I tried the Monterey Method it keeps saying invalid resolution after i restart when I try to add custom resoultion.
So i did a clean install of Ventura, and it still sees it as 2 separate monitors. Any advice?
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I tried the Monterey Method it keeps saying invalid resolution after i restart when I try to add custom resoultion.
So i did a clean install of Ventura, and it still sees it as 2 separate monitors. Any advice?
I haven't tried Ventura myself on an Intel machine.
@joevt do you have any suggestions? Shouldn't 8K60 work in Ventura now?
8K60 on Dell UP3218K requires Ventura, a Mac Pro 2019, and something else but I don't know what the something else is. So I made a patch to remove the Mac Pro 2019 and whatever checks.
You need an installation of OpenCore/Lilu/WhateverGreen (my fork). You can put them on an EFI partition or a new FAT partition (at least 200 MB).
Then you boot the Mac holding the option key, use the arrow keys to select the OpenCore icon, hold the control key down so the up arrow turns into a circular arrow and press return. This makes OpenCore the default booter. Then in OpenCore do the same for the macOS. Using the control key in OpenCore makes the selected macOS the default booter from OpenCore. OpenCore will load Lilu and WhateverGreen which contain the patch. Then the display should be able to do 8K60.
If you want to try the patch then I'll zip the required files.
I use displayplacer for this to align my horizontal + vertical Dell 2720's down to the pixel. It's handy because you can do it all via CLI. Basically...
- brew install displayplacer
- displayplacer list
- Copy the sample command given at the very end of the output
- Paste back into the terminal and tinker with the pixel values, and keep retrying until I have my monitors aligned
So for whatever reason I had to change the TV port I plugged into, to port 2. It's been working pretty well there. Today I had some issues with sync (sometimes happens when you have the machine asleep and the TV turns off and when it comes back on). So I decided to try unplugging it from port 2 and back into HDMI port 1 on the Samsung TV.
The TV just did not want to show through HDMI port 1 on the TV. Not sure why. And I'm not sure if I was dreaming/imagining that I had been using it on port 1. Anyway, I put it back in HDMI port 2, and toggled between 8k at 30hz back to 8k@60hz via SwitchResX a few times (for whatever reason, doing that seems to get the TV to accept the sync) and it came back on like no problems.
Soooooo, if you have the TV and you tried to get it work, and it didn't, and you were on HDMI port 1, you might try it on Port 2, or some other port on the back of the TV. And do the SwitchRexX toggle back and forth a few times at each port to see if one of the ports is more friendly than the other. For whatever random reason, on my TV it really likes HDMI port 2 better (at least over HDMI port 1). I haven't tried HDMI port 3 which has some extra e-arc stuff, or port 4, figuring I'll leave well enough alone.
I updated the "working" post to show I'm in HDMI port 2 for anyone else that wants to try it. Hope that helps.
The TV just did not want to show through HDMI port 1 on the TV. Not sure why. And I'm not sure if I was dreaming/imagining that I had been using it on port 1. Anyway, I put it back in HDMI port 2, and toggled between 8k at 30hz back to 8k@60hz via SwitchResX a few times (for whatever reason, doing that seems to get the TV to accept the sync) and it came back on like no problems.
Soooooo, if you have the TV and you tried to get it work, and it didn't, and you were on HDMI port 1, you might try it on Port 2, or some other port on the back of the TV. And do the SwitchRexX toggle back and forth a few times at each port to see if one of the ports is more friendly than the other. For whatever random reason, on my TV it really likes HDMI port 2 better (at least over HDMI port 1). I haven't tried HDMI port 3 which has some extra e-arc stuff, or port 4, figuring I'll leave well enough alone.
I updated the "working" post to show I'm in HDMI port 2 for anyone else that wants to try it. Hope that helps.
One other weirdness. The Samsung can get 'stuck' in weird ways. Sometimes I turn it on and only some of the backlight lights are on. Turning it on and off with the remote will not reset it. But pulling the HDMI plug out and back in will. But then for some reason the PC/Screen cannot sync and the only way to get it back to working is to shut everything down (the computer, the screen, the UPS powering both of them), turn it all back on and then boot with the screen already turned on.
I suspect, but havent tried, that such a forced cold reboot might let me plug into some port other than HDMI port 2, but it's so much wasted 'jiggle time' that I havent bothered with that.
Again, might be useful for anyone trying that does not get instant results.
Now with Ventura officially released have anyone had any luck with an 8K display? 😅
One person reported UP3218K works 8K60 with my Lilu/WhateverGreen patch (for Intel Macs only; updated for Ventura release).
Mine still works after the upgrade. It does not seem any 'better' though, but I'm still using the SwitchResX solution. No new resolution options seemed to pop up.
Yea, it's a UI ****show. They made access to everything about as inefficient as humanly possible. Arranging screens and resolutions should all be in one pane. You click on a screen position and see all the settings for it. Not complicated. Much like it used to be in the long ago...
It was in e-mails. My forks are on GitHub.
Build it like this (change MyProjects to wherever you like):
Code:
MyProjects="/Volumes/Work/Programming/KextProjects"
mkdir -p ${MyProjects}/MacKernelSDK
mkdir -p ${MyProjects}/Lilu
mkdir -p ${MyProjects}/WhateverGreen
cd ${MyProjects}/MacKernelSDK
git clone https://github.com/joevt/MacKernelSDK joevt-MacKernelSDK
cd ${MyProjects}/Lilu
git clone https://github.com/joevt/Lilu.git joevt-Lilu
cd ${MyProjects}/Lilu/joevt-Lilu
ln -s ${MyProjects}/MacKernelSDK/joevt-MacKernelSDK MacKernelSDK
# use Xcode to build Lilu
cd ${MyProjects}/WhateverGreen
git clone https://github.com/joevt/WhateverGreen.git joevt-WhateverGreen
ln -s ${MyProjects}/MacKernelSDK/joevt-MacKernelSDK MacKernelSDK
ln -s ${MyProjects}/Lilu/joevt-Lilu/DerivedData/Lilu/Build/Products/Debug/Lilu.kext Lilu.kext
# use Xcode to build WhateverGreenInstall OCLP. It has a “Allow native models” setting you can enable for Macs that support Ventura.
Replace OCLP's Lilu.kext and WhateverGreen.kext with the ones you just built.
boot-args in the config plist should include:
-liludbgall -liludump=240 -lilubetaall dpd=2dpd=2 does the UP3218K patches.
liludump=240 will cause a Lilu log file to be saved at /var/log four minutes after boot (sort by date modified in descending order).
The log file will show how many of the userland patches were made.
If it works, then maybe you can try removing
liludump and liludbgall from boot-args to make booting faster.
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Guys, is there a chance to run OSX at 8k - 60 Hz ( Samsung Q900A TV ) ?
Hackintosh, Mac Mini or whatever it is
I'd really like to run OSX on this beautiful display.
I have 4 x HDMI 2.1 on the Samsung
My Windows PC - RTX 4090, 32 GB DDR4, mainboard - Asus ROG Strix Z690 Gaming D4
AFAIK, OSX does not support RTX 4090 / 3090 ( i have that one, too )
I could buy a mini PC if I'd knew it works at 8k-60 Hz ( with AMD GPU )
Could you please, give me some advices ?
Thank you
Hackintosh, Mac Mini or whatever it is
I'd really like to run OSX on this beautiful display.
I have 4 x HDMI 2.1 on the Samsung
My Windows PC - RTX 4090, 32 GB DDR4, mainboard - Asus ROG Strix Z690 Gaming D4
AFAIK, OSX does not support RTX 4090 / 3090 ( i have that one, too )
I could buy a mini PC if I'd knew it works at 8k-60 Hz ( with AMD GPU )
Could you please, give me some advices ?
Thank you
I think the odds of the RTX working is very low. I forget what operating system was the last one that supported Nvidia graphics. Mojave?
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Sorry cannot comment on your proposed rig. As is, with the equipment I list, I barely have this working. Yes, I have it working at 8k and 60hz but no one else seems to have replicated what I have.
Do you use only OSX, or Windows, as well ?Sorry cannot comment on your proposed rig. As is, with the equipment I list, I barely have this working. Yes, I have it working at 8k and 60hz but no one else seems to have replicated what I have.
Did you fix the blurry fonts ( BGR subpixels ) ? If " yes " how ?
I used it with windows 10 and it works FABULOUSLY under windows. Really great there. Under OSX, it's janky to get it going after screen turns off (asleep for long times) but once you get it back, it stays on solid. Under windows, it just works great the entire time.
Absolutely nothing. I installed windows 10/bootcamp, plugged it in, and it just worked great.
Well, meaning with all the same hardware/cables I listed here to make it work in macOS. Also it worked great with multiple cables too. It worked best, not surprisingly, with a pure HDMI2.1 cable, but also with the displayport->HDMI cable I used for macOS. But worked perfectly with just a plain Jane HDMI2.1-to-HDMI2.1 cable (which is what you would obviously prefer to use since it gives you more/full bandwidth).
Okay, thank you
I think, I'll give up on OSX
If you, and experimented user, have issues running OSX on your QN900A 8k - 60 Hz, I'll " die slowly "
I think, I'll give up on OSX
If you, and experimented user, have issues running OSX on your QN900A 8k - 60 Hz, I'll " die slowly "