[Guide] HP Elite 8300 & 6300 Pro (all form factors) using Clover UEFI hotpatch

[tatster]

Hi all,
Wasn't sure whether to post in this thread or in the Mojave one.
Currently running Mojave (10.14.6) on my 8300 but wish to upgrade to Catalina.
Also, became aware that hardware acceleration is not enabled in apps like OBS.
From my research, it appears I might need later versions of Lilu and Whatevergreen.

So my question is should I upgrade to Catalina and then resolve HW acceleration issues? Or should I fix HW accel first and then let the built-in update upgrade me to Catalina ?
If fix HW accel first, is it simply a case of replacing the kext in /EFI/CLOVER/kexts/other with the later versions?
Or there other settings that need amending in SMBIOS or else in Clover configurator ?

For reference, previous kext versions are:
Lilu 1.3.8
VirtualSMC 1.0.7
WhateverGreen 1.3.1
AppleALC 1.4.0
IntelMausi 1.0.1


Please let me know if further info would help answer these questions.
Many Thanks.
Anthony

 

[phrozenpenguin]

@Sniki thanks for the comprehensive answer. I look forward to the Opencore guide - and please let us know if you need any help testing, I have one of each of the 8300.

I will try the SSDT from @trs96 thread. Of course also thanks to @trs96 who has been instrumental in working with these machines as well.

I think the lack of VGA port should be a non issue. The last Mac that had a VGA port was ancient, and apart from the occasional projector, I don't ever see VGA ports any more.

 

[phrozenpenguin]

Hi all,
Wasn't sure whether to post in this thread or in the Mojave one.
Currently running Mojave (10.14.6) on my 8300 but wish to upgrade to Catalina.
Also, became aware that hardware acceleration is not enabled in apps like OBS.
From my research, it appears I might need later versions of Lilu and Whatevergreen.

So my question is should I upgrade to Catalina and then resolve HW acceleration issues? Or should I fix HW accel first and then let the built-in update upgrade me to Catalina ?
If fix HW accel first, is it simply a case of replacing the kext in /EFI/CLOVER/kexts/other with the later versions?
Or there other settings that need amending in SMBIOS or else in Clover configurator ?

For reference, previous kext versions are:
Lilu 1.3.8
VirtualSMC 1.0.7
WhateverGreen 1.3.1
AppleALC 1.4.0
IntelMausi 1.0.1


Please let me know if further info would help answer these questions.
Many Thanks.
Anthony

What is the OBS app?

 

[tatster]

What is the OBS app?

Open Broadcast Studio (Project)

Open Broadcaster Software | OBS

OBS (Open Broadcaster Software) is free and open source software for video recording and live streaming. Stream to Twitch, YouTube and many other providers or record your own videos with high quality H264 / AAC encoding.

obsproject.com

Video recording / live streaming - that kind of thing. Obviously would work better with HW accellerated GPU encoder functions!

 

[phrozenpenguin]

@taster do you have onboard graphics enabled in the BIOS?
You should "just" be able to update the kexts I think, but I am not the expert...

 

[Asural]

Also, became aware that hardware acceleration is not enabled in apps like OBS.

It should work from Mojave 10.14.5.
Does set to BIOS-> Advaced-> Devide Option-> Integrated Video = Dsiable?

 

[phrozenpenguin]

To be honest i have a SSDT.aml that i did generate for my 8300SFF, i will collect those SSDTs from @trs96 guide and upload them on the github project so everyone can pick his SSDT according to his CPU, those SSDTs are previously generated before that Power Management problem showed up so i assume that they should work fine.

FYI @Sniki I tried the one from the @trs96 guide, and it matches my CPU, but it doesn't work. I presume this might be because @trs96 is using a different system definition (iMac) and he notes they will only work if you are using the same as that (and I'm using MacMini as per this guide). They both appear to hang at the same point when booting; I have not done a verbose boot yet.

 

[tatster]

It should work from Mojave 10.14.5.
Does set to BIOS-> Advaced-> Devide Option-> Integrated Video = Dsiable?

Yep, Integrated Video is set to Disabled

Any other thoughts ?

 

[Asural]

Any other thoughts ?

How about asking a question in the following thread?

Graphics

Enabling Full Acceleration- QE/CI

www.tonymacx86.com

 

[Sniki]

FYI @Sniki I tried the one from the @trs96 guide, and it matches my CPU, but it doesn't work. I presume this might be because @trs96 is using a different system definition (iMac) and he notes they will only work if you are using the same as that (and I'm using MacMini as per this guide). They both appear to hang at the same point when booting; I have not done a verbose boot yet.

Thnx for letting me know.
I will edit them to match macmini 6,1