2011 Unibody MacBook Pro 8,3, 16Gb OWC RAM, 1Tb Crucial SSD: Running MacOS Monterey via OpenCore Legacy Patcher 0.6.7 - three problems: (1) no access to webcam, FaceTime reports no video feed, reverting back to MacOS High Sierra and the camera and FaceTime work fine, definitely a software issue and (2) keyboard backlight doesn't work. I think this is more of a hardware issue as it didn't work under High Sierra either. Did NVRAM and SMC resets, checked settings all to no avail. Keyboard backlighting controls (F5 and F6) work and show the icon on-screen but no keyboard lights. Opened the laptop and reseated all cables, no effect. Tried using third-party app to control keyboard backlight, that didn't work either. (3) Also graphics really seem "choppy" and my 2011 actually has a working AMD GPU (and yes I've enabled it via the option in Root Patching). I've also tested turning off GPU switching in Battery options and graphics still seem somewhat choppy.
If anyone has the fix for the webcam I'd love to hear it! Note that I also tried loading MacOS Ventura 13.4 via OCLP and had the exact same three issues. I went back to Monterey/OCLP because it seemed about 20% faster than trying to run Ventura on this old machine! Thanks for any and all replies!
If anyone has the fix for the webcam I'd love to hear it! Note that I also tried loading MacOS Ventura 13.4 via OCLP and had the exact same three issues. I went back to Monterey/OCLP because it seemed about 20% faster than trying to run Ventura on this old machine! Thanks for any and all replies!