Re: Early 2009 iMac with Sierra (unsupported)-Brightness won't work

2017-07-12 Thread Russell Courtenay
OK, I am not planning on upgrading my 2008 iMac, it is slow enough as it is. As soon as I get some other things working, I will reinstall Snow Leopard on a separate partition then, if I don't replace it, I plan to upgrade memory and/or logicboard. I like this quote from the article though:

Re: Early 2009 iMac with Sierra (unsupported)-Brightness won't work

2017-07-12 Thread Bruce Johnson
Late-2009 or later. Early-2009 is just on the wrong side of the cutoff: http://osxdaily.com/2016/06/14/macos-sierra-compatibility-list/ On Jul 12, 2017, at 9:53 AM, Russell Courtenay > wrote: I thought that the 2009 iMacs were Sierra

Re: Early 2009 iMac with Sierra (unsupported)-Brightness won't work

2017-07-12 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Jul 11, 2017, at 7:28 PM, fishjoy...@gmail.com wrote: >From further reading, it sounds like there may be another solution that may >require a higher technical proficiency than I have. However, I am hoping that >someone can explain the solution so that I can

Early 2009 iMac with Sierra (unsupported)-Brightness won't work

2017-07-12 Thread fishjoyner
iMac 9,1 w/Sierra-brightness not working Hi all, I have an Early 2009 iMac that was running El Capitan. I used the Sierra Patcher to install Sierra (10.12.5) on this machine (not supported by Apple). The install seems to be working fine with one exception--I no longer have control of the