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Files and Scripts to install macOS on T420 family
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A few questions for consultation #42

Open void285 opened 1 year ago

void285 commented 1 year ago

Hello, Thanks for your share, I have installed Catalina under the post instruction and run it for a few days. I have a few questions which are not mentioned in the known issues, and not sure if they are related to the dosdude1 method or the kexts or macOS itself, please help, Thank you.

  1. The wireless green light never shown, no matter whether I connect to a wlan.
  2. I have a 1600x900 LCD, and have copied the DisplayVendorID-* directories, but there are still glitches/lines, not serious, but sometimes shows often and annoying.
  3. I have an USB 3.0 NEC Chip ExpressCard, macOS warn there is a power lack problem and the ports can't be used, is there a solution to this?
  4. We have power management solution to windows and the battery stops charging when it's 80% full, how can we achieve this under macOS?
  5. Airdrop is not available, it's not shown in finder sidebar, even in preferences->sidebar settings, I can find the package in the system, but when I try to open it from spotlight, Macos tells it can't open it because it can't find the the application. It seems some Mac users report this issue sometimes too.
void285 commented 1 year ago

Answer to the airdrop problem: https://github.com/dosdude1/macos-catalina-patcher/issues/10#issuecomment-613220200

tluck commented 1 year ago

wow didnt know anybody was still using this 13 Year old computer! i have 2 systems that still run

items:

  1. same. the driver doesnt update the light.
  2. i have 8GB and 16GB and havent seen as many glitches. on 4GB more reported glitches. using patches for increased memory help: The "About This Mac" shows: Graphics: Intel HD Graphics 3000 1024 MB
  3. not sure about this card and if there is a driver for it.
  4. not sure - but i think you could update the kext driver to stop at certain levels? Catalina doesn't have this built-in like later versions of macOS.
void285 commented 1 year ago

I have 16GB memory too and "About This Mac" also shows "Graphics: Intel HD Graphics 3000 1024 MB", maybe I should say the glitches are not so many, just show more than I expected sometimes, mainly when I open many tabs with safari, so it's maybe a memory related problem, not serious.

About item 3 and item 4, I will do some research sometime, they are small problems, not annoying.

The notebook is indeed old, but fits my need well, with SSD and 16G ram, it's still strong. I have win10 installed on the main bay and macos installed on the msata, I install macOS because the CPU temp is lower and the fan is more quiet. On the whole, it works well, Thanks again for your generous share, you make the installation and setup so simple!