kexts/Other: FakeSMC, VoodooPS2Controller

BIOS Settings

1. Secure Boot: Disabled
2. SATA mode: AHCI
3. DVMT-Preallocated: 64MB

Post Configuration

Any changes made to kexts are to be followed by sudo kextcache -i /. Every external kext mentioned is assumed to be the latest.

• First Steps

1. Lilu and FakeSMC kexts installed to /Library/Extensions
2. DSDT files generated by Clover to the EFI partition
3. Drop all _DSM methods

CPU Power Management

1. Clover ACPI PluginType enabled
2. Clover Kernel Patches Kernel LAPIC, KernelPM and AppleRTC enabled
3. ACPIBatteryManager kext installed to /Library/Extensions

ALC295 Realtek Audio

Internal speaker and microphone work. For Headphone output, volume balance has to be either left or right to make the sound normal.

1. AppleALC kext installed to /Library/Extensions
2. Clover Audio injection Inject=3

PS/2 Keyboard

1. VoodooPS2Controller kext installed to /Library/Extensions and /EFI/CLOVER/kexts/Other (using keyboard in Recovery mode)
2. Karabiner (to remap your keyboard)

Intel UHD 630 Graphics

1. Enabled by device-properties injection (have Clover's Inject Intel unchecked, go with 0x3E9B0000)
2. WhateverGreen kext (with CFL backlight fix) installed to /Library/Extensions

Sleep and Wake

1. Manual static patching of USB _PRW 0x6D (instant wake) for Skylake, focusing on adding _PRW to XDCI and/or CNVW (Special thanks to MegaStood)
2. Alternatively, compare and modify your DSDT.aml file with the one provided in this repository

Backlight Control

Install the latest WhateverGreen. If you use AppleBacklightFixup, remove it.

1. Latest SSDT-PNLF.aml and SSDT-PNLFCFL.aml installed to /EFI/Clover/ACPI/patched

HDMI Port + Audio

No thorough test on this.

1. Disable WhateverGreen's HDMI injection by adding a boot flag -igfxnohdmi
2. device-properties combination of framebuffer-con1-type, framebuffer-con1-pipe and AAPL01,override-no-connect based on this post

USB 2.0/3.1 Ports

1. Clover USB injection Inject=false
2. USBInjectAll and XHCI-300-series-injector kexts installed to /Library/Extensions
3. SSDT-XHC.aml installed to /EFI/Clover/ACPI/patched for better USB support
4. Disable unused USB ports via /EFI/Clover/APCI/patched/SSDT-UIAC.aml

Realtek LAN

1. RealtekRTL8111 kext installed to /System/Library/Extensions and /EFI/CLOVER/kexts/Other (using internet in Recovery mode)

SATA controller

1. SATA-300-series-unsupported kext installed to /Library/Extensions

I2C ELAN1200 Precision TouchPad (pci8086,a368)

1. Kexts compiled from the source code (as of May 2019), can also be found in this repository under "Trackpad" folder, install the kexts to /Library/Extensions and rebuild kext cache.
2. DSDT editing for trackpad support (More info here) (look at ** MODIFIED **):

Device (TPD0)
{
    ...

    Name (SBFG, ResourceTemplate ()
    {
        GpioInt (Level, ActiveLow, ExclusiveAndWake, PullDefault, 0x0000,
            "\\_SB.PCI0.GPI0", 0x15, ResourceConsumer, ,
            )
            {   // Pin list
                0x0015
            }
    })

    ...

    Method (_STA, 0, NotSerialized)  // _STA: Status
    {
        Return (0x0F) // ** MODIFIED **
    }
    Method (_CRS, 0, NotSerialized)  // _CRS: Current Resource Settings
    {
        Return (ConcatenateResTemplate (SBFB, SBFG)) // ** MODIFIED **
    }

Trackpad works okay but with minor stuttering.

Miscellaneous

1. NoTouchID kext installed to /Library/Extensions (MacBookPro15,2 has Touch ID)

Things that do not work

NVIDIA Geforce 1050 Ti (Optimus)

Discrete graphic, we probably never see the day. For now, use SSDT-DDGPU.aml (in /EFI/Clover/ACPI/patched) to power it off.

Intel Wi-Fi AC 9560

Intel built-in Wi-Fi chipset, we again probably never see the day.

Thank a lot :

https://www.tonymacx86.com/threads/guide-booting-the-os-x-installer-on-laptops-with-clover.148093/ https://www.tonymacx86.com/threads/guide-patching-laptop-dsdt-ssdts.152573/ https://www.tonymacx86.com/threads/guide-laptop-backlight-control-using-applebacklightfixup-kext.218222/

Source

https://github.com/alexandred/VoodooI2C https://github.com/acidanthera https://github.com/RehabMan https://github.com/PoomSmart/Asus-FX504GE-Hackintosh