[pre-release] macOS Sequoia

[deeveedee]

@cankiulascmnfye My experience is very different from yours.  See my observations here.

 

Maybe Sequoia has improved dual-GPU support or you experienced a Layer-8 problem?

 

EDIT: I haven't tested DaVinci Resolve with dual-GPU and I don't use it.  Hopefully others can test.

 

EDIT2: @cankiulascmnfye I just re-read your last post and believe you are claiming that DaVinci Resolve rendering performance is not good with iGPU-only.  I'm not surprised, but as you know, I believe that is already widely known and that is not at all what I am claiming.  Seems like we have a communication issue - that is definitely Layer-8.  Could be me - not sure.

Edited July 3 by deeveedee

[URBANsUNITED]

On 6/28/2024 at 8:07 AM, URBANsUNITED said:

Hi!

 

Does anybody else have problems with iCloud Drive?

I can't connect from Finder to it, even I am using my iCloud account

I am on the Beta 2  - 24A5279h

Haswell with MacPro7,1 SMBios

 

 

 

 

Thanks

 

URBANsUNITED

 

 

 

 

Found the reason for my iCloud Drive problems:

 

If the Home dir is not on the main HDD aka you move your home dir -  the desktop, download etc folders to a different HDD/partition on macOS Sequoia, you'll loose the iCloud Drive sync feature!

I did some tests and you can sync iCloud Drive only with the original location of home dir.

It's a shame as on previous systems this feature was given and suffered no issues. Maybe it is a beta bug, but I believe not.

But it is strange, that the function still officially exists...

 

Cheers

 

URBANsUNITED

 

 

 

[cankiulascmnfye]

4 hours ago, deeveedee said:

@cankiulascmnfye My experience is very different from yours.  See my observations here.

 

Maybe Sequoia has improved dual-GPU support or you experienced a Layer-8 problem?

 

EDIT: I haven't tested DaVinci Resolve with dual-GPU and I don't use it.  Hopefully others can test.

 

EDIT2: @cankiulascmnfye I just re-read your last post and believe you are claiming that DaVinci Resolve rendering performance is not good with iGPU-only.  I'm not surprised, but as you know, I believe that is already widely known and that is not at all what I am claiming.  Seems like we have a communication issue - that is definitely Layer-8.  Could be me - not sure.

 

Well, you are claiming that you have a dual-gpu setup now. To me, a dual GPU-setup consist of 2 physical, dedicated, identical graphics cards. What you have configured is a GPU/iGPU combo. Whatever works for you, but I doubt that anybody will test this simply because a) it's uncommon to have a GPU with only one output. And b) if I recall correctly, running the iGPU to display a picture alongside a GPU requires additional tweaks to the framebuffer patch to make it work.

[deeveedee]

@cankiulascmnfye Please forgive me - I didn't realize there was a proper name for what I was calling dual-GPU.  I'll defer to your naming expertise.  

 

My EFI is public and readily available for inspection if you want to see my additional tweaks.  You'll see that they are all normal WEG DeviceProperties - nothing special.

 

Based on my findings, those who have a dGPU with suitable graphics acceleration but an insufficient number of graphics ports can extend their port-count by using iGPU ports to supplement.  There is no need to buy a new dGPU with more ports.  For example, someone with a 2-port dGPU who needs 3 displays could augment the dGPU with an iGPU port with no performance degradation and no loss of dGPU or iGPU acceleration.  I posted here in this thread since I've never seen anyone post about it before and was hoping for some valuable / constructive feedback.  Maybe my observations are unique to Sequoia, or maybe they're unique to my hack, but I don't know because I have never tested.

 

Thank you for your feedback. The pleasure was all mine.

 

EDIT: I have added a note here for any readers who are confused by my use of the term "dual-GPUs."

Edited July 4 by deeveedee

[deeveedee]

[droples]

39 minutes ago, deeveedee said:

Works for me..

 

[ANTIKO]

49 minutes ago, deeveedee said:

Yes! It's working!

[eSaF]

5 minutes ago, ANTIKO said:

Yes! It's working!

Link Please?

[ANTIKO]

57 minutes ago, eSaF said:

Link Please?

https://github.com/dortania/OpenCore-Legacy-Patcher/actions/runs/9783955206

The only thing that bothers me is this🤕

Edited July 3 by ANTIKO

[eSaF]

31 minutes ago, ANTIKO said:

The only thing that bothers me is this

This is mine after applying the stand alone patch as I cannot apply OCLP Nightly (see attached).

But my WIFI is showing and says connected. In my opinion still half baked. 

[eSaF]

My observations so far after applying this stand alone patch.

As mentioned, WiFi indicates it is connected and working as all nearby Networks are shown.

AirDrop is now working wirelessly in both directions.

HandOff to iPhone wirelessly does not work and causes the p/c to lockup forcing a hard reset although it does work wired.

Maybe when OCLP becomes available for Sequoia that glitch will be solved.

[AlfredoM]

It would be much more important than WiFi if the nVidia GeForce GTX780M and other nVidia graphics cards

were supported by OCLP 1.6 or higher for Sequoia.

 

There are enough USB alternatives for WiFi, so you don't necessarily need patches for Broadcom things.

[Anto65]

 Wifi is back 😆

 

With the commit linked above 🙏 , it works

 

Spoiler

 

 

Edited July 4 by Anto65

[ameenjuz]

wifi is working well using above patch 

 

Edited July 4 by ameenjuz
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[Irish_Man]

2 hours ago, eSaF said:

My observations so far after applying this stand alone patch.

As mentioned, WiFi indicates it is connected and working as all nearby Networks are shown.

AirDrop is now working wirelessly in both directions.

HandOff to iPhone wirelessly does not work and causes the p/c to lockup forcing a hard reset although it does work wired.

Maybe when OCLP becomes available for Sequoia that glitch will be solved.

Not sure why can't you apply the path using Nightly.

Have you tried different SMBIOS?

After I applied the patch, WiFi/BT is working.

Airdrop working both ways.

HandOff working fine wirelessly and wired.

 

Someone mentioned 5G. It's working fine: 5G/80MHz, Tx Rate 867Mbps

[eSaF]

@Anto65 and @Irish_Man What boot-arg are you using also are these two kexts AMFIPass.kext and RestrictEvents.kext?

As I stated I can't install and get the latest nightly to patch Sequoia, in Sonoma everything works perfect so I don't think it has

anything to do with the SMBIOS as surely the problem would show there as well.

 

Sorry when I said Handoff not working, I meant it is working wirelessly for everything except to iPhone Camera

which only works wired, Mail, Messages, Web pages etc all work wired and wireless.

Edited July 4 by eSaF

[galisrule]

Everything works perfect on my RIG

[fabiosun]

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Hang using continuity Cam with OCLP nightly

wifi and airdrop are working well

[eSaF]

1 hour ago, galisrule said:

Everything works perfect on my RIG

And 'Continuity Camera' wireless?

[miliuco]

Good morning, is Preview working fine after applying modern wireless root patch?

And does the system look as fluid as without the patch?

 

EDIt: answered here.

 

Xcode 16 beta 1 was pretty unusable but beta 2 works much better.

Edited July 4 by miliuco
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[Anto65]

3 hours ago, eSaF said:

@Anto65 and @Irish_Man What boot-arg are you using also are these two kexts AMFIPass.kext and RestrictEvents.kext?

As I stated I can't install and get the latest nightly to patch Sequoia, in Sonoma everything works perfect so I don't think it has

anything to do with the SMBIOS as surely the problem would show there as well.

 

Sorry when I said Handoff not working, I meant it is working wirelessly for everything except to iPhone Camera

which only works wired, Mail, Messages, Web pages etc all work wired and wireless.

Use amfipass kext 1.4.1

Restrictevent I don't use it as I use iMac as smbios, I think that the latter is irrelevant anyway, I recommend those of lorys89 it doesn't need boot-args
Not having Apple devices I can't comment on 'Continuity Camera' etc. 🤷

For the rest it works

[eSaF]

7 minutes ago, Anto65 said:

Use amfipass kext 1.4.1

Thanks for the feedback Bro.

I am already using AMFI kext 1.4.1

I will experiment on a test disk and change the SMBIOS from 20.1 to 19.1 to see if I can apply 1.6.0 nightly to Sequoia.

Apart from that and Continuity Camera wireless, everything work as should.

[miliuco]

1 hour ago, miliuco said:

Good morning, is Preview working fine after applying modern wireless root patch?

And does the system look as fluid as without the patch?

I answer myself. With AMFIPass.kext 1.4.1 and the latest OLCP sequoia development branch apparently everything works well:

• information about wifi displayed in places where it was missing
• good Internet connection
• Preview works as it should
• system works smoothly.

So far, I don't see anything different regarding the patch in Sonoma.
iMac20,2 without RestrictEvents.

 

@eSaF

Continuity camera only by USB, not wifi.

 

Edited July 4 by miliuco
Fix typo

[eSaF]

22 minutes ago, miliuco said:

Continuity camera only by USB, not wifi.

Thank you my Brother, EXACTLY the same on my rig.

[ichelash]

Firefox in my Skylake with sequoia not working..after patching Broadcom wireless 🥵