Jump to content

How to build your own iMac Pro [Successful Build/Extended Guide]


KGP-iMacPro

iMacPro Build/Guide Feedback   

26 members have voted

  1. 1. Does this guide help you in your endeavour?

    • yes
      21
    • no
      5

This poll is closed to new votes


656 posts in this topic

Recommended Posts

Great news from Nvidia

Hi Klaus,

Confirmed we are actively working on driver update for
10.13.3 (17D2047). We should have this posted soon.

Stay tune, will update again as soon as I know the
new driver is avaialble.

Best regards,
Ray
 
post-1362934-0-41431100-1516222345.png
  • Like 1
Link to comment
Share on other sites

Moving right along...

10.13.4

post-1564334-0-48317000-1516852745_thumb.png

 

The USB seems to be working on all ports at full speed without any patches. Haven't tested speed.

The Vega is recognised in 'about this mac' without patches or kexts.

DPs 2 thru 4 are gone. I'm only getting HDMI and DP port one now on the Vega FE.

GPU and CPU benches seem about the same but my SSD is indexing after the upgrade so it's hard to be exact with this.

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Hmm im going to do more inspection tomorrow, care to send me the  AMDRadeonX5000GLDriver as well a screenshot of the system profiler for GFX. 

 

Also side note. how come no DSDT renames, or an ssdt? 

 

I've never really run DSDT renames or SSDT My ACPI is empty. The systems been pretty good without them. Possibly the Gigabyte, 7900 and vega is a sweet spot for 10.13.

I see there's a new metal kext for vega you want that as well? Too big for this post...

post-1564334-0-37335100-1516862152_thumb.png

This is the metal kext

AMDRadeonX5000GLDriver.bundle.zip

AMDRadeonX5000MTLDriver.bundle.zip

Link to comment
Share on other sites

I've never really run DSDT renames or SSDT My ACPI is empty. The systems been pretty good without them. 

 

Does sleep/wake properly work on your system under 10.13.3 (17D2047) without any SSDT or ACPI DSDT replacement patches ? I doubt that the latter is the case. 

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Guys what’s going on here ? I really don’t get the point of the hole discussion...

 

1) Sharing an original Kext file from Apple for a card which is natively implemented.

2) Talking about non functional outputs which could be related to the Beta Status of the MacOS installed version.

 

If you want functionality just use the final releases!

 

Just my two cents...

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Up and successfully running 10.13.4 Beta 1 (17E139j)... 

 

 

post-1362934-0-81004200-1516890268_thumb.png

 

 

Unfortunately, within 10.13.4 Beta 1 (17E139j), Apple again injects AppleUSBXHCIPCI driver with IOPCIClassMatchID 0x0c033000 instead of 0xa2af8086 to XHCI@14000000, at least in case of the ASUS Prime X299 Deluxe..

 
Thus, again no XHCI USB3.0 on the ASUS Prime X299 Deluxe without my KGP-iMacPro-XHCI.kext (attached below) within 10.13.4 Beta 1 (17E139j).
 
The good news are that within 10.13.4 Beta 1 (17E139j), the XHC USB port limit patch becomes obsolete as Apple apparently removed the XHC USB port limit restriction. Thus, this KextToPatch entry can be fully disabled in Section "Kernel and Kext Patches" of Clover Configurator when using 10.13.4 Beta 1 (17E139j). Many thanks for the important advise of @PMHeart!
 
Enjoy and have fun,
 
KGP

post-1362934-0-81004200-1516890268_thumb.png

KGP-iMacPro-XHCI.kext.zip

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Good news about 10.13.4 benefits.

1. Sleep working native. No need ssdt or any patch.

2. After many years apple fix radeon initialization and wake function. No more need RadeonDelnit in Cover or ssdt inject. 

3. GPU Famili1 v3 for metal in RX GPU 

 

One sed thing - Port limits patch is not working anymore

post-916820-0-64506400-1516892580_thumb.png

 

 

post-916820-0-91254300-1516892563_thumb.png 

 

First time my acpi patch folder look like it should  :) post-916820-0-94411200-1516892781_thumb.png

 

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Does sleep/wake properly work on your system under 10.13.3 (17D2047) without any SSDT or ACPI DSDT replacement patches ? I doubt that the latter is the case. 

 

Sleep wake doesn't work. Doesn't bother me :)

 

@DSM are all ports still working on your Vegas with the 10.13.4?

Link to comment
Share on other sites

New automatised script for macOS 10.13.3 (17D2047) Full Package Installer creation

 
As you may have noticed, some of the former links for the 10.13.2 (17C2120) Full Package Installer Creation are broken since the release of 10.13.3 (17D2047)
 
@macandrea was so kind to rapidly provide a new automatic macOS 10.13.3 (17D2047) full package installer creation script, which I distribute attached below for testing on iMacPro and non-iMacPro system. 
 
Abstract and Introduction and Section D.) of my guide in the originating post of this thread have been updated accordingly.  
 
Your feedback is highly appreciated. 
 
All the best and good luck,
 
post-1362934-0-41431100-1516222345.png

 

 


Web Driver 387.10.10.10.25.157 for MacOS 10.13.3 (17D2047) released

 

https://images.nvidia.com/mac/pkg/387/WebDriver-387.10.10.10.25.157.pkg

Hi Klaus,

I was informed Web Driver version the 387.10.10.10.25.157
has been posted for 17D2047. You can download the new
driver directly here:
https://images.nvidia.com/mac/pkg/387/WebDriver-387.10.10.10.25.157.pkg

Best regards,
Ray (NVIDIA)

Abstract and Introduction and Sections C.2) and E.2) of my guide in the originating post of this thread have been updated accordingly.

 

​All the best and Good Luck,

 

post-1362934-0-41431100-1516222345.png

createInstaller.sh.zip

  • Like 1
Link to comment
Share on other sites

Download UEFITool. Load your bios. The logo is stored in 7BB28B99-61BB-11D5-9A5D-0090273FC14D module. Replace it with your picture. 

attachicon.gifZrzut ekranu 2018-01-24 o 21.01.58.png

 

@Matthew82, if I properly understand I should replace "Raw section" with the picture, correct? Now "Replace Body" suggests *.raw, *.bin files... In which format the image must be to properly replace the original ASUS RAW Section? Do I need a raw image or jpg or bmp? To save the modified CAP file, just "Save File as.." or any other action before?  

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Like on picture.

JPG is OK

Replace body.

Remember that picture size should be the same as original Asus logo and have black background.

Here is bios with mer unlock and iMacPro logo https://drive.google.com/file/d/156MYbAxh_Cl9rMEhaXTLjYBZs2gwhzhH/view?usp=sharing

 

o.k. great! However, I would like to try the procedure myself and likely implement it in the guide with your credits.. 

 

What is the size of the original ASUS logo pixels per pixels or do you mean the file size?

 

Could you just attach the iMacPro Splash Screen Logo you used?

Link to comment
Share on other sites

I don't have it anymore. It should be the same but don't must! If it will be in bigger size and when you enabled full screen logo in bios it will be invisible. 

To check the size extract original raw body. 

 

 

When I try to save the modified CAP file, I always get the Error "Invalid UEFI Volume"... 

Link to comment
Share on other sites

 

Extracted raw image, replaced content of image and saved it as bmp, renamed it again to raw, replaced body and saved the cap file. 

 

Image file size before 762108, image file size after 762106.. Independent of using bmp, jpg or renaming bmp to raw, the Splash Screen remains black. 

 

Else, the approach seems to work now. I can save the modified CAP without problems.. 

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Guest
This topic is now closed to further replies.
×
×
  • Create New...