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[avro707]

any idea why my flashed titanridge just wont work for thunderbolt?
it works fine as a usb3 card. usb sticks pluged into the card will show up as USB3 on my MacPro but no thunderbolt device will be regognized...
it has never worked. i keep updating to newer OC releases but it doesn't seem to get fixed.
I flashed it using the tutorials over at the testing TB3 thread and i set the bootflag in the cofig.plist to true but yeah no success.

systeminformation shows this under the thunderbolt tab:
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Any tips from the TB3 users here?
thanks in advance...

All I needed to do with mine was enable it in the config.plist (change false to true). On my two 2010 Mac Pros they each have a flashed Titan Ridge 2 and they definitely work:

I have the LG Ultrafine 5K display connected via the Thunderbolt port. I use the display port to displayport-in cable that came with the Titanridge package to pass the video through. The screen runs at 5K no problem at all. On both machines the Titan Ridge card is in PCI-E slot 4 as instructed.

 

[IceHouse]

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If you want to install and run Monterey (from Big Sur), you can turn on UpdateNVRAM and SecureBootModel by yourself. This is my personal suggestion as well. However, this ONLY works if your existing macOS is Big Sur or newer.

For older macOS, you better use the VMM approach (as per post #1314's video guide) to install Monterey. And this is what the advance users are testing. They need to make sure both Mojave and Monterey can be installed and ran in different combinations.

Hi together,

I am locking for a hint in the right direction because I don't get it...

I use the 0.7.5 original package from Martin, I'm running the latest 10.15.7 (19H1519) Catalina and want to test / try the latest (fixed) Monterey I downloaded via "gibMacOS-master".
I turn on VMM (SecureBootModel is allready set to Disabled) and reboot and then install successfully Monterey with the installer - then the machine is reboot but after showing me 1 sec. the white Apple on the black background it reboots instant and after then in a bootloop.

Hopefully I only missed a small adjustment...

 

[solaris8x86]

Hi together,

I am locking for a hint in the right direction because I don't get it...

I use the 0.7.5 original package from Martin, I'm running the latest 10.15.7 (19H1519) Catalina and want to test / try the latest (fixed) Monterey I downloaded via "gibMacOS-master".
I turn on VMM (SecureBootModel is allready set to Disabled) and reboot and then install successfully Monterey with the installer - then the machine is reboot but after showing me 1 sec. the white Apple on the black background it reboots instant and after then in a bootloop.

Hopefully I only missed a small adjustment...

Not a wise choice to go Monterey. It's just release 1. Call me to upgrade to this next year the same time.
You should go Big Surf 11.16.1. It is quite ok and it should be the final release of Big Surf. Everything is finetuned. Stable. I'm running 0.7.5 from h9826790. His work is also quite ok. Stable.

 

[tsialex]

You should go Big Surf 11.16.1. It is quite ok and it should be the final release of Big Surf.

Big Sur 11.6.2 RC (20G303) is on the developers seed channel since November 10.

 

[avro707]

11.6.2 was okay when I tried it.

I’ve since upgraded both the 5,1 machines to 12.1 b2 using the instructions in the Monterand topic to adjust the config.plist in the 0.7.5 package and after a few days of use they are working pretty well.

Normally I wouldn’t upgrade my work machine to a beta but it ran so well on my other computer so why not.

The only thing that annoys me in Monterey is that the little dongles for my Logitech mouse and keyboard must be plugged into a screen with USB ports or they don’t get detected. Same behaviour on the 6 core 5,1 with a Garmin ant+ dongle I use for connecting a Kickr Bike.

 

[antonlinus]

Hmm. I'm no expert but I did get mine working fairly easily. Do you have it in Slot 4? Apparently it HAS to be in that slot.

Yes i have it in the top Slot of my cMP5.1 (i think this should be slot4)

 

[0134168]

Yes i have it in the top Slot of my cMP5.1 (i think this should be slot4)

It is.

 

[antonlinus]

All I needed to do with mine was enable it in the config.plist (change false to true). On my two 2010 Mac Pros they each have a flashed Titan Ridge 2 and they definitely work:

View attachment 1910086

I have the LG Ultrafine 5K display connected via the Thunderbolt port. I use the display port to displayport-in cable that came with the Titanridge package to pass the video through. The screen runs at 5K no problem at all. On both machines the Titan Ridge card is in PCI-E slot 4 as instructed.

Hm. I dont have a Thunderbolt Display to test this but it sure doesn’t recognize my Thunderbolt Harddrive.

I also enabled it in the config.plist i also have it in slot 4 and i also flashed mine following the steps mentioned here on the forum including putting this connector cable between two of the pins on the back of the card.

I don’t know why its not working…

 

[offdwall]

Hm. I dont have a Thunderbolt Display to test this but it sure doesn’t recognize my Thunderbolt Harddrive.

I also enabled it in the config.plist i also have it in slot 4 and i also flashed mine following the steps mentioned here on the forum including putting this connector cable between two of the pins on the back of the card.

I don’t know why its not working…

Do you see it in the System profiler? Also have you tried another drive? I have one old Thunderbolt 1 drive that does not mount with the Titan Ridge card. All newer ones have no issue.

 

[avro707]

One thing I didn't mention was that the 5K display won't wake up if the machine goes to sleep, you have to unplug it and plug it in to the thunderbolt port. It's recognised when you start the machine and the Opencore bootscreen even shows on it, but when macOS starts (Monterey 12.1b2 for me) then the screen is asleep and you need to unplug and plug in the cable again to the thunderbolt port (Titan Ridge 2).

It's a minor inconvenience - probably not related to what you are experiencing.

 

[Gandalf999]

Hi all, I'm having some audio issues:
cMP5,1 - RX 580 8GB - Martins package 0.7.5 - Big Sur 11.6 - HDMI audio enabled in config.list - no sound on digital audio out port and no HDMI audio

Hello and thanks for everybodys great work and help! Successfully running Big Sur on above setup except for HDMI audio, which I enabled in config.list (changed false to true), but my system doesn't show any HDMI audio option in the Big Sur system sound settings nor in the system profiler, even after un- and replugging the HDMI cable. Any ideas?

Also was using Kodi on my old High Sierra system (same machine, different hard disk) with HDMI cable and digital audio out to Denon receiver. Worked great until upgrade to Big Sur. Now there's only video left, no more audio. But digital audio out shows up as an option in the Big Sur system sound settings but doesn't deliver any sound to the receiver. Did Big Sur break the digital audio output on the cMP5,1?

Thanks for any input

 

[MacNB2]

Hi all, I'm having some audio issues:
cMP5,1 - RX 580 8GB - Martins package 0.7.5 - Big Sur 11.6 - HDMI audio enabled in config.list - no sound on digital audio out port and no HDMI audio

Hello and thanks for everybodys great work and help! Successfully running Big Sur on above setup except for HDMI audio, which I enabled in config.list (changed false to true), but my system doesn't show any HDMI audio option in the Big Sur system sound settings nor in the system profiler, even after un- and replugging the HDMI cable. Any ideas?

Also was using Kodi on my old High Sierra system (same machine, different hard disk) with HDMI cable and digital audio out to Denon receiver. Worked great until upgrade to Big Sur. Now there's only video left, no more audio. But digital audio out shows up as an option in the Big Sur system sound settings but doesn't deliver any sound to the receiver. Did Big Sur break the digital audio output on the cMP5,1?

Thanks for any input

What do mean by "HDMI audio enabled in config.plist" ?
What are you setting false to true ?

 

[Gandalf999]

What do mean by "HDMI audio enabled in config.plist" ?
What are you setting false to true ?

I changed <false/> into <true/> so that it now looks like this:

<string>HDMI Audio</string>
<key>Enabled</key>
<true/>

 

[MacNB2]

I changed <false/> into <true/> so that it now looks like this:

<string>HDMI Audio</string>
<key>Enabled</key>
<true/>

Ahh now I get it. You are enabling the AppleALC.kext.
For my RX580 I do not need it and have no problem with HDMI audio output.
Just make sure WhateverGreen.kext is enabled, AppleALC.kext disabled and boot-args include -wegtree

 

[Gandalf999]

Ahh now I get it. You are enabling the AppleALC.kext.
For my RX580 I do not need it and have no problem with HDMI audio output.
Just make sure WhateverGreen.kext is enabled, AppleALC.kext disabled and boot-args include -wegtree

What you're describing is what I thought I had after installing Martins 0.7.5 package. After double checking, I can confirm that WhateverGreen.kext is enabled (as by default in Martins 0.7.5 package) and boot-args include -wegtree (as by default in Martins 0.7.5 package). I have now re-disable the AppleALC.kext, rebooted and again, no HDMI audio output available in system preferences or system profiler. Do you have the option to select HDMI audio from your sound preferences? Will it make a difference if I upgrade to Big Sur 11.6.1? My RX580 is an MSI model. Could it be that they don't have HDMI audio on certain models? If the gpu was faulty, what would be the best way to find out? Thanks a lot for your time btw :c)

 

[MacNB2]

Do you have the option to select HDMI audio from your sound preferences?

Yes I do:

Will it make a difference if I upgrade to Big Sur 11.6.1?

No. the OS is not the problem. My HDMI output works across High Sierra to Big Sur when booting from OC.

My RX580 is an MSI model. Could it be that they don't have HDMI audio on certain models?

Unlikely. AFIK, all modern GPU's with HDMI connector output audio.

If the gpu was faulty, what would be the best way to find out? Thanks a lot for your time btw :c)

You are welcome.
Mojave supports RX580 natively (you just don't get boot screen). If you have a drive with Mojave, you can boot that OS WITHOUT OC and check audio is enabled.
Alternatively, if you try Linux Live on a USB. There are plenty guides on how to do that.
Similarly, test with Windows.

Have you ever had HDMI audio working in your setup ?
Have you swapped the HDMI cable to you monitor to test if it's the cable ?
Are you using some kind of adapter like HDMI-to-DVI ?
Silly question but I'll ask...are you certain that your monitor supports audio...i.e. it actually has speakers ?

 

[Gandalf999]

Yes I do:

No. the OS is not the problem. My HDMI output works across High Sierra to Big Sur when booting from OC.

Unlikely. AFIK, all modern GPU's with HDMI connector output audio.


You are welcome.
Mojave supports RX580 natively (you just don't get boot screen). If you have a drive with Mojave, you can boot that OS WITHOUT OC and check audio is enabled.
Alternatively, if you try Linux Live on a USB. There are plenty guides on how to do that.
Similarly, test with Windows.

Have you ever had HDMI audio working in your setup ?
Have you swapped the HDMI cable to you monitor to test if it's the cable ?
Are you using some kind of adapter like HDMI-to-DVI ?
Silly question but I'll ask...are you certain that your monitor supports audio...i.e. it actually has speakers ?

Ok so I think thanks to you we're zooming in on the problem...
I've never seen a sound / audio option HDMI in my last system (High Sierra with a GTX980). I've now upgraded to Big Sur with OC and an RX580 but have also never seen an HDMI audio option anywhere. BUT I've just checked the system profile and look what I found:

So there's definitely some audio functionality connected to the gpu in slot 1 (like on your screenshot) but it doesn't show up anywhere else. Drivers are installed. But note the funky name as compared to your profile. Yet the same funky device name pci1002,aaf0 shows up further down in your pci device descriptions. Then in the audio section, there are only the usual suspects:

And in system preferences, no HDMI either...

I don't have a drive with Mojave but with High Sierra. Do you think I can check within High Sierra without OC aswell in order to see whether HDMI shows up there (instead of Mojave)? I don't have any Linux or Windows readily available...

I'm not using any adapters. The HDMI cable I'm using is quite old and very long. But I'm just sending a Full HD signal so I didn't think that could be an issue. Does there need to be a successful "path" for the audio signal to travel through for the HDMI option to show up in the system? Meaning: will the option only show up if there is an actual compatible cable connected to the HDMI output of the gpu or if that cable can somehow make a handshake of sorts with the other device connected? Or should the option be available no matter what or whether anything is connected to the gpu?

I'm not trying to connect the HDMI to my monitor but to a Denon AV receiver in another room and there are speakers connected to the receiver which work when sending the audio through the digital optical output of the cMP in High Sierra (this digital optical output seems to also have been broken in Big Sur, at least for me)

 

[sfalatko]

Ok so I think thanks to you we're zooming in on the problem...
I've never seen a sound / audio option HDMI in my last system (High Sierra with a GTX980). I've now upgraded to Big Sur with OC and an RX580 but have also never seen an HDMI audio option anywhere. BUT I've just checked the system profile and look what I found:

View attachment 1913176

So there's definitely some audio functionality connected to the gpu in slot 1 (like on your screenshot) but it doesn't show up anywhere else. Drivers are installed. But note the funky name as compared to your profile. Yet the same funky device name pci1002,aaf0 shows up further down in your pci device descriptions. Then in the audio section, there are only the usual suspects:

View attachment 1913179

And in system preferences, no HDMI either...

View attachment 1913178

I don't have a drive with Mojave but with High Sierra. Do you think I can check within High Sierra without OC aswell in order to see whether HDMI shows up there (instead of Mojave)? I don't have any Linux or Windows readily available...

I'm not using any adapters. The HDMI cable I'm using is quite old and very long. But I'm just sending a Full HD signal so I didn't think that could be an issue. Does there need to be a successful "path" for the audio signal to travel through for the HDMI option to show up in the system? Meaning: will the option only show up if there is an actual compatible cable connected to the HDMI output of the gpu or if that cable can somehow make a handshake of sorts with the other device connected? Or should the option be available no matter what or whether anything is connected to the gpu?

I'm not trying to connect the HDMI to my monitor but to a Denon AV receiver in another room and there are speakers connected to the receiver which work when sending the audio through the digital optical output of the cMP in High Sierra (this digital optical output seems to also have been broken in Big Sur, at least for me)

So it doesn't seem to be recognizing the audio on your RX580. Try setting the name in deviceproperties in your config.plist. See this post - https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/opencore-on-the-mac-pro.2207814/post-30593056. Maybe that will work for you.

 

[MacNB2]

So there's definitely some audio functionality connected to the gpu in slot 1 (like on your screenshot) but it doesn't show up anywhere else. Drivers are installed. But note the funky name as compared to your profile. Yet the same funky device name pci1002,aaf0 shows up further down in your pci device descriptions.

That "funky device" name is normal. It shows that the macOS device driver for HDMI audio is enabled. Mine looks different because I manually change the name by injecting a DeviceProperties as described here. It is not necessary to change the name...it's just cosmetic.

I don't have a drive with Mojave but with High Sierra. Do you think I can check within High Sierra without OC aswell in order to see whether HDMI shows up there (instead of Mojave)? I don't have any Linux or Windows readily available...

Yes High Sierra will work too. Just remove the Big Sur drive and any drive where OC is installed. But I suspect it too will not work. See other comments below.

I'm not using any adapters. The HDMI cable I'm using is quite old and very long. But I'm just sending a Full HD signal so I didn't think that could be an issue. Does there need to be a successful "path" for the audio signal to travel through for the HDMI option to show up in the system?

No the length is not the issue. The "path" needs to be two-way. See "handshake" below.

Meaning: will the option only show up if there is an actual compatible cable connected to the HDMI output of the gpu or if that cable can somehow make a handshake of sorts with the other device connected? Or should the option be available no matter what or whether anything is connected to the gpu?

"handshake" is important. The device at the "other" end of the HDMI cable "talks" to the GPU to exchange info about its capabilities. If that device does not respond then there will be no HDMI audio option in Sound Preferences. E.g. my screenshot shows the name of my monitor "MotoAttach". That name was sent by the monitor to the HDMI audio driver.

I'm not trying to connect the HDMI to my monitor but to a Denon AV receiver in another room and there are speakers connected to the receiver which work when sending the audio through the digital optical output of the cMP in High Sierra (this digital optical output seems to also have been broken in Big Sur, at least for me)

OK, now it is making sense.
First, to check that your HDMI cable is actually working, you need to directly connect it to an HDMI input of a TV or monitor with speakers.
It looks like your Denon amp is not talking with your cMP. The amp must present itself as an HDMI device to the GPU. You need to check your amp and consult its manual regarding HDMI switching and what needs to be selected on the INPUT selector of the amp.

I have not tested my digital optical output but cannot see a reason why it would not work. Again, check your amp.

 

[MacNB2]

So it doesn't seem to be recognizing the audio on your RX580. Try setting the name in deviceproperties in your config.plist. See this post - https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/opencore-on-the-mac-pro.2207814/post-30593056. Maybe that will work for you.

Actually, the GPU's audio device is recognised as shown by his System Profiler screenshot. What is not recognised is what is attached to the GPU.
Setting the DeviceProperties will not solve the problem as all that does is change the name displayed in System Profiler. Good link though ?

 

[Gandalf999]

That "funky device" name is normal. It shows that the macOS device driver for HDMI audio is enabled. Mine looks different because I manually change the name by injecting a DeviceProperties as described here. It is not necessary to change the name...it's just cosmetic.


Yes High Sierra will work too. Just remove the Big Sur drive and any drive where OC is installed. But I suspect it too will not work. See other comments below.


No the length is not the issue. The "path" needs to be two-way. See "handshake" below.


"handshake" is important. The device at the "other" end of the HDMI cable "talks" to the GPU to exchange info about its capabilities. If that device does not respond then there will be no HDMI audio option in Sound Preferences. E.g. my screenshot shows the name of my monitor "MotoAttach". That name was sent by the monitor to the HDMI audio driver.


OK, now it is making sense.
First, to check that your HDMI cable is actually working, you need to directly connect it to an HDMI input of a TV or monitor with speakers.
It looks like your Denon amp is not talking with your cMP. The amp must present itself as an HDMI device to the GPU. You need to check your amp and consult its manual regarding HDMI switching and what needs to be selected on the INPUT selector of the amp.

I have not tested my digital optical output but cannot see a reason why it would not work. Again, check your amp.

OMG you DID IT! The handshake was missing! I hadn't disconnected the digital optical cable and apparently hadn't unplugged and replugged the HDMI cable WITHOUT the digital optical cable connected and after doing both things and changing the audio input to standard (=HDMI instead of digital optical), the receiver finally connected to the Mac Pro, the HDMI option shows up in system preferences and the sound is being transmitted! YEEEHAW! Huge thanks to you MacNB2!

 

[MacNB2]

OMG you DID IT! The handshake was missing! I hadn't disconnected the digital optical cable and apparently hadn't unplugged and replugged the HDMI cable WITHOUT the digital optical cable connected and after doing both things and changing the audio input to standard (=HDMI instead of digital optical), the receiver finally connected to the Mac Pro, the HDMI option shows up in system preferences and the sound is being transmitted! YEEEHAW! Huge thanks to you MacNB2!

You're welcome.

 

[0134168]

You're welcome.

Great!

 

[the.arm]

Hi everyone - I'm hoping someone can point me in the right direction here. I have a Mac Pro 5,1 that is mostly use to host various virtual machines/servers and occasionally edit video / photos. Hobby stuff. I haven't posted here before, but I've followed the forum for some time now.

A while back I followed the instructions in this forum to replace the original Radeon 5770 card that came with it when it was given to me with a Radeon RX 580 as well as updating the firmware to 144.0.0.0.0 etc and it now has been running Mojave successfully for a long time. Some time in the past I also switched the boot drive to a SATA SSD that is installed right next to the original DVD drive and I use the remaining 4 bays for a softraid 1+0 array via the softraid app. The machine is a 2x2.66GHz 6-core with 64BG RAM. It currently has no boot screen.

I was going to follow the instructions in this thread to use Martin's method to install Open Core and then eventually update to Big Sur since that seems fairly stable for my needs based on all the comments.

I had finished cloning my boot drive (with SuperDuper) to another SSD for the attempt, and I was trying to perform step 1 and disable SIP to backup my BootROM. So, I tried to boot into recovery by holding down command-R at powerup but no luck, it just boots right back into Mojave.

Things I've tried:
* Starting from cold boot and from a reboot
* using a USB keyboard plugged into one of the front USB ports instead of my logitech mx keys (over usb dongle somewhere on the back)
* unplugging a monitor so that there's only one monitor attached to the computer since I read that might be a problem

Any thoughts on how I might accomplish getting into (or recreating if I somehow managed to goof it up) recovery?

Sorry if I've messed up any mac specific stuff above - I unfortunately spend most my time in linux and windows and the mac is my hobby machine, so some of the terminology is a bit foreign to me.

Thank you for your help!

 

[cdf]

So, I tried to boot into recovery by holding down command-R at powerup but no luck, it just boots right back into Mojave.

As an alternative to Command-R, you can try entering the following command in Terminal when booted in Mojave: sudo nvram "recovery-boot-mode=unused" && sudo reboot recovery

If Recovery still doesn't start, then your current installation of Mojave may be borked, in which case, a clean install would be a good idea.