iMac Pro X299 - Live the Future now with macOS 10.14 Mojave [Successful Build/Extended Guide]

[kgp]

Hello, I have the AQC111, if I update the firmware will it work OOB in macOS?

Why don't you try to update and see? Now it does not work anyway.. Thus the situation can only improve or at least remain the same I guess..

 

[kgp]

@kgp: why I can not see the GPU fan speed values in iStatmenu Version 6.31 ? I have the same GPU as you.

Only GPU temp sensor values for now, sorry..

 

[izo1]

Why don't you try to update and see? Now it does not work anyway.. Thus the situation can only improve or at least remain the same I guess..

I don't want to ruin the motherboard...I'm on my 3rd Prime Deluxe II , and 4th X299 board.

 

[kgp]

I don't want to ruin the motherboard...I'm on my 3rd Prime Deluxe II , and 4th X299 board.

You won't ruin it I guess. If the trick with 10.13.3 does not work, the onboard 5GB NIC is anyway useless without this update. If you do not want to test the update for the community, somebody else will have to do it for you instead and risk his/her board. So let's wait.

I mean it is an officially released update for AQC-107, 108 & AQC111, 112 Lan Controllers to be easily performed under Windows! I guess the only question is whether or not the new firmware will finally also allow an OoB native OSX implementation without any workaround.

For using the onboard NIC under macOS so far you only have to options: the 10.13.3 trick and kext patch or the new firmware update. If the primer workaround does not work for the 5GB onboard NIC, there is only the new firmware update left as a possible solution. Else the 5GB onboard NIC is totally useless anyway under macOS..

 

[Maywitt]

Only GPU temp sensor values for now, sorry..

The first screenshot in your E12.) on the first page show GPU1 with 100rpm - I have't this value.

 

[kgp]

The first screenshot in your E12.) on the first page show GPU1 with 100rpm - I have't this value.

Well I don't know.. I cannot test it on my system now, because I exchanged my air cooled Nitro+ Vega 64 by the Sapphire Radeon VII for some days. Might be that the fan speed sensor got lost in subsequent versions. But if I properly remember, it never worked and constantly revealed 100 rpm by error.

This however is a totally minor issue we can investigate subsequently. For now it is really more important to know if the new EFi-Folder attached to post #1,735 properly implements all Deluxe II onboard devices (apart from the non functional 5GB NIC) and fully works with the latter motherboard including TB hotplug and sleep/wake.

I would appreciate of you could provide some IOREG.save and PCI snapshot, after properly implementing this EFI-Folder on your system. If you need to apply changes to the EFI-Folder or implemented SSDTs, please also upload the latter after applying the necessary modifications.

 

[RuleBreaker01]

@Rulebreaker01 , unable to get the 5K2K monitor profile with native scaling loaded on my X299 system with my Vega, although it perfectly works on my X99 system with the VII.

I even tried to remove SwitchResX to my best knowledge. Still no success though.

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Any idea what could precent the 5K2K monitor profile from loading?

Fully uninstall ScreenResX. My guess is thst you set the preference to always show the resolution.

sudo defaults delete /Library/Preferences/com.apple.windowserver DisplayResolutionEnabled

When you set a scaled resolution, what real resolution is the screen set at? 34401440 or 51202160?
You see this in the screen settings, preferences second page down.

 

[rugula]

Hello, I have the AQC111, if I update the firmware will it work OOB in macOS?

Tried, but the update did not work for me.
Aquantia 5Gbit network PCIe adapter, ran "diag -p" & shows firmware as: 1.5.69.
Following the instructions, ran (in a Windows elevated command prompt): "diag -k -f XXXX.clx" (replacing XXXX.clx with DellNormalDirtyWake-3.1.56_bdp.clx) to program the firmware.
Then got:
"PHY flash bdp and clx bdp differ! Specify which to keep if not running in interactive mode. Use --phy_flash_bdp to force flash bdp, or use --phy_clx_bdp to force clx bdp."

Did anyone get this firmware flash to work correctly?

 

[kgp]

Fully uninstall ScreenResX. My guess is thst you set the preference to always show the resolution.

When you set a scaled resolution, what real resolution is the screen set at? 34401440 or 51202160?
You see this in the screen settings, preferences second page down.

Unfortunately it appears to be anything than trivial to entirely remove SwitchResX.

Basically I followed these instructions:

How to remove SwitchResX 4.5.3

What would you do if you need to remove SwitchResX 4.5.3? simply drag and drop this app into trash? This is not enough for a thorough removal. Check out this tutorial to see how exactly to completely remove SwitchResX 4.5.3 from your Mac.

uninstallmacapp.com

and

How do I restore the display settings - Apple Community

discussions.apple.com

although still no way to get your profile loaded on X299. On X99 it works despite the fact that SwitchResX is still installed.

Also your command line just returns:

2019-02-06 18:28:07.992 defaults[4415:304863]
Domain (/Library/Preferences/com.apple.windowserver) not found.
Defaults have not been changed

although there is a com.apple.windowserver.plist in /Library/Preferences/.

In system preferences, I just have these options and no choice of selecting predefined scaling icons like in your case or like in my case with the VII and X99:

Reasonable option that work are just 5120x2160 with UI 2560x1080 and 5120x2160 with UI 5120x2160. All other available resolutions are either blurred or the wrong format..

About this Mac under Display also just shows LG HDR 5K 34-inch (3440 x 1440)

Another clean install of macOS is impossible. It would mean a lot of time and effort to once more configure everything subsequently.

 

[RuleBreaker01]

Reasonable option that work are just 5120x2160 with UI 2560x1080 and 5120x2160 with UI 5120x2160. All other available resolutions are either blurred or the wrong format..

Yeah, all the other resolutions set the screen to 3440x1440 which looks awful

That's what the

    <key>DisplayPixelDimensions</key>
    <data>
    AAAUAAAACHA=
    </data>

fixes.

Unfortunately it appears to be anything than trivial to entirely remove SwitchResX.

Basically I followed these instructions:

Another clean install of macOS is impossible. It would mean a lot of time and effort to once more configure everything subsequently.

It's trivial to remove SwitchResX.
Start the SwitchResX app, in the top left "ScreenResX" menu (on the left of File), there's an "Uninstall ScreenResX" button.

SwitchResX - FAQ

Click on "How do I uninstall SwitchResX ? " link.

After that, go to /System/Library/Displays/Contents/Resources/Overrides/DisplayVendorID-1e6d and remove the custom profile ScreenResX may have left in there, something like DisplayYearManufacture-2018-DisplayWeekManufacture-9