I have a flash 5 1. I have been using high sierra for a while. Starting with 10.13.4 and now with 10.13.5, I have this weird graphic's glitch on the login screen. The login screen looks grabbled. It's hard to explain. After login everything is fine. This happens with multiple gpu (gtx 650, gtx750 and gt120). Anyone else have this issue? This also happens with or without nvidia webdrivers.
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graphics glitch login screen high sierra 10.13.5
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Could you post a picture of it? I have had a flashing of lines of code before the login in box appears. Nothing else on my flashed 5,1 with a GTX 1080. I noticed the lines of code seemed to appear with the nvidia web drivers for 10.13.3 then disappeared with 10.13.4 and now with 10.13.5 they are back. They don't seem to hurt anything.
Lisa
Lisa
Early in 10.13 I had a screen flash with, as described above, lines of code before the apple popped up. Since 10.13.4 that has evolved into a rolling screen displaying the same type of info. cMP 5,1 with MVC flashed GTX 1080. I'm sure it's nothing to worry about.
Lou
Lou
When you say lines of code appearing before the login scree, are we talking text. As in loading in verbose mode before graphical mode initializes?
This annoyance is due to the APFS driver. While it is possible to patch the driver, the bless command detects the altered driver and refuses to embed it.
See https://forums.macrumors.com/thread...gh-sierra-update.2101740/page-3#post-25968800
See https://forums.macrumors.com/thread...gh-sierra-update.2101740/page-3#post-25968800
It’s a verbose output of drivers loading I believe.
I see similar in Linux all the time and it causes no problem. I think other drivers are loading ahead of the graphics driver, so you get to watch wheather you want to or not. Nothing to worry about.
I see similar in Linux all the time and it causes no problem. I think other drivers are loading ahead of the graphics driver, so you get to watch wheather you want to or not. Nothing to worry about.
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I had seen similar on shutdown previously, but never on startup... though I'm using a non-EFI card. I cloned my APFS 10.13 SSD to an HFS+ SSD to troubleshoot another issue and have not seen anything similar since. Occasionally get the non-blinking DOS-style cursor in the upper left on shutdown.
That’s ugly right there, I don’t care who you are... That’s ugly... jk
Really... I Got Nothing...
Wow, that almost looks like a bad cable or a corrupt DP connection before the monitor is able to auto-switch to the correct setting. Any chance there is a mode you can change on your monitor for DP version or disable processing on the monitor? Any other monitors (or TVs) you can try?
I tried different monitors with different type of connections. Different gpu. Different drivers. All has this graphic glitch on login screen. It started with 10.13.4...
Wow! That is like really ugly. I have seen nothing like that. You have tried all the ideas I have - change gpu, change monitor, change cables, update drivers. And yet it is fine after you finally get logged in?
Only other idea I have would be there is something loading - an app??? that is causing the issue???
Lisa
Only other idea I have would be there is something loading - an app??? that is causing the issue???
Lisa