Recent content by darukaru

Godspeed early adopters. This is definitely a “wait until 14.1/14.2” situation for me.

I should note I’m also using this venerable plist-only kext to get the NIC recognized instead of patching the device ID in OpenCore. (Been using it for years, no reason to stop now.) https://www.tonymacx86.com/threads/kext-for-support-intel-gigabit-ct-desktop-adapter-out-of-the-box.77795/

The OpenCore Legacy Patcher repo has a slightly modified copy of the 82574L driver; the modification is described as “Ethernet: Set IOProbeScore to outmatch DriverKit”, which I’m guessing is intended to force it to load before other network devices and prevent the “lights are on but nobody’s...

There was indeed a switch and the other setting has more reasonable fan behavior. I hadn’t thought to look before because I had read the SWFT models were single-BIOS only. Thanks very much for the tip!

I'd posted a little while back about how I'd gotten an XFX SWFT 210 6600XT with fans that were always running at a high speed until I'd applied the Henbury patch in macOS or installed the full AMD control panel package in Windows. According to GPU-Z in Windows, the VBIOS on my card is built...

https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/58025/why-are-certificates-limited-in-time This is a pretty good overview of why certificates in general expire. Apple isn't specifically targeting users of the Nvidia web drivers with this, it's just an unfortunate side effect of what are considered...

OK, thanks. I don't think it's hardware since it wasn't going 100% in the BIOS or VESA mode. If I figure it out I'll post it in the main 6600XT thread.

Weirdly, I had the opposite problem with my card--after the first couple of times I booted my system post-install the fans defaulted to maximum speed and wouldn't slow down even though the GPU temperature was only showing up as 40C. The fan speed was also maxed out in Windows, although I...

I would bet on the 6xxx series being supported around Big Sur 11.1/11.2. And I wouldn't be surprised if the (eventual, 2-years-from-now) ARM Mac Pro continues to support discrete GPUs well into the future.

If I can scrape together the cash, I’ll put one more together, once we know a little more about what the timeline for Intel support is going to look like. A desktop UNIX that doesn’t suck is worth the effort, at least to me. The A-series CPUs really have come a long way, though. The A12Z is...

No one knows for sure. I would call it extremely unlikely for there to be drivers for 10.14.x at this point. Perhaps we'll see them for 10.15.x when the new Mac Pro ships. If they don't appear in a reasonable time frame after that, then they probably aren't coming at all. My personal plan at...

Pray for the Nvidia blockade to end with Catalina; you’ll always have display errors without a Metal driver..

There will probably be a release with the new build number supported by the end of the week, Use nvidia-update.sh to install and patch the driver, or install WhateverGreen and set ngfxcompat=1 in your Clover boot flags to force an already installed driver to load.

I wouldn't bet on it until late this year or early next, not until the next iMac or iMac Pro refresh.

I got my current 1080 for free (long story) so there's a pretty solid incentive on my part to wait and see if the impasse is resolved. If they still haven't come to at least a state of detente by the time Navi/RDNA GPUs are available and shipping in iMacs, though, then I'll seriously have to...