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On my MBP5.3 under .5 "MRT" does not update automatically, I had already seen it during the update 1.41 and today it's the same with the 1.42 (while this update is done in the background on my MP2.1 under 10.11.6 (15G22010) and on my iMac8.1 under 10.14.5 (18F132)).
In order to perform the update manually I copy the "MRT.app" file from 10.11.6 S/L/CoreServices/ and replace the one into 10.14.5
Would anyone have any idea why this update is not happening?
"Gatekeeper Configuration Data" does not update either.
But after spending 2 hours of time searching I can not find what is the file to replace in order to do it manually on my MBP5,3.
EDIT: For the update of "Gatekeeper Configuration Data" I finally found the path to the SQLite database: This database named "gkopaque.db" is placed in /private/var/db/gkopaque.bundle/Contents/Resources/
The following command to force critical updates in the background does not work.
On my MBP5.3 under .5 "MRT" does not update automatically, I had already seen it during the update 1.41 and today it's the same with the 1.42 (while this update is done in the background on my MP2.1 under 10.11.6 (15G22010) and on my iMac8.1 under 10.14.5 (18F132)).
In order to perform the update manually I copy the "MRT.app" file from 10.11.6 S/L/CoreServices/ and replace the one into 10.14.5
Would anyone have any idea why this update is not happening?
"Gatekeeper Configuration Data" does not update either.
But after spending 2 hours of time searching I can not find what is the file to replace in order to do it manually on my MBP5,3.
EDIT: For the update of "Gatekeeper Configuration Data" I finally found the path to the SQLite database: This database named "gkopaque.db" is placed in /private/var/db/gkopaque.bundle/Contents/Resources/
The following command to force critical updates in the background does not work.
Code:
sudo softwareupdate --background-critical
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I'm doing some testing that requires me to switch between Mojave 10.14.5 and High Sierra 10.13.6 and noticed something different about AppleGraphicsPowerManagement on the two platforms. For my test, I'm testing AppleGraphicsPowerManagement on a MacBookPro 6,2 (a laptop emulating a MacBookPro 6,2). Screenshots of IORegistry for High Sierra and Mojave is attached. High Sierra has an additional IOHWControl in IORegistry that is not present in Mojave. Does this "missing IOHWControl" indicate that there is something missing in the Mojave patcher? I used Mojave patcher v1.3.3.
EDIT: I have observed the same on a different laptop emulating a MacBookPro 5,1. Clearly there is a common denominator (me
), so it could be something that I've done. If anyone else has observed this, it would be helpful to know. Specifically, IOHWControl (which appears to be part of AppleHWSensor) does not load for AGPM on patched Mojave.
EDIT: I have observed the same on a different laptop emulating a MacBookPro 5,1. Clearly there is a common denominator (me
), so it could be something that I've done. If anyone else has observed this, it would be helpful to know. Specifically, IOHWControl (which appears to be part of AppleHWSensor) does not load for AGPM on patched Mojave.
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youll have better luck asking on r/hackintosh or insanelymac. Most of the stuff that goes on in this thread is still real macsI'm doing some testing that requires me to switch between Mojave 10.14.5 and High Sierra 10.13.6 and noticed something different about AppleGraphicsPowerManagement on the two platforms. For my test, I'm testing AppleGraphicsPowerManagement on a MacBookPro 6,2 (a laptop emulating a MacBookPro 6,2). Screenshots of IORegistry for High Sierra and Mojave is attached. High Sierra has an additional IOHWControl in IORegistry that is not present in Mojave. Does this "missing IOHWControl" indicate that there is something missing in the Mojave patcher? I used Mojave patcher v1.3.3.
EDIT: I have observed the same on a different laptop emulating a MacBookPro 5,1. Clearly there is a common denominator (me
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Normally, I would. My reason for asking here is to confirm that there isn't a patch missing from Mojave patcher. I understand that most people running real Macs are probably not exploring their IORegistry. For those who are on real/unsupported Macs that have been upgraded to Mojave, do you see IOHWControl being loaded with AGPM?
EDIT: I confirmed that on a natively supported Mac (MacPro5,1), IOHWControl is loaded under AGPM. I'm only observing the "missing IOHWControl" on unsupported Macs, but my sample is extremely limited.
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on a real macbook pro 6,2 running mojave 10.14.3 (the first january build)
https://neomallers.com/uploads/ioreg.jpg
have you tried using Lilu+whatevergreen? Since mojave, you have to use the platform id/properties thing vs the usual way to inject graphics (e.g. the iGPU) that worked in high sierra. There was a post on tonymac about how to enable power management for graphics. My hackintosh is a desktop so all i had to do was inject the iGPU with a headless platform id and everything works OOB. Lilu+WEG handles everything
Erase the entire USB stick from the patcher and make a new installer. It should work, OK.
@TimothyR734 I guess you also have a machine with 9400m 256.
are there any safe web drivers for 9400m?Tested by you?
I have a map 5,5 running 14.6 b2 with DUDES1 1.3.2
It runs with no any problems...so far!!!!
Oh dual boot!HS 13.6 on HFS,Mojave on Apfs!
non apfs rom applied!!
Thank you!
are there any safe web drivers for 9400m?Tested by you?
I have a map 5,5 running 14.6 b2 with DUDES1 1.3.2
It runs with no any problems...so far!!!!
Oh dual boot!HS 13.6 on HFS,Mojave on Apfs!
non apfs rom applied!!
Thank you!
I asked once but question was stuck to my previous message.
Is there anyone using Mojave on Macbook Air late 2010/Macbookair3,2 with 2 GB RAM, 1.86 GHz Intel "Core 2 Duo? Is it usable. I am still on 10.11. Is it worth trying?
Thanks for experiences.
Is there anyone using Mojave on Macbook Air late 2010/Macbookair3,2 with 2 GB RAM, 1.86 GHz Intel "Core 2 Duo? Is it usable. I am still on 10.11. Is it worth trying?
Thanks for experiences.
A really hard queastion to answer. "Worth" is so subjective. Biut I think those specs are a little low.
In my experience any MacBook Air is usable with Mojave as long as it has an SSD in working order. Definitely not fast but snappier than a MacBook Pro 2010 with 4GB and the original 250GB Sata hard drive. The 2008 - 2009 MacBook Airs that came with a PATA or SATA 4200 RPM hard drive are unbearably slow, though, stay away from those.
I tested the Nvidia web driver for High Sierra it works but no transparency a bit faster than running in safe mode
Progress report: there are still several hurdles to overcome, but the SSE4.2 emulator concept is sound. The attached screenshot shows a respectable 52.6 FPS on the Heaven benchmark, using the stock (unpatched) Apple AMD drivers and my SSE4.2 emulator ("respectable" for an old CPU doing #UD emulation). This project coming to fruition should now be in the realm of "when," not "if."
The problems are twofold. The easy one(s) are getting the emulator kext into OSX (which can be accomplished using the DisableLibraryValidation kext) and getting it to load before any of the AMD drivers (which I've got working, but might need more tweaking). The hard one(s) involve the boot process - at present, the monitor physically attached to the system always hangs at the first progress bar screen (white background). However, as @netkas has helpfully observed, one can connect to that hung system via VNC and get full acceleration. I was able to then switch the primary display to use the physical monitor, and interact with the system (and get the attached benchmark) without using VNC, but it's still a kludge with many potential points of failure. (A third problem is "hours in the day," to which I'm sure we can all relate.)
Once I (we) figure out how to make this boot smoothly, I'll release a version of the emulator for public beta. For now, I just wanted to keep hope alive... (Also, at present, I see no reason this emulator won't work for both High Sierra and Catalina, although that could change once I finally look at the latter.)
EDIT: tagging @dosdude1 in case he has any insights to offer.
The problems are twofold. The easy one(s) are getting the emulator kext into OSX (which can be accomplished using the DisableLibraryValidation kext) and getting it to load before any of the AMD drivers (which I've got working, but might need more tweaking). The hard one(s) involve the boot process - at present, the monitor physically attached to the system always hangs at the first progress bar screen (white background). However, as @netkas has helpfully observed, one can connect to that hung system via VNC and get full acceleration. I was able to then switch the primary display to use the physical monitor, and interact with the system (and get the attached benchmark) without using VNC, but it's still a kludge with many potential points of failure. (A third problem is "hours in the day," to which I'm sure we can all relate.)
Once I (we) figure out how to make this boot smoothly, I'll release a version of the emulator for public beta. For now, I just wanted to keep hope alive... (Also, at present, I see no reason this emulator won't work for both High Sierra and Catalina, although that could change once I finally look at the latter.)
EDIT: tagging @dosdude1 in case he has any insights to offer.
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Great news
You don't need DisableLibraryValidation kext with your kext as libraries are original
just disable csr and drop your kext to /S/L/E/
To make your kext autoboot and be placed to prelinked kerneladd this to it's info.plist
<key>OSBundleRequired</key>
<string>Local-Root</string>
http://mirror.informatimago.com/nex...xt_tutorials/loading_kexts/loading_kexts.html
I am already using OSBundleRequired ::= Root, which has a higher priority than Local-Root (which I was using in the initial versions). I think that's good enough; worst-case, I'll have to modify the Info.plist of the AMD drivers that contain SSE4.2 code so they list my emulator as a dependency. (I'm hoping to avoid that.)
Still digging through the startup, trying to figure out where things go south. I'm hoping it's something simple, but Murphy's Law is likely to have other ideas...
Today, my CPU has become much more active than normal, often using 100% of its capacity and making my fans go crazy as well. This is in my Mini 5.1 running 10.14.5, patched with DosDudes patcher.
Is anyone else having some weird issue like this? Could it be related or is this a different problem?
Is anyone else having some weird issue like this? Could it be related or is this a different problem?
I have been using 10.14.5 on a Macbook Air with the same specifications - except 4 GB RAM, not 2 GB - for over a month now on my main daily work use machine. It's not obviously faster or slower than 10.13.6, but I have not used 10.11 in ages, so cannot give you that comparison.
I mostly use it as follows - most used applications first:
Avast Security
Thunderbird email (with multiple accounts loaded, some with tens of thousands of emails)
Safari and Chrome web browsing, including YouTube etc
Word, Excel and PowerPoint / Office 2011 for Mac
Time Machine USB and NAS backup (alternating)
WhatsApp Web
Adobe Acrobat Reader
VLC for watching DVDs (when not via YouTube etc)
Image Capture scans from Canon MB5100 series wireless printer
Upload to Box (both directly and using FileLink from Thunderbird when sending large attachments)
Occasional iPhoto
Very occasional Skype
Very occasional Microsoft Teams
I am blessed to have a 1Gbit/s fibre optic broadband to home router, though obviously the Macbook Air via wireless connection cannot achieve anything like that!
Note that I do not do anything particularly demanding. No video or even photo editing, for example. And I am quite content to close multiple applications as I work on another.
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Thank you and others for insights. I guess those 4 GB of RAM makes big difference. Light work is ok but running thunderbird with same configuration as you plus safari Or Firefox spur fans to max easily.
I will try my first TimeMachine backup probably to learn it and try install Mojave. To finally decide whether sell it or keep.
As stalls on MBP 2008 were solved here then it’s big screen,performance and backlight keyboard versus weight, big trackpad,battery life, resell value.
Not sure the fan at max has much to do with RAM.
The MBA I use did have a repair about two years ago, during which independent repair man advised replacing button cell battery and replacing thermal paste, both of which I agreed to.
Fan (there is only one in these MBAs) will run at or near max after upgrade to Mojave as it rebuilds various indices from scratch. This may take overnight. After a day it should certainly have settled down, although this will depend on how many files you have. My SSD is 128 GB.
I use Macs Fan Control and live and work in a room that often hovers around 30 Celsius ambient with over 90% humidity at this time of year. Most of the time for desktop use, I keep the lid shut and connect an external monitor via Mini DisplayPort and a DVI adapter. I do however ensure plenty of vent space at the back of the MBA and use ceiling fans to keep air circulation.