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

2018-09-04 Thread TEK-SERVE EXPRESS
Hello! I have the same issue. The Brightness Star App has fixed the brightness issue. It does have a checkbox were you can check for it to start as your system starts. If that dosent work you can always use SystemPreferences>Users&Groups>LogInItems>"+"> then search on the Applications for the B

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

2017-07-13 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Jul 13, 2017, at 11:13 AM, fishjoy...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, After reading your response, I went back to look for some of the solutions. Here is one posting that I found" https://www.tonymacx86.com/threads/fixing-brightness-with-custom-edid.219413/ However, after r

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

2017-07-13 Thread fishjoyner
Hi, After reading your response, I went back to look for some of the solutions. Here is one posting that I found" https://www.tonymacx86.com/threads/fixing-brightness-with-custom-edid.219413/ However, after rereading it, it appears that this is for laptops, and not the iMac 91. Sorry for not read

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

2017-07-13 Thread fishjoyner
Hi, After your response, I went back and tried to find the information I mentioned. Here is a link to some of it: https://www.tonymacx86.com/threads/fixing-brightness-with-custom-edid.219413/ However, after rereading it, it looks like this if for a laptop, so perhaps there is no solution to this

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: "Y

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 mailto:unknownid...@gmail.com>> wrote: I thought that the 2009 iMacs were Sierra compatible, why would they NO

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

2017-07-12 Thread Russell Courtenay
I thought that the 2009 iMacs were Sierra compatible, why would they NOT be?!? Russell Courtenay July is national what month? tinyurl.com/julybeans Sent from my iPhone > On Jul 11, 2017, at 8:28 PM, fishjoy...@gmail.com wrote: > > iMac 9,1 w/Sierra-brightness not working > > Hi all, > > I hav

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 foll

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 Bri