Starting build - questions
dwadi opened this issue · 6 comments
Hi,
I just started build with GTX 1070 Ti on Macbook Air Early 2015 with Core X.
First of all thanks for your work!
I have created bootable thumb drive with Kryptonite via installer, selected nVidia as GPU. I have Big Sur and Windows 10.
Tried boot in both systems via Kryptonite and i am not seeing any activity, I hear PSU cooling, but no activity on GPU side, i used P3 connector to GPU, LED lights on it not lit up. Only activity that i noticed is turning off PSU fan when I am disconnecting USB-C connector of TB2-TB3 adapter -but this is happening even without other end of adapter connected to laptop.
I am looking for any next informations, because i am thinking maybe TB2 cable is a problem, but for now I got only 2m cable that was sold to me as miniPD->miniPD cable (it is little confusing for me, because I've checked few places about Thunderbolt 2 and I'am still not sure that there is any differences in this cables). If it is a problem I will order proper one.
Please read everything the script outputs before opening an issue:
Please read everything the script outputs before opening an issue:
The script returned very laconic information that should be included in documentation that is not yet available.
@dwadi the information provided in the script makes it pretty clear what’s supported and what isn’t. You still pressed yes and tried, so the impression I get is you didn’t really read it or simply ignored it (why). There’s also a whole boatload of information available on the forums and elsewhere about NVIDIA GPUs and macOS but people don’t search or read properly. Here, even when the information is right in front of users, it is ignored.
I also mentioned on the forums that compatibility is the same as purge-wrangler, so you could have looked at it’s docs until more docs were added here. But here we are.
Can the tool and docs be better? Of course. There’s scope for improvement always. But a user can ignore all of that and still open an issue. Even on the purge-wrangler issues section, there’ll be a recent occurrence of someone trying something that’s clearly documented not compatible and post an issue. That’s not my problem. I’m not a document finder. Onus is on the user to read things, whether in documents or scripts.
@dwadi the information provided in the script makes it pretty clear what’s supported and what isn’t. You still pressed yes and tried, so the impression I get is you didn’t really read it or simply ignored it (why). There’s also a whole boatload of information available on the forums and elsewhere about NVIDIA GPUs and macOS but people don’t search or read properly. Here, even when the information is right in front of users, it is ignored.
I also mentioned on the forums that compatibility is the same as purge-wrangler, so you could have looked at it’s docs until more docs were added here. But here we are.
Can the tool and docs be better? Of course. There’s scope for improvement always. But a user can ignore all of that and still open an issue. Even on the purge-wrangler issues section, there’ll be a recent occurrence of someone trying something that’s clearly documented not compatible and post an issue. That’s not my problem. I’m not a document finder. Onus is on the user to read things, whether in documents or scripts.
I am still researching the topic of nVidia and MacOS and support in platform, this is not my/your fault that nVidia is not best option for MacOS system. I must use what I got from my previous Dell setup, to not pay inflated prices of ATi GPU's.
I am still learning so I created thumb drive to not mess to much in internal drive. I am very happy to have this option for testing.
But few lines in script is not very much about state of nVidia for noob persoective. Now I am researching informations about drivers etc. But probably stay for now with Bootcamp and wait to prices little drop to get ATi GPU.
I'd love to see more documentation to study in the future, to learn more about your creation.
But few lines in script is not very much about state of nVidia for noob persoective.
It makes no sense for the script to spit out an essay explaining what the issue is (and 90% of the people are not going to read it or will simply ignore it).
I'd love to see more documentation to study in the future, to learn more about your creation.
As mentioned on the forum, the documentation is already available on the purge-wrangler wiki and it's going to be the same compatibility-wise for Kryptonite. So when I'll update docs here, I'll be copy-pasting from there.
The topic of NVIDIA and macOS support is pretty simple and already well-researched by many in the community, so that users don't have to spend time trying to figure out things.
I am still testing my eGPU, so far with Windows everything ideal.
But i found few problems. Creating drive (internal ssd) via script only allows to create&format when selecting DEBUG build via installer.
Second thing Kryptonite bootloader hangs after booting it in picker menu when connecting TB2 cable - I am plugin cable during Windows booting.
So far I am unable to boot MacOS same way as Windows - MacOS hangs after connecting the TB2 cable.