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Installed on my Macbook Pro mid 2009. Works great apart from graphical glitches on various websites. Anyone else have this issue?

thanks for all your hard work
 
Dosdude1, many thanks again! Works like a charm on my 2009 Macbook Pro. The machine got snappier and runs cooler to the touch, so it was definitely worth it.

I was wondering if we could execute the security update for High Sierra right away? Or would we need re-patching?
 
A4orce84 said:
Does your brightness setting work correctly?
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Automatic brightness adjust is not working for me in Macbook Pro 5,5 and, in fact, in system information>hardware>graphics and displays>NVIDIA GeForce 9400M; LCD color: adjust brightness automatically shows "NO". I hadn't noticed this until now.

Besides, a few graphics in Safari and even in other apps don't display properly. This topic has been discussed here some days ago, but I don't know if somebody finally found a solution to it.

Any help?
 
I install GM with all patches and it´s works fine. now, i install the latest build of high sierra over gm and nightshift is now broken. how can i re-install nightshift patch? i have a mbp 5.5.
 
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MBP 5.5 Works absolutely perfect. No glitches in display card, or auto dimmer in display or keyboard. Also makes auto update the Supplemental Update from App Store without problem before or after.
dosdude1 it's a magician any way. Thank you Sir.
 
valorn said:
Does this site show correct for you?
https://www.apple.com/iphone-x/
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I have the same conversation 2 days before with EugW about this. I Don't know the reason why in my mbp showed correct. In full screen also. With this ..

NVIDIA GeForce 9400M:
Chipset Model: NVIDIA GeForce 9400M
Type: GPU
Bus: PCI
VRAM (Total): 256 MB
Vendor: NVIDIA (0x10de)
Device ID: 0x0863
Revision ID: 0x00b1
ROM Revision: 3427
 
not4web said:
I have the same conversation 2 days before with EugW about this. I Don't know the reason why in my mbp showed correct. In full screen also. With this ..

NVIDIA GeForce 9400M:
Chipset Model: NVIDIA GeForce 9400M
Type: GPU
Bus: PCI
VRAM (Total): 256 MB
Vendor: NVIDIA (0x10de)
Device ID: 0x0863
Revision ID: 0x00b1
ROM Revision: 3427
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It is exactly the same I have... 🙁
 
danica_talos said:
I install GM with all patches and it´s works fine. now, i install the latest build of high sierra over gm and nightshift is now broken. how can i re-install nightshift patch? i have a mbp 5.5.
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Open Patch Updater, click "View Installed Updates", right click on Night Shift Patch, and click "Re-install".
 
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dosdude1 said:
keep note that if you use APFS, the boot process will look like this.
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You know what? I actually like this boot screen. I like the colour (that yellow and black…), i like that it's a bit retro, and techy, and "computery"… and always reminds me that I hacked the system and I must avoid doing something stupid like reset the PRAM and enable SIP.
 
Nope - got home last night and clicked on the Install OSX 10.13 High Sierra.app file - I got a 30 second countdown, a reboot ... the circle with the line through it, and a few moments later, the dark Apple icon and a slow boot to the 4 option Screen. (Time Machine| Reinstall the OS| Disk Utility| and Online Support).
Choosing "reinstall the OS" offered me an install of Sierra, so I backed out, did the Time machine restore to 3PM yesterday and gave up for a while ...
I really can't figure what is lacking ... the About this mac shows it as a 5,1 macPro.
The DosDude utility says High Sierra is natively supported and the tool doesn't need to be run.




thewebgal said:
Found a big part of the problem with my early 2009 macPro issues. Apparently my recovery partition got corrupted by a High Sierra beta I tried briefly in June I think. I had restored the drive, but that did not scrub the bad recovery Partition. And since its near impossible now to find a copy of the original Install Sierra package now that official High Sierra has been released, I could not fix/restore the recovery partition. But last night, on a hunch, I checked a developers' site and found a hidden page with Sierra tools and a link to the Sierra install package, and that was all I needed to repair the partition on my OWC SSD as well as on the original Macintosh HD HDD (which had an El Capitan recovery partition) I had pulled last spring when I installed the SSD. So now, the recovery partition is fixed and has Sierra on both drives, both drives have been Time Machine restored to 10.12.6 of Monday afternoon, and after work today, I should be able to do the upgrade to HS!

(My OWC SSD is their 480GB Mercury Electra 6G 2.5-inch 7mm SATA 6.0Gb/s SSD and not the Aura
SSD.)
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dosdude1 said:
Should work for all currently produced nVidia cards, however Kepler and older cards work natively and do not need to have the Web Drivers installed.
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Are they needed for the video card in the MacBook Pro (5.1) I just downloaded them and tried to install, but I get a dialog box that they are not supported in the version of the OS (17A405 - I did the supplementary update in the App Store)
 
Banan911 said:
Are they needed for the video card in the MacBook Pro (5.1) I just downloaded them and tried to install, but I get a dialog box that they are not supported in the version of the OS (17A405 - I did the supplementary update in the App Store)
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No, they are not needed for any MacBooks, only Mac Pros with upgraded nVidia video cards.
 
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Am I the only one who experiences that the Photos app severely slows down the Mac?

Everything becomes unresponsive and dreadfully slow when Photos is open. I use iCloud library for my photos but everything is synced. Can it be the face scan algorithm running in the background or what might causes the issue? I didn't experience anything similar in Sierra, and my system has been running since release day of High Sierra. I would assume that everything would be indexed by now.

I have a MacBook Pro 5.1 btw
 
dandoe said:
Great, that should do the trick! 🙂

And sorry for any confusion, the "AMD_Backup" folder was created by the script inside the 10.12AMDKexts.zip, which i only used while i tried to fix my problems with the AMD card!

The GTX680 works without any patch indeed.

I just had to reinstall those kext files from a clean installed HS disk because i messed things up while i was using an ADM 6870.

Just install the GTX680 and copy the mentioned kext files from your Mac Mini and you are good to go! 🙂

Cheers,
Dan
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Quick update on my 3,1 Mac Pro and 5770 -> X680 upgrade.

After reverting the extensions and swapping cards, High Sierra is back up and running and fully operational. One thing I had to do was clear out the cached desktop image again, but after that all traces of red windowing are gone. Sleep/Wake is also solid. My old monitors are DVI so the ports on this card are fine for me, although i wish there was a mini display port. (sidebar: I may have a PC card that was flashed vs an OEM mac card.)

After everything was verified and up and running, I also applied the High Sierra security update and the reboot was fine. So as far as I'm concerned all things are good. I am skipping APFS on my boot SSds but may play around with it on secondary/scratch SSDs.

Last year I upgraded the WiFi/Bluetooth card for handoff support and thats working great too. So with HS my Series 3 watch now unlocks my Mac again.

Thanks everyone for all hard work and "fun". 😀
 
not4web said:
For the iPhone X glich who are some folks facing problems. Here is a sort video about my mbp 5.5
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So you are having that working OK just out of the box, isn't it?

Does anyone know a way to get rid off this video card problem?

Does anyone know how to get automatic brightness adjust work again?

MBP5,5 with HS here.
 
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I have a Mac Pro 3.1 and my copy and paste abilities are completely dead after installing the new Apple Supplemental Update for 10.13.
 
When I try to install the 10.13 Supplemental Update on my High Sierra install (MacPro 4,1 w/ DosDude1's modified installer tool & patches), I get an error that the software is not supported on my system.

I was hoping to install this update, then the latest Nvidia web driver update from today, to see if it would improve the glitchiness I'm getting with my GTX 660 Ti.
 
A MacPro 4,1 does not need dosdude1's patch. Just run the firmware updater (google is your friend) and update the 4,1 firmware to MP 5,1 and then it is an officially supported Mac. Tip, you MUST have an official Apple efi GPU installed to run the firmware update to 5,1.
 
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Just added support for booting encrypted APFS volumes to the latest version of High Sierra Patcher! As always, info and download is available here.

Note: Due to the nature of this kind of patch, it cannot be installed via Patch Updater. If you want to boot from an encrypted APFS drive on an unsupported machine utilizing this patch, you'll need to re-create a new installer USB drive, and use the post-install tool from within that to apply the necessary patches after converting your volume. Also not, that when booting from an encrypted APFS volume, there will be no boot screen, as shown here.
 
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