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macOS 10.14 Mojave on Unsupported Macs Thread

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steffend said:
For everyone struggling with no brightness controls using a MacBook Pro with disabled AMD GPU:
I got brightness and sleep fully working in Mojave 10.14.1 by using the same trick as I always used since my dGPU has failed two years ago:
NVRAM trick to use Intel GPU as default without installing the application from the page, but instead copying all the AMD kexts to the System Root:
"MojaveInstall" is the USB drive created with the patcher tool.
Code: 
sudo /Volumes/MojaveInstall/Applications/Utilities/macOS\ Post\ Install.app/Contents/Resources/legacyGPUPatch.sh "" /Volumes/MojaveInstall/Applications/Utilities/macOS\ Post\ Install.app/Contents/Resources
and afterwards following this guide.

If everything succeeds, the output of "kextstat |grep AMD" should look like this:
Code: 
MacBook-Pro:~ Steffen$ kextstat |grep AMD
  136    2 0xffffff7f830a2000 0x122000   0x122000   com.apple.kext.AMDLegacySupport (1.6.6) B7ED5B85-C76E-33EF-BB44-33CA9D9042BB <124 13 12 8 6 5 3 1>
  153    0 0xffffff7f83263000 0x12e000   0x12e000   com.apple.kext.AMD6000Controller (1.6.6) 774DEC5B-95D1-3A18-B4D7-0469DAB59E23 <136 124 13 12 6 5 3 1>
  169    0 0xffffff7f83845000 0x22000    0x22000    com.apple.kext.AMDLegacyFramebuffer (1.6.6) C17741E6-97E9-3F0B-8EF8-533036EADFFD <136 124 13 12 8 6 5 3 1>
  189    0 0xffffff7f83a45000 0x568000   0x568000   com.apple.kext.AMDRadeonX3000 (1.6.6) 15040C17-BF99-32F1-85C5-7C0D409F1288 <188 175 124 13 8 6 5 3 1>
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Hi steffend! Thanks for share! But how (or when) you had applied this trick? Did you done the install with dosdude1 mojave patcher and don't applied the script to disable AMD GPU? I have a late 2011 17 inch and after mojave patch and disabling gpu I lost brightness control... Thanks in advance!
 
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AlexyFoxy said:
I did it and showed me messages but how to save it? also it keeps on executing where do I know that this is enough as it just keep loading and won't open?
I apologies as I am not of expert I hope you can elaborate more :)


-I tried a usb with High Sierra OS installation on it and it booted normally, just can't do so with the patched one
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Take a video or a photo of where it gets "stuck" and post it here.
 
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Updating drivers for NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780 3072MB

Running Mojave 10.14.1 successfully on 2008 3,1 MacPro and installed the CUDA 410.130. The CUDA preferences indicate that this Driver still requires updating, however I am sure its referring to the GPU driver. Lots of other forum threads either talk about hacks and the unavailability of new MacOS updates.

Is there a solution or is it a waiting game for Nvidia to release new updates?

Mind you everything seems to be working fine, I just cannot tell if it can or should be improved....

System Report
PCI: Display Controller driver installed, ROM revision MacVidCard
PCI: NVDA, Parent driver not installed, ROM revision MacVidCard
 
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Hi,
Just installed Mojave on a late 2011 MBP 15" with a faulty video card (thanks!). I used the procedure described, and installed the specific "dgpu killer" utility. All works fine except for the brightness control and waking from sleep. Unfortunately I really need those two particular features. Is anyone familiar with a different method of disabling the gpu without losing these two features?
 
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ASentientBot said:
Take a video or a photo of where it gets "stuck" and post it here.
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it keeps saying the same message but with different numbers (I let it run for like 15 mins or 20 mins)... I let it previously run for two hours but not in verbose mode and it did not open.
 

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AlexyFoxy said:
it keeps saying the same message but with different numbers (I let it run for like 15 mins or 20 mins)... I let it previously run for two hours but not in verbose mode and it did not open.
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So basically some of the LaunchDaemons on your boot drive are crashing repeatedly. The system keeps starting them but they keep crashing. That's not something that's super easy to trace unfortunately.

This is a USB made with dosdude1's tool, correct? Please try recreating it. It's quite likely that something got corrupted or the permissions are wrong.
 
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Oda66 said:
Hi,
Just installed Mojave on a late 2011 MBP 15" with a faulty video card (thanks!). I used the procedure described, and installed the specific "dgpu killer" utility. All works fine except for the brightness control and waking from sleep. Unfortunately I really need those two particular features. Is anyone familiar with a different method of disabling the gpu without losing these two features?
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The only way you can get those features working again is to disable the dGPU via hardware, as I detail in my thread here.
 
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ASentientBot said:
So basically some of the LaunchDaemons on your boot drive are crashing repeatedly. The system keeps starting them but they keep crashing. That's not something that's super easy to trace unfortunately.

This is a USB made with dosdude1's tool, correct? Please try recreating it. It's quite likely that something got corrupted or the permissions are wrong.
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Yes made by dosdude1, I recreated it many times but all the same... I don't know where is the problem. I am using the latest patch 1.2.3
Should I change the USB? should the usb be formatted in GUID instead of MBR?.

I fixed it,
Replaced the USB, used patcher 1.2.1 and put the patcher and Mojave installer in one file and tried it.

Thanks for your concern I really appreciate it :).
 
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ASentientBot said:
So basically some of the LaunchDaemons on your boot drive are crashing repeatedly. The system keeps starting them but they keep crashing. That's not something that's super easy to trace unfortunately.

This is a USB made with dosdude1's tool, correct? Please try recreating it. It's quite likely that something got corrupted or the permissions are wrong.
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Pardon my question, but I have a dual hard drives MacBook pro 13' late 2011, so is there a way that I can patch the Mojave drive from my old drive system (10.13.5)?

I mean I tried running the post install app directly from the usb on my High Sierra OS system it applies the patches but it does not reboot nor force cache rebuilding.
 
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DaniloGeekDude said:
@TimothyR734 might have been referring to the same (v1.2).

This is from the hybrid patch GitHub: https://github.com/SpiraMira/HybridMode-Public

NEW: 11/5/2018 - Version v1.3 is almost feature complete with a host of important fixes for Search bar menus (in Safari, iMessage and other Core Apps), some HUDs (like the brightness and volume huds), more sidebar fixes (notably AppStore), Sidebar inactive selection appearance (currently appears black). Some progress has been made on the menubar vibrancy front. Not sure if this will be rolled into 1.3 or a later release. You can check v1.3 status by checking Issues filtered by milestone. Stay tuned (follow this repo).

NEW: Version v1.2 compatible with the official 10.14.1 Mojave are available here

Unless I missed it, it does not mention 1.3 being released yet.
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Hy .
i got the fololwing issssue wih the macos patcher:

The application you have selected is not a valid copy of macOS Mojave.
What can i do to make a USB installer?
Thanks a lot,
stephen
 
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daffyb said:
Hello... again,
I have found this ebay store
https://www.ebay.com/str/bioschipstore
any other ideas and or advices?

People who's changed the BootROM Chip, where did you find the chip?
If I want to reprogram it, what do I need ? @dosdude1 on your youtube I've seen some chip programmer. Am I right ?

I don't know if it is allowed to post his URL. If not, I'll remove it.
Cheers,
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The same thing happened to me on my Mac Mini 3,1. I took it apart to see what number was on the chip, chose the right one but It bricked it anyway.

So I went on ebay and bought a new EFI chip ( atention you have to buy an EFI chip compatible with your motherboard number ), went here to a local repair store and they unsoldered the bricked chip and put in the new one and boom back working again.

If you want I can tell you where I bought it from, It worked perfect.

Hope this helps.
 
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Luigi222 said:
The same thing happened to me on my Mac Mini 3,1. I took it apart to see what number was on the chip, chose the right one but It bricked it anyway.

So I went on ebay and bought a new EFI chip ( atention you have to buy an EFI chip compatible with your motherboard number ), went here to a local repair store and they unsoldered the bricked chip and put in the new one and boom back working again.

If you want I can tell you where I bought it from, It worked perfect.

Hope this helps.
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Thank you for your interest. I've ordered one from the ebay shop I've linked.
I'm waiting for the delivery (a few weeks). I'll do the unsolder/resolder by myself, I feel able to do it.

EFI ROM Patch Tool doesn't appears to be working well at 100%.
Why, I do not know, but for those who want I can share the Original and Patched DUMPS
 
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Just a quick remark. On my MacBook7,1 I cannot boot into Safe Mode. Or at least at the end of the progress bar it takes so long that I gave up. macOS 10.14.1 installed from USB using the patcher.

Maybe this is a known bug?
 
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Oda66 said:
Hi,
Just installed Mojave on a late 2011 MBP 15" with a faulty video card (thanks!). I used the procedure described, and installed the specific "dgpu killer" utility. All works fine except for the brightness control and waking from sleep. Unfortunately I really need those two particular features. Is anyone familiar with a different method of disabling the gpu without losing these two features?
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See post #10651
 
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Henk Poley said:
Just a quick remark. On my MacBook7,1 I cannot boot into Safe Mode. Or at least at the end of the progress bar it takes so long that I gave up. macOS 10.14.1 installed from USB using the patcher.

Maybe this is a known bug?
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I'll test on my system and then report back. Safe boot isn't that useful anyways, though.
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AlexyFoxy said:
Pardon my question, but I have a dual hard drives MacBook pro 13' late 2011, so is there a way that I can patch the Mojave drive from my old drive system (10.13.5)?

I mean I tried running the post install app directly from the usb on my High Sierra OS system it applies the patches but it does not reboot nor force cache rebuilding.
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Cache rebuild can only be done on the drive you are booted from, as far as I know. If you try to rebuild a Mojave drive's prelinkedkernel from HS, weird things seem to happen. You should be able to apply all the other patches, though, and the Mojave system will auto-rebuild its prelinkedkernel when it boots after detecting changes to /S*/L*/E*
[doublepost=1542833785][/doublepost]@Henk Poley when I try safe boot on my machine, i just get the "prohibitory sign" (\). Presumably because safe boot ignores the boot flags in com.apple.Boot.plist. Why do you need safe boot anyways? Maybe this could be worked around by forcing -v -x -no_compat_check in NVRAM but what would be the point?
 
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I just installed Mojave using the latest patch tool on my early 2011 13” MacBook Pro. Installation went fine. I logged in and everything seemed as expected on startup. A few background apps like Dropbox were loading, I opened safari to check out the new dark theme, and then the whole screen went black shortly followed by the login screen. I logged in, and within a minute the same thing happened. I would log in, and boom, back to login screen with 10 seconds. I’ve gone through this easily 20 times now. I set auto-log off to disabled but it still happens. I have tried rebooting, resetting the PRAM, and safe boot with no change. Only having a few seconds to investigate or make changes makes this nearly impossible for me to fix. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated as I don’t want to have to restore back to High Sierra unless necessary.
 
So in my quest to upgrade my GPU in my late 2009 iMac, I came across a thread over at Netkas titled "iMac Holy Grail achieved ! Boot screens on 780m in 2011 iMac 27". Basically, they discuss replacing the GPU in the iMacs for Mojave and Metal compatibility, with varying levels of success. One interesting tidbit that stuck out to me was that "Rominator"(MVC?) was able to see the iGPU in Windows when replacing the card with a 780m. This made me think that maybe through some code or reverse engineering, the iGPU on 2010-2011 iMacs could be configured to work on macOS? Just a thought, as it sucks for individuals with these iMacs having no acceleration (not a useable option IMHO). Is it possible @dosdude1, or am I just wishful thinking lol?

P.S. - Also about to stick a 770m in this bad boy, I'll keep y'all posted.
 
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flygbuss said:
If you do some reseach you'll find posts claiming that it still works, even with mojave:
https://github.com/dokterdok/Continuity-Activation-Tool/issues/438

I can't personally varify that but at least it's worth a try, I guess..
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I tried installing twice now on MBP5,1 with 14.1 installed, using a BT 4.0 dongle. Both tries it seems to install fine, but upon reboot, it crashes with a kernal panic. I tried reapplying the post install patches, but that didn't help. Both times had to reinstall 14.1 over top of the existing install, reapply the post-install patches to be able to boot again. Tried booting without the dongle in and it still crashed for me. Not sure if I did something wrong, or if it just won't work with this setup.
 
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jdj211 said:
I just installed Mojave using the latest patch tool on my early 2011 13” MacBook Pro. Installation went fine. I logged in and everything seemed as expected on startup. A few background apps like Dropbox were loading, I opened safari to check out the new dark theme, and then the whole screen went black shortly followed by the login screen. I logged in, and within a minute the same thing happened. I would log in, and boom, back to login screen with 10 seconds. I’ve gone through this easily 20 times now. I set auto-log off to disabled but it still happens. I have tried rebooting, resetting the PRAM, and safe boot with no change. Only having a few seconds to investigate or make changes makes this nearly impossible for me to fix. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated as I don’t want to have to restore back to High Sierra unless necessary.
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Sounds like your WindowServer is crashing rather than a full system KP. An app isn't to blame since safe boot doesn't fix it, so... maybe try rebuilding the prelinkedkernel from single user mode, reinstalling the legacy video patch, and if necessary reinstalling Mojave over the previous install (no data will be lost). Good luck.
 
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