macOS 10.14 Mojave on Unsupported Macs Thread

[pkouame]

you could always use a external usb camera could find them cheap on eBay I'm glad I found one will save messing with things

True - that's why I'm not going to sweat this too much. Classic iSight was replaced by built-in FaceTime HD cameras hanging off the firewire bus a (long) while ago. The little green light turning on did give me hope though

 

[TimothyR734]

I have a older Logitech I will plug that in its a 720 HD one I will see if that works in FaceTime

 

[pkouame]

I have a older Logitech I will plug that in its a 720 HD one I will see if that works in FaceTime

According to this http://www.mac-compatible-web-cam.com you may be luck out if it's at least usb 2.0.

 

[Starplayr]

He has another thread was asking if anyone could get macOS Mojave installed on the 2018 MacBook Pro as several was stating that it says the version can't be installed so I replied that since its a new model it might not be added to the list of supported Mac yet that Mojave was still in the beta phase

That's kinda a funny because Apple usually puts future machine IDs in its software. And they are unintentionally blocking new machine owners out.

 

[macsba]

I don't exactly remember where I got them that's why I mentioned beware but its it a folder called macOS Extractor beta kexts I downloaded them on June 15th

Normally in threads I like to see some continuity. Your post lost me. I'll check for the continuity in the morning when I'm more wide awake regarding your original post to my question. My mind has been somewhere else. I nearly lost my dad a few days ago. He's much better now.

 

[Starplayr]

Mac Pro 3,1 surgery: I successfully re-routed the power for the two DVD-RW driver bays and moved to power a second stock Mac Nvidia 8800GT 512GB card. Now don't have to keep swapping out cards for booting things up like Mojave beta or Windows because right now my Titan X isn't much use in Mojave and its doesn't boot Windows very well either because the EFI on the 3,1 is old. But now I have both cards live and on stand by. Eventually I can just use the 8800 as a back up or for Snow Leopard. But right now the 8800GT card is very usual to me.

It took work get to the cables I wanted from the top bay in the Mac Pro 3,1. removed the IDE cable and moved its power cable back to the Bottom PCI area. I got a power adapter off Amazon Prime to go from the 4 pin to 6 + 2 pin PCI power (dual). worked out really well. And the adapter can be use on 1-2 6pin/8pin setups for 1 card.

Anyone else who is interested, this is the guide I followed to back able to get to the internal cables:

https://ifixit.com/Guide/Front+Fan+Assemply+%Early+2008%29/25936

You also have to remove the DVD Drive bay and unattached the power cable from the IDE cable along with this back door were most of the cabling is at. I ended up removing the IDE cable all together, as there is not much use with it without power and IDE is slow slow.

The IDE drive cable ends up getting in the way when snaking out the power cable. Not much room there and the IDE and its power cable are towards the back. I also had to remove the first SATA dock to work with the cables. And you have to do all these step again in reverse. Not for the faint of heart. So don't do it if you don't want to mess up you Mac Pro.

If you need two video cards and both require power, this is a good solution.

 

[TimothyR734]

Normally in threads I like to see some continuity. Your post lost me. I'll check for the continuity in the morning when I'm more wide awake regarding your original post to my question. My mind has been somewhere else. I nearly lost my dad a few days ago. He's much better now.

I might have downloaded those kexts from someplace else but I was trying to get my iSight webcam working on my iMac 8.1 best wishes for your Dad
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That's kinda a funny because Apple usually puts future machine IDs in its software. And they are unintentionally blocking new machine owners out.

another person in that thread can't reinstall 10.13.6 says his MacBook Pro 2018 is a expensive brick I asked him did he try command and r to try recovery and says Apple has server issues
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According to this http://www.mac-compatible-web-cam.com you may be luck out if it's at least usb 2.0.

You might be right and the other issue could be the webcam might work but the Logitech webcam controller app in the App Store might not work I am sure its 32 bit

 

[netsrot39]

Hello guys,
I just wanted to give you an update. The issue that the system becomes painfully slow after a certain period of time (1 hour usually) is really gone now since I applied b10 Patcher. I'm really impressed how well Mojave works on my MacBook Mid 2010 (it also boots very quickly). I wonder why Apple decided to stop supporting our old machines but I guess they don't have any interest in keeping those old Macs alive since it won't get them any money. So big thanks to everyone who contributed to getting this macOS-Version up and running (especially dosdude1 and ASentientBot).

My MacBook has been on now for about 8 hours. I did some video converting, browsing the web and video playback. The swapping of kexts in order to get the iSight camera to work didn't affect performance nor stability of the OS. In other words, I didn't notice any side effects as a result of kexts swapping. I'm just hoping this will be the case with future versions of Mojave.

 

[TimothyR734]

Hello guys,
I just wanted to give you an update. The issue that the system becomes painfully slow after a certain period of time (1 hour usually) is really gone now since I applied b10 Patcher. I'm really impressed how well Mojave works on my MacBook Mid 2010 (it also boots very quickly). I wonder why Apple decided to stop supporting our old machines but I guess they don't have any interest in keeping those old Macs alive since it won't get them any money. So big thanks to everyone who contributed to getting this macOS-Version up and running (especially dosdude1 and ASentientBot).

My MacBook has been on now for about 8 hours. I did some video converting, browsing the web and video playback. The swapping of kexts in order to get the iSight camera to work didn't affect performance nor stability of the OS. In other words, I didn't notice any side effects as a result of kexts swapping. I'm just hoping this will be the case with future versions of Mojave.

I think Apple still makes money off the older Macs I rent movies and buy apps or games from the App Store

 

[netsrot39]

I think Apple still makes money off the older Macs I rent movies and buy apps or games from the App Store

Okay I have to specify. They will make money through the App Store but it won't boost their sales for new MacBooks. At least I don't have the urge to buy a new MacBook as long my older machines are still capable of running modern applications and the ability to run the latest OS contributes a lot regarding this.

 

[ASentientBot]

Hello guys,
I just wanted to give you an update. The issue that the system becomes painfully slow after a certain period of time (1 hour usually) is really gone now since I applied b10 Patcher.
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This is fantastic news. I've been religiously watching this thread to see if anybody's having issues with my new nVidia Tesla binary patch and you're one of the first to confirm what I thought, that it's working. Sets my mind at ease a little

If anyone has any issues with graphics on the new patch, please tell me. I'm using this as my primary machine and no trouble in several hours of use, but who knows. I just deleted a function call after all, still not exactly a clean fix.

 

[netsrot39]

This is fantastic news. I've been religiously watching this thread to see if anybody's having issues with my new nVidia Tesla binary patch and you're one of the first to confirm what I thought, that it's working. Sets my mind at ease a little

If anyone has any issues with graphics on the new patch, please tell me. I'm using this as my primary machine and no trouble in several hours of use, but who knows. I just deleted a function call after all, still not exactly a clean fix.

I don't know if it has been reported yet but in Finder some folders don't have icons (see attached file).

 

[TimothyR734]

Okay I have to specify. They will make money through the App Store but it won't boost their sales for new MacBooks. At least I don't have the urge to buy a new MacBook as long my older machines are still capable of running modern applications and the ability to run the latest OS contributes a lot regarding this.

I agree with you I Like my older Macs

 

[jackluke]

Hi guys - I can almost confirm that none of these solutions will work on a mbp 5,3. Replacing both or one IOUSBFamily kexts will fail in different ways. The worst of which is a complete lock up after boot (no mouse - no track - no display or keyboard control). USB HID devices will also not work in Safe Mode. Restoring your system will always require a reboot to recovery, swapping back the kexts you have hopefully saved, rebuilding kext caches etc...Same old dance. Proceed with caution.

Hmmm... this is weird, maybe you did a mismatch between them, the only case I noticed once similar issue was using MacBook Pro with Intel HD 3000 (with FaceTime HD), since the Intel Chipsets doesn't need at all to replace IOUSBHostFamily.kext and any IOUSB*, they work OOB only and only with the standard Mojave ones.

Instead if you are on a Macbook C2D with Nvidia Chipset, be sure you replaced only IOUSBHostFamily.kext taken from HS to bring any USB input devices, leaving any IOUSB* standard from Mojave at last replacing the one IOUSBFamily.kext I posted to maybe fix iSight with a more recent version.

And mainly have to replace them properly not just copying and paste this method will not work for sure, and I repeat to me neither the many Kext Utilities often work, and be sure you are with SIP csrutil disabled, rootless=0, to allow unsigned kext.
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I don't know if it has been reported yet but in Finder some folders don't have icons (see attached file).

I had a similar issue, using IOAccelerator from Mojave beta 1, to me fixed this.
I posted the file some pages ago. Maybe give it a try.
That file doesn't need chown/chmod since it has already Mojave signature by apple, so in this case a simple copy works.
Page 88 at bottom.

 

[ranauei]

So upon further testing replacing only IOUSBLib.bundle makes the iSight work only when it feels like it. I'll replace the whole kext

 

[jackluke]

So upon further testing replacing only IOUSBLib.bundle makes the iSight work only when it feels like it. I'll replace the whole kext

Often these tests aren't reliable at 100% cause there could be a prelinkedkernel file that keeps all the previous IOUSBFamily.kext embedded in and even if you replace only a bundle inside /S/L/E/ path the system doesn't care of it and still keeping a previous signed kext file. But I appreciated your IORegistryExplorer test.

 

[noobsie]

Hi, are there any recent tests on early 2009 Mac Minis (Macmini3,1)?
Does it run (like stated on page 104)? What is the performance like?
If it does, I suggest to add the info on page 1 ;-).

I'm asking because I want to buy a cheap mac and it would be great if it could run Mojave.

 

[FlorisVN]

I stopped reading the thread about three weeks ago (page 34) thinking my old Core 2 Duo Macs were lost causes, but today I drop back in and WOW.

Installed and tested on two pre-2010 machines, MacBookPro5,5 and MacBook5,1. Works but there was an error during setup. On the welcome page I got a UIKitSystem quite unexpectedly error. Strange.

Nonetheless, the system seems to work on my nVidia 9400M. I just ran the patcher with the default settings for my Macs. I don't recall checking off a legacy video box, but maybe it was already checked with the b10 patcher. I can't remember.

Interestingly, VeganMacGuy in the MacBook6,1 High Sierra video glitch thread mentioned the 9400M h.264 playback glitch disappeared in Mojave. I can confirm the that the iPhone X webpage video glitch is gone with nVidia 9400M in Mojave. Is this because the patched OS uses 10.12 Sierra kexts?

2009 MacBookPro5,5:

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2008 aluminum MacBook5,1:

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iSight doesn't work on either machine, but I didn't do any kext swapping. The green light comes on, but nothing displays. Hopefully that will be included in a later version of the patcher.

Thanks guys! This is looking good.

Hi,
I have tested Mojave on Macbook Pro Late 2008 (15") iSight was working fine on that one..
strange it doesnt work on yours..

Also no graphics issue's beside GUI glitch from MacOS..
(nvidia 9400M and 9600M)
Even graphics switched worked fine !

 

[Project Alice]

I'm asking because I want to buy a cheap mac and it would be great if it could run Mojave.

2012 MBP goes for like 300 to 400 on ebay. Also a 2009 Mac Pro 4,1 quad core is usually not too pricy eiither. upgrade it to a 5,1 and you're good to go.

I don't want to clog up this thread with "what should I buy posts". The first page, is a wiki and is always updated for the most part with what works and what doesn't work.

 

[jackluke]

Hi! @dosdude1
I have downloaded and applied b10 patch, but still not video acceleration and only 1024x768 resolution on my Macmini mid 2010 (Macmini4,1) 8 GB RAM Nvidia Geforce 320M DDR3 Core 2 Duo Penryn 2400 Mhz. Same result with or without legacy video patch.

@ASentientBot have you reports of others Macmini 2010 working with Mojave? My monitor is a Samsung S24D300 perfecty working and immediately synching full HD with High Sierra, with Mojave it is unknown.

Thank you!

Didn't know that about an external display, usually the 1024x768 resolution without the QE/CI occurs only on non-mac laptop, because any Mac laptop can fit natively the VESA widescreen resolution, anyway yours is a Macmini so you will fix for sure with the proper Nvidia Tesla kexts patched, try eventually manually replacing them in S/L/E following ASentientBot tutorial some pages behind.

 

[0403979]

I don't know if it has been reported yet but in Finder some folders don't have icons (see attached file).

That’s a Mojave bug. Not the result of the patcher.

 

[jackluke]

That’s a Mojave bug. Not the result of the patcher.

The only Mojave's bugs I noticed till now both on a supported/unsupported Mac are not best smoothed fonts (especially in dark mode), glitched Dashboard's Weather rendering and Dynamic Wallpaper.

 

[0403979]

The only Mojave's bugs I noticed till now both on a supported/unsupported Mac are not best smoothed fonts (especially in dark mode), glitched Dashboard's Weather rendering and Dynamic Wallpaper.

There also glitches in the usb installer that are quite annoying that are on unsupported and supported Macs. But on unsupported Macs there is a bug that stops the machine from restarting or shutting down in the installer and you have to use the power button.

 

[Larsvonhier]

Strange Patch Updater issue: After some while running Mojave with full accelleration on various machines (latest build 18A326h), the patch daemon comes up with the message to update the legacy video driver patch, but never completes the task and halts in the middle of the progress bar.
Anyone here with the same behaviour or better, a remedy?
(I used 0.1b10 to re-check, but same issue persists. Patch info says: Legacy Vid. Card Patch = Version 2)

 

[testheit]

I've installed the latest Version of Mojave with the latest GeForce patch from @ASentientBot, MBP5,1 (2008).
A few things I noticed so far:
- Sidebar in Finder doesn't look good (pic_1), but only if the window is in focus. If it's out of focus (pic_2) everything looks nice. Maybe this has to do with the transparency bug in the menu bar at the top (pic_3). Also font smoothing in this buggy areas doesn't work.
- In the 'About my Mac' info panel the model and display size is shown correctly (pic_4), 15-inch. But in the 'Displays' tab it says 16-inch for some reason (pic_5)
- Dashboard looks good for the first second (pic_6), but after initializing the apps the well known UI glitches appear (pic_7)