Resolved 2006/2007 Mac Pro (1,1/2,1) and OS X Yosemite

[Hennesie2000]

Yes thats the point pretty much I would be happy with lion if it runs my gtx 560ti coming out of my old amd pc. Because I don't plan on buying the latest generation cards aren't they like 500 bucks and up something like that lol? Thats why I didn't even buy one for the pc because I can still game with the 560ti, I'll get a better card in the future. I'll be broke upgrading every 6 months.



Another question does lion have the best nvidia driver built into the osx for the 560ti or after installing and booting up do I simply go to nvidia.com and do the normal selecting the model card and OS like you do in windows?

Please take this discussion to another thread. I already have you a link to another thread that is all about using non EFI cards in a Mac Pro. It provides links too all the drivers you would bed and all the answers to your questions about what you can use.

 

[Galostro]

Recovey hd

Is there a thread that guide us on how to make a recovery HD?

 

[Hennesie2000]

Is there a thread that guide us on how to make a recovery HD?

If you build a Yosemite installer it will make a working recovery HD partition during the install.

 

[NOTNlCE]

Hi all -

Just wondering if the reboot issue on some machines was resolved. I got some free time to work on my Xserve, which used to boot Yosemite just fine, but now instantly reboots with a PCIe GPU installed. No problems whatsoever under Lion, even with the GPU installed.

Thanks,
-N

 

[Obocop]

Just wondering how people are feeling in general about the performance of Yosemite compared to Mavericks?

There's several articles online pointing to sluggishness, but I guess you get those claims every time a new OS comes out and should be taken with a grain of salt.

There hasn't been much talk of performance on this thread, so I'm assuming all is well. Did anyone manage to run benchmarks on Mav and then Yos?

 

[F1Mac]

Just wondering how people are feeling in general about the performance of Yosemite compared to Mavericks?

There's several articles online pointing to sluggishness, but I guess you get those claims every time a new OS comes out and should be taken with a grain of salt.

There hasn't been much talk of performance on this thread, so I'm assuming all is well. Did anyone manage to run benchmarks on Mav and then Yos?

I didn't run benchmarks, but the Finder and Safari are significantly slower in Yosemite. I went back to Mavericks (for other reasons) on both my 1,1 and 5,1 after 3 months in Yosemite, and the difference is more than obvious (even on the 5,1 a more recent, faster and officially supported machine). It's not just because the 2006 Mac Pro is an older machine, 10.10 is, indeed, sluggish.

 

[MacDann]

I ran Mavericks on the exact same machine I now run Yosemite on (10.2.2) and I can't tell a difference. I've run Geekbench on it both times and the difference was marginal at best.

I haven't noticed any sluggishness that I can see, however, I use SSDs for my drives, too.

MacDann

 

[Jayson A]

Can someone please shed some light on the wired mouse scrolling speed in Yosemite? I like using my wired nipple-wheel Apple mouse and in Yosemite there's basically 2 scrolling speeds. Insanely fast or insanely slow.

Does anyone else seem to have this problem?

Setting 1 is the slowest
Setting 2 is the same as 1
Setting 3 is the same as the highest setting

Please help! I like Yosemite, but I want to scroll like a normal person!

 

[Hennesie2000]

Can someone please shed some light on the wired mouse scrolling speed in Yosemite? I like using my wired nipple-wheel Apple mouse and in Yosemite there's basically 2 scrolling speeds. Insanely fast or insanely slow.



Does anyone else seem to have this problem?

Haven't experienced that issue on my one hackintosh.

 

[Jayson A]

Haven't experienced that issue on my one hackintosh.

Any ideas on how to fix it?

 

[MacVidCards]

Can someone please shed some light on the wired mouse scrolling speed in Yosemite? I like using my wired nipple-wheel Apple mouse and in Yosemite there's basically 2 scrolling speeds. Insanely fast or insanely slow.

Does anyone else seem to have this problem?

Setting 1 is the slowest
Setting 2 is the same as 1
Setting 3 is the same as the highest setting

Please help! I like Yosemite, but I want to scroll like a normal person!

Coincidentally I'm using same mouse on 5,1.

Has same issue.

Probably means they are 5 years old, Apple wants us to buy new ones.

 

[Hennesie2000]

Can someone please shed some light on the wired mouse scrolling speed in Yosemite? I like using my wired nipple-wheel Apple mouse and in Yosemite there's basically 2 scrolling speeds. Insanely fast or insanely slow.

Does anyone else seem to have this problem?

Setting 1 is the slowest
Setting 2 is the same as 1
Setting 3 is the same as the highest setting

Please help! I like Yosemite, but I want to scroll like a normal person!

Wait, you only have three settings?

 

[MacVidCards]

no. he means if you start on left as 1.

There are 8.

I am on 3 as shown and it is super-fast

 

[Hennesie2000]

no. he means if you start on left as 1.

There are 8.

I am on 3 as shown and it is super-fast

Yea I don't have that issue but it is on a hackintosh

 

[walindour]

I am right in the thick of this, not having a clue as what was going on until digging back through this forum. I believe I updated the OS without the fix and I am getting the same question mark folder and cannot boot into anything.

I couldn't even get a chime until I removed the battery for 10 seconds as per another discussion somewhere else. But I am back to a chime and stuck. I will always have a bootable partition for now on after this fiasco. I just hope I can get back to freaking normal.

I agree with this, but let me share. I have a 4 TB SSD/SATA hybrid drive as my main drive. I have a 1 TB Carbon Copy Cloner as a backup bootable drive. I have a third 1 TB drive that has a copy of my Yosemite installer on it. I have a 4th 1 TB drive that has Lion installed on it. I also have a 2 TB Time Machine, a USB stick with the Yosemite installer on it, and a bootable USB stick with Lion on it.

I updated to Yosemite on my Mac Pro 1,1 last November. I installed the Pike fix and updated to 10.10.2 with no difficulty. I awoke approx a week later to find a screen with a question mark folder on it. Out of the blue. NONE of the drives on my machine would boot (not even the Lion). I tried each one separately. Neither would it boot into safe mode. I tried my Yosemite USB stick - it would not boot. I tried my Lion Stick - it did boot. I tried my Yosemite installer from there and I was able to update again to Yosemite. I installed Yosemite Pike Fix and updated to 10.10.2 again. All has been well since. Not sure what happened. Just reporting what happened to me. I do think though, that when I was at the question mark screen, that I could have had 100 separate bootable drives and none of the would been accessible at that point.

 

[PeterHolbrook]

Can someone please shed some light on the wired mouse scrolling speed in Yosemite?

Mouse performance in Yosemite or outside Yosemite is totally unrelated to the purpose of this thread. Please, seek other venues for your quest.

 

[pettedemon]

Hi,
I installed 10.10.2 in my mac pro 1.1.
Yosemite doesn't work very well. There are too problems.
It is possible overwrite the EFI and return on LION ?
Thanks

 

[Jayson A]

Mouse performance in Yosemite or outside Yosemite is totally unrelated to the purpose of this thread. Please, seek other venues for your quest.

Well I didn't know if it was a bug due to running Yosemite on my Mac Pro 1,1 so I thought I'd ask about it here since I could only find 1 other person on the web with the same issue and nobody responded to his post.

 

[NOTNlCE]

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[Hennesie2000]

Coincidentally, I DO have this issue on my Hackintosh. Using the same mouse. And my mother has been complaining about the same thing on her iMac. Same mouse, just the Bluetooth version instead of USB. I think it's probably just something weird with Yosemite. You're not alone.

Have you tried cleaning the ball? It is a dirt trap under it.

 

[PeterHolbrook]

Well I didn't know if it was a bug due to running Yosemite on my Mac Pro 1,1 so I thought I'd ask about it here since I could only find 1 other person on the web with the same issue and nobody responded to his post.

If it had been a bug in Pike's boot.efi, don't you think others might have noticed such an obvious "bug"? Again, this is not the place to discuss such issues.

 

[richgoga]

Mouse performance in Yosemite or outside Yosemite is totally unrelated to the purpose of this thread. Please, seek other venues for your quest.

I remember saying something very similar to you in this very thread when you were banging on about Little Snitch issues. What changed your mind?

 

[PeterHolbrook]

Hi,
I installed 10.10.2 in my mac pro 1.1.
Yosemite doesn't work very well. There are too problems.
It is possible overwrite the EFI and return on LION ?
Thanks

Overwrite the EFI? Obviously, you don't know what you are talking about. In any case, you can use a Snow Leopard or a Lion install DVD, reformat your Yosemite disk and install either of those operating systems.

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I remember saying something very similar to you in this very thread when you were banging on about Little Snitch issues. What changed your mind?

I haven't changed my mind and the issue was entirely different. To begin with, I wasn't the one having problems with Little Snitch, and you know that. I simply stressed that a couple of forum members were experiencing problems with the Yosemite custom bootloader that they hadn't experienced with the Mavericks custom bootloader. In the end, the whole issue was due to a corrupt Little Snitch installer that those users had downloaded. It never happened to me. You, sir, are widely out of line.

 

[richgoga]

I simply stressed that a couple of forum members were experiencing problems with the Yosemite custom bootloader that they hadn't experienced with the Mavericks custom bootloader

Thanks for highlighting my point so well. Now we have a couple of members having issues with actual Apple hardware, rather than third party software.

I doubt it's down to the bootloader, but at least an Apple mouse issue has less irrellavance to this thread than any third party software.

You only think I'm way out of line because im calling out your contradictory posts.

How about you take 5 to read through all of your previous comments with an open mind? Then you might see why I'm taking the time to write this. You, sir, have a bad attitude.

 

[PeterHolbrook]

You only think I'm way out of line because im calling out your contradictory posts.

How about you take 5 to read through all of your previous comments with an open mind? Then you might see why I'm taking the time to write this. You, sir, have a bad attitude.

I don't need to read my previous comments because I know perfectly well (and so do you) that:

1. I wasn't the one having any problems.
2. It was conceivable that the bootloader might be somehow related to the issues two other people were experiencing and which I had not experienced myself (although I use Little Snitch, which does not seem to be your case).
3. However, the case of mouse performance is manifestly totally unrelated to the content of this thread.

So I'm amply satisfied that you think I've expressed my point so well. It continues to be very clear. It isn't contradictory AT ALL, and you are manifestly out of line. Anything else, "sir"?