I have the M1 Pro MacBook Pro so it can't connect to all of the monitors and I decided to just use it as a laptop. It came with Monterey and Monterey, at launch, had a lot of problems with external monitors though I think that they were eventually fixed. I had an M1 mini and I used that on the desktop running Big Sur until summer 2022 when the Monterey problems were resolved.
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MacOS Ventura + M1 Macs + external displays
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I have the M1 Pro MacBook Pro so it can't connect to all of the monitors and I decided to just use it as a laptop. It came with Monterey and Monterey, at launch, had a lot of problems with external monitors though I think that they were eventually fixed. I had an M1 mini and I used that on the desktop running Big Sur until summer 2022 when the Monterey problems were resolved.
That’s the opposite of my experience. I have M1 Max MacBook pros and it’s been a challenge with my monitors. Used both LG and HP Envy 4k monitors. Used three types of TB3 docks. Updated firmware. Nothing worked.
The monitors behaved much better under Monterey which is what gives me hope for 13.3. I suspect this has something to do with Apple’s new thunderbolt security layer for the M1 SoCs (i.e. it’s a software issue)
Of course there’s precedent for Apple doing dumb things - after years of supporting VLANs nicely they single-handedly destroyed support in MacOS 13.x causing grief at loads of enterprise shops. Apparently it’s to be fixed in 13.3 or so they say but my IT support team wasn’t amused much …
Looks like CalDigit just released a Firmware udpate for their TB4 dock to resolve sleep and eject issues.
Does anyone have that dock and willing to test? https://www.caldigit.com/ts4-macos-firmware-update-procedures/
Does anyone have that dock and willing to test? https://www.caldigit.com/ts4-macos-firmware-update-procedures/
My 3 x 30" cinema displays don't suffer from image retention and HDCP works perfectly fine with my MBP M1Pro. Both using the Club 3D CAC-1510 (HDCP ON version) and using the Apple mini displayport adapter through my OWC TB3 dock.
Connecting the monitor directly to the MBP, using the Club 3D adapter, I have no wake up issues. Have been using it that way for a few months now.
Sadly I only have the TS3+ dock. I really hope Caldigit provides a similar update for the TS3+ version
My eventual solution was to use a Mac Studio on the desktop and this gives me stability on monitors. There's one program that I run that runs 6 or 7 Windows and sometimes it puts one of the windows on the wrong monitor but I can just move it over using Spaces. It's a full-screen window. So no more plugging and unplugging with the Studio.
I have replaced the OWC TB4 Dock with a CalDigit TS4 Dock and the problem is gone. Testing it for about 4 days.
Not cheap but it is working.
I also have the TS4 (Firmware Version 39.1) - but still have the issue of a wrong resolution after waking up. Sporadically, undeterministic.
Is this completely gone for you?
I also have the wrong resolution issue. This happens often: On reactivation the left monitor has no signal and the right has the wrong resolution. Then I switch the left monitor off and on and then both a working with the right resolution.
Not perfect but much better then before were I have to reboot the hole system to get the displays working again.
But honestly the whole thing is a mess. Theses expensive things should simply work.
Absolutely. Thanks for the confirmation.
If the resolution is correct, but just the placement is off, I'm using https://github.com/jakehilborn/displayplacer to re-position the screen. That saves some time at least.
If the resolution is correct, but just the placement is off, I'm using https://github.com/jakehilborn/displayplacer to re-position the screen. That saves some time at least.
Mac Studio M2 Ultra, two LG 4K monitors, no dock, Apple wireless keyboard, mouse and trackpad. One monitor will wake up, the other will not.
WORKAROUND: If I manually wake up the monitor that doesn't wake up, before waking the Mac, everything is fine. I just touch the one control button this LG monitor has in order to wake it.
We really shouldn't have to do this sort of thing, but it seems to suggest that Apple is making an incorrect assumption about how quickly they can poll a monitor for its information after resuming the video signal to it.
WORKAROUND: If I manually wake up the monitor that doesn't wake up, before waking the Mac, everything is fine. I just touch the one control button this LG monitor has in order to wake it.
We really shouldn't have to do this sort of thing, but it seems to suggest that Apple is making an incorrect assumption about how quickly they can poll a monitor for its information after resuming the video signal to it.