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Copper Contributor

Mar 31, 2020

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Blur Background on Mac OS

I am using a Macbook Pro to work remotely. The blur background feature is helpful, but it appears to be absent in Teams for Mac. I noticed the blur feature support page says it's not available on L...

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Grandswiss
Apr 23, 2020
doug4772
Both of my macs reported in "machdep.cpu.features" only AVX1.0. I executed this command
sysctl - a | grep avx
On one mac (blur disabled) I got
hw.optional.avx1_0: 1
hw.optional.avx2_0: 0

On another mac (blur enabled) I got
hw.optional.avx1_0: 1
hw.optional.avx2_0: 1

ericsar

Copper Contributor

Jun 03, 2020

manoelguedes, I just saw your comment. I had the same experience--the blur working at one point, and then disappeared. Did you ever get that resolved? I have a MacBook Pro (Retina, 13-inch, Early 2013) with 3 GHz Dual-Core Intel Core i7. And the result I get from sysctl -a | grep machdep.cpu.features is this:

machdep.cpu.features: FPU VME DE PSE TSC MSR PAE MCE CX8 APIC SEP MTRR PGE MCA CMOV PAT PSE36 CLFSH DS ACPI MMX FXSR SSE SSE2 SS HTT TM PBE SSE3 PCLMULQDQ DTES64 MON DSCPL VMX SMX EST TM2 SSSE3 CX16 TPR PDCM SSE4.1 SSE4.2 x2APIC POPCNT AES PCID XSAVE OSXSAVE TSCTMR AVX1.0 RDRAND F16C

Grandswiss

Copper Contributor

Jun 03, 2020

What’s the output of this command?
sysctl -a | grep avx2

ericsar
Copper Contributor
Jun 03, 2020
Grandswiss, this is what I get:

sysctl: unknown oid '-'
- Chtchouss
  Copper Contributor
  Feb 05, 2021
  ericsar, you should remove the space between ’-’ and ’a’.
- kathysgeek
  Copper Contributor
  Jun 03, 2020
  ericsar
  There should be no space after the hyphen.
  sysctl -a | grep avx2
  - ericsar
    Copper Contributor
    Jun 03, 2020
    kathysgeek, OK. I get this now:
    
    hw.optional.avx2_0: 0