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heyadrian

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I've got a booting issue on anything that has an external display (HDMI) attached to it. Has anyone else had this?

Despite cleanly installing Mavericks from scratch twice and even skipping that 'Display Update for DP3' it's made no difference :-/

Both the MBP 2011 and Mini 2012, when anything is plugged into the Thunderbolt -> HDMI (the one from Apple Store) or if anything is plugged into the Mini when I boot, it just hangs on the 'grey screen with the spinning wheel' which eventually stoops spinning.

When I booted in verbose, it rants through the usual as normal, but eventually winds up with a blinking cursor (once a minute it blinks) in the top left hand corner of the external displays.

When I unplug the display on:

MBP: Boots fine. When I connect the display, works fine.

Mini: Boots fine as 2 mins later when I plug it in the TV sees the HDMI signal right away.

Looking at the console logs, I noticed that the WindowServer crashes when something is plugged in externally :-/

This is what I get:

Process: WindowServer [231]
Path: /System/Library/Frameworks/CoreGraphics.framework/Versions/A/Resources/WindowServer
Identifier: WindowServer
Version: 577.1
Code Type: X86-64 (Native)
Parent Process: launchd [1]
Responsible: WindowServer [231]
User ID: 88

Date/Time: 2013-07-23 18:23:25.229 +0100
OS Version: Mac OS X 10.9 (13A524d)
Report Version: 11
Anonymous UUID: 4DC85B0D-44AF-8D5D-C422-01C46DBC2F34


Crashed Thread: 0 Dispatch queue: com.apple.main-thread

Exception Type: EXC_CRASH (SIGABRT)
Exception Codes: 0x0000000000000000, 0x0000000000000000

Application Specific Information:
Assertion failed: (new_main != nullptr), function <anonymous namespace>::LogicalOperationGroup::LogicalOperationGroup(const <anonymous>::DisplaySet *const, const <anonymous>::DisplaySet *const), file Server/Packages/PKGDisplay.cc, line 1171.


Thread 0 Crashed:: Dispatch queue: com.apple.main-thread

Nice :-/ Free new bug with DP4 xD

Plus i'm having mail.app issues like everyone else...

I'm rolling back to DP3 on my dev machines
 
I've got a booting issue on anything that has an external display (HDMI) attached to it. Has anyone else had this?

Despite cleanly installing Mavericks from scratch twice and even skipping that 'Display Update for DP3' it's made no difference :-/

Both the MBP 2011 and Mini 2012, when anything is plugged into the Thunderbolt -> HDMI (the one from Apple Store) or if anything is plugged into the Mini when I boot, it just hangs on the 'grey screen with the spinning wheel' which eventually stoops spinning.

When I booted in verbose, it rants through the usual as normal, but eventually winds up with a blinking cursor (once a minute it blinks) in the top left hand corner of the external displays.

When I unplug the display on:

MBP: Boots fine. When I connect the display, works fine.

Mini: Boots fine as 2 mins later when I plug it in the TV sees the HDMI signal right away.

Looking at the console logs, I noticed that the WindowServer crashes when something is plugged in externally :-/

This is what I get:



Nice :-/ Free new bug with DP4 xD

Plus i'm having mail.app issues like everyone else...

I'm rolling back to DP3 on my dev machines

I tested this after reading your post. I'm using a 3rd party Thunderbolt to HDMI adapter. My 2011 MBP won't boot, but my 2012 MBA is fine.

Very odd...
 
Which video adapters are in your Macbook? I've fixed the Mini by turning off Regza on the tosh TV to that HDMI port and taxa it worked!

But my MBP 2011 is still doing it :-/

What do you get in 'Console' under the crash logs? Anything like the WindowServer error like mine?

My MBP:

15-inch, Early 2011
Processor 2.2 GHz Intel Core i7
Graphics AMD Radeon HD 6750M 1024 MB
Memory 8 GB 1333 MHz DDR3
Software OS X 10.9 (13A510d) <-- I went back to DP3 :D

Here is the GPU info with the Thunderbolt -> HDMI -> Samsung in question:

AMD Radeon HD 6750M:

Chipset Model: AMD Radeon HD 6750M
Type: GPU
Bus: PCIe
PCIe Lane Width: x8
VRAM (Total): 1024 MB
Vendor: ATI (0x1002)
Device ID: 0x6741
Revision ID: 0x0000
ROM Revision: 113-C0170L-573
gMux Version: 1.9.23
EFI Driver Version: 01.00.573
Displays:
SAMSUNG:
Resolution: 1920 x 1080 @ 60Hz (1080p)
Pixel Depth: 32-Bit Color (ARGB8888)
Main Display: Yes
Mirror: Off
Online: Yes
Rotation: Supported
Television: Yes
 
@sofent: All I've managed to work out is that it has to do with external displays (both in clamshell and mirror modes).

If you boot without the external attached and reattached after you're at the login screen (or in OSX) it'll be fine.

I can see a fix being released for this pretty soon, well I hope so at least :D
 
Here's my console results:

15-inch, Early 2011
Processor 2.2 GHz Intel Core i7
Graphics AMD Radeon HD 6750M 1024 MB
Memory 16 GB 1600 MHz DDR3
Software OS X 10.9 (13A524d)

Thunderbolt -> HDMI -> LG 24" 1440p UHD

AMD Radeon HD 6750M:

Chipset Model: AMD Radeon HD 6750M
Type: GPU
Bus: PCIe
PCIe Lane Width: x8
VRAM (Total): 1024 MB
Vendor: ATI (0x1002)
Device ID: 0x6741
Revision ID: 0x0000
ROM Revision: 113-C0170L-573
gMux Version: 1.9.23
EFI Driver Version: 01.00.573
Displays:
LG:
Resolution: 2560 x 1440 @ 120Hz (1440p)
Pixel Depth: 32-Bit Color (ARGB8888)
Main Display: Yes
Mirror: Off
Online: Yes
Rotation: Supported
Television: Yes



It must be something specific to the 2011 i7 Sandy Bridge MBP's
 
Resolution: 2560 x 1440 @ 120Hz (1440p)

How did you manage 120 Hz? I don't even have that option despite the TV being able to handle that speed for 3D :-/

The only Refresh rates I have is 50 and 60 :-/
 
It seems to be fixed with DP5.

Works fine with DP5 now, but still can't bump it above NTSC-60 or Pal-50 :-/ And that's using a Thunderbolt -> HDMI from the AppleStore?

What mode to you shove the TV in to get that? I've got to literally shove it into 3D mode to get 120. Even then if it's a normal video on the BDR, I still get a clear pic until I bump in the 3D mode on the BDR player.
 
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