GUIDE How to Enable Thunderbolt 3 Hotplug on macOS

[PTuser]

Hi - Further to my message on another thread - Im running Catalina 10.15.6 on a up4-x79 MB . Ive installed Titan Ridge Thunderbolt card which I flashed with DSM Mac firmware -latest version. Im using the pin method as I don't have a TB header. I got a friend on another forum to modify the SSDT for TB for Mac Pro 5.1 to my Hackintosh. Its working in that all devices except the most important one - A Focusrite Red Line 16 Audio Interface are working.The Red is seen by my system and can be controlled via the app and has a green Thunderbolt light showing its happy however it won't play system audio and as a result won't play any audio app. I have confirmed Thunderbolt works on the Red by testing the unit on my Mac mini which is a TB2 - I have enclosed screenshots of IOreg and Sys Prof for the device working on that machine - there are some differences. Im not clever enough to know if they are significant. Having found this thread I tried the steps above - the SSDT seems to have the right numbers although my bus is NPE9 - I installed the two files in the relevant EFI folders. This actually killed TB completely in my machine. Took a while to get back to where it was. Im really hopeful that someone with more knowledge can spot what I don't have right here. I think im close but the last part of this jigsaw is driving me to drink... Files enclosed as requested together with a working version in the Mac mini folder.

 

[rickymaru]

The configuration is not as per the guide.
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Sorry but I don't understand. Do you know why I cannot see my thunderbolt hardware in IO registry?
Thanks

 

[EliteMacx86]

Sorry but I don't understand. Do you know why I cannot see my thunderbolt hardware in IO registry?
Thanks

For that, the configuration must be upto the mark, as per the guide.

 

[rickymaru]

For that, the configuration must be upto the mark, as per the guide.

Please can you be more specific?

 

[i0ntempest]

Thanks for the guide. Is it normal to see "Thunderbolt: No drivers are loaded." under Thunderbolt tab in System Information app? My devices are working though.

 

[EliteMacx86]

Thanks for the guide. Is it normal to see "Thunderbolt: No drivers are loaded." under Thunderbolt tab in System Information app? My devices are working though.

Yes, that's very normal.

 

[Alectardy98]

have you found out a way to get rid of the annoying text at the top left when laughing clover?
to be clear, everything is working perfectly fine, I just want to figure out a way to remove this text?

 

[RobertoUK]

hey Great Post.
So I have a very similar Hackintosh.

I'm a beginner on the Hackintosh world, and at the moment I'm stuck where you said to change the ACPI as I've never used MACIA before
If you could spare some time to help a newbie trying to get my work done, I would be very thankful mate.

 

[LiveSorcerer]

Great, I will test this how-to.
Tks

 

[EliteMacx86]

have you found out a way to get rid of the annoying text at the top left when laughing clover?
to be clear, everything is working perfectly fine, I just want to figure out a way to remove this text?
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Yes, this a common issue and i'll check it soon. It's just and error displaying.