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macOS 10.14 Mojave on Unsupported Macs Thread

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MBA 4,2—it was supported in HS and so has got the official APFS boot ROM patch from Apple, which should presumably be good for running Mojave using dosdude1's Mojave patcher without needing to apply the dosdude1 APFS boot ROM patch too.
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TimothyR734 said:
It is made with a electron app I found it on softpedia 125 mb download about 450 mb expanded
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Very interesting, electron app uses JavaScript, HTML, CSS and Node.js , in your previous example used also for the Windows virtualization in a web browser. Never figured that web browsers today can do almost everything like a little OS, especially with extensions (chrome, safari and so on) that act as real browser apps.
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pkouame said:
Oh not focusing on Finder per se. It's just a good use case, right? A core app (from many) to test...

Per our previous discussions, yes it is systemic and OS wide (so obviously a framework as we suspect). Here's another tid bit, you'll find interesting:

I disabled metal on my metal-supported card (pro 3.1 + GTX 680) and got Dark mode to glitch - the same way it does in Light mode. So it's definitely at the display framework +OpenGL framework. I think I eliminated for good the possibility of this being an AppKit or app bug. Good news. So back to OpenGL calls. I think NSVisualEffectView (as we were positing) is a red herring. It's at even a lower level.

By the way, to display metal processing on a metal supported card:

1. sudo defaults write /Library/Preferences/com.apple.CoreDisplay useMetal -boolean no
2. sudo defaults write /Library/Preferences/com.apple.CoreDisplay useIOP -boolean no
3. restart
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Good job! Hope only that in "reporting bug" they will not rid these residual OpenGL calls for dark mode too, anyway since I'm not on DP8, take a stock backup of those two framework you indicated (and for safety take also the Skylight DP8 backup) to save at least a dark mode with working transparencies in case things will not go as they should.
 
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jackluke said:
Very interesting, electron app uses JavaScript, HTML, CSS and Node.js , in your previous example used also for the Windows virtualization in a web browser. Never figured that web browsers today can do almost everything like a little OS, especially with extensions (chrome, safari and so on) that act as real browser apps.
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Good job! Hope only that in "reporting bug" they will not rid these residual OpenGL calls for dark mode too, anyway since I'm not on DP8, take a stock backup of those two framework you indicated (and for safety take also the Skylight DP8 backup) to save at least a dark mode with working transparencies in case things will not go as they should.
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On electron....yes, web browser javascript frameworks like node.js are very powerful. Just take a look at what Microsoft did with Visual Code: the cross platform version of Visual Studio. It is not only leaner and meaner but better and much faster. I do cross platform web app development completely on my Mac now. Very very sweet. I hardly need my Windows VM any more...

Back to Light Mode... @TimothyR734 asked whether NVIDIA drivers could be a player here. Quite possibly yes, when running my Cinebench opengl tests on Mojave betas I noticed that the (internal) Nvidia driver version number is bumping up. So they may not have an official beta, but it seems to be a work in progress too.
 
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pkouame said:
CoreDisplay and/or OpenGL. May even be kext'able. Reproducing a problem at will means one is close to a solution. Need a nap. Later guys.
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Ouch! I remember that. Is upgrading to a 680 an option for you?
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Yes I'm afraid I'll have to get either a 680 or 760 4gb
 
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Hello everyone, how is Mojave performance in relation to the High Sierra? I am a producer and plan to install with Logic Pro X
 
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jackluke said:
I don't have Mac with AMD/ATI GPUs, but for ex. HD5000 if looking at the Extensions folder the main kexts needed for QE/CI should be:

AMD5000Controller.kext
AMDRadeonX5000GLDriver.bundle
AMDRadeonX5000.kext
AMDLegacySupport.kext
IOGraphicsFamily.kext
IOAccelerator2D.plugin
IOAcceleratorFamily2.kext
and few other

Probably the patched AMDRadeonX3000.kext is a bridge to bring Mojave legacy OpenGL Acceleration on HD5000/6000.
But that kext contains also the AMD Framebuffers, so for sure you are using w/o QE/CI just the standard AMD GPU kext identifying its properties in system profiler.
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yes, @jackluke you're perfectly right that AMDRadeonX3000.kext loading is normal. I checked with another Mac Pro 3.1 with HD5870 running El Capitan

those extensions were loaded (El Capitan, fully supported on Mac Pro 3.1 and HD5870)
AMDRadeonX3000
AMD5000Controller
AMDFramebuffer
AMDSupport
AppleGraphicsDeviceControl
 
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KernkraftX360 said:
Anyone with MacBook Pro mid 2010, core2duo, 7,1, with a working wifi after update to Mojave?
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It’s working for me, WiFi patch not needed but make sure check your WiFi values at OP ( first page).
 

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KernkraftX360 said:
Anyone with MacBook Pro mid 2010, core2duo, 7,1, with a working wifi after update to Mojave?
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Yes working
[doublepost=1535216307][/doublepost]I was here thinking about the artifacts of the dark mode and the light way, did you notice that the reduce transparency does not appear edges (dots) in windows like Spotlight? Is it some instruction behind the window sketch? Could you bring it back or forth and solve this problem?
 

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vince22 said:
It’s working for me, WiFi patch not needed but make sure check your WiFi values at OP ( first page).
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Can explain to me about wifi patch? I have a mid 2010, 7,1 MBP that has working wifi on 10.13.4 but now it stopped working as soon as I update to 10.13.6. It says WiFi: Hardware not installed. Let me try to see if it works under 10.14.
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webg3 said:
Yes working
[doublepost=1535216307][/doublepost]I was here thinking about the artifacts of the dark mode and the light way, did you notice that the reduce transparency does not appear edges (dots) in windows like Spotlight? Is it some instruction behind the window sketch? Could you bring it back or forth and solve this problem?
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How do I check if I have the same wifi card as you? Or is it that my wifi card has deteriorated for its age and due to be changed?
 
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Forst of all: Thanks to dosdude for the mojave patcher. macmini mid 2011 working without problems. Same for Macbook pro 13" mid2011 and my imac 27" mid 2011. The only one as in High Sierra is the slow boot. Is there anyone who has got this away??
 
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ASentientBot said:
You don't need the APFS Boot ROM patch, but Mojave will work perfectly on that machine.
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thatsmeonlyme said:
Forst of all: Thanks to dosdude for the mojave patcher. macmini mid 2011 working without problems. Same for Macbook pro 13" mid2011 and my imac 27" mid 2011. The only one as in High Sierra is the slow boot. Is there anyone who has got this away??
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MacMini 5.2 mid 2011 with AMD doesn't work with acceleration - makes no sense for me.
 
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16v said:
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HM,...
No one uses a Magic Mouse (1) and has issues with scrolling and right click?
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I do sometimes have this issue when Bluetooth is not recognized. I have onBoard Bluetooth plus a USB Dongle for 4.0 - BT in the menu bar is greyed out, MM1 is working, with missing touch funcionality. Let BT display its icon in the menu bar and check again.

Bluetooth Explorer from the developer tools helps providing more details.
 
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KernkraftX360 said:
Can explain to me about wifi patch? I have a mid 2010, 7,1 MBP that has working wifi on 10.13.4 but now it stopped working as soon as I update to 10.13.6. It says WiFi: Hardware not installed. Let me try to see if it works under 10.14.
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How do I check if I have the same wifi card as you? Or is it that my wifi card has deteriorated for its age and due to be changed?
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KernkraftX360 said:
Can explain to me about wifi patch? I have a mid 2010, 7,1 MBP that has working wifi on 10.13.4 but now it stopped working as soon as I update to 10.13.6. It says WiFi: Hardware not installed. Let me try to see if it works under 10.14.
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How do I check if I have the same wifi card as you? Or is it that my wifi card has deteriorated for its age and due to be changed?
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here's my mid 2010 MBP 7,1 wifi card values and you can try this wifi patch even though I didn't use it with mine.
 

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Macschrauber said:
I do sometimes have this issue when Bluetooth is not recognized. I have onBoard Bluetooth plus a USB Dongle for 4.0 - BT in the menu bar is greyed out, MM1 is working, with missing touch funcionality. Let BT display its icon in the menu bar and check again.

Bluetooth Explorer from the developer tools helps providing more details.
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I´m not sure we are talking about the same thing...
Cause Magic Mouse only has touch for scrolling in any directions, there is no wheel...
and this don´t work.
cursor and left click is working.
everything else not.

so, no bluetooth problem here.

where can i find developer tools and bluetooth explorer?
 
nekton1 said:
Since the MBA 13" mid-2011 supports HS, presumably it gets the genuine Apple APFS boot ROM when installing HS and therefore does not need the dosdude1 APFS boot ROM patch for Mojave. Or is this faulty logic?
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Your logic is sound, no ROM modification is required for the 2001 MBP to boot APFS volumes.
 
Hello. I decided to try to apply the ROM patch on my Macbook Pro 2009. Faced with the options given by the patch software, I opened the computer and found the chip reference, but I still have doubts about the correct option. Attached I send the options the patcher gave me and a photo of the chip itself. Can anyone tell me the right option? I bet on the second one, but my computer wants me to be sure :) Thank you all, Ivo.
eeprom_options.png

rom_photo.png
 
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