Jump to content

Ploddles

Members
 View Profile  See their activity

  • Posts

    420

  • Joined

  • Last visited

  • Days Won

    5

 Content Type 

Everything posted by Ploddles

  1. Ploddles
    Yes, the system is very stable. Updating the BIOS has benefits if you have more than 1 graphics card - Above 4G can now be enabled without it hanging the system. Big Sur and Catalina now boot fine with or without Above 4G enabled. The MMIO Whitelist hasn't changed, the values obtain with the Debug are the same as with the previous BIOS version. They are also the same with or without Above 4G enabled so you don't need to make any changes for that to your config file. You do need to make changes to the config.plist if you update to OC 0.6.1, eg you need to add the Arch - String - Any values to all your Add (kexts) and Patch sections in the Kernel part. There are a few other bit dotted throughout the rest of the config as well. If you want I can upload my updated config.plist file and you can see and compare with yours and see where the changes are.
  2. Ploddles
    Thanks for the heads up.
  3. Ploddles
    Yay, just updated to the latest 'release' version of OC, 0.6.1, and it appears to have solved my sleep problem. I need to do more testing but looking good so far.
  4. Ploddles
    Try disabling Above 4G Encoding in the BIOS.
  5. Ploddles
    Just a slight difference 🙂
  6. Ploddles
    Just out of interest, here is my score for a single lowly RX580. Before disabling the PAT patch it was 100.73, so that is quite a big performance boost.
  7. Ploddles
    Thanks for taking a look. I have removed the Slide value now I have tested it and found it didn't change anything. I followed your method on page 7 to obtain and calculate the Whitelist, it is only the last 3 or 4 values that are different from everybody else's and following the recommendations earlier I have enabled them all except the last 4. Next thing to try is to remove all the USB devices, except the keyboard and mouse, to see if they affect Sleep. When I put it to sleep, the keyboard, mouse and monitors turn off and then the MB clicks and the BIOS output LEDs start to count up. The mouse, keyboard and monitor do not turn back on and the BIOS codes stop at 30. On a normal start/restart it counts up to AA. There is nothing in the manual about what '30' indicates and a google search wasn't fruitful.
  8. Ploddles
    I finally had a chance to test the MMIOWhitelisting, disabling the last 3/4 entries but enabling all the others. There was no difference between disabling the last 3 or 4 and the system booted fine. Shutdown and restart still work as previous. Sleep still does not work. I also calculate my Slide value, which worked out as 80, but again, this doesn't seem to affect anything. I cannot boot at all with Above 4G enabled and the debug version of OC does not show any MMIO values in the report. Attached is my DSDT file to add to the collection - Gigabyte AORUS Xtreme. DSDT.aml.zip
  9. Ploddles
    Anybody tried the latest Big Sur, beta 6 released today, yet?
  10. Ploddles
    To rub salt into the wound, currently the new Nvidia cards will only achieve their full potential on AMD motherboards, as they require PCIe 4 for that. No Intel boards currently have PCIe 4 until Tiger Lake CPUs are released. The 490Z may support PCIe 4 but with only a CPU change so that is an ouch for anybody who currently has a 10 series CPU as they will have a spare CPU to move on to somebody.
  11. Ploddles
    If I remember correctly, it was all to do with Metal. Nvidia said they wouldn't support it and wanted Apple to stick with OPenGL. AMD ceased the opportunity to try to hammer Nvidia and said they would support Metal. It may be more complex than that but that is it put simply.
  12. Ploddles
    The Rocket 4+ is 7000/6850 not 5000/3900, so it IS faster than the normal Rocket 4.
  13. Ploddles
    @Pavo @fabiosun I have too many versions of OC downloaded, I could have used the wrong one by mistake. To make sure I have the right one I will download a fresh copy from Github and test again. I think I will delete all my old versions so that I have nice clean copies of release and debug and make sure I don't mix them up by mistake. I don't think I will have time tonight but will upload any useful text files I get. Thank you for your patience.
  14. Ploddles
    Yes I believe so, see attached. config.plist.zip I can try if you want 🙂
  15. Ploddles
    Hi @fabiosun, Although my system is running well now, apart from sleep, I am happy to do tests when I can. As you say, it can advance all our knowledge by seeing what does and does not work. I tried with all the various setting of Above 4G but none of them let me successfully boot into Catalina or Big Sur. Checking the debug txts they never get to the stage of saving the MMIO info so it is not possible to create a Whitelist. Attached are a series of the text files saved to the EFI when trying to boot. I don't know if they are useful at all but maybe you will see something useful in them. Archive.zip
  16. Ploddles
    @tsongz, which kext, there are a few flying about with varying results? I previously tries a couple on my Z390 with dubious results.
  17. Ploddles
    @Jaidy, My EFI and BIOS files are on page 22. Copy the BIOS file onto a USB drive and plug that in before you turn the machine on. Go to the last tab in BIOS where you save and exit. Select the Load settings option and you can then load the file from the USB drive. This overwrites your current settings so make sure you have saved your settings first. After loading the file save and exit. @fabiosun, do you know if removing the boot argument and enabling above 4G Encoding change the MMIO values we use in the Whitelist? If so, do you want me to disable the Whitelist or go through the process of replacing them with new values?
  18. Ploddles
    @meina222, very strange as I am not sure what has changed that could possibly affect sleep but it was working earlier this week. After doing the sound tests for @fabiosun I checked sleep again. In Catalina, the monitors, keyboard and mouse turn off but the fans are still running. but I cannot now get it to come back on. In BigSur, the same happens but I hear a click after the monitors, keyboard and mouse turn off but the fans are still running. Cannot get it to turn back on. There is another test I want to do but the F1 Racing is now on............ 🙂
  19. Ploddles
    @fabiosun, as promised, I disabled the AppleACL.kext and removed alcid in boot arguments. I then cleared NVRAM. The system was shut down and turned off before each test. Below are the results of my sound tests:-
  20. Ploddles
    @meina222 Sorry I didn't credit you earlier on the 'wake on lan' setting. By the time I had caught up reading all the posts, I couldn't remember or see again when skimming through who had mentioned it. Credit where credit is due, I would never have thought of that as a possible reason for the shutdown issue. Kudos to you 🙂
  21. Ploddles
    Sorry I didn't say, it was the L port that I plugged my headphones into. Later today I will disable AppleALC.kext and remove the alcid parameter and test again. @rressl, Please find below my BIOS/Uefi setting file. Ploddles.zip
  22. Ploddles
    @fabiosun Eureeka!! The bottom 2 port on the MB are controlled by the ASMedia Controller. I have an NVMe in the M2C socket which disables ports on the controller. I remember now when I first connected the SATA drives I tried them in the bottom 2 ports thinking these were SATA0 & SATA1 which are the only 2 that will work on the main controller if I have something in M2C. It is the other way round though, 0 & 1 are at the top, silly me. Swapped them over and all is OK. Thanks for the spot. I have now also fixed the shutdown issue and Shutdown now does a proper shutdown and turns off, no reboot. The fix for this was a BIOS setting, turning off "Wake on Lan". @Jaidyplease note this fix for our MB. Now for the interesting bits about the sound. I get different results in Catalina and Big Sur. Gigabyte boards work best (from my experience with Z370 & Z390 boards) with ALCID=11 or ALCID=16. Below, where I have put "Yes" then Realtec appears in the sound output and works with headphones plugged in. Where I have put "Nothing plugged in - Yes" then it still appears as an option you can select. In summary, use ALCID=16 for Big Sur but ALCID=11 for Catalina. Please also note there is no Green output on the Xtreme as you can connect things differently (see pictures below) ALCID=16 Catalina Front case port - Yes Rear Panel port - No Nothing Plugged in - No Big Sur Front case port - Yes Rear Panel port - Yes Nothing Plugged in - Yes ALCID=11 Catalina Front case port - Yes Rear Panel port - Yes Nothing plugged in - Yes Big Sur Front case port - Yes Rear Panel port - No Nothing plugged in - No
  23. Ploddles
    Well spotted 😀. The board has 2 SATA controllers, if I remember correctly now you mention it - I'll check later. I'll have to check which SATA ports are available on the other controller, as some are disabled as they share lanes with the M2 slots.
  24. Ploddles
    I have 2 SATA drives connected. 1, a 256GB SSD, is formatted as APFS. The other is a 3TB spinner with 3 partitions. 1TB exFat, 1TB APFS and 1TB NTFS. Neither show up in Disk Utility, gui nor from Terminal.
  25. Ploddles
    @fabiosun This is the exact EFI (original from @iGPU with a few changes, eg my own Whitelist) I used for a fresh install of Big Sur and what boots Catalina as well. I haven't tried reinstalling Catalina. No need to clear NVRAM between different OS's boots. NVRAM works, Sleep works, Restart works, Shutdown does the usual startup after shutting down. The only issue I currently have is that SATA drives are not showing, M2 drives show fine - they (3) are all NVMe but I would guess if they were M2 SSDs that they would be OK. Later today I will connect some headphones into the green audio jack and test as your have asked. I don't have speakers as such (I use a USB sound bar) but headphones should be the same. When you say "see your Realtek 2.0 device " do you mean as an option in Preferences | Sound | Output?
×
×
  • Create New...

Important Information

We have placed cookies on your device to help make this website better. You can adjust your cookie settings, otherwise we'll assume you're okay to continue.