I tried reading through this thread as much as I could. It looks like some people are making some great progress, so thank you everyone for the work you're putting in. Does anyone know if anyone has gotten Mojave to run on a 2011 Mini with hardware acceleration? I have a mid-2011 Mac Mini which has a AMD Radeon HD 6630M 256MB GPU. Also has 2.7 Core i7 which shouldn't matter
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No news yet about acceleration for old HD5xxx and 6xxxx series.
I doubt any acceleration wil ever be achieved..
Since your MacMini has a Thunderbolt port, and e-gpu solution would be the best for you...
If I'm reading everything here correctly, my mid-2010 iMac with a Radeon HD 4670 256MB should work fine with proper graphics acceleration? I guess it paid off in the end to be a cheapskate years ago 
I'll give it a try, but also booting from usb does not always work.
/System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/CoreBrightness.framework/Versions/A/
file does not exist.
But it boots up again, and SSD Link Speed is back to 1.5Gbits again...
And some apps from systemsetting don't work now.
There is an failure message popping up
Eg energie savings.
Also batterie in menu bar is missing right now.
AND
THANK YOU FOR YOUR HELP!!!
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Ok to make work again "systemsettings" aka prefpanes use this file copying into your Mojave from Finder: Corebrightness binary file patched NightShift prefpanes fixes
to fix SSD negotiated link speed try as you did last time: SMC and PRAM reset.
That's correct, Radeon HD 4xxx series and older will work perfectly with Mojave.If I'm reading everything here correctly, my mid-2010 iMac with a Radeon HD 4670 256MB should work fine with proper graphics acceleration? I guess it paid off in the end to be a cheapskate years ago
@dosdude1 Ideally, I think your tool should not install Mojave on systems that have incompatible Radeon HD cards as the only graphics card available. I'm currently restoring my High Sierra iMac 2010 install from Time Machine because of this (I wrongly assumed only 3D graphics were affected, not just all acceleration [I have strange colours, fewer colours, windows drag without contents, no transparencies/blur filters, random glitches etc.]).
Hmm, so if I downgrade from the Radeon HD 6770M currently in my mid-2011 iMac to a 4xxx series, would that work? What's the best supported card - the 4850 or 4670? Or perhaps an Nvidia 9400M? All 3 of these cards were offered in the 2009-2010 range.
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A better idea would be to upgrade to a Metal-capable card, as some in this thread have done. There are a few downsides, like no boot screens or external monitor output.
Yes that's what's keeping me from upgrading. I need external monitor support, boot screen, and brightness control. It's impossible to find an upgraded Metal-capable MXM card with Apple EFI ROM, because the 2012+ iMacs have the GPU soldered directly to the system board.
cinergi
Yes, any Radeon HD 4xxx series GPU from an older iMac would work, but as mentioned, it may be a better idea to upgrade to an actual Metal-compatible GPU. Also, the GeForce 9400M is not a dedicated GPU, it's the integrated graphics for the nVidia MCP79 northbridge/chipset.
Baller, that should keep the iMac in my classroom up to speed for a few years longer!
Hello.
I have a problem with my MacPro 3.1. Everything was fine and I made an update from the Public 9 to the Public beta 10. Since the update my Mac isn't booting anymore on y main Mojave Partition (SSD - APFS). I try to reinstall all the patches with my USB stick but in the post-install app I can't select a model. I don't have the drop down menu. When I select the patch and I click on the patch button, I don't have the usual progress bar.... I tried to redownload the tool and recreate a new USB Stick but I have the same problem : no drop down menu. I don't know what to do. Anybody have an idea ?
Thanks in advance.
I have a problem with my MacPro 3.1. Everything was fine and I made an update from the Public 9 to the Public beta 10. Since the update my Mac isn't booting anymore on y main Mojave Partition (SSD - APFS). I try to reinstall all the patches with my USB stick but in the post-install app I can't select a model. I don't have the drop down menu. When I select the patch and I click on the patch button, I don't have the usual progress bar.... I tried to redownload the tool and recreate a new USB Stick but I have the same problem : no drop down menu. I don't know what to do. Anybody have an idea ?
Thanks in advance.
On a MacPro 3,1 with ATI HD2600-XT graphics using the legacy graphics patch, Mojave runs fine in dark mode with no graphics issue except for the gray translucent elements in bright mode. So just stay in dark mode.
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Note that the GTX 689 models have Mac compatible ROM images available which can be flashed onto them. Especially if you stick to the EVGA brand and 2 Gb model so you can use the original unmodified Mac ROMs from EVGA.
Use a USB drive or volume that's 16GB or larger. You're using an 8GB drive, which causes that issue.
On an HD2600, correct, because that card supports hardware acceleration under Mojave. The 5xxx and 6xxx versions have no acceleration whatsoever, meaning that even little things like moving windows around do not work properly.
The other conversation was about iMacs; those are a bit difficult to stick regular GPUs into
I had it in the patcher, but it in some cases codesigning was failing, causing the system to stop booting. What I'll probably end up doing is just pre-patching and signing CoreBrighess, and just distribute that as the patch.
This patch seems to work, just use the file (like you suggested), instead of modifying it on the fly.
In Clover, when the bootloader starts, there are some lines. There is one that is clearly connected to APFS: ”EFI Fusion Pairing”. I have not patched using the Dosdude1 app, just used the combination of Clover+FakeSMC . I am not sure what is happening, but APFS performance seems connected with this thing. @dosdude1 , but not only, can anyone at least guess what is the line?
It's just one of the lines that shows when the APFS EFI driver is loaded by Clover. This is completely normal, and nothing to worry about. Though, you should NOT be using Clover, and ESPECIALLY not FakeSMC on a real Mac. Any performance issues you experience are due to an incompatibility with your SSD and the nVidia MCP79 chipset. A different SSD will probably fix any performance issues you may have.
It looks like I am out of luck with my 2011 mac mini because of the AMD GPU, but does anyone know how a mid-2010 White Macbook MC516LL/A Model A1342. Is there any hardware acceleration? Is this model afflicted with the Finder Light Theme bug? Has anyone tried this model? How is the performance compared to High Sierra? And have you experienced any issues with it? Thanks in advance for any feedback!
I have a Hackintosh with a HDD, not a SSD. Yet, I was wondering what is it. An older version of Clover shows different variables of „EFI Fusion Pair”. If I install Mojave on HFS+, it works faster, but no updates. The differences in EFI Fusion Pairing varibles are probably due to Clover, not Mojave itself, right? This line is the most clear difference that appears on Mojave on HFS+ vs. APFS.