JAS 10.4.6 update, discuss about it

[VoRTeX15O]

Hi everyone have seen the torrent or this 10.4.6 JAS update but im willing to know how to upgrade from 10.4.5 without reburning a new DVD and if it works on HACKINSTOSH? no 1 even JAS has posted about it...

 

 

Not worth it to upgrade: Here's my other post to another user: However, I'd also encourage more fixes and testers for the newest release, but for those who don't know, this is something to know.

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extensible_Firmware_Interface

 

Hi lol_x86. I've had the same problem as yours when I tried 10.4.4/5 and gave up. Depending on what laptop you have, there is a problem with 10.4.4/.5 . Another problem is that many people are mislead into thinking that 10.4.4/.5 will give them better performance over 10.4.3 release 8F1111g just because it's newer than 10.4.3 - False) 10.4.4/5 will not give you edge over 10.4.3.

 

Why your driver edit will or will not work - most cases video drivers:

 

10.4.4 and greater is built for EFI which replaces the traditional BIOS. Therefore Apple has to compile the drivers for EFI machines and not BIOS machines. Some drivers from 10.4.3 will still work under 10.4.4/5 but not the other way around. Thus, the drivers of 10.4.4 are having to be edited to accomodate for computers with traditional BIOS and not EFI. I've tried 10.4.4/5 and have had too many problems and switched back to 10.4.3 rev. 8F1111g. Therefore you will make room for more bugs and an unstable system putting 10.4.4/5 on your machine if you don't have EFI support. So this ATI driver edit may not work for you. It will work, but will give you no OpenGL support.

 

What Maxxuss used to make 10.4.4/5 work on BIOS based machines:

 

He took parts of 10.4.3 and integrated them into 10.4.4/5 which back engineered the core of the OS to make it do something not intended and that change is a big change which effected the stability of the system. No wonder more people hare having problems with 10.4.4/5 installs with systems not booting to driver not working.

 

Why upgrade to 10.4.4/5 ? :

 

The only reason behind this is to keep up with Apple's current updates and patches for their newest OS. I would only consider updating once 10.5 aka Leapard arrives by end of '06, but as of now, all of 10.4 releases are minor updates and aren't different from any other.

 

My best advice is, sorry to tell you that but let's hope that someone will eventually find a fix for ATI cards. In the meantime, run 10.4.3 until Leapard rolls out at the end of '06.

[bluedragon1971]

Why upgrade to 10.4.4/5 ? :

 

The only reason behind this is to keep up with Apple's current updates and patches for their newest OS. I would only consider updating once 10.5 aka Leapard arrives by end of '06, but as of now, all of 10.4 releases are minor updates and aren't different from any other.

 

My best advice is, sorry to tell you that but let's hope that someone will eventually find a fix for ATI cards. In the meantime, run 10.4.3 until Leapard rolls out at the end of '06.

 

While that my be your opinion, you are forgetting that some software simply will not work (or work to it's fullest extent) on 10.4.3. A couple of examples of this are Darwine and iDVD. I'm sure there will be others in the near future. The updates also correct other annoying bugs with the system, including problems with Safari and other built-in apps.

 

These are the fixes for 10.4.6: http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=303411

 

Improvements

 

This update offers many improvements, including:

 

Finder, networking, and logging in

 

802.1X login authentication configurations created in Internet Connect can now be used at the Mac OS X login window, too.

 

Addresses an issue in which, when at the login window, the computer would not shut down automatically at a time specified in Energy Saver Schedule preferences; for more information, see this article.

 

Prevents a potential issue in which Mac OS X might stop responding when trying to log in as a FileVault-protected user if the protected Home image file has been damaged or moved; instead, a "You are unable to log in to the user account (name) at this time." alert message appears.

 

Addresses an issue for home directories on AFP servers in which, after failing to burn a disc, an "error -61" alert message would appear when trying to delete the Burn Folder related to the unsuccessful burn.

 

If you are bound to a directory system which enforces password expiration, you will now be periodically prompted to change your password at the login window--if your existing account and keychain passwords are the same, and you change your password at the login window, your keychain password will automatically be updated as well.

 

You can now copy folders with files to an SMB-based server instead of only the folder being copied and this alert message appearing: "The operation cannot be completed because you do not have sufficient privileges for some of the items."

 

Addresses an issue that could prevent MacBook Pro from printing to wireless printers via AppleTalk.

 

Improves iDisk (WebDAV file system) performance.

 

File and folder names that contain colon or forward slash ( "/") characters in the main directory of an iDisk or WebDAV volume no longer cause issues.

 

Resolves potential issues that could occur when using automatic proxy configuration (PAC) files.

 

Apple applications

 

Resolves an issue in which Mail could unexpectedly quit when lowering the quote level within a reply message.

 

Addresses an issue in which iChat, on an Intel-based Mac with a built-in iSight camera, could sometimes stop displaying video from the iSight camera until the computer was shut down and started up again.

 

Dragging a movie clip into iMovie 6 on an Intel-based Mac will no longer potentially cause some of the iMovie window to turn black.

 

Disk Utility's repair permissions feature will no longer report "We are using special permissions for..." messages.

 

Updates Calculator so that the percentage button ("%") will no longer divide, under certain circumstances, when you expect it to calculate percentage—this could happen in Mac OS X 10.4.3 through 10.4.5.

 

Resolves an issue that could cause Help Viewer to sometimes display a blank window.

 

Addresses some issues that could cause DVD Player to unexpectedly quit when playing a movie disc on an Intel-based Mac.

 

Terminal windows will no longer fail to open when using the /bin/zsh shell.

 

EXIF data is now exported with TIFF images in Aperture.

 

Aperture will no longer unexpectedly quit when exporting a file with keywords that contain twelve or more Cyrillic characters.

 

Resolves potential issues with several iPhoto Automator actions, such as Import Photos into iPhoto.

 

Includes iSync 2.2 which provides support for additional mobile phones. For more information, see iSync 2.2: Read before updating to Mac OS X 10.4.6 or later, or before first sync.

Third-party applications

 

Resolves an issue in which Blizzard World of Warcraft character graphics could be distorted on an Intel-based Mac with a built-in graphics processor when vertex shaders are enabled.

 

The Command-H key combination now hides QuarkXPress 6 as expected when it is the front application.

 

Addresses an issue for Aspyr Media's True Crime: The Streets of LA game in which game movies are very dim on Intel-based Macs.

 

Addresses an issue for Microsoft Word 2004 in which Word would display a "Word cannot complete the operation because too many files are open" alert message when autosaving a document to a network-based home directory.

 

Improves character graphics appearance for Aspyr Media's The Sims House Party when running with Rosetta on an Intel-based Mac.

Other

 

Makes Mac OS X aware of United States Daylight Savings Time (DST) changes enacted by the Energy Policy Act of 2005.

 

Clicking an unmounted iDisk icon in the Save As dialog window of an application running with Rosetta no longer causes the application to stop with a spinning cursor.

 

Spotlight is now better able to search the content of older Microsoft Word documents.

 

Addresses an issue in which some third-party applications might stop responding or unexpectedly quit when running on an Intel-based Mac if you disconnect or connect a display while the computer is on.

 

Addresses potential vnode reference count mismatches that could lead to a kernel panic.

 

Addresses USB audio issues for PowerPC Macs; for example, latency is improved.

Addresses several AppleScript issues, including: Preservation of property values in Script Menu, a potential Bonjour issue with "choose remote application", an invisible "choose application" dialog issue, and improved compatibility with Dashboard widgets and applications.

 

Includes recent Apple security updates.

 

May not be important for you, but several things there are important for me and others.

[pittel]

I have a SATA harddrive in my computer. and its worked on both 10.4.3 and 10.4.5...I dont' see any reason why 10.4.6 wouldn't work either.

 

I ran into this on my Gateway NX560X. For my case I had to get the hard drive controller card driver and use that on boot up.

[Colonel]

Last night I sucessfully got 10.4.6 on my Hackintosh. Works great. I still have all supported hardware. I also get a better Xbench score and Rosetta seems a slight bit faster. I highly recommend it.

[calmesal]

Last night I sucessfully got 10.4.6 on my Hackintosh. Works great. I still have all supported hardware. I also get a better Xbench score and Rosetta seems a slight bit faster. I highly recommend it.

 

Do you have SSE3 or SSE2, cause I have the exact MB eccept I have an Intel P4 Prescott SSE3 CPU, I tryed twice but no go.

What patch did you used?

[mactogo]

Did the 10.4.6 update and everything was ok except I lost my wireless. I have a Dlink g650 pcmcia recognized iwith no modification as airport in 10.4.5. Not sure if its a wifi driver problem, pcmcia driver problem or both

[likeatiger]

I can't find any PPF simple patch (why not? Wouldn't it be easier to do this?)

 

Running 10.4.4:

 

computer:/Volumes/temp/autopatch root# ./Patchit

Reading Driver Descriptor Map (DDM : 0)...

Reading Apple (Apple_partition_map : 1)...

Reading Macintosh (Apple_Driver_ATAPI : 2)...

Reading Mac_OS_X (Apple_HFS : 3)...

...............................................................................

Elapsed Time: 5m 21.717s

Speed: 15.0Mbytes/sec

Savings: 0.0%

created: /Volumes/temp/autopatch/place-dmg-in-here/tempdisk.iso.cdr

/dev/disk2 Apple_partition_scheme

/dev/disk2s1 Apple_partition_map

/dev/disk2s2 Apple_Driver_ATAPI

/dev/disk2s3 Apple_HFS /Volumes/Mac OS X Install Disc 1

Disk renamed to osx86dvd

Deleted Xcode

rm: /Volumes/osx86dvd/usr/standalone/i386/boot: Read-only file system

rm: /Volumes/osx86dvd/usr/standalone/i386/boot0: Read-only file system

rm: /Volumes/osx86dvd/usr/standalone/i386/boot1h: Read-only file system

 

 

What on earth is happening here? Edits and paths are correct. Running as root.

[ghemml]

Did the 10.4.6 update and everything was ok except I lost my wireless. I have a Dlink g650 pcmcia recognized iwith no modification as airport in 10.4.5. Not sure if its a wifi driver problem, pcmcia driver problem or both

 

I'm having the same problem with my laptop D-Link DWL-G630 PCMCIA Wireless card. Working in 10.4.5, but undetectable in 10.4.6

[TheG2]

Can't get my wireless working in 10.4.6 (the same as in 10.4.5) Anyone got a good working fix for the Dell Inspirion 6000 wireless?

[Koeiende]

Whaa i cant believe it!!! I can read from my Nforce 3 NTFS Sata Harddisk

I'm really happy now :D:D

and indeed i can notice a slight performance improvement

[two_am]

my atheros based wifi card also does not work in 10.4.6 (it worked in 10.4.5)

[Andrey]

Can't get my wireless working in 10.4.6 (the same as in 10.4.5) Anyone got a good working fix for the Dell Inspirion 6000 wireless?

 

 

Well it certainly works now!! SOLVED using Belkin 54g USB and Ralink Driver!

 

Good meeting you dude

[scamit]

Installed the 10.4.6 update and everything works great. Actually, I have noticed a speed increase on my Thinkpad T40. Applications seem to open up quicker.