UtterDisbelief
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Well all we have are suspicions. The console is of no help at all, and all we have so far are behaviors. Like when I enable my Haswell's GPU, but leave my discrete GPU on (an EVGA GTX 570, mobo is a Gigabyte z78 ud5h) I get audio but blank video. Console indicates zilch. Tried all firmwares including new iMac 14,2 definitions and nothing changes. The issue is clearly something to do with the HDCP scheme but without any warnings. The only potential resolution is to have the equipment and engineering know-how to somehow get into the HDCP handshake traffic and see what, if anything is happening there or if it's as simple as Apple locking out external displays. I don't see that as being the situation though given the new Mac Pro's coming out. The number of people on planet Earth with the wherewithall and ability to do such troubleshooting are probably a handful. However some of these same people are the ones who first got Windows installed on an iMac pre-bootcamp and also came up with the Hackintosh foundations. Without their involvement I fear the whole Hackintosh scene is headed for oblivion, and that might be part of what Apple's up to with all this BS.
It's a damn shame. I just don't see myself making much use out of a Hack until the issue is fixed. I'm considering starting a bounty on this problem given it's complete lack of attention from a development side.
You make some very pertinent points there. I don't have the low-level expertise for this but the HDCP handshake sounds viable. For myself I've proved it's not the hardware per se, it has to be OS. Why external monitors might be locked out (did occur to me) especially if they can be connected via HDMI is baffling. They work on Mac Pros and Windows machines.
The Hackintosh scene is getting more and more complicated. Each iteration of OS brings more and more problems when you'd expect things to get smoother. The genuine hardware doesn't change that much after all. My Hackintosh has been running for over 18-months now and things have never been so difficult to fathom or rectify. I think the last time it ran everything perfectly - allbeit except iTunes DRM video - was 10.8.3. Since then there have been serious problems, making the effort and meagre gains seem less and less attractive.
I'm not wining as such, some people like to "tinker" as a hobby. It is better to travel than arrive etc. Getting things done though, is a pain. I can be working, the door-bell goes. I get up to see who's there, come back and find the Hack has gone to sleep and won't wake. Power-buttoning is my only option. Not good. And if I spend money on the iTunes store I have to watch my purchase on a Windows PC.