- Joined
- Sep 29, 2010
- Messages
- 20
- Motherboard
- Gigabyte GA-X58A-UD3R (2.0) FH
- CPU
- X5680
- Graphics
- RX560
- Mac
- Mobile Phone
Yes, I am using a custom DSDT I edited some time ago using d00d's excellent guide for native power management on EX58 and X58A boards over on insanely. Without the DSDT you need NullCPUPM kext to prevent the AppleIntelCPUPM kext from causing a KP.
So, I got to spend some time on this over the holidays and I'm now up and running on Sierra (clean install - the existing OS installation goes back to the original Snow Leopard build on this machine!).
I made my DSDT using MaciASL and https://www.tonymacx86.com/threads/...55-1156-1366-dsdt-patches-for-maciasl.108238/ which appears to pretty much match dood's guide.
I also swapped graphics to a GT740 (that was never reliable or properly identified under El Capitan, but just works in Sierra).
For the little time that I've had to use it, it appears that shutdown works reliably and possibly even sleep! (time will tell).
Quirks that I haven't figured out yet:
- Cinebench is slower in my final installation (layered with all my user muck) than it is in my bare bones test installation.
- The clover boot screen is high resolution from the USB, but reverts to low resolution when booting from the OS disk (same config and I've even copied EFI from USB to disk).
- I was initially unable to boot from disk because the on-board USB3 ports had been re-enabled (it hung at PCI Configuration begin), but again strangely this wasn't a problem from the USB installer (again, exactly the same config including the MacPro5,1 config.plist and my DSTD)... is there some other magic in the installer version?