I had a working installation of Big Sur using MSI Armor2X R9 380 2GB GPU, GPU was working out of the box (without H.264 encoding/decoding but with HWAcceleration -radcodec or other boot-flags did not help me but that's a different story).
I did reinstall OS to Monteray (fresh install, not an upgrade) using same config and EFI and it... WORKED. I did use OS couple of hours, all went good. Made couple of benchmarks, GPU performance was ok. (still no HW H.264 decoding/encoding)
Sad story begins after the 1st reboot. I see an apple logo with loading indicator, and around halfway the screen goes black with color artifacts sometimes happening but eventually it goes just black. I did research that R9 380 is still supported in Monteray and using AMD8000.kexts which is still present in Monteray.
What did I try: all soft of boot-args found in Dortania guide, exactly:
agdpmod=vit9696leads to same behaviouragdpmod=pikeraleads to same behaviour- Spoofing as R9 380X boots after couple of minutes of black screen but without HW acceleration
- Spoofing as R9 390X boots after couple of minutes of black screen butwithout HW acceleration
- Did try several SMBIOS, including:
iMacPro1,1, MacPro7,1, MacPro6,1
My current boot-args are -v keepsyms=1 npci=0x2000 -rad24 nothing fancy, I did try removing -rad24, same behaviour, other boot-args are needed to boot
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