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MP 1,1-5,1 Manually Configured OpenCore on the Mac Pro
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Before trying OpenCore, my AirPlay experience with my Mac Pro 5,1 was limited to music, wherein I was able to "see" my Onkyo Home Theatre, but, if I wanted to play a movie, I had to resort to AirParrot, but the experience was poor. Now, with OpenCore, all of a sudden, I have "native" AirPlay and it is capable of stream video in excellent quality on my Sony TV set, which means I no longer need AirParrot. There's something odd, however: I can no longer see my Onkyo Home Theatre, but I can see my son's Yamaha Home Theatre. Any idea what might be going on here? It isn't a real problem, as I can stream music to my Apple TV 4K. It's just a loose end.
Before trying OpenCore, my AirPlay experience with my Mac Pro 5,1 was limited to music, wherein I was able to "see" my Onkyo Home Theatre, but, if I wanted to play a movie, I had to resort to AirParrot, but the experience was poor. Now, with OpenCore, all of a sudden, I have "native" AirPlay and it is capable of stream video in excellent quality on my Sony TV set, which means I no longer need AirParrot. There's something odd, however: I can no longer see my Onkyo Home Theatre, but I can see my son's Yamaha Home Theatre. Any idea what might be going on here? It isn't a real problem, as I can stream music to my Apple TV 4K. It's just a loose end.
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Sorry, I have to ask again what I asked in a previous post since it just happened to me again – are you all spared from the ”com.apple.driver.watchdog” related Kernel Panic that I get in Catalina from time to time when trying to wake from sleep or during startup of MacOS?
An extended discussion about it here: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/250715149?page=34
An extended discussion about it here: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/250715149?page=34
Latest OpenCore started to implement secure boot support, and Apple prohibited single user mode with secure boot starting with 10.13. I do not foresee any effort in making secure boot (any more) accessible in OpenCore since it contradicts Apple design decisions.
Never had this one myself. Did have an issue of kernel panics when waking from sleep, but the logs revealed it was to do with the mass storage driver. I removed a USB 3 hub that had an integrated SD card reader, and all has been fine since (several weeks). I did leave a USB HDD connected during sleep once, though, and that triggered a kernel panic on wake. So not ideal, but at least I can work around it easily enough (I only use USB HDDs for backup jobs, so just turn off sleep if it's going to be a long, unattended one). Btw though - I've never had a panic during start up.
The latest OC commit gives me MacOS Big Sur Beta software update... with board spoofing only. Differences
Thanks for your reply on this!
May I ask how often you sleep and wake your computer?
I do have a USB 3 hub connected to a Sonnet Allegro USB-C PCIe card and an external hard drive drive is attached to the USB 3 hub. Interesting if the USB 3 hub in combination with the external HDD is the cause for the Kernel Panic – I mean it's a pretty standard way of using a computer having a hard drive attached via a USB hub. And it would be very inconvenient not being able to do that. But I'll try to see if I can disconnect things and see if that helps with stability.
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How are you streaming to Airplay to your TV? Are you spoofing as an iMac Pro 1,1? I have the icon and see my Apple TV but nothing streams over to the TV even when I've tried spoofing as an iMac Pro. Curious as it would be nice to have Airplay working. Are you able to extend your desktop or just mirror your Mac Pro screen?
I can stream in BigSur, but in Catalina I can only hear the audio with a black screen. Must be something with the DRM protection. I spoof the board-id only. I stream to my Samsung TV with enabled Airplay.
Yes, my Mac Pro 5,1 now "dreams" it's an iMac Pro 1,1. I say "dreams" because, deep down, it "knows" it's a Mac Pro 5,1, and truly identifies itself as such. However, since the iMac Pro 1,1 motherboard id has been entered in the OpenCore config.plist (and Lilu.kext and Whatevergreen.kext are both working), the AirPlay mirroring icon appeared (quite unexpectedly, I should add) in the menu bar, and works great. I didn't have to do anything to get my Apple TV 4K to accept the incoming connection (an mp4 movie). I haven't tried extending my desktop or mirror my Mac Pro screen. I just sent a movie. I'm not even sure if AirPlay allows you to send your desktop or a portion thereof to an Apple TV. AirParrot does that, but I don't know about AirPlay. Be that as it may, I should probably add that both my Mac Pro 5,1 and my Apple TV 4K are connected to the same high-speed Wi-Fi network (802.11 ac).
I addition, I was having an issue with my Onkyo AVR. The problem was its Wi-Fi connection was sort of stale. As soon as I checked the connection, it went live and now everything works.
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Ahhh. I understand. Yes. I was under the impression you were able to mirror your desktop to your AppleTV 4K. I use the iMac Pro 1,1 hybridization, I'm assuming you're using the same when you stream movies. I can Airplay for example a YouTube video to my TV. But I wish we were able to mirror desktops and extend screens. I know that requires Intel Quicksync but one could dream.
Quick sync is not required. There’s something that we are missing in the spoofing of the imacpro setup.
my hack which has a Xeon proc (with no quicksync) does airplay mirror / extended desktop streaming just fine using the rx 580 to handle the encode. I have a thread outside of this one talking a bit about what ive seen applegva doesn’t seem to attach itself to airplay process on the cMP using opencore spoofing but the hack booting via clover does mirror / extend properly and comparing the process info it does have applegva attach to it.
Any cMP with native AirPlay Mirroring?
Debated starting a new thread on this since things have changed a bit in the last 2 years mainly due to OpenCore. But also figured, since I already had a thread about it, why not just bump it up from the grave? So I decided to do a side-by-side comparison between my hack with a xeon and rx580...
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Quick sync is not required. There’s something that we are missing in the spoofing of the imacpro setup.
my hack which has a Xeon proc (with no quicksync) does airplay mirror / extended desktop streaming just fine using the rx 580 to handle the encode. I have a thread outside of this one talking a bit about what ive seen applegva doesn’t seem to attach itself to airplay process on the cMP using opencore spoofing but the hack booting via clover does mirror / extend properly and comparing the process info it does have applegva attach to it.
Any cMP with native AirPlay Mirroring?
Debated starting a new thread on this since things have changed a bit in the last 2 years mainly due to OpenCore. But also figured, since I already had a thread about it, why not just bump it up from the grave? So I decided to do a side-by-side comparison between my hack with a xeon and rx580...
This is very interesting to know. Any thoughts @startergo, @h9826790, @vit9696?
Attached is the process from a MBP15,1 and cMP5,1 (with board-id spoofing as iMacPro1,1). cMP outputs a black screen:
Correct, but @Ludacrisvp is saying that under clover his Mac Pro is allowing him to use Airplay to mirror and extend his desktop through Airplay. He claims that OpenCore is not loading certain .bundles or files that would potentially permit a Mac Pro 5,1 to mirror and extend. This would be an awesome feature to get working.
@vit9696 @h9826790
We tend not to use Clover on cMP5,1 due to NVRAM corruption. cMP3,1 is relatively safe in this respect.
I understand we don't use clover. What I am saying is that when @Ludacrisvp used Clover he was about to get extending and mirroring on a cMP. Maybe we can look into what he did for Clover and try to get it using OpenCore.
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Sorry to attach to Your Good Post..I do not see how to Post in the Forum w/ You Open Core Users.
I own many CMP's a few even running Hyper - V on NVMe (runs Great, Quiet & looks good) Catalina & Mojave w/ DOSDUDE1 Patch..Lets get down to Brass Tacks...I read about Open Core...Is it worth running instead of Open Core ? One of the reasons I am interested in Open Core is I want to possibly learn hoe to do it stable before Big Sur comes out of Beta. I cant find the simple packages of Open Core 6 and Clover or whatever elce I need to do OPEN Core. I am 58 and dont have the time for something thats not stable or not worth Switching from Dosdude1 Great Patch. Bottom line - is it worth it ? With all the info and files on the internet if it is worth it What files and from where do I get the good ones without virus or junk ? Thank You....Sorry this is probably in the wrong area..
please re-read my original post and the thread I linked to. I’m not booting my 3,1 via Clover the hack is booting via clover which is a T5810 with a Xeon cpu (exact variant In signature) and rx 580.
My 3,1 is booting with opencore with rx 580.
i can post the process info as well if youd like but it’s creeping off topic in this thread I think which was why I bumped my old thread so that we could perhaps figure things out there then if we did find something, the needed config could be mentioned here while avoiding filling this long topic with more.
My 3,1 is booting with opencore with rx 580.
i can post the process info as well if youd like but it’s creeping off topic in this thread I think which was why I bumped my old thread so that we could perhaps figure things out there then if we did find something, the needed config could be mentioned here while avoiding filling this long topic with more.
Whoops. I apologize. I misread. I thought you meant you hacked the cMP with clover to get Airplay mirroring and extending.
Not sure how to proceed here, would be great to get someone to look into it. I feel like someone can get this to work.
I apologize if I inadvertently opened a can of worms. As I said, the AirPlay mirroring icon appeared in my menu bar, but it doesn't seem to be truly functional. I can select a couple of Apple TV units I own, but, apart from turning such units on, I can't find any other functionality, like mirroring or extending the desktop. Perhaps that's because my Metal GPU (AMD Radeon HD 7970 3 GB) doesn't have H264 or HEVC acceleration? However, thanks to OpenCore (and board id spoofing), I can now "natively" send a movie from my Mac Pro to an Apple TV via AirPlay.
Similar to above, I'm having difficulty getting OC to make SATA3 SSD and HDDs attached to a SAS HBA (ATTO H608) as internal. I followed the instructions in the first post for "Making External Drives Internal" and I've got this in my config (with PCIe path specific to my HBA)
XML:
<key>DeviceProperties</key>
<dict>
<key>Add</key>
<dict>
<key>PciRoot(0x0)/Pci(0x7,0x0)/Pci(0x0,0x0)</key>
<dict>
<key>built-in</key>
<data>
AA==
</data>
</dict>
</dict>
<key>Delete</key>
<dict/>
</dict>Any advice? Has anyone had success with similar configuration?