Intended Behavior Question

[Chaseshaw]

Dealing with a macbook pro 2011 with OSX 10.7.5, GPU is dead, can boot into single user mode (= integrated graphics is fine)

Computer does not have XCode, so I downloaded the precompiled version offered here:

https://github.com/0xbb/gpu-switch/releases/tag/macos-binaries

I used 7zip on my desktop because older mac doesn't support .tar.xz. I put the extracted files on a usb drive, mount the root with -uw, and mount the usb drive to the Macbook.

I follow documentation and cd to the build folder and run sudo ./gpu-switch -i

it appears to run but no output is given about success or failure (output would be helpful)

I sudo reboot.

The macbook reboots, and still tries to use the bad graphics card (blue lines -- unusable).

Am I missing a step? As a troubleshooting step I've reset the NVRAM several times.

ps thanks so much for this project, if it works it'll be a lifesaver!