macOS 10.14 Mojave on Unsupported Macs Thread

[sushihangover]

@dosdude1 I wanted to say thanks for all the work on "macOS Mojave Patcher" (thank you very much, I can now use Xcode 12.2.1 as there is no way I could afford a newer "new or used" MacBook at this time)

For Anyone else with a:

* MacBookPro8.2 (Variant: The 15-inch, Late 2011, 1680 x 1050, Broadcom BCM43xx, 16GB RAM)

My experience:

* "macOS Mojave Patcher" went great creating the installer volume (to a USB-based hard-drive), zero issues
* "macOS Post Install" went great (I did have manually select the Broadcom patch), zero issues

* "MacBook Pro dGPU Disabler" I tried this approach but lost the brightness and sleep ability (the sleep ability really was a pain point for me)

* Using https://luispuerto.net/blog/2017/12/11/disconnecting-the-dgpu-in-a-late-2011-macbook-pro-third-way/ as a guide:
** Manually un-did the changes from MacBook Pro dGPU Disabler (it would be nice if there was an installer for this ;-)
** Simplified version of that blog post is to move the "AMDRadeonX3000.kext" out of /System/Library/Extensions and then load it via kextload after login, that is all that was required (that is with the nvram cmd, but dGPU Disabler already handled that since I tried it first)

This has brought back the brightness (via keyboard and System Preferences) and sleep works correctly now and I have not found anything that does not work correctly in the last few days....

 

[hvds]

What is your exact model type : https://everymac.com/ultimate-mac-lookup/?search_keywords=MacBookPro5,2

Does it still crash consistently when you switch gpus in GeForceTesla?

It is a 2.8GHz one (T9600).

I've switched to 9400M with sys settings, logout/in, shutdown, boot, gfxCardStatus showing the i. Doesn't want to KP so far...
EDIT: one thing to mention is how booting looks when in 9400M mode. Screen stays black, backlight is off, until I hit power button like for waking it up. Screen stays dark but with backlight on. Then from the booting phase on with the white progress bar on dark background, things look normal.

EDIT2: just after finished typing the above, the KP happened - GeForceTesla again. Report attached.

 

[jackluke]

Two things in this post:

1. What specifically is "buggy" in 10.14.4 on your machines? My MacBook5,1 has been rock solid besides recovery partition, which I gave up on after some tips by jackluke failed to get it to boot. What bugs are you guys experiencing?
2. I recently opened my MacBook and reapplied thermal compound. It was original foxcon application, really dried up and I was experiencing really high temps in SMCfancontrol. Temps are down significantly and fan noise is now considerably less noticeable in day to day tasks, BUT after I rebuilt the machine I looked at Arctic Silver's application recommendation and it stated to use the "surface spread" method. I used just a rice sized dot in the centre of the GPU and CPU and put the spreader back on. Is this something I should be concerned about?

10.14.4 is buggy and a bit unstable on almost all the unsupported non-metal Mac, apart the Recovery that maybe HFS Recovery HD is almost deprecated from latest Mojave which prefers the APFS one, just try to open the Flurry screensaver and the Chess app game, they will fail to show, apparently it's a little issue, but instead it hides bigger unexpected side effects especially when using third party apps GUI rendering, few examples: Telegram, OneDrive, Adobe, Office and other unmonitored, since many of us have escaped to the better 10.14.5 beta where all these mentioned side effects don't occur at all.

 

[babatrades]

10.14.4 is buggy and a bit unstable on almost all the unsupported non-metal Mac, apart the Recovery that maybe HFS Recovery HD is almost deprecated from latest Mojave which prefers the APFS one, just try to open the Flurry screensaver and the Chess app game, they will fail to show, apparently it's a little issue, but instead it hides bigger unexpected side effects especially when using third party apps GUI rendering, few examples: Telegram, OneDrive, Adobe, Office and other unmonitored, since many of us have escaped to the better 10.14.5 beta where all these mentioned side effects don't occur at all.

I never use the screensaver, or chess so that's why I asked! I checked them both and of course they failed as you said. I have an office 2019 install and it seems to work as expected though. Maybe its just office 2016? When is 10.14.5 stable expected to release?

 

[jackluke]

I never use the screensaver, or chess so that's why I asked! I checked them both and of course they failed as you said. I have an office 2019 install and it seems to work as expected though. Maybe its just office 2016? When is 10.14.5 stable expected to release?

Should be released within the end of this month, even if I'd not totally exclude that could be released together with 10.15 beta on early June.

 

[fotism]

@dosdude1 I wanted to say thanks for all the work on "macOS Mojave Patcher" (thank you very much, I can now use Xcode 12.2.1 as there is no way I could afford a newer "new or used" MacBook at this time)

For Anyone else with a:

* MacBookPro8.2 (Variant: The 15-inch, Late 2011, 1680 x 1050, Broadcom BCM43xx, 16GB RAM)

My experience:

* "macOS Mojave Patcher" went great creating the installer volume (to a USB-based hard-drive), zero issues
* "macOS Post Install" went great (I did have manually select the Broadcom patch), zero issues

* "MacBook Pro dGPU Disabler" I tried this approach but lost the brightness and sleep ability (the sleep ability really was a pain point for me)

* Using https://luispuerto.net/blog/2017/12/11/disconnecting-the-dgpu-in-a-late-2011-macbook-pro-third-way/ as a guide:
** Manually un-did the changes from MacBook Pro dGPU Disabler (it would be nice if there was an installer for this ;-)
** Simplified version of that blog post is to move the "AMDRadeonX3000.kext" out of /System/Library/Extensions and then load it via kextload after login, that is all that was required (that is with the nvram cmd, but dGPU Disabler already handled that since I tried it first)

This has brought back the brightness (via keyboard and System Preferences) and sleep works correctly now and I have not found anything that does not work correctly in the last few days....

So, how did you manually undo the changes from dGPU Disabler? I didn't get it...

 

[sushihangover]

@fotism

So, how did you manually undo the changes from dGPU Disabler? I didn't get it...

dGPU Disabler does three things:

Sets the nvram o disable the dGPU on boot, this does not need to be undone.

* nvram fa4ce28d-b62f-4c99-9cc3-6815686e30f9:gpu-power-prefs=%01%00%00%00 # to disable the dGPU on boot.

Removes all the AMD* files from /System/Library/Extension/ and places them in /.AMD_Backup/

* All these files, EXCEPT for AMDRadeonX3000.kext need to be put back

Remove the LaunchDaemon that prevents the graphic drivers from being re-installed during updates, etc...

* I can not remember it off the top of my head, but you can find it via `launchctl list|grep -i dosdude`

After that, reboot and after login:

sudo kextload /.AMD_Backup/AMDRadeonX3000.kext

(I created the "/Library/LoginHook/LoadX3000.sh" as shown in that blog post to automatically execute kextload on the AMDRadeonX3000 kernel extension during login)

 

[pkouame]

It is a 2.8GHz one (T9600).

I've switched to 9400M with sys settings, logout/in, shutdown, boot, gfxCardStatus showing the i. Doesn't want to KP so far...
EDIT: one thing to mention is how booting looks when in 9400M mode. Screen stays black, backlight is off, until I hit power button like for waking it up. Screen stays dark but with backlight on. Then from the booting phase on with the white progress bar on dark background, things look normal.

EDIT2: just after finished typing the above, the KP happened - GeForceTesla again. Report attached.

So yours is almost identical to my mbp 5,3 (also T9600) except for the display size.

I don't know what to say, but at this point I still suspect hardware. The AHT usually has two different memory diagnostics - one is very exhaustive (and time consuming), but you would be getting many more random KPs (not consistently GeForceTesla panics)

The different boot screen in 9400 mode is a new one.

I'm too lazy to re-read your previous posts - are you running APFS on your boot disk (after patching your ROM)?
Also, do you accept all the defaults in the post-install (for your model) or are you customizing it?
Do you usually run all of dude's software update patches? I actually haven't in a while, but my system is pretty stable.

 

[sklein]

10.14.4 Kernel Panic

I encounter Kernel Panic / Boot Loops since updating my Mac 10,1 to 10.14.4. (In fact I re-installed the system from a new USB patcher.)

In console log, the last installed kexts are usually AppleHWSensor, at times also USBMergeNUB and Bluetooth extensions.

Kernel panic occur both right after starting up, but also after the system has run for a few minutes.

Previous Mojave Patcher Versions just worked fine.

Please help!

 

[deeveedee]

CPU Power Management not working after Mojave Upgrade MacBookPro 4,1

I have a HackBookPro 4,1 (Penryn T9300 CPU, Nvidia NVS 140m, 8GB DDR2) that is running Mojave 10.4.4 almost perfectly after updating with DosDude's outstanding Mojave Patcher (patcher 1.3.1). The only thing that is not working is CPU power management. The CPU is "stuck" at its lowest multiplier. Has anyone noticed this and if so, how did you resolve it?

 

[olad]

iStatPro 4.92 is an ancient 32-bit widget that runs on every OS since PPC days. Really handy and has never crashed in any OS version. iStatMenus is the successor, not as handy but offers even more realtime info.

It is available still on mac.softpedia.com

 

[typofonic]

@sushihangover

@fotism

sudo kextload /.AMD_Backup/AMDRadeonX3000.kext

When I run this I get
"
/System/Library/Extensions-off/AMDRadeonX3000.kext failed to load - (libkern/kext) not privileged; check the system/kernel logs for errors or try kextutil(8).
Have done:

sudo ls -ld AMDRadeonX3000.kext/

and

sudo chown -R root:wheel AMDRadeonX3000.kext/

Makes no difference
Any ideas?


"

 

[pkouame]

10.14.4 Kernel Panic

I encounter Kernel Panic / Boot Loops since updating my Mac 10,1 to 10.14.4. (In fact I re-installed the system from a new USB patcher.)

In console log, the last installed kexts are usually AppleHWSensor, at times also USBMergeNUB and Bluetooth extensions.

Kernel panic occur both right after starting up, but also after the system has run for a few minutes.

Previous Mojave Patcher Versions just worked fine.

Please help!

I know this thread is long, but .4 is very buggy for most. I would recommend either .3 (very stable) or the latest .5 betas.

 

[gereonb]

MacBook4,1 the old White removal battery one. Got Mojave installed using Julians magic.
APFS boot also works great even though the machine doesnt natively support it.
What doesn't work is the Airport WiFi card, no matter if the drive is HFS or APFS, i even tried to patch it as a 5,1 but that caused boot issues. The Wifi card is not recognized.

 

[TimothyR734]

I had to downgrade my iMac 9,1 back to 10.14.3 random KP's with 10.14.4 mostly the AppleHWSensor acting up or powermanagment

 

[0403979]

MacBook4,1 the old White removal battery one. Got Mojave installed using Julians magic.
APFS boot also works great even though the machine doesnt natively support it.
What doesn't work is the Airport WiFi card, no matter if the drive is HFS or APFS, i even tried to patch it as a 5,1 but that caused boot issues. The Wifi card is not recognized.

I've had one other report of this but I wasn't able to follow up. Can you tell me what WiFi card you have? We could also follow up on this in a direct message if you prefer.

 

[drpaul50]

If I load this on a MacBook Pro (early 2008) Core 2 Duo with SSD drive, What kind of performance can I expect? Will it beachball for long periods of time or will it make the system somewhat faster? How about on a MacBook Air (2011)? My macBook air is already slow and I dont want to make it any worse.

 

[Lancsyboy]

If I load this on a MacBook Pro (early 2008) Core 2 Duo with SSD drive, What kind of performance can I expect? Will it beachball for long periods of time or will it make the system somewhat faster? How about on a MacBook Air (2011)? My macBook air is already slow and I dont want to make it any worse.

I am running 10.4.4 on a Macbook Air 2011 and it is running smooth and no slower, even a tad fast than High Sierra. I have it dual booted but use Mojave as a daily driver.

 

[deeveedee]

CPU Power Management not working after Mojave Upgrade MacBookPro 4,1

I have a HackBookPro 4,1 (Penryn T9300 CPU, Nvidia NVS 140m, 8GB DDR2) that is running Mojave 10.4.4 almost perfectly after updating with DosDude's outstanding Mojave Patcher (patcher 1.3.1). The only thing that is not working is CPU power management. The CPU is "stuck" at its lowest multiplier. Has anyone noticed this and if so, how did you resolve it?

I changed the Mac Model from MacBookPro 4,1 to MacBookPro 5,1 and speedstep is working perfectly. Now it appears that this HackBookPro 5,1 is working perfectly with Mojave 10.14.4.

 

[MTBnBeer]

If I load this on a MacBook Pro (early 2008) Core 2 Duo with SSD drive, What kind of performance can I expect? Will it beachball for long periods of time or will it make the system somewhat faster? How about on a MacBook Air (2011)? My macBook air is already slow and I dont want to make it any worse.

I'm running my 17" Early 2008 MacBook Pro with 6GB RAM and 512GB Samsung 840 Pro SSD on Mojave 10.14.3 (not 10.14.4 which sounds like it has a bunch of issues) and its running flawlessly. Performance is better than it has been on any other macOS.

 

[TimothyR734]

Installed 1014.5 successfully on my mid 2009 MacBook 5,2
[doublepost=1557548557][/doublepost]Flurry is working so is my Brooklyn screensaver but Aerial isn't
[doublepost=1557548794][/doublepost]This is the wallpaper I use on my iMac 9,1 of Joshua Tree National Park I hope this is used beautiful if they call the next macOS Joshua Tree hybrid patches are working great

 

[pkouame]

Installed 1014.5 successfully on my mid 2009 MacBook 5,2
[doublepost=1557548557][/doublepost]Flurry is working so is my Brooklyn screensaver but Aerial isn't
[doublepost=1557548794][/doublepost]This is the wallpaper I use on my iMac 9,1 of Joshua Tree National Park I hope this is used beautiful if they call the next macOS Joshua Tree hybrid patches are working great

Congrats. I like the wallpaper. I'm not sure about Joshua Tree... Where did you get Aeral?

 

[TimothyR734]

Congrats. I like the wallpaper. I'm not sure about Joshua Tree... Where did you get Aeral?

I got Aerial from Softpedia just make sure you click on the Mac tab at the top and type in aerial in the search or OS X Daily has it as well The Brooklyn screensaver is from their last event

 

[jackluke]

Installed 1014.5 successfully on my mid 2009 MacBook 5,2
[doublepost=1557548557][/doublepost]Flurry is working so is my Brooklyn screensaver but Aerial isn't
[doublepost=1557548794][/doublepost]This is the wallpaper I use on my iMac 9,1 of Joshua Tree National Park I hope this is used beautiful if they call the next macOS Joshua Tree hybrid patches are working great

Aerial are essentially 1080p (and 4k) drone videos playback taken from Apple TV, and I've tested on any Mojave non-metal accelerated release either on C2D and i5 cpu they result choppy, I get them smooth only on HighSierra or when download apart the videos and play with another third party video player example VLC, while when screensavers videos are played with the default apple video engine (I guess an internal quicktime plugin) they are completely choppy and almost unplayable.

 

[TimothyR734]

Aerial are essentially 1080p (and 4k) drone videos playback taken from Apple TV, and I've tested on any Mojave non-metal accelerated release either on C2D and i5 cpu they result choppy, I get them only fluid on HighSierra or when download apart the videos and play with another third party video player example VLC, while when screensavers videos are played with the default apple video engine (I guess an internal quicktime plugin) they are completely choppy and almost unplayable.

They worked perfectly on both my macbooks and iMac but when I installed the Brooklyn screensaver taken from their last event they stopped working but I do like the Brooklyn screensaver