surface-aggregator-module VS BigSurface

A derivative of checkn1x built on Debian Linux instead of Alpine Linux with linux-surface's surface-aggregator-module preinstalled to add keyboard support for various Microsoft Surface devices.

Ahh, that will be hard, however the linux community is great and has pretty much reverse engineered this https://github.com/linux-surface/surface-aggregator-module.

Other platforms, such as Microsoft's Surface devices have the Surface Aggregator Module whose role(s) haveexpanded to scopes such as handling input events, and over time, become much harder to handle on alternate operating systems such as Linux. Apple's T2's security processor, for example, imposes even more restrictions (and at a wider scope) than Microsoft's SSAM implementation.

We have WiFi with the use of a third party TP Link dongle and chris1111's Wireless USB OpenCore Adapter, fully functional trackpad with gestures with the help of BigSurface. Also have touchscreen & stylus working with SSDT-SURFACE although do not use it*

Let me know if linking the OpenCore log files would help in determining the issue. Unknown if this makes a difference but I also using the BigSurface.kext from https://github.com/Xiashangning/BigSurface which also includes a prebuilt ACPI for the Surface models.

I made use of rchiruma's setup for Monterey on this specific model laptop, which got my foot into the process, but didn't go as designed. For one, I was able to get to the macOS installer, but both keyboard and mouse were not recognized, so I overnighted a USB keyboard and mouse to at least get the OS onboarded. Once installed, I updated the BigSurface.kext that does much of the heavy lifting, which luckily got the attached keyboard and touchpad functioning, but broke USB and Bluetooth. This was causing a painfully long boot-up (close to five minutes), but everything else was functioning at that point.

I know that the Microsoft Surface 3 has an Intel i5 and from what I have read it is compatible with MacOS. I have seen that someone has made a kext for surface BigSur.https://github.com/Xiashangning/BigSurface

This was my very first Hackintosh, it actually wasn’t nearly as hard to set up as I first thought it would be. Maybe that’s because I used to run Linux. This is the lower-end model with a Kaby Lake i5-7300u, 8GB of RAM, and 256GB of onboard SSD storage. macOS is triple booted with Windows 10 and chromeOS. SMBIOS used - MacBookPro14,2 What works - Type Cover (keyboard & trackpad,) touch screen & stylus input with Surface Pen (no pressure support,) sleep, battery indicator, performance modes, and device buttons thanks to Xiashangning’s BigSurface and IPTSDaemon projects - Wi-FI via external dongle, audio with AppleALC What doesn’t work - Internal Wi-Fi + Bluetooth Current Issues - Kernel panic when Type Cover is closed and/or detached (only Ventura, also happens on reboot, known issue with BigSurface)

CPU: i5-7200U GPU: Intel Graphics 620 RAM: 8G LPDDR3 Motherboard/Laptop Make and Model: Surface Pro 5 (2017) Wifi/BT Card: USB Dongle Touchpad and touch display devices: BigSurface and IPTSDaemon