Jas's 10.5.3 Update Issue: Black/Blank Menus in Finder/Funky text in Sys Preferences

[rishi984]

Ok,

So I installed Jas's 10.5.3 Update and it scared the {censored} out of me when I found my Finder menus went black. After much trouble, I found a solution scattered around. A post detailing a solution may exist somewhere buried under 12,000 other posts. I do not take any credit for solving this problem.

 

Here's what I did:

 

1. After installation of the update I installed AppleGraphicsUpdate.dmg using Pacifist. (this update is officially available from Apples site.

 

 

(For Nvidia Folks)

2. Install NVinject/NvKush/Nvinstaller

 

3. You need to find out your vendor IDs and Device IDs from System information.

ignore the preceding 0x and note the rest.

For my Nvidia 7300LE,

they were- device id:01d1 and vendor id:10de

now you have to edit the following kexts:

GeForce.kext ,NVDAResman.kext and NVDANV40Hal.kext

NOTE: the NVDANV40Hal.kext is for 8XXX and 7XXX nvidia cards only.

 

4.type this in terminal:

sudo nano /System/Library/Extensions/Geforce.kext

 

find a line that says <key>IOPCIMAtch<key>

The next line is a <string>blah blah</string>

Replace whatever there is between the tags with your 0xDeviceIDVendorID

In my case, it would look like :

<string>0x01d110de</string>

 

Repeat this procedure with the remaining two files.

You may find a <IOPCIPrimaryMatch> instead of a <IOPCIMatch>

Its ok. Follow the exact same sequence. Replace whatever resides between <string> and </string> with the newly formed id.

 

5.Reboot.

 

6. QE/CI should work and Blank/Black menu thing should be fixed.

 

I request anyone with a similar problem to follow up to this post.

[thesr5]

Radeon HD 3650 10.5.3 Install: (im currently idle in Radeon HD at the moment if anyone would like to ask questions)

 

Here is my Official update on the install of my Sapphire Radeon HD 3650 512MB HDMI: First attempt on install was on an already updated 10.5.3 machine, with appleintegratedframebuffer.kext installed, after installing the ati card i went into safe mode and installed the ATI Radeon HD.pkg with no success no screen boot within normal boot, had the lined/dotted screen, after that i formated the drive and preformed a full install of 10.5.2 off my leo4all dvd, after getting back into 10.5.2 (i did not install any graphics/video drivers off the install DVD) once in leopard i ran the ATI Radeon HD 3650 installer and worked Great in 10.5.2, as i need to get into 10.5.3 i ran the kalyway 10.5.3 combo update found at the bay (followed all steps required (i left my default kernel)) ran the kernel update.pkg but did not select anything just ran install after the install i rebooted and had to run the update -v, the machine booted into 10.5.3 with no problems (so i thought) i wanted to go and check my "about this mac" to make sure the update worked, and i had WHITE MENUS , what i did to fix this was i ran Pacifist, i opened the radeon hd 3650.pkg and installed it through pacifist, it prompted that it was going to replace the ati .kext files and i clicked replace all, after the install was done i rebooted and my menus are back! everything is running QE/CI everything is great!!!