Recent content by majikthise

sorry in advance.. slight topic derail hey semson, i have the same x58 board. i'm just still on mojave, but i have never been able to get my x5650 speed stepping working right using mac pro 5,1 smbios. I get the same results as you, 12x to max (20x in my case without turbo boost), no in between...

I have same mobo, and IMO, I'd stay at Mojave. There's few people still running these boards that can troubleshoot all the little issues that come up. I've found even the current clover versions are buggy on x58 wrt gpu init. But good luck, and maybe goingbald can help (i've found his posts very...

glad you got it working. yea, i'm just staying on mojave for this system.. don't see much benefit for catalina/big sur etc. btw, anyone else with legacy board and trying to run mojave w/ smbios macpro5,1, you'll need to use dosdude's patched mojave installer (search for it). it does something...

here's basically what i'm using. see if the graphics stuff works for you (orinoco fb, dynamic ports). you'll have to change some of the smbios stuff and ram and whatnot. also, this only works for me on clover 4934, like i said. and i do have lilu and whatevergreen active in /Library/Extensions...

that's not strictly true, to my knowledge. I am not using either of those and it works. Maybe whatevergreen is fixing the deinit-reinit stuff, but I know it does not fix it on clover 5120. this can be a big headache. whatevergreen faq says don't do any framebuffer or any clover graphics fixes...

I think this is a common issue with black screens and booting from hdmi and dvi ports. not sure if anyones put together the pieces and figured it all out. i had luck using clover v4934, while newer versions would not work. I also patched the amd9500.kext in clover to assign dynamic ports (search...

I'm late to this thread, but I may have something useful to add. It may help someone else on a legacy system, so I figured I'd chime in. Using a DP to VGA adapter is not an ideal solution for most people, but I guess if that is okay for the OP, who's to argue. Perhaps a DP to HDMI or DVI would...