Hi
real cMP 3,1, 32gb 667, quadro 2000, geforce 560ti, 4x250gb hd in apple sw raid (which makes things a PITA too, as technically I have an EFI partition on each drive... generally things work out and just use the first drive..)
Upgraded to HS with Dosdude's patch..used it to download HS, and I ended up with build #17G2208, which is supposed to be a specific update only for 2018 MBPs - thus there will never be a webdriver build for this OS build.
Previously was on Yosemite with acceleration working fine. Followed Dosdude instructions to make USB for HS, booted it, installed, rebooted and it would turn off every boot, like literally power off..
Pull out the MBP, target disk mode, boot the USB again and run the post-install patches (I did do the AMD video patch, I hope this doesn't matter, it was auto-selected as my mbp has amd) on my volume. Shut down, boot the cMP again.. I do believe I booted to black screen at first.. Not sure how I rectified that, I think maybe I put in whatevergreen.kext, but when I did that at first, I didn't put in the lilu or whatever, so that shouldn't have affected anything..?
Anyway.. I am booted now, I do have graphics on both cards on all 4 screens at full resolution but no acceleration, no rotation, no fun.
I used nvidia-update.sh to install drivers, tried the latest, tried a few older versions back to the point where nvidia-update broke trying to patch them..378.05.05.25f12 I believe wouldn't patch anymore.
The web drivers DO load and DO show the cards, but no accel. Selecting the OS X driver doesn't change anything. It's almost like the drivers are ignoring my cards...but..the fermi graphics framework is still part of the driver package..? I don't even mind using older drivers if needed either..!
I did also eventually install lilu kext along with whatevergreen but this doesn't seem to make any/much difference.. The first boot after 'nvram ngfxgl=1', suddenly my 560ti was detected first and my quadro2000 second, which put my primary screen as primary like it should be..but still no accel, still glitchy graphics in some spots..
I know my card is old - but I also know people have gotten it and other fermi cards working in HS, heck I've seen people get them working in Mojave..??..unfortunately most of those people are on hackintoshes, I am not sure how different whatevergreen would work being injected by clover or something versus simply being in S/L/E..?
Also, once the graphics kick in, I get a 'boot screen' of sorts, black background apple logo and a progress bar, takes forever to finish booting at this point too..
I've been at this all day, trying different driver versions, etc.. no luck.
Please help me breathe a little more life into this cheese grater. At least until I can find/afford a new gfx card and/or a 5,1.. or build a hack maybe..
real cMP 3,1, 32gb 667, quadro 2000, geforce 560ti, 4x250gb hd in apple sw raid (which makes things a PITA too, as technically I have an EFI partition on each drive... generally things work out and just use the first drive..)
Upgraded to HS with Dosdude's patch..used it to download HS, and I ended up with build #17G2208, which is supposed to be a specific update only for 2018 MBPs - thus there will never be a webdriver build for this OS build.
Previously was on Yosemite with acceleration working fine. Followed Dosdude instructions to make USB for HS, booted it, installed, rebooted and it would turn off every boot, like literally power off..
Pull out the MBP, target disk mode, boot the USB again and run the post-install patches (I did do the AMD video patch, I hope this doesn't matter, it was auto-selected as my mbp has amd) on my volume. Shut down, boot the cMP again.. I do believe I booted to black screen at first.. Not sure how I rectified that, I think maybe I put in whatevergreen.kext, but when I did that at first, I didn't put in the lilu or whatever, so that shouldn't have affected anything..?
Anyway.. I am booted now, I do have graphics on both cards on all 4 screens at full resolution but no acceleration, no rotation, no fun.
I used nvidia-update.sh to install drivers, tried the latest, tried a few older versions back to the point where nvidia-update broke trying to patch them..378.05.05.25f12 I believe wouldn't patch anymore.
The web drivers DO load and DO show the cards, but no accel. Selecting the OS X driver doesn't change anything. It's almost like the drivers are ignoring my cards...but..the fermi graphics framework is still part of the driver package..? I don't even mind using older drivers if needed either..!
I did also eventually install lilu kext along with whatevergreen but this doesn't seem to make any/much difference.. The first boot after 'nvram ngfxgl=1', suddenly my 560ti was detected first and my quadro2000 second, which put my primary screen as primary like it should be..but still no accel, still glitchy graphics in some spots..
I know my card is old - but I also know people have gotten it and other fermi cards working in HS, heck I've seen people get them working in Mojave..??..unfortunately most of those people are on hackintoshes, I am not sure how different whatevergreen would work being injected by clover or something versus simply being in S/L/E..?
Also, once the graphics kick in, I get a 'boot screen' of sorts, black background apple logo and a progress bar, takes forever to finish booting at this point too..
I've been at this all day, trying different driver versions, etc.. no luck.
Please help me breathe a little more life into this cheese grater. At least until I can find/afford a new gfx card and/or a 5,1.. or build a hack maybe..