No, I don't think it'd be difficult to get those GPUs working as well. And no, you cannot just disable the dedicated video card in the OS.
I wonder if getting the kexts from sierra, would enable Hardware acceleration, and alright, I understand.
great job, guys! seems promising.
Well I mean it's either disabled or it's not... You can't have it be disabled in one OS and enabled in another.
Yes, completely different. The 320M is the integrated graphics portion of the nVidia MCP89 chipset. The 330M in the other hand is a dedicated video card.
Yes, with the AMD kexts on your system, that NVRAM variable will get reset every boot. You'll need to delete all the AMD video kexts and rebuild the kextcache for that to stop happening.
Use kexts from the latest version of Sierra, they work fine too.
well I don't have access to the latest version of Sierra, I only have access to the beta, and apparently they don't work, well partially, I now have the intelHD 3000 in "About this Mac" but I don't have full acceleration still
This may be a good point when asking apple to give back support for 2010-2011 models!AppleIntelHD3000Graphics and AMD6000Controller kexts from 10.12.6 both show as loaded, however it's worth noting I do not yet have full acceleration, only partial. I was under the impression that the News and other iOS apps would require Metal, but to my surprise they actually do work on here. Should be yet another blow to those who insist on defending Apple's decision to drop these Macs.
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Could you be kind enough to send me the AMD kexts please? I deleted a bunch of stuff, and now I can't boot into MojaveAppleIntelHD3000Graphics and AMD6000Controller kexts from 10.12.6 both show as loaded, however it's worth noting I do not yet have full acceleration, only partial. I was under the impression that the News and other iOS apps would require Metal, but to my surprise they actually do work on here. Should be yet another blow to those who insist on defending Apple's decision to drop these Macs.
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There comes a time when one needs to accept that Apple cannot support hardware indefinitely. We all knew it was going to happen sooner or later.
The chance of them changing course to support the 2010-2011 Macs is almost zero. You can't forget that Apple makes money selling Mac hardware, not software. Requiring Metal is partly an excuse to mask a bigger financial motive.
I used the kexts from Sierra, so if you still have access to the Sierra install from which you pulled the Intel kexts, you should be able to find the AMD kexts there as well.
No one is asking for indefinite support. But MacOS is the only OS I know of that uses 7 years as a cutoff and is considering machines with a Sandy Bridge quad-core i7 to be obsolete. Both Windows and Linux can run on hardware 10+ years old, even machines with a Merom Core 2 Duo like my '06 iMac.
Agreed and the Intel Sandy Bridge is an awesome processor and was a game changer. As for cut off points Windows 10 has driver issues on machines that are four years old. That is because Microsoft define nor not set out any cut off dates. The number of consumers that upgraded to Windows 10 during the initial push and discovered their machines only to be partially compatible is numerous.
