MP 1,1-5,1 Activate AMD hardware acceleration

[Stu Forbes]

I would like to start off by saying thanks you to all you guys for your help.

I have a question.

i have a CMP 4,1>5,1 running package 0.8.0 and mac os 11.6.5. I recently ordered the adapter board and a BCM94331CD card will the wifi work and will I be able to use airdrop and login with apple watch. If not is there a "FIX/Hack" to get it working ?

 

[William4673]

Not all AirPort Extremes are equal, the best model for upgrading a MacPro5,1 hardware and compatibility wise is the AirPort Extreme BCM94360CD from 2013/2015 iMacs.

There are other models, like BCM943602CDP - this one is BT4.2 and is fully hardware compatible but have NVRAM and past macOS and Windows issues - and models that are not so much compatible, with different arrangement of antenna connectors and number of antennas, like the BCM94360CS models, that should be avoided.

AirPort Extreme BCM94360CD is the model that everyone should buy to upgrade a MacPro5,1.

I have a question.

i have a CMP 4,1>5,1 running package 0.8.0 and mac os 11.6.5. I recently ordered the adapter board and a BCM94331CD card will the wifi work and will I be able to use airdrop and login with apple watch. If not is there a "FIX/Hack" to get it working ?

Im unaware on the compatibility of that specific card. My impression is that a very limited range of cards ACTUALLY work.

I do know that for less recent macOS like Catalina there are .plist modifications you can make for support for older cards (such as the stock airport in the cMPs), but for things like Apple Watch login support I’m doubtful.

See the above quote by tsialex for specific cards, the poster child being BCM94360CD.
My recommendation for any part swapping or upgrades in the future, tread the path most walked and most used, that way there’s more chance for things to work out of the box, and more people than can support any issues you may have.

I hope this helps.

 

[EdMun]

I do know that for less recent macOS like Catalina there are .plist modifications you can make for support for older cards

I've seen reference to this .plist but am unable to establish where it's located.

 

[tsialex]

I've seen reference to this .plist but am unable to establish where it's located.

Not possible with sealed containers anymore (BigSur/Monterey), unless you are root patching with OCLP.

 

[Dayo]

I've seen reference to this .plist but am unable to establish where it's located.

Is this search because WiFi/BT is not working using stock wireless modules with your OpenCore set up via MyBootMgr?

Such stock wireless modules should work OOB when using MyBootMgr to set things up.

 

[EdMun]

Is this search because WiFi/BT is not working using stock wireless modules with your OpenCore set up via MyBootMgr?

Such stock wireless modules should work OOB when using MyBootMgr to set things up.

I've removed the stock BT and was using BCM_4350C2 USB dongle, thanks I'll reinstall the stock MP 3,1 BT card.

 

[Dayo]

I'll reinstall the stock MP 3,1 BT card.

Hmm. Was thinking more about MP51 modules but check. I am parked at Mojave myself although thinking of moving to Big Sur.

PS: As ConfigFactory uses hardware probing to decide a lot of what goes into the config, the module needs to be present when the setup is being created.

 

[czs]

Does anyone have the Inateck 4004 (Fresco FS1100 chipset) USB3 PCIe card working with cMP5,1 + Clover\OC 0.8.0? The ports are seen but only connect as USB2 - USB3 devices are not seen as USB3.

Works as expected with Apple EFI.

 

[Lightcatcher]

Greetings from a total novice and first time poster on this forum. I have a 2009 MacPro4,1 flashed to MacPro5,1. The CPU's have been upgraded to dual X5680's, memory has been upgraded to the 1333MHz with new Bluetooth 4.2 and a new WIFI card along with the Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 580 8GB flashed for Mac. My primary applications are photography related, no video editing. Current versions of my applications require Catalina at minimum. I have followed Martin Lo's post of March 2, 2020 and downloaded version 0.8.0.zip and the config plist that may go with it (I'm not sure about that). I installed the package on my primary system drive (Mojave 10.14.6). I then did the two modifications to the config plist that came in the package as per his video "How to enable Catalina (and Monterey) installation support on Mac Pro 5,1 with my OpenCore Package". Saved and verified the changes, unmounted the EFI then ran the Install macOS Monterey app. I then did a restore from Time Machine. The last reboot displayed a black screen with the symbol of a circle with a diagonal line through it in the center of the screen. At that point I powered down the Mac then rebooted back into the boot picker and selected the Mojave drive. When the machine booted, the following message was on my screen – “Incompatible Disk This disk uses features that are not supported on this version of macOS”. There were also two new drive icons on my desktop, SSD_Monterey – Data and Update. Does anyone have any suggestions where I might have gotten off track, or how I can complete my OS upgrade?

 

[William4673]

Greetings from a total novice and first time poster on this forum. I have a 2009 MacPro4,1 flashed to MacPro5,1. The CPU's have been upgraded to dual X5680's, memory has been upgraded to the 1333MHz with new Bluetooth 4.2 and a new WIFI card along with the Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 580 8GB flashed for Mac. My primary applications are photography related, no video editing. Current versions of my applications require Catalina at minimum. I have followed Martin Lo's post of March 2, 2020 and downloaded version 0.8.0.zip and the config plist that may go with it (I'm not sure about that). I installed the package on my primary system drive (Mojave 10.14.6). I then did the two modifications to the config plist that came in the package as per his video "How to enable Catalina (and Monterey) installation support on Mac Pro 5,1 with my OpenCore Package". Saved and verified the changes, unmounted the EFI then ran the Install macOS Monterey app. I then did a restore from Time Machine. The last reboot displayed a black screen with the symbol of a circle with a diagonal line through it in the center of the screen. At that point I powered down the Mac then rebooted back into the boot picker and selected the Mojave drive. When the machine booted, the following message was on my screen – “Incompatible Disk This disk uses features that are not supported on this version of macOS”. There were also two new drive icons on my desktop, SSD_Monterey – Data and Update. Does anyone have any suggestions where I might have gotten off track, or how I can complete my OS upgrade?

Correct me if I’m wrong anyone, but the config.plist comes IN the package, so I don’t know what plist you were referring to.

I had trouble when I was installing Monterey at first, I also had those UPDATE and DATA drives. I actually proceeded and picked it again from boot picker and second time around it installed correctly.

On occasion I will get the “Prohibited“ icon 🚫. Which by apples terms means “this version of macOS isn’t compatible with your computer”. this only occurs after successfully booting into Monterey, and then restarting into my Mojave installation. Only Within Mojave I get the “this disk includes features not supported” message.

To my knowledge, it hasn’t caused anything wrong yet, and I regularly flash my NVRAM, so to my understanding it
doesn’t do anything, but I would wait to be certain unless more knowledgeable members respond.

here’s my recommendation:
try to install it again, and it may take a bunch of restarts but eventually all will be finished and it’ll hopefully launch.
whenever it gives you the “features not supported“ message, you should be fine.
every time it gives you a “Prohibited“ icon 🚫, just hard shutdown and retry launching the OS of choice. These aren’t kernel panics to my knowledge, so they arent signing the VSS stores

I am curious though, what do all these errors and messages mean?
-W

 

[sfalatko]

Greetings from a total novice and first time poster on this forum. I have a 2009 MacPro4,1 flashed to MacPro5,1. The CPU's have been upgraded to dual X5680's, memory has been upgraded to the 1333MHz with new Bluetooth 4.2 and a new WIFI card along with the Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 580 8GB flashed for Mac. My primary applications are photography related, no video editing. Current versions of my applications require Catalina at minimum. I have followed Martin Lo's post of March 2, 2020 and downloaded version 0.8.0.zip and the config plist that may go with it (I'm not sure about that). I installed the package on my primary system drive (Mojave 10.14.6). I then did the two modifications to the config plist that came in the package as per his video "How to enable Catalina (and Monterey) installation support on Mac Pro 5,1 with my OpenCore Package". Saved and verified the changes, unmounted the EFI then ran the Install macOS Monterey app. I then did a restore from Time Machine. The last reboot displayed a black screen with the symbol of a circle with a diagonal line through it in the center of the screen. At that point I powered down the Mac then rebooted back into the boot picker and selected the Mojave drive. When the machine booted, the following message was on my screen – “Incompatible Disk This disk uses features that are not supported on this version of macOS”. There were also two new drive icons on my desktop, SSD_Monterey – Data and Update. Does anyone have any suggestions where I might have gotten off track, or how I can complete my OS upgrade?

Mojave cannot understand the APFS format of your Monterey drive and sees it as incompatible.

 

[Lightcatcher]

Correct me if I’m wrong anyone, but the config.plist comes IN the package, so I don’t know what plist you were referring to.

I had trouble when I was installing Monterey at first, I also had those UPDATE and DATA drives. I actually proceeded and picked it again from boot picker and second time around it installed correctly.

On occasion I will get the “Prohibited“ icon 🚫. Which by apples terms means “this version of macOS isn’t compatible with your computer”. this only occurs after successfully booting into Monterey, and then restarting into my Mojave installation. Only Within Mojave I get the “this disk includes features not supported” message.

To my knowledge, it hasn’t caused anything wrong yet, and I regularly flash my NVRAM, so to my understanding it
doesn’t do anything, but I would wait to be certain unless more knowledgeable members respond.

here’s my recommendation:
try to install it again, and it may take a bunch of restarts but eventually all will be finished and it’ll hopefully launch.
whenever it gives you the “features not supported“ message, you should be fine.
every time it gives you a “Prohibited“ icon 🚫, just hard shutdown and retry launching the OS of choice. These aren’t kernel panics to my knowledge, so they arent signing the VSS stores

I am curious though, what do all these errors and messages mean?
-W

Thanks for your comment. Guess I just needed a little encouragement to keep plodding ahead. It did take several more restarts, but eventually everything came up and is now working just fine. Thanks again for the nudge that I needed!

 

[czs]

Thanks for your comment. Guess I just needed a little encouragement to keep plodding ahead. It did take several more restarts, but eventually everything came up and is now working just fine. Thanks again for the nudge that I needed!

Hey @Lightcatcher - glad to see you got this working. I too recently took the OC + cMP5,1 upgrade plunge and ran into a multitude of issues that I was able to resolve and like you, finally reach the top of the hill. With that in mind, let me ask - are you using spindle drives that are > 2TB? If so, have you double checked that you can perform a warm-reboot and everything comes up OK?

 

[Lightcatcher]

Hey czs - Interesting, I hadn't tried a warm boot until you mentioned it. It didn't come up clean. Here's my drive configuration : Upper optical bay - HGST 4T, Lower optical bay - HGST 8T, BAY 1 - 870 EVO 1T (MONTEREY), BAYs 2-4 each have Toshiba 4T drives, Slot 3 - 850 EVO 500GB (MOJAVE) and Slot 4 - 970 EVO Plus 2T. The HGST and Toshiba are all spindle drives. I still have some 32 bit applications that I need to boot to Mojave, but I've only done a cold boot until now. Thanks for pointing out this issue. I now wonder if there is another patch to fix this?

 

[dovedescent7]

So ANNOYED..

Took me months to learn OC. Bought rx 560 + nvme etc and dell desktop just for a build Monterey and at least .8 OC.
Got it working great for months. But haven't touched it in 3-4 months.

Went to go use it today and there's some weird graphics issue, so livid. Can get to OC screen but wont boot to Mac os Screen for Monterey after working fine and NOT 1 change? Weird i can hear the keystrokes on keyboard though which means its probably GPU... Bummmerrr

Does mac os update in background even if you deselect auto updates?


Do yall know if VM's now work really good with mac os for hardware acceleration? Like for example i movie?

Im sick of this, rather have a VM.. If so, could someone point me somewhere to get started with solid vm with HW accel?

 

[tsialex]

So ANNOYED..

Took me months to learn OC. Bought rx 560 + nvme etc and dell desktop just for a build Monterey and at least .8 OC.
Got it working great for months. But haven't touched it in 3-4 months.

Went to go use it today and there's some weird graphics issue, so livid. Can get to OC screen but wont boot to Mac os Screen for Monterey after working fine and NOT 1 change? Weird i can hear the keystrokes on keyboard though which means its probably GPU... Bummmerrr

Does mac os update in background even if you deselect auto updates?


Do yall know if VM's now work really good with mac os for hardware acceleration? Like for example i movie?

Im sick of this, rather have a VM.. If so, could someone point me somewhere to get started with solid vm with HW accel?

VMs don't have support for VideoToolbox hardware assistance.

 

[h9826790]

So ANNOYED..

Took me months to learn OC. Bought rx 560 + nvme etc and dell desktop just for a build Monterey and at least .8 OC.
Got it working great for months. But haven't touched it in 3-4 months.

Went to go use it today and there's some weird graphics issue, so livid. Can get to OC screen but wont boot to Mac os Screen for Monterey after working fine and NOT 1 change? Weird i can hear the keystrokes on keyboard though which means its probably GPU... Bummmerrr

Does mac os update in background even if you deselect auto updates?


Do yall know if VM's now work really good with mac os for hardware acceleration? Like for example i movie?

Im sick of this, rather have a VM.. If so, could someone point me somewhere to get started with solid vm with HW accel?

For VM, you will need something like QEMU with PCIe pass through, so that the VM macOS can control the real hardware graphic card directly (but not using any virtual GPU) in order to have HWAccel.

 

[czs]

Hey czs - Interesting, I hadn't tried a warm boot until you mentioned it. It didn't come up clean. Here's my drive configuration : Upper optical bay - HGST 4T, Lower optical bay - HGST 8T, BAY 1 - 870 EVO 1T (MONTEREY), BAYs 2-4 each have Toshiba 4T drives, Slot 3 - 850 EVO 500GB (MOJAVE) and Slot 4 - 970 EVO Plus 2T. The HGST and Toshiba are all spindle drives. I still have some 32 bit applications that I need to boot to Mojave, but I've only done a cold boot until now. Thanks for pointing out this issue. I now wonder if there is another patch to fix this?

Yeah so there's an issue with drives > 2TB not being seen on warm-reboots on at least the cMP (perhaps others as well). I hit this exact same issue last week - nice brand new WD Gold 4TB drive installed so I could build several macOS installs for testing purposes. Each one gave me serious fits and I eventually found that the drive was missing on reboot but not on power-on boot. So I then checked here and BAM - sure enough - this is a well known issue with no fix.

Even worse is I then decided on a Samsung 1TB EVO 870 SSD which - you guessed it - has the exact same issue. The 850 works fine - the 860 works fine - so hey, the 870 should work fine too, right? Nope... 🤦‍♂️

I finally settled on a Crucial BX550 1TB SSD as my primary boot drive which has been rock solid for the last week. And for storage, I still have spindle drives but they are the 2TB WD Red which have always worked well albeit smaller than I would like.

 

[thewoolysheep08]

Perhaps i have messed some setting up, but I have noticed that i no longer get bootchime with Opencore.

 

[0134168]

Perhaps i have messed some setting up, but I have noticed that i no longer get bootchime with Opencore.

Chime has nothing to do with OpenCore. It’s embedded very deep in the system. Was in silent before reboot?

 

[thewoolysheep08]

Chime has nothing to do with OpenCore. It’s embedded very deep in the system. Was in silent before reboot?

No, machine is unmuted and set to internal speaker. Maybe I need to just mess around some audio settings to get it working …

 

[0134168]

No, machine is unmuted and set to internal speaker. Maybe I need to just mess around some audio settings to get it working …

Try resetting the NVRAM. (option + command + P + R) when boot.

 

[William4673]

Try resetting the NVRAM. (option + command + P + R) when boot.

This will most likely fix it.

 

[PeroPenx]

Hi everyone,

I wonder if someone can help. I have Mac Pro 5.1 and recently I bought Radeon RX 6600 XT and replaced Radeon RX 580. While using RX 580 I was able to get a picture on three different monitors (well, in my case two monitors and one TV) and use it while doing video editing - the TV was used as a full-screen video display (in Davinci Resolve).

After I upgraded my video card the only way I can use this setup is this - Before turning on my Mac I need to unplug the HDMI cable and leave only two DP cables plugged in. After OSX is loaded I can plug the HDMI cable back in and then I have three monitors connected. If I don't do that I will only have one DP and one HDMI monitor recognised and connected.

Installed OSX is Monterey with Open Core 0.8.0 from #1314 without any modification

 

[mode11]

My Mac has been suffering from regular freezing for a couple of weeks, with spinning beach balls, even with very low CPU usage. I’ve also had issues with Windowserver crashes, particularly at login after sleep.

From a little reading around, it seems 12.4 included increased AVX instructions. Syncretic created AVXpel to counter this, but I believe it’s not included in @h9826790 Martin’s 0.8.0 OC? And even then, may not be foolproof?

At this point, would it make sense to just revert to 12.3.1? If so, what’s the easiest way to go about this? Would I need to wipe the whole disk, install 12.3.1, then restore my files from Time Machine? Or could I downgrade the OS container via Recovery somehow?

Also, I can’t seem to enter Safe Mode. If I hold Shift, then press and hold Enter (to select macOS) at the OC boot picker, the OS starts to load, only for the computer to reboot back to the picker again.