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Every PCIe drive, AHCI or NVMe, is identified as external on a cMP. Since you can't remove the boot drive, is a cosmetically issue.
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Every PCIe drive, AHCI or NVMe, is identified as external on a cMP. Since you can't remove the boot drive, is a cosmetically issue.
Ran the 18A384a installer on a machine already updated to 138, it didn't ask to flash the firmware.
Which kext is that specified in? I can't find it in the 9500 or X4000 kexts. For Vega it's 1/yes for both encode and decode in the X5000 kext.
@h9826790 knows a easy test with QuickTime export, maybe he knows exactly where to look.
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It's the same, I've checked the MP51.crc32 file in Firmware folder of RecoveryHDMeta.dmg:
Is there a way to change that cosmetic „issue“? I‘ve read somewhere else that for other devices it is somehow possible to change that via Terminal..
I've read about that a long time ago, since the yellow drive don't bother me, I never tested. You can just change the icon…
Sorry, correction here.. only seeing vastly improved GPU computation on ATI boards, don't know what happened when I checked again but retail nVidia GTX 680 GPU tasks now seem to be completing at normal speeds under CUDA.
Apologies for the mixup.
Sorry for the silly question: if I keep a second graphic card like the gt-120 (efi) in the mac pro together with a rx 580, will I be able to use filevault?
Nope, not as it stands now. For one, the Mojave installer makes you remove all non-metal GPUs before installation. Even if you put it back after install, the ability to enable FileVault on the cMP is blocked.
What adapter and slot are you using? I'm getting 1100-1300 Read and 700-800 Write speeds on mine so I know it should be a bit faster...256GB 970 EVO...so just wondering if I need to tweak or move something.
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Slot 2, adapter is a cheap-*ss $3.11 Aliexpress card
https://www.aliexpress.com/item/Soc...306.html?spm=a2g0s.9042311.0.0.61364c4dp4lwFK
Slot 2, adapter is a cheap-*ss $3.11 Aliexpress card
https://www.aliexpress.com/item/Soc...306.html?spm=a2g0s.9042311.0.0.61364c4dp4lwFK
Put it back after install??? I can't boot into Mojave if I have an HD 5770 installed (not even hooked up to a monitor) with my MSI RX-560 (2010 MP 6-core). Which is what I wanted to do to get the boot screen when needed. I thought that was normal. Can anyone boot into Mojave with both a metal and non-metal card installed? I can boot into HS but not Mojave.
I downloaded a 4k test video and it used less and 3% cpu and the gpu usage was up around 20% on a 580 pulse
Unless things have changed somehow with the newest betas, there have been a few reports of people able to boot into Mojave with a GT120. The UI is unaccelerated but it did work. Maybe take out the 560 and try with just the 5770.
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Were you watching (i.e. decoding) the 4K file or encoding it? If encoding, what codec?
OK yeah the 580 has already had HEVC decoding. We are waiting to see if Apple enables encoding support.
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I have no interest in using the 5770 with Mojave. I just wanted to leave it in my MP (not connected to a monitor) so I can connect it later to get the Boot Manager screen if I need it. But I can't leave it in the MP (not connected to a monitor) because then I can't boot into Mojave at all. I thought that was normal. But after reading that some people can boot with a GT120 (unconnected?) plus a metal card, I now wonder if there is a solution for leaving the 5770 installed but unconnected with a metal card? I can't find any mention of that case with a Google search.
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Another funny thing with the RX-560 card (even used alone). I bought the RX-560 to run Mojave so I had barely used it with HS before installing Mojave with the 138- FW. Therefore, I can't say how it worked prior to that firmware upgrade. But now going back to HS I find the RX-560 doesn't work well with HS in 2 cases (with or without the 5770 installed). I ran the Heaven Benchmark (and Cinebench) and there are fairly frequent glitches in the stressed video which NEVER happened with the 5770, AND which NEVER happens when running under Mojave.
The 2nd HS anomaly (works fine in Mojave) is the Civ 4 and Civ 5 are an unusable mess of glitches and "double overlaying images) using the RS-560 in the game's 1080p full screen mode, again with or without the 5770 installed, but functions fine in Civ's "window" mode. I accidentally found a very weird "workaround" - when the Force Quit Applications window is brought up on the same monitor (it overlays the game's image) the Civ problem goes away completely (but not if the Force Quit window is moved to a 2nd monitor).
So those RX-560 problems with HS makes me wonder why Mojave works so well with the 560 while HS doesn't. (Or if there is something wrong with the 560 I just got). I wonder if there is a newer driver for the 560 in Mojave than in HS? If so, how could I try it in HS?
No idea. I've never had a 560 or a 5770. But if you want to try to get it working with both cards you could try swapping the cards in the slots, and you should try actually connecting your monitor to the 5770 and boot in verbose mode to see if you can figure out at what stage it stops booting.
It wouldn't surprise me if the drivers for the 560 and 580 are better in Mojave. Apple is pretty dedicated to those two cards (after all, they're the two they specifically recommended), so it makes sense that they'd be improving the drivers in the new macOS release.
It wouldn't surprise me if the drivers for the 560 and 580 are better in Mojave. Apple is pretty dedicated to those two cards (after all, they're the two they specifically recommended), so it makes sense that they'd be improving the drivers in the new macOS release.
Thanks for the suggestions. I'll try them. Although my experience with Macs goes all the way back to 1984, and before that to the Apple II I still have, I haven't done anything with the Mac Pro video cards until now. So this is new stuff to an old engineer.
Any idea if the Mojave driver for this card could be used in HS? Any ideas about how I could try that?
Any idea if the Mojave driver for this card could be used in HS? Any ideas about how I could try that?
No idea about that. I know sometimes people do the opposite (e.g. use Sierra drivers on HS), but I long ago vowed to stay away from screwing around with kexts--just a personal choice. Maybe someone else will know about whether or not it's feasible and how to do it.
The AMD drivers in Mojave are version 2.0.36 Aug 23, 2018. The AMD drivers in HS are version 1.68.20 Jun 29, 2018. But I don't know which drivers are necessary for the RX-560 nor whether the Mojave drivers would work in HS. I'm too chicken to try without making a clone of HS first, which I don't have time for now. Anyone know which drivers and if safe to move to HS?
Before trying this, go to the macOS 10.14 Mojave on Unsupported Macs Thread and ask there if it's even feasible. I know that Mojave drivers are a lot different from 10.13.6 ones with totally different dependencies.
Tested the iMac18,3 NVMe DXE with my 2009 and the result is a new aluminium boat anchor. I'll have to use my 2008 until the weekend…
Do not inject untested DXEs into your Mac BootROM, you can rapidly transform it into a brick. Leave the testing to people that have the means to externally reprogram the flash memory.
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