The only other effect I see with Photos is that it exports photos (with a sequential option) not in chronological order. This is the case with 10.15.1, and probably was with 10.15.0, including on supported macs. Maybe 10.15.2 will fix it.
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Hello, I’m sure I can’t help you much. I didn’t do anything but install @dosdude1 patcher and the legacy video patcher. I’m connecting my displays (both hp w2007) using a apple mini display port to vga and a displaylink usb to vga adaptor. The one connected with the mini display port works like it is the main display, nothing fails. The one connected with the usb adaptor is mainly for text, I use it all time with the safari or chrome web inspector (unther developer tools)
So far the only thing I see not working as expected with this patcher is the app Preview (I use it all time, was working great in Mojave). When opening pdf files the images are not showned
Hi guys, I've installed a copy of mojave on my mac unsupported - is it now possible to upgrade without formatting again the machine to catalina? I've tried a lot time to install directly my old mac to catalina via USB bootable but at the moment I have a positive result only with mojave.. I hope some tricks from you...
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hi, good news and bad news - after like 15 tries and a new USB stick 32GB Catalina installed Fully and works. The bad news - seems the AMD chip is the main chip which makes it run slow. Given I have never had issues with this GPU at all, ever, I wanted to know what terminal commands I can use to disable it, but not permanently disable it as it does have some benefit outside of Mojave and Catalina.
Never tried creating the Catalina installer on a DVD. I assume that it would be slow.
Also, if I do disable via terminal the AMD chip, what functions will I lose ? Someone told me closed lid sleep and something else.
Hey!
I don't think this is too significant, but I've figured out how to avoid the IOSurface binpatches and still achieve acceleration under nVidia Tesla: just NOP these two locations in GeForceTesla main binary (in addition to the previous NOP required since Mojave):
@dosdude1 and @0403979, no need to include this in your patchers yet -- like the OpenGL "improvements", it might just make things worse. But it's possibly worth noting for the future. To me, it's better to modify a retro kext and leave the current kext alone.
I'll run my system with this patch for a few weeks and see if anything is broken
I don't think this is too significant, but I've figured out how to avoid the IOSurface binpatches and still achieve acceleration under nVidia Tesla: just NOP these two locations in GeForceTesla main binary (in addition to the previous NOP required since Mojave):
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0x77993@dosdude1 and @0403979, no need to include this in your patchers yet -- like the OpenGL "improvements", it might just make things worse. But it's possibly worth noting for the future. To me, it's better to modify a retro kext and leave the current kext alone.
I'll run my system with this patch for a few weeks and see if anything is broken
I'm not sure if this has been asked before but I've read mac book pros 6,2 from mid 2010 with i7 processors with older EFI's couldn't read or work with more than 8GB of memory due to an EFI limitation. Has anyone tried more with the newer update from Catalina to add 16GB since it has a newer EFI? Seems like those on older OS's (not sure how old) were having some kind of kernel mode fault and crashing adding 16GB.
I'd love to know that, too!
I have the same configuration as you, @Phillthedrill, an upgraded MacBook Pro 6,2 i7 with a SSD and 8 GB of RAM.
By the way, does Catalina work well on your 6,2? Any particular problems? Any slowdowns?
I'm still on High Sierra, but since it's my main computer, I prefer to wait a little longer, until everything works.. flawlessly.
So far it's running really well on Catalina 10.15.1. Of course, I don't have any 32 bit apps I use either. I think I'm just going to take the plunge tomorrow and get 16GB and try it out and I will definitely let you know if it works or not. A lot of the forums I'm reading said it has a EFI firmware limitation and all of the posts are really old (2013) so I'm thinking an updated OS especially with 64 bit native could handle it but I am going to try to be sure. I have several tabs open and only 16mb free lol....bogs down a lot when it gets that low of course but the Samsung 850 EVO SSD is a lot better than the HD for sure.
Awesome, thank you!
16 MB! That seems odd! I currently have Safari and Vivaldi browser running with 30 tabs and 2 GB free.. and I use an external Apple Cinema HD Display. Was that also the case when you were on Mojave or High Sierra?
Low free RAM isn't actually much of an indication of a problem, since much of the used space is probably cached files. This will get cleared out if you open anything that needs more memory. Check "memory pressure" in Activity Monitor to see if it's actually an issue or not.
By the way, thank you for your amazing work @ASentientBot, @dosdude1, ..! I've been following this thread since day one and I'm impressed. I was happy when you announced full acceleration! An adventure.
Hello,
Ok, good news I was able to disable the Radeon chip and everything is working great, EXCEPT when I hit keyboard preference, it won't load - Does anyone have a fix for this?
Ok, good news I was able to disable the Radeon chip and everything is working great, EXCEPT when I hit keyboard preference, it won't load - Does anyone have a fix for this?
Here is my activity monitor. I am still learning about macs.
I forget it's different in using ram like windows is. Do you think it would benefit from having more memory like 16GB or do you think it's doing ok with the 8GB it has?[automerge]1574232357[/automerge]
Probably not as much under Mojave as it is under Catalina. It seemed like it still didn't have that much free then but probably more than now.
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Here is my activity monitor. I am still learning about macs.
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Probably not as much under Mojave as it is under Catalina. It seemed like it still didn't have that much free then but probably more than now.
Edge browser seems to be a memory hog.
Hi everyone
I have performed a new clean installation and I don't believe my eyes, I'm rediscovering my macbook everything works perfectly, and even more so.
I certainly made a wrong manipulation before and after the update of mojave to catalina 😅.
I would like to thank you all as much as you do for the time you have given and your precious help🙏.
Long live for the community! 🥳
I have performed a new clean installation and I don't believe my eyes, I'm rediscovering my macbook everything works perfectly, and even more so.
I certainly made a wrong manipulation before and after the update of mojave to catalina 😅.
I would like to thank you all as much as you do for the time you have given and your precious help🙏.
Long live for the community! 🥳
I don‘t want to be a bother, but can someone help me figure out why I‘m booting to Clover mid-install? 😁
Your MacBook Pro should support APFS without the need of any patch, if it doesn't you should install High Sierra first so it can update your MacBook Pro EFI. When it boots from clover maybe it doesn't recognize the APFS partition because it bypasses the APFS patch. Try to install High Sierra in an external disk
Hi
I did a new, fresh installation of 10.15.1 on MacBook Pro (15-inch, Mid 2010) with dosdude1 patcher (1.2.3).
So far I experience such problems:
Thanks
Bero
I did a new, fresh installation of 10.15.1 on MacBook Pro (15-inch, Mid 2010) with dosdude1 patcher (1.2.3).
So far I experience such problems:
- PDF on QuickView and Preview show often without all images
- Google Maps is very slow, practically useless (tested on Safari 13.0.3 and Firefox)
- No "Photos" tab in Photos.app
- Some glitches on windows/dialogs corners
- On Intel graphic mouse cursor slows down when hover on links (I must turn off auto graphic switching to stay on NVidia)
- I can't change Wallpaper from Preference panel - it's empty, gray.
Thanks
Bero
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You can see all photos if you create a smart album with some condition met by all photos, i.e. all photos older than 01-01-1930
Thanks everyone for your advices. I was able to install Catalina on my Macbook Pro Mid 2009. iCloud Photos is working, however it's currently stuck on downloading a few originals (strange, because everything seems to be there and sync is working fine).
I have another questions regarding the boot up screen. When I'm booting, the screen shows some lines of status informations before I can log on. Then while booting, it shows some more. Is this normal?
I have another questions regarding the boot up screen. When I'm booting, the screen shows some lines of status informations before I can log on. Then while booting, it shows some more. Is this normal?
Everything seems normal to me! As suggested by @avz, you should probably avoid the Edge browser on your MacBook, as Safari is better built for the system.
Hello @Bero, and thank you for your feedback! It seems we share the same configuration. Have you upgraded your original hard drive to an SSD and your RAM to 8 GB? Since the EFI has been updated with Catalina, it may be possible to install 16 GB of RAM on our old machines as @Phillthedrill suggests.. which could give them a welcome boost!