I don't think so. The oldest regular Macbook supported is the 2008 aluminum, then 2009 unibody, from what I've heard.
So does anybody have any ideas what I'm doing wrong here?
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So does anybody have any ideas what I'm doing wrong here?
thanks, did u install it after the installation of mcpf ?
Yes, I think I used SFOTT to install Yosemite on iMac 6,1 (late 2006) with GeForce 7300 GT card...
Then I tried that particular web installer package for my updated version of 10.10.5, and again it installs fine (no errors) and the control panel in the menu bar shows it is "using the Nvidia driver," but alas, still it dont work.. About this Mac still shows 9MB and also, when you move the mouse around the dock for it to animate, you can see it is jerky response of the dock.
Hi. Does anyone have either:
MacBookPro2,x
iMac5,1
Xserve1,1/2,1
(i.e. computers with X1300/X1600 GPU)
PM me! I need testers for a solution to FULL OPENGL SUPPORT on 10.8-10.11
You must already have the partial 10.7.5 kexts installed *including* ATIRadeonX1000*.bundle in /S/L/E
MacBookPro2,x
iMac5,1
Xserve1,1/2,1
(i.e. computers with X1300/X1600 GPU)
PM me! I need testers for a solution to FULL OPENGL SUPPORT on 10.8-10.11
You must already have the partial 10.7.5 kexts installed *including* ATIRadeonX1000*.bundle in /S/L/E
Yes, I have iMac 5,1 with Yosemite and working X1300 GPU and audio hacks/kext I can test for you.
EDIT: does not work, wait for new version
ok. put these files inside /S/L/E/ATIRadeonX1000GLDriver.bundle
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B8DiAFi2BTxvYkdlU2hOTGN0Sms/view?usp=sharing
(replace the ATIRadeonX1000GLDriver with the tiny one and add the _real_patched)
Then
sudo chmod -R 0755 /System/Library/Extensions/ATIRadeonX1000GLDriver.bundle
then reboot
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Ok, so I can take your two files and put into *.bundle file? how do I do that? does that bundle file open up like a folder ?
I know how to do the "sudo" command, though...
Also, I dont know what you mean by this: You must already have the partial 10.7.5 kexts installed *including* ATIRadeonX1000*.bundle in /S/L/E
right click (control click) then show package contents and you can drag in like a folder
Ok, but once in Package folder, I still need to into Contents and then MacOS and put these two files there, right?
Ok, just did all those steps and rebooted.. got my desktop.. everything seems the same.. how do I know this open GL worked correctly?
Here you go... fyi, I already had 128MB VRAM showing before this change...
Attachments
Well, Launchpad does open up within 1-2 seconds, no screen redraw... but still not sure if it was this fast before today's change as well.. is there something more definitive to test this OpenGL feature??
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/opengl-extensions-viewer/id444052073?mt=12
screenshot the summary tab
:-(
it should show something about AMD Radeon
so it didn't work
I bought an iMac5,1 on eBay (before I posted this) so I can troubleshoot more
Darn it...
Well, I also have iMac 6,1 with Geforce 7300GT card, which has no kext for it on Yosemite (it shows 9MB VRAM)... do you have any news about this?
no, but the same principles of trying to fix this would work
I am going to try more tests when the iMac arrives on Friday
and then if I can't figure it out I'll open source what I'm doing
I might need a new patch, of gldGetVersion to pretend to be a newer driver, some code checks it
Here is a new version. Just replace the ATIRadeonX1000GLDriver file in Contents/MacOS with it.
edit: for other users: it requires you to follow the instructions + download in my original post above first
edit 2: ok so 2 people have downloaded this but not said anything...lol
edit 3: replaced; compiled with -fPIC (I forgot)
edit 4: removed! it freezes at apple logo (windowserver restarts)
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I'm totally stumped here. I tried Mac OS Extractor and now I'm using SFOTT, but I cannot get this to work. At the end it just shows a bunch of errors. I have not modified anything at all.
This is what I get when I first open SFOTT:
Working directory /tmp/SixtyFourOnThirtyTwo exists
Working directory /tmp/SixtyFourOnThirtyTwo exists
Moving to working directory /tmp/SixtyFourOnThirtyTwo
zip is here but icon is not here, unzipping icon
ditto: Couldn't read PKZip signature
And when I try to create patch:
Select a Step : 1
Download boot.efi from Tiamo - Macrumors
check if Tiamo's boot.efi is there
boot.efi found (graphic)
/tmp/SixtyFourOnThirtyTwo/Tiamobootefig/boot.efi
boot.efi Checksumm:
66a88a55d3ea633119f86810ff1378e518934f5b
boot.efi found (verbose)
/tmp/SixtyFourOnThirtyTwo/Tiamobootefiv/boot.efi
boot.efi Checksumm:
66a88a55d3ea633119f86810ff1378e518934f5b
No (verbose) boot.efi found in Working Directory
downloading boot efi file from macrumors
from https://forums.macrumors.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=502055&d=1412735734
Credits:
Tiamo https://forums.macrumors.com/members/460956/ for original release
PikerAlpha for branching the code for Yosemite http://pikeralpha.wordpress.com/
Hennessie2000 https://forums.macrumors.com/members/128975/
mikeboss
and 666sheep 66sheep_member
PeterHolbrook_member
for compiling the boot.efi see post here : https://forums.macrumors.com/posts/20038853/
m666sheep_Bootpost
MikeBoss_Bootpost
unzip archive into working directory
ditto: Couldn't read PKZip signature
ls: /tmp/SixtyFourOnThirtyTwo/PikerAlphabootefiv/boot.efi: No such file or directory
boot.efi Checksumm:
/tmp/SixtyFourOnThirtyTwo/PikerAlphabootefiv/boot.efi: No such file or directory
No (verbose) boot.efi found in Working Directory
downloading boot efi file from macrumors
from https://forums.macrumors.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=502055&d=1412735734
Credits:
Tiamo https://forums.macrumors.com/members/460956/ for original release
PikerAlpha for branching the code for Yosemite http://pikeralpha.wordpress.com/
Hennessie2000 https://forums.macrumors.com/members/128975/
mikeboss
and 666sheep 66sheep_member
PeterHolbrook_member
for compiling the boot.efi see post here : https://forums.macrumors.com/posts/20038853/
m666sheep_Bootpost
MikeBoss_Bootpost
unzip archive into working directory
ditto: Couldn't read PKZip signature
ls: /tmp/SixtyFourOnThirtyTwo/PikerAlphabootefig/boot.efi: No such file or directory
boot.efi Checksumm:
/tmp/SixtyFourOnThirtyTwo/PikerAlphabootefig/boot.efi: No such file or directory
Why are all these files missing? Am I totally missing a step after reading how to do this several times, or is there a problem with my computer? I'm running a Macbook 3,1 (A1181 Late 2007) on OS X 10.7.3 Lion. Recent install of Lion (a couple days old after messing up the boot.efi files when I was attempting to use macOS Extractor) so it's not like I've messed with any setting that could cause an issue.
Anybody know what I can do? I'm totally lost at this point, and I'd really like to get this computer running Yosemite.
This is what I get when I first open SFOTT:
Working directory /tmp/SixtyFourOnThirtyTwo exists
Working directory /tmp/SixtyFourOnThirtyTwo exists
Moving to working directory /tmp/SixtyFourOnThirtyTwo
zip is here but icon is not here, unzipping icon
ditto: Couldn't read PKZip signature
And when I try to create patch:
Select a Step : 1
Download boot.efi from Tiamo - Macrumors
check if Tiamo's boot.efi is there
boot.efi found (graphic)
/tmp/SixtyFourOnThirtyTwo/Tiamobootefig/boot.efi
boot.efi Checksumm:
66a88a55d3ea633119f86810ff1378e518934f5b
boot.efi found (verbose)
/tmp/SixtyFourOnThirtyTwo/Tiamobootefiv/boot.efi
boot.efi Checksumm:
66a88a55d3ea633119f86810ff1378e518934f5b
No (verbose) boot.efi found in Working Directory
downloading boot efi file from macrumors
from https://forums.macrumors.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=502055&d=1412735734
Credits:
Tiamo https://forums.macrumors.com/members/460956/ for original release
PikerAlpha for branching the code for Yosemite http://pikeralpha.wordpress.com/
Hennessie2000 https://forums.macrumors.com/members/128975/
mikeboss
and 666sheep 66sheep_member
PeterHolbrook_member
for compiling the boot.efi see post here : https://forums.macrumors.com/posts/20038853/
m666sheep_Bootpost
MikeBoss_Bootpost
unzip archive into working directory
ditto: Couldn't read PKZip signature
ls: /tmp/SixtyFourOnThirtyTwo/PikerAlphabootefiv/boot.efi: No such file or directory
boot.efi Checksumm:
/tmp/SixtyFourOnThirtyTwo/PikerAlphabootefiv/boot.efi: No such file or directory
No (verbose) boot.efi found in Working Directory
downloading boot efi file from macrumors
from https://forums.macrumors.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=502055&d=1412735734
Credits:
Tiamo https://forums.macrumors.com/members/460956/ for original release
PikerAlpha for branching the code for Yosemite http://pikeralpha.wordpress.com/
Hennessie2000 https://forums.macrumors.com/members/128975/
mikeboss
and 666sheep 66sheep_member
PeterHolbrook_member
for compiling the boot.efi see post here : https://forums.macrumors.com/posts/20038853/
m666sheep_Bootpost
MikeBoss_Bootpost
unzip archive into working directory
ditto: Couldn't read PKZip signature
ls: /tmp/SixtyFourOnThirtyTwo/PikerAlphabootefig/boot.efi: No such file or directory
boot.efi Checksumm:
/tmp/SixtyFourOnThirtyTwo/PikerAlphabootefig/boot.efi: No such file or directory
Why are all these files missing? Am I totally missing a step after reading how to do this several times, or is there a problem with my computer? I'm running a Macbook 3,1 (A1181 Late 2007) on OS X 10.7.3 Lion. Recent install of Lion (a couple days old after messing up the boot.efi files when I was attempting to use macOS Extractor) so it's not like I've messed with any setting that could cause an issue.
Anybody know what I can do? I'm totally lost at this point, and I'd really like to get this computer running Yosemite.
I tried the first download on my MacBookPro2,1 and it still shows the software renderer like be236 reported.