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7 hours ago, Rockey12 said:

Sidecar support on older Macs

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Not every Mac that supports macOS Catalina will support the Sidecar feature. I could not find any official info, but here are my own findings. There’s an explicit check that the Mac is newer than these models:

 

  • MacBook, MacBook Air: Early 2015

  • MacBook Pro: Mid 2015

  • iMac: Late 2015

  • Mac mini: Late 2014

  • Mac Pro: Late 2013

 

I managed to make Sidecar work with my Mid 2014 MacBook Pro work and iPad Pro. It’s great in terms of minimal lag, but the image quality is bad. I guess the limitation is about hardware HEVC encoding which requires Intel Core 6th gen processoHere’

 

If you need this feature on an older Mac despite low image quality I suggest filing a bug report with Apple. A hidden option to disable such hardware check would be great.

 

That requires disabling System Integrity Protection and editing SidecarCore private framework to exclude your Mac model from the blacklist.

Edit: To enable unsupported Mac and "display" devices use this Terminal command:

defaults write com.apple.sidecar.display AllowAllDevices -bool true; defaults write com.apple.sidecar.display hasShownPref -bool true; open /System/Library/PreferencePanes/Sidecar.prefPane

I had discovered the AllowAllDevices settings before writing this post, but for some reason it did not have effect at first so I resorted to patching the files. Looks like the patching is not needed.

 

Still doesn't work.  I already had sidecar in system preferences but whenever it tries to connect to the iPad it just shows a black screen then error code -401.  Will keep checking on later betas.  Thanks though!

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Any hope of getting a BCM4322 wifi card (14e4:432b) working with Catalina? It was supported natively up to Mojave but with the Brcm4331 kext gone it's no longer detected.

 

I tried adding the device ID to AirportBrcmFixup but it panicked on boot.

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14 hours ago, Sherlocks said:

mojave too from your catalina package?

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Mojave I have a différant package because I don't whant mixed OS

both package available  here HD 3000 Package

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Something odd happens now on my CustoMac. Both Mojave, which was super stable, and Catalina don't work properly anymore. By that I mean that my monitors randomly black out while being in use. I have two same model monitors connected to RX580 dGPU. One monitor is connected via DP port, the other via HDMI. The monitor that is connected with DP blacks out more often and more frequent. I'm not sure if this is caused by some of the latest clover patches or if there is a kext issue on my machine. Has anyone experienced similar issues or know how or what I can investigate?

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Hi - I'm new here, so thanks in advance for all the help you're all giving! It's very appreciated.

 

I have an 8th gen i5 Intel NUC that I'm trying to get Catalina on to, but keep running into an issue. It seems to be linked to APSF, like a previous comment posted, however I was always using FakeSMC (never VirtualSMC). I am largely using the files provided in RehabMan's guide, but with small updates that were made to make it compatible with 10.14.5. I am using Clover 4964.

 

Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

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5 hours ago, Vinbie said:

Hi - I'm new here, so thanks in advance for all the help you're all giving! It's very appreciated.

 

I have an 8th gen i5 Intel NUC that I'm trying to get Catalina on to, but keep running into an issue. It seems to be linked to APSF, like a previous comment posted, however I was always using FakeSMC (never VirtualSMC). I am largely using the files provided in RehabMan's guide, but with small updates that were made to make it compatible with 10.14.5. I am using Clover 4964.

 

Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

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looks like apfs.efi is missing

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7 hours ago, Roboter said:

Something odd happens now on my CustoMac. Both Mojave, which was super stable, and Catalina don't work properly anymore. By that I mean that my monitors randomly black out while being in use. I have two same model monitors connected to RX580 dGPU. One monitor is connected via DP port, the other via HDMI. The monitor that is connected with DP blacks out more often and more frequent. I'm not sure if this is caused by some of the latest clover patches or if there is a kext issue on my machine. Has anyone experienced similar issues or know how or what I can investigate?

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I have the same problem a very long time and I didn't find any solution for that. I have one display and I am losing my screen randomly while working. I tried too many things but it never fixes. I even upgrade my all systems but nothing helped. But, I think yours is turning black mine is turning grey while in use. I even found a way how to investigate this problem I always making force restart from the case.

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2 hours ago, Joshua60 said:

 

looks like apfs.efi is missing

It was my understanding that APFSDriverLoader was to be used instead of this. If I'm wrong, where is your what suggestion to obtain the newest copy of apfs.efi? Thanks! 

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6 hours ago, Vinbie said:

It was my understanding that APFSDriverLoader was to be used instead of this. If I'm wrong, where is your what suggestion to obtain the newest copy of apfs.efi? Thanks! 

 

Navigate to /usr/standalone/i386/

Copy apfs.efi in /Volumes/EFI/EFI/CLOVER/drivers64UEFI/

 

Remove Verbose Text

Open Terminal

 

  1. sudo perl -i -pe 's|\x00\x74\x07\xb8\xff\xff|\x00\x90\x90\xb8\xff\xff|sg' /Volumes/EFI/EFI/CLOVER/drivers64UEFI/apfs.efi

 

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On 6/7/2019 at 6:20 PM, Sherlocks said:

did you say this issue to rehabman?

I thought I would spend some time to investigate the issue with BrcmPatchRAM first. Please check out the following post and let me know if it works for you. I have linked to it on GitHub so RehabMan can hopefully see it.

 

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56 minutes ago, Matgen84 said:

 

Navigate to /usr/standalone/i386/

Copy apfs.efi in /Volumes/EFI/EFI/CLOVER/drivers64UEFI/

 

Remove Verbose Text

Open Terminal

 

  1. 
    sudo perl -i -pe 's|\x00\x74\x07\xb8\xff\xff|\x00\x90\x90\xb8\xff\xff|sg' /Volumes/EFI/EFI/CLOVER/drivers64UEFI/apfs.efi

 

 

You don't need the apfs.efi anymore, APFSLoader is fine. Works ok here.

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I thought I would spend some time to investigate the issue with BrcmPatchRAM first. Please check out the following post and let me know if it works for you. I have linked to it on GitHub so RehabMan can hopefully see it.
 
thanks a lot.
you did place both kexts in other folder.
was there no problem after wakeup?
rehabman said that he recommend place both files in S/L/E to upload firmware.
actually, i experienced fail upload firmware with other folder when wakeup

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12 hours ago, Vinbie said:

It was my understanding that APFSDriverLoader was to be used instead of this. If I'm wrong, where is your what suggestion to obtain the newest copy of apfs.efi? Thanks! 

 

ok, fine, now:

 

-lilubetaall is not needed if you use kexts in post #1 of this thread

 

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Hi

 

Need help please!

 

I've issue with latest WEG 1.3.0 on my config i7 9700K - RX 580. 

 

Catalina start only if I block WEG with Clover

 

Any solutions :)

 

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4 minutes ago, Matgen84 said:

Hi

 

Need help please!

 

I've issue with latest WEG 1.3.0 on my config i7 9700K - RX 580. 

 

Catalina start only if I block WEG with Clover

 

Any solutions :)

 

 

try to add 

-wegbeta

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5 hours ago, Sherlocks said:

thanks a lot.
you did place both kexts in other folder.
was there no problem after wakeup?
rehabman said that he recommend place both files in S/L/E to upload firmware.
actually, i experienced fail upload firmware with other folder when wakeup

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It works fine from Other on my rig (Acer Aspire V3 772G - Azurewave Broadcom Bcm94352hmb/Bcm94352).

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